Tag: fun

Burger Bistro Story

Rat­ing: 2 out of 5

Com­ments: You own a Burg­er Chain and must com­pete with 3 oth­er Burg­er Chains. by cre­at­ing any com­bi­na­tion of burg­ers with ingre­di­ents researched, as well as dec­o­rat­ing and man­ag­ing each indi­vid­ual store, com­plete with staff and sup­pli­ers, and unlock­ing new cus­tomers. I found it to be a bit too loose in burg­er cre­ation and rather dif­fi­cult to enjoy for long. Out­com­pet­ing com­peti­tors is sat­is­fy­ing.

Dream House Days DX

Rat­ing: 3 out of 5

Com­ments: You man­age a hous­ing com­plex through 3 types of expan­sion, tai­lor­ing each indi­vid­ual room with spe­cif­ic fur­nish­ings to cer­tain groups or ten­ants. They will grow up, get jobs, get mar­ried, have kids, retire, and die from old age right inside your rooms. Kind of Sims-like. I per­son­al­ly was shocked when my favorite ten­ants got old. I helped them get jobs! Coun­seled them through dates! That put a damper on the game…a lit­tle too much real­i­ty, a lit­tle too much God-play­ing.

Dream Park Story

Rat­ing: 5 out of 5

Com­ments: LOVE THIS GAME. Then again, I’m par­tial because one of my favorite video games of all-time is Sim Theme Park and I’ve yet to find a suit­able replace­ment for it. This game is the clos­est so far on the sim­plic­i­ty and fun side. It’s exact­ly that: a sim­u­la­tion theme park. Small rides, big rides, sideshows, shops, eater­ies, bath­rooms, trash­cans… Expan­sion, research, hir­ing, sea­sons, con­tests. Love it.

Dungeon Village

Rat­ing: 4 out of 5

Com­ments: Neato mechan­ic where you build a vil­lage that attracts adven­tur­ers itch­ing for bat­tle. Inns, eater­ies, weapons shops, leisure, and if/when the adven­tur­ers like it enough, they will stay, giv­ing you a nice amount of cash! Dur­ing the day, they fight mon­sters and ven­ture through dun­geons, gain­ing lev­els and stats, and at night, they either sleep in their hous­es or go back to whence they came. Even­tu­al­ly there are boss fights! Great idea. Good game.

Dungeon Village 2

Rat­ing: 3 out of 5

Com­ments: Just like Dun­geon Vil­lage 1 except with some steps forward…and some steps back. I was real­ly hop­ing for a blow-away-bet­ter game. It does have expan­sions which is cool and allow you to car­ry over some of your favorite adven­tur­ers to new towns in new lands right away. I just wish it was a bit…better. I played it less than the orig­i­nal ver­sion.

Epic Astro Story

Rat­ing: 2.5 out of 5

Com­ments: You build a set­tle­ment that gets vis­its from aliens for space tourism. You grow things, expand, get sup­plies and resources. All for econ­o­my! You can even send your set­tlers on voy­ages! Unfor­tu­nate­ly, while it sounds good, I found it to be a tad frus­trat­ing. Alien tourists only had a set area they would go out­side of a space sta­tion which places con­straints and makes build­ings repet­i­tive. All in all, I found it rather tedious and dis­ap­point­ing.

Game Dev Story

Rat­ing: 5 out of 5

Com­ments: One of Kairosoft­’s orig­i­nal games! What makes this game extra spe­cial is that a video game soft­ware com­pa­ny released a game about mak­ing video games! You have cre­ative license to com­bine dif­fer­ent ele­ments togeth­er to try and make a stel­lar game with your team, while under­tak­ing small side gigs all in the name of pres­tige and fame! Expand, research, and cre­ate to either explo­sive suc­cess, or dis­mal fail­ure. Extreme­ly fun.

Hot Springs Story

Rat­ing: 4 out of 5

Com­ments: My very first Kairosoft game. Played as a demo and was hooked. One of the ear­li­er entries, it has some frus­trat­ing ele­ments like being unable to move things around eas­i­ly as you expand. Oth­er­wise, you are man­ag­ing a hot spring! Con­tests with mag­a­zines for pop­u­lar­i­ty, make com­bos, and give clients what they want!

