The first hour of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition almost had me closing it again. There’s a lot of clicking just to get villagers moving and wood cut, and the camera feels like it’s fighting you if you try to look at more than one corner at once.
Then I managed to wall off a choke point on the second map and watched my archers stand their ground for longer than I expected. It wasn’t flashy, just a straight line of fire while the enemy kept running into the same spot.
Still, the pacing is strange. You spend maybe three minutes actually giving orders and the rest watching numbers crawl across the map. I don’t mind slow games, but this one asks you to stay interested in very little happening for long stretches.
I keep coming back to the thought that twenty minutes in you’re either still placing houses or you’re already behind, and there isn’t much room between those two states.
same night, longer notes
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