Because it’s hard to see everything when playing, you might want to do this before the ball launches and memorize locations and well as angles of trajectory. When you’re in free view (looking at the table, rather than playing), everything looks top notch and you can see all the little nuances and/or details that comprise each table. Hell, the game features some of the best visuals I’ve seen on the 3DS to date. Obviously there is less detail due to the screen size, which does make playing the game a bit harder, but what’s here still look great. Is it the best four tables Zen had to offer? No, but it’s still a good selection that anyone who picks this up will be happy with.Īll four tables in Zen Pinball 3D are a solid port of their original console versions. Everyone will have a favorite table and primarily play that, but I’m really happy with the selection here and the promise of more tables to come. It’s straight out of the “Golden Age of Hollywood,” but I can see some more PC types actually being offended by it.Īll in all, four tables for a hair under seven bucks is a great deal, no matter how you look at it. El Dorado is all about treasure hunting, and Shaman is, well, a slightly racist take on primitive societies. Earth Defense reminds me of multiple physical tables I’ve played in the past where you play against aliens and/or robots. Excalibur has a “fantasy dark ages” theme going on. It’s not Zen’s fault – merely a limitation of the pinball setup itself. I say mostly, because there’s only so much you can do with flipper placement, multiple ramps and canals before things begin to repeat. That’s new to the 3DS version, but thankfully it only hit me once.Īll four tables are well done and are mostly unique from each other. I wonder how many other people encountered that issue and thought the game had crashed. It only reappeared once the ball came back. I also encountered a bug in Earth Defense where I triggered a mode that lasted for six minutes, but unfortunately my ball disappeared from the screen for the entire time. Shaman still sucks though, and has many of the same bugs and ball issues that I noticed in the original (say, balls getting stuck or outright disappearing). The good news is Excalibur, El Dorado and Earth Defense are as awesome as ever. It’s a pity, as Tesla and V12 were my favorite of the non-licensed tables for the game, while Shaman is my absolute least favorite. Excalibur and Earth Defense were probably easier to convert in both those regards. The original PS3 Version of Zen Pinball had Tesla and V12 instead of Excalibur and Earth Defense, which were originally DLC, I’m assuming the change was made due to screen size and 3D effect issues. You have Excalibur, El Dorado, Shaman and Earth Defense. All of these tables are ports of previously released ones from the console version of Zen Pinball. So how well did Zen Studios succeed? Is this the best version of Zen Pinball yet, or are you better off sticking to a console for your pinball cravings?įor $6.99 (which is $1.74 per table compared to $2.50-$2.99 per table on a console), you get four different pinball tables. Of course, converting Zen Pinball from a console game to a handheld one is a tricky proposition – doubly so when you add in 3D graphics. Not only has Zen promised DLC for the game, but Marvel Pinball is on the way as well, so if you’re a pinball fan and a Nintendo loyalist, you now have a third option besides Pinball Hall of Fame and 101 Pinball, the latter of which hit the eshop the same day as Zen Pinball 3D. That’s all changed with the release of Zen Pinball 3D for the Nintendo 3DS. Zen has made games for the PS3, the 360, Android phones and even the iOS, but Nintendo systems were suffering from a massive Zen drought. With games like Zen Pinball, Pinball FX and Marvel Pinball, all of which have received multiple downloadable tables, you could say that Zen has almost single-handedly kept the genre alive. It’s hard to deny that Zen Studios have been the premier studio for pinball simulations over the past few years.
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