
Starting off at the bottom of the rung, you have the ability to trade with and build within your starting settlement, some early ships to load up with goods, or fight with, and the starting capital to start trading with. Your task as part of one of these colonial countries? Well, to colonise of course. The campaigns place you as a part of one of the colonising countries during this time: England (the UK didn't exist back then), Spain, France and The Netherlands. No, if you were to say what exactly you'll be doing in relation to pirates in this game, it'd be killing them. You can, of course, be a pirate if you want to be, but that isn't the core part of the game.
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What's strange about this whole pirate nonsense is that Port Royale has never really been a series about piracy and Port Royale 4 doesn't suddenly make that turn. I've even had the tutorials break on me, requiring a restart, where it wouldn't recognise me having done what it asked. It's not like you have a choice, all other options are blocked. It will be giving you a long line about landlubbers, wenches, rum and any other pirate cliche, rather than just saying "OPEN YOUR MENU, DOLT". If anything, it gives the worst impression possible of the game due to how drawn out it is. Much like I said in my preview of Port Royale 4, the game really doesn't need such a long-winded tutorial. Wccftech’s Most Anticipated Strategy and Simulation Games of 2022 Is it good, bad, or mediocre? Is it the strategy/simulation answer to all of your wildest fantasies? Let's take to the Caribbean and find out.


But now that I've made the gaming world a much better place with the speeding up of a tutorial, let's have a look at the rest of the game. It's a step in the right direction still. There are still long-winded parts that drone on even after you've done the task. Now, I'm not saying that developers Gaming Minds Studios directly acted upon my preview, particularly my complaints about the tutorials being too slow and in desperate need of a skip button for the long monologues, but the tutorials now have a skip button. It's taught me that things are always better when people listen to me.
