Fun becomes frustrating very quickly
I’m going to refrain from using any kind of retrospective context about original AB games and just judge this one on its own, for what it is.
This game is a lot of things. “Balanced” is not one of them. It’s addictive and satisfying to knock down towers, but some of the later game mechanics just become frustratingly difficult to manage. I get that games are supposed to become more challenging as you get through them, but this one kicks it up in so many notches in so short a curve that it becomes really not fun to play. When they introduce new block types that are extremely unpredictable and start combining all different kinds of puzzles into one screen, while simultaneously nerfing your ammo, and then take into account the fact that the bird types are randomized on each level, you get something thats designed to push you into spending your own money on extra chances to finish a level. I hate games that are designed this way, especially when it starts out so unassuming and fun. There’s no ads interrupting your gameplay, which makes me want to play it more, but after about 150 levels it just gets way too frustrating to sink my time into.
Do yourself a favor. Play for a little bit, then uninstall it and go read a book. It’s a good short term experience, but a bad hobby.
This game is a lot of things. “Balanced” is not one of them. It’s addictive and satisfying to knock down towers, but some of the later game mechanics just become frustratingly difficult to manage. I get that games are supposed to become more challenging as you get through them, but this one kicks it up in so many notches in so short a curve that it becomes really not fun to play. When they introduce new block types that are extremely unpredictable and start combining all different kinds of puzzles into one screen, while simultaneously nerfing your ammo, and then take into account the fact that the bird types are randomized on each level, you get something thats designed to push you into spending your own money on extra chances to finish a level. I hate games that are designed this way, especially when it starts out so unassuming and fun. There’s no ads interrupting your gameplay, which makes me want to play it more, but after about 150 levels it just gets way too frustrating to sink my time into.
Do yourself a favor. Play for a little bit, then uninstall it and go read a book. It’s a good short term experience, but a bad hobby.
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Bring back the ORIGINAL games! please?
Why are you doing this? All of the older games I played were so fun and then you just threw them all in the trash just for almost everyone to never see it again! Why rovio? It does not make sense to just make a great franchise just to get rid of almost every single game! I got this game just to write a review and I have one question for you. Can you please, just please bring back every game you got rid of? I’m really sad 😭. And why does bad piggies get to stay 🤔😂. Don’t like the game that much either why can’t you tap to use their abilities and why are the pigs square? I don’t like it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But really, please bring the games back. At least the original one and angry birds epic... I know you guys said that you were focusing on the newer games but still at least bring back the original and epic. Also, do you see these reviews? Also I have been trying to get this game back for weeks or months. And I can not get it on the google play store because I can not get it in my region.
But really, please bring the games back. At least the original one and angry birds epic... I know you guys said that you were focusing on the newer games but still at least bring back the original and epic. Also, do you see these reviews? Also I have been trying to get this game back for weeks or months. And I can not get it on the google play store because I can not get it in my region.
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It’s gotten better, but not by a long slingshot.
Last time I saw this app, it was called Angry Birds Casual, and it was apparently in soft launch, so I expected it to get better. But it’s the same thing, which is obvious, but many things stick out like a sore thumb. First off, you can’t replay levels (which doesn’t matter because the stages are way too generic), there’s a leveling system that was copy and pasted from Dream Blast, and the game can’t be played offline. The only “improvement” I can say is that the art style blends in more, but the mix between the classic and movie designs looks like something someone would make in Devientart in 2012. Overall, if you are an Angry Birds fan, don’t play this. Just play the older, and better games.
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Garbage with way too many glitches
So I played the proto game for a year before they released the fully “completed” version. At least the beta version was playable. The full release is not. You cannot collect your festival rewards (collect button doesn’t work... you have to fully close and reopen the game to get past the frozen collect reward button to play on). Balloons get stuck in the terrain and no amount of birds will dislodge them so you lose the level and all of your progress. The fireflies are confused by terrain and refuse to find each other despite only a hill or floating ground (no blocks) separating them so, AGAIN, you lose the level and your progress. And then there was the glitch where there was only ONE firefly who just sat there because there was no one there to make a love connection with... ALL of the blocks had already been broken so it’s not like the second fly was hiding under a pile of rubble. Yet again this leads to the loss of the level and all progress. There are other obnoxious glitches but I’m not going to waste further time listing all of them. After a year playing the beta version I’m now deleting the game altogether since the full release is not playable. I’m damned tired of rich companies churning out garbage. Why the heck don’t they just release the original angry birds on the App Store? So stupid that we’re forced to choose from these “advanced” versions of the game that have been poorly vetted prior to release.
