{"id":790961,"date":"2025-12-03T13:24:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqf4BdeMtmAbFqDHxfnM4b"},"modified":"2025-12-03T13:24:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:24:53","slug":"i-never-liked-bullet-hell-shooters-until-xenotilt-put-one-inside-my-new-favourite-pinball-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/i-never-liked-bullet-hell-shooters-until-xenotilt-put-one-inside-my-new-favourite-pinball-table\/","title":{"rendered":"I never liked bullet hell shooters, until Xenotilt put one inside my new favourite pinball table"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>I don\u2019t consider myself a pinball purist, but I\u2019ve been burnt enough by attempts to mix pinball with other genres to be somewhat cautious. You don\u2019t live through <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Mf-XisiuB7s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Odama, an absolutely bizarre attempt to mix pinball and RTS that had to be played with voice controls<\/a>, without wishing that developers would just leave lovely old pinball alone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But then something like Xenotilt comes along. Xenotilt is so good it\u2019s even distracted me from my <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/balatro-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Balatro<\/a> obsession. It mixes pinball with bullet hell sci-fi shoot-\u2019em-ups, and this self-described \u2018hostile pinball action\u2019 game has pretty much ruined normal pinball for me. Although to be fair, it has about as much in common with a normal pinball table as I do.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If the Xenotilt pinball machine existed in real life you\u2019d need to be nine feet tall with a spare pair of eyes in your neck to be any good at it. Because it\u2019s really three pinball tables stacked on top of each other, with a boss monster ruling over each one. These include an angry android cat that\u2019s also a blackjack dealer, a furious Shodan-a-like at the top of the table who also serves as the game\u2019s cutting commentator, and another cyberlady with cleavage that makes me a little embarrassed to be writing about this game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"YiVETx4YTHPcQNLxCSHCvH\" name=\"Screenshot (18).png\" alt=\"A sci-fi pinball table in Xenotilt.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/i-never-liked-bullet-hell-shooters-until-xenotilt-put-one-inside-my-new-favourite-pinball-table.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: WIZNWAR, FLARB LLC)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If that last run-on sentence felt overwhelming and nonsensical then just try playing it. In motion, Xenotilt is a gorgeous riot of colours, detonations, multiballs, gunfire, pained shrieks, and barks (which vary from \u201cimpressive!\u201d to \u201cUGH! HOW DARE YOU?!\u201d). It only ever really pauses for breath when it\u2019s teleporting you to another table, sometimes for a break to play an explosive game of billiards for some reason. Like a dolphin beached by an exploding fireworks factory, you\u2019ll likely spend your first few games just desperately waving your flippers as you try to figure out what the hell is going on.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily the basic principles of pinball will see you through the early confusion: hitting things with ball is good and ball falling in hole at bottom is bad. After 65 hours of play, I understand <em>most <\/em>of its jargon and how to achieve the biggest scores. But I\u2019ve enjoyed it from hour one because I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever met anything more satisfying to slam a pinball against than a giant angry face that hates me. On glorious impact, these bosses flash, sometimes they bark, and often they look incredibly offended that a mere pinball <em>dare <\/em>strike them. The not-Shodan lady at the very top loses more artificial skin with every wallop, revealing the furious Terminator head lurking just under the surface. Naturally these bosses then counterattack, usually by spraying waves of bullets and swarms of smaller enemies everywhere, all increasing the chances of your tiny little ball taking a fatal bounce into that gap at the bottom.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"hFx6YdT34SvEdkmRrX2XsP\" name=\"Screenshot (17).png\" alt=\"A billiards minigame in Xenotilt.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/i-never-liked-bullet-hell-shooters-until-xenotilt-put-one-inside-my-new-favourite-pinball-table-1.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: WIZNWAR, FLARB LLC)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When you down a boss, they explode (it would be quicker to list all the things in Xenotilt that don\u2019t explode).