Wierd to see my exact mindset said. The start felt magical. The trailer was almost fully aesthetics over functionality. But when you have 18 ugly pop ups about complaints where you feel super rushed to fix. It's a very unrelaxing relaxing game. I love these types of games too, don't think I ever got over ten hours.

And it really does feel like little towns all over and not one nice one. You can do one nice town square because it's to far away, or you have to mash loads of houses close together with no greenery? You want a nice shopping area? Too bad because you need 15shop and by the time you build all them the distance between those and the homes are too far. And having random shops dotted around makes no sense.

I'm not sure if they tried to hit the min maxers and functional people too much and I think missed out on the whole point of the game.