Archive for May 24th, 2008

Well, I’ve had a longer go now and can safely say this is ACEBEST. It’s kinda like a cross between football manager and sim city, but very much simpler than both. Basically, you build a city, hire and train adventurers and send them out to do random stuff. I’m only a short way into it, but so far it’s proving to be one of those incredibly annoying “Just another day” type games.

Stupid name, though - hence the shortened version in the title of this post.

I’ve not played this long enough to give any kind of gameplay description - just sufficient to spot a gotcha which may be helpful to others, and to say that it’s very cutesy.

The gotcha - if the game seems to hang on the “Create Save Game” screen and not respond to keypresses, check if you have a GameCube controller attached. Cos if the game finds one, it will ignore all other inputs and expect you to use that. Took me ages to work that out :)

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