Star Wars Fall of the Empire
"I just don't think they're gonna be able to code their way into our hearts with this game. I think the aversion to buying one runs much deeper than the code... when you look down at it, it just does look like a cheap game. It just looks like something that could be at Costco."
Star Wars Fall of the Empire looks cheap and won't succeed despite code improvements
"just as we all expected, the game is not lighting the pinball world on fire... the overwhelming feedback as I read people give their reviews is that it's just underwhelming. There's nothing in it that's really magical"
Star Wars Fall of the Empire is not lighting the pinball world on fire - underwhelming, mediocre at best
"first reaction to Star Wars is exactly the commentary I've been hearing. Is that it's, it looks okay. It doesn't look like it's mind blowing... I'm just not blown away. I'm just going to say, I'm just not blown away."
Overall first impression of Star Wars pinball is disappointment
"I don't know what they're charging again. I think at 8500 that we look at it differently. I just after Harry Potter and how beautiful that game looks. What spooky is putting in the evil dead. I think these stern machines are looking like. They're not looking expensive enough for the amount of money they're charging."
Star Wars pinball looks too cheap for its price point
"the ad ad falling down is fine, it's tiny, it's too small, it's too small, I like the way it falls, it falls the way it does in the movie, but it also makes no sense, why aren't you going around its legs? It should have been bigger, and it should have been an orbit shot around the legs to make it fall. Why is it looping around above it?"
Star Wars pinball AT-AT mechanism is poorly designed and too small
"The art is pretty pretty pretty bad gang. The playfield art doesn't seem great. It seems very. It seems too cheap looking."
Star Wars pinball art looks bad and cheap
"There is no way this is going to be a movie list game. There's no way this is going to be an asset list game. There's no way this is going to be like King Kong or Jurassic Park. This is not going to be an animated Star Wars adventure. If it is, that would be the silliest thing Stern has ever done."
There's no way this will be an animated game without movie clips - Stern needs this to be a hit
"My worry about this is none of us, none of us went to bed last night and if I asked you to think fondly about Star Wars and the movies you loved and the moments you love, none of you went to bed last night and felt or thought about the phrase fall of the empire. And so by injecting this new terminology into the lexicon of our love of Star Wars, it's a huge gamble."
Stern's Star Wars Fall of the Empire title is a risky departure from familiar Star Wars terminology