I love pinball games and have purchased every pinball game released on Steam, GOG and other outlets over the last decade as well as hard copies of some of the earlier classics such as the thrill ride series. I was really looking forwards to playing this one. The images and video looked decent enough. The classic design and the title also persuaded me to buy the game. To be honest I should have looked a little closer as I was expecting at least a couple of pinball tables included in the game, i.e. Pinball Parlour sort of gives you an impression of a pinball room full of pinball machines. Pinball FX, Zaccaria Pinball, Stern Pinball and Pinball Arcade all give you a couple of free pinball tables that, in my opinion are far superior to this pinball table. Each extra pinball table for those Free to Play pinball games can cost as little as £1.59/$1.99 or even cheaper if you get them on sale or via one of the indie bundles (I got several Pinball FX tables from groupees last year that worked out at less than 20 pence a table and each of those tables is light years ahead of this table).
Pinball Parlour is far too expensive for a single pinball table and the actual game play is very disappointing. I often struggled to return the ball and more often than not it would glide between the flippers time after time within seconds of starting a game. I found the ball and flipper action both felt really sluggish and the spring loaded plunger had no consitency. I tried using the same position on the plungers graduated scale and then used the scale to set the plunger to different spring strengths and repeated the same strengths several times for each position to see if it was possible to control where the ball initially went before it entered the table proper. (with the aim of lighting up all of the channels to light up the word AGAIN, that is located at the top of the table. It was more by chance that some were lit, there was no way to hit the ball precisely using the same plunger scale each time. Of course, you'd expect some randomness, otherwise it would be too predictable, unfortunately there's no accuracy or skill involved playing this table.
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To Mindware Co.,Ltd. I do hope you are intending to either develop this table further or add more tables to this title, I love the look of the table, but the game play is not what I expected. You should check out the free versions of the titles I've mentioned above and see how they compare. I think you'll be surprised. At the moment I think you are asking far too much for a single table and you also need to improve the ball physics. Your description of the game is very misleading.
