5/18/2023 0 Comments Planet coaster![]() ![]() ![]() There is little critical thinking required when managing the park. Not making enough money? Cut back research and charge a bit more for each ride or entry. Too much litter and vomit? Add more custodians and trash bins. It’s not particularly difficult to manage a successful park every problem that arises has a pretty simple solution. These start off simple enough, like having a certain park rating, and eventually evolve into things a little more challenging like building a coaster to certain specifications. As time goes on, challenges will pop up for the player to complete for a cash reward. Here, players must build a park from scratch with a chunk of cash and a big plot of land. I often found myself going to Career Mode as a bit of a respite from Challenge Mode, since I just wanted something different.Ĭhallenge Mode is what I would call the main mode of Planet Coaster. It’s a unique way of twisting the genre for those who may get bored of their own parks, which unfortunately may become the case. I rather enjoyed the challenge of Career Mode, since I never knew what would be thrown my way. Career Mode provides an interesting twist on the gameplay loop, though it also sort of teaches the player to exploit the game’s underlying mechanics to succeed. There’s also a loan from the family to be paid off. To use an early example, players must continue to build a park on a family’s manor plot, but may only utilize “family friendly” rides because the family who owns the land said so. The Career Mode tasks players with succeeding despite certain restraints and starting points. This also goes for buildings, shops, scenery, and literally anything else. This way, players can easily download and try out many different community-created coasters. Luckily, the game comes with Steam Workshop support that’s rather seamless to use. They have added more since release, but the focus is clearly on expressing your creativity. I guess the difference is that early on, it’s easy to make mistakes when laying down track and struggling to fix those mistakes, whereas after ten or so hours, it becomes easier to work around and understand the clunk.īuilding coasters is rather critical, since there aren’t many pre-built options. Everything is done in pieces, which starts off feeling a bit clunky and slowly progresses into feeling, well, still pretty damn clunky. Making coasters definitely takes some getting used to. ![]() Messing around here helps players get used to the UI and basic controls, especially for building coasters, which is definitely the core of the Planet Coaster experience. There’s unlimited money so there’s not much decision making to worry about. Jumping into the Sandbox mode is easily the best way to feel your way around and figure everything out. After all, without interactivity, videos can only teach you so much. ![]() They’re pretty short and well made so it can’t hurt to check them out, but I found myself learning so much more just from playing the various modes. Unfortunately, there’s no interactive tutorial and only a few videos to watch in order to teach you the basics. There are three modes in Planet Coaster, each offering up a unique experience. Then a new Rollercoaster Tycoon game was announced, Planet Coaster started development, and even Parkitect started to take shape! While I’m still not sure we needed this revitalization of the genre, I can definitely say that I’m glad it’s here. The days of staying over a friend’s house and laughing as we made drinks free but bathrooms $10, or taking all of the people we deemed “jerks” and throwing them in a pit together were thought to be behind me. I had just always thought that it was a genre left to the past, and I was pretty okay with that. It feels very weird to me to be reviewing a coaster sim in 2016. ![]()
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