The following is an excerpt from my list Errant Thoughts on Games I've Never Played Before/Haven't Played Too Much
Angry Birds Trilogy is a strange, strange beast. This is a perfect example of the corrupting power that money has. All three of these games were sold at a price of at least two dollars originally. In this collection that originally cost in the range of thirty dollars, they blend together into this unchanging homunculus of early-touchscreen era artifacts. I can see the Wii port having some value attached, as the potential use of pointer controls might have threatened to mirror the touchscreen controls in an interesting way. Still, that doesn't justify this.
And yet, yet...
This is a perfect piece of game preservation. Unlike many of its contemporaries, all three of the games in this collection are not butchered to run on other platforms. Purely, this is Angry Birds and two of its sequel projects as they were in 2012, and that's what they put on the back of the box. What they likely didn't was "this might be the only way you can play Angry Birds and its sequels, as they were in 2012, twenty years from now." There's a smartphone game that IGN once gave a 10/10 that you can't play anymore, and the original Angry Birds was nearly dealt a similar killing blow early last year. My point is, the iOS is not a safe place for games if you want to view them as more than disposable products. In a way, knowing this devalues collections like Angry Birds Trilogy somewhat. But, if you have the mindset of a preservationist, this has a reason to exist. Finally.
Angry Birds Trilogy is a strange, strange beast. This is a perfect example of the corrupting power that money has. All three of these games were sold at a price of at least two dollars originally. In this collection that originally cost in the range of thirty dollars, they blend together into this unchanging homunculus of early-touchscreen era artifacts. I can see the Wii port having some value attached, as the potential use of pointer controls might have threatened to mirror the touchscreen controls in an interesting way. Still, that doesn't justify this.
And yet, yet...
This is a perfect piece of game preservation. Unlike many of its contemporaries, all three of the games in this collection are not butchered to run on other platforms. Purely, this is Angry Birds and two of its sequel projects as they were in 2012, and that's what they put on the back of the box. What they likely didn't was "this might be the only way you can play Angry Birds and its sequels, as they were in 2012, twenty years from now." There's a smartphone game that IGN once gave a 10/10 that you can't play anymore, and the original Angry Birds was nearly dealt a similar killing blow early last year. My point is, the iOS is not a safe place for games if you want to view them as more than disposable products. In a way, knowing this devalues collections like Angry Birds Trilogy somewhat. But, if you have the mindset of a preservationist, this has a reason to exist. Finally.