Minecraft Review

My only real experience into PC gaming came in the form of Minecraft. If you do not know this game yet, own it, or god forbid, you haven't heard of it, you should beat yourself with an iron pickaxe now. Afterwards google it and research. I'll wait for you to do so.








Long enough. Now, I can get down to business and that is discussing this 'game'. It is currently only in beta, so technically not a full game as of yet so is hard to comment on it without risking sounding like a complete fool in the next month as someone tells me that they fixed one of my issues with such and such. Well, you'll have to look at it as it stands now. Right now it's originality wears off rather quickly. Yes it is fun to build various creations in the world of minecraft and you can install mods that extend the originality of the game, and it has a retro feel with huge pixels, but it now just sits as an icon on the bottom of my screen looking hopefully at me as if to say 'play with me like you used to, I get so lonely',  well, give me a good story and some gameplay that isn't super repetitive and I'll show you love.

Yet, despite all of this the game does have a certain charm which after a while draws you back in, it's curiously addictive and simple that you have to open a piece of your heart to it. At which point it laughs in your naive face and mocks you for crawling back on your hands and knees, pleading it to take you back, you were wrong and should never have let it go.

When later patches and the full game are released later the year adding some sort of 'story' aspect to the game I will look again at the game and see if it has potential to be a great game. But right now, its still developing. A teenager that has mood swings, feels free to try new things, allowing you to alter its programming with mods. (Thus kinda of like drug abuse, ok it's a loose reference, try really hard and you'll get there.)

Out of 10 I give the current state of Minecraft a 6. It shows promise, is addicting, but not really sure of the reason why.

All is left to do is salute and say I am Dave! yognaut.

J Stanley