Tag: game review

The McDonald’s game, designed by people to make fun of McDonald’s, was very hard to play. It probably would have been easier to play had I read the entire 30 page tutorial booklet. But come on, it was 30 pages of half serious tutorial. The jokes got old quicker than actual tutorial was happening. This made playing the game very hard. I bankrupted the whole company 3 times in approximately 10 minutes. It was unclear how to farm, turn the farmed material into food, and sell burgers. I don’t think I ever even clicked on the corporate tab to see what actions could be taken. I would not recommend this game if you were actually looking to play a game (unless you like and are very good at fast paced collecting games). I do recommend it to notice the commentary on McDonald’s and corporate greed.

We played modified Monopoly where some people were the wealthy 1%, ‘regular’ white guys, women, and minorities. Each character strata had different rules. Ronan (1%) started on top and very quickly got to be the best. I (a ‘regular white guy’) started pretty well off and was not really affected by Ronan’s buying up all the properties. I think Max was a woman, and he struggled to get anything going. Clay and Ethan were minorities who spent most of their time in jail and couldn’t really do anything. As a queer disabled female-appearing person, I am well aware of the real life systemic oppressions that I and other people faced. It was nice to be a ‘regular white guy’ and not be affected by the System for once.