Planet Coaster: Console Edition Review - 6 Ups & 2 Downs
Downs
2 - Detailed Building With A Controller Is A Chore
Piece-by-piece building is more than feasible on Planet Coaster: Console Edition, but as said, it’s been relegated to standing behind the blueprints system. Once you’ve found your way through to the individual scenery pieces via the ‘Create’ tab, you can set to work on building your own- anything piece by piece.
With a controller however, this is incredibly finicky. Moving pieces around on a grid can be a chore. Whilst the advanced move functionality is a great inclusion (I am genuinely surprised this level of control ended up in the console version), it definitely has a tougher control scheme to get used to. It’s not at all impossible, but it’s the one aspect of this title that has struggled to translate over to a controller.
You could always plug in a keyboard and mouse. But that opens up yet another problem.