Angry Birds: completed!

I have a strange sense of déjà vu. Having completed Angry Birds back in 2010, Rovio continued to update the game with new secrets, levels, and abilities, bringing in new birds and themes from other Angry Bird titles. It has always been the case that a sequel would introduce new concepts, but now, with the ability to update old games, those new concepts can feed backwards as well.

Anyway, I digress. Angry Birds – known on the Apple game centre as AB Classic – is actually no longer available to buy or even redownload. I am fortunate that my installation has carried over a couple of phone migrations, and still works. I understand that others have not been so lucky. Rovio has stated that it would require a complete rebuild to bring their older games up to modern standards, and they are committed to doing this, but that was three years ago.

Two Dots: how to ruin a game

I have been playing Two Dots for a number of years now; it’s a really well designed puzzle game, ideally suited for mobile and portable use, short levels and touch screen control. The game starts easily, requiring you to clear a certain number of dots of defined colours, then introducing the square move (make a closed area of a certain colour, and all of that colour disappear). Slowly other mechanics are introduced – bugs that change colour each time they are connected until they fly away; fire which consumes a dot each time unless it’s cleared; water and slime which spread around the level; other blocks which cover or obstruct play.

Drop 7: I hate 1s

Stupid pieces who never disappear and just get in the way.  Grrr.

Angry Birds: completed!

Three stars on all levels, all golden eggs found and starred. I must admit that I had to resort to a search to find out what order to play the sound test in in order to get the star. It was hardly intuitive.

The latest update to the game brought with it Game Center support, and achievements. I’ve got a fair few, but there are others that require you to get over a certain total score on groups of levels. That just seems too much hard work now – but that doesn’t take away from the fact that it’s a brilliant game, ideal for wasting time on the commute … or just about anywhere.