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Resource management, instead, is where you’ll spend time thinking. This process is all streamlined from Tropico 4, and you won’t have annoying problems getting buildings built and resources transported. You’ll do lots of construction and management, setting the budget levels of priority buildings to make sure that the right citizens are making money, and giving the buildings you’re focusing on good managers to ensure their effectiveness. Most of your time in Tropico will be spent deciding which buildings should be built, and where, and what things your economy is producing and what it should be producing next.
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The only real downside to the looks of Tropico 5 are that there are less customization options for your dictator’s clothes than there were in Tropico 4. The mix of latin jazz and dance music is superb, well curated, and varied enough that you’ll come to love particular tracks and want to pause for a dance break when they come up. The graphics look quite good on a high end PC. The writing can be pretty funny, even, when it’s not being uncomfortably or offensively stereotypical. Either way, the rest of the game’s aesthetics and features are great. It never gets too serious, but there’s a painfully sharp edge behind some of the rather dated humor in this one – like a vaguely worded Brokeback Mountain joke that sounds more like something your politically incorrect neighbor would make than something that belongs in a cutting dictator satire. The game’s tone is an attempt at lighthearted satire somewhere between overblown stereotype and mildly offensive joke. The hardest difficulties will chew you up and spit you out, gleefully disposing of tens of hours of your playtime because you made a simple mistake. That’s not to say the hardcore management sim aspect is gone – it’s still there, and this is a Kalypso game, after all. That’s about what you should expect with Tropico 5, which has reached a place where players who want a casual city-building experience in a relaxing environment can have that. That process has led to a progressively better and better game, but one that tends not to add too many new features with each installment. Over the years, the series has shed its most confusing and frustrating aspects in favor of gently streamlining the core of the game. Whether you rule benevolently or violently, you establish a dynasty that lasts as you create a functioning economy and enrich yourself. In Tropico, you’re the ruler of a fictional Caribbean island from the 19th through into the 20th century, from colony to independence and beyond. Tropico 5 is the newest entry in the cartoonish caribbean city-builder series from Kalypso.