I love that now I can just click. I have a very crappy mouse that has problems dragging things during games, so that was nice.
The new patterns were awesome, and lengthy, but there was very little challenge.
The Angry Bird made me laugh, and the final ball was my favorite out of the entire series.
26 is easy, you just have to strategize and use everything available to you. You just have to keep spinning the ball around and covering things up and re-painting them, one sliver at a time.