Disney SpellStruck
Ratings & Reviews
The game’s amazing everything’s nice. I like how the characters have their own like action. I wish there was more like of the original characters like Bambi Snow White, more of the princesses lady and tramp just things like that overall good game just wish there was more chapters from the Disney aspect of like the original
This game is really fun and the champions are amazingly animated and the maps are really good and the secret powers each champion has when you play on a power square is really good. The Star Wars updates are just absolutely AMAZING!!! But here is a note to the game developer: Please update give more Star Wars updates for SpellStruck. I already have A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi.But please update the game so players can get The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and The Rise of Skywalker.
With as much emphasis as there is on playing other players, I simply cannot stand that I cannot see a cumulative wins and losses either from my account or for any account I play in a game. Such a start would give me something to look forward to improving or working on.Without it, it just seems an endless loop of repetition with no real destination or road marks on the way.
Almost a month ago, I had an in-game pop-up ask me if my phone (that I was playing on) was the 'active device' for my game data. I clicked 'yes' and my game reloaded, and just about factory reset my game. I lost over half of my collectibles, I lost game progress and unlocked characters. I contacted the developers for help, and got an email saying someone would be in touch within a couple days. I've been ignored for almost a month, and I really just want my data restored...
Really enjoyable game, puts a fun Disney spin on scrabble. That being said, there's a few outstanding issues: 1. When playing a game against a player who is using Tinkerbell, if they activate her power on their turn, when you go to take your turn, the game soft-locks with the background going grey (as it does when a power is activated) and then just sits there... closing and reopening the app does nothing, it seems the only fix is to win another game (in story mode or daily challenge). 2. The second issue is with Moana's special ability (adds a random letter tile to the board with 20 more points than usual). Every other champion's ability expires at the end of your turn (such as adding 2L/3L spaces, or increasing a number of letter tiles's point value by #). Moana's ability summons that special 20 point letter tile, but the 20 point bonus never goes away; This means your opponent can use it for high-scoring words, and any advantage it may have offered is rendered useless.. this power should be rebalanced to remove the 20 point bonus at the end of your turn. 3. The dictionary is completely out of touch with any other dictionary. I've had the opponent play words like "Honda", but if I play "Moana" it is not accepted, or that I can play the word "Sex", but not "Sexy". 4. There is no timeout for opponents. If they do not take a turn, that match will never end. Implementing a timeout for taking a turn would solve this issue.
I've been playing games like Scrabble, Boggle, Words with Friends, etc for decades, so it's very obvious when something is wrong. This game has potential but the fact that the computer always has full, valuable 5+ letter words available EVERY SINGLE TURN brings it down. It's not realistic and it's not fun, even when I typically win. The computer frequently has 80+ points in the first 2-3 turns and I just as often get handfulls of consonants. This last game for example- the computer had VAGUE, QUIT, BURKE, and LAZY in the first four turns while I had only consonants. One game it had JAZZ and EXPORTS as the first two words. These aren't outliers, it's 80% of the games. You have to play defensively and never take the kind of chances you might against a person because the computer WILL have the exact letters needed to hit the word multipliers every time. If you get ahead, there's a good chance it will activate a special move and toss off a 40-60 point word. The computer also uses archaic words, words from other languages, and proper nouns. There should be a limit to what it can pull from. what is "aurei" what is "oidia" what is "nipa". i love that word "pitot" we all know and use. don't forget "adzuki". "mux". please stop letting the computer pull arcane words and technical terms i've never heard or read in decades as an avid reader.
After playing through the story mode, the only real point to the game is to play the daily challenges and Blank’s Blitz. Blank’s Blitz is fine, but you have to earn stickers and letters to unlock new characters to be able to play with, but I’m at the point that the only thing I get is all duplicate stickers. I’m really tired of playing towards nothing.Another point of contention is that you NEVER get to go first when playing against the computer player. Once or twice, the computer has passed their turn to switch out tiles and I got to go first by process of elimination. Why not rotate it out, or better yet, let us decide if we want to go first or not. I don’t want to have to play a vs mode game. It takes too many days to get through a game with most people, because we have lives and aren’t all logged in at the same time and playing a contiguous game. As others have said, the game is buggy too. Between the times it freezes my iPad and iPhone requiring me to force quit, and other times it just locks up an M1 iPad and makes it behave like it’s running on dialup. I’m just about ready to uninstall the game based on these points. I’m holding out hope that it gets better.
I love this game. I’m happy there is now something for me to do because my friends were tired of me asking them to play. The following would make the game better: More levels: there aren’t many levels in adventure mode and I beat them very quickly. Until recently, there was just nothing to do. Offline mode: the game frequently tells me I’m offline even when I’m not. It’s not my phone or internet that is the issue, it’s the game. Before the Blitz version, I couldn’t do anything because it said I was offline. Multiplayer nudge: no ability to nudge players is pretty frustrating. More characters: I essentially have no incentive to play the game. I’ve unlocked everything and the levels aren’t hard. Ability to adjust difficulty: I’d feel better about playing if I was able to adjust the difficulty on Blitz. It’s just too easy. Replay: I’d love the ability to replay levels. Perhaps assigning a star rating to levels would make replay more fun. More achievements would also incentivize replay. Lastly, the dictionary doesn’t include many words that are in fact real words.
Developer ResponseHi, JaclynMcNabbulous, thank you for your feedback, is highly appreciate it!Regarding the offline issues, please contact support@artistarcade.com and we can look further into your particular case.We keep on working on the game so stay tuned for upcoming content and fixes!
And once you start playing, it can be very addicting! Lol I rated it a 4 tho just bc I think it can improve a little in some areas.For example: 1: When playing online, you should be allowed to “nudge” the other player. Maybe just remind them they’re playing against someone else? It’s so frustrating to wait days to make another move or find out the other player just forfeited. 2: There is no scoring system and updates with more levels appear few and far between. This caused me to just delete it. Between waiting forever for online players to play back, and not being allowed to play solo, it just takes up too much space. 3: Their preprogrammed dictionary, should allow a broader range of acceptable words. I’ve used words I KNOW are real, and in this particular game for some reason they’re not allowed.Beyond this, this game is great! I’m a big fan of the original scrabble game, but I love how this made it more entertaining with the different Disney characters and secret powers. Definitely would recommend to friends and family.
Some words being used like CONF, BIALI, HOA, and QUETHE are not words. CWM is Welsh. YOM is a proper noun and consequently should not be used. HOA is an acronym. Acronyms are not allowed either. “Buik” is not a word in any English dictionary. Amido is NOT a word according to the Oxford dictionary. Maybe set the words to the Scrabble dictionary words? It’s really terrible to use words that aren’t really words. Children using this will learn wrong things as words. Adults are going to be frustrated. I’ve had word after word after word that the game plays that are not acceptable words. Please fix this.I just read reviews where a lot of folks complain about this. Your response each time is that they are real words. No. No they are not unless you use a dictionary that is not a true dictionary. Even the free dictionary doesn’t have some of them. The ones it does are Welsh or Norwegian or acronyms or proper nouns. Kids have enough problems reading and spelling without a Disney game adding to the problem. I’m aghast that people have complained about so many unacceptable words, and your response is that they are words. Really, why don’t you write down all the words complained about in every review. Go look them up in a real dictionary - online, app, or physical book.

