Zen Pinball 2 9+

Playing the free games - one is very hard (Fish) and does not allow you to put in your scores - so why do it? THe other Sorcerer's Lair- instructions are very vague on how to really get higher scores. The Pop up box that gives you information during the game should be allowed in the middle bottom of the screen where the flippers are and/or instead of just saying Vague messages why not tell you how many times you need to hit Whispers cave or the tree area to get what you need??? Flippers stick - they did an update that was suppose to fix it (I was not having issues then, but am now that they fixed it). Tried to purchase Doom - took my info but would not download anything and sent the program away, keep having to bring it back to the screen, but still no game. Doesn't seem that is charge my account but will wait and see.
The other is - other games when clicked on to see if I can buy them first told me I couldn't cuz I hadn't reached something and now - no matter what I click the whole app disappears when trying to purchase - doesn't close just disappears like I hit the tile window to the left! Needs to be fixed so one can actually buy the games on a iMac!

I so wanted to give this 5 stars as the game is very interesting, fun for those of us who have played the REAL pinballs back in the 70's but these issues really need to be resolved.

1. No table preview. 2. Sometimes no helpful instructions - like what even gets you scores. 3. Some tables imaginitvie, but limited things you can do - howmany times can you go around and around? 4. DON'T get the Williams ones - lousy games, can't see them and stupid things like everytime the ball drains a clown throws a pie at you - soohh how long does that take to get old. 6. Some games not pinball - an arcade game with flippers and a ball (Back to the Future, which I likw, but it is not pinball). 7. Space between flippers HUGE, and side outs could't be plugged with a wool sock, so almost zero play time/ball., but play again lasts a long time - still, I 'd rather have a fair play. 8. I sometimes get awards, but they don't seem to mean anything. I'll stil play because I can't find a better one - Microsoft used to have a good one, but haven't seen it anywhere lately. All these are also too tied to specific themes I'm not in to (3 Jurassic Park, a zillion Start Wars), Marvel, etc.)

Everything about this game is outstanding: physics, play action, graphics, views, UI, store integration, all great.

I just don’t like the tables. I bought two table and couldn’t stand them, obviously I’m not gong to keep buying tables hoping it gets better. The tables are rinse and repeat. The graphics and bells and whistles are completely over the top, practically seizure inducing. The side games within the tables are difficult to get to and mostly just frustrating, no intuitive play controls and you just get dumped with no way to gain skill. The bumpers mostly just seem in the way and don’t allow for skilled interaction. If there are plunger skill shots they’re well hidden, launch behavior seems predictably repetitive.

My take is just play the free table, it doesn’t get better; I much prefer it over the tables I purchased. At the risk of contradicting myself, I do like the free table, where my high score is 147,000,000, about an hour on a quarter. Anyway, I’m just gonna have to buy the from the guys with the classic tables where play action is more varied and less visually assaulting.