I was in high school when I heard about this game and I started playing it right away. I find the game both simple and challenging in many different aspects. The style of play is simple enough to understand but you need to do a lot of familiarizing if you want to be able to find locations easier. Sailing is something I find boring because of the lengthy voyage but then again, that's a pirate's life. Trading for goods is also a nice way of using the storage haul of your ship/s but I prefer taking it from other ships because it pays well ( :D ) Treasure hunting is easy if you can follow the map correctly. Having options of being incredibly loyal to your first choice of voyage or being something else makes the game interesting although it's hard to maintain your neutral state especially when you want to ransack colonies. The only trouble I ever had is by the time I needed to search for an Incan temple near Gran Granada but that's about it. It's also nice that you have the capability of switching game difficulty after dividing the plunder. The daughters of governors and all and trying to dance with them is nice for me too especially when they start giving me favors. I remember back then being able to find all my family members but now that I've installed this again after many years, I can't seem to get pass aging and I can't find all of them in time, I may need more practice. 5 stars for such a throwback game. Nice one.
