| Pirates! was great. It's not designed to be some in-depth tactical wargame adventure you'll need 5000 played hours to beat, instead everything is just whimsically fun. If you're finding the game too easy, kick up the difficulty a notch, you can start a new game at whatever difficulty you want once you've played to the Divide the Plunder point on the introductory level. Swordfighting with military captains or Montalban on Hard+ gets a little rough.
My only real complaints about the game is that the Frigate is simply the best kind of ship, period (no point in sailing anything but that unless you're still in a sloop trying to get one), and the "sneaking into town" bit is goofy and inscrutable. They also played down the trading aspect of the original, but that's not a huge thing.
I bought it when it came out last Christmas, still fun to fire up for an hour or two on weekends. |