Momonga Pinball Adventures

Great idea, awful implementation. Worst physics in a pinball game, ever. Customizing controls is impossible. Flying sequences are horrible. Stay away from this unless you just have to play all the pinball games on Steam :)

TL;DR: For the price tag it's okayish Pro: - Cute artstlye - Interesting level design. You basically jump from board to board and sometimes fight against the evil owls. You need to trigger the clock with your Momonga ball so that you can attack them. - Two special levels (Panda Dream (Infinite Pinball) and Pachi*nko (Japanese Gambling device) - Leaderboards - Achievements and star rating Neutral: -Voice acting (I considered the gibberish to be cute but others might find it annoying) -Cliffhanger at the end of the story. I'm not really a fan of teased content in a game. Let it be a good one from the start and then add additional stuff. Contra: -Repetitive music -Wonky ball physics -No nudging -Short (9 levels without the 2 "special" ones) Overall 3/5. Buy it when it's on sale.

Completed the game, probably never gonna 100% it. Bought it on 50% discount based on nostalgia alone (I remember installing it from ms store and playing the demo levels back when I was a kid). Was pretty sure I'd feel the same incredible feeling I got when I first played the game. Sadly, I was proven wrong. [h1] What is Momonga Pinball Adventures & what it achieves [/h1] It is an out of the box pinball/platforming game that probably has the cutest characters out of any pinball game. You are Momo, last survivor of the Momongas (japanese flying squirrels) and you seek revenge upon the owls for that. You get trained by Kakashi/Panda and set out in your journey. You control Momonga and the Pinball flippers, and sometimes some extra (and great) cast of characters, such as a molerat and a kung fu ant. there's flying and a decent bit of innovative combat, and the world design and character design is cute af. there's some extra gameplay modes such as pachinko machine, a flying panda sim and leaderboards. [h1] Why it fails [/h1] - First of all, my oh my, the PHYSICS. I'm a pinball noob and yet even I realised the pinball physics in this game is very basic and kinda clunky. So if you wanted some advanced mechanics, this game is not for you. However, if you are someone like me who is not into the pinball genre and just want to experience the game's characters and story, then you could definitely try it. BUT that brings us to our next point: -Despite its generic but serviceable plot, I was decently interested in the story and would've even given a positive review based on nostalgia's sake alone. But the story is super short and you can complete it under half an hour and it ends on a cliffhanger. Basically this game is a GLORIFIED DEMO. despite being released for so many years they didn't bother completing the story and instead focused on releasing and re-releasing it again and again. - There's also the gibberish sound effects for voice, it personally didn't trouble me, but a lot of people can't stand it so keep in mind, Again, the game would probably end before you get annoyed so there's that. (It took me more time to write this review than to complete the game) -So, if you don't get pinball mechanics, and any complete story, why would you even buy it? If you really want a good pinball adventure with cutesy style, you are better off playing [b] Yoku's Island Express [/b]. 3/10 (3 points for character design, initial idea and nostalgia). I don't recommend this to anyone.

less than an hours gameplay, at full price this would have been a negative

"It's a pinball game with a story!" says the advertisement, unfortunately, it fails in both departments. It's very cute visually and I've had fun playing for 30 minutes it takes to beat this game, but everything else just drags it down. The game is segmented in 9 stages (with some bonus minigames,) which takes about half an hour to go through once and the main replay value of it is in the challenges (5 per stage.) The problem with that is twofold: Not only the gameplay itself is flawed, with stiff physics and a ball that can often slow down to the crawl, making it really tedious to play through each stage at least 5 times. But also, the challenges more often than not require precise hits on specific spots on the map, which is completely normal for pinball games, and would be fine if not for the aforementioned lacking physics, and the stage design which is fun to go through in the story mode, but makes it really annoying when you have to restart the level over and over again because you've accidentally progressed too far in the stage. It's just tiresome, especially if we include the Steam achievements, which consist mostly of mindless and uninteresting busywork. As for the plot, it's basically a very simplified Pixar-like story, about a squirrel trained by Kung-Fu Panda on a quest to beat evil Owls. There's not much of it but it serves its purpose despite leaving many holes left to be filled. Of course, it's not a proper movie, so there's no need for it to be fully fleshed out. It takes you from point A to point B while sometimes being entertaining and silly. It's cute, that's enough. What isn't enough is the way it ends. Due to its gameplay issues I was already on the verge of giving it a negative score, but then I've arrived at the final level, defeated the Big Bad Boss (where the difficulty finally spiked up a little bit,) and was ready to receive my happy ending. But instead of that what appeared out of nowhere was even Bigger Badder Boss and I was slapped in the face with "To Be Continued" achievement, which on top of everything else, left a bad aftertaste in my mouth. As it turns out, this was supposed to be an episodic game. Though, the only way you would actually know that beforehand, is if you would accidentally enter the leaderboards where they're showing you scores for "Episode 1." Nowhere else in the game, nor on the steam page, you would get an idea that this isn't a complete game, or even if any sequels are coming out... And at this point, several years later, I doubt we'll see any.

[h1] Charming pinball game with small squirrel cousin as main character. Levels are fun, definitely have some replay value! [/h1]

Cute but not enough content for $6. Worth checking out for $1.

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