Hot Springs Story 2

Rat­ing: 4.25 out of 5

Com­ments: Def­i­nite improve­ment on the orig­i­nal! Added out­side ele­ments for the inside of the hot spring, dif­fer­ent hot springs, lots of com­bos, many more stores and dec­o­ra­tions. I found it to be great except some small details like for some rea­son very few of my clients ever want­ed to go enjoy the out­door attrac­tions, and even when I placed stairs to access them, no one ever used the steps, rather walk­ing through walls. I also found the game to be too con­fin­ing for all of the new ele­ments added. I found I want­ed it to be dou­ble the size after ful­ly expand­ing the facil­i­ty.

Mega Mall Story

Rat­ing: 4.75 out of 5

Com­ments: Fan­tas­tic game! You’re man­ag­ing a mul­ti-lev­el mall. Uti­liz­ing com­bos, esca­la­tors, ele­va­tors, place shops eater­ies, and attrac­tions while work­ing with trans­porta­tion and com­mu­ni­ties to out­per­form com­pet­ing malls! My only gripe is that there’s not enough space!

Mega Mall Story 2

Rat­ing: 3 out of 5

Com­ments: Rad­i­cal­ly dif­fer­ent flow and graph­ics style, I was dis­ap­point­ed in this game. The core is the same, but things are so dif­fer­ent that I quit play­ing after about 3 total lev­els attained.

Oh! Edo Town

Rat­ing: 3.75 out of 5

Com­ments: As a lat­er install­ment, this has fea­tures that make mov­ing things around easy. You’re cre­at­ing a town in the Edo peri­od of Japan’s his­to­ry. Roads, store, hous­es, attrac­tions, cas­tles, tur­rets, hot springs…there’s a lot to design with! Some­how, I found I was­n’t ter­ri­bly fond of the game. Per­haps the his­tor­i­cal set­ting was too con­strict­ing? It was fine, just I pre­fer Ven­ture Town despite hav­ing bet­ter game ele­ments.

Pool Slide Story

Rat­ing: 5 out of 5

Com­ments: Fan­tas­ti­cal­ly enjoy­able! I hon­est­ly did­n’t think I’d enjoy it as much as the oth­ers because it’s con­strained to just pools, but WOW! You get to design both indoors and out­doors ele­ments. Food, shops, tables along­side, well, pool fea­tures! Slides, cur­rents, streams, plants, water col­ors and fra­grances??? It’s just awe­some! I only wish I had more space to make even big­ger and bet­ter pools!

The Manga Works

Rat­ing: 3.5 out of 5

Com­ments: This is just like Game Dev Sto­ry but for Man­ga. Instead of work­ing in an office with team mem­bers, though, you are the man­ga­ka, her(him)self. You work at home and suf­fer through cre­ative blocks, bare­ly mak­ing dead­lines, enter­ing con­tests, try­ing to ful­fill spe­cial requests for pub­lish­ers… all the while try­ing to pay rent with oth­er odd jobs. It’s a good game for its real­ism, but I did­n’t last because the real­i­ty was so depress­ing that it became dull.

Tropical Resort Story

Rat­ing: 4 out of 5

Com­ments: You are the man­ag­er for a set of islands where you are try­ing to cre­ate the ulti­mate get­away com­plete with accom­mo­da­tions, shops, sight­see­ing, and FISH. Lots of fish and ocean flo­ra! There are SO many ele­ments to place and research! You go fish­ing for more fish! Pro­gres­sion on this game is amaz­ing, but I found the ter­raform­ing to be con­strict­ing. It’s hard to cre­ate the com­bos giv­en the lim­i­ta­tions of space. Do you focus on under­wa­ter life? Or the shore? Why is there no path? Why can’t peo­ple walk around trees?

Venture Towns

Rat­ing: 5 out of 5

*NOTE: This is the 2nd game I played of Kairosoft and is the rea­son I’m hooked to the games. How­ev­er, it is old now (unless they updat­ed, and I don’t know). The 5 out of 5 is based on when I orig­i­nal­ly played it*

Com­ments: Great city builder! A lit­tle dat­ed now as it lacks the “rearrange” option, and is a tad dif­fi­cult, but lots of fun and pro­gress­es well. Use com­bos to boost sales and attract res­i­dents to your town! Five dif­fer­ent loca­tions to attempt!

World Cruise Story

Rat­ing: 3 out of 5

Com­ments: Design an irre­sistible cruise ship and become a famous cruise line! Con­trol rooms, games, ameni­ties, dec­o­ra­tions, gyms, out­side and inside ele­ments! Expand the num­ber of decks! Appeal to rich­er and rich­er pas­sen­gers! The begin­ning was fun, but then it start­ed get­ting stag­nant after more ship lev­els are added. Being con­fined to a cruise ship is tough on the design-side! And VIPs are too crit­i­cal!