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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sean DonCarlos" data-source="post: 201062" data-attributes="member: 152">Dracula isn't an intricate game in the sense that something like RBION with lots of things to do. Instead, its rules and objectives have been simplified and the machine instead focuses on how well the player can make tough shots under pressure and how well s/he recovers from errors. Hence you get this machine that looks like it should be easy as pie and instead is tough as nails.You need to nudge whenever one of the shots you named rejects, and whenever the ball starts bouncing between the slingshots. Dracula's outlanes are voracious, and by the time the ball gets there it's too late to do anything about it, so you need to nudge to keep the ball from getting near those outlanes in the first place.Bowen Kerins has an excellent tutorial video on the PAPA website. Somewhat less illustriously, if you listen to Blahcade Podcast #12 (see the Podcasts section of this forum for links, or search iTunes for it) you can hear me discuss Dracula from a somewhat more TPA-specific standpoint.Other than that, it's just a lot of practice, and realizing that BSD is one of the tables where you're going to have 10+ crappy games for every good one. Once you've got that firmly in mind, you can accept the machine for what it is.And that's how I learned to stop worrying and love the Drac.</blockquote>

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