Recent reviews by Robert California

I have enjoyed the game a lot, but there are some shortcomings I hope are addressed.

PRO
- Feels authentic, like 2018's Operation Genesis
- Plenty to do with contracts, islands, ratings and more.
- Dinosaur Variety. Takes a while to work through gathering and upgrading all the Dinosaurs
- Island size is just on the verge of manageable, any larger would be out of control
- Beautiful graphics and great performance. Large parks can feel laggy after extended play however restarting tends to bring performance right back to normal.
- Guest behaviour miles ahead of the previous installment. I see a lot of people complaining how "dumb" the guests are and how they preferred them in the old game. I do not think those people have played that game in the last decade. I played it several weeks ago and I am saying now, these guests are so amazing and lifelike in comparison. I'm yet to really find anything wrong with them, to be honest. They flow around your park as you would expect, flee dinosaurs in a natural manner. What more would you want?

Cons
- Although the isalands are just about the right size, it would be nice to have an option for generated/open plan park layouts to really let the creativity flow
- Lacking small decorations
- Vehicle control can be quite poor. Invisible barriers + poor handling. Would be nice to have more freedom in the vehicles.
- No danger to vehicles when inside dinosaur enclosures. A vehicle can just drive right through the velociraptor enclosure without worry.
- No option to walk around the park or have any non-mounted staff. Would be nice to experience the park from ground level and have some park staff in the forms of scientists, workers and containment troopers.
- Large carnivores present very little danger to guests due to their size and slow attack animations. Herbivores are far more dangerous as they knock over great amounts of guests. Carnivores in general should only occcasioanlly have a kill animation in order to help them present a greater danger to large groups of guests. Additionally, carnivores often act uninterested in guests or prey items for exteneded periods of time
- Small dinosaurs smash concrete to escape. It seems riduclous to have a dino as small as a raptor breaking a sheer concrete electrified fence. Dinosaurs such as these should have alternate escape methods such as climbing and or short circuiting gates.

Overall I think it's a great game and the cons mentioned do not interfere with that to any major extent. Many of them are small quality of life changes, with the excetion of requiring a larger open plan creative map. I believe that is incredibly important to the longevity of the game. The dev support appears to be really good, so I believe we should expect to see a fair bit of content as well as a few game updates that may rectify many of the complaints mentioned by myself and others. If you enjoyed JPOG, you will love this. If you are expecting planetcoaster, look elsewhere because this is a completely different game.

The studio's attitude towards developing this game is just embarressing. This game needs to be taken back to early access.

I spent 400 hours playing dress up.


10/10

Is don is good.