The controls are fine, but let’s face it, this is not meant for consoles. You’ll spend a lot of time navigating through menus and slowly moving your cursor from one town to another in Port Royale 4. If I wanted to play god with a Caribbean town, I’d be playing Kalypso’s own Tropico 6. You can also invest in the construction of buildings on your hometown, but honestly, it wasn’t very interesting. This is when Port Royale 4 becomes a lot more interesting. Things are ridiculously slow-paced when you only have one convoy, but with a bit of perseverance, you’ll start owning more than one fleet at a time. Use said money to invest on crew members, repairs, and a small ship every now and then. Start buying smaller chunks of goods and begin trading through nearby islands. It’s a cute map, even if you’re just looking at it at a distance. More often than not, I’d buy goods for cheap at a local harbor, analyze the price of a faraway town’s demand for the same product, sail there, and find out I’d make a much smaller profit than before, simply because it takes way too long for a convoy to sail to another island on the other side of the Caribbean. You will lose money, as it’s hard to predict when a town’s supply and demand modifiers will change. It’s an absolute slog at first, as you’ll only have one convoy of ships. Go from town to town, buying goods for low and selling them for a big profit whenever there’s a larger demand for that certain kind of product. No, the real meat of the game is in trading. It’s a simple turn-based tactics battle system that doesn’t offer a lot of depth (just like the Caribbean Sea, I suppose), quickly becoming a game of clicking and waiting until every single enemy ship is destroyed.
Once you jump into your first combat section, you’ll realize how much of an afterthought it is.
Sure, you can try to dedicate your career as a conqueror or someone who hell-bent on chasing down pirates, but you can definitely notice this is not the game’s main focus. So long as you’re playing it on one specific platform, that is. It’s closer to Rise of Industry than it is to Assassin’s Creed: Rogue, but that’s not a bad thing.
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This is more of a trade simulator than anything else. Here’s the catch, Port Royale 4 is set in the Caribbean, has the same playable civilizations as the ones from Sid Meier’s Pirates, features treasure hunting, it occasionally makes you fight against a pirate vessel, but in reality, this is not quite a pirating game. Shout out to the American guy trying really hard to sound like a pirate from the tutorial mode.
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