Popping a bright green tree down next to a path teeming with grinning cartoon people, having the time of their lives under a clear blue sky while soft guitar strums in the background and a man dressed as a T-Rex makes kids smile … you can’t really do the wrong thing here.Īnything you build will be something good. It’s creative, it’s chill, and the pleasure comes not from the final product, but in each tree, path and building you place down along the way. The point here isn’t to build the biggest or the best theme park, it’s just simply to build. Digital agoraphobia is real in Project Coaster, and you are OK to feel threatened by it.īut I’d also implore you to stick with it, because it doesn’t matter how big the empty spaces are, or how intimidating the build options might be, this game doesn’t care, and neither should you. You’d be forgiven for taking one look at that blank canvas, or at the masterpieces already being made by fans, and just chucking it in. The game is overflowing with options and items, from themed toilet blocks to different varieties of trash cans, and that’s before you realise that in addition to loads of pre-designed buildings, the game also includes countless objects and textures to cobble together your own stuff.
The aspirational theme song, which would normally drive me to murder in any other circumstance, brings a smile within the confines of this experience.Įven the menus are bright and breezy. Like TP and RT, Planet Coaster knows that this is a fun game about people having fun, and so joy is at the heart of everything here. What makes Planet Coaster so good, though, and what sets it apart from even those genre heavyweights, is its excellence in two areas. You build a theme park, you design some roller coasters, you hire janitors, you watch people puke. No twists, no bold new ideas, it’s simply a 2016 take on classics like Theme Park or Roller Coaster Tycoon. Planet Coaster is a theme park management game. It won’t unelect anyone, bring anyone back from the dead or uncook the planet, but it will, for brief shining moments of time, make you forget everything else except the fact you feel very, very good while playing it.
Having a bad day? Week? Year? Planet Coaster is here to help.
0 kommentar(er)
