When you cause enough destruction (always a noble endeavor), you gain another bird. There are flashes of mercy in Angry Birds 2. There’s not even a point to starting a level over after a bad shot, unless you simply feel like wasting one of your precious five lives (each of which takes half an hour or a fistful of hard currency to fill up). No more consulting walkthroughs, YouTube, or friends if you’re stuck on a level. That means, unlike earlier games, strategizing in Angry Birds 2 is a near-impossibility - especially since each level is given subtle, random changes on repeated playthroughs. You also can’t peek at what’s ahead in multi-screen levels. You can switch between visible birds, but invisible ones remain unseen until you’ve burned through your previous birds. Incidentally, some of those birds are hidden behind face-down cards. You must clear every screen with the birds you’re allotted at the start of the stage. For instance, each level has multiple screens - sometimes three or more - with multiple pigs to take down, and / or bosses to demolish. In fact, the alterations made in the name of farming your hard currency are the only really significant changes between Angry Birds and Angry Birds 2. But neither is it possible to play the game without observing how the deck has been stacked against you in hopes of getting you to spend money on in-app purchases. It’s still as fun as ever to take out the glass base of a pig’s tower with a beautiful bluebird shot. That’s not to say Angry Birds 2 is a bad game. Sure, Angry Birds 2 looks and sounds much more refined than its predecessor - over the years, the Pigs and the Birds have received an impressive infusion of personality - but this latest session of bird-flinging makes it too easy to reflect on the tedium and frustration that comes with some free-to-play titles.
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