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AmazongrlNo solution glitch—deleted
I got the Journey game after reaching 500+ level on the previous game that was reset. This one is more fun, which was a surprise. However, today I was on a streak which ended without a solution. There’s a kissing bird at the bottom of the launch. All pigs killed, no other kissing bird present. The one by the launch was facing the launch and despite waiting a long time never made progress vertically. There were 2 blocks on the ground and yellow triangle hanging. I used 950 coins to break the blocks. Then I used more coins 2x to get the triangle but was only given birds that can’t break a triangle. Then I had too few coins.
I’m a skillful player and have all AB games. There was no solution. That cost me, and I’m a) frustrated and b) done with this game.
I’m a skillful player and have all AB games. There was no solution. That cost me, and I’m a) frustrated and b) done with this game.
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Devs, this is urgent!
So I’ve encountered a bit of an issue. As of now level 235 is virtually impossible, not what I expected a “Hard” level to be honestly. At the final room, if the balloon birds float to the right side of the stage, they cannot be counted as collected because there isn’t enough space to register this. Sure, I could try my hardest to make them go left, (Which I have) but that’s not my problem. So it’d be greatly appreciated if you guys could fix this. There also a slight visual issue where when switching rooms, the Bird that’s after the one in play will switch when entering your slingshot, throwing off strategy. I’d also appreciate either a better indication of the Cloud Mask’s location or the clouds just to be a visual disturbance rather than a condition, and to give the fireflies some more brain power so they can move left, right, up or down more so I don’t have to keep wasting moves because they won’t go upwards with nothing in their way. Thanks for reading!
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Meh
Not the best but good
Casual Angry Birds
Love the game but I think you should be able to save the extra birds you don’t use when you clear a level. If not all the birds can be saved, at least some should be-a max amount. Love the bouncy pink blocks and they can help sometimes. The little red and yellow balls can be dumb and annoying at times when they can’t get out from under blocks or get covered up again. Also, when they won’t meet up with their partner. I think I like it better than regular angry birds!
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A fun game to play during breaks in your day.
Fun and challenging without being overly hard.
Not one of those games that ramp up the difficulty to force you to buy coins to continue levels. And NO ADS. omg thank you. Its so refreshing to play a game with no ads after every level. I look forward to seeing what challenges you have in store for the updates. Being able to replay levels would be a great addition. And maybe bonus levels where you have 1 bird and the layout has 1 or more ways for that one bird to take the whole layout down. I love playing the game the way it is now though. Great work. Thank you to all who put in the time, work and passion to make a great game.
Not one of those games that ramp up the difficulty to force you to buy coins to continue levels. And NO ADS. omg thank you. Its so refreshing to play a game with no ads after every level. I look forward to seeing what challenges you have in store for the updates. Being able to replay levels would be a great addition. And maybe bonus levels where you have 1 bird and the layout has 1 or more ways for that one bird to take the whole layout down. I love playing the game the way it is now though. Great work. Thank you to all who put in the time, work and passion to make a great game.
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How Adorable
Not the game (although it is cute). No, what’s adorable is all the impotent rage from people who, apparently, have tied up their entire personal identity in the Angry Birds metaverse who can’t cope with the idea of a game in the series which isn’t aimed toward their personal tastes.
Narrative? Plot? Continuity? What are you talking about? You throw blobs at other blobs to optimize solving a puzzle. Who cares if some “character” has a new signature sound?
PS: all phone games are “aimed at casual gamers”. That’s what phone games are. If you do all your gaming on a phone, no matter how much time or money you spend, you’re a casual gamer.
I’m only giving this three stars because the “casual” aspect means the controls are really coarse but the solutions to the puzzles are still pretty precise. At the same time, the actual puzzle solving isn’t very complex. Once you get the basics of the physics it is just a question of how much grinding you want to do to get each shot just so.
Narrative? Plot? Continuity? What are you talking about? You throw blobs at other blobs to optimize solving a puzzle. Who cares if some “character” has a new signature sound?
PS: all phone games are “aimed at casual gamers”. That’s what phone games are. If you do all your gaming on a phone, no matter how much time or money you spend, you’re a casual gamer.
I’m only giving this three stars because the “casual” aspect means the controls are really coarse but the solutions to the puzzles are still pretty precise. At the same time, the actual puzzle solving isn’t very complex. Once you get the basics of the physics it is just a question of how much grinding you want to do to get each shot just so.
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