Zen Pinball 2 is finally in NA eShop for Wii U. FREE full demo

[famousringo]

sethnintendo said:

famousringo said:

I'm talking about actual tablets, not just streaming controllers. Ones you can rotate for a vertical display so you can see the table as it was meant to be seen, rather than as if you were a four foot tall munchkin peering over the playfield. You could do that with the Wii U controller, but the grip would suck, the button placement would be unusable, and the Wii U touchscreen couldn't be a substitute for buttons because it can only handle one touch at a time.

Not sure what to say about your comments on Pinball Arcade's physics. They aren't perfect, but they get better if your device has a better CPU, and unlike Zen's, they're modeled after actual pinball tables they can, and do, test against. Perhaps Zen's physics feel more natural because they aren't burdened by trying to simulate a complicated reality?

Thanks for explaining your post more.  I wasn't quite sure where you were going at first.  You are right that it is probably due to my phone considering I was given a handme down galaxy 1 from my mom.  So it is probably the old phone which makes the game run not so smoothly.

You ever play the Zen Pinball games on the 3DS?  They actually did a good job on those 2 and the 3D effects are pretty good.

I played it on iOS. I imagine it would be decent on 3DS, but pinball is one of the few games I really feel benefits from a higher-resolution display. Getting rid of the gap between DS screens ain't bad, neither.

Zen does solid pinball, about as good as "video pinball" gets, though some of their tables have better designs than others. I found their Marvel tables pretty mediocre, while their own IPs (Excalibur and The Wizard's Tower, or whatever it was called) were pretty good. I just don't think their table design can compete with classics like Genie and Twilight Zone.

Pinball Arcade will be coming to Wii U sooner or later, so people who enjoy midget-cam pinball can decide which offering is better. ;-P