Extremely confusing.
The game throws taxes and transportation charges at you and your like WTF I dont know whats good or bad. So you increase taxes and people moan so then you decrease them and the town starts to fall apart its a lose lose situation which can be frustrating but I guess thats what simcity is suppose to be.
Its fun when you get a large city and just put your own disasters on the city. Bowser can come and destroy your city in a godizzla-esc style. Planes can crash, hurricanes nuclear meltdowns. These are all annoying when they pop up unexpectiadly but can be easily avoided to the experienced player.
Its fun but can get confusing so you best pass this one and go for the sim city 2000 edition. Its got better graphics, better view (isometric) whereas this one is a topdown view which makes it hard to work out things.