It was also difficult to get a view of the map as a whole, so you could get a stronger idea of how things were going in the broader game. While it was fun to see historical figures stomping around angrily (though your mileage may vary on that), it would have been nice if there was some kind of obvious rhyme or reason to any of it. One moment I’d get a little animated scene of another world leader saying how pleased they were that our two countries got along so well, the next they’d be denouncing me for reasons unknown. For example, interactions with other countries seemed kind of random. Having said that, there’s definite room for improvement here - though I say that with the caveat that these things may well have been addressed in the tutorial at some point after the game-breaking glitch. I liked seeing my cities grow and flourish, and it was fun thinking strategically about how to build my empire in a way that made sense. Likewise, many of the finer points of Civilization VI continued to elude me even after several games, and I can’t help but feel that a functioning tutorial may have helped on some of those points.Īnd yet, despite those complaints, I still enjoyed my time with Civilization VI. It took me far too long to realize that, unlike CivRev, it’s not a wise strategy to immediately declare war on your closest neighbour, since it means you waste a lot of resources that could be put to better use. Now, I was still pretty bad at it, even after playing around with the settings so that I had it on the easiest, quickest game imaginable. As it stands, after several failed attempts at playing through the tutorial, I finally gave up on learning what I was supposed to do, started playing the game, and discovered that simply playing was the only way to go.
While I’m not a total newcomer to Civilization generally - I played Civilization Revolution on the Vita pretty obsessively a few years ago - I was unfamiliar enough with the difference between CivRev and a mainline Civilization game that a more comprehensive tutorial would have been useful.
I don’t know how much more the tutorial was going to show (the glitch kicks in around the 20th turn or so), but based on my subsequent time with the game, I’m going to say that at least a few important points were left out. Not only does it rush through all the important stuff, there’s also a glitch that makes it impossible to finish. A warning to anyone who goes into Civilization VI on the Switch without knowing how to play: the tutorial won’t help you much.
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