This game is very much a pay to win model, I see people with the custom sticks you have to pay for, that can just line up outrageous shots one after another. What's the point of a match making system when you have to compete against someone with a massive advantage?
So there is good and bad to this game. Good, love the ability to really tune in your shots, the ball physics seem half way decent. Now for the bad, at the higher levels, the ai seems to have been born the worlds most gifted billards player. Done nearly a dozen games where it's sank 4+ balls in one shot, bouncing all multiple balls. Like a lot of people stated, it definitely feels that if the ai breaks on the high levels there is a good chance it'll win. Watched the ai get stuck on one game where it couldn't decide to sink stripes or solids, so nearly every shot was 2-3 balls a shot, both stripe and solid until it cleared everything and then sank the 8 ball. Not a single chance to play. The ai is definitely brutal.
Love the game, just a little sad that it has under the excavation that gems used for that will be restored on a soft reset, so far non of the gems I've spent have been restored, but otherwise love the game.
Okay, this game is absolutely terrible compared to how it was when it started. I've hit a brick wall, can't advance and at my current rate... 18 hours to buy 1 newspaper. I used to be able to max out at my current setup with angels and upgrades in a day. Now at this rate, It's going to take me quite some time just to max out one set of items to the max that the unlocks support. The new text/colors are terrible, the guy that pops up for the tutorial is frustrating and annoying and should only be there if it's a new game and not one you restart. The font is horrible and doesn't even fit on the bars anymore. And the angel bonus seems to randomly change on me going anywhere from 30% to 32%, depending on when I click the investors button.
All I know, is that I want to be able to golf like these people. Arc a shot high into the air, and nothing but hole with no bounce out. Or knock a ball 150 yards, watching it bounce wildly over the green and sink right in without a single problem.
This game would be better if a few things were done: Don't lose all your power ups when you die, make the plane move better, don't spam the screen with tons of enemies on the basic difficulties which makes it really hard to avoid stuff.