Pinball Fantasies review

Upon booting the first thing you will notice is that the music is nowhere near as annoying as certain other games...*cough*. Anyway, there is a cool little display where you choose which pinball game you want to play - this Mini doesn't hang around with lots of prompts and stuff; straight into it here. There is a choice of 4 different tables, represented by a drawing on a floppy disc. Sounds good so far, right?

Okay, the first one is "Partyland." It's basically a picture of a huge creepy clown. Just what i wanted for my monday night. Controls really could not be any simpler at all - in fact they are pretty much as you would expect them to be. X fires the ball from the spring, R1 is for the right trigger, and L1 is for the left trigger. Another pretty cool thing is that hitting Select will flip the screen landscape - though i'm not sure how useful that would be, if at all...All pretty standard stuff in terms of controls. There are other controls, such as tilting, but if i listed all of those i'd be here all day.

The general formula for gameplay is also exactly how you would expect it to be. Player 1 gets a go at pelting the ball into every corner of the pinball table, and rack up as many points as he can, and then Player 2 gets a chance. This is the same for all of the different boards - the only different feature is their aesthetics.

Any Pinball enthusiast would love this game as far as i can tell. I was never really one for the pinball machine, but i found this to be a fun game. Of course, you can get a lot of enjoyment out of just the one table, and this has four different ones to keep you occupied. If you enjoy Pinball, i'd say this would be a very good time waster for you - possibly moreso for the PSP user than the PS3 user, but it's fun on both!

Pinball Fantasies