puzzlemate

Pinball but with balls that have 'character' in a few senses of the word. Your array of pinballs is your adventuring party and every new location is a new pinball table challenge where different powers or characteristics can be used. Bigger ball so sewers less, smaller ball for greater accuracy including the ability to tilt or 'nudge' the table more to go where you want. Toss in some special abilities like multi-ball on demand and they have a lot going for them. The game is definitely skill driven as pinball skills are used. The physics feels 'physics-y enough' even with the extra stuff tagged on, like moving enemies acting as bumpers that want to knock you out of play. Can make some boards very challenging but not impossibly so, often encouraging you to try different balls (or sequence of balls) or upgrades to manage the new board and you definitely notice the upgrades, like the ability to stun an opponent when you ricochet off of him or a ball with a ranged attack to shoot arrows as it passes close by to take out the enemy 'bumper'. The puzzle components in addition to the skill and action parts keeps each board interesting and new. There is replay as you can go back to previous boards for more experience and gold as well as an 'arena mode' for some **** Not something I've played before and pretty good on top of that simple fact. Totally worth picking up!

This game should be nominated for Indy game of the year, not to mention action or puzzle game of the year. It's polished, fun, challenging and all around excellent. Never had so much fun when I was bad at a given level, knowing it was just about refining how I did it for next attempt. Totally un-frustrating yet challenging fun. So far whirlys are my favorite obstaclefeature as they really create some cool moments to plan your move to score well. Thank you for a fun game that's not the same old same old!

So I had hoped for so much more from this game and BioWares track record of making quality games. It's 3 months in and the game hasn't developed at all in a direction I can appreciate, enjoy or endorse. If you want to play it to play a single player game experience in a given class? Go for it. Entertaining in this regard _once_. If on the other hand you are lookign for a game that has actually invested in deep, engaging and compelling multiplayer experiences? Look elsewhere. The dev team has clearly missed the mark. A perfect example of this is treating PvP (something they have devoted entire servers too) as a pure afterthought, by their own admission, that it 'wouldn't be popular'... In a two faction game about warring empires in the star wars IP? Not Popular? The class to class balance is non-existent and the gear and craft system was clearly never thought about past level 45 out of 50. The efforts to address both of thse are being mishandled while they try to sell their 'Legacy' system as a major feature, which is pure fluff and promotes more single player mechanics than team ones. There was a lot of quality put into this game for look, feel and atmosphere. Sadly not even a fraction of it into the game itself.