If I got to make the rules, hitting a shot with the flippers or some other technique other than plunger control is not a skill shot. No plunger, no skill shot. (And skill shot is almost half the game on bagatelles.)

That also topples plunger games like TOM, BK and SOF which have no options except "ball goes in play or ball doesn't go in play" on the plunger.

You might be able to argue that you can control the speed the ball travels coming off of the ramp from that plunge... But that is really a stretch.

The lane change is still on during the skill shot in Creature. If you know you won't make the skill shot you can at least change the lane the ball is going for to an empty one.

Also is Creature the only one with two explicit skill shot awards?

Either the plunger control isn't very important, which means it's just using the flippers to make a particular shot at the beginning of the game, or if the plunger control is essential, it's a 2-step process which to me is a super skill shot... But I wouldn't count a shot as a super skill if there isn't a regular skill shot also available.

I'm picky but if a game gives me a chance to do a feat using only plunger control (plus nudging maybe), it's a skill shot, but if the plunger only lets me set up a shot to make from the flippers, the game has no skill shot.

I'm even iffy on a machine like Gorgar, BH, or BK2K where my only plunge control is which lane I hit. The award there is for completing the lanes, not just making a particular shot. There's no advantage to doing it on the plunge, versus getting the ball through a lane later in the ball.

Nah, it's at least 50% about nudging.