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Angry Birds Stella

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For the Finnish computer-animated television series, seeAngry Birds Stella (TV series).

Angry Birds Stella
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Developer(s)Rovio Entertainment
Publisher(s)Rovio Entertainment
Composer(s)David Schweitzer
SeriesAngry 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,also known asAngry Birds Slingshot Stella,was apuzzlevideo gameand the second spin-off from theAngry Birdsseries, developed byRovio 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]

This game is based on an Angry Birds character who was first introduced in theAngry Birds Seasonslevel 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[edit]

Just as in theoriginal gameof theseries,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.

Characters[edit]

  • Stella:The mainprotagonist,a feisty pinkgalahwho can parkour to shake things up. She is playable from the start of the game.
  • Poppy:Alutino cockatielwho can instantly drop down from mid-air, smashing obstacles along the way. She is introduced in Level 12.
  • Luca:A young malecalifornia scrub jaywith a ranged sonic attack that will destroy any fragile objects. He is introduced in Level 23.
  • Willow:Awestern crowned pigeonwho can blast through obstacles with a sharp change in direction. She is introduced in Level 34.
  • Dahlia:Along-eared owlwho can phase through solid obstacles, before unleashing a destructive blast. She is introduced in Level 47.
  • Gale:Aviolet-backed starlingand the game's mainantagonist,ruling over the pigs. By unlocking the "Beach Day" chapter, the player can acquire a power-up for Gale: a paintbrush that can turn objects to gold (Gale's weakness), causing Gale to witness this and destroy all the gold-painted objects.
  • Handsome Pig:A blonde-haired pig and the game's secondary antagonist, who is Gale's right-hand man. He appears in the last level of each chapter.

Telepods[edit]

This is the third game of the franchise to be compatible with Hasbro'sTelepods,a toy line also used in otherAngry Birdsgames, such asAngry 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 normalplaying.

Stella in other media[edit]

Television[edit]

Rovio announced an animated series based on the game, with the first episode released on November 1, 2014 onToonsTV,namedAngry 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 thefeature filmbased onthe mainAngry Birdsseries.

Books[edit]

Rovio has partnered withWorldreaderandRoom 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 variousAngry Birdscomic book series and short story collections.

Stella, along with Poppy, Luca, Willow, Dahlia and Gale was featured in amangastory published in theNakayoshimagazine not long after the game was released, titledStella: Nana and the Magic English Words,which however ended in April 2016.[10]Belgian publisherLe Lombardlater 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 ofAngry 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-languageAngry Birdscomic book. More than a month later, Gale appeared in one issue in the year-longThe Angry Birds Moviecomic striprun, published byGoComics.[12]

Film[edit]

Stella and all of her friends, except Luca, appear in the animatedAngry Birdsfilm 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 effectivelyretconout the spin-off's plot and setting.

  • InThe Angry Birds Movie,Kate McKinnonvoices Stella,[13]andCharli XCXvoices Willow, whileMaya Rudolphvoiced Poppy for one scene without being credited. Stella and her friends put together a welcome celebration for the Bad Piggies when they first arrived. After the Pigs turned on the Birds and stole their eggs, Stella and Willow joined Red's effort to launch a counterattack on the Pigs and take back the stolen eggs, with the former being launched from the slingshot into Pig City.
  • Stella and most of her friends also appear inThe Angry Birds Movie 2,but none of the voice actresses who portrayed some of them in the first film reprise their roles. Stella is seen running an apple stand at the time, while Dahlia, Gale and Willow are later seen taking part in aspeed datingsession, with Dahlia and Willow being suitors to Chuck and Bomb respectively[14]in a rare moment inAngry Birdshistory where any of Stella's friends have a face-to-face encounter with birds from the classicAngry Birdsflock. Gale and Dahlia are also enrolled in Avian Academy, unimpressed with Silver's invention, the Super String, despite the latter's knack for science in the source material. Willow and Poppy both witnessed the destruction of Mighty Eagle's mountain cave, caused from an attack from Zeta, the film's main antagonist. Stella, Poppy, Willow and Dahlia later attended the wedding of Mighty Eagle and Zeta after the latter is defeated.

Music[edit]

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

Reception[edit]

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

Discontinuation[edit]

After the release ofAngry 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 inAngry Birds POP!and thesecond and final seasonof theAngry Birds Stellaseries.[18][19]

Other games[edit]

