Recent reviews by plan9

Tried to play game. Was not allowed to create a normal character, only A and B things. Funny that the betas looked like women and were relegated to second class beta characters. Why were these women looking things inferior to the men looking ones? I deleted the game.

This is an extremely discriminatory and hate filled company and I couldn't even report them in game for their behavior. pfft. Good riddance.

Edit Jan 2025: Not enough people stood against this and other problems, clearly telling the company they could get away with anything. Those who don't take a stand against evil, encourage that evil just as much as those actively helping the evil.

I'd say they did pretty well this time, compared to FX(4) (runs better, doesn't make you re-purchase tables, no dead, boring gaming room, etc). In fact, using this setup for FX(4) (not counting forced re-purchases) would do a lot for that one. Until they fix the offline play, though, I'm going to have to give it a thumbs down. I'll change if I see that fixed.

Edit (Dec 2023): It seems they fixed it after not responding to the problem in their own forum for half a week. The good, they fixed it the next day after that. The bad, besides being silent for half a week, they waited to fix it until AFTER the sale was over.

I'm still not fond of this company or the way they handled this, but I said I'd give a thumb up and I have. Keep in mind it's like 3/5 stars, just very slightly on the positive side.

Edit (March 2025): Can't say I've seen much happen with this game, including promises made and not kept. It's had plenty of time and little has been done with it.

Originally I expected the 'M' to mean mature, not just horror, it should be called Pinball H. Almost all of the very few tables are horror and all are violence only. I expected sexy tables and real life tables, but doesn't look like either will happen and it's only managed two or three new tables since it came out.

The customization is nice, but the only table that interests me is the free table, being a Lovecraft (Cthulhu) fan. Get it for the free table or if you only want horror themed virtual (not real life) tables.

Back to thumbs down, VPX (Visual Pinball X) and Future Pinball are better and not as hard to set up, following proper directions and pre-packaged files on good sites, as some would have you believe.

Not Monkey Island, but a fun game, nevertheless. Some may call the humor juvenile, but come on, when haven't we all thought some crude, selfish, egotistical things or practical jokes, lol. The main character is still a nice guy who will help out and complain about it. Anyway, I support the dev and bought the game on itch.io (gave me a key here, too) and gog. I need to check out his Brok game sometime.

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DO NOT BUY

A trash game from trash devs who insult and lie to and about their customers, refuse to fix bugs, don't know how to troubleshoot problems and ignore their tech support forums or questions. Beyond that this game is boring and disgusting.

I couldn't quite figure out, from what I'd read, who was what in this game, lol. Since this was at the beginning it's not a spoiler.

It appears the game is about two sisters. 10 years in the past, when they were 10 or 12-ish, maybe, one of them decided to cut their hair short, went home to show their mom while mom was waving around a gun (no idea why), then stabbed mom to death (again, no idea why). Cops were really nice to crazy girl. 10 years later they seem to be a very short, effeminate looking guy with weird eyes who's taking testosterone. I guess, after the stabbing, some woke psychological ageny (oxymoron?) started convincing (lying to) her that she wasn't a girl.

No surprise from devs who thought the "right" ending to LiS was to un-use a power by using a power to murder their friend so they could save a town from using that power by using that power to murder... lol.

While I'll still wander around and try to see the good game and amazing book this was based on, *serious* lore breaking and, clearly, woke things like beards for human women means I can't give this a good rating and will not spend any money on it.

Buggy, flipper lag, *extremely* unoptimized, expected to buy the same tables with the same bugs over again, poor support.

FX3, which was mostly abandoned several years ago and had a short life, is still being sold and devs like to say you can still play that, but they've also said it won't get more updates or tables, so they're selling abandonware with bugs they never fixed and never will. With a history like that, I'm not going to give them more money to repeat these poor tactics.

1. Malware
2. Squeenix salesman an insulting liar
3. Squeenix salesman proved devs to be incompetent
4. Squeenix salesman should've been fired years ago
5. Boring "game"

Since FX(4) this game is no longer supported, but the end of the description says "Zen Studios will continue to support Pinball FX3 with frequent content releases and new features!" This is an outright lie that could've easily been fixed by deleting the line and the "frequent" part hasn't been true since 2019.

Because of this and other things (not moving tables to FX(4), etc), I won't buy the last few unsupported tables on FX3 that I don't have or any on FX(4). FX2/3 were fine, but I no longer trust or want to support this company.

Was going to buy the last two seasons before they disappeared on the 30th, but they disappeared on the 29th. Nice of the devs to lie about the removal date (no I'm not doing iAP, it's DLC or nothing). I guess they don't really want my money. Lost a customer for whatever future tables they may have (not that FarSight is likely to last long without most of their best tables). I'd advise staying away, except for the (new) free table.

Edit (July 7, 2018): Support says they won't take responsibility for their screw up, regarding the date the tables were removed. Their game, their responsibility to get things right or fix it after, but no, they blame everyone but themselves. In an email they're blaming Sony (huh? what does Sony have to do with this?) for screwing up a script and poor FarSight couldn't do a thing about it before or after. Again, their game, their responsibility to their customers to deal with problems. End of story.

I'm getting a refund on a couple of packs friends got for me SEVERAL days before the take down date. I will NOT support a company that won't support me or take responsibility for their product.

Edit2 (July 12, 2018): Got the refunds. Dev says early removal was posted on FB (not here!) and taunts me, after the fact, that I should've bowed before him and he *might've* given me a reward (obviously, iAP - no thanks!). He's, definitely, trying to alienate a customer further - good move, it worked! Then he wished me a good day, lol.

To, slightly, paraphrase Gandalf in The Hobbit: "What a lot of things you do use 'Good [day]' for! Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, and that it won't be good till I move off." ;)