To be honest, I'm a little annoyed by those strategies that teach you to "get to the top in one step."
In this game, no one can start with a skyscraper.
All you have in your hand are a few gold coins, a few pieces of wasteland, and a bunch of plans that you don’t know where to put.
It looks very much like you and me who just graduated and stood at the crossroads holding a map.
But that's the fascinating part about it.
Start from scratch, with bare hands.
Be the mayor?
No, you're more of a contractor
The game starts out very shabby.
Tap the little shopping cart icon and look at the row of gloomy buildings. You can only grit your teeth and build the cheapest house first.
I know that feeling.
I pointed with my fingers and watched the workers slowly laying the foundation. I thought to myself: Hurry up, and even faster.
The electricity needs to keep up, otherwise it will be dark at night and no one will come.
The road must be paved, even if it is a dirt road, who the hell would want to live here without a road?
Don't think about planning eight lanes in one step, live first.
The first residents and their "unreasonable troubles"
Then people came.
But don't be happy too early.
These residents have a lot going on.
"Mayor, don't you have a park to walk your dog?"
"Mayor, it's too far to go to work!"
“Mayor, I can’t pay the electricity bill!”
You look at the complain bubbles floating on the screen and really want to curse.
I just built a house for you, do you want this or that?
However, after scolding you, I still have to go to the "Community" category with my smiling face, carefully build a small garden, and increase the smiling face indicator of satisfaction.
Later I figured it out, isn’t this life?
I get panicked when no one is around, and worry again when people come.
money!
money!
money!
(It’s all a history of blood and tears for making money quickly)
The most magical thing about this game is that you are always short of money.
The official guides always trick you into building farms and livestock farms, claiming that you can collect rent in one or two minutes. It seems that the income comes very quickly.
I also tried it, and the whole city looked like a farmhouse, with chickens running all over the floor.
But what is that little money enough for?
I want to upgrade to a decent office building, but when I look at the numbers, my eyes go dark.
Later I figured out that just having a job is not enough, you have to have people , and you have to have people with things to do .
The population and jobs must be 1:1, or even more jobs.
Otherwise, you won’t get a penny from those lazy people sitting on the roadside.
How simple this truth is, but it is even more naked than in the real society. If no one works, the city will become a dead city.
There is also a wild road, paved road.
Don't underestimate road paving. There are sidewalks, asphalt roads, and even railways. After they are properly paved, not only can sports cars be used, but coins can also be found on the road occasionally.
It's so ironic, when the road is clear, only the wealth will be clear.
Just like life, as you walk, you might get lucky.
The ultimate paradise for people with obsessive-compulsive disorder
I know, some people will definitely say, isn’t this game just dots and dots?
What's the point?
No.
You don't understand.
For people like me, who have no control over anything in reality, in "City Island 2", I am that god.
I can arrange all the commercial areas in a zigzag shape for the extra 1% bonus.
I can build a railway in a complete circle around the coastline, just to watch the little train clang and clang as it passes through the landscape I designed.
In order to straighten a park, I rotated it for five minutes until it was completely parallel to the fountain next to it.
Those who understand will naturally understand the pleasure of turning chaos into order.
It’s late at night, but your city’s lights are still on
One of the things I love most about this game is the wish one player mentioned in a review, which is to have a mode called night mode .
yes.
During the day, everything you see is prosperous and busy.
Late at night, I turned my mobile phone screen to dim light and looked at the island I had built. There were sporadic warm yellow lights in the residential area, the neon signs on the commercial street flickered, and the train station retained the last quietly stopping train.
At that moment, what you feel is not a cold pile of data, but a small world where you use to place your anxiety.
You really can't change the situation in the outside world. The boss is still so stupid, the renting fee is still incapable of delivering, and the person you love is still ignoring you.
But on this island, you have the final say.
Even if it is just with your fingers, inch by inch, you can turn the wasteland into a home.
So you see, this is not just a house building game.
This is a corner for everyone who is exhausted in reality to find a breathing space.
What we build is not a city, but an escape.
What we plan is not traffic, but our own poor desire for control.
Have you landed on the island today?
Your citizens are still waiting for you to come home.
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