Texas Chainsaw Massacre Pinball Gameplay Just Dropped!!

Cary Hardy·video·5m 41s·analyzed·Dec 11, 2023

Analysis

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TL;DR

TCM gameplay video showcases deep coding, complex shots, and creative modes; Spooky's most coded release.

Summary

Cary Hardy reviews Spooky Pinball's official Texas Chainsaw Massacre gameplay video, praising the game's deep coding, complex layout with many shots, and creative modes like Blood Suck that make gameplay feel satisfying. Hardy notes TCM is Spooky's most coded release to date, more complete at launch than Scooby, and highlights the unique design choice of playing as the killers rather than victims.

Key Claims

Texas Chainsaw Massacre is the most coded game Spooky Pinball has released to date
high confidence · Stated in Spooky's official gameplay video; Hardy emphasizes this as significant
TCM is more complete at launch than Scooby was on its original launch date
high confidence · Stated in Spooky's official gameplay video according to Hardy
Ben Heck is likely the primary code designer for TCM based on repeated mentions in the video
medium confidence · Hardy's inference from Spooky's gameplay video mentioning Ben frequently
TCM has an obtuse (complex/unconventional) layout with repeatable loop shots
high confidence · Direct observation from 32-minute gameplay footage
The player controls the killers/bad guys in TCM rather than avoiding or hunting them
high confidence · Confirmed in Spooky's official gameplay video; Hardy notes this as unexpected design choice

Notable Quotes

“This is the most coded game to date that they are releasing. This game is more close to being complete than Scooby was on its original launch date.”
Spooky Pinball (per gameplay video)@ 1:34 — Confirms TCM's advanced development state and coding depth relative to prior Spooky releases
“For those of you that want deep code and a lot to do, for those of us that like the feel of certain particular shots and that kinetic satisfaction and being able to make these particular shots and loop around repeatable loop shots, there's a lot of things in this layout that are really tickling parts of me that I enjoy about pinball.”
Cary Hardy@ 2:15 — Hardy's positive assessment of TCM's gameplay depth and shot design philosophy
“The blood literally fills the play field and as you're draining it it's coming down and down and down and down and down until it's all the way at the bottom really really fun freaking mode”
Cary Hardy@ 3:43 — Highlights creative visual/mechanical integration in Blood Suck mode design
“You play as the bad guys in this game so that's different that's unexpected. So whenever I first heard that it was going to be Texas Chainsaw Massacre... my original thinking was like oh you're going to look out for the Texas Chainsaw Leatherface or whatever and avoid them... but no they have gone a different route you have to seek out people and kill them that's awesome because it's also unexpected so I like that.”
Cary Hardy@ 3:58 — Emphasizes TCM's unconventional role reversal theme and how it subverts expectations
“The way you guys have like put this game together the visuals and everything like that including the visuals on screen to start these particular multi ball modes they have made the pinball machine look sound a lot better than the movie”

Entities

Cary HardypersonSpooky PinballcompanyTexas Chainsaw Massacregame Looney Tunesgame Ben HeckpersonScoobygame

Signals

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sentiment_shift: Positive reception to TCM's gameplay mechanics, shot design, and creative mode implementation from established pinball content creator
high · Hardy repeatedly expresses satisfaction with layout complexity, loop shots, mode creativity, and overall execution
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design_philosophy: TCM employs unconventional role-reversal theme (player controls killers) subverting expectations of typical horror game mechanics
high · Hardy explicitly notes surprise and approval of playing as bad guys rather than avoiding/hunting them; positions this as deliberate design choice
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market_signal: TCM positioned as significantly more feature-complete at launch than prior Spooky releases, suggesting improved development process or extended development timeline
high · Official statement in video that TCM is most coded game to date and more complete than Scooby at launch
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announcement: Spooky Pinball released official 32-minute gameplay video for Texas Chainsaw Massacre, demonstrating game completeness and depth
high · Hardy watched and reviewed the full official Spooky Pinball gameplay video posted immediately after his dual game overview
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product_concern: Limited visibility of multiball locking system mechanics in official gameplay video
medium · Hardy notes Spooky's video only showed 1-2 ball locks and didn't fully demonstrate the back panel locking mechanism

Topics

TCM gameplay depth and code complexityprimaryMode design and creative mechanics (Blood Suck, Feed Grandpa modes)primaryShot layout complexity and repeatable loop shotsprimaryTCM's thematic approach (player as killer, not victim)primarySpooky Pinball's development quality and launch readinesssecondaryComparison of Looney Tunes and TCM as dual releasessecondary

Sentiment

positive(0.82)— Hardy expresses enthusiasm for TCM's gameplay design, complexity, and creative mode mechanics. Minor disappointment regarding limited multiball locking footage, but overall assessment is highly favorable. Anticipatory tone regarding Looney Tunes gameplay reveal.

