Review for v0.4
I feel like the dev story-boarded a basic mafia plot and instead of doing anything to expand it they said "yeah this is good enough" and started making the game. Just about every aspect of this is subpar.
The MC is annoying, the characters are puddle deep, and the story has almost no intrigue because it reveals what could have been an interesting plot twist about ten minutes into the game and then puts you into the sandbox.
And what a boring sandbox it is. The basic idea is that you're given a map where you slowly take over businesses from the mafia. What does this entail gameplay wise? Spam work to make money -> buy a bunch of mercenaries who are literally just numbers -> click on a business icon and click the takeover button -> repeat. That's it man. The dev did not bother creating/rendering out literally any type of interesting event for any of this. My reward for taking over a business was being able to click on a girl within a gallery style menu and playing a strip trivia game with her.
As someone who values good writing, this game just doesn't have much of it. I think the premise could be good honestly, and the one bit of praise I have is that the models look nice, but there is nothing here for most people I'd imagine. Even for the people who like to hold the skip button I can't see this being super appealing. I'd maybe be a little more generous on the rating but the icing on the cake was seeing it already having a "DLC" locked behind a paywall. That rubbed me the wrong way.
I feel like the dev story-boarded a basic mafia plot and instead of doing anything to expand it they said "yeah this is good enough" and started making the game. Just about every aspect of this is subpar.
The MC is annoying, the characters are puddle deep, and the story has almost no intrigue because it reveals what could have been an interesting plot twist about ten minutes into the game and then puts you into the sandbox.
And what a boring sandbox it is. The basic idea is that you're given a map where you slowly take over businesses from the mafia. What does this entail gameplay wise? Spam work to make money -> buy a bunch of mercenaries who are literally just numbers -> click on a business icon and click the takeover button -> repeat. That's it man. The dev did not bother creating/rendering out literally any type of interesting event for any of this. My reward for taking over a business was being able to click on a girl within a gallery style menu and playing a strip trivia game with her.
As someone who values good writing, this game just doesn't have much of it. I think the premise could be good honestly, and the one bit of praise I have is that the models look nice, but there is nothing here for most people I'd imagine. Even for the people who like to hold the skip button I can't see this being super appealing. I'd maybe be a little more generous on the rating but the icing on the cake was seeing it already having a "DLC" locked behind a paywall. That rubbed me the wrong way.