Pocket Pool Switch NSP Free Download Romslab

Pocket Pool Switch NSP Free Download Romslab It’s going to take a certain kind of self-hating individual to wring any drop of enjoyment out of Eidos’ Pocket Pool. Let’s start with the basics. For one, as a portable pool game, Pocket Pool is terribly underwhelming. It’s got several variations of the game, to be sure, but its mechanics and physics are so wonky and unpleasant that any potential gameplay enjoyment is quickly squashed. But let’s say you’re the masochistic type and are willing to suffer through any amount of bad gameplay to get to what Pocket Pool’s purported prize is: photos and videos of sexy models. Fine, sure, why not? Here’s why not: The unlockables happen to be complete garbage. ROMSLAB.COM Best Switch Games

Pocket Pool Switch NSP Free Download Romslab

These are cut-rate models gyrating and posing in such utterly boring fashion as to make early-’90s swimsuit calendar videos look like Larry Flynt concoctions in comparison. Suffice it to say, Pocket Pool has about zero going for it in any category. The actual mechanics when it comes to playing a game are quite standard. By default, your cue ball has a highlighted targeting beam that shows where it’ll hit another ball, though you can optionally turn on a one-bounce beam as well, showing you where the cue ball will go after it strikes a ball or a table wall. It won’t, however, show you what will happen to the ball you strike, so you’ll have to line up everything by eyesight.

Simple and addictive gameplay

A number of camera modes are available to help you do this, though aside from the down-the-cue and overhead cameras, they’re worthless. One issue that we have with this is that you can’t zoom in on the target ball to get a good look at its lie, which is especially important when it’s right up against a bumper. There’s also an issue with dialing-in your aim. You can only use the D-Pad for aiming, and it can be hard to perfectly line up a shot with a ton of green between you, the ball and the pocket. The physics are also quite suspect. By default, the game is set to the “slow” ball speed, which means that when a ball comes in contact with another, it will stop practically dead in its tracks. Kid Ball Adventure Switch NSP

Pocket Pool Switch NSP Free Download Romslab

This is entirely unrealistic and not much fun. On the other end of the spectrum, the “fast” setting plays like the felt is made of ice. “Medium” is a decent in-between, but you need to set it before each and every game you play. Why is there no main options screen where you would choose this as a default? Balls also bounce in odd manners from time to time, firing off at right angles from the table bumpers. A ball that should careen off at a 45 degree angle may fire straight out from the side and totally screw up a shot. We had one shot where a ball narrowly missed dropping into a pocket and bounced between its angled sections.

50 unique, creative levels.

Let’s get started with the gameplay, or rather the lack thereof. Pocket Pool delivers all the expected variations of pool and even a few new ones I’ve never heard of including Practice, Time Attack (sink 9 balls as fast as you can), Bonus 8 Ball, Classic 8 Ball, 9 Ball, 10 Ball, 15 Ball, Straight Pool, Rotation, Blackjack, Full Snooker, Short Snooker, and Killer.
Since most of these games are two-player you can choose to play a randomly assigned super model or make use of the Wi-Fi Ad-Hoc mode. Of course this assumes you hustled somebody into getting their own copy of the game, in which case you should probably investigate a career as a professional con man. Kingdom Two Crowns Switch

Pocket Pool Switch NSP Free Download Romslab

Shockingly, there is no support for passing the PSP back and forth, which means that each and every person on the design team needs to be beaten repeatedly with a cue stick. Bring on the bar sluts…err…super models. No disrespect to the girls who posed for this game…I’m sure you all had rent to pay, but you should really get a new pimp…err…agent. There are 20 hot women who decorate the various menus and setup screens. During the game you will be graced with a single headshot for whichever girl you end up playing. There is a 20+ page gallery that will display additional photos and movies of these women in various states of undress, assuming you can tolerate the shoddy gameplay long enough to unlock any of them.

Multiplayer for up to 4 players on one console.

There are also five stereotypical guy characters, obviously played by members of the production staff, giving the entire game a “Beauty and the Geek” vibe…not that I watch that show…often. These guys talk as much smack as the girls talk smut. Sadly, their vocal repertoire is as repetitive as their cheesy mug shots. Despite my advanced standing as a local pool shark I figured I’d take the tutorial for a spin just to see how this particular game wanted me to play pool on the PSP. I was greeted by Isabelle, who was taking some time off from working the 976-SEX-MEUP hot line. Her sultry voice nearly melted my PSP and made me feel just a bit naughty for playing this game.

Pocket Pool Switch NSP Free Download Romslab

Then she started going overboard with double entrandes and it just got so silly and I couldn’t stop laughing. Use the up and down buttons to raise and lower your stick…OH! I see yours is already “raised”. Or the classic, Oh, you look like you are about ready to shoot, followed by directions on how to make a shot followed by, doesn’t that feel better. But rather than bouncing a few times before stopping right near the hole, the ball actually shot out of the hole at a completely unrealistic angle and left our ball in the middle of the table. Argh. In addition to these faults, there are a number of other presentation issues with Pocket Pool. Icons that represent your player’s head and the angle of your shot (who cares?) fill up the lower left and right-hand corners. Kirby’s Dream Buffet Switch NSP

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