Angry Birds Blast! review - Another match-stuff puzzler
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In a crowded marketplace, a match-stuff puzzler has to do a lot to justify its existence. Otherwise it’s not going to poke its head over the parapets and get noticed by players.

And Angry Birds Blast doesn’t quite manage it. There’s nothing wrong with it, it just doesn’t do enough to make you sit up and take notice.

The Angry Birds trappings are nice, and the game is a decent amount of fun, but there’s nothing going on here that you won’t have popped and poked a hundred times before.

Bird-brained

The game takes most of its cues from Candy Crush Saga. You’ve got a series of levels, each of them made up of coloured blocks.

You can match them in straight-line groups of two or more. The levels set you challenges, like popping blobs of the same colour or getting rid of a few pigs. And you’ve got a set number of moves to complete them in.

There are different obstacles in your way, as you might imagine. These take the shape of structures from the Angry Birds game. So bits of glass, wood, and other items you need to pop blocks next to to get rid of.

You get rid of everything by tapping. When you clear a big group of blobs you get a special power-up that you can use to get rid of massive chains.

There are rockets that fire out, bombs that blow up everything around them, and lasers that focus in on one colour and destroy all of those blobs.

The game bounces along at a perfectly reasonable pace. And you’re going to enjoy most of the time that you spend with it.

Bird about it

And that’s fine. Angry Birds Blast is fine. You work your way through, popping and learning new ways to pop. And eventually you get a bit bored and go and do something else.

It’s just another match-stuff game. It doesn’t fizz or pop, but it doesn’t splutter or crash either. It just wanders around never really latching onto any of the parts of your brain that it needs to.

You match things, you match more things, and then you keep matching things. And in the end you’ll put it down and go and play something else.

Angry Birds Blast! review - Another match-stuff puzzler

It's a match-stuff puzzler. And that's sort of all there is to say about it
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Harry Slater
Harry Slater
Harry used to be really good at Snake on the Nokia 5110. Apparently though, digital snake wrangling isn't a proper job, so now he writes words about games instead.