SNES Game Review: Monopoly

 I have mentioned in the recent past about different games resembling their IRL (in real life) counterparts.  Another such game is Monopoly.  Yes this is kind of the slimmed-down, not time consuming, whatever you want to call it counterpart to the board game in real life.  That can make good and bad things with this game honestly a decent game overall.

Positives:

1. Pacing- Yes the pacing here is brilliant.  I actually like what Parker Brothers did on the SNES with the pacing.  They knew as well the players would like it.  So they did well with pacing here. Also you can adjust the game pace if you want to go even faster, slower and so forth.

2. Graphics- I actually found the graphics to be done well with the game.  It's a board game so you have to be imaginative in graphics which they did. Kudos to Parker Brothers for that. 

3. Plays like Monopoly, but faster- This will not be hours upon hours on this game.  This will be done pretty quickly for a game.  Typically 30-45 minutes at most.  Most families would love for this to be like actual Monopoly as well. But I think the quick start-to-finish is important here for the Super Nintendo.  

4. Realism of Monopoly- You have all the icons you played with in the original monopoly, all the railroads, utilities, places and yes everyone's desperately searched for place, boardwalk.  Like I said above, the game has a lot of sped up feelings so multi-player will be good for the player and/or players.

Negatives:

1. Limited in scope- There isn't much that this game offers other than it is Monopoly and they have a limited scope after that.  I felt the game if on a different platform or at a later time would have a lot more personality, better sound, lot more interaction overall would have made this game even better.  I think just the fault of it was the limited scope of the SNES made it impossible to incorporate all of this.  However you can see essentially sort of a modern Monopoly with Fortune Street on different consoles now.

Overall Rating/Rank:

There are a lot of positives that Monopoly had which I personally was quite pleased with.  The main ones were the pacing and the speed of the game.  It won't take hours like IRL Monopoly to get done with and that is a pleasure to have.  The realism is also really good.  What it limits in scope though does bring it down several notches.  It's still a good, chill game to play through with family or a friend.  Overall, have to give this game a 7 out of 10 and let's go 217th on the list of SNES games.  Would recommend this game however and that is a good thing