businesses, farms, or amusement facilities.
Goals always involve growing the town to a given population, and often ensuring that a percentage of the buildings are of a certain type, i.e.
There are various goals to complete in each of the five main scenarios. Several titles under the name "Machi-Ing maker" have also been published for the Nintendo DS and the PlayStation 3. Another sequel, Metropolismania 3, was released for the PlayStation Portable by D3 Publisher but in Japan only. The title was released on Augin North America and in Japan on Jby D3 Publisher. A sequel was announced by Natsume, titled Metropolismania 2 ( Machi-ing Maker 2: Zoku Boku no Machi Zukuri in Japan). The object of the game is to interact with NPCs in order to populate various towns. It’s an interesting angle, to say the least, but it’s clear that the lack of focus on the building aspects has led to a lack of smoothness when doing so.Metropolismania (known in Japan as Machi-ing Maker) is a PlayStation 2-only city-building game developed by Indi. You play the role of a mayor or city councillor rather than an omnipotent city-building god-like in other games. Building the city is really just a necessary chore rather than a core mechanic of the game.
You’ll do this by granting requests and building new parts to the various communities such as parks, schools, hospitals and the like. You’ll have Nerds, moms, spoiled teens, hard-working dads and pretty much any other stereotype you can think of running around in your city and your job is to keep them all happy. The characters that you will meet within your city are diverse and have a series of quirky personality traits that leads to some interesting interactions. Speaking of the dialogue, aside from it being purely text box based, it is one of the strongest assets of the game. Dialogue is accompanied with no sound, sound effects are minimal and there is absolutely no variation in the soundtrack aside from the looping background theme. The sound that is present in the game is repetitive and overly simple but its the omission of sound in areas that damages the game more. The sound quality sadly falls into the same bracket of underwhelming and poorly produced.
We are all in favour of a simplistic design but if you make that artistic choice, everything should be inch-perfect and this game can’t even achieve that. In short, this title would be more akin to the original PlayStations library in terms of presentation. The art style, if you can call it that, is poorly designed, has a series of very simplistic or blurry textures, the models are incredibly simple and rough around the edges. It’s best to start with the most jarring point that you’ll notice immediately about this game.
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