  • Stella and her friends also appeared inAngry Birds Stella POP!,a bubble shootertile matching game.The game wassoft launchedfor iOS inCanadaon December 22, 2014[20]and released worldwide for iOS and Android on March 12, 2015.[21]A few months later, however, on July 6, 2015, the game was retitledAngry Birds Popas classic Angry Birds characters crossed over into the game, making it the first and only one in the series to have both classic Angry Birds heroes and Stella's friends together.
  • Stella, Willow and Gale were also planned to appear inAngry Birds Holiday,an endlessbusiness management simulatorwhere birds as they appear inThe Angry Birds Moviewould run a vacation resort and offer services to incoming pigs,[22][23]but the game was cancelled by the end of 2016.
  • After Stella was added as a non-playable character to the 2018 gameAngry Birds Dream Blast,her friends made a cameo appearance in theChristmas2019 event "Holiday Gathering", where they were all invited by Mighty Eagle along with the entire original flock except Hal, Bubbles and Terence, to abanquetfor a holiday celebration. For a limited time, players were challenged to complete an increasing number of levels to invite each Bird to the banquet. All of the Birds are depicted as younger versions of themselves as they appeared in the animated films.[24]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^Rossi, Juhana (May 6, 2014)."Boss Talk: Angry Birds Maker Rovio Aims for the Next Level - WSJ".The Wall Street Journal.RetrievedMay 13,2014.
  2. ^Rovio Announces ‘Angry Birds Transformers’."Rovio Announces 'Angry Birds Transformers'".Morning News USA.Archived fromthe originalon June 24, 2014.RetrievedJune 23,2014.
  3. ^Andrei Dumitrescu (February 13, 2014)."Angry Birds Stella Launches in the Fall, Introduces Five New Bird Types".Softpedia.RetrievedFebruary 14,2014.
  4. ^"Angry Birds Stella Releases on September 4; Gets 2 New Trailer Videos".August 6, 2014.RetrievedSeptember 4,2014.
  5. ^Angry Birds Stella.Initialcutscene
  6. ^"Hasbro Announces New ANGRY BIRDS™ STELLA TELEPODS™ Line Based on the New Brand from Rovio Entertainment".Business Wire.February 13, 2014.RetrievedMay 13,2014.
  7. ^"Angry Birds Stella Animated Series!".AngryBirds.Com.Rovio. Archived fromthe originalon March 3, 2016.RetrievedOctober 4,2014.
  8. ^"Angry Birds Stella Animated Series Exclusive Premiere!".AngryBirds.Com.Rovio. Archived fromthe originalon March 29, 2015.RetrievedNovember 1,2014.
  9. ^"Rovio Teams with Literacy Charities".licensemag.Archived fromthe originalon November 3, 2014.RetrievedOctober 17,2014.
  10. ^Loo, Egan (September 3, 2019)."Angry Birds App Gets 1st Manga in Nakayoshi Shōjo Magazine".Anime News Network.RetrievedSeptember 4,2019.
  11. ^"IDW Comics Listing ofAngry Birds: Monsters and Mistletoe".IDW Publishing Digital Store.Archived fromthe originalon October 29, 2020.RetrievedMarch 14,2018.
  12. ^Rovio Entertainment (January 23, 2018)."Angry Birds Comic Strip - January 23, 2018".GoComics.Archived fromthe originalon March 27, 2019.RetrievedMarch 19,2019.
  13. ^"A field guide to the flock of 'Angry Birds' characters".USA Today.
  14. ^Sony Pictures Ireland [@SonyPicturesIRL] (July 18, 2019)."Forget #LoveIsland, this is speed dating brought to you by #AngryBirdsMovie2 💘😂"(Tweet).RetrievedAugust 25,2019– viaTwitter.
  15. ^Charli XCX - "Explode" - From The Angry Birds Movie [Official Audio].May 5, 2016 – via YouTube.
  16. ^ab"Angry Birds Stella for iPhone/iPad Reviews".Metacritic.CBS Interactive.RetrievedAugust 8,2018.
  17. ^"Angry Birds Stella review".September 4, 2014.RetrievedSeptember 4,2014.
  18. ^Angry Birds Stella [@stellafriends](July 14, 2015)."@IenBird It is, the flock will continue their adventures in #AngryBirdsPOP and of course in the upcoming season of their series!:)"(Tweet).RetrievedDecember 10,2016– viaTwitter.
  19. ^Angry Birds Stella [@stellafriends](September 8, 2015)."@OrganaStella @ppaulius95 Thanks for the feedback, we really appreciate it! As the game's discont'd there won't be an update unfortunately"(Tweet).RetrievedDecember 10,2016– viaTwitter.
  20. ^What happened to Stella's bubbles? Angry Birds Stella POP! soft launched in Canada.Retrieved December 22, 2014.
  21. ^Stella bursts bubbles with global launch of Angry Birds Stella POP!ArchivedApril 2, 2015, at theWayback Machine.Retrieved March 18, 2015.
  22. ^"First Look at Angry Birds Holiday – Brand New Farming Game By Rovio".YouTube.AngryBirdsNest. May 25, 2016.RetrievedJuly 25,2018.
  23. ^"Angry Birds Holiday Animation Reel (2016)".Vimeo.Jürgen Koller. January 22, 2018.RetrievedJuly 25,2018.
  24. ^"Angry Birds Dream Blast - Holiday Gathering".Facebook.January 7, 2020.RetrievedJanuary 31,2020.

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