pinballvania!

released
2019-04-09
reviewed
rated
👎👎

The game itself is fine, it's whatever, but it delivers on just about 0% of the title. Pinball? Aside from the fact that you control the environment to bounce a ball around, there's no pinball features---no bumpers, no paddles, no ball chute or extra balls or wire runs etc. and certainly no full-throated goofy theming. Vania? That implies non-linear exploration of a single over-arching world, slowly gaining abilities that let you pass previously-impassable obstacles. There's none of that here. You just guide the ball around generic levels collecting energy pellets and then go to the exit. Anyway, I wouldn't care about this game at all if its title wasn't false advertising!!.

My progress: reached level 6 (beat first boss)