Recent reviews by xiiliea

Really enjoyed this. Satisfied my craving for more single player air combat games which are unfortunately hard to find.
However, a con I would like to point out is that the missions aren't that out of the ordinary. Ace Combat 7, for instance, has nail-biting scenarios like one which requires you to fly through narrow valleys, and the crazy ending where you had to fly through a tunnel. There was nothing as exciting in this. Everything was just... very normal. There was nothing that made me go "Holycrap, did I just do this?"
The atmosphere was quite good though. Especially coupled with the music. The part where the Peacekeepers first appeared had the best atmosphere and felt so menacing.

Bridge building simulator on a frozen lake

My finger...

Cute and fun puzzle game, although some of the puzzles were honestly way too hard to solve without googling.. I mean, you could keep trying for hours and even maybe run out of time and need to restart the game all over, but that would be so frustrating, so I just couldn't be bothered. I'm so happy to be able to finally finish one of my childhood games that I wasn't able to finish as a kid.

The game crashed when I finished Pluto when the cutscene finished playing, which nearly gave me a heart attack, but thankfully it autosaved and I was able to immediately continue back to Earth after rebooting.

There are a few interesting new items, but I wouldn't use them. Who wants to zoom off a ramp and land in goodness knows where? Also, game is as sluggish as before, doing anything requires a long animation which you have to skip, but that also takes a few seconds to do so. And I was crashing nonstop at Timefall Farm until I realized walking through the tall grass was what was crashing the game.

Help... I can't stop playing it...

It's just so fun building stuff in this game. I only wish the periodic events weren't so annoying. And iron mining is so boring.

This wasn't the game I hoped it would be. I was excited about building a large zoo empire and designing it. Instead, it ended up a game of micromanaging hell where I can't even get past 4-5 habitats without getting overwhelmed with animal births and deaths, and juggling of which animals to release/sell. I know I can play without animal deaths in sandbox, but that takes away all challenges and the economic aspect of the game.

I had so much fun playing it. The story was touching and great and gameplay was quite fun too. I didn't encounter any bugs, just some minor typos. And the music was amazing.

Great game. Much excitement. Very story. So crash.

The usual fun Tropico experience. I like all the new buildings and the campaign.

However, several downsides:
- The manager system is really cumbersome because citizens die eventually and then I have to keep reassigning new ones one by one. Especially when my population increases and there's no end to unassigned managers.
- Mining/oil resources are unreliable because they deplete too fast. I now try not to rely on them because they give the illusion of a good economy, and when they run out everything goes into the red.
- Because of the mining/oil problem, power plants are unreliable as well since your resources eventually dry up and it's super expensive to import them, plus you have to keep refreshing the trade routes, and there's no guarantee you'll get the same trade route anyway, and wind farms are pretty bad space-wise and cost-wise and efficiency-wise. If I recall, wind farms were rather tiny in the earlier Tropicos.
-It's always a challenge to find jobs for uneducated workers. Farms take up massive spaces and hydroponic farms require high school workers, so when you get to end game, there are very little jobs to offer to them than just spam farms. I guess hotels could work, but my hotels always end up half empty which drains a lot of money.

I'd give it a 7/10.