JJP's integration so far has been wonderful. Stern's size is probably the most logical, but integration has a ways to go. I'm sick of Luke telling me he's here to save Leia, and I'm sick of the Jokers "oooo!" face. AS I think is ok with all original cartoon animations, but I still wish I was seeing more with Jacky.

Ironically today I was reading Steve Ritchie's old RGP post on the development and launch of Spiderman. I got a kick out of these thoughts.

"We are not using color LCD displays. They are too dim and expensive..."
"...We try to bring you the max entertainment with the part
you play: The Playfield. I cannot trade away a toy or device to make
room for a new, expensive, dim display."

Agreed on the whole. The only potential downfall I see is lack of depth of LCD animations. Some DMD games have really good dots and when there's an animation it's kind of cool to watch the dots in motion as some sort of special effect. With LCD's it's just video, so when looking at a 3 second movie clip in full HD a hundred times in a single game, it's going to get old.

I think that puts the burden on the developers to either make the game so wildly wide (not necessarily deep) in code that no two plays are alike so you're always seeing different things, or perhaps just have multiple animations for the same thing, so it can shake things up a bit. Again, I'm sick of hearing Luke saying he's here to rescue, and I'm to the point where I'm checking my phone when Yoda comes up.