The title pretty much sums everything up. You control a bird who has a chameleon-like tongue. Your actions are limited to moving left and right and slurping up beans as they fall from the sky. The bird's tongue extends upward at a diagonal angle, and continues to extend for as long as you hold down the A button. Each consumed bean gives you points. The lower the bean is in the sky when you eat it, the lower the point value. If you get hit by a bean, you die and it's Game Over. If a bean hits the floor, that floor block disappears, limiting your movement. Blocks reappear over time automatically, or by eating a flashing bean (which restores the entire floor).
After beating the high score for the first time you'll unlock Bird & Beans 2, a variation on the original that has the bird blowing leaves around instead of using his tongue. When the leaves hit a bean, the bean explodes into more leaves. The trick here is that you can create a combo by continuously hitting beans with the same leaf pile.
Your high scores are saved, and you can view them from the game's main menu, but that's it. There are probably free Flash games on the Internet that approximate these games. It's best to save your Nintendo Points and wait for something worthwhile.
Pros:
Lastability: 3.0
If you work on the 10th floor of a building, or you have to take a bathroom break and forgot to put a game card in the DSi, this'll get you through that short time. But you won't be tuning to Bird & Beans again once something better comes down the DSiWare pipe.
Final: 4.0
I have buyer's remorse over a free game, so that should tell you something.
I have buyers remorse over a free game, so that should tell you something.It may have been free in the monetary sense but it still cost you your precious free time.
QuoteI have buyers remorse over a free game, so that should tell you something.It may have been free in the monetary sense but it still cost you your precious free time.
Sounds like this would have made a good Game & Watch game thirty years ago...
You also get Pyoro 2, which is a very good riff on the formula.
Thanks for fixing the review - although a 4 for a $2 game still seems rather harsh to me, but that's just my opinion. :)By this logic, no $2 game should get a negative review. NWR policy is that review scores do not weigh price as a factor. Price certainly is considered in the review text and can influence a buy/rent/skip recommendation, but the score reflects the reviewer's opinion of the game's quality. After all, game prices can and do fall over time, and gamers can and do buy older new/used games at deep discounts.