Transcript

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literally like five minutes after I post my video going over both Looney Tunes and TCM Spooky Pinball posts their video showing off gameplay footage for TCM so I guess we'll talk about that real quick what's up guys and welcome back to my channel where I talk and do everything pinball and a special thank you to the over 8800 of you down there that have hit the subscribe button so like i said merely five minutes after i shared my recent 20 minute video talking about looney tunes and texas chainsaw massacre we get a full 30 minute streaming quality kind of setup showing off the gameplay for their newest release and i was like really so i decided to watch that video in its entirety all 32 minutes of it and just kind of give you my real quick thoughts of what i think about the game and how it shoots and obviously i will have a link in the video description that way you can watch it too i mean the first like seven minutes of this is uh corman going over the layout like over all the shots all the different shots and where you can go and how to start this and how to start that and all the different flippers and what all they can hit It took over seven minutes for him to go through all that So that kind of gives you an idea of how many shots and what all you can do in this game As stated in this video, this is the most coded game to date that they are releasing. This game is more close to being complete than Scooby was on its original launch date. so knowing that they have got all this work and effort into it and i'm guessing uh ben heck is the one that's doing a lot of the coding for this game because he keeps mentioning ben so uh from what i can see so far i love what i'm seeing it looks like for those of you that want deep code and a lot to do you've got it for those of us that like the feel of certain particular shots and that kinetic satisfaction and being able to make these particular combo shots and loop around repeatable loop shots there's a lot of things in this layout that are really tickling parts of me that i enjoy about pinball and part of that is obviously the obtuse layout the mechs and the repeatable loop shots i'm loving that sadly we didn't get a good visual of the multiball locking system on the back panel he tried didn succeed i think he only locked maybe one or two balls up there but we didn get to see that But he did get to show off a good amount of the modes One in particular was the feed grandpa mode that he was pretty excited about. I'll put a little bit of it right here, that way you can kind of get a good idea of how it's coded. Make it happen. The blood suck mode. I alerted to this online in a live stream. All right, so you're going to see the whole playfield here is going to fill up with blood. The whole playfield's red. You're draining the blood out of your victim here. So every single shot you're hitting is draining blood. Now, as you drain the blood, the amount of shots you can hit to continue draining blood will get less and less. So, like, the blood is lower than those upper ramp shots now. so if I hit those upper ramps it's not going to keep draining blood shoot I really wanted to get all the way through that so the blood literally fills the play field and as you're draining it it's coming down and down and down and down and down until it's all the way at the bottom really really fun freaking mode and that's definitely something I forgot to mention on my previous video is that you play as the bad guys in this game so that's different that's was unexpected so whenever I first heard that it was going to be Texas Chainsaw Massacre And obviously I didn have the movie at that time with me to know the knowledge of it and everything but my original thinking was like oh you got to look out for the Texas Chainsaw Leatherface or whatever and avoid them and stuff like that or find them can be like Halloween or something but no they have gone a different route you have to seek out people and kill them that's awesome because it's also unexpected so I like that also the way you guys have like put this game together the visuals and everything like that including the visuals on screen to start these particular multiball modes they have made the pinball machine look sound a lot better than the movie you know you have the the book people that love the book but then they say that the movie is nowhere near as good as the book or vice versa it's like that you've got the movie but the movie is nowhere near as good as the pinball machine that's where we're at with this particular thing like i said link in the video description down below if you would like to watch the 32 minute video stream and i am really looking forward to seeing the looney tunes gameplay i mean obviously the gameplay is going to be pretty similar, but how it's coded and what all it sounds like and stuff like that, that should be pretty interesting.