Angry Birds Stella, also known as Angry Birds Slingshot Stella, was a puzzle video game and the second spin-off from the Angry Birds series, developed by Rovio Entertainment. The game is marketed to females by using characters that have a spirit of female heroism and friendship, but is intended to appeal to all sexes. Announced on February 13, 2014, Rovio stated that the game would be accompanied by a toy-line with Telepods, and a television series. The game was released on September 4, 2014.
This game is 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 photo album, which leads Stella and her friends to embark on a journey to retrieve it.
Video Angry Birds Stella
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 at strategic places and times 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.
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Characters
- Stella: The main protagonist, a feisty galah who can trap obstacles in bubbles and levitate them out of the way.
- Poppy: A pale yellow cockatiel who can instantly drop down from mid-air, smashing obstacles along the way.
- Dahlia: A young great horned owl who can phase through solid obstacles, before unleashing a destructive blast.
- Luca: A male scrub jay with a ranged sonic attack.
- Willow: A western crowned pigeon who can blast through obstacles with a sharp change in direction.
- Gale: A violet-backed starling who becomes Stella's nemesis, ruling over the pigs.
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. 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, named Angry Birds Stella. The first episode was "A Fork in the Friendship", that shows how Gale, Stella's ex-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 Angry Birds Movie.
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.
Stella is also featured in some issues of the Angry Birds Comics miniseries, along with Angry Birds: Big Movie Eggstravaganza, a tie-in comic book based on the universe of The Angry Birds Movie.
Willow appears on the front cover of Angry Birds Comics Quarterly: Monsters and Mistletoe, released on December 13, 2017. Although she does not appear in any of the issue's four stories, this marks the first and only time any of Stella's friends have ever appeared in an Angry Birds comic book.
Film
Stella and all of her friends, except Luca, appear in The Angry Birds Movie with fully visible wings and talons, as well as Gale, the spin-off's main antagonist. Kate McKinnon voices Stella, who is among the birds who participate in the climatic attack on Piggy Island. Maya Rudolph, who voiced Matilda in the film, also voiced Poppy for one scene, but was not credited for that role.
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.
Reception
The game has received generally mixed reviews with a Metacritic score of 67/100 based on 8 reviews. Pocket Gamer UK said, "It's Angry Birds. If you care about that any more then [sic] you'll probably find something to enjoy. Just watch out for the timers." 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 episode was teased at the end of the game's second episode, but the episode was cancelled, and the game was discontinued on September 8, 2015. However, Stella's adventures continue in Angry Birds POP! and the second and final season of the Angry Birds Stella series.
Other games
- Stella and her friends also appeared in Angry Birds Stella POP!, a bubble shooter tile matching game. The game was soft launched for iOS in Canada on December 22, 2014 and released worldwide for iOS and Android on March 12, 2015. A few months later, however, on July 6, 2015, the game was retitled Angry Birds Pop as classic Angry Birds characters were added to the game.
- Stella, Willow and Gale were also planned to appear in Angry Birds Holiday, an endless business management simulator where birds as they appear in The Angry Birds Movie would run a vacation resort and offer services to incoming pigs, but the game was cancelled by the end of 2016.
See also
- List of Angry Birds Stella episodes
References
External links
- Official website
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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