Thunderbird Strike
Controls do not work well and game is very basic.
decolonizing video games!
simple concept, great graphics, powerful ideas. one minor issue with crashing after cutscenes is easily resolved by closing the video before it ends
Crashes before I even start
I was really excited to stock up on some apps by the indigenous communities, but this plays the very first video and crashes with no option to skip ahead. Definitely has some bugs that need worked out.
Excellent.
Aside from some software issues, this is an absolutely beautiful game with a powerful message.
Worst game I’ve played.
I truly believe this is the worst game I’ve played ever
Terrible
Monotonous, boring, and very political.
A Native View
Very insightful look into Native American issues....Kudos to the app creator & the musician....
Nice art but that’s mostly it
I don’t know why this game has such a majority of five-star reviews. I, um, wouldn’t give it that. Obviously.
First off: There are videos that play between levels, and when I allowed the videos end by themselves, the game crashed and I had to restart from level one. (There are only three levels, so this wasn’t a huge issue.) I avoided this by closing the videos before they ended.
The stylized art is really good, cute animations of deer, cool snake boss, very nice.
The gameplay is somewhat unclear? I knew I had to tap the bird to create lightning, but the game didn’t indicate where the bird needed to be to zap objects. (Slightly to the right of the object, it turns out.) I still don’t know whether I was supposed to hit the deer (and protesters) walking around, it didn’t affect my score. In levels one and two you can literally just start the level and leave your device for like five minutes and you’ll advance to the next level, the only difference is the score. (Also it crashes if you don’t close the video fast enough.) On the third level, lightning seems to do nothing, the only way to advance is to grab the garbage bags, so just kinda keep the bird next to the snake’s mouth? Not hard or fun, just tedious.
The message is fine, oil pipelines on Indigenous lands are bad, trashing the environment is bad, I wouldn’t say this game is educational though. Unless there is a tradition of the Thunderbird resurrecting animals and humans to fight a great snake? There IS information on the Thunderbird Strike website about both the pipelines and the Indigenous stories that inspired the game. If the game directed the player to the website or other resources, I feel like the message here would’ve been stronger. Kind of a missed opportunity.
This game is an impressive project for a small group of creators, and they should be proud. Making a (mostly) functional game is absolutely an achievement. This is a great proof-of-concept and it’s cool that they put it out for free, buuuuuuuut if you’re just looking for a fun game then this is probably not it. I only played the whole thing so I could give it a fair review, and I only wanted to give it a fair review because I was suspicious of all the five-star ratings. If you don’t encounter any crashes, then this might fill up fifteen minutes of your life, but maybe you could spend that fifteen minutes researching environmental justice instead.
First off: There are videos that play between levels, and when I allowed the videos end by themselves, the game crashed and I had to restart from level one. (There are only three levels, so this wasn’t a huge issue.) I avoided this by closing the videos before they ended.
The stylized art is really good, cute animations of deer, cool snake boss, very nice.
The gameplay is somewhat unclear? I knew I had to tap the bird to create lightning, but the game didn’t indicate where the bird needed to be to zap objects. (Slightly to the right of the object, it turns out.) I still don’t know whether I was supposed to hit the deer (and protesters) walking around, it didn’t affect my score. In levels one and two you can literally just start the level and leave your device for like five minutes and you’ll advance to the next level, the only difference is the score. (Also it crashes if you don’t close the video fast enough.) On the third level, lightning seems to do nothing, the only way to advance is to grab the garbage bags, so just kinda keep the bird next to the snake’s mouth? Not hard or fun, just tedious.
The message is fine, oil pipelines on Indigenous lands are bad, trashing the environment is bad, I wouldn’t say this game is educational though. Unless there is a tradition of the Thunderbird resurrecting animals and humans to fight a great snake? There IS information on the Thunderbird Strike website about both the pipelines and the Indigenous stories that inspired the game. If the game directed the player to the website or other resources, I feel like the message here would’ve been stronger. Kind of a missed opportunity.
This game is an impressive project for a small group of creators, and they should be proud. Making a (mostly) functional game is absolutely an achievement. This is a great proof-of-concept and it’s cool that they put it out for free, buuuuuuuut if you’re just looking for a fun game then this is probably not it. I only played the whole thing so I could give it a fair review, and I only wanted to give it a fair review because I was suspicious of all the five-star ratings. If you don’t encounter any crashes, then this might fill up fifteen minutes of your life, but maybe you could spend that fifteen minutes researching environmental justice instead.
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Keeps Crashing
I was very excited to try this app, but I unfortunately cannot get the app to work. It keeps crashing.
Real cool
It’s a pretty minimalistic game but that doesn’t really take away from the gameplay and the art is gorgeous!
Beautiful & timely
Excellent, overtly political game, and super cathartic to play right now. Had some minor issues with interface- I want a pause button and a way to see credits casually via the menu, not just at end.
Neither entertaining nor educational
Obviously the reviewers who rated this game with 5 stars didn’t even play it. It’s pointless! Wish I could give it 0 stars. It has no screen play or storyline for it to be educational like the other reviewers claim. You fly around as a bird, “collect” lightning and “fatally strike” construction equipment with said lightning. Sometimes a tornado shows up for some reason. After level 2, the app crashed. Wish I hadn’t wasted as much time as I did on it, but it was kind of like when you’re watching a bad movie, and you stick it out and continue watching to see if it gets any better ... aaaaaand it never does. Happy to delete this one and regain 638 MB of space back on my phone.
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Great graphics, needs better instructions
Title says it all
Lacks iOS control tutorial and crashes after each cutscene...
Wish I could enjoy this game on my iPhone 6s. Here’s my issue(s), with thunderbird strike. When I opened the game for the first time it crashed, I opened again and it crashed after the first cutscene. After I struggled figuring out the how to “strike” these machines, I finished the first level, it crashes again. I truly wanted to enjoy this game, but on the iOS it’s horrible. Maybe try on iPad? Maybe introduce controls rather than throwing us into this side scroller?
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Awesome!
Game is very entertaining but more importantly stands for so much more!
Nice graphics
This game has beautiful graphics and a great message. There needs to be a bit more instructions on what to do on each level as I found it a bit confusing.
Fun game!
This is a fun, easy game that also gives some knowledge about Natives and the issue with pipelines. It definitely has created discussion!
