Big Ambitions

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Latest in each market: best UK #78, worst JP #97 · 14 markets collected

US · last 30 days

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For every good thing about this game there are like 3 mechanics that don't need to exist, only serve to annoy the player or waste their tame and only add to the end product being worse for no reason. EDIT: So after many hours i don't feel like my original review was clear enough about my issues with this game. It has a lot of great mechanics built into it, I love the customization, the day to day sims like gameplay is great. BUT You have to trudge through a lot of needless inconvenience and just general hostile design to enjoy this game. Shin deep. For a starters in early game you will struggle with parking tickets. If you park wrong you get a fine. So you try to park correctly and ding your car up in the process, you then have to pay $1200 plus $500 tow fee just to fix your car you need to ferry stuff around to your businesses. Then you have to tolerate the constant chest high walls put in place to stop you from setting up your businesses too quickly. For instance to open a clothes store you need -a warehouse. The cheapest one I can find requires an up front fee of over $20,000 -You also need a headquarters for a purchasing agent -after that you need a purchasing agent. -To get a purchasing agent you need to go to one specific hiring agency, wade through the bad options before training up a good option. -Once you get your purchasing agent you need to select an importer. I just had to go through all of them until I found one that actually sells clothes. This alone is a massive chore. why not just have a clothes wholesaler or just let me be my own product agent until I use another one to automate the process? Also the NPC driving is terrible. Not even in a "haha new york drivers bad" sense, more in a "devs couldn't be bothered making a more gradient stopping distance and speed". Instead they drive at full speed and come to a dead stop within an inch of your car. which obviously adds to the fees you have to pay to fix it. At a certain point a lot of players including myself just sell the car. just taxi around and give up on driving completely. If you're a dev reading this, I don't dislike you nor your game but it is annoying as heck.. Yes I recommend it with a great big BUT. It's still only early access and the devs seem to still be updating it now and again I'd like to see them strip away a lot of the chore mechanics just a bit and add more fresh, in-depth customisation, exploration, new types of stores, new building sizes and layouts, also modifying internal walls within stores (if possible) I've heard they're going to add a new district once it leaves early access whether that means new map or extension to the old on I'm very hopeful they'll build on this game. It has a lot of potential even if it does force me to save and exit now and then.