Angry Birds Stella



Angry Birds Stella is the spin-off series of Angry Birds released on September 4, 2014.

The game features Stella in the starring role taking a vacation from her adventures with the Flock, traveling to Golden Island and visiting an assortment of characters created exclusively for the game, including four new playable Birds and improved visuals resembling the Angry Birds Toons shorts.

History
On December 30, 2013, the first teaser image shows in Rovio's "New Tricks" video.

The Angry Birds Stella was announced on February 12, 2014, Rovio posted a picture with silhouettes of some new characters. The next day, it was published new pictures, and announcements, which is became clear that this will be a new game with new characters.

On February 14, 2014, the developers announced Telepods for Angry Birds Stella.

Developers released concepts of new birds and their homes. The cinematic trailer was released on July 24, 2014. Also on this day, demo version of the game was presented at the international festival of San Diego Comic-Con International. They released a videos with meet the characters on August 2014 and the gameplay teaser was released on August 28, 2014.

The Angry Birds Stella animated series was released on October 25, 2014 for exclusive premiere and premiered on November 4, 2014.

The v1.1.1 update, New Pigs on the Block added the storyline that features Stella and her friends in their treehouse looking for their house's missing items that were stolen by the pigs and they must complete random levels to retrieve the items.

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

In 2015, they plan to release a comic book series based off the game. It was published by Le Lombard. The first volume was released in France on May 2015, the comic was also released in Czech, Dutch, Spanish, and German. The comic series was cancelled for unknown reason or it's probably due to Angry Birds Stella's discontinuation. The English version of it was never release.

Discontinuation
On July 13, 2015, it was announced that the game would be officially discontinued to continue with Angry Birds POP! and the second season of the animated series.

On October 18, 2016, the game was closed and removed from the app store. If you try to download the app by jailbreaking on iOS or install by the backup APK on Android, or you still have it on your device. You will get the notice and will redirect you to Angry Birds 2 and Angry Birds POP!.

As Stella was discontinued, there are some sprites in the game files are never made into the game and left them behind.

Gameplay
Just like 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. Bird's abilities allows you to tap and hold for a certain amount of time. You can bounce off large drums and still use the birds' ability afterwards.

The total number of stars you've accumulated is shown in the top right corner. Earning stars is important as the extra birds in your line-up are unlocked when you achieve a certain number. Without these extra birds you don't get your 10,000 point bonuses.

This game features Bird Coins that main purpose is to buy their accumulation characters. Also, the bird in the slingshot can be replaced using TelePods.

The Hammer power-up is the first unlocked on Level 13. Press it at anything or any enemy to destroy that thing or enemy. After using it it takes a certain amount of pigs for it to recharge or you can spend coins and use it immediately.

There's a mini-game in the credits menu where you keep the pigs up in the air.

Bonus Levels
The bonus levels was added in v1.1.1 update, there are a lot of innovations. The main feature is the possibility of the player to choose a bird of the three prepositions. Like the Angry Birds Epic after passing a level necessary to turn the roulette wheel, where you can win coins and Lost & Found items. The number of prizes is equal to the number of stars earned in a level. Also for getting stars on the bonus levels and items can earn experience. To achieve a certain level of experience opens up new Lost & Found items, pigs and boxes. You must unlock after you complete Level 18 of Branch Out, or complete the tutorial levels on Luca, Willow, and Dahlia to play areas on the map.

Lost and Found
Inventory consists of a large number of Lost & Found items belonging to Stella, Poppy and other birds. Inventory has become available in the game not once, but only after one of the updates. According to the cutscene, the pigs were entered the treehouse and stole all of their belongings. To get them, you need to pass one of the bonus levels. Once you beat the level, the player will be offered to scroll the wheel with prizes, which are often exposed to the inventory items.

If a player is lucky and got the item from your inventory, then the game automatically runs a small scene. You can see how many items you found. Then can happen two options will be offered to the player to find the same thing, but a newer and quality (can be repeated up to five times), or as the player gets a bonus. Each found items significantly add points to the player's level of experience. More points can be obtained by finding the number of similar items and improving the existing maximum. Lost & Found items can be viewed by clicking on the button with the image of Luca's Toy Robot in the lower right corner.

Scrapbook
Main Article: Album The scrapbook allows you to access the characters, costumes, and boxes you’ve unlocked. At the very beginning of the game, it shows that the scrapbook with photos are stolen by Gale together with the pigs from Stella's treehouse, and then it dropped from the airship on one of the flowers. You must get scrapbook at Level 5 of Branch Out.

Episodes / Chapters
There are only two chapters in the game.

Achievements
Main Article: Angry Birds Stella Achievements

Gallery
Main Article: Angry Birds Stella/Gallery

Soundtrack
For this game's soundtrack, see Angry Birds Stella Soundtrack.

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 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.

Angry Birds Stella POP!
Main Article: Angry Birds POP! Another game in the Stella series was originally called Angry Birds Stella POP!, which is a tile matching game, was soft launched for iOS in Canada on December 22, 2014 and released worldwide for iOS and Android on March 12, 2015.

On July 6, 2015 (v1.8.0 update), the game changed its name from Angry Birds Stella POP! to Angry Birds POP!.

Trivia

 * Angry Birds Stella is the first main game in the series as a whole where the playable Birds are not given alternative names named after their color or an attribute to the character.
 * The following reasons of why Angry Birds Stella is a unique game.
 * There is only one returning playable Bird.
 * It is the only Angry Birds Game or Spinoff where Red does not appear directly.
 * It is the only game where the villain is female.
 * It is the only game where the flock has only 1 male member.
 * It is the only game where the main character is female.
 * It is one of the only games to have its own Comic-Con Panel.
 * It is the only game where the main villain does not appear in the final level.
 * This is the first game where the main villain is a bird, as well as the first depiction of infighting amongst the birds.
 * This is the only game where all of the birds sport unique eye colors, with none of them ever having black eyes (light blue, dark blue, green, brown, orange, and yellow). In fact, the only characters with black eyes are the pigs.
 * In the in-game files, the game is referred to as "Purple" and "PURPLE_BIRD" on multiple occasions, possibly referring to Gale.
 * Each of the birds abilities are similar to those from previous games.
 * Stella's ability is similar to Red's ability from Red's Mighty Feathers.
 * Poppy's is similar to Matilda.
 * Luca's is similar to the Blues.
 * Willow's is similar to Hal.
 * Dahlia's is similar to Bomb.
 * Gale's is similar to Mighty Eagle.
 * This game used to have a Facebook glitch. You didn't have to connect Facebook to play the game or you couldn't play the game anymore. You had to uninstall the game and reinstall it. Makes you lose all progress because Rovio Account is not available in this game.
 * Some of Lost & Found items has references:
 * You can see Red and King Pig as Luca's toys, inside a car, referencing to Angry Birds Go!.
 * The old loading screen of Angry Birds can be seen as a logo on the Game Console, near the television.
 * The unused posters are referencing to:
 * Red's poster - Michael Jackson's Thriller
 * The Blues' poster - One Direction
 * Chuck's poster - ???
 * Matilda's poster - Daft Punk
 * Bomb's poster - The Notorious Big