/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3225873
I think it's a really well made set of pinballs. The developer, Fuse Games, is some of the remains of Pro Pinball's Cunning Development. The pinballs in the game are not "realistic", there's lots of moving objects and effects, though mentally I treat them like enhanced video mode. The mechanics are simple, but because of that also quite accessible. As such, I think it's a great example of a portable game. Based on a fairly big console game it sums up the story. Based on actual pinball machines it streamlines the gameplay, without losing entertainment value.
All that said, I really love the whole theme. Metroid, and playing the whole thing as a morph ball was just genius. A beautifuly little detail is that morph ball samus is always aligned with her movement direction. She'll turn, if necessary. Sure, it's just the ball sprite changing, but it fits the theme, and makes reading the low resolution screen easier.
The game's story has 6 tables. Two of them are closest to normal standalone tables, with a theme, and lots of shit to do. The remaining 4 tables are "boss" tables, with at least one central boss, and minimal table design to enable interaction with that boss.
Lots of rambling here, but I think as far as digital/virtual games this is one of my all time favorites, because of that variety, yet focus on a theme, the creativity in interactions, the fairly strong story telling (for a pinball, anyway) and the "friendly" difficulty giving even noobs like me a chance to do something.

Pic is my favorite table. Everything flows so nicely there, including the music (though that's all from the video game, so the pinball can't get much credit there)