Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Dec 27, 2021

  Modern Japan is definitely a pack that would work well with a 'mixed' review option. The buildings themselves are quality, they fit into the game well, there's no visual issues. However, the big peeve with everyone, including me, is that every building in the pack, not just the skyscrapers, not just the pagoda, everything is a unique building in the vanilla game. A zoning type similar to European Suburbia would've worked well, instead of a mod requirement for them to actually work like residential/commercial/office buildings. Good design, bad execution, Paradox need to do a double-take on this pack at some point. 5/10.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 14, 2022

  The DLC shows itself as a city theme you can use, but in reality it just gives you unique buildings you can use. So it doesn't change the default building themes, traffic or anything else. Wouldn't recommend
• gamedeal user

  Jan 30, 2022

  Great art that is useless in-game as the custom buildings are not "buildables" that will be constructed automatically in zones, but rather are all individual decorations that have to be placed one by one by the player. The description of the mod should have made this clear.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 31, 2022

  This actually comes with a lot more than I was expecting. I'll list what the contents are since there is no detailed description on the store page. It'll be broken down by category, the asset's name and size, and then my thoughts. Type 1: Small Commercial: Drive-in Restaurant - (4 x 4) Drive-in Oriental Restaurant - (7 x 5) Oriental Market - (5 x 4) Noodle Restaurant - (5 x 5) Ramen Restaurant - (3 x 4) Service Station and Restaurant - (12 x 13) These are nice because they come included with large parking lots, so they fit in better with suburban areas where one would expect to have ample parking when visiting a store or restaurant. The last one, service station, is not actually a gas station but a large rectangular building. I guess it's some kind of highway rest stop, but I think of it as a large steak house. Type 2: Office Small Office Building - (11 x 4) City Office Building - (8 x 4) District Office Building - (10 x 4) Local Register Office - (8 x 5) Various types of brown buildings ranging about 4-8 stories tall. Quite nice, and integrate well into any urban center, office park, or as I like to use them for, headquarters for my service sectors, such as being the main building for my water treatment plant, etc. Type 3: Leisure Downtown Hotel - (6 x 5) Resort Hotel - (15 x 9) The Station Department Store - (15 x 5) The Rail Yard Shopping Center - (15 x 5) Temple - (2 x 3) Specialized tourism buildings, pretty self explanatory. The department store is not actually a "station" nor is the shopping center an actual "rail yard". Both are just large rectangular malls, which again are versatile enough to fit anywhere from suburbs, downtown centers, to recreational districts. The temple is a small pagoda and would work best probably within a park. Type 4: Skyscrapers High Rise Office Building - (6 x 4) Company Headquarters - (10 x 11) Office Skyscraper - (12 x 9) Self explanatory, but the latter two are really tall, eclipsing the vanilla skyscraper unique buildings and even the IT specialization from Green Cities. Great looking assets. Type 5: Services General Hospital - (9 x 8) Waste Disposal Unit - (13 x 12) Both are just Japanese versions of the normal hospital and incinerator, even down to upkeep cost and patient/trash processing rate. Quite nice for some extra visual variety and I'm happy to replace the vanilla incinerator with something much larger and realistic looking. Overall this is a fantastic pack. A lot of people have noted that these buildings cannot be used as a district style to have them spawn randomly. While that is true, you probably really wouldn't want most of these to repeat a lot. The restaurants take up a lot more space than you expect with their parking lots, and the leisure buildings and skyscrapers are best placed once since they are so specialized. It wouldn't have been a bad idea to have the office types spawn, but their footprint is larger than the maximum 4x4 the game allows for spawns, so it really wouldn't have worked with how the rest of the game is designed. Between the choice of having them as they are now, or shrinking them to fit a 4x4 plot, I'd much prefer them to be large since they stand out a lot more than any generic square office. Having them as one time use unique buildings can be circumvented by getting the mod that lets you place unique assets multiple times. As far as blending in with the surroundings, aside from some kanji on signs you wouldn't really notice unless you zoomed up close, all the buildings fit in perfectly with my American city theme. Architecturally they match well with all the vanilla buildings so even if you're not aiming for a Japanese style city I'm sure you can find a lot of uses for them that would look natural and aesthetically pleasing.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 19, 2022

  Look at the other reviewers and decide for your self. Most of the thumbs up reviews note that the buildings include settings for the mod Plopable RICO and are a great addition to the city. Most of the thumbs down reviews say "it's just a bunch of unique buildings" (which is a giveaway they do not use the Plopable RICO mod). That's it, right there. This is in truth a good bunch of buildings, but designed to be used with that mod. If you don't (or can't) use the mod Plopable RICO, frankly this isn't for you. Now it becomes a question of shouldn't the author of the mod also receive credit and a portion of the sales, given this paid download depends on a donated mod to be useful?
• sixteenthNwood

  Dec 17, 2022

  Should have read the reviews beforehand. It's NOT a district style. The buildings are nice, but that's quite the missed opportunity to make this something really cool.
• The Radireis

  Feb 12, 2023

  Wonderful DLC! This is make Cities: Skylines game even much better!
• gamedeal user

  Mar 26, 2020

  After playing 712 hours, this was a pack that I have been waiting for. Thank you for supporting content creators!
• gamedeal user

  Mar 27, 2020

  The content looks amazing, but I'm a little disappointed that it wasn't integrated as a style that would have seen these buildings popping up automatically as proper RICO buildings. If you like placing individual buildings chasing after a specific look then buy with confidence.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 27, 2020

  This is a fairly good pack. I've been waiting for this long time ago. Maybe I was expecting too much from the trailer, most building in this pack are unique building, only few of those comes with an actual function. I am really hoping that the train station shopping mall is really a train station instead of a unique building because Japanese urban train stations are just gorgeous!