Pinball FX3 - Star Wars™ Pinball: Heroes Within

Well that didn't last long ... of COURSE there would be a Steam Star Wars sale on May 4th. 

Pinball FX3 does a great job with these machines, the feel of the machine hits right - as far as pinball simulators this is the best one.  It also has the ability to take the table design to another level entirely as you are not limited by mechanisms and wires. 

Most table are great, but they have overdone it on some franchises and it shows in this table.  There are 19 different Star Wars tables currently, and this is just "another one" in my opinion.  Dialed in with repeating dialog.  Is it good?  meh.  Is it fun?  meh.  The sad metric is that on sale this was $5 -- and even if this was a $1 price gouge game at an arcade, I wouldn't have played it 5 times.

The theme for the table was light vs. dark side, and themed events were based around those movie situations.  "Hit Darth Maul 3 times" before the timer expires, use ramp trap to launch ball and hit Yoda, etc...  The main table event was getting either light or dark Jedi Holocron on a sub gameboard you could get to easily, but was a series of quick ramps where you had to hit a frustratingly placed series of flashing lights.  After my first successful holicron, it simply said "holicron acquired" and the display showed 1/10 ... --- so I started avoiding it as an event.  

Look I don't want to nerd out too hard here, but a Jedi Holicron is a very significant thing to acquire.  It is effectively an artifact with infinite storage maintained by a lost jedi, potentially knowledge lost to the ages or secrets that could destroy a galaxy, one of a kind, finding one is a life changer, but ... yeah.  Lets collect 10.  

An amazing multi-ball experience could save a table ... it wasn't.