Status Chovus Mar 9, 2020
I own the cartridge (well technically my sister owns it, I think, even though I clearly owned the SNES because it was in my bedroom growing up). I played this a lot as a kid and mastered the game. I did not like the scenario mode as much as invading the house. I beat the game twice. The first was …
I own the cartridge (well technically my sister owns it, I think, even though I clearly owned the SNES because it was in my bedroom growing up). I played this a lot as a kid and mastered the game. I did not like the scenario mode as much as invading the house. I beat the game twice. The first was normally by slogging through each territory until I took over the entire yard and house. I liked to use the trick of digging deep to find the secret tunnel to the red nest and trying to assassinate their queen, or at least swipe stuff.
The second time I beat the game was unintentional because I was fooling around with different ways to play. At the start when you are the lone worker, if you take the egg outside and get killed before the next egg is laid, you will become the queen. The queen can do everything other ants can and is pretty good in combat, but she can't lay eggs when outside and if she dies it is game over. So I stayed in the nest not doing much and never attacked the reds. A few breeding cycles went by and I checked the world map to be shocked that I controlled most of the yard already and the reds were only in both starting squares. More sitting around doing nothing and the entire house was taken over and the red starting square was contested. All I had to do then was finish off the reds as the queen leading a massive army, and then take control of the colony in the red start to finish the game with almost no effort and much quicker than playing the game properly.
Good game that is very novel but it is not as much fun as other more strategic/simulation Sim titles.