Fruit Ninja 2 Reviews

I want to start this review by commending the team who took such an iconic game and turned it into so much more. The multiplayer mode is such a creative translation of the original game—true to the original but with extra flare.

The sad thing, however, is that some of the power-ups in Multiplayer breed very unsportsmanlike behavior. Twice in a row now I’ve been matched with players whose only strategy is to constantly spam the Blue Fruit and Flip Colors power-ups, which, for those of you who don’t play, basically prevents me from being able to play the game at all, and forces me to watch as my opponent basically steals all of my turns to play from me, ensuring their victory.

These power-ups are an essential part of the game, but they are far too easily abused, and without equally strong power-ups, the game becomes miserable to play. Because the behavior of other players cannot be changed, there NEEDS TO BE SOME KIND OF OPTION TO BLOCK PLAYERS YOU DON’T WANT TO MATCH UP WITH AGAIN. I am completely uninterested in this kind of unsportsmanlike gameplay and should have the right to not be matched up with players who I already know prevent meaningful play of game for me. I don’t think these power-ups should be limited or taken away, so this is the only fair solution I can think of.

I was a massive fan of the first game and grew up with it and I was stoked to see a sequel. The gameplay and multiplayer of the game works really well and I enjoy the different modes. My biggest gripe is the amount of bugs in the game. In multiplayer, I’ve been seconds away from victory only for the game to glitch out and boot me to the main menu. A particularly buggy section of the game is the minigame shuffle; you have to pay in-game tickets to participate which is fine (they’re relatively easy to come by). The problem is when I’m in the third stage of minigames, I finish up the last one and nothing happens and the event doesn’t end. I close the game to see if that would help and all progress is lost and I just wasted a ticket. On one occasion, I tapped to start the minigame shuffle and nothing happened, yet a ticket was taken off anyways. There are a few other minor glitches in the game too. Although these bugs are frustrating, I do understand the game just recently came out and I trust the developers to work on these glitches. It’s still a great game to kill time and play in short bursts every now and then!

First a foremost, this game is absolutely worth the download. The different game modes are fun and bring a refreshing change of pace to the game. However, it would be nice if Classic or Arcade mode was always available. Occasionally you’ll be stuck for a couple days with nothing to play but online multiplayer. I have nothing against the online multiplayer but I will say that if you get the right power ups it gets too easy and it takes some of the fun out of it. I’ve also noticed that multiplayer is where I experience the most crashes.
Second, the level cap is far too easy to reach. In no time at all I had reached 100.
Third, and my number one complaint is that I really wish there was some sort of margin at the top. Just about every game I play ends up getting paused because I either get a notification that covers the entire top of the screen or I accidentally swipe close to the top of my screen and it activates the drop down menu.

Game allows you to play battles with power ups/leveling up your sword. I played the side/mini games because that’s what I thought was the most fun but now whenever I play any battle matches the bots are nearly unbeatable. No matter which power up combo I use the bots will have access to higher level power ups allowing them to use power ups more often and last longer. I can’t win more than once every fourth game. About one of every four games I start I literally can’t cut a single fruit because the game doesn’t recognize the swipes as blade cutting so ya get 0 points. Even if you’re winning a match many times the game can glitch and will continue while the counter is at 0, and I’ve lost a few matches that way. Upgrading your blade is useless because to computer will just match you with a bot of the same blade caliber. The mini games have been getting more and more glitchy as well. The “mini-game shuffle” will not save your progress so you can’t win any prizes, even if you manage to beat all 12 mini games. The Mayhem game, as mentioned before, will frequently not recognize your sword so you can’t score a single point.

In general, if ads are in games, they are most of the times abundant and pop up in your face all the time. Luckily, this game does not have many ads. However, this doesn't mean they are not greedy. Anytime i try to open the shop, an offer pops up to buy the season pass, then at the bottom it says “skip this awesome offer”, and I personally hate how the game is making so many people think this offer is some sort of amazing deal, if you play the game a lot and want to progress, sure, maybe, but if you just want to play for fun, this honestly shows how this game favors people who pay and not just play the game. Along with this, the PVP game mode is broken. I keep getting matched up with people that have swords with extremely high power, and there is nothing you can do about it other than watch them destroy your score with one swipe. This game just honestly has many other flaws that I will not talk about in this review. This was just a way to share my opinion, because I think the developers di not care about the reviews. Don't recommend

The gameplay and core mechanics are just as good as I remembered them to be way back when. The battle pass and IAPs are just how mobile games are gonna be nowadays, so there’s no fighting that aspect. However, I feel like coins are a little too hard to come by, especially with how plentiful shards are. I watched an ad from a shard fruit in the garden and got 100 shards of whichever blade I had, and that’s enough for 4-5 upgrades from the base. Compare that to how many coins you get per day, and you can only upgrade your blade a couple times, if even once. Especially taking into the fact that one of the daily quests is to upgrade a blade x amount of times to get XP.

