How can anyone find mining rock for ten minutes to find a bit of iron ore entertaining? Funnily enough, this gameplay loop remains entertaining, but in a more relaxed, almost meditative way. You pop up in a world, gather the essentials, go underground to get the best armor and weapons, do the exact amount of exploring to get you to the biome that has the ingredients you need, rinse and repeat.įor someone who has never played the game, it may feel weird. Once you work your way around things, it can become a grind, not a game. While the initial awe you feel when discovering the world of Minecraft will last you a long time, it doesn’t stay forever. Throw in a set of basic logical operators and some ingenuity into the mix, and you can develop a machine like this. Place a source of redstone “electricity” somewhere, connect it via a redstone “wire,” and you can change a block in the distance: make a lamp light up, make a door open, or make a piston move. This rare material can be used in a way that resembles an electric circuit. If you’re technically inclined, you can discover the other side of Minecraft building - redstone machines. Once you’ve conquered the difficulties of the survival mode or enter the creation mode, the game basically becomes a 3D pixel art canvas where you can create masterpieces like this. The game area is a bunch of blocks you can destroy and place wherever you want, so it lends itself to large-scale construction. But most Minecraft players discover the joy of building sooner or later. Since it’s a sandbox, you can spend the entire playthrough exploring the vast randomly generated dungeons and fighting skeletons for loot.
You feel what Lewis and Clark must have felt when they were going through an unknown land, potential danger in any bush - a mix of awe and anxiety.Īfter you’re done with the exploration bit, there comes construction. There’s a whole world in front of you, and no one is holding your hand to guide you through it. For someone who’s launching Minecraft for the first time, it’s a wild frontier kind of experience. You have the liberty to decide what you want to do on your own.
You don’t see NPCs that would direct you towards the Ender Dragon, you don’t see a memo telling you what you should do next. The best part is, the game doesn’t push you towards any of them.
Minecraft is a sandbox game with many options of what to do for fun. Sure, technically, there’s an end goal of going into the Nether and defeating the Ender Dragon, but most people who’ve played Minecraft never heard about that guy. And well, that seems to be the whole thing for many people. You chop down trees, dig underground to mine ores, harvest or grow food, and build structures. When you survive your first night and learn the basics, you get into the main gameplay loop. As the night approaches, you will need to get a shelter or you’ll be eaten by a mob of monsters. When you boot Minecraft, you appear in a procedurally generated world - a new one each time - and are left there to survive. If you don’t know what’s so special about this cubic world, let this review lead you down the rabbit hole. If you fell in love with Minecraft at first sight, you know why that is, even if you can’t quite put it into words. Minecraft, a game with the visual complexity of a cardboard box that was released in the same year with Borderlands, Batman: Arkham Asylum, and Uncharted 2, has sold more copies than all of these games combined.
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