Ah, the quintessential small town: sleepy, wholesome, and invariably the setting for the first few pages of some dismal coin bastard's biographyīut Chester talks straight over it, chewing his way through the script like a business wasp. The music is borrowed from the same game - the classic ‘municipal whimsy’ suite of parping horns, meandering woodwinds and fluttering strings. All his hard-edged business chat is counterbalanced by this cute, small-town bustle: it’s the busy world of Richard Scarry, viewed through the warm, tilt-shifted lens of Cities: Skylines. “Exploiting gaps in the market and meeting demand is all in a day’s work for a canny entrepreneur,” boasts Todd, over footage of little trucks pootling around folksy, tree-strewn streets. And this is, without a doubt, his Webinar Voice. Whoever he is, he’s a VP for an American software company, selling innovative cradle-to-grave solutions to blue-chip players in the credit management sector. It’s the sort of voice that belongs to someone called Chester. “For an enterprising tycoon,” it smarms, as dawn breaks over a sleepy town swaddled in polygonal pine forest, “each new day brings new opportunities in your quest for success.” Or more specifically, the voice that narrates it. I’ve spent a while trying to think my way round this, but there’s no way I can talk about Rise Of Industry without discussing its intro cinematic.
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