Angry Birds Dream Blast

I absolutely LOVE every single version of the Angry Birds series. Dream Blast is by far my favorite. I’m currently on game level 5923 and player level 130. The levels are progressively getting more difficult (which I love because it keeps the gears in my brain grease and running smoothly) and don’t really have too much of a complaint except for maybe payouts for winning levels and coin amounts for bonuses. 10 or 20 coins here and there don’t do much for your game when you literally need 1 more move to win and it costs 100 coins to get a few extra moves. Even the payouts for the bonus games are pretty lame. You spend so much time completing levels and earning whatever the task requires only to find out the prize for finishing first is a color scrambler power up and if you’re lucky, 25 coins. It still doesn’t deter me from playing. I’ve spent multiple days playing, just trying to get through a single level. They could at least give 5 or 10 coins when beating levels. I’ve also noticed that after buying a coin pack you automatically either get a super easy level or if it’s a case of being stumped on a level for a day or so and miraculously winning after purchase.

I’ve been playing this game a long time. My player level is 250+ and my game level is 16,000+ and I’ve watched changes that the development team has made over time. There has been a move to make so many of the in game events dependent on winning streaks and I have spent money to ensure that I maintain win streaks just to enjoy playing. The problem is that there will occasionally be levels or instances of levels that will glitch and not give the user whatever item is needed to clear the level. When such a glitch happens the user is punished by having all of their streak bonuses stripped. It use to happen infrequently, however, I have now encountered this game behavior twice in one week. The second time it happened right on the heels of an in game purchase which rendered that purchase useless. I had eight turns left on the level, needed to crack an egg, and no eggs appeared even as I played out the remaining turns. It might be a different story if there were a way to submit a bug report or some dispute method to submit screenshots and have losses made whole, however, there is no means by which a user can communicate with any sort of customer service. In the past I’ve just walked away for a few hours/days and the issue seems to get corrected which makes it seem like the development team knows when these glitches happen and they patch them, but that doesn’t help when bonuses are gone and the ability to participate in seasonal events is damaged.

Angry Birds Dream Blast is my favorite phone game. Like other reviewers, I have gotten super frustrated on higher levels and ended up spending money to buy bonuses. Maybe a little too much! I am really enjoying Dream Peak and love the Halloween Pass and the similar one a few months ago. However, I noticed in the description it says pass rewards can be claimed when you want to claim them. That was my hope when I purchased the premium pass. ($2.99 for all those bonuses—totally worth it!) But every time I hit the x, it automatically claims the bonuses. I ended up playing for like five hours last night and still lost a lot of my infinite lives time that I wish I could’ve saved for another day. When I got the first Halloween update, I was also having issues with birds freezing when they were going to explode, but I did a second update last night which seemed to fix it. Lastly, honestly having all the bonus birds for several hours, which I got as a gift today, can sometimes hurt more than help. When there’s so many, they all explode at the top, making you lose any birds you’ve earned, and don’t help as you go through the level.