Tiny Wings Review (iOS) « Delta Attack

Tiny Wings Review (iOS)

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Wednesday, November 16th, 2011 by Mark A. Brooks

Tiny Wings is a massively adorable game in which you help a bird travel as far as possible before nightfall. The bird’s wings are, sadly, too small for flight, requiring you to take advantage of momentum by pressing your finger to the screen to make him dive down a hill, and then release at the right time to send the little guy soaring off the incline.

LOVED

Super cute idea: Tiny Wings is one of the most clever and charming twists on the classic running game formula. A bird whose wings are too small to fly? Heartmelting. Hearing the little fella yell “WAHOOO!” as you send him flying across islands is so adorable it almost hurts.

Great aesthetic: Tiny Wings’ aesthetic is wonderfully colorful, with each island being a pastel paradise of charming design.

Challenging and rewarding: It only takes a handful of minutes to play a round of Tiny Wings, but those minutes are packed with intensity. Tiny Wings keeps you on your toes and demands your full concentration if you want to excel. Thankfully, it feels pretty good when you’re on your A game, and as of consequence can be really addictive.

Fun, objective based leveling up: You can improve your scores by completing specific tasks while playing. Successfully executing these stunts will let you level up your nest, resulting in permanent multiplier bonuses for each subsequent run. Leveling up will often require you to play the game in a different, but fun, way.

COMPLAINTS

Can be surprisingly frustrating: Despite being so fun and simple to pick up, Tiny Wings can become flustering due to radical difficulty spikes. The island topography can get ultra-challenging and ruin your entire run in just a matter of seconds.

BOTTOM LINE

Few games embody the ideal iOS gaming experience as Tiny Wings does. It scores big points for being plainly intuitive, exceedingly adorable, and deceptively challenging, and no iOS device should be without it.

About the Author

Mark A. Brooks uses the A. initial in his name so as to seperate himself from the teeming legions of other Mark Brookses (there are at least 65,000 in the state of Michigan alone). Keep up with him on twitter, because why not. @unoriginalG

Mark A. Brooks has written 573 posts on Delta Attack.

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I am digging the new format, but I am unsure if I can do it. I find my chaotic writing has a tangible charm that resonates with other people who are slightly insane like me.

Also, I always intended on writing about Tiny Wings, but never really had much to say. I loved it, but it was hard to explain why. It’s such a relaxing game, even when you ruin your momentum. The soft music, the cuteness of cloud-touching, and the joyful shout as your bird jumps to the next island. All of those things make this game remarkable.

That said, I’ve been stuck on a x26 nest for so long that I carry this shame as the burden that it is. I suck at sticking jumps between islands.
- Mark A. Brooks
  
  Play to your strengths, sir. This format has grown on me mostly because it’s easier to write a review very quickly; not necessarily because I feel it makes for most profound reading.
  
  Tiny Wings is great, for all the reasons you mention. And I think I haven’t been able to push past x24, but mostly because I’m too lazy to slow down and really try for 34 seconds of fever.