Cities: Skylines - Parklife Review (✪✪ Sgt Rakov ✪✪)
Overrated DLC that doesn't deserve its praise. You play the base game, put down some pre-made park and think "I wish I could make my own park without bothering with asset editor and stuff", unfortunately that's not how it works. This is just one of the similar-playing "create a zone and get it to level 5 by spamming stuff" DLCs, this time you have 4 types of park (city park, amusement, zoo and natural reserve) and they require quite a lot of spam to level up, and no, props or trees don't count - you must place pre-made buildings to increase your park popularity rating. So you buy this DLC to escape spamming same buildings again and again, only to have to spam same buildings again and again. And some of them are much more space efficient than others, so chances are, you are gonna spam just one. Just one example: City Park, Gazebo is 2x2 building that gives you 60 enterntainment value, and you need 1120 for level 5, that's 19 of them to reach it - and that's just the most efficient one, other available buildings yield much less enterntainment per tile. And City Park buildings don't even look like city park. A chessboard? A trampoline area? It looks more like leftover assets from other types than something from a real downtown park area. There's only one plaza with a fountain available. And zero horse rider statues, and we all know that's the first thing you see in any real city park. But apparently trampolines were more important to add.