Rollercoaster Tycoon: Adventures - Nintendo Switch Standard Edition

A really engaging game that works well on our OLED Nintendo Switch.It is an old DOS game that has been ported to the Switch. Being an old game, it looks it!Clunky old style graphics in a 2 dimensional world.However…It was fun back in the day, and it is still fun now!You design and build your own theme park from scratch, setting prices, hiring staff, making pathways, plant trees, make hills, make lakes or ponds and MUCH more. You build roller coaster rides, swan love boats and monorail systems putting stops anywhere you like them and painting most things the colors you like. Or, you simply buy the rides you want from a menu and place them where you want.Sound dry and boring?Wait…The kids can make their rides crash, make a ride so violent the little people get off the ride and throw up a little pink spot on the walkway. You order your little cleaning staff to clean up the area or not, over time making a gross mess. Be sure they add restrooms, food and drink stands and souvenir shops or the little customers start complaining.The object of the game is to make your theme park successful. There are goals to reach and everyone in the park celebrates their good work by cheering and letting all of their balloons go up at the same time.But… that is really NOT the point. If a kid or a group of kids finally understand what’s going on, they can get really hooked!How do I know? My Grandkid loves it.HINT:Don’t lead with it on Christmas morning if your Kids are waiting for their Super Hot Ticket NEW Game.Slide it into their Stocking. Sit back and watch. They won’t know what to think of it at first, but if they play it for a while, watch how much fun they’ll have!I hope they like it as much as my grandson.

I love this game. I have had a chance to play th he original rollercoaster. I became a fan for life. I had the chance to grow up with this series, and looked forward watching them grow, and wow did they grow. Graphics upgrades, more content, more expansions, and then android app. I have it on every phone and tablet I ever owned. Boom, my children found me the perfect memory gift on my youngest daughter's birthday, she passed away. I introduced her to Rollercoaster Tycoon 3.. she loved the water expansion. She loved watching them on fast forward, she giggled.So, this game will be one of my favorites, and it will hold more meaning to me than the average gamer. So with that I give you 100 stars and more if I could, but the 5 ssd's tars will have to 500 stars total.

It’s fun but it’s no PC version. Still really fun

This game is great! Takes me back to my childhood, and even got my 9 year old playing it with me!

I did not expect to love this as much as I do. It’s pretty easy to place your paths and attractions, much easier than I thought it would be as I sometimes have trouble moving things around in games like Animal Crossing. My only complaint is it crashed a couple of times while I was playing but on the bright side, it auto saves, so I didn’t lose any progress. Overall I think it’s a great value for the price as it has already brought me hours of joy. Highly recommend to folks who like games like the Sims, etc.

