Review by Matt S.
The digital pinball space is surprisingly competitive, given how niche pinball is these days. Zen Studios and its brilliant original creations via Pinball FX 3 and Farsight Studios with its physics-perfect recreation of classic tables in The Pinball Arcade absolutely dominate the genre, and there's not room for much more than those two franchises.
Furthermore, creating pinball games is incredibly hard. The ball physics have to be so precise as to enable perfect 360 degree movement around the table, and pixel-perfect ricochets off the myriad of objects that clutter a pinball table. If you're designing original tables, you also need to be precise in the placement of ramps, bumpers, and other objects in order to create interesting and challenging, but rewarding table layouts. None of this is easy - indeed, I think the art of pinball design is something that nowhere near enough people have adequate respect for.
So I sympathise with other developers that want to try their hand at creating digital pinball. Over the last couple of weeks the Nintendo Switch has seen one such upstart release two separate tables as separate apps on the machine; Jurassic Pinball and World Soccer Pinball. There's not too much I can say about these individually, so I figured I'd roll the two of them up into a single review. The crux of the issue with both tables, however, is that they're just not competitive with Farsight Studios and Zen Studios, and for digital pinball, that's a death blow in itself.
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Review: Jurassic Pinball and World Soccer Pinball (Nintendo Switch)
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