Drum Corps Tycoon 4+

I found out about this game from an EMC Productions video, and I thought I’d try it out. I never thought a game like this would be so fun to me, especially the attention to detail about drum corps. Even the corps that won at championships that year, in the game, was accurate too!

One thing I’d like to request is to make the game play for longer, or play for as long as you want. You start from the 2000 season and end at the 2019 season. This is fine, but I wish I could play more seasons, like not going into the future but the option to start your corps more in the past. For example, you can have the option to start at the beginning of DCI in 1972, or pick your own year to start from, like 1982 or 1995 or whatever. It would also be great to update this game to make it include the 2021 season, 2022 season, and possibly the 2023 season (depending on when this game is updated).

Overall a great game, I just wish more could be added to it!

Wow at first when I saw the price I was a little bit worried. But it was definitely worth it. This game was really fun to play, I mean I accidentally played this for four hours without noticing the time. Good job to the creators for making a fun and exciting game.

However, as I stated in the title there was a few small things. The first being when I got tired of staring at my phone screen. I wanted to get a bigger screen so I downloaded the game on my iPad. Unfortunately the game doesn’t fit on the iPad screen and I couldn’t press a lot of the buttons. The second being the max level. I understand the use of the max level because the game has a season limitation on it, which leads me into my final complaint which is we should be able to go as long as we want and win as many championships as we want. Then when we are done we can restart the game ourselves.

Finally I had a few other ideas for this game and these include
1. Being able to buy and run multiple other drum corps
2. As stated earlier more seasons
3. Also stated earlier get rid of the max level
4. Make the game playable on the iPad
5. I’m sure this will take a lot of time but make a 5 second mini show to play at the championship

I am sure that I will come up with others in the future. But for now those cover it.

Thanks for reading my review!

This game is incredible, just beat it today, but I also have a few suggestions:

The violin crescendo thing when revealing scores only lines up in prelims, due to pauses in the animation for more tension.

One cool feature to implement would be to allow the player to create their own logo, and to create uniforms that also need upkeep in addition to props.

When I beat the game, the stats didn’t line up with what happened. It only said that my corps existed for one year, and that I had only won once, however I had won about 5/6 times.

The newspapers could have side columns with joke titles.

I could keep going, but I’ll end it with this: perhaps more options could be given during show design, and different choice based events (like during the tour period) could occur in an expanded section based on spring training. Sorry for making this really wordy! It’s obvious and admirable how much care and talent went into putting this together! 😀