Score: 7
"Needs some "main events.""
date: November 13, 2007
I found the game got very, very repetitive. From the music to the pattern of races:
Day 7: Small race (2500, 3000)
Day 15: Medium Race (5000, 7000)
Day 25: Big Race (10000, 12000, 15000)
With your "starter" horse, only enter the Day 7 races. Then, get to a medium horse and win the Day 7 and 15 races.
I finally got the $87K horse (4-4-3), and trained him up to 4-4-4 (Power, Speed, Recovery). It took a heck of a while.
It typically does the training run in 14:15 to 14:50. I can't seem to improve its speed at this point.
With this horse, I've only come in "place" (second) once, in a $15K race. I can even ignore the whip in anything up to a RedCow ($7K) race.
The game does get boring. I suggest adding in some random events: horse breaks its leg (need a new horse), or horse gets covered in a racing magazine, earn a few $K, or it needs a vet (costs $ or you lose the horse).
The game is otherwise a very long, arduous grind through training runs and races. After 3 years, the game did not come to any sort of climax, like a Derby or Triple Crown. It would have been nice to have a big ending with a wreath draped over the horse's neck. Either that, or you might make a trophy stand in a corner.
Give the game more personality.