On another note, Classic mode feels like there are so many more bombs than there were before because I remember getting 1k points easily, but with how many bombs pop up now, it’s almost in half.

I really do enjoy this game but however, it has way too many glitches. First of all, every time I enter into a multiplayer with someone online, the game sometimes freezes up and just eventually comes off completely. This causes me to lose points and makes it really hard for me to be high ranks on the leaderboard. Secondly, I think that some of the power ups are being abused. For instance, the color switch power up. Persons will continue to spam it which allows me to hardly even play. Lastly, whenever I open the game to actually play it, my character who usually stands in the middle does not appear and when I try to restart, the music in the background won’t stop playing even tho i am not on FruitNinja2 . There are many more glitches but just too lazy to type them but you get the point. Please try to fix these glitches so make the game more enjoyable. Because it has a lot of potential. Also, try and get new game modes.

Best regards........

The first game of the Fruit Ninja series was really amazing and was something else for the early 2010s. But with Fruit Ninja 2 it took all the mechanics from the old game and made it 10 times better. There is one slight problem with it though which is SPENDING 20 DOLLARS FOR AN IN GAME BLADE. This makes me furious to see that people who spend money will always win. Any blade should not cost 20 dollars due to the fact that they are somewhat already rare in crates. I did not forget to mention the fact that most people on the event leaderboards are bots (i am 100% sure of it) because i came back 5 minutes later to an event when i was in 4th place (the top score was a little over 1000) and then the top scores where over 3000. The game does not want you to win. They want you to lose. Please fix that issue with the game as well.

This game has many different fun modes and has many qualities you’d like to see in a sequel, but it suffers from a few things that bring it down. 1) Fun game modes are locked behind a ticket system. You can sometimes earn these tickets in-game, but you can also buy them with real money. You should never lock game modes behind a paywall, no matter how subtly. 2) Multiplayer is fun, but higher level characters have advantages because they have higher level power ups, which you can also boost in level with real money by buying lootboxes. Not great or fair for competition. 3) Blades no longer have unique perks to them, like the original Fruit Ninja. They just have variations of the same stats. That’s boring.

Other than that, fun game. Fruitar Hero is great.

This is a great game, but the developers need to get rid of the glitches. But even with the glitches it is a great game, but they are worth fixing. Once I was playing the mayhem event and there were thirty minutes left, and I was in 2nd place, so I kept playing until I had enough cups to finish first, but the game glitched and said that it couldn’t load my points to the leaderboard and I finished second when I should have finished first. And recently I was playing the zen mode and was going to set a new record with the extra ten seconds for an ad, but the ad wouldn’t load and the screen went blank, so I had do exit the game. But I understand that it is hard to fix the glitches so all I ask is to put some thought into it. The game is already great, but fixing the glitches would make it better.

I have a 5 year old who loves to play fruit ninja classic (no ads) and was really excited for fruit ninja 2. I told him it had ads in it and that he should let me know if any of them seemed scary. He has now come to me almost every time he plays saying that he saw a scary ad.

These ads show violence and killing. It shows people being scared and dying. How can your game be 4+ if it is perpetuating violence and death?

I know game developers need to make a living. I know small game startups and even midsize companies need to show profit in order to sustain the creative team it takes to support these games.

What I am upset about is that your game could choose appropriate ads based on the 4+ rating of the game. The ad network you work with should be able to allow you to set limits on the types of ads shown. No 5 year old should have to watch hordes of zombies being shot or a scared mother and child having to be rescued from being burnt by lava. It is graphic, obscene, and morally reprehensible to allow these ads to be shown during game play.

I will be closely watching my son when he plays this game but encourage him to play games where they don't show violent and obscene ads. I will continue to write a negative review of the game until the ad network is changed or limits are placed on the types of ads being shown.

When I was saving everything that gave sword shards to a player chosen sword for upgrading it, I went and blew 12 dollars on Gems for a this “Super Amazing” Cosmic berry. And as common knowledge would go, the most expensive would yield the best rewards. NOPE. Not only was I wrong, but, I also was scammed in a more malicious way than normal. You see, when you go onto like a robux generator for roblox, it’s an expected scam ( everyone knows that ). But when you advertise through your gameplay reward, the cosmic berry box is the top of the reward tower things and season pass, so you would think that it would always yield amazing rewards. I bet you all want to know what I got right?
200 coins, two times was snow blade shards and I don’t use that, and lava blade shards, I also don’t use that sword. Pretty sad I know.

