![]() ![]() You can’t buy supplies or spare arrows before heading out on a mission, which can lead to some weird situations if you’ve doubled down on an archer build and you’re starting a mission with 20 arrows. There’s nothing to do with the in-game money you earn, other than buying randomised items or weapons from the merchants. Still, there’s some lacking systems and strange design choices. So for a kid, maybe five, six, seven or eight year old playing Minecraft day in and day out, Minecraft Dungeons could be what they’re looking for.Īnd even if it’s not, it could at least be something their parents are looking for – another inoffensive, charming, blocky game without blood or any themes that might spawn awkward questions at the dinner table. If I’m six or seven years old, and the most I know about video games is all that my parents have let me play since I was old enough to hold a controller without destroying it, I’m not going to have years or decades of experience and expectation. I know they exist because I’ve played other ARPGs. Minecraft Dungeons is competent enough, save for some bugs and geometry quirks, but it’s also missing systems and features and options for doing the basic things that you’d expect from something releasing in 2020.īut I care about all of those things because I know they exist. ![]() The world doesn’t have that depth or interactivity or interesting storylines you can find in other games. The mechanics are the same as every other dungeon crawler. Different weapons and items have their own attack timers and cooldowns, and there’s plenty of variety with all the potential loadouts.įor me, as someone who grew up getting a shiver as soon as I heard the Butcher roar in the original Diablo, there’s not much incentive to replay Minecraft Dungeons over and over. You can change your outfit and build on the fly, completely or partially. The controls handle well enough, and all the attack animations and effects look nice. It’s really just Baby’s First Diablo wearing a Minecraft skin.Īnd that’s principally fine. You can’t build anything back at base camp. ![]() There’s no world generation or destruction like you might expect from a Minecraft game. But that’s about as far as the Minecraft comparisons go. The levels do look nice, and they echo the Minecraft aesthetic well. Beat the end boss on the final difficulty, and you’re done. There’s some secret dungeons to find throughout the world, but there’s not really an endgame as such. When you complete the missions once more after that, you’ll unlock Apocalypse, which ramps up the difficulty and rewards once again. When you’ve run through all of the main missions, you’ll unlock a second difficulty level, adventure. Your equipment doesn’t scale as you level, and you can’t spend your in-game currency on upgrades. This means while you’re free to play as a survival melee character, a ranged specialist or the game’s equivalent of a caster, you’re really stuck to whatever loot gets dropped. Players can’t steal each others’ gear, at least, but loot drops for every single level are fixed. Gear dropped can’t be shared with other players. Cross-play isn’t enabled either, which is a massive shame. The co-op play is missing some crucial features, though. Either way, once you’re dead, or run out of lives, you’ll have to restart the mission again. In co-op, you’re reliant on being revived by heroes if you fall. In solo play, you get three lives to complete each of the game’s 10 main story levels. The whole game can be played in solo or co-op, and levels scale with the amount of players in-game. There’s a little bit of a plot running throughout, but the main motivation here is to smash up enemies for loot, gain levels, and keep doing that until big numbers get bigger. You’re a basic Minecraft character, running around ten different worlds smashing boxy wizards, skeletons, creepers and other Minecraft enemies. Minecraft Dungeons is the first foray for the blocky, voxel universe into dungeon crawling. So straightforward that you could probably say it’s the simplest – and shallowest – dungeon crawler around. Minecraft Dungeons is pretty straightforward.
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