Popstar tip #2: Save your big matches.
- You’ll want to make huge matches of 5, 6, or more as often as you can.
- However, don’t clear a large match the moment you spot it; there may be a better way.
- Before clearing a large match, look in the area and see if there are other tiles of the same color nearby.
- If so, you might be able to make your combo even bigger! See if you can clear other tiles in the area to allow more tiles to connect to your match.
- Stranded tiles below your big match are hard to add since getting to them would involve dropping your big match, which can ruin the tile connections.
- Instead, look for stranded tiles above or on the sides of your match that can be dropped without affecting the match connections.
PopStar tip #3: Help the abandoned tiles.
- Other than lacking in big matches, the biggest reason you’ll fail a level is because your matching stars get separated from each other.
- When your colors get too segmented, you’ll run out of moves you can make and it’ll be game over.
- Losing a level hurts more in PopStar than in many similar games because you have to start way back at stage 1. Don’t let it happen to you!
- Instead, look for ways to connect single stars, and let matches build before clearing them.