Recent reviews by 煮鶴焚琴

very repetitive game play. does not feel inspiring. feels more like job and just a improved game where you fix the must-fix in anno1800

- cannot skip count yaku phase, konami allows that before 2003 in MFC.
- count yaku in a pathetically stupid way, what is dora iichi doradora, dora 3, please learn the natural way doing it looking at Sega MJ or youtube horiuchi's video.
- huge visual clutter copying mahjong soul

only thing good is that this is no longer a "play to not lose" but a natural "play to win" game.

incredibly boring. no cheat codes to skip boring missions, no cheat codes for your favourite models. make you grind through the whole thing this is single player game wht the fork

not bad if you do not mind untangling your own ♥♥♥♥. tbf you dont need the dlc. could be hectic if you do not like minmaxing otherwise bankrupting

looks like a combination of 2000s flash game to me. not interesting

i agree with what most reviews say. the game is very repetitive. you keep on building lego until your hit a milestone to build a landmark building to get rid of the star requirement. the difficulty is too low.

good for a idle game you work on the side and then go back to the game for a few clicks. this game is a good buy at a few bucks. more than that it is not worth it.

and that visual clutter is just toxic. so annoying, and not helpful, and not interesting

the game music is very good, and the gameplay is refreshing so you do not feel doing the same thing for 10+ hours.

HOWEVER, if you are already a grown up and have a job next day, and you do not think you are EXTREMELY GOOD at most games, MAKE SURE YOU SELECT EASY. unlike most other game, EASY in this game is not humiliating easy but it is where it meant to be play chill.

otherwise you are gonna waste your ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ time escaping something, repeating the same stage again and again simply because
(1) you wont buy a controller for just this one game,
(2) you cannot change diffculty mid game (hi wtf? this is 2020)
(3) you cannot skip a challenge/escape, those ♥♥♥♥♥♥ make you play that.
(4) and dash and burrow function is incredilbly unreliable.

not even cheat code

no, you are not going to spend hours or even one hour redoing the game, it is not fun and it is not work.

and it is not acceptable today in 2020.

extremely repetitive

good if you want a modern style aoe and quite some QOL improvement. except the elitist community.

but you have to know ahead that the profanity filter is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up. even if you say something like "japanese" which is in the game, the filter would apply a very straight forward string filter, since "♥♥♥" is in japanese your whole message would turn into ********* ****** ***** ****** *******!!!!

which is extremely pathetic

google well before you buy.

https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/profanity-filter-optional/72576

the retarded profainity filter is no longer there, but there are still problems.

(1) pathing problems that do not exist 20 years ago, aka villagers hitting into each other and then stuck
(2) lobby games and team games take forever to get everyone ready
(3) you are lucky if the game launches successfully
(4) you are lucky if you have someone that would not lag the game
(5) you are lucky if someone wont drop in a team game
(6) you are lucky if you finish a game without most of the problems mentioned above, within one hour.

EDIT: once the profainity filter is moved to an option in march 2020 and you can disable it. in november 2020, it was on again and you have no way to turn it off. it was ordered by the lame microsoft.

https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe2/comments/jl7rmh/chat_filter_is_absurd/

war is devastating, though sometime you have no choice.

despite this, the gamme is shallow after a few turns and it gets boring. recommand to buy it when discounted.