Despite making an excellent first impression, Park Beyond ends in a downward spiral that's exciting in a coaster, but lethal in an economy. Our review:
Park Beyond sets itself apart from other theme park games with the mechanic of"impossification", making rides go"beyond" the usual, becoming bigger and dafter than real life. So your ride modules, in addition to loops and inversions, include cannons, jump ramps, bumper-boat transformations and punchy springs.
The presentation of Park Beyond promises absurdity, and then the management element bizarrely throttles it - and know that I say this as someone who likes games that are solely about making numbers go up. After such a whimsical introduction, it was a slow realisation of just how the game's systems were interfering with what Park Beyond was promising. It was only when I reached the midpoint of the tutorialised campaign that I had enough control to realise exactly what was going on.
The first clue was when I built an absolute showstopper of a rollercoaster. It was the most amazing, most fun, and yes, most profitable ride in the park. I built it near the entrance, with plenty of amenities nearby, and waited for my guests to be thrilled. They were not! They didn't go on it, or even think about it.
Then there's impossification. A fun detail about campaign missions is that you can choose optional goals within them, so in one I chose to impossify as many rides as possible. This is where I discovered that each impossification becomes more expensive the more you do it. An upgraded flat ride will give a tiny boost to amazement - in the tens per day - but the threshold to be able to impossify another ride will go up by thousands.
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