{"id":9818,"date":"2011-10-13T12:06:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T19:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=9818"},"modified":"2012-01-09T16:01:24","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T00:01:24","slug":"the-purplest-pinball-fx-table-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/10\/13\/the-purplest-pinball-fx-table-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"The purplest Pinball FX table yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"9818\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Sorcerers_Lair_review1.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9856\" title=\"Sorcerers_Lair_review\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Sorcerers_Lair_review1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the old saying, sex is like pizza; even when it&#8217;s bad, it&#8217;s good. I disagree. On both counts. But the old saying does make me think of some tables in FX Pinball 2. Such as Sorcerer&#8217;s Lair, the latest addition. Sure, I&#8217;ll play it. But of all the tables available, I&#8217;ll play it out of a sense of obligation to the fine folks at Zen Pinball and my superscore. Not necessarily in that order.<\/p>\n<p>When I first played Sorcerer&#8217;s Lair on the Playstation 3, it was the ugliest Zen Pinball table yet. Fortunately for Sorcerer&#8217;s Lair on the Xbox 360, Miss Splosion Man makes the lesser tables feel like so much more. The theme of Sorcerer&#8217;s Lair is two meddling kids, a cranky old sorcerer, a friendly ghost named Whisper, and the color purple. A hut rotates. A creaky old tree leans out. A pentagram spins. I kind of dread finding myself on a couple of inscrutable side tables. I wonder why I&#8217;m not just playing Haunted Mansion instead.<\/p>\n<p>But at least this latest table isn&#8217;t a bunch of fruity comic book superheroes. We&#8217;ve got a lot more of those coming in the new Marvel Virtue and Vengeance pack of four tables. I look forward to a day in the distant future when more than half of my tables aren&#8217;t about people in capes. Which reminds me, you&#8217;ll be getting a very special treat in Pinball FX 2 this month, which includes Zen Studios trying a little something different. More on that later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2 stars<\/strong><br \/>\nXbox 360<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The purplest Pinball FX table yet - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/10\/13\/the-purplest-pinball-fx-table-yet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The purplest Pinball FX table yet - 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