I love this game! I don’t know about others, but my game will simply say “checking for updates” indefinitely if I do not have wi-fi, so I have to argue thatwi-fi is absolutely required. I have been feeling a little salty about the fact that I can no longer choose the look for what I place in my garden. Unless you buy paintbrushes. Pretty much all game s let you choose between three options. Panthia does as well, if you pay for it. You can earn paintbrushes, theoretically, but they are very few and very far between. I think i’vehad the opportunity to win two or three. So it is not as fun to place things in my garden because I have no control as to the look of them. As someone else noted, money is not required but it is impossible to complete all the tasks in the side quests or prize islands to get the prizes. You would have to spend a good deal of money to get enough energy and crystals to complete these in the scant three days provided. I know it seems like all I did was complain, but this game is so good that the bad things really stick out like a sore thumb. The graphics are beautiful, the game play is easy and relaxing, and the side quests and prize islands add variety (even if you can't finish them). I come on and play a couple of times a day, it only takes 5 minutes or less before I am out of energy and can do no more, but I enjoy it nonetheless.

Edited-I have played this game for a while now. The floating balloons are aggravating. They float over the island blocking structures the player is trying to build. The player has to keep moving the balloons out of the way. More than once I have accidentally spent gems while trying to move the balloon. This is probably on purpose to get a player to buy more gems. Next, even though a wonder has been created, a player keeps receiving items to build the Wonder. This is a waste of energy. Then a player has bits and pieces sitting around taking up space. So a player has to merge the pieces to make more room for other pieces that go with creating another wonder. We should be able to “sell” these odd pieces back to the game. Like the coins, the more pieces merged the higher the value. Receiving energy for the pieces would be great, because the player had to spend energy to receive these worthless odds and ends. To date, I have not spent a dime. If I have objects that take 20 minutes to build, I use all my energy and build the objects prior to leaving the game to do something else.

I just got this game a couple hours ago, and so far I have not had any problem with it, except for one thing. The trees need from 5 - 20 energy, depending on which tree it is, and they give you 100 energy in total. However, the trees with 5 energy only gives you like 3 items at a time, and most of the time they aren’t the same, so you can’t do anything but use more energy on another tree, or keep using energy on the same tree, but the same tree will need more energy than before. Also, you can buy 100 energy with gems, but as you keep playing the game, the energy starts to get more and more expensive. For example, at first, you can get 100 e energy for free, then it goes up to 15 gems, and then it goes up to 30 gems and so on. I do love the storyline though and I love the characters too. I would give this game 5 stars if not for the energy problem. Thank you for reading my review.