Adelantado Trilogy. Book Two

Really great game. Timed is fun but relaxed mode is best for a cozy game with time to find all the little hidden treasures. The music is very relaxing. I only wish they had made more of this game series, preferably about 50 more.

I like the ability of placing what I want where and being able to upgrade the positions. I also like the length of the game.

This is a unique game format. It is especially challenging and fun to determine how to complete and establish each building and its most efficient order. I wish there more than 3 episodes of the game in this format. I really love it.

This is a most excellent game, with strategy, puzzles and realistic goals.

I just love the Adelantado Trilogy. I love the graphics, the re-playability, and the sheer fun. I play through the whole trilogy nowadays about once a year as I need to forget some details so that it is still fun. Some people feel that is a grind as you are always whacking bushes and building and checking up on progress. But for me, that IS the fun. YMMV

[u]Recommendation[/u]: Another good entry in this series of "efficiency" games. [u]Critique[/u]: This series is similar to the "Labors of Hercules" games, in that the gameplay in both involves a list of set tasks to perform, and the challenge is in figuring out the best way and order for performing those tasks. Unlike in the Hercules games, the Adelantado games have "fog" covering unexplored areas, and the levels can span several screens. So there is a lot more exploration here...which means that it is much more likely in the Adelantado Trilogy to have to replay a level multiple times in order to complete it with a "winning" time. The first (few) attempt(s) are just spent figuring out where everything [i]is[/i], and only then can you play to win...unless you're very lucky, of course. Sometimes you can stumble into or intuit a winning chain of actions and complete a level on the first try...but this becomes increasingly unlikely as the game progresses and each level gets more and more complicated, with very long task lists. Each level has a basic framework: you are simultaneously controlling a Spanish Conquistador and the various native american people that the Spaniards have "emp…