Last chance for #7, and #6 and #5 have been guessed, adding extra hint to #4.
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. Guessed by Darashiva - RollerCoaster Tycoon 2
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.
Hint 2: The change of style, done to move it away from the look of a certain other game, fuelled the rumour that the producer (who's the original creator of both series) didn't like this other game. I doubt that's true. Guessed by drbunnig - Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
3 - Legend goes that a controller was tailor-made for this game. Guessed by Veknoid_Outcast - Super Mario 64
Last edited by S.Peelman - on 28 December 2022
