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A cool mash-up of pinball, rpg, and puzzle genres. Each character that joins your party is a pinball (10 main characters in total), with their own look, size, special ability (uses your party mana bar), and fully voiced swagger. There is a 6 Chapter fantasy story line, across 30+ boards, that has some good humour and a few twists along the way. The music is great and fits the setting and action. The other sounds are good, but not overpowering or annoying which can happen in easily in either the pinball or RPG genre. Also has controller support on the PC side (I used a stock Xbox 360 controller to test it) and fully customizable controls for both the keyboard and controllers. Overall a great time waster with more than enough hours of play for the $10 price tag. There are also five unlockable high-score leaderboard arena tables, which are boards from the story but repopulated as challenge scenario.

For those who play the Thief series, make sure you go to the custom difficulty settings and turn on the classic mode settings. So far it's a great challenge when those are on and the difficulty is maxed.