YMMV / Angry Birds: Transformers

• Awesome Music: While it takes a while to kick off, the BGM in the map screen is rather catchy. The in-level tracks are also memorable, particularly the Pig City theme. Vince DiCola at work, gentlebeings.
• Catharsis Factor: Remember all the times when a single pig survived their lair collapsing around and on top of him? This game allows you to use weapons of mass destruction against the darn pigs. Missiles? Check. Kill Sat? Check. Air Strikes? Check.
• Demonic Spiders:
  • Missiles. They can be tough (or impossible, depending on the character) to shoot down on their own, but they often get spammed to the point it's impossible to shoot them all down even by the best shooters. This can be devastating as it makes players incapable of shooting down enemies, dodging falling monoliths, or shooting down other missiles (which can create an unfortunate cycle).
  • Shotgun pig bots. Their shots do a lot of damage and if there’s a lot of them they can bring your character to half health in less than a minute. The only thing that balances them out is that they don’t have the best accuracy, and even then they're still nightmares to deal with. Especially with Heatwave and Sentinel Prime, whose long firing times force you to eat the damage in order to kill them. Even worse, higher difficulty levels massively buff their damage, enough to bring your transformer down in just 2 to 3 shots.
• Game-Breaker:
  • Energon Grimlock has a much faster vehicle mode than his Gray Slam and Goldbite counterparts, and his beam is 5 times as powerful as both of them, destroying any enemy, block, or mortar tower in its way. His only weakness is his defense, though with how powerful his beam is, chances are most enemies won’t live long enough to fire the first shot.
  • Thundercracker has an accessory called the launchers, which grant him explosive rounds. However, this turns his Death of a Thousand Cuts method into a death by a million cannon shots, the explosive shockwaves the shots now carry destroys everything in a small radius, from glass to stone, nothing is safe. And since he shoots at least a hundred shots per second and doesn’t need to reload, levels just become shooting ranges.
• Goddamned Bats: For Terrence, Sharkticon-hogs, flying hogs, and the balloon hogs. They show up in large numbers, but they're more or less impossible for Terrence to shoot down on his own.
• Good Bad Bugs:
  • Rarely, upon completing a level when you have sent in your buddy at least once, they will look invisible... until they show up from the right side of the results screen shortly as they're circling around.
  • A more negative one—sometimes loading a level just freezes the game. It's usually not too bad, since you can load the level again, but an event level that crashes still takes away one of your 4 tries. It takes either 60 minutes or some jewels to recharge one charge.
  • If the Sparkrun crashes, you don't to enter again, and the wait is a day or the jewel cost 100.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: A few years back, Justitoys made a downscaled version of G1 Grimlock colored green just in time for Christmas. Now there's Hal as Grimlock, who's a smaller version of Grimlock from a game released just in time for Christmas.
• Low-Tier Letdown: Red as vanilla Optimus Prime. Even TF Wiki used to make fun of him for being good at precisely nothing. Chuck as vanilla Bumblebee is similar. As the first characters introduced, the most iconic are used... and as the first characters introduced, they are the weakest.
• That One Achievement: The achievement "Slow Motion = Cool" for dodging 50 falling monoliths without getting hit as an Autobird. This is particularly difficult for the Autobirds, as their ranks include Terence, who has very little ability to defend himself against the scrambler missiles, which in turn makes dodging the monoliths impossible.
• That One Attack: Earthquakes. They can destroy a Transformer very quickly, are almost impossible to notice (other than a character's hearts disappearing), and have no known counter other than hoping they stop.
• Unexpected Character: Bludgeon and Heatwave. The rest of the Transformers are either huge names or tied to the films, while Heatwave is a Canon Foreigner originating in the kiddie Transformers: Rescue Bots cartoon and most of Bludgeon's appearances have been in comics, aside from his toy releases (and he hadn't had a main-line release since the "Hunt for the Decepticons" sub-line).

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