Low-Budget Repairs

Хорошая игра, достойна своих денег. Минусы есть, маловато фпс в квартирах, есть не критичные баги, но в целом не плохо. Затянуло, играть интересно, местами даже смешно. В целом рекомендую, если делать совсем нечего)

It can be fun - but it's not worth the price and fails to deliver its proposed gameplay. It sells itself as 'fix things, but do it quick, cheap, and hope the customer doesn't notice' but in reality it's just 'fix things properly, or don't get paid as much, also money doesn't really matter even though it's why you're doing the jobs' with 1/10th as many mechanics as the initial trailers showed. The very first objective - “earn money to fix your house”- is completely ignored after it’s first mentioned. The house has plenty of things to fix - but the game doesn’t track any progress towards fixing it, or even provide a reminder that the whole reason you’re doing these repair jobs is to fix your house. As you start getting into "the business" your mentor shows you how to cut corners and do things cheaply. You constantly get told to use the cheapest option and do the minimal work "if the customer doesn’t see it, it's fine" But if you try to do any of that (outside of the one level explicitly scripted to let you) you're dinged and punished. * The loading screen 'tips' talk about covering wall damage and unpainted repairs behind posters yet if you try either - you get dinged (the customer has x-ray vision and or moves every piece of furniture to check the job). You're also going to spend a lot of time in loading screens since it takes ages to load in each new level - and that's all you're doing (going level to level). * The loading screen mentions 'if you run out of money, try some side jobs' yet even the most expensive things (furniture for jobs) are fully reimbursed by the customer and materials for a job are either provided or so cheap it's meaningless to just buy 10 and it will be enough for the entire game. Money loses all meaning after the second or third mission provides enough to buy anything you'll ever need for the rest of the game. * The first tool you buy is joked about 'get the cheaper one' yet there's no option for a more expensive one until later in the story and even then, it's a drop in the money bucket to buy. The pre-release trailer(s) showed 'cutting corners' on many jobs yet the actual game only lets you do that with *one* type of job (tile laying - the most tedious job). * You can't skimp on wall repairs by hiding anything * You can't skimp on painting by using the wrong paint color/hiding unpainted stuff * You can't skimp on over-painting/painting the wrong stuff by mistake by trying to hide it * You can't skimp on hanging/mounting things - they're always mounted perfectly by just clicking the 'screw into wall' button - the mounts never fail. * You can't skimp on installing carpets by cutting them to fit, or laying them over trash. They just roll out perfectly every time. * You can't skimp on repairing furniture - the entire 'repair' system is just click-to-fix one piece at a time. * You can't skimp on installing windows - it's click-to-install and click-and-hold to finish (same with doors). * There's zero demo outside of the initial tutorial for tile installing. * You can't skimp on installing bricks - it's click to lay and they're always perfect. * You can't skimp on installing wires - even if you wanted to lay them 'in 90 degree angles' it dings you for 'using too much cable' and 'un-straight cables'. * One of the tutorials mentions 'buying cheaper furniture and hope the customer doesn't notice' but you never get the chance to do this since if the customer wants something they'll just pay for it. If you buy the wrong thing it just marks the objective as incomplete and you wasted your money. * You can steal money laying around with zero consequences but if you take furniture marked as 'throw out ...' it counts it as stealing and dings you for it. * The trailer(s) show you throwing old furniture out windows yet the first time you come across a larger piece of furniture outside of the tutorial the game has you disassemble it into a box (a one-click and hold process) - meaning you do this exactly once during tutorial levels and never again. * There is no water cleanup/plumbing fixing as shown in the original trailer. * There is no taping tiles to the wall as shown in the original trailer. * There is no leveling/centering windows as shown in the original trailer. * There is no cutting/fitting doors as shown in the original trailer. * There is no drunken work outside of 1 scripted level - and even in that level it's just a annoying gimmick that provides no benefit. * The 'pawn shop' only lets you sell job materials (which are always free to take on jobs), and offers trivial amounts of money making it functionally pointless.