Zen Pinball Party

These are the same pinball tables for the past two years or more. I pay $4.99 every month and assumed I would get new pinball a regular basis. Can u give me an answer.

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If you like pinball you will love this game

I don’t usually like mobile games. But they don’t have any decent pinball games on console. This one is great. They don’t even make you pay extra for the Star Wars tables, they just give those to you. 5 stars Spicy!

Having owned PinballFX 2 and 3 on the PC, it would be nice to bring along those games in a more portable form factor - while there does exist a version of PFX3 on the Switch, I wanted to give this one a try, as not only was it free as a part of Apple Arcade, but it also comes with 20+ tables for free, as opposed to PFX3 which gives you a fraction of them, and 2 minute time trials of the rest. Most of these tables are lifted from Pinball FX3, though some are original, at least to Zen Pinball Party. The ones lifted from other instalments look, sound and feel like their console counterparts in terms of presentation, though the kid franchise based tables are simpler than the usual fare. However, while the look and feel are spot on, the controls are just not up to snuff. Nudging feels so unnatural with the swiping controls, and the plunger control can bug out at times. This is especially true when the plunger is also used to select missions/main modes, meaning whole rounds go down the drain (no pun intended) when the game decides to stop you from launching the ball. While I thought that a vertical presentation would work best for pinball on iOS, in practice, whole tables are too zoomed out to see properly on iPhone - I see now why the console ports mostly enforce a horizontal layout and provide many camera angles to compensate, even if the whole field isn’t visible at once. Having landscape support on iPhone would be ideal here. Finally, the tables that are new to this, including funky pop multiplayer pinball, are some of the most lifeless tables I’ve seen from them. The funky pop one in particular feels like a lazy excuse to work in a 4 player battle royale style multiplayer mode, with the only flash coming from the (subjectively) ugly custom figures that show up for five seconds at the start and are away from the main action for the entire game’s runtime. Never have I thought a table was pure product placement more than the Funko table. I want to love this game more than I do, but at the end of the day, I think I might stick to PinballFX3 and the new Pinball FX coming to PC and the Steam Deck instead of playing pinball party on iPhone.

Plenty of fun and great tables, the actual machines work great, but the tournaments are buggy, and often don’t record scores, and it can be near impossible to find a partner in the multiplayer events. Would be a 5 star game if those things were fixed

Easy and fun to play. Great graphics, sound and special effects.

Unplayable

Holy crap the mechanics are laughable at best. Best part about the Snoopy table is you’ll never get multi ball feature or be able to play the baseball mini game because the requirements are ridiculously hard. Great job devs!

What’s with all the criticism ? All these noobs have something to say, if you all can do better, then, why don’t you put your money where your mouth is because at the end of the day you’re still playing Zen Pinball Party !! Sometimes it’s best not to say anything at all, if you have nothing positive to say, I love this game, especially Star Wars table. The graphics on the iPhone 14 Pro make this game look absolutely stunning. I just love all the 3-D and the tiny details that were included in Star Wars. It’s awesome !!! Keep up the great work, and don’t allow these little people that have something to say, let ruin your day !!!