Metropolismania

Metropolismania known in Japan as Mach-ing Maker is a city-building/strategy game video game published by Natsume (NA), Ubisoft (EU) and developed by Media Factory. 
The game was released on September 27, 2001 in Japan, October 3, 2002 in North America, and on November 8, 2002 in Europe. The main objective of the game is to talk with NPCs to populate various towns. A sequel called Metropolismania 2 was released on August 21, 2007 in North America and on July 13, 2006 in Japan. Later, the spin-off is Mach-ing Maker DS is released on Nintendo DS. Another sequel, called Metropolismania 3, was released for the PlayStation Portable in Japan only. And the final sequel called Metropolismania 4, has released in 2010 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Reception.
IGN rated the game a 6.5 out of 10 GameSpot rated the game a 7 out of 10 stars