Download page: Shovel Knight (original 2017) by wizball
This original design by wizball (also known on Twitch as DonkeyKlonk) is a '90s-styled table with approximately modern rules depth, which reflects its source material of Shovel Knight, a retro-styled game with modern gameplay quality.
One implication of using the Shovel Knight theme is that you get really great music by Jake Kaufman (Virt). Another implication is that there are no callouts. Callouts are already hard in an original pinball table, but what would Shovel Knight's voice even sound like? Don't worry about it, just enjoy the music.
With no callouts and a small retro-styled alphanumeric display, the table doesn't have a lot of ways to communicate what's going on. And a lot can be going on, because the table lets you stack modes, achieving multiple goals at the same time.
It makes great use of what it does have: color-coded lit shots.
If you don't know what to do on the table, shoot the lit shots and you're probably doing well. That's what I did when I played it, and in one game, something remarkable happened: I started the wizard mode, and then (though I couldn't tell at the time with everything else going on) I started another wizard mode during the wizard mode.
"You can just stack modes" is the theme of the gameplay, and it does not compromise on that ever. It was beautiful.
If I have one objection to the gameplay, it's that too often the ball will go to the upper playfield when there's nothing to particularly shoot for on the upper playfield, just a combo shot that can time out and leave you with actually no reason to be there.