Almost sickeningly cute, but so much fun.
It has the standard match 3 of the gems, except they are in the shape of candy pieces. But depending on the combination of how many shapes you make, for instance 4 in a row, or an L shape can create special explosive candies or ones that wipe out whole rows or target all the candy of a certain color and make them go poof (I'm pretty sure the little girl in pink eats them all).
The further you go along in the game, the more objectives you have to complete, ranging from scores, to dropping ingredients to the bottom of the screen to clearing jelly coatings (match candy in that section of the screen to make them dissappear). I'm actually only in the second stage at this moment, and there appears to be, well a ton of levels (I never actually scrolled all the way to the top to check it out because it took so long).
The music is somehow pretty awesome. I can't put my finger on why, but it is hauntingly familiar to Star Ocean 2 somehow. And to me that's a good thing.The graphics are standard fare in game, but the adorable little girl and her face full of candy is endearing, and I feel bad for her when she doesn't get her candy due to your failure. Yea, I'm spoiling her, what a good virtual parent.
Overall the game gets pretty hard as you go along, and the game doesn't force you to, but really leans towards buying powerups for real cash (which I haven't done yet and nor do I plan to).
The only real drawback to the game I have found is that it takes a while to play any more if you keep losing the rounds (you can get a maximum of 5 lives, which take anywhere from 15 to 30 minutes to replenish 1 life). I want to keep playing even when losing, but I have to wait. The curse of freemium games strikes again.
But the benefit of signing into facebook and playing with friends is that they can send you lives and bonuses to keep playing, which is now standard fare for any social media related game.
That being said, I really enjoy this game and have killed my battery many times playing it either sitting on the couch or in the car and elsewhere.
It's a guilty pleasure and I recommend it for anyone, casual to hardcore.