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>So why not fire right back? As long as you\u2019ve collected enough ammo on your trips around the table, you can trigger a pair of turrets by stopping the ball so it rests in the flipper and pressing down (which is also a clever way of making you rethink a \u2018just smack the pinball away as quickly as possible\u2019 approach). These turrets make quick work of the underlings the bosses throw at you and add yet more chaos to the table. \u2018Pinball with guns\u2019 sounds like the kind of sweaty elevator pitch you make when you\u2019re on the verge of jumping from the top floor, but now I struggle to imagine pinball without a pair of bullet-spraying turrets backing me up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Best of all, when you down a boss, they explode (it would be quicker to list all the things in Xenotilt that <em>don\u2019t <\/em>explode) and leave behind a big red sphere. You need to activate your guns ASAP so this sphere can be riddled with bullets and destroyed before it flies away. This is worth a million points and is called a \u2018Core Overkill\u2019 because every name in Xenotilt is ridiculously metal. I love this! Why don\u2019t more games reward you for spitting on the boss&apos; grave? It\u2019s like celebrating downing an Elden Ring monstrosity by quickly stuffing their corpse with dynamite <em>and <\/em>getting a prize for doing so.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"EUiTg7wrUt3fThY7EMW2mY\" name=\"Screenshot (12).png\" alt=\"An android monster woman looking over a pinball table in Xenotilt.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/i-never-liked-bullet-hell-shooters-until-xenotilt-put-one-inside-my-new-favourite-pinball-table-2.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: WIZNWAR, FLARB LLC)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What I love about Xenotilt is how gleefully disrespectful of pinball it is.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>You get chances to \u2018lock\u2019 the ball in a 9&#215;9 grid that saves it for one of the game\u2019s many multiball opportunities. That\u2019s a pinball standard, but each entry on the grid also gives you a power to choose from, like \u2018Ammo Doubler\u2019 or the near-essential \u2018Piercing Shot\u2019 that lets your pinball smash through all the bullets unheeded. \u2018Pinball\u2026 with a skill tree!\u2019 makes that pinball with guns pitch look borderline dignified, but I like the layer of strategy it adds. I\u2019m a little less sold on the NPCs that you occasionally rescue while playing. Between games, you can use earned currency you find to unlock these NPCs (you can have up to 12 in play), giving you advantages on the table like multiplier bonuses or stopping one boss from being able to throw your ball around. There\u2019s potential for some interesting trade-offs here, but I\u2019m never a fan of overcoming a challenge in a game by just switching it off in a menu.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, perhaps I\u2019m still stuck in an old-school pinballers mindset, when what I love about Xenotilt is how gleefully disrespectful of pinball it is. This comes to us from the developers of <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/demons-tilt-is-an-insane-80s-metal-album-cover-x-bullet-hell-x-pinball-crossover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Demon\u2019s Tilt<\/a>, which was less sci-fi and more like a heavy metal album cover come to life. It was definitely the lesser game, and not just because I suspect our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ would be unlikely to enjoy it. Demon\u2019s Tilt didn\u2019t have the guns. Which means it didn\u2019t have those magical moments where a boss is throwing everything it has at me and I turn the tables by returning fire on its underlings and then smacking it triumphantly in the noggin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How about the developers try mashing up pinball with a rhythm game next? Or a soulslike? Or even a farming simulator? Right now, all I want is for this studio to keep making bizarre pinball game hybrids forever.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>The writer of this article wishes to confess that they\u2019ve never played Odama and is currently searching for a copy and a GameCube microphone on eBay. We wish them the best of luck.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/action\/i-never-liked-bullet-hell-shooters-until-xenotilt-put-one-inside-my-new-favourite-pinball-table\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t consider myself a pinball purist, but I\u2019ve been burnt enough by attempts to mix pinball with other genres to be somewhat cautious. You don\u2019t live through Odama, an absolutely bizarre attempt to mix pinball and RTS that had to be played with voice controls, without wishing that developers would just leave lovely old pinball alone.\u00a0 But then something like Xenotilt comes along. Xenotilt is so good it\u2019s even distracted me from my Balatro obsession. It mixes pinball with bullet hell sci-fi shoot-\u2019em-ups, and this self-described \u2018hostile pinball action\u2019 game has pretty much ruined normal pinball for me. Although to be fair, it has about as much in common with a normal pinball table as I do.\u00a0 If the Xenotilt pinball machine existed in&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/i-never-liked-bullet-hell-shooters-until-xenotilt-put-one-inside-my-new-favourite-pinball-table\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":790962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[23,748],"class_list":["post-790961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-action","tag-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I never liked bullet hell shooters, until Xenotilt put one inside my new favourite pinball table | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I don\u2019t consider myself a pinball purist, but I\u2019ve been burnt enough by attempts to mix pinball with other genres to be somewhat cautious. 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