I sympathise a lot with Angry Birds because its a truly historic game that was a pioneer in establishing "mobile games" as a unique medium: ultra casual experiences with one-touch controls that you can play forever - and I respect it a lot for that because mobile gaming I think is unfairly discriminated against by the gaming hegemony.
The real problem is that the game just ages terribly. I don't feel like I have much mechanical control over the birds and I'm just rolling for permutations to get those extremely arbitrary and tedious 3-stars. The level design takes a "kitchen sink" approach by packaging hundreds of them with a fresh coat of paint to divide them into "worlds" that aren't distinct at all and just make your progress seem futile.
It excels in art direction and creating an identity (it literally spawned a multimedia million dollar franchise) but 14 years later, its best to just sit on your homescreen as a digital stamp like old and shitty NES games that collectors accumulate but never play. because old stuff is usually shit. but that doesn't mean they weren't important.
Still, every gamer should at least try this snippet of history. thankfully Rovio relisted it on modern app stores for 99 cents and its untainted by ads, freemium mechanics or bloatware. I appreciate that.
The real problem is that the game just ages terribly. I don't feel like I have much mechanical control over the birds and I'm just rolling for permutations to get those extremely arbitrary and tedious 3-stars. The level design takes a "kitchen sink" approach by packaging hundreds of them with a fresh coat of paint to divide them into "worlds" that aren't distinct at all and just make your progress seem futile.
It excels in art direction and creating an identity (it literally spawned a multimedia million dollar franchise) but 14 years later, its best to just sit on your homescreen as a digital stamp like old and shitty NES games that collectors accumulate but never play. because old stuff is usually shit. but that doesn't mean they weren't important.
Still, every gamer should at least try this snippet of history. thankfully Rovio relisted it on modern app stores for 99 cents and its untainted by ads, freemium mechanics or bloatware. I appreciate that.