Friday, 7 February 2014

Flappy Bird ... Do I have to say more?

A game implies fun... so Flappy Bird must be classed as an anti-game because the little orange bird evokes nothing but pure rage.

Are you sitting on a train?
Have a quick glance around. Do you see people intently staring at their phones, muttering profanities under their breath with their exhausted bloodshot eyes unblinking as they abuse their screens with constant tapping?
Have any of them burst into tears and hurled their phones across the carriage?
Yep, they're playing Flappy Bird.

For those of you lucky enough to be unfamiliar with the game; you are in control of a podgy bird (with a transfixed psychotic stare and wings that are in no way big enough to allow flight). Tap the screen once and the bird soars into the air, leave the screen alone and the annoying creature will take a nose dive. The bird lives in a Mario-esque world of pipes, and it's your job to navigate through the gaps between them... if you miss the gap you die.

Sounds simple?
No...no it really is not. It's impossible.

There is no way to form a constant method with this stupid thing. Should you aim for the bottom of the pipe?- nope crashed. Should you double tap?- NO! This is madness, never ever double tap...it will only end in tears. It has little to do with reactions but is 99% down to sheer luck.
My average score is about six, but I am super proud of my high score of 47... and that was only achieved through relentless determination to beat my flatmate's record (he has 50). As a quick mention, I call complete BS on players who claim to have 1000 points and above :/

I hate Flappy Bird, all I want to do is find its nest and set fire to it...and yet I cant bring myself to delete it. It may be the smartest game ever made as it is so incomprehensibly frustrating that you are compelled to keep playing it. I don't remember who told me to download the poisonous entity which is Flappy Bird, but when I do I will find them and I will kill them.

Flappy Bird at the end of the day is a terrible game, it enters the 'it's so bad it's good' category. Soon we will all have bird phobias, lumbering down the street like zombies ,our thumbs permanently tapping and drowning in a sea of nervous breakdowns... all because of a poxy free download.

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