A ball ricochets, a Pokémon appears, and you want to launch again to catch one more.

The profile sketches a game honest about what it is. Fun, that criterion of the session that drags on, places it ahead of 68% of titles, its best line and a logical one for a pinball game that turns catching into an obsession. Elsewhere it dips: attachment and controller feel slide below average, around the lower third, and the art style falls further still, ahead of barely a fifth of games. Each of those lines rests on a single vote though, so the early returns suggest a trend more than they settle it.

Against pinball and arcade games, this one has a unique pitch, the Pokédex grafted onto the table. But on criteria built for emotion or visual signature, a 1999 Game Boy Color game starts with a handicap that has nothing to do with its quality as a pinball machine.

So, who is it for? For you if you love short, twitchy loops, aim, catch, start over. Much less if you want a game that marks you with its mood or its feel.