can't tell if it's the game or my computer
Apr. 3rd, 2012 11:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI would totally have beat Wedding Salon by now except it stopped working twice and now I would have to pay money to finish the last location and a half. :-p to that.
Wedding Salon is ugly. Seriously. Blergh. The suits for the guys are ugly, the dresses for the women are ugly, if I was running the place there's no way I'd be selling that stuff. And if you get Expert on levels you get gold to turn into pretties for your wedding location, but they are not in fact pretty. They're really very ugly indeed. Even the roses, because there is such a thing as too many roses, and if the flowers appear to be eating the room, that would be it.
But! The game play is fun. Because it isn't just selecting things that are matching, though it is that and that bit is easy to slip up on. Sometimes it is finding the thing that is not matching. Sometimes you have to build three matching layers to make a cake, or two for canapes. The matching things might be shapes or colors. It keeps switching around. So you don't stay doing the same thing all the time and it stays interesting. Also you have to figure out how to get everyone through the suits, hair, tan or massage, jewelry or cake, and flowers or gift racks. Some of them go the opposite direction to the others. I so far only had to restart the level due to log jam the once, but I keep expecting it to happen.
It doesn't have a story. It has a whole bunch of things that happen, like bits of the room breaking down or your assistants taking the day off or your shoes being too tight so you're all slow all day, and you keep changing city to go to a different shop, and you're building a room with a view of a castle ready for your own wedding, and that sounds like a story, but there's no little linking bits of narrative. You never even know why you take a tour of North America via wedding salon chain. And the dude you're marrying is only in the first scene, so you can't exactly look forward to it.
I know the point is clicking lots of things really fast and accurately, but I'm comparing this to the amount of story they fit in a Sandlot game, or even the Wedding Planner thing I played and didn't like at all, and it is coming up wanting. Wants story.
Miriel the Magical Merchant has story. You can even choose different things to say and end up Good or Evil or probably neutral. But you're not saving the world from monsters to be Good, you're just making Miriel feel better and helping her with her shop. So you say nice things and offer to help and I guess the story works out differently but since I've only played it once I don't know.
The trouble is it's boring and I finished it in a night. So I don't want to play it again to find out.
Again the game play is nice, you serve things in a shop but you have to cook most of them in an oven and remember what combination of things you need for chocolate cake or whatever. And when you successfully serve stuff in game then you get recipes that probably work in the real world. I don't know, I only reheat things in the microwave. But it's a nice touch.
I liked it okay. But I don't want to buy it and play it over again to see how the story might work different. Especially since to make it work different I'd have to make choices like not splitting the imaginary money 50/50 or saying mean things instead of being nice, and why do that?
I need bigger games that take more than an evening to finish.
Ones with a story.
And no inconvenient moving around to make me feel ill.
... no I don't know where to start looking. *sigh*
Wedding Salon is ugly. Seriously. Blergh. The suits for the guys are ugly, the dresses for the women are ugly, if I was running the place there's no way I'd be selling that stuff. And if you get Expert on levels you get gold to turn into pretties for your wedding location, but they are not in fact pretty. They're really very ugly indeed. Even the roses, because there is such a thing as too many roses, and if the flowers appear to be eating the room, that would be it.
But! The game play is fun. Because it isn't just selecting things that are matching, though it is that and that bit is easy to slip up on. Sometimes it is finding the thing that is not matching. Sometimes you have to build three matching layers to make a cake, or two for canapes. The matching things might be shapes or colors. It keeps switching around. So you don't stay doing the same thing all the time and it stays interesting. Also you have to figure out how to get everyone through the suits, hair, tan or massage, jewelry or cake, and flowers or gift racks. Some of them go the opposite direction to the others. I so far only had to restart the level due to log jam the once, but I keep expecting it to happen.
It doesn't have a story. It has a whole bunch of things that happen, like bits of the room breaking down or your assistants taking the day off or your shoes being too tight so you're all slow all day, and you keep changing city to go to a different shop, and you're building a room with a view of a castle ready for your own wedding, and that sounds like a story, but there's no little linking bits of narrative. You never even know why you take a tour of North America via wedding salon chain. And the dude you're marrying is only in the first scene, so you can't exactly look forward to it.
I know the point is clicking lots of things really fast and accurately, but I'm comparing this to the amount of story they fit in a Sandlot game, or even the Wedding Planner thing I played and didn't like at all, and it is coming up wanting. Wants story.
Miriel the Magical Merchant has story. You can even choose different things to say and end up Good or Evil or probably neutral. But you're not saving the world from monsters to be Good, you're just making Miriel feel better and helping her with her shop. So you say nice things and offer to help and I guess the story works out differently but since I've only played it once I don't know.
The trouble is it's boring and I finished it in a night. So I don't want to play it again to find out.
Again the game play is nice, you serve things in a shop but you have to cook most of them in an oven and remember what combination of things you need for chocolate cake or whatever. And when you successfully serve stuff in game then you get recipes that probably work in the real world. I don't know, I only reheat things in the microwave. But it's a nice touch.
I liked it okay. But I don't want to buy it and play it over again to see how the story might work different. Especially since to make it work different I'd have to make choices like not splitting the imaginary money 50/50 or saying mean things instead of being nice, and why do that?
I need bigger games that take more than an evening to finish.
Ones with a story.
And no inconvenient moving around to make me feel ill.
... no I don't know where to start looking. *sigh*