Zoey’s Journey - Love & Pain is a match-3 puzzle adventure mobile game with a great storyline and lots of fun puzzles to solve. Right of the bat, I got intrigued by the story plot of this game where a cheated wife (Zoey) tries to start a new life away from her cheating husband. As the story progresses, Zoey receive help and support from friends and relatives to keep moving forward with an unpleasant betrayal. Multiple choice options in the events allow us to shape the story-progression to our liking. The match-3 puzzles are pretty fantastic with lots of formats and boosters to use. With good gameplay tactics, the puzzle solving can be really satisfying to watch.
The drama in this game is quite real life-like. It’s quite interesting to see what unfolds next. For some players, it could be a cliché drama with lots of well anticipated game events. None the less, the game has done a great job in merging the story and puzzles to create a great adventure game. I loved how solving puzzles can help us progress in the story content. We have to solve puzzles to fix, renovate and decorate the house, room, etc. While doing so, we get rewarded with lots of amazing gifts that can be a great help to gameplay progression.
Overall, this match-3 puzzle game is pretty enjoyable with great story plot, character design, awesome puzzles to solve and lots of rewards to collect. The game comes in portrait mode, which I think is quite good for match-3 puzzle game. Oh by the way, the cute cat “Nacho” is so adorable in this game. Nacho has a lot to say in the game in its meow voice. The game interprets what the cat is trying to say and oh well; it has got a lot of nice and comforting things to say indeed. Try this game out!
Pros:
- Great storyline
- Lots of match-3 puzzles with adventurous gameplay progression
- Very decent graphics
- Cute cat “Nacho” is quite adorable in this game.
- Portrait mode is quite compatible for this game
Cons:
- Lacks 3D graphics
- No character voice-overs
- Cliché storyline