Quoted from Rarehero:No one wants easy - people want a *fair* challenge and not a game that's actively fucking them due to design flaws. Sometimes just a few minor things can drag a game from "Fun" to "Frustrating". Balls flying into the drain from drop targets is a design issue. Balls hopping guides into the drain is a design issue. Straight down the middle from the pops is a design issue. There's a reason games like Dr. Who has a ball save from the Time Expander release...cuz it often goes STDM, and it's an unfair design flaw that the software is compensating for. Same reason JP has a ball save if the raptor kickback sends it STDM.
On the game I played the other day, the left scoop would fire the ball SDTM sometimes. And yeah, the drop targets can be annoying when they reject a ball and send it screaming back at warp factor 5.
Rob