It's...interesting. You can and will fully catch and cradle the ball with it and then try to gently flick it to the left, backhand-style to hit those targets. You can do this quite a few times as the ball will return to the flipper repeatedly.

Apparently after firing away at the ramps, etc you'll have to then switch to "finesse" mode to handle the upper PF.

Yeah I like the stylized 70's fonts but when the band plays it looks like those spastic "two frames of animation" kids cartoons. Makes me think of Scooby Doo for some reason.

I do like that the Cab and playfield have a limited and artistic color palette. After GB and BM66 I figured there must be some decree handed down at Stern that ALL games must use ALL colors ALL of the time

It does have to do with working under certain limitations. By it's very nature the sounds on vinyl have to be compressed and this can mean a "warmer" sound for the listener. It's not always about accuracy for the listener apparently.

On a CD you have a larger range from low to high so you don't need heavy compression so it's a wider range but can sound a little "cold" to people if it's not done right.

Sadly the trend is to compress everything to have the LOUDEST POSSIBLE CD so these "volume wars" have spoiled the last 5 years of CD's anyways.