And in honour of the spirit of Los Angeles, I only occasionally play the game the right way, these days. I only play on Los Angeles, because it feels like the right thing to do. Oh man, I've made three lungs and a tangle of intestines. What I love most about it is that as my cities grow I can't help but see internal organs cropping up everywhere. But Mini Motorways is never an explicitly satirical game. There is judgement in this, I think - there has to be. This is a city where the big bullies get their way, and their way, in general, means getting to keep to themselves and ignore their slightly different neighbors. Scandalously for the Mini Metro player, you don't even need to connect all the houses that pop up, because you only really need to worry about the stores. So I connect oranges with oranges, pinks with pinks, blues with blues, and I try to never mingle them. Pink and orange cars using the same roads makes the chances of a jam much more likely. It's about separating lines rather than creating diversity. So the weird truth is that, at my level of skill anyway, which is not terribly high, Mini Motorways is the inverse of Mini Metro. And you try to keep contact with others to a minimum. You step out of the car slightly unprepared for human interaction, as if you're emerging from a long sleep.
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You're watching a movie across the cinerama screen of your windshield. In Los Angeles you're separated from the world around you. And the experience of driving in, say, Los Angeles, is very different to being squished on the tube in London. But cars are more selfish than trains, I eventually learned. This swiftly leads to a city in which all the houses and all the stores are essentially connected together: a knot of roads in which multicoloured traffic flows everywhere. The instinct at first is to value time of flight and time of arrival - the quickest route between houses and stores. Pink houses to pink stores! Orange houses to orange stores. Rather than dividing things up by shapes, the game sorts by colour. Basically, the stores make requests and people in the houses have to fulfil them, by sending cars out to the stores and then back to the houses. You have stores and you have houses, and you have to lay down roads to connect the stores to the houses. It's wonderfully positive in this regard: it sees cities as places where diversity is a strength, and there's a certain understanding that if you're using public transport you're not going to go directly to your destination anyway - everyone is in it together, which means you can all expect to go around the houses.Ĭars though! Mini Motorway initially looks kind of similar to Mini Metro. You want a line that can take any traveller to its intended station, which means a line that covers all the shapes for all the different shapes of traveller. The point, I think, is to encourage diversity. Mini Metro is a game about making underground systems, creating various coloured lines that link together stations marked by a variety of shapes.
Still, it took me a while to understand quite how I had to approach things, and it took even longer to let all my Mini Metro instincts fall silent. It makes sense that Apple Arcade's Mini Motorways asks different things of me than Mini Metro, because cars are very different from trains.
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