| | On Steam. Loads of kinda funky, sorta knock-off simulated European pinball tables--with also later digital "remake" versions with added voice samples and fancier lighting and maybe just totally reworked playfields. In fact there are so many tables (and table variants) and DLC options (the base game with one table and points-limited demos of the others is free; get all the DLC for just $267! = o) and game options (some of which appear to have to be applied on a per-table basis? and all of which take place in what feels like a lets-make-all-the-text-as-large-as-possible-for-a-tablet UI (my first experience with the game WAS a mobile version years ago, which was even MORE compulsively oh you can adjust every bit of lighting on ever table) and other stuff (weird retro-style video games and who knows what else) that it's downright baffling.
Anyway I can't play the tables here; yes you can turn Vsync off and framerate to unlimited and cook your GPU just as you can with Pinball FX--see entry 1610--and the framerate feels lighter overall, but the ball physics and graphics also feel less robust--and the tables are definitely not up to the Williams stuff. There ARE lots of tables from older eras than you get in PBFX, which would be my jam even if they're kinda weird, BUT. For one thing, it looks like you can't set harder options to mimic the Pro Mode I like in PBFX, with wider flipper gap and especially a steeper table slope to speed up the ball, without maybe some kind of DLC, because those options are grayed out in the free version and say they require "User Mode" which is also grayed out. ; )
But what's really stopping me from even trying any DLC option is the strange lighting implementation that flicks lights off for maybe a frame or two before they kick back in. I don't know if that makes sense; it doesn't feel like it make sense. But there's definitely some odd kind of re- or pre-flick with the operation of the bulbs (not just the random flicker to simulate flaky old electronics; that slider you CAN turn off) that does not make my eyeballs happy. |
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