The towns are bustling and the Non Player Characters are friendly and it gives a fantastic illusion of life and activity that it easily could have skipped but the game would have suffered and I'm glad they didn't. Even looking at the map in the corner of your screen is prettier than a lot of other full games.

For the most part the sprites are cute and the world is colourful, rich and joy-inducing. Picking on the gameplay issues aside, the game actually looks quite nice. A game like this needs progression further than a 1% boost to torchlight distance every 2 hours. It's an exploration game that punishes you for exploring. The biggest kicker is that most of your gear is region locked, which means when you travel into a new zone you lose a lot of what you worked so hard to gain. Weapon crafting is also pointless as you can spend time crafting a rare sword or bow just to have one given to you shortly after.

Some dungeons only unlock after you finish a different dungeon but the game doesn't tell you that so it’s an enormous waste of time. Here are a few: Collecting artefacts gives you such an insignificant buff to a stat that it’s meaningless. This game has a fair deal of issues that destroyed my willingness to play it any further.

Notch created a relatively airtight game which allowed the player and their imagination run wild. You mine and you craft and outside of that, there was very little room for mistakes. It's what makes Minecraft a success the game was simple in its premise. The problem with that is that when one encounters many of the gameplay issues that are prevalent within this title, there is little to keep our patience intact and our focus strong.

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