Posted on: March 15, 2021
johannesaquila
Games: Reviews: 6
Interface and tutorial from hell
I just realized that for some reason, all the catastrophic reviews of this game are associated with the main game only, even though the full game is affected just as much. Instead of copying my full review, I will rephrase it: - The user interface is horrifically poor. I was unable to figure out on my own to do even the most basic things. - There is no real documentation. - The tutorial is so extremely poor that it feels like it must be the result of intentional sabotage combined with a complete lack of quality control. Here are the main things wrong with the tutorial: - It is absolutely essential for playing the game because it seems impossible to figure out almost anything without it. - It is 100% linear with no saving. - It starts with basic details like camera movement for which most people wouldn't actually need it. - Nothing can be skipped. Each time you restart the tutorial, you must suffer again through everything you have just done successfully before being kicked out. - Each time you make a mistake because the tutorial's instructions were wrong or misleading, you are likely to run out of money. At this point you must restart the tutorial -- or just delete the game. - 15 minutes or so into the tutorial, at a point when you can build bus lines and tram lines, you are asked to build a metro line. It's a lot more tricky to do this, and so expensive that I *almost* managed this only a single time. Only to run out of money while trying to add actual trains to it. WTF? If you read the reviews for the main game, you will see that others also report being unable to complete the tutorial (all failing at the metro line) and totally frustrated with the game. Apparently some people don't have these problems, but this is a mystery to me. Did they get a different version?
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