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ピンボール (Pinball) (PSP) Status: Stopped playing - Got Bored I started playing this game on Thursday 20 October, 2011 // I stopped playing this game on: Friday 18 November, 2011
Current opinion of this game
Not worth it.
November 18, 2011 10:55:00 AM
I guess for a generic title, I should have expected a generic game. But hey, I don't read or understand Japanese so how would I know? I guess the neatest thing about this game is that you need to rotate the PSP so you can play vertically (tall, but narrow screen). It's actually a good idea and works quite well - in principle. Unfortunately I didn't find the table nearly compelling enough to hold my interest AND the camera was strange in how it covered the table and the level of detail you could see. The latter surprised me because the on-screen real estate is actually quite decent! For a game with only two tables, I expected them to be more interesting, detailed, and so on. There's nothing wrong with two table (Hello Metroid Pinball and Pokemon Pinball) so long as they're compelling. Unfortunately I got neither in this case. Boo!