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Star Wars - Fall Of The Empire - Love it or Hate it

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Star Wars - Fall Of The Empire - Love it or Hate it

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Is Star Wars Pinball a misunderstood masterpiece… or a beautiful mess? 🤔 In this video, Enzo steps up to the machine, plays it, and gives his honest, no-BS thoughts on one of the most talked about...

Highlights

  • Ray Day has done phenomenal code work on Star Wars: Fall of the Empire
  • The game's tight shot geometry (Luke shot, Death Star lock) could have been widened by narrowing the lock shot and making space adjustments
  • The game is designed with approachability and manufacturability as primary constraints, targeting casual/location play
  • Enzo prefers Fall of the Empire over the 2017 Steve Ritchie Star Wars machine
  • The Jedi ball save feature is hard to use because players forget to keep flippers up and forget to press the action button

Notable quotes

I think what we have here is a game that is extremely appealing because of the theme. In the words of Kerry Hardy, it's approachable. It is approachable, but it is also a very interesting fan layout.
Enzo
Ray Day has done a phenomenal job with code on this game.
Enzo
Could there be more? Yes. You know, I'm the first to be a Stern shield, but I do think this probably could have had a little bit more in it.
Enzo
I would have liked to have seen a lower playfield that was the cave and have, you know, Luke hanging upside down. You got to kind of spin around him or an upper playfield that was the Emperor's chair.
Enzo
I think this game doesn't get enough love. You know, again, I think there's a lot of Stern haters that jump at any opportunity to criticize something because it's not an Elwin or it's not a Danger.
Enzo
We are really spoiled with Stern games when it comes to layouts by George Gomez, Keith Elwin, Jack Danger. I think this game's probably copped a little bit of criticism because it was a Star Wars theme and everyone wanted it to be an Elwin or a Danger flowy game.
Enzo
For a theme that is an approachable theme and a theme that will fill your quarter box: your coins in the box: probably maybe a little bit tight could be the only criticism I have.
Enzo
You need something that is simple. You walk up to it, I can see what I've got to do. I can see what I hit. Even if you don't understand pinball, you get it. I think this does that really, really well.
Enzo
Make sure you play one before you comment on it. We're getting a lot of negativity posts where people are saying things, and they haven't even played it.
Enzo

Entities

  • Stern Pinball· company
  • 2017 Star Wars· game
  • Godzilla· game
  • Guardians (of the Galaxy)· game
  • King Kong· game
  • Metallica· game
  • Rush· game
  • Star Wars: Fall of the Empire· game
  • Enzo (Gonzo)· person
  • George Gomez· person
  • Jack Danger· person
  • Joe from Kids Just Want to Have Fun· person
  • John Borg· person
  • Keith Elwin· person
  • Kerry Hardy· person
  • Ray Day· person
  • Steve Ritchie· person
  • Expression Lighting system· product
  • Insider Connected· product
  • Spike 3· product

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