Tropico 5 - Inquisition

For the first time, I'm not going to dislike this DLC because of its price. This is just an outright horrible DLC. You know the deal by now: outfit, mission, building. Outfits are useless, so won't comment on it, but the mission and building are the laziest put together and this is by far the worst DLC released. The new building is the Inquisition. A colonial-era building, the Inquistion...wait, what exactly does it do? The building info page doesn't specify what it does. The main purpose is that it allows you to persecute a faction. What this actually means isn't explained, nor do I see any reason why you would bother persecuting factions. They're so irrelevant in the game that I doubt players even know what the factions are. The Inquisition can also be upgraded to make money from other religious buildings, and this can actually be quite profitable later in the game when you do have several religious buildings. The mission is terribly designed. Although it's nice to see a colonial-era mission other than the Big Cheese, the problem is that the colonial era is a very boring time period. It mainly serves as early-game raw material harvesting for later periods, but when you're stuck in the colonial period, there's nothing you can really do. You don't get access to the powerful economic buildings and you're limited to plantations and mines for income. To make things worse, you have to deal with the mandate time limit, and when the final objective throws a 12-month delay before it triggers, you really have to play the early game right to even make the mission winnable. The mission objective involves identifying and removing cultists. They are revealed by the Inquisition in a similar way to the Mad World DLC, and you have to manually click on each one to remove them (and at a price). This has to be the worst gameplay "mechanic" used. It's a stupid game of finding exclamation marks to get rid of them. Half your buildings get wrecked by scripted disasters every year just to frustrate you. Finally, you have to destroy the Inquisiton building and withstand a moderately-sized invasion, which is easily held off with a few guard towers and a squad of troops. And that's it. There's no "plot" in this mission, unlike many other DLC missions. There's no pop culture gimmick (you could swear they would make more Monty Python references other than the Spanish Inquisition, but no). This is plain insulting to Tropico players. There's hardly any voice dialogue in the DLC too, so for the developers to justify the cost by continually asserting the studio work they have to do makes no sense. It really looks like the creativity for each DLC is waning with each monthly release. What's next? The trend, unfortunately, looks like more overpriced and lazier content. https://youtu.be/f0zui68UanA

I've bought all of the dlcs so far, and I've come to expect certain level of atleast mediocrity from them. But this is the first dlc I'll be giving negative review. The mission takes place only in the first era, which by my taste is sour. The new inquisition building is useful. But I cannot beat the scenario even when meeting all the winning conditions. The last objective (spoiler) is to survive the spanish retaliation strike for getting rid of the inquisition. I did that and got no further tasks. Yet I am not presented with the you win message, instead 10 months later ingame time and I lose the mission since my colonial mandate runs out. I got the feeling that it is the laziest dlc so far, with little detail to the objectives.

Boring, Stuck in the colonial period forever. Hard to win. New building is NOT useful in the play-on-your-own areas either. Horrible DLC. Do not waste your money!

I literally used the Inquisition building once, and it didn't even work properly. Never used it ever again.

Terrible, time waster dlc, wait for events, complete event then do more waiting whilst being stuck in the colonial era with a time limit?!? I finished last event to win mission, it didnt register after 6 months and i lost due to being ousted by "his majesty" despite picking extended mandate every event reward i could, so i dont know how to complete this. It wasn't enjoyable to play and even less enjoyable to "win". RAGE! I don't like these micro dlcs but want to support the devs but this is just disgusting!

They rape you with all these dlcs. but i ended up getting them all they should have been a buck each so keep that in mind when reading these reviews ill still give it a good review just because i liked the game regardless.

This review is in English and Slovak language: Táto recenzia je v Anglickom a Slovenskom jazyku: This game has so much DLC for several times the price of the base game that I don't recommend this DLC because of developer greed, regardless of its content. Táto hra obsahuje toľko veľa DLC za sumu niekoľko násobne vyššiu ako je cena základnej hry, že toto DLC neodporúčam z dôvodu chamtivosti vývojára, bez ohľadu na jeho obsah.

Three earthquakes in a minute? Ridiculously short time for a mission that takes time? Really??? Worst mission in the entire franchise.

Not alot of meat to this DLC its not really all that challenging and is somewhat short. The main gripe I have is that it all takes place during the colonial period. If the DLC was split into two missions one where you build up the Inquisition and another where you tear it down I feel the DLC would have been much better but as it stands the story line builds on the big bad inquisition only to end up being a boring let down. With that said I dont regret getting the DLC as the inquisiton building can sorta be useful (it detects hidden roles and upgraded gives you money for each church on the island) however for the most part this DLC isnt really worth the price.

Hhahaha my island is only catholic missions and my people still dont have religious satisfaction but it doesnt matter because im making infinite money because of one stupid building

First challenging DLC out of the bunch. Mission takes place only during the first era. So you have to finish the mission before your mandate runs out. The randomness of the mandate length bonuses/penalties and the constant earthquake distasters make it a challenge.

This pack is actually really good and enjoying .... - And one's more this pack really help me in revolutionary my country ...

Awful mission, mandate runs out before the Inquisition attacks and there's no way to extend it. And there's the stupid mechanic of fighting that lasts months (!) while you stare at soldiers standing there just shooting at each other. Main game is OK, but this DLC is just awful and lazy. I know it's been many years since the game came out, but I just have to vent my frustration, this is easily the worst mission so far having finished the main game and the big DLCs.

I enjoyed the scenario that came with this, but the new building hasn't done much for me. I still think it's a good DLC pack to buy though. Just not the first one i'd choose, if I was picking between them all.

Again, sucks that you don't get an achievement for completing this. Doesn't take too long to complete. Not particularly challenging. To be honest preferred Tropico 3 & 4, more than 5 anyway. Bought whilst in the sale, definitely not worth paying full price for.

The Inquisition, let's begin The Inquisition, look out sin We have a mission to convert the Rebels We're gonna teach them wrong from right We're gonna help them see the light And make an offer that they can't refuse (that the Rebels just can't Refuse) Confess (confess, confess) Don't be boring Say yes (say yes, say yes) Don't be dull A fact You're ignoring: It's better to lose your skullcap than your skull [i] (oy gevalt) [/i] The Inquisition, what a show The Inquisition, here we go We know you're wishing That we'd go away But the Tropican Inquisition's here and it's here to stay

I'm gonna give this one a thumbs up. Why? It's the Inquisition, fer cryin' out loud. For $4... you get THE INQUISITION. If folks are expecting an army of red hats, cushy chairs, and soft pillows... well, don't get your hopes up too high. But for $4 (or less when it's 50% off day) you get... THE INQUISITION. Bottom line: it's a building and a new mission, and you can persecute a faction... plus, THE INQUISITION. Either half a cup of coffee, or THE INQUISITION? I choose... THE INQUISITION. Inquisitively yours,

I find the scenario interesting to play with. The sandbox map looks cool too.

They spent more time working on the thumbnail than the actual content

This is by far, the worst DLC for T5. Not worth $3.99

the stuff added like Dungeon are some of the best items.

The mission is quick and stupid, the new building is worthless.

Nobody expects the tropican inquisition!

theres nothing in my empty head

Not bad, buy it with the bundle.

Great DLC

all dlc in this game are fucking trash

Not worth it!

bad map hard dlc but i like a challenge keeps me awake and sane