Discussion Thread – The 13th Annual Greatest Games Event

[Darashiva]

S.Peelman said:

Merry Christmas everyone, yesterday at least and for those in countries where Christmas is two days, like mine, today as well. Here's some more hints.

7 - When you start your town, you, the player, only gets a warehouse and a quay, while the AI also gets four tiles of nice paving next to it while that actually should still take quite a while before that is unlocked. I was also quite jealous of that.
Hint 2: They also have a bigger boat which should actually take even longer to unlock. Two of them do anyway, but that's not necessarily an advantage because they are much slower.
Hint 3: What is funny though is that one of the AI players will get big, colonising new lands and creating a big city reaching the highest tier, while the other AI always remains stuck at mere settlers.
Hint 4: At some point islands will become scarce though, and you'll have to get rid of the AI players. Doing so will reward you with a nice Triumphal Arch to place somewhere.

6 - In the original, building "buildings" could only be done by raising land and painting the sides wood or brick, but in this game you can finally build actual walls and roofs. A real game-changer.
Hint 2: Hold shift to raise them or place them on top of each other to create some height, and also press control to keep a new piece at the last placed piece's elevation.
Hint 3: This works with walls and roofs, but also with scenery pieces big and small and stalls. Except trees, those can only be on the ground.
Hint 4: The thing this game is named for though, needs to be build in a special build mode where you place piece by piece a station, lift hill, small corner, big corner, spirals, brakes and much more special pieces.

5 - The only game to feature parts in the main perspective of the second game in this series, while all others feature a different perspective. Guessed by Veknoid_Outcast - The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

4 - This game was originally developed with different art direction, and elements of this style can still be seen in the game's intro cutscene.

6: Rollercoaster Tycoon 2

4: The change in art direction made me think of Okami, but I don't remember the intro to it featuring a different art style. Still, I'll guess Okami.