You can click the little 'i' button in the corner and scroll past the story nonsense to learn some of the functions. It seems like a game for people who already know exactly what they are doing. Once you get past the initial annoyances, it's not a bad game overall, but I don't know enough about Pinball anymore (loved it years ago, but it's been a long time) to really get invested in it. The ball doesn't seem to act like I would expect it too either, but it's possible I'm just so badly out of practice that it is normal. It does seem at times that the hitboxes need a bit of adjustment, as I've been able to hit the ball quite easily when the ball is just out of reach. The only thing I'm not too certain about are the physics of it. It's easily the most realistic looking Pinball game I've ever seen. Crystal clear graphics that look reasonably realistic too, with different angles available to view. It certainly looks good, seriously beautiful actually. With the annoyances out of the way, it's actually not bad. As simple as they are, I haven't found a way to bring them up in-game once you dismiss them and I forgot one key that I just couldn't get to work and I had no way of knowing what it was again. You also might want to write down the controls or attempt to memorise them. So there's quite a bit of waiting before you can event get to smash some balls around.

Each time it downloads, it then needs to unpack the content too. Each time you pick a different pinball machine it will need to again download an additional bunch of data. The second annoying thing: the game will download additional content of around 866MB before you get to do anything else. No thank you, any time you do this in a game you end up getting their junk emails sent your way. The problem is, it doesn't just link to your Steam account, you have to manually sign up with an email, username and password. You can play as a Guest, so you don't actually need to do any registrations. I don't like any game that makes me do that, especially a single-player Pinball game. The initial bit that put me off: the first thing it presents you with is a login/registration screen. We lack a variety when it comes to Pinball games, so I was really hoping that this would be reasonably good. Pro Pinball Ultra was released for Linux this year and a GOL follower gifted it to me, so I took a look to see if it's actually worth others picking it up.

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