Zaccaria Pinball

5/5 Stars – Zaccaria Pinball proves that machines are very good at making retro nostalgia. If you scroll through the community discussions, you’ll see a mountain of salty reviews dragging Zaccaria Pinball through the mud purely because they used AI for the graphics. Honestly? The backlash is hilarious. People are acting like machine-generated pixels are a personal insult to traditional art. But after spending hours staring at the tables in VR, I think the AI visual overhaul simply looks great. And yes I play this game in VR. Its the way to go!!!. Really enjoying my time in my virtual pinball room..

soulless garbage

I really enjoyed and recommended this game years ago. I was really excited about what they were doing with the 'modern remakes' of the old tables, and had bought all of them. And then they replaced the tables I'd paid for with AI slop art, and I just haven't had the heart to touch it since. It's an insult to the artists from the 70s and 80s who designed the original tables. Very disappointing. Edit: I am well aware they didn't replace any of the art from the classic tables. My point still stands - they replaced the art from tables I had purchased with AI slop, and it's still an insult to the people who actually made art to be placed in the same game as the slop.

Using missel command sound effects on a table called Gangsters was too much to handle. I have payed for alot on content for this game but not another cent is going to these devs.

New menu is hard to navigate with controllers and the old menu in general was a lot more user friendly. Sudden use of AI art on paid tables is honestly a massive red flag with the direction this game is going. While I appreciate the inclusion of new table mechanics and the ideas behind the AI usage, I can not condone it. It would have been something I was willing to let pass if the user experience in general didn't get slightly worse. Performance has also dropped slightly, I just lowered settings and it ran fine after that. Can't recommend this product anymore, but I do appreciate what they did before this shift.

I've always been fascinated by how big the "pinball subculture" apparently is. When you download a game like this, you really start to realize just how deep this rabbit hole actually goes. With great humility, I have to admit that I basically know nothing about pinball, since my personal expertise barely goes beyond the old, generally popular WlN XP Pinball. Unfortunately, my capacity probably won't be enough to dive into this rabbit hole with the amount of time and dedication it would probably deserve, so my knowledge will most likely remain at the level of a casual player forever. As for this game itself: yes, it is perfectly suitable for that purpose. Especially because, unlike some of the other very detailed pinball games available, you apparently don't need the storage space of a NASA computer just to download it. Please don't take that joke too seriously, 20+ GB isn't much these days either, but we're talking about pinball tables here, not huge open-world maps. The menus in this game are, of course, just as extensive, and I have to admit that I haven't even looked through everything yet. But hey, I successfully played my first casual game of pinball on a random table, and …