Well the basics are here, but not the magic. Sorry about that :-(
Let’s start with the good things.
Some ideas are really nice: the multi stage levels, the spitting flowers, the teleporters and I guess others are available later. I would like to see them make their way into ABO someday ;-)
The visual effects are great, the graphics are very nice looking and very…toonesque.
And that’s about it.
I played the first 40 levels and got 3 stars in all but 2 on my first attempt.
That’s way too easy.
The randomness of the level constructions is quite poor. It’s always a variation on the same towers. In fact only the background obstacles are constant.
Even the boss levels are not really stopping you. You don’t need to scratch your head wondering how to get past them, just fling away whatever birds you have available and you will go easily past them.
So no real strategies here. It’s definitely not a puzzle game like the others ABx.
It’s not necessarily a bad thing, just not my thing.
The scores and also totally opaque. To increase them you should at least have a way to guess what is increasing them. It’s not possible.
And I won’t even go into the lives/gems system. It didn’t really bothered me because I was doing something else at the same time and didn’t mind stepping out for a few minutes.
I wouldn’t want to be stuck in a plane with AB2 though.
You should also know that modded versions of the game are already out, giving you infinite gems (and lives, and spells) and fully upgraded birds.
So the Leaderboard Police will have an almost impossible task. ;->
Anyway, I got bored after 20 levels, and after 40 or so I decided to call it a day.
