the national little pony
the privatised little pony
the enshittified little pony
The game's tutorial is fucking garbage. It functionally ends at the basic RTS controls, then leaves you on your own to sort out the complex unit interactions. It's not a game where you can brute force situations in, particularly if you've got buildings to take down. I came into it with knowledge from binging youtube and it's still opaque how this is supposed to be played.
The campaign AI tends to aggressively stripmine and rebuild, leading to them being impossible to take down except in a single overwhelming strike. Basically, if you're slow or unsure (as new players tend to be) it's very easy to run into stalemates where you don't take significant losses but also can't find a way to make progress against them. I've had multiple cases where a mission turned into a 3-4 hour shitshow and frankly fuck anything that devolves into such a waste of time.
I feel like we need a gamer equivalent of the spherical cow* for the mentality that calculates everything to death and also assumes the only player worth addressing has the will and time to attain mastery and perfect game knowledge. Y'all were playing these games with cheats when you were kids. I want to have a good time while also kinda sucking at the game, thanks.
*(I'd hesitate with using spherical gamer though, that will get horny within days)
I can't put an image into a comment so Might as well turn this into a Marketing Opportunity
coolstation, where you can give swirlies to a gamer gravitational singularity (with some admin powers, this sadly isn't run of the mill gameplay sorry)