Because when viewed at a distance Park Beyond looks gorgeous. Maybe it’s the dead eyes the guests give off that throw me off.
Most of the assets you build in the theme park have this playful, jovial nature to them that comes across as inviting at its best, or at worst reeks of mobile game knock-off energy. The saccharine vibe also reflects how the game world looks.
At least the voice acting comes across okay for the most part. Something is just off, the lip sync, the stilted animations. There are 2D illustrations of the main characters you meet in the story campaign and they look stylised and charming. Park Beyond aims for that saccharine cartoony aesthetic, which is cool but can come across as uncanny. Park Beyond has neat ideas that it brings to the genre, but the execution of it all is rough and ragged where only the die-hard fans of the genre can push through. But it has one hook: what if we can push beyond the confines of realism? What if an elaborate spaghetti mess of tracks that you somehow created into a functional loop of a rollercoaster track is encouraged, if not required? Park Beyond, an effort by Limbic Entertainment published by Bandai Namco, is no different to the usual theme park builder and management sim. Just as the duality of action and stealth gameplay, a theme park builder/management sim will always ask you what kind of person are you: the one to build cosy theme parks and extremely cursed parks that violets every health and safety rules with the intention to inflict as much suffering to its unassuming guests. And those that make the most cursed contraptions possible to push the limits of what the intricate systems and simulation allow you to do. Ones that try to construct the most pleasing piece of land filled with entertainment to serve your escapism needs for you and the whole family.
There are usually two kinds of people who play theme park builder games.
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