User blog comment:The Mysteryous user/Endless Doves - the 5 star app/@comment-3060206-20141112135344

Hmm that does seem pretty bad. Does your device carry an older version of Android? I don't have an Android anymore, but I imagine I would have had the exact same problem because my old phone sucked at running any game smoothly except Candy Crush (which my sister begged me to download for her and I hardly touched).

Yesterday it seemed the app had been released, so I managed to grab it for both an iPod touch that ran on iOS 6, the other on 7. On the 7, it works like a charm 80% of the time, but on the 6, I had tons of problems from the getgo. The game was really choppy as in like so choppy you could barely collect one dove if you were lucky. So I force shut the app and reopened it, and it crashes as soon as I try to open it. The first couple of times, really. Finally, I turn my device on and off. It ran...less choppy but my sister and I played this game simultaneously and switched devices frequently. We noticed that the more we tried to play, the more the game started behaving on the 4th gen. Finally, after much persistence, we were able to collect over ten doves without the game constantly freezing up.

Yeah it's odd that these Nitrome releases on mobile tend to be very buggy. I had similar problems with 8bit Doves as well on the same device. It might just be that it's older and the mobile games are more tailored to the latest devices. My 5th gen crashes occasionally too, particularly at times when the wifi connection is weak or nonexistent. I have a feeling it might be the ads, seeing as there's a slight period where the game runs a little choppy on my 5th gen sometimes after closing an ad. Maybe Nitrome really wants their players to go ad free? I'll get there, Nitrome. Perhaps.

I did withhold rating the game one star, since when I didn't have issues, the game itself was great. Nitrome's gonna hate me though because I haven't been giving their 8bit Doves series 5 stars because I simply don't think it's "on par" with AVV.