Willy Wonka

game
167 mentions Positive: 136Negative: 25Hot Takes: 6 32% hostile
Ask Kaneda about Willy Wonka
"there's not a moment in that game where you see the ball do something that just feels like magical. It hits a switch, right? The gobbah hole turns around, and the gobb stopper mech, it falls in a hole."

Willy Wonka lacks magical ball movement despite being a great playing game

opinion mixed Ep. 345 · Apr 24, 2019
"I'm going to put Willy Wonka's side because I've been chastised last week for hyping Willy Wonka. But I do think it lives up to the hype."

Positive assessment of Willy Wonka living up to hype

opinion positive Ep. 342 · Apr 19, 2019
"The game that willy wonka is competing with is not even black night. The game that willy wonka will compete with is Jurassic World. The reality is this. We do you think do you expect this game to ship in 60 days, which is what Jack is saying?"

Willy Wonka will compete with Jurassic World, not Black Knight, due to timing

opinion mixed Ep. 341 · Apr 16, 2019
"it has the ugliest art package I've seen on almost any game ever... What kind of mailed in like lazy, massive, a cabinet is that"

Standard edition cabinet artwork is horrible and unacceptable

opinion negative Ep. 340 · Apr 14, 2019
"Yes, I will be hyper critical of Willy Wonka if the assets don't make its way into the game the way they need to to bring the story to life. I won't hold back. I guarantee you that."

Prediction: He will be hyper critical of Willy Wonka if the assets don't make it into the game properly and won't hold back in his criticism.

hot take mixed Ep. 340 · Apr 14, 2019
"I think when a game has so much else in it, the art of the game itself does not become the prime everything you're focused on"

Willy Wonka art criticism is overblown - there's so much else to focus on

hot take positive medium Ep. 340 · Apr 14, 2019
"I still think the game is a masterpiece... it just felt like I was going from sandpaper to silk"

Willy Wonka is a masterpiece with exceptional flow and mechanics

opinion positive Ep. 340 · Apr 14, 2019
"I do agree that the standard edition artwork is very uninspired. It could be more than that. I think if we look at Wizard of Oz, all the Waz art packages are nice or all the Hobbit art packages are nice. So I think they could have done a little bit more than just a logo like that."

Standard edition artwork for Willy Wonka is uninspired and should be improved

opinion negative Ep. 339 · Apr 13, 2019
"it's interesting because behind the scenes, everybody I know, everybody I know that's flipped this game is so ecstatic and in on the game. We're all talking to each other, all the guys who played it. And yet the internet that has not played Willy Wonka has found everything there is to complain about the game."

Willy Wonka pinball is amazing and everyone who has played it loves it, despite internet criticism from people who haven't played it

opinion positive Ep. 339 · Apr 13, 2019
"I think Wonka from seeing it and playing it a little bit is probably going to be the biggest seller of all of them. I could tell you right now I'm going to be ordering as a distributor more Wonkas than I have of any other title out of the box."

Willy Wonka will be Jersey Jack's biggest seller and most successful title

opinion positive Ep. 339 · Apr 13, 2019
"When I, after playing Willy Wonka, I did feel like part of what I've been in search of all these years is represented in that game. And I really could just put that game in my home and not go on Pinside every day and not be waiting to see what's next."

Willy Wonka represents everything Kaneda has been searching for in pinball

hot take positive medium Ep. 336 · Apr 7, 2019
"This one just, my eyes lit up when I saw it. It looked absolutely beautiful. Like the layout, the design, how open it felt just it drew me in and I wanted to play it, which is not something that is like you have to kind of urge me."

Willy Wonka pinball is approachable and beautiful for casual players

opinion positive Ep. 336 · Apr 7, 2019
"when you see the game on Friday I think you're going to just see the new bar the new standard for what a premium pinball machine should be and I also think you're going to see some pricing options that are really going to call into question you know whether or not you really should keep going in on A Stern premium"

Willy Wonka will be the new standard for premium pinball machines and expose Stern's overpricing

opinion positive Ep. 335 · Apr 6, 2019
"I can guarantee for all of you out there that what on world under glass a Pinball machine that shoots fantastically a Pinball machine that is doing stuff that has never been done before in Pinball"

Willy Wonka is a masterpiece that surpasses all previous Jersey Jack games and represents the pinnacle of modern pinball

opinion positive Ep. 334 · Apr 5, 2019
"That is how much I like this theme. It is how excited I am for a pat-Lawlor game that's not based on a theme that makes me want to blow my head off. It's how excited I am for a Jersey Jack standard body game."

Excited about Jersey Jack's Willy Wonka - great theme, Pat Lawlor design, standard body, complete assets

opinion positive Ep. 333 · Apr 4, 2019
"I think with what we know, with what we know to date about what's coming in 2019, the home run is going to be Willy Wonka. That's my pick. But here's the thing. There's a huge caveat. There's like a big asterisk above it. It is the home run pin of 2019. If Jack doesn't find a new way to fuck it up."

Willy Wonka will be the home run of 2019 if Jack doesn't mess up the launch

opinion mixed Ep. 325 · Mar 14, 2019
"And my prediction is we are going to see Willy Wonka first. I don't think we're going to see it at T.P.F. I'm not sure when we're going to see it, but I still think people are going to wait at least four months between reveal to getting the"

Prediction: Willy Wonka will be revealed first, not at TPF, and people will wait at least four months between reveal and getting the game.

hot take mixed Ep. 297 · Jan 3, 2019
"But this rumor about Jersey Jack Pinball and Willy Wonka, I think goes down as one of the dumbest rumors ever... First of all, Jersey Jack Pinball is not going to re-theme a Stern machine. So that's not going to happen."

Willy Wonka retheme rumor is one of dumbest rumors ever - Jersey Jack would never retheme existing games

hot take mixed medium Ep. 184 · Dec 8, 2017
"But besides that that game is fucking stunning stunning. It's beautiful It's absolutely beautiful. It's a work of fucking art If I could get over my version with with the code problems in it"

Willy Wonka is beautiful despite code problems and ugly topper

opinion mixed
"I might have been wrong on Willy Wonka."

Admits potential error in previous Willy Wonka assessment

opinion mixed
"What other game that has come out in the last five years has given you more than this? What other game that you've bought have you applauded and thought was great? What other options do you have?"

Willy Wonka is the best game available in modern pinball

opinion positive

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