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mattbell ([personal profile] mattbell) wrote2011-01-30 12:46 am
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The most depressing video game ever made

It's a heart-wrenching and disturbing story of an oppressed minority. After surviving insult after insult, the minority is pushed over the edge when the ruling ethnic group kidnaps all of their children in an attempt to wipe out their race, driving them to physically hurl themselves at the buildings where the oppressors live and end their lives as suicide bombers in a desperate rage-fueled act of revenge that won't change their fate of extermination.  Yup, Angry Birds feels kind of different when you take the story seriously.

[identity profile] madbard.livejournal.com 2011-01-30 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I always wondered about the whole birds-dying-on-assault business. I mean, they could have been portrayed as simply being dazed and dented a la Wile E Coyote - but nope, we see them fatally vanish in a puff of feathers.

Even creepier are the bomber birds, who use their unborn as weapons. If the birds are so angry about stolen eggs, you'd think this would be frowned upon.

[identity profile] nasu-dengaku.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I just realized something else -- you still win even if all the birds are dead, so long as you kill all the pigs. It's a fairly bleak outlook on life.

[identity profile] madbard.livejournal.com 2011-01-31 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess that's why it's not called Diplomatic Birds.

[identity profile] savorie.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 07:56 am (UTC)(link)
i never noticed this. Could be these were the spinster hens.