El Dorado Trophy in ZEN Pinball 2

  • El Dorado

     

    Complete all Adventures!

    How to unlock El Dorado

    [Difficulty: Hard]

    This is the hardest trophy for the table which is why it is silver. The first thing you should know is how to change the adventure. If you hit the spinner on the left ramp you will see a light rotating around the circle in the center of the table just above the flippers. This is actually randomly selecting an adventure based on how hard you hit the spinner (like spinning the roulette wheel). Fortunately, unlike the tesla and shaman tables, once you complete an adventure it will not stop on that adventure again until you’ve completed them all. This is good because otherwise you’d have to keep hitting that ramp hoping it landed on the adventure you wanted. The adventure the spinner stops on will remain flashing until you complete it or change the adventure by hitting the spinner again. When you complete an adventure the light turns solid so you know which adventures you’ve completed.

    Starting an adventure is what makes this table pretty tricky, and a bit frustrating (are we sensing a common theme here?). There are two drop targets in front of the idol that you have to hit to open the idol’s mouth. These targets can be hit easily using the right flipper, but the ball usually comes straight back down toward the center drain. I NEVER try to hit these targets without ball save enabled. Take your time, be patient, and this is achievable. Another technique I often used was nudging the table right after hitting the target to try to change the ball’s direction a bit. After hitting both targets, the idol’s mouth will open and you have to shoot the ball in there. It will spit the ball out and then grow further out of the ground exposing a second head. As it’s spitting the ball out I tend to nudge the table left to try to steer the ball away from the center drain if I can. Once again you have to hit the two drop targets in front of it and then get the ball in the idol’s mouth. Finally, after hitting the 2 drop targets and getting the ball in the idol’s mouth a third time, an adventure will begin! All of the adventures are timed unless I say otherwise. I think the time is about 1 minute for each, but I never verified this. The adventures themselves aren’t too tough fortunately, and here they are in detail starting with the top right (skeleton guy image) and continuing clockwise around the circle:

    Conquistador’s Gold You will see a skeleton moving back and forth across the screen. You have to hit him 3 times with the ball and then you should see the tomb light turn on. Hit the ball into the tomb to complete the adventure.

    Snake Pit You have to hit several drop targets that randomly pop up one at a time within 7 seconds. I’m not sure how many you’re allowed to miss before the adventure is failed.

    Plane Crash You need to hit the airplane ramp 3 times to complete this adventure. This is the ramp that leads to that snake statue with the tongue sticking out.

    Log Bridge You have to shoot the ball into the idol’s mouth 3 times without hitting the drop targets that pop up. If you’re good at this shot, this is easy because the drop targets only come into play if you wouldn’t get into the idol’s mouth with that hit anyway. You’re allowed to mess up twice without failing.

    Grave Robbers You have to shoot either the giant ball ramp or the pyramid ramp to decrease the distance to the robbers. They start out at 1000 feet away and each ramp shot subtracts about 600 ft of distance so 2 or 3 shots should complete this adventure. This adventure is not timed, but you can’t let the robbers get to far away or you will fail.

    Wall Climb You have much more time to complete this adventure and it’s actually displayed as a countdown. Your goal should be to hit the upper right bumpers as much as you can and periodically hit the spinner ramp to check your progress (or complete the adventure). Hitting the bumpers climbs the tower and hitting the spinner shoots the grappling hook. When the grappling hook is longer than the distance remaining you complete the adventure.

    Escape! You have to hit 5 drop targets before time runs out. Two of the targets are in front of the idol and the other 3 pop up for the adventure. You actually don’t have a lot of time to do this so make your shots count!

    Labyrinth You have to shoot the ball in either the monument or excavation orbit depending on which is lit. You will have to shoot a total of 4 orbits and you need to memorize the order in which you shot them. After you have shot all 4, you will have to shoot them all again in the exact reverse order. It’s not too hard to remember 4 things so this isn’t too bad.

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