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Blooming Business Casion (First Impressions)

1K View2023-05-23

Released: May 23rd, 2023

Price: $25 USD

Have you ever wished to sit back, relax, and manage your own business in a more effective and objective manner, rather than endlessly playing a Tycoon game? Personally, I dislike management games because they frequently repeat themselves. Load a game, begin managing, and watch the numbers slowly go up. Usually with only a handful of things to do besides fail and succeed, or succeed and play indefinitely, expanding over time into a big corporate chain.

I can see the appeal of this genre, just as I can see the appeal of clicker games. You have a goal, you achieve that goal, you continue until the goals are complete, but each goal is further away than the previous one, which means you'll have to put in hours to complete a game's achievements, a basic time sink.

Presentation

Simplistic

From what I've seen thus far of what the game has to offer, both visually and musically. It's all really easy to grasp. The graphics are neat and clean, while the music could do with a little bit of a tone down to be a bit more relaxing and perhaps a little bit of diverse, but the underlying game mechanics can be rough.

Complex Objectives

Initially, I thought this game would be nothing more than a set up shop type of game, in which you build up an empire of Casino locations that you manage, but it is more along the lines of a stage by stage objective game, in which you are given an handful of objectives with limited space and funds, with the goal of completing the stages in a timely and effective manner before you bankrupt.

Gameplay

So far alright

The game's objectives are rather straightforward. It is not empty nor is it in its search for your imagination to continue the game. You are assigned objectives, and you must meet those objectives in order to progress through each level.

So far in the tutorials, it appears to be a stage-by-stage element, so we'll have to wait and see if this style of gameplay persists or evolves into something else.

You can pretty much whatever you want, so long as you eventually meet the mission in question, or until you end up running out of money, then you fail. You can if you wish, stay behind and keep playing the same level indefinitely.

Issues

A few crashes

The game doesn't save very frequently, so if you crash like I did, you'll lose a lot of your progress toward your objectives unless you manually save frequently after building up a fair collection of activities for your clients.

I had to redo half of a stage because I was attempting to disable some of the warning prompts by right-clicking them after I had met their requirements.

Warnings

While it may not be a problem, having to manually toggle off alerts once they surface and you answer them swiftly is an annoyance. I do like that the game continuously tells me what is wrong so that the problems can be fixed, but I also don't like having to handle it manually. I believe it would be preferable if the game automatically removed the warnings, exactly as it does when they add them.

I'm not sure if the Casino's customers are still thirsty, so that I can remove the warning. I believe the game is a little too complicated because of this. Tell me has the problem has been rectified? The player should not have to scroll through hundreds of models to discover the ones with the thirst, fatigued, and other effects icon. But this could just be how the game wants you to play.

The main problem being the crashes have all been due to removing warnings.

Conclusions

Understanding

While I believe I understand the game, this is one of those games that will take a few hours to fully grasp the inner workings of how to appeal to customers while avoiding others with their likes and dislikes, because most of these goals feature you trying to make them happy, you can't have conflicting things like a Tiki Torch at the entrance when one person hates it, while another likes it. It needs balance.

I enjoy how the look is pleasant and welcoming rather than overly realistic or boring. It's more enticing, especially since everyone and everything is geared at these cute andromorphic animals. I believe the appeal would be less if they took on a more human like approach with their designs, but that's an opinion.

I'll be following up with a more in-depth review in the next few days, while I am having a bit of fun. I'm also having a bit of a struggle trying to manage all of it. The casino, the payments, the crashes, the warnings. It may get better over time.

My initial thoughts on this game come to a close with the caveat that, while others may disagree, that is what makes gamers unique. You don't have to share their interests or agree with them and are welcome to critic me on mine.

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- Pawkt

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