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Sonic Pinball Party is a video game released for Game Boy Advance in 2003. It is a celebration of sorts for Sonic Team featuring many references to its previous games, mostly Sonic.
Story
The story is set in Casinopolis (in Station Square), where Doctor Eggman turns the people gambling into robots, and brainwashes Miles "Tails" Prower and Amy Rose. Sonic must rescue his friends by winning a pinball tournament called the "Egg Cup Tournament."
Boards
The game features three Pinball tables, based respectively on Sonic Advance, the Sega Saturn classic Nights into Dreams..., and the Dreamcast/arcade game Samba de Amigo.
The player must defeat Eggman to move to the next area in the Sonic board. The player moves to the next area when they collect all the Ideya and defeat the Nightmaren in the NiGHTS board. The Samba De Amigo Board never changes, as there are no real objectives except for getting a high score.
In the Sonic board, shooting the ball into a hidden hole three times changes the character shown on the table from Sonic, through Tails, Knuckles, Amy and back to Sonic.
Source: Wikipedia, "Sonic Pinball Party", available under the CC-BY-SA License.
- Feels the most like pinball
- Nailed the feel of how the ball moves around
- Decent music
- Nice graphics
- Controls feel great
- Satisfying high score
- Second board is great and exciting
- Difficulty feels a smidge bit easy
- Little bit of a floaty aspect to the ball
- Losing patience with the game
- Floatiness is getting to me
- Too much stuff that's just kind of slow and not great
- Second level is the exact same rhythm and beat
- Annoyed by how floaty the ball is
- How long it takes for this to play
- Stopping Dr. Eggman by competing in a pinball tournament
- Pinball of the Dead
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Multiple Game Modes — Lots of game modes, arcade, story, tutorial, party, Tiny Chao Garden, Casino App, plus and then options.
- Story Mode — We're going to a pinball tournament. We got to stop Dr. Eggman by competing in the pinball tournament.
- Tutorial — Really walks you through all the different aspects of each of the boards.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- This is my fifth game I'm reviewing on the Game Boy Advance that are pinball and I got to say, first impressions, this one feels the most like pinball, even without the rumble pack.
- I'm losing patience with this game.
- After an hour, I'd say this one's good, not great.