I used to LOVE this game, and I got really into Fruit Ninja 2. Then I started realizing that this game is too obviously rigged. If you win “too much,” they match you with impossible computer programs when you’re playing in leagues or on a leadership board. I literally played the same “girl” twice, back to back. The first game “she” was level 78. In the second, “she” was level 88. It’s also appears to be severely hacked. On my last leadership board, the player ranked #1 has over 1000 point playing ZEN MODE. If you’ve ever played Zen Mode, you know they don’t even throw 1000 fruits at you throughout the 1 1/2 minutes so… AND the ads are hacked!! Plus they turn on your microphone and camera, and track your location. I can see what use they’d have for your location, but why do you need to turn on my microphone and camera while I have FruitNinja2 open in the background??

Fruit ninja 2 is like one of those arcades where you spend dollars to buy tokens, spend the tokens to play games, win points in the games, then after hours of hard work at the games trade the points for a prize that’s barely worth anything. You incrementally improve your character very, very slowly by upgrading blades and power ups, but normal gameplay doesn’t get you the things you need to upgrade. Normal gameplay gets you plants, very occasional prizes, and a place on a leaderboard for an event. Plants mature after several hours into rewards. Leaderboards give you rewards after an event ends, anywhere from a week to a month after it starts. As a result, you don’t feel much of a sense of progress. At the higher levels, you’ll play for a week to buy one tiny upgrade that you’ll barely notice.

In-game coin achievement is highly difficult to accumulate in the matches to purchase most upgrades and items without spending real money.

An exorbitant amount of advertisements throughout gameplay.

All game match types in Fruit Ninja 2 are set to a too high difficulty setting, which results in low scoring and discourages gamers from actually being able to progress and attain most items that allow you to have an “edge” at winning any notable achievements and items, without having to actually spend real money on items, in-game currency and gems. The game “steers” you towards purchasing items to make you think you will finally be able to win at Fruit Ninja 2.

This a freemium game that will leave you “chasing the dragon” in hopes that you will make it to end and feel a sense of achievement, without actually ever making it there. It’s just another in a long line of freemium games that strings you along as far as possible, while slamming you with ads and trying to get you to pay for in-game purchases, without ever allowing you to really accomplish anything in this game. Fun game at first, but a huge waste of your time in life!

I was a big fan of the first game back then when it was more popular around the iPhone 4 era when I was in the 5th grade playing it and this sequel was a surprise and I like it a lot too… but man it would be great to have classic mode back again and the arcade & zen to stay as well and not as just events that come and go… but my problem with this game is that it still has problems with me and I think it’s the game itself like for example I got the latest iOS runnin right now and when I swipe down on the corner side of my phone to get to the control center… the game just crashes on me and it closes itself out… especially on the Loading Startup Screen☹️ imma need y’all to fix that up tho cuz it’s annoyin 🥲

This game frequently loses connection to the servers and kicks me out the game. It happens most often on ticketed events which is super annoying because one I was about to kill my arcade score by several hundred points and the game kicked me out, two it still takes your tickets, I’ve lost at least 10 this way and it really takes away from the game. I like the new modes but I’m not exactly sure how scoring works on multiplayer, sometimes it seems to make sense and sometimes the other person destroys me with no demonstration of better skill compared to me but whatever. Anyway if the bugs were fixed this game would be better. Wait also it should not cost $6 to fully expand your garden, that’s such a rip off

The game really improves compared to the original, aesthetic wise. But there are alot of bugs. For example, Fruitar Hero sometimes has weird reception and doesn’t give me the correct rating on my slice. Sometimes I feel I got a “Perfect!” but the games said “BAD.” That right there hurts the game because a extremely good idea was turned into a good game on its own, but one bug sort of ruins it all. Also, there are a lot of ads in the game with feels like other games are trying to ruin my experience. Those two problems each deduct one star, rallying up to 3 stars. If the developers could solve these in good ways, then I would give them a well earned 5 stars. Thank you.

This game is great, but I just had an insane glitch happen to me. In arcade+, there were time and combo bananas (plus the third, but it’s irrelevant here), I was doing so well that the timer glitched somehow. Even if the timer banana wasn’t active, I’d still get time for combos! I got to around 10,000 points with this glitch before I had to stop so I want extremely late for bed. (If this was something I shouldn’t have done, you can do whatever you need to do to correct it) Thanks for reading, have a great day!

