maybe biggest points i liked after having finished it:
-you can build appartments vertically and horizontally, wich means you can build some brutalist megablocks (with some decoration, so it doesnt look ugly)
i cant remember in wich game you can do this (except maybe timberwood wich i didnt play).
this is very special imo, because in anno for example you only build horizontally
and it looks very impressive, especially because all whiskers actually go to their house (i think they go to work from there, but spawn there in the morning, would be cool if they actually went to their home in the evening)
-terraforming is quite nice, while its not terraforming exactly, but just lick minecraft, where you can mine block for block, but this gives a real sense of setting up an actual and naturally formed underground mine
-you can build elevators freely, and it has a civilian train system with actual shedules (how many whiskers loaded)
- i think for what you can expect from the game its a 9/10. its a city builder, with tech tree and all kinds of production chains, different kinds of fuel, heat sources, administrative buildings, all kinds of foods and clothes you need to produce. very much diversity in buildings and goods. and really some very creative stuff like a whisker catapult, that catapults whiskers up to their work place if they work somewhere high up.
a bit negative (but i think its ok)
- very nice idea with cats/pirates/smugglers visiting demanding goods. so you always urged to build way more than you actually need. the big problem though is, that all of those groups always demand the same kind of goods. for example you can satisfy the cats demands by just giving them wool, thus if you dedicate a farm or two to just wool, you are good to go and the mechanic becomes obsolote. maybe what they prefer should change every now and then and maybe alert a bit earlier.
-the whiskers trait are a bit one dimensional. just take the "good ones" and you good to go, never care for that mechanic again. at some point i was just annoyed by the whisker ship. i had room for like 50+ whiskers at once but still every few days i have to handpick them. it kind of destroyed my flow. maybe just let a few whiskers come every few days. if they have bad perks i can deal with it. maybe allow it to train it away in some kind of "gym" or the school or whatever.
-i think for how clutter the city became (and i really liked the clutter) the system to supervise whiskers was very advanced, but not good enough. often i would spend too much time, finding an appropiate aprentice. if i wanted to move him to a more appropiate house, i couldnt check easily, if the whisker already living there needs to live there or if i can move the whisker without having to worry they might be placed to a worse place.
- i think it would have helped when whiskers would have some kind of distinction from each other. for example whiskers working in logistics having blue fur or something, so i can track them faster and where they go, without having to find and click them
- i think i didnt actually complete the tech tree 100%, because the amount of goods you need for research in the end is a tad bit too much. i would look 20 mins at a finished city, just to get that one building that wouldnt even change the course of the game that much
BUT i must say im not dissatisfied by this, everything i unlocked was so cool, how you can implement it etc. that i cant be mad having missed something.
i say its already a 9/10 from me, it has so much content for ea, and if you like production chains or city builders or just planning combining goods it should be played with no hesitation
