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- The pinball
A rater lowscoring and nonlasting pinball. The tables are way to simple and boring. The feeling is nothing to talk about. The pinballs tables have some good moments, but those are always destroyed by something else, usually the bad feeling.
- Ghost This table has the by far most simple layout of the five. Lots a free space and (err) three sinkholes. You hit a sinkhole and blocks appear that prevent the ball from draining trough the outlanes and you can also get a stopper between the flippers. Besides that you can only get a extraball (nothing fanzy about how you get it) and a jackpot. Does that sound fun, it isn't very fun. Can be fun to just try the table the first time, then you notice how unplayable it is. Not a lasting table in any way. If the feeling had been better it could have been fun trying to get that jackpot, as it is now you get tiered of the table quickly. - Phaeton Well, a rather interesting layout somehow, but still the same things and problems as with Ghost, to simple and to little to do for this table to catch you and want you to complete it. You really can't do much more than score in some simple ways and get that jackpot that flashes sometimes. - Crystal Moon Heh, get the jackpot. This tables vary in layout and the names of the targets, but it is all very repeatable otherwise. The layout is also rather interesting, but hardly playable or fun in any longer terms. - Travel As you might guess you can lit different places to travel, when lit you hit the ramp, sinkhole or whatever and just get score. Not especially fun in the long way, and oh, you can get a jackpot here too (the jackpot isn't that special either, just thought I'd point out there was one here too). - Black Ritual
Maybe a little more fun than the other tables, can't say exactly why since it is a rather bad table. The layout is a bit different, but it still has the few simple things to score in as the other tables. It do have a strange bumper around which, err, blades rotate and you should try to shoot between those blades to hit the skull inside, sometimes that can give lots a score. But unluckily you can't try to hit on skill, it is more luck that goes in here. Otherwise you can lock a ball, get a bonus, the same as in the other tables.
This is what really pulls down the playability of all the tables. As I said some of the tables has there strange layout that could be fun to explore, but isn't so fun because of the unrealistic and bad feeling. The ball accelerates, becomes to heavy sometimes (when it should be easy to flip you hardly can get the ball anywhere, and it often drops strange after hitting something). Another thing, you can't trap the ball, when you manage to catch the ball with the flipper it slowly rolls down to the root of the flipper and instead of stopping there it begins to roll back the way it came and off the flipper and drains (the flipper is almost straight).
The ball often moves the same way again and again, and aiming is impossible. If you when having the ball (the short while it is there) at the flipper, aim for something and it miss, you try again, and miss. Soon you realize it goes the same way all the time and that you can't hit like that, you have to have the ball drop down on the flipper in some ok angle before you can hit.
In all the lowscoring ball and flipper physics makes the already simple and strange tables not so fun. You quickly get tiered of them, after playing them a while you notice they are very repeatable and simple. The themes are nothing to talk about, no special main theme, you simply play the different tables for one thing, to score. You always play to score in pinballs, but you want something to happen, some challenge, something to explore. You really don't explore in this tables, you simple shoot a sinkhole or ramp that you managed to lit by shooting another hole or a droptarget. The tables do have their few positive things in the layout that might be seen as good, but those a drowned in the boring theme and lousy feeling. Not a pinball I recommend.
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Platform: PC
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