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Friday, October 18, 2013

Mine, build, and fight! A Terraria Review

For all of those that were fans of the PC game, be prepared to use up all your battery life because the mobile game you've been waiting for is here.

Mine, build, and fight! The game is just plain fun. The goal is to mine different types of ores and make better gear and to build. The ores are pretty easy to identify so you won't spend much time digging toward an ore you don't need. To get better ores, and therefore better weapons and gear, you will have to go to hell... Literally, you have to dig for a long time to get the good stuff, which shows how large the world size is.

The deeper you go the more difficult the monsters get. You will start out with Slime and gradually get more difficult monsters like skeletons. There are a ton of variations on enemies. This is where this game differs from Minecraft. Although this game has you mining and collecting material most of the time, there is obviously a much heavier emphasis on combat. You even have bosses to beat, which gives this game a bit more of a "game" feeling over Minecraft's  Lego feel. 

The game is controlled by two analog sticks on the screen. The left is used for movement and the right is used for attacking or mining. You can also touch the screen where you want to mine a specific block, which is very useful. The only issue I have with the controls is that the zoom is currently not working properly. You can zoom in but not out. I'm sure that it will be fixed in the next few updates.

It is important to note that this game is in it's early stages and is still ironing out all the kinks, but if you enjoyed the PC game this is a must have! I sank about fifteen hours into this game before even opening up another game on my phone. As far as I can tell the gameplay is endless, giving you a massive amount of gameplay hours for your cash. If you aren't sure whether or not you want to give up your five dollars, play the demo and decide for yourself.

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