Quoted from Palmer:I am speaking from first hand experience playing the game. Again, not a deal breaker but the layout and design of the assets could use a bit more design direction.
I agree. Up to this point the whole Spooky team have done an amazing job and I am sure all aspects will get a lot better and tweaked over time.
The Light shows look awesome and gameplay and playfield look great.
Yeah,After rewatching the stream and just concentrating on the display, there is definitely some more tweaking work to be done there.
Just my observations and not griping as I know Spooky have more coding to do.
-sound from slings, I love the sound, but seems overpowering everything else in multiball (I know the sound coming through wasn’t ideal so maybe not noticeable with in person play)
- I love the display style from the show(some tweaks no doubt still to be done)
-Font style (not bad but could possibly be bettered more Ultraman-ie)
-text positioning at times.
-there were some Kaiju battles and instructions to start modes that constantly had text across the screen telling you what you had to do, maybe this doesn’t need to stay on the screen all the time once you have had time to read it and the playfield has flashing clues. This was covering up some cool video clips.(also see dial section of screen)
-Maybe where the dial is on the LHS this could be opened up as a screen(when required) for instructions, to keep them seperate from the main video plays and combos and score flashes etc.
-not sure if any instructions are in the callouts(as in TSPP ‘shoot the garage’) as could not really here call outs in the setup that was streamed.
-Maybe the ‘super jackpot values’ on screen in multiball could be done like the ‘next combo value’ or interchangeable here. (Please also see dial area of screen)
-text also stayed up on the screen there and overlapped with new text at times. Looks a bit messy.
-red text on red background of map difficult to read. The white text looked great.
-I like the animations coming in from the side. These are pretty awesome.
-the video clips from the TV series are fantastic.
-haven’t seen any games in person but the scores were difficult to see/read.
-hopefully someone can tell me. Not sure what the red light under the dial on the screen indicated.
-not sure why there are 3 seperate boxes for balls left. Pretty sure I am not going to have up to 999 balls remaining. Maybe there are other plans for this section?
Maybe this area could be used for something else. This could be your super jackpot score area. And then the ‘balls left’ could go under the dial on the left side. Possibly. This will line up boarders etc around these section more evenly.
As said not griping just observations and I am one that is super happy with my purchase of Ultraman and can’t wait to play in person.
Awesome work done so far from the Spooky Team. Keeping the pinball passion alive and well.