![]() The idea is there’s a light switch on on the tower and five lights. It contributes greatly to the “unfinished prototype” feel of this particular table. And sometimes, when you have some of the lights but accidentally shoot the entrance to the tower, which sends the ball part-way up the ramp, you can no longer get certain lights to work, meaning the fifteen million points it contains are lost to you for the remainder of that ball. Of course, like everything else on Cine Star Deluxe, the potential is greatly hampered by the fact that you can activate all five lights and hit the target, but the accelerators might fail and you might not score the point. I’d be mighty impressed if they end up topping this. The gawdy Sinbad toy or whatever that’s supposed to be is so distracting from what should be the most spotlighted shot in all of Zaccaria Pinball. Unlike Red Show or the upcoming Spooky, Cine Star is a table carried by a signature shot, and it’s a doozy. It’s maddening, frustrating, and bound to be a massive turn-off to all but the hardest of hardcore pinheads. “What table are they shooting on that balls rim-out of orbits or brick the rails so consistently?” Oscar, not exactly a slouch at precision shooting, said while playing this. Of course, like all the Deluxe Tables in the pack, actually getting balls to consistently enter and flow through orbits is quite the chore and, even after sixty-hours combined on the three tables, we still couldn’t hit shots with the type of consistency that they should be at. While Oscar and Jordi always had the same order, I appreciated the more old-school design with new-school elements that Cine Star offered. Originally, I had Cine Star Deluxe #2 of the three tables in Deluxe Pack 1. The pyramids in the scoring LCD I just now noticed). (It’s also possible it’s Middle Eastern cinema. I wish that Zaccaria’s original tables had better art in general, stuff that looked more like classic pinball art, but it’s visually my favorite of the three tables. Gutsy to base a table on Indian cinema, but I really dig the non-conventional theme. Remake of Cine Star (Unverified release date) SET RECOMMENDED THE BROKEN #3: Cine Star (Would be GOOD) Price: $4.99 (Xbox One), tables sold individually or in bundles on Steam (Check Pricing)Ĭertifications: Spooky Deluxe (Certified Excellent) They’re onto something, and hopefully will only get better with experience. $4.99 gets you two quality tables, one that WILL be quality upon a bug fix (which they need to get around to doing fast, since these Deluxe tables are going to be their signature DLC series going forward), and probably some of the most uniquely challenging shooting in digital pinball. 40īUT, make no mistake, even with one table that we were forced to classify as “broken” and a lot of frustration, these tables are FUN! And that’s what matters. BUT, I’ll argue that there, at least the tables are less busy and less prone to bounce AND you get a much bigger time limit that’s within reason. We’ve tried to limit our exposure to them, but in a brief play session with the “Remake” version of Spooky (not to be confused with Spooky Deluxe or the “Solid State” Spooky that are found in other sets in the Zaccaria Pinball collection), the same issue happened: modes freeze scoring for anything but the targets in the mode. Of course, this applies to Zaccaria’s “Remake” collection of 27 original creations that a Buyer’s Guide will be created for here at The Pinball Chick. The major issue is that tables have their scoring shut off during modes, which is so annoying. Zaccaria Pinball is a solid, genuinely fun pinball set that frustrates me sometimes with the sheer amount of confusing options, but make no mistake, this is a solid pack to introduce yourself to their potential.īut, there’s a few problems with the first three Deluxe tables that have been released on Xbox One (this set is coming to PS4 in August, 2020), and one table we have to temporarily classify as “broken” until the engineers at Magic Pixel fix a target. Ironically, Spooky is the best of the set and the first table during our Zaccaria play time that has won an excellent table certification here. ![]() It doesn’t seem like it would physically work. I could believe that Red’s Show and Cine Star are real tables. If Magic Pixel’s goal was to create original tables that feel like they could be real, two of the three tables succeeded. The scoreboard is now an animated LCD screen and modes have explanations and rules given to you. Think of Zaccaria Pinball’s Deluxe series as being their take on modern pins like those by Jersey Jack or even Stern’s post-DMD works like Stranger Things.
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