Posted on: February 22, 2022
Thar
验证所有者游戏: 235 评论: 15
Grand idea but execution falls short
Suzerain drawn my interest right when it was release. As someone very interested in politics, the ability to play as president of fictional, but very fleshed out country in alternative 1950s was something straight from my dreams! Unfortunately, it doesn't really deliver. The game isn't really a sim - it's more like very well-crafted visual novel. Decisions and events are mostly driven by dialogue with other characters. This is where Suzerain shines - NPCs are well written and fictional is really deep. The game contains a codex with articles on every important place or person, so you can read about them in reasonable detail. There are few contrivances in the setting, but nothing too big. Up until the last chapter, the game feels good to great. The political landscape is quite deep, you have to navigate many conflicting interests. Sometimes you fail and you need to learn to pick your battles. 3 years of presidency in and my country was on right track, with balanced budget and good economy. But then my finance minister suddenly tells me that the GDP has fallen and the debt magically increased! The country is actually in an economic depression of magnitude unheard of in history. Wait, what? Wasn't it a steady recovery just a moment ago? I suspect it deteriorated because of sudden country-wide protests that were somehow spun by two minor radical organizations, which I had no reasonable means to avoid, but why their impact is so big to destroy the economy in a matter of months? It left me disappointed to the extreme. From the look of it, the game simply proved too ambitious for the studio to finish properly. I can see how there must be huge amount of variables and flags beneath the surface, and juggling them out to present a coherent story would be very hard even for larger studios. But it doesn't change the fact that this effort simply didn't succeed. Maybe someday there will be an ultimate political game, but Suzerain isn't it and I don't give points for trying.
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