Simcity
Prologue
As a kid, I used to play with Legos. And one thing I used to do was build a big Lego city. Sure I already said on my Minecraft review that Minecraft has some elements I liked with Legos. But unless you have a million users in your map, there's no city without people living in there. So with that kind of aspect I think Simcity is a fine substitute. Building your own city, watching it grow, this is something I find it appealing. In fact, It was SOOOOOOO appealing I got attached to the game. If you wonder what took me so long to write a review for so damn long, I can say this: That's how much I've been playing it!!! If I compare this to a game it feels like Starcraft, which I believe I did a review of it as well. Building your objects and make an army. But in Simcity, no army.
Gameplay
It's a simulator game. A city mayor simulator to be exact. Or come to think of it, it's more like a GOD simulator. Sure it is a mayors job to decide whether you wanna build something here, pave roads, put a FOOTBALL FIELD RIGHT NEXT TO A NUCLEAR PLANT, CONTROL THE FUCKING DISASTERS THAT HAPPEN TO YOUR CITY!!! What kind of mayor does that??? Well anyway, as I already said, you can basically do anything! But there are some rules. First off, you need to use your money wisely. Just like real life, you can do stuff within range of your budget. Build 4 airports at the beginning and you're fucked! Second, the people can be sensitive with literally EVERYTHING! Crime rate, pollution, tax, they just get you on every subject they can find. You need PD(Police Department) to reduce crime. But you also need money and land to build one. But then it increases pollution and reduces your budget. So you need to get money by raising taxes. But then they complain that the tax rate is too high. HOLY FUCKING SHIT! If you have a shitty mayor, do me a favor and understand him. If you played this game without cheating, you know the kind of stress a mayor gets. And there are tips and guides for this game. So reading those would be fine. But my advice is "play it by yourself and learn by trial and error". Often accidents happen to your city(or town or capital depending on how big your city is). Sure you can make your own accidents purposely (if you happened to be a sadistic psychopath)but these happen regardless of your own will. So taking care of this is necessary. And every once in a while you can build special things like a casino, amusement park, PD headquarters, windmills, and so on.
Money cheat
But there is one way you can have fun with this game for REAL! The money code. With this cheat, you can get 999999$. Wait till it's December, when the tax screen appears, you hold L and leave. Go back to the tax screen, put everything up to 100%, leave the tax screen, let go of L and Tada! By the way, you need to have exactly 0$ to do this. Now have fun! I guess the concept of this cheat is that you found fossil fuel. So you became a Saudi Arabian prince or something. Now with all this money, you can put the tax rate to 0%, build as many things as you please. I just build anything I want and then fill the rest with parks. And if I wanna build something else, just build it and cover the space with parks again. But still it's best you build your city in the most efficient way as possible because you'll eventually run out of space.
Conclusion
Honestly, like most simulator games, it has mixed opinions. At least for me, I enjoy this kind of stuff. So I'd recommend it to anyone who likes to run their own city. You might even play it for months if you get attached to it. If you're not the kind of person who enjoys running a city or a company or whatever, you might find this game pretty boring. But still one of the best games on the SNES.
Next review will be Cho'Gath eats the World. Don't know what the hell it is? Check it out on the internet.
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