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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmmagnetic" data-source="post: 23999" data-attributes="member: 558">You know what I think the coolest idea for the new Lawlor table would be?Another disaster table. Earthshaker, Whirlwind, and ...? I think that these two tables could use a third machine to round up the trilogy - or maybe that´s just the Whirlwind-fanboy in me speaking <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> Maybe the time for disaster tables is over, given that the world has lived through many more very real natural disasters in the years since those two tables came out.On a sidenote, I´m REALLY impressed with Ancients Beckon, which I just got on my 3DS XL, and even despite the upscaling the game looks really great. The prerendered style works very well, the mechanical sounds are meaty and satisfying (the flippers and the bumpers in particular!), and the physics really surprised me - I guess I just was keeping my expectations low for a DSiware title <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />I kinda liked Metroid Prime pinball, but it was too much non-pinball action and to little actual pinball feeling, but Ancients Beckon is very well designed. I love the Funhouse-style talking heads (rotating between the two gods is a very clever idea!), locking balls with the horizontal flipper, the neat "don´t flip - flip!" magnet idea (has this been done on an actual pinball machine before? Again, very clever), orbits, saucers, ramps, loops... You guys must play a lot of actual pinball, because this table feels like a well designed, actual machine. It´s a shame this wasn´t a proper cartridge release with two or three more tables, but in any case, I´m enjoying this a lot more than Zen and Marvel Pinball on 3DS. In pinball, it´s all about the right feeling, and this title really nails it. The touchscreen-only nudging is indeed a bit odd, but otherwise I´m really satisfied with it.So, yeah, I´m really pumped to see where this is going!</blockquote>

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