Hyperspace Pinball

Tags: Casual - Brickbreak & Pinball Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Not faithful to a pinball experience. Play PinballFX series instead. Review: The concept is interesting: Instead of a bunch of little railways and hard to hit targets, there are energy cubes floating around the middle of the table. Hit those and a portal opens, and little ennemies start appearing, hitting them with the ball scores points, and makes the game trippier to look at. Sound effects and music were both pretty good, and the black and neon style was also fitting. But where it falls apart is the bad paddle hit detection, the oversided paddle and the tiny ball, a ball physics that is worse than the pinball thrill series (and that is quite something right here) and finally a key mapping for Xbox360 thats outright broken with no way to start ball spring, left stick for left paddle and A for the right paddle.

This game has lots of potential with extra additions in its gameplay, but what worries me is that the map in this game is simplified - I don't know why they decided that - making it less fun in a long run than original Pinball game. I just play this game sometimes to get the achievements, but it's so frustrating I might just leave it unfinished.

nice :) good game to spend your time

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6/10 if you get it on sale. (Another candidate for the absent sidewise thumb rating.) Pros: + Visual style (except for the negative effects it has on gameplay) + Music + Fast paced Cons: - Hit boxes and collision detection are off. (e.g., The flippers look like they can connect a few more pixels than they do.) - Too many effects clouds the ball. - Frame rate/speed of the ball makes it nearly impossible to determine the trajectory of the ball on a ricochet. Take all three of those and you're playing pachinko much of the time. Example: If you hit the ball into an enemy/shape at high speed, and IF the ricochet is shooting towards the center of the hole, you have exactly one frame to hit the tilt key. Now, add in the excessive particle effects and good luck even identifying where the ball is in that second. Then, remember that the hit boxes for the flippers don't necessarily match the pixels and you are out of luck. Summary: 70% luck, 30% skill. It's a fun idea, but needs massive tuning to be replayable like most other pinball games on steam. 6/10 if you get it for a few bucks and want to try something for 10-15 minutes.

What a nice, simple, well-made video pin. It plays fast, shooting is easy(if maybe a bit mindless), ball saves are handed out like candy, and the nudge is juiced to make the ball go where you want without trying. There are bosses and occasional bonus modes to break things up, but for the most part you are challenged by semi-random moving targets. Definitely not a sim game, but a great example of what pin physics can do if the rules are bent.