When I found out this was available for the Switch, I just knew I would be giving it a five-star review, since this was my absolute all-time favorite PC game when I was a kid. I did have a wonderful moment of nostalgia being able to play this game again, but the moment was fleeting. The more I played the game, the more glitches I found. Here are a few:When you test a custom coaster prior to opening it, the ratings shown end up being lower once you open the coaster to the public. This can be a problem on scenarios where your goal is to make coasters of specific ratings. Also, the game resets track lengths to zero meters, which is why it will tell you to “Finish building your coaster!” when you click on coasters you’ve already built. This causes a problem on scenarios where your goal is to have coasters of a specific track length – you will have to finish those scenarios in one sitting, because if you save and close the game the lengths will be zero when you reload that saved game. Adding too many Special tracks to a custom coaster can crash the game during the build phase. If you choose the Tropical Custom Station for a custom coaster, it will crash the game when you go to save and exit. The color of the Maze always reverts to white as soon as you place it, you will have to manually change it back to green. The path builder always switches your perspective to North-facing no matter which way you were facing when you selected it. (All of the other building options keep your current perspective when you choose them.) Placing rides and restaurants and shops will remove forest terrain for you, but paths won’t; you’ll have to use the Erase tool on the forest terrain before placing paths.Other problems include the fact that no matter how big your park is or how wealthy you are, you can never, ever build more than 10 coasters in any one park. And in the biggest parks you can never zoom out far enough to see the whole park at once. Also, you can’t rename anything, whereas in the PC game you could rename everything. In this version everything you build will be numbered, like Wooden Coaster 1, Wooden Coaster 2, etc. In the PC game, you built the coaster piece by piece as you went, but now you have to outline the general path first from start to finish, then go back into each node and change each node separately to a different track type. This makes adding track tilts etc much more tedious – and pointless – than in the PC version.Instead of custom coasters, you can place pre-designed ones. The problem with these is that even though they have their own names and logos in the selection screen (“The Pacemaker” etc) when you place them, they all have the same default station (all of the wooden coasters have the Mount Timber station etc) and are still called Wooden Coaster 1, Wooden Coaster 2, etc, instead of the pre-designed name the game has given them.You can choose which category to research, but not specific items. If your customers demand an Asian restaurant, you can only choose to research “a” restaurant, and you might get anything from a food stand to an Italian bistro; you can’t make the game research the Sushi stand specifically, for example. And you can’t cancel research that is underway, so if you meant to choose the $7000 research option but accidentally chose the $70,000 option, there’s no way to undo your mistake, your $70k is irretrievably gone. Some of the rides are practically identical, like the Flying Carpet and the Magic Carpet. For some reason the Hot Dog Stand is always the last food stand the game gives you in every scenario, maybe the game designers hate hot dogs? Speaking of biases, there are over 20 flags you can place as decorations, but there are no Asian countries’ flags at all, and only Kenya and South Africa from the African continent, and no Greece.There are four modes to choose from, each of which have problems:TUTORIAL: this is only partly helpful, because not all of the icons and menus are explained.ADVENTURE: there are four options to choose from, but they are all exactly the same. As you play, you will be presented with some A-or-B choice questions. Sometimes there is a “good” answer and a “bad” answer, but other times both answers are “bad” and you will be negatively impacted no matter what you choose. The questions are identical in each of the four adventures, so there’s no point playing all four.SCENARIOS: there are sixteen to choose from (5 easy, 6 medium, 5 difficult), some of which are affected by the glitches mentioned above. Some of the scenarios take place on the moon, yet the hot air balloon and the airplane still “fly” over the park, which makes no sense.SANDBOX: in this mode you choose CREATIVE or CAREER. Creative means you have infinite money and everything is already researched, so you can build whatever you want whenever you want, but because you have infinite money, you don’t get the satisfaction of earning any profit. Career is like the scenarios but without any goals or time limits, which sounds nice but you are still subject to the randomness of the research tree; you have to wait until something has been researched before you can build it.The best sandbox option would be one where everything is already researched (like Creative) but you can still grow a profit (like Career), but the game doesn’t come with this option. It would also be nice if there were more themes. You get Western, Sci-Fi, and Tropical (with one Entertainer for each), but there’s no medieval theming, no candyland theming, etc.Having said all that, why am I still giving this game three stars? Because it’s still fun to design and build your own amusement park. Also, unlike the PC game, which had strict physics rules when placing tracks, the coaster tracks in this version don’t count, they’re like ghost-tracks. You only need to worry about where to place the station in the park; tracks from multiple coasters can overlap the same physical point on the map and the game doesn’t care, because the tracks aren’t really there. It’s also tremendous fun changing the colors of the rides and even the food stands: you can make the Bubble Tea purple, the Cotton Candy green, the Candy Apples black, etc, it’s entirely up to you. There are 55 colors to choose from, which is far more than are needed especially since you can’t zoom in very close on the park. And the game marks which items you’ve placed and which ones you haven’t, and if you build something but then remove it, it marks it as being unplaced again, which is very helpful since you’re going to want to place everything, especially in the biggest parks.Bottom line is, if you know going into it how buggy it can be, it can still be fun to play. There isn’t another game like it for the Switch.

I absolutely love this game! It's like a game I used to play when I was a young girl! I totally recommend

Great game, easy to figure out and a great way to pass time