Miley Hanna

I've gotten addicted! For context, I got this game in 2020, when I first started really gaming. Back then I was playing on my very low end laptop that I shared with my sister. I enjoyed the game, but my laptop had a ton of issues running it: crashes, 20 min load-in times, and disconnecting when playing with my friend. It made it hard to continuously make progress, and eventually I ended up dropping the game. Fast-forward to now, I got a new laptop which was a major upgrade. Just for kicks, I tried the game, and lo and behold, it ran incredibly well. When the new update came in adding snails, my friend and I got back into it. The update gave us a lot of direction, and after completing all the new content (which was so gratifying) we have decided to actually try and finish the game! Talking gameplay, I really enjoy the loop of exploration and expansion. Some people will prefer exploring and some will prefer expanding their space-base, but you can't do only one without the other. It's a really nice system. The visuals are completely stunning. All of the landscapes and cave layers will take your breath away! The caves and surfaces of each planet are utterly unique, which makes exploring so exciting! And the audio is on another level: everything is clicky and audible. I don't have words to describe how I feel about the sound design, it's just amazing. Everything hits the mark. If you have a friend to play with, THEN YOU DEFINITELY NEED TO DO THAT! Multiplayer in this game just adds a whole other level. Everything is more fun with friends, and you get things done twice as fast (if, that is, they aren't too busy running you over with their buggy :P). Overall, I cannot recommend this game enough. It's stunning and fun and funny and wholesome, and there's always plenty to do!

Minecraft Dungeons is an awesome game, and you can definitely get a good amount of hours out of it. Similar to Minecraft itself, Dungeons is very easy to learn, but can be played in infinite different ways. It's very good for people new to the genre, like myself and most minecraft fans who decided to pick it up. One of the things the game does best is the way it encourages experimenting with different weapons, armor, artifacts, and enchantments. Based on this experimentation, you'll gain a preference of different weapons and such, and your preference depends on your play style, whether you tend to hang back and shoot, charge through and hack and slash, or use your artifacts to decimate your enemies. And speaking of enemies, you tend to find different tactics work best on different enemies. With skeletons, I find you can shoot or slash them, but creepers are much better taken out with your bow, and zombies make more sense to be taken care of with your trusty sword (or glaive, or mace, or knife, or whatever). The gameplay is pretty good, but my only complaint is how unbalanced the combat is. You'll be very casually hack-and-slashing, when suddenly you get hit with a huge difficulty spike. This isn't so bad in the other levels, but the last level really got on my nerves. I tried four times to beat it, and was sent back to base frustrated every single time. I haven't picked the game back up since, and it really annoyed me, especially because I was extremely close to the level's exit. I might revisit this game, since I don't have many other games to play, but I'm still just feeling hopeless as to ever beating that level. I do still think the game's worth the twenty bucks, but I don't think the DLCs or hero pass/hero edition would be worth it until they introduce cross platform, and I can get a taste of multiplayer. I will update my review when I do play with friends.