Angry Birds Journey



Angry Birds Journey (previously known as Angry Birds Casual) is a slingshot puzzle game developed by Rovio Entertainment. It is the twenty-fourth game in the expanded mainline series, and the eleventh mobile game to use the slingshot gameplay style. Despite this, the game's mechanics base itself on the more recent tile-matching games, such as Angry Birds Match and Angry Birds Dream Blast. The birds act more like moves to the player, with the characters being provided in a random sequence. In addition to pigs, the birds' goal was originally to only free encaged hatchlings, who sometimes have missions tied to them (getting their containers to the bottom of the stage or to the top), but when rebranded to Journey, the main goal changed back to popping Pigs (however some levels still have the goals of freeing hatchlings). Also, the levels are not replayable, thus meaning that the stars are removed.

History
Journey was soft-launched as Angry Birds Casual in the US, Finland, Poland and Sweden on Apple's App Store in March 2020. It was pulled from the App Store in December of that year, due to the game getting rebranded as Angry Birds Journey, which would release in the same set of regions, along with Denmark and Canada, on January 14, 2021. The new version of the game was set in a different, more tribal location, featured more pigs in the levels, and introduced the plot of a Minion Pig stealing an ancient egg that Red had found. On December 9, 2021, it was confirmed on the official Angry Birds Facebook pages that the game would be made available worldwide soon.

Gameplay
The game is a slingshot game, in which the players have to drag the rubber of the slingshot with the bird and aim it at the target, which are Caged Hatchlings. There are various unlockable characters and are again in "cute" style, based on a lot of Angry Birds Dream Blast features and graphics. Some of the birds have changed abilities from previous games. Also, these abilities are activated upon the birds' impact on blocks.

There is an Anger Meter that fills up by breaking blocks. Once it fills up, you can activate it to make the next bird bigger and stronger. Furthermore, if you win levels on a streak, you get additional power ups at the beginning of each level (One bird after the first and second win; two birds after the third and fourth win; three birds after the fifth win and onward).

There are sections for each level just like in Angry Birds 2, now called "checkpoints". Each level has quests, like the Match games, such as freeing Hatchlings on jam, popping pigs, etc.

Each level has a predefined amount of birds you can launch. For each launch you are given one random bird. To win the game, you have to clear all the checkpoints before you run out of birds. You have to pay 950 coins if you run out of birds; otherwise you lose the level.

There is the Sun Bar, where you fill it with Sun Tokens to get the Sun chest while your first and second rewards are 40 and 60 coins. The Sun Chest has 140 coins, infinite lives for 30 minutes and a powerup.

The Star Chest is unlocked every time you get 20 stars (pass 20 levels) to open it. It contains a new profile picture, 420 coins and a new puzzle piece to add to the plot image on main screen.

Checkpoints
Similar to Angry Birds 2, each level is divided into several stages, now called "checkpoints". Each level consists of three to five checkpoints. At each checkpoint the player has to clear all the goals of that checkpoint in order to proceed to the next checkpoint. The player wins the level after clearing all goals of the final checkpoint.

Each checkpoint has one to three types of goals the player must collect. See the section below.

Goals
There are several types of goals to be collected by players during gameplay:

Boosters
During gameplay, players may use boosters to aid them complete the levels.

Boosters can be earned from reward chests, from in-level purchases, or from the bundles in the Store.

There are three types of boosters:

Chapters
There are total of 5 chapters in Angry Birds Journey.
 * 1) Ancient Ruins (2 episodes, levels 1-160)
 * 2) Crystal Clouds (2 episodes, levels 161-320)
 * 3) Starry Desert (4 episodes, levels 321-640)
 * 4) Sleepy Meadows (4 episodes, levels 641-960)
 * 5) Sacred Springs (4 episodes, levels 961-1280)

After the main chapters, there is a bonus chapter:
 * Gaia's Challenge

Characters
(In order of appearance in the levels)

Birds

 * Main
 * Chuck
 * Bomb
 * Silver
 * Stella
 * Red
 * Hatchlings


 * Others
 * Unnamed Female Mechanic
 * Judge Peckinpah

Pigs

 * Minion Pigs
 * Helmet Pig

Others

 * Gaia
 * Frog

Gallery
For gallery, see Angry Birds Journey/Gallery.

Trivia

 * The "Angry Birds Journey - Stolen Egg" trailer was the Gold Winner for the "Game Advertising & Design – Digital AD (Single)" category at the NYX Game awards in November 2021.
 * In version 2.0 of the APK, in the string path (com.rovio.abcasual\assets) is a text file called "desc.txt", which says the following:"AK: Do not delete the folder (StreamingAssets) of this file. The folder is required in the Wwise Unity Integration to avoid DirectoryNotFoundException on Unity Editor for Windows when there is no such a folder in the active Unity project." It is noted that there wasn't a folder called "StreamingAssets" anywhere in the same folder as the text file.
 * If you pre-registered the game before the global launch, you can claim 2 special edition profile photos or Golden Red and Ruby Stella plus 24 hours of infinite lives. However, there was only a 7-day period to collect these items.