I first got into Broken Sword when ‘The Sleeping Dragon’ was released on the PS2. Overall though, it is great fun to play and keeps that retro feel to it. This game is extremely addictive to play and planning out each day to try and maximise it is great fun but your powerlessness over the operation of the stall over the course of the day is a little annoying as it would be great to use the functions on the platform to mix the lemonade or the like. At the end of each day you have a little summary of how much you made or lost and how well the customers liked your drinks. Outside the daily starting menu, there is very little for you to do, once you set up your stall for the day then it is just a matter of sitting there watching or winding through the day’s events to see how you did.
As the game progresses and you have a larger budget to play with you can upgrade your stand with options like a fridge and a lemon squeezer to allow to you keep products for longer and speed up the making process. You have to buy ingredients to make up the lemonade each day in the beginning of the game, so you need to plan how many glasses you think you’re going to sell that day to make a profit and recover costs. The thing is after the first neighbourhood you have each location costing you rent, ranging from $10 to $150, so it is once again a point of balance between the cost and what you have in your account.Īs I mentioned earlier, ingredients are the key to the game.
You have ten locations to choose from and each as different statistics depending on how people will perceive your business. Where you place your stall is important too. The only problem is that Marketing costs a lot and is taken out of your balance each day so you need to balance it out. Of them is the weather customers will be more thirsty on hotter days than that of colder ones, but also you have the ability to change the ingredients in your lemonade to fit to the heat or to save on ingredients, depending on whether you’re a scrooge or not! (More on that in a bit) Another factor in the game is your marketing and placement, if you spend some of your profits on marketing then more people will be aware of your stall and it will generate more interest in the business. There are different variables for each day and each one will change how well you do on that given day. Lemonade Tycoon places you in charge of a Lemonade stand in a selection of different areas of which you can switch between depending on how the day plays out.