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Xenotilt: Hostile Pinball Action
Lightning strikes again!! Xenotilt, the sequel to the cult hit, Demo's Tilt. Get ready for another pinball fantasy. Xenotilt shreds the envelope with face-melting gameplay & graphics.
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Xenotilt reinvents pinball as a laser-guided cyberpunk shmup with dinosaurs.
If you’ve never played a pinball game before, then Xenotilt might well be the only one you’ll ever need. Heck, even if you don't like pinball, I suspect playing this might very well change your mind – it's mercilessly addictive from the get-go. Give it a shot and you’ll soon succumb to its will.
CAPS LOCK IS FUN! Jokes aside, XENOTILT: HOSTILE PINBALL ACTION (which I’ll call also call XENOTILT, for brevity’s sake) is the sequel to the excellent DEMON’S TILT. It promises even more 16-bit style occult pinball action, and we’re all for it. This is XboxEra‘s review for XENOTILT: HOSTILE PINBALL ACTION, tested on Xbox Series X!
XENOTILT: HOSTILE PINBALL ACTION’s three-tiered table provides a triple threat of action. This hyperkinetic title might deliver a sensory overload with a lot to keep track of, but its brief learning curve leads to an incredibly high skill ceiling we just couldn't get enough of.
The most intense and beautiful pinball game in recent years challenges reflexes and encourages perseverance.
As much as I like it, though, Xenotilt is not really for me. The game’s score tallies and effects are extremely intrusive, and I often found it difficult to see my ball at all with all the point bubbles, explosions, lasers, minions, and messaging going on around it. It doesn’t help that Xenotilt’s table is relatively narrow, all things considered, and all the lateral space is dedicated to messaging and that multiball tower. The ball itself is downright microscopic, especially when playing Xenotilt in Handheld mode. It does support TATE mode, though, and the Switch 2 has a TATE solution o…