Quoted from Scandell:I’ve been playing my LE daily since it came and have been totally happy with the game. That being said....I bought a TMNT pro today and it is way more...fun and full of energy.
It’s the music. It’s the villian voices.
Avengers has been shots. Better variety of modes. more unique flow. Better story goals.
Stern if your listening...music this pin up.
Feel the same about what you're saying. AIQ has an amazing layout, rules (that will only get better once it's fleshed out and finished, already amazing as is unfinished, though) and cabinet/playfield artwork.
The presentation as far as audio, display-effects and music are all either missing or are awful, though. It takes away from how great all the other aspects of AIQ are. The display effects, while having no impact on the game itself, are the worst since Stern switched from DMDs. Even worse than Aerosmith and thats not easy to do. It looks incomplete and lazy, like some halfassed free-to-play mobile card game.
Thankfully with Pin Browser we'll be able to change it to something presentable (like what was done with JP2), but its a lazy, ugly mess from the Stern team.