Mega Mall Story

As the name implies, Mega Mall Story you will be running a mall! wow who would have thought.. The game begins the same as all Kairosoft games. You start off with the lowest of the low mall, and must grow into a full 5 star mall in a certain amount of years, also might I add losing isn't really a possibly. So with this in mind players will make money and grow their mall at a steady pace, almost automatic and you have to do nothing. The challenge is to grow as fast as possible to achieve the 5 star rating faster than all of your friends. With the game ending at year 15 like all Kairosoft games, you really need to push the boundaries to create the best out come for your mall to succeed in this game.

Gameplay:

Mega Mall Story has two major currencies players must juggle: Hearts and Money. Hearts are earned when customers decide to stop by your shop, and are used to unlock new shops and to upgrade the inventory or products from your current shops. Players spend their cash on building more store, adding several new floors, advertising on blimps, and investing in the community of course. Like any sim game it should be a lot of cut throat decisions. Players should always have a bit of money left to make sure if things go wrong they have something to fall back on, for example, do you want to build elevators or create a new shop, the choice is up to you. The eye popper about Mega Mall Story for me comes from how many different types of shops there are and the graphs that show based on the stores created what which you lean towards making. With nearly 100 stores, all the additional upgrades to your mall this game is very amusing to see the mall you designed flourish with customers. Each month is considered another in-game round. The store that were sold out re-open, the weather changes accordingly that effects what type of crowd you'll receive (rainy not many customers). Not to mention my least favorite part, rival malls open and try to take your customers, to combat this you must invest in the community and win back the customers that way. Mega Mall is a very addicting game with a lot of fun shops to choose from, while the touch controls are a bit sensitive, and even unresponsive it's something that you will learn to get over and then the game is very fun. While the game is very good at explaining how to play the game the down fall in my opinion would be they really never explain how a customer that comes to your store every day is not a "regular" but others that don't are. It's never fully explained and leaves me wondering but it's not so big that it ruins the imagine of the game.

Closing comments:

Mega Mall Story represents Kairosofts greatest potential. It's near perfect, the simulation depth and options you can choose along with the addictiveness that it brings is amazing. Anyone out there that has ever played a Kairosoft game and didn't like it I'd advise you to give them one more try and download this game for the current sale of .99 and try it for yourself you won't regret it.