This is such a great game, with all the hilarious video material.... it's just not fun to play. Or rather, it was fun in the beginning and I looked forward to the difficulty slowly ramping up. Unfortunately the difficulty doesnt really increase, not organically at least. It increases by way of artificial irritating stuff such as lightning making some buttons dangerous to press and rampaging toys attacking the signal tower. I endured these, hoping for some more realistic challenges that feel more fitting for a live editing room. Later one of the toys came into the editing room, and same as before I had to listen to the conversations going on and changing the cameras or bleeping explitatives, while also checking the signal tower if toys were climbing it. But at the same time I also had to contend with a toy in the room constantly jumping around, turning off equipment and being a huge nuisance. Then I realised that I wasn't having fun at all, this was just irritating, so I noped out. Really too bad, such a great idea for a game, but it feels like the developers were so afraid that players would find working in an editing room for a live newshoow boring, and maybe some would, but I think it sounds super exciting. Something I have never done before. Unfortunately this game doesn't scratch that itch.
I've played more than 50 hours of this game. After that time I have gotten only 10 tenants and buying a new property takes a lot of time (and the loans are very expensive). My opinion on the game is that it is very fun, a great idea, but it is _extremely_ grindy. Individual jobs give only 2000-4000 usd (in rare cases 5000), and a new property, aside from the very cheap ones, usually cost between 180,000-300,000+ usd. If you take a loan you only postpone the grinding, with the help of a loan (and some grinding) you can buy a few properties, but then you'll be left grinding the same boring jobs for 2000-4000 usd over and over until you get enough to repay the loan. Then you have to grind another 200,000+ so you can buy a new apartment and get some new tenants. So yeah, fun but very very grindy. I feel my motivation with this game waning. I suggest the developer pares down the grind and make the game more enjoyable. I would have been happy playing this game for 20 hours and having fun building my empire. Instead I am forever stuck in the beginning.
