I have never played “Minecraft.” I’ve never seen the appeal in a create-your-own-fun ‘play environment’ masquerading as an actual game. The N64-quality low-poly character models and hideous textures only served to push me further away from participating in a piece of software that is, by all accounts, a massive pre-teen hit. In playing “Terraria” – a.k.a., 2D “Minecraft” – I quickly grew bored with the unstructured gameplay which became more annoying the more ‘progress’ the player made. I just figured that the ‘digging’ Sandbox genre wasn’t for me… that is until I played “Steamworld Dig,” a 2D digging game blended with the classic Action/Adventure elements that form the foundation of the so-called ‘Metroidvania’ subgenre.
With dozens of “Mine... |
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