I hope so! I'm crossing my fingers for some kind of storyline, as opposed to "collect a bunch of tours."

Will it have those damned Borg inlanes that bounce to the outlane half the time?

I was surprised by those naked scoops. Haven't all recent Sterns shipped with "Cliffy's"?

I'm extremely impressed with everything I've seen so far, and can't wait to see some actual gameplay! I do hope, though, that "just replace it with a dead-end stand-up target" doesn't become the designers' go-to. Dead-end shots are no fun, and this Pro has not one, but two features replaced with them.

The more I look at the models, the more I'm digging the simpler cabinet artwork of the Premium. I think I like its translite the best as well. And is this just a weird image artifact, or am I seeing too many strings on Geddy's bass on the Pro? Pretty sure I haven't started drinking yet, so that can't be it.

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Started 6-string-gate, that's what.

That premium side art looks real nice.

This game has so much going for it, but did anyone else come out of the stream not having a great feeling about the direction of the rules? Other than that Fly by Night mode where your objective is to dim the playfield (which was really freaking cool), it sort of seemed like they picked a song and then... I don't know? Was there an objective to the modes other than "shoot a whole bunch of shots"?

Maybe it's a matter of not enough callouts being implemented yet to tell you what the heck you're supposed to be doing.

Thanks for posting this. That helps somewhat, but at this stage it's sounding a little too "tournament calculator" for my tastes. I was really hoping to see some creative, objective-based modes that made clever use of the storylines of the songs.

Also, yes, that scoop eject beep was godawful. I was watching the stream on TV and I'm pretty sure that sound made my wife consider filing for divorce.

It's a song about a future in which sports cars have been outlawed.

That's what I was afraid of, and for me that would be a disappointing miss when basically every song is a story.

I'm saying I couldn't really tell what the objectives were from watching the stream. Maybe it's just a matter of the callouts, etc, needing to be fleshed out, but I definitely didn't leave with the impression that the song modes will be cool objective-based modes a la Iron Maiden.

Edit: I think I misread your comment. Yes, if each mode doesn't have some unique objective then I agree with how you described it.

Raymond reached out via PM, and I think it was just the limitations of the launch stream that left me with the wrong impression. He described how they designed the modes around the themes of the songs, and it sounds like exactly the kind of creative tie-ins I was hoping to see. Consider my fears assuaged.

Thanks for reaching out, Ray, can't wait to play it!

So they didn't catch it before it went to print after all? Those Pros are limited editions!

Maybe I have mental issues, but looking at this sort of thing would drive me nuts. If you look at the bridge to the left of his hand, there's also nowhere for the extra strings to go.