This game takes everything that made the first game fun and strips it away. The infectiously fun blade and dojo system with different boosts that you can mix and match has been abandoned for situational power-ups that are really only useful in the multiplayer. The blades themselves all function identically aside from a few minor stat changes that, again, only affect multiplayer. The singleplayer content is downright piss-poor, and not only that, but you’re only allowed to play so much of a mode before you can’t anymore and have to wait. And worst of all, everything is locked behind an insufferable gacha system that this game did not need in the slightest. If you’re a fan of the original, don’t waste your time with this one, and don’t even think of spending a single penny on it.

This game immediately loses two stars from what I had to go through to play it. I have an iPad before owning a newer phone. Upon looking at the compatible versions the store page said my iPad was compatible, it crashed mid way through launching every single time. I used the contact support found on here just to have a bot respond telling me I need to somehow contact them from in game. Change the information on the page so it’s accurate and give a heads up about the support so other people won’t have to put up with this crap.
Later I ended up with a new phone. It ran the game without issue. It is fairly fun granted I never left gold one because all ranks got frozen for like a month. This would be three stars if the new game mode fruitar hero wasn’t so enraging. The concept is fun however the it is the ONLY way to earn the southern lights blade. The arrow fruits seem to fail WITHOUT REASON at least once every game. Also starting the cut from inside the fruit automatically counts as bad. This is worsened by the existence of up arrows and how my phone works. Often making me go my home page.

App crashes after playing ANY game, regardless of game mode, including:
- Arcade +
- any/all events (zen duel, zen challenge, classic challenge, etc.)
- training
- league play
- any multiplayer mode

FruitNinja2 allows you to play an entire game/round without any issues, your score is tallied, but when it goes to load the final score page (where XP is awarded, seedlings are awarded, fruit facts are displayed) the screen goes black for a moment and app crashes

This results in loss of any/all data (points/XP/Coins/SP for quests/etc.) the last game would have resulted in awarding (e.g., when reopening app after crash, all of the progress/rewards from most recent game have disappeared, as though that game had not been played)

Obviously, this results in not being able to progress AT ALL in the season, as daily and seasonal quests cannot be completed and, more importantly, makes FruitNinja2 UNPLAYABLE

A few FYIs for the developers:
- I’ve tried restarting my device and even uninstalling/reinstalling FruitNinja2 , to no avail — app continues to crash after playing ANY game.

- Also, “sensei’s dojo” STILL does NOT work — when selecting it, an odd noise plays and then FruitNinja2 abruptly crashes.
- I’ve NEVER been able to open this option due to the crashing FruitNinja2 , yet the icon says “10/10”, as though I’ve completed each “level” of the “Sensei’s Dojo” event

I hope this helps and that FN2 is back on its feet, soon!

The gameplay, events and multiplayer are generally fine. Of course all of these can use some polishing however, my biggest issue and probably the biggest setback about this game is about how unbelievably buggy it is.
I’d be playing multiplayer, bug out the game after I won and not get credit for it. It’s frustrating and this has happened on multiple occasions. I could play this game for about an hour and find at least 2 bugs in the game. Which is absolutely absurd.

I won’t beat up on ‘em too badly cause I do understand that this is a relatively newer game. But Halfbrick should definitely be focusing on fixing these frustrating bugs.

So whenever I first got the game hide enjoyed it and I was so excited and then I earn a lot of stuff but then it got harder and harder and now I don’t like playing it that much because it’s really hard and I have to earn lotta stuff I mean I like the game it’s a really fun game like I don’t know what your game is like but it’s kind of like gotcha life that’s like my one of my favorite games I said Toca Boca so maybe you could add some details maybe do it I don’t know but I would like I love the game how are you did it just try to make it easier for some people because I’m people have trouble getting the character stuff because you have to earn them it’s kind of tricky maybe like go to like numbers on rules like do one game at a time then do two games like you asked like 215 games to earn this not 215 just 15 yeah please except my review and have a great day wonderful day

The only thing I can think of is that game that I have to play and I can’t even get away from it because I have to play it and then I can’t stop thinking about it and then I’m like oh my gosh I can’t wait to play it again and then I have to go to bed and I have to go to sleep and I am sad that I can’t play it anymore because I have to go to bed so I wake up early and I have to get my iPad and then I have to wake my mom and then I have to go to bed because it’s so early and I am going to rate this game 5.
stars l love this game