{"id":440,"date":"2013-05-11T20:45:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T00:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/blog\/?p=440"},"modified":"2016-01-20T20:48:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T01:48:10","slug":"zen-pinball-2-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/11\/zen-pinball-2-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Zen Pinball 2 &#8211; Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is essentially a follow-up to my first blog entry about Zen Pinball 2. I bought the Mars table tonight, for $2.99 plus tax. I&#8217;ve tried most of the tables in Zen Pinball 2, and Mars was my favorite. Not only is it fun to play, but it&#8217;s visually appealing and has some pretty good music too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/zen-mars.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-441\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-441\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/zen-mars.jpg\" alt=\"Zen Pinball 2 - Mars screenshot Wii U\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/zen-mars.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/zen-mars-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>I played a few games of it tonight, and did okay, but not great. I probably need to look into the documentation to see if it says what targets do what (in terms of the missions), so I can adjust my strategy to fit the goals. Either that or just keep playing and learn as I go.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There did seem to be a problem listing the online rankings though. When I tried to view them, it just said &#8220;Please wait while connecting to the Ranking server&#8221; and never moved past that screen. I&#8217;ll have to assume there was a temporary problem with their server, because my connection was working fine; I was able to buy and download the table after all. I&#8217;ll try it again another day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m also still playing Batman: Arkham City, though admittedly not as much since I got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/newleafblog\/\">Animal Crossing: New Leaf<\/a>. There are still so many things to collect in the game, it&#8217;s overwhelming. I&#8217;ve already decided that I&#8217;m not going for 100%, but I&#8217;m still far from done. I have beaten the Haley Quinn&#8217;s Revenge scenario (though I didn&#8217;t find all of her balloons), but I&#8217;m focusing on collecting Riddler trophies and destroying the security cameras in the main Batman mode for now. My overall percentage is currently at 60%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/batman60pct.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-442\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-442\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/batman60pct.jpg\" alt=\"batman60pct\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/batman60pct.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/batman60pct-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is essentially a follow-up to my first blog entry about Zen Pinball 2. I bought the Mars table tonight, for $2.99 plus tax. I&#8217;ve tried most of the tables in Zen Pinball 2, and Mars was my favorite. 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