Angry Birds Stella

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Angry Birds Stella
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Developer(s) Rovio Entertainment
Composer(s) David Schweitzer
Series Angry Birds
Platform(s) iOS, Android, BlackBerry 10, Windows Phone 8
Release (2014-09-04) (2015-09-08)September 4, 2014 – September 8, 2015
(1 year and 4 days)
Genre(s) Puzzle
Mode(s) Single-player

Angry Birds Stella, listed as Angry Birds Slingshot Stella, was a 2014 puzzle video game and the second spin-off from the Angry Birds series, developed by Rovio Entertainment. [1] Announced on February 13, 2014, Rovio stated that the game would be accompanied by a toy-line with Telepods, and a television series. [2] [3] The game was released on September 4, 2014 and was discontinued on September 8, 2015. [4]

Contents

This game is primarily based on an Angry Birds character who was first introduced in the Angry Birds Seasons level set "Back to School", which was released in August 2012. It begins with Stella leaving the rest of the Angry Birds flock and setting off to Golden Island to visit four other friends for vacation. However, Gale and an army of pigs steal Stella's map of Golden Island and her photo album, which leads Stella and her friends to embark on a journey to stop Gale from stealing the golden items on the island and retrieve the pictures in the photo album. [5]

Gameplay

Just as in the original game of the series, players use a slingshot to shoot an assortment of birds to nearby structures, with an intent to pop all the green pigs that can be either near, in, or on the structures. Players must also make use of each bird's unique abilities, activating them while in flight to aid in defeating the pigs or destroying obstacles.

The December 2014 update, "New Pigs on the Block", added a storyline that features Stella and her friends in their treehouse looking for their house's missing items that were stolen by the pigs. They must complete random levels to retrieve the items.[ citation needed ]

Telepods

This is the third game of the franchise to be compatible with Hasbro's Telepods, a toy line also used in other Angry Birds games, such as Angry Birds Star Wars II . [6] The Telepods are able to summon characters into the game that correspond to the scanned figure. Other than this use, the Telepods pack may come with other toy pieces and accessories for normal playing.

Stella in other media

Television

Rovio announced an animated series based on the game, with the first episode released on November 1, 2014 on ToonsTV, simply named Angry Birds Stella . [7] [8] The first episode was "A Fork in the Friendship", that shows how Gale, Stella's former best friend and queen of the pigs on Golden Island, separated from Stella and her other friends. The series lasted for two seasons, ending just a few months before the release of the feature film based on the main Angry Birds series.

Books

Rovio has partnered with Worldreader and Room to Read, two literacy charities, to produce a series of books featuring its Angry Birds Stella characters. [9]

Stella also appears in some issues in various Angry Birds comic book series and short story collections.

Stella, along with Poppy, Luca, Willow, Dahlia and Gale was featured in a manga story published in the Nakayoshi magazine not long after the game was released, titled Stella: Nana and the Magic English Words, which however ended in April 2016. [10] Belgian publisher Le Lombard later released a two-volume comic book series based on the spin-off in 2015 and 2017 exclusively in mainland Europe, first in France, before they were translated in Czech, Dutch, Spanish and German.

Willow appears on the front cover of Angry Birds Comics Quarterly: Monsters and Mistletoe, released on December 13, 2017. [11] Although she does not appear in any of the issue's four stories, this marks the first time any of Stella's friends have ever appeared in an English-language Angry Birds comic book. More than a month later, Gale appeared in one issue in the year-long The Angry Birds Movie comic strip run, published by GoComics. [12]

Film

Stella and all of her friends, except Luca, appear in the animated Angry Birds film adaptations with fully visibly wings and talons, as well as Gale, the spin-off's main antagonist. However, they play very small, mostly non-speaking roles in these films. As both films show that Stella's friends all lived in Bird Island in the first place, and that Gale was always a benevolent friend, they effectively retcon out the spin-off's plot and setting.

Music

Willow, voiced by Charli XCX, sings the song "Explode", while performing with Stella and most of her friends as part of a welcome celebration for the pigs in The Angry Birds Movie . The full song is available on the film's soundtrack, and was also released online as a free YouTube video by the soundtrack's distributor, Atlantic Records. [15]

Reception

The game has received generally mixed reviews with a Metacritic score of 66/100 based on 9 reviews. [16] Pocket Gamer said, "It's Angry Birds. If you care about that any more then you'll probably find something to enjoy. Just watch out for the timers." [17] Some reviewers have praised the game for its introduction of new characters and return to the original style of gameplay.

Discontinuation

After the release of Angry Birds Stella, a third, unnamed chapter was teased at the end of the game's second chapter, but it was cancelled, and the game was discontinued on September 8, 2015 (thus leaving the game's storyline off on a cliffhanger). However, Stella's adventures continue in Angry Birds POP! and the second and final season of the Angry Birds Stella series. [18] [19]

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See also

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