It’s this strange miracle of a table that I still can’t believe exists. And, has there ever been a better wizard mode than Tour the Mansion? Addams Family feels more grand and super than any of the SuperPins. I love how every single mode is intense and exciting, with not a stinker in the bunch EXCEPT maybe Cousin It, which is a weird shot and always has been. I love how it’s a table that incorporates everything seamlessly into the natural flow of the game. Addams is a punishing table, but, it never stops being fun. Multiple shots that are a cinch to drill into your muscle memory, like the Thing Scoop, the electric chair, the Lawlor Trail between the chair and the bumpers. It feels very accurate here.Īddams Family is the definitive 90s pinball table. The right bat flipper is one of the hardest to clock in all of pinball. This is the best translation of Addams Family I’ve played that’s not designed specifically for high-end digital tables. Oscar expects a full table-mode will jump to MASTERPIECE, and Angela thinks if a table mode makes it easier to shoot the Swamp, she’ll jump to MASTERPIECE as well. Backhands are still a bit too hard, but otherwise, this has pretty dang solid physics. Pinball FX isn’t a perfect platform by any means. Oscar really didn’t like the floaty physics of that build. My father agrees with me, which is why he’s awarded Addams Family GREAT, a jump over his score of GOOD for the Pinball Arcade version. While it does feel like a gotcha, I’ve always felt that it’s a gotcha in service to the table’s risk/reward balance. Yea, they’ll absolutely screw you sometimes, but, so the does the arcade table. My congratulations to them for NAILING it, as you can now easily overpower them with a trapped shot if you know the right angles for the Seance and Multiball. I’ve been wondering how Zen Studios would handle it for a while now. Sorry, Sis, but your strategy is boring.Ĭhristopher Lloyd needs them big bucks, so he’s once again absent from the table. I’ve never been good at shooting it to begin with and prefer to work the doors for my score. I prefer to shoot manually anyway, so it didn’t bother me. The left bat flipper desperately needs fixing. It’s why Dash, who would inclined to rate Addams Family MASTERPIECE, dropped his score all the way down to GOOD. Angela’s strategy of charging up the swamp shot and grinding-up her score (apparently the same strategy used by tournament players) was thrown out the door. It’s a significantly more difficult shot to make in Pinball FX. In Pro mode, the table is so steep and the ball moves so fast that the flipper doesn’t even shoot automatically. In Classic mode, I started ignoring the auto flipper and took to firing the ball myself. It seems to be most accurate if you play in “Arcade” mode, which has a larger ball and feels more like Pinball Arcade. But, the Pinball FX version is an especially poor shot. Yea, a real build isn’t completely accurate either. Angela dropped her ranking based on how bad the Thing Flips is at shooting. She awarded that build Masterpiece status, while I said it was Great. The big news is that Angela and myself flipped our previous rankings from the standard Pinball Arcade build. We’ve also reviewed the standard Pinball Arcade build. This is the version of Pinball FX that works on PlayStation, Xbox, and Epic Games (standard non-table view only), and will be updated when the full team’s scores are in. Of course, that’s a premium priced build designed specifically for those with full-fledged digital tables. And, what better table to experiment with this format than Addams Family? We’ve already reviewed the Arcooda version, which we awarded straight Masterpiece rankings for. This is a quick look at the tables as the Vice Family plays them. So, I’ve come up with the concept of a Hurry-Up Review. I also have to wait for my team to put their scores in. With over one-hundred tables at launch, I have a lot of work to do to get Pinball FX’s content up.
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