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kpnanny
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I’ve been an AB fan/player since almost the beginning. When I heard about AB2 I was – to put it mildly – thrilled. It was billed as a sequel to the original and I was more than delighted to think I would have an opportunity to once again challenge my puzzle solving skills, my aim, my perseverance and patience…all those things that made the original Angry Birds the incredible game it was and is. Sadly, it appears that those of us who use the Kindle Fire tablets are red-headed stepchildren. The game is still not available in the Amazon Appstore…my opinion on this follows below.

After the original game, Seasons and Rio had offered the same challenges and mind exercises with frills, as did Space (in an entirely different and original manner, but the same basic format). Then came Star Wars. Similar, but no longer just a mental and visual challenge – suddenly, you needed map pieces and other extras to excel. Then came Power-ups in other games. Then came Epic. An epic money grabber. Sure, you COULD play without spending money, but it became more about the THINGS than about your skill. I played that for a while, beat all the original cave, spent too much money for gold coins and abandoned the game when I realized it had little to do with skill and a whole lot to do with money. There was a little mental involvement when I had to decide which potion or “extra” to use, but when I realized I was spending 80% of my time going back to the easy levels and playing them 100-200 times to build up the items I needed to make things and that I was TOTALLY bored, I quit. I haven’t played in more than 8 months, and have no intention of going back.

Then came Transformers. Fun to play, although extremely repetitive, and another one of those games that encourage you to plunk down $9.99 (Really? $10? Just to get “Jenga Mode”? How appalling is that?) for an allegedly better playing experience. Now, Transformers only works about 20% of the time. The other 80% of the time I am kicked out in the middle of level (sometimes after having used several hundred coins to upgrade my buddy – coins that I DON’T get back after being kicked out), unable to get into the program, kicked out when I watch a video to “Boost my Buddy” or “Double my Rewards”, kicked out when trying to finish a mission, graphic errors (invisible assassins or weapons, or freezing to the extent that a hard reboot is required) – a total exercise in frustration. This is not an occasional problem – it’s been ongoing for weeks.

So to get back to my original paragraph, I was REALLY excited to think we were getting an actual “sequel” to the original. Instead, I find that I’m relieved to be unable to download the game. I think I won’t, even when it’s available.