Demon’s Tilt Is Free On Epic

Monday, I expressed my excitement for high-speed vasectomies and Samuel spoke about another fighting game coming soon. Tuesday, Once again, Samuel talked about Japanese-developed fighting games. On Wednesday, David noted that the streaming and recording software OBS Studio appeared on Steam, making my life easier. It was another short week in terms of news. Moving on to this week with the Epic Games Store, it is a strange one.

Right, hear me out here, but adding bullet hell elements to a pinball game doesn’t make it better. In fact, the greatest pinball game ever released was released in 1992 by Electronic Arts and NuFX for the Sega Mega Drive, and I will have no arguments otherwise. If you argue that Crüe Ball, the Mötley Crüe-themed pinball game that is perfection itself, is not the best pinball game, I would have to vehemently disagreel. You’ve not heard “Dr. Feelgood” until you’ve heard a 16-bit synth-ed up version from 1992 that I believe the kids today would say “slaps,” whatever that means.

Why am I talking about the greatest pinball game of all time with a fantastic soundtrack by Brian L. Schmidt? Well, for all that Wiznwar and Flarb LLC’s Demon’s Tilt has with better graphical fidelity, controller support, and several other improvements thanks to that mistress of time, it is not a Mötley Crüe-themed pinball game. With an art direction that is similarly dark and grim, this is (as far as I understand) the de rigueur for all pinball games: Art direction has to showcase the iconography of something to fit a theme. They don’t make any points here.

Nor am I giving out points for the options menu, which on the main menu doesn’t let you change audio settings. Who thought that was a great idea? I’ve said it already, and I’ll say it again, Crüe Ball got away with blasting music because it was fantastic and wonderful. What Demon’s Tilt has to offer doesn’t make you start a mosh pit in your living room with your pets. As for gameplay, it is pinball with more targets to hit and more objectives to make what I am sure in the 90s would have been called X-treme Pinball. Ultimately, it is fine.

All this week, you can pick up Demon’s Tilt on the Epic Games Store for free until the 31st of March. Shifting to next week it is a double bill once again, featuring first-person Rogue-like action game City of Brass and turn-based strategy/real-time battler, Total War: Warhammer. These are two things I don’t typically enjoy, Rogue-likes and high-fantasy turn-based strategy, next week will be just as fun.