双点博物馆：失落游乐园

It's cute, but it's shockingly busted for how good this game normally is. I recommend it...but it's got problems. Ride has 12 seats on it? You're lucky if the queue allows 4 people on before closing the doors. I've seen the queue doors close and literally cause a guest to get "lost" and bounce out of the area to safety because it closed right on them. No ride is EVER full. I'm watching a ride right now that has 6 guests in line, and an icon over the line noting that they are bored. It's only 6 guests and they are bored. The ride seats 8. But it only has 3 people on it. Once the door opens, only 4 get on. The remaining 4 stay in line and are bored. What is wrong with this? There's huge, huge problems with the coaster tools. They just don't work right. Read my entire thread on it. The game suffers a lot from control problems and control inconsistencies and they're far, far worse here than in any other content. Building a coaster is a nightmare. It's unintuitive in terms of gameplay, too. The goal is to create rides that are thrilling, but also "Ferocious" and "Nauseous". Ferocity makes the ride more appealing but also more scary, and Nausea makes it more likely to make poeple sick and less attractive to people who have a lower threshold. Basically, the higher the percent, the better, but the percentage is also the "chance" a guest won't want to ride. So you'll make more money per rider on a really ferocious ride, but less people will ride overall because it's crazy. Except the rides also attract Thrill Seekers, who aren't bothered by either, so it kinda evens out. Thing is, this means making tracked rides is based on being absolutely insane. Which is fine, it's a silly game series, but if you're coming from ANY other coaster game ever made- including Sim Theme Park, which is the Bullfrog original that this is clearly trying to bring your brain back to- you'll be doing it wrong. The point is to make *bad* rides. They need to go really fast around really painful curves and do incredibly dangerous twists and loops where the coaster's on the outside of the loop even if it's the type of car that'd kill you if you did that. You need to build the coaster that kills people, or it doesn't work. Which is fine, but it feels counter-intuitive to do. Leveling up the rides is really grindy. Similar to how existing exhibits get better as you develop survey levels, you get better versions of blueprints for rides as you explore. But unlike existing exhibits, they go in a set progression order. Normal game- you level up the survey level, and have a higher *maximum* quality you can find. Sending really experienced staff out, completing event requirements, etc can boost the exhibit quality, and skip a step, or outright get you a pristine exhibit without ever seeing the earlier levels. This DLC- The rides are basically the only thing you find at any given POI. You will always find the base ride first, the next step up second, the next step up third, the next step up fourth. There's no way to skip any. So if it has 4 blueprint levels, you need at minimum 4 visits, and you can't bump the survey level up faster than the progression goes, so there's no skipping. It makes seeking things out less strategic and random than other content, and makes it a static "you must repeatedly go to this place to get this one item to its max level" gameplay loop, which is unfortunate. The rides also make a TON of money, and that's with the above problem that they don't even let all the guests in line get on at once. You make a LOT. So the economics of it feels a bit out of whack. It is a fun pack, and it is actually really refreshing to decorate outside. Although that leads into more problems. So much of the game's content is arbitrarily locked to indoors or outdoors only. So half those fences you have unlocked? You can't use them outdoors. The fences you get from this pack? Can't use them indoors. It's two different systems, for absolutely no reason. And yo