Virtual Boy Complete - Game #4
There are echoes of a great pinball game in Galactic Pinball, the physics are fantastic, and I had no problems getting the puck where it needs to go, even without using the tilt (which is there, mind you). The game feels a bit less gimmicky than Nintendo's IP-based pinball offerings (even if a bit more so than something like generic NES Pinball or Revenge of the 'Gator), which is welcome to me at least.
So, why is it only getting 5 out of 10 stars? Simple: the boards. The boards are barren and deserted, most of them are just empty space with a single gimmick either in the middle or to the left, and maybe something at the top - the most populated is the Colony board, which is also the most fun (even if it still doesn't feel as zippy and bumpy as a 3D pinball game should be), if every board was fun as the Colony, this would be a 7/10, but even that suffers from having a meteor-shooting minigame with strange controls, where it's basically impossible to time the shooting right.
Good soundtrack though, as to be expected from the red menace.
There are echoes of a great pinball game in Galactic Pinball, the physics are fantastic, and I had no problems getting the puck where it needs to go, even without using the tilt (which is there, mind you). The game feels a bit less gimmicky than Nintendo's IP-based pinball offerings (even if a bit more so than something like generic NES Pinball or Revenge of the 'Gator), which is welcome to me at least.
So, why is it only getting 5 out of 10 stars? Simple: the boards. The boards are barren and deserted, most of them are just empty space with a single gimmick either in the middle or to the left, and maybe something at the top - the most populated is the Colony board, which is also the most fun (even if it still doesn't feel as zippy and bumpy as a 3D pinball game should be), if every board was fun as the Colony, this would be a 7/10, but even that suffers from having a meteor-shooting minigame with strange controls, where it's basically impossible to time the shooting right.
Good soundtrack though, as to be expected from the red menace.