Minecraft

released on Nov 18, 2011

Minecraft focuses on allowing the player to explore, interact with, and modify a dynamically-generated map made of one-cubic-meter-sized blocks. In addition to blocks, the environment features plants, mobs, and items. Some activities in the game include mining for ore, fighting hostile mobs, and crafting new blocks and tools by gathering various resources found in the game. The game's open-ended model allows players to create structures, creations, and artwork on various multiplayer servers or their single-player maps. Other features include redstone circuits for logic computations and remote actions, minecarts and tracks, and a mysterious underworld called the Nether. A designated but completely optional goal of the game is to travel to a dimension called the End, and defeat the ender dragon.


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Minecraft is an unreviewable game. Each review of Minecraft is paradoxically, both true, and false. The experience one has with Minecraft is one of the most personalized experiences ever made for a game. This is to a point that any description of mechanics, systems, and characteristics of the game in truth, just don’t matter. What matters then is the personal experiences, the history, and the memories made by Minecraft. While there is an “ending” for Minecraft, Minecraft is a game with no absolute ending, the world, story, and game go for as long as you play. While I have had Minecraft for practically a decade now, I only now finally got to see the game’s “ending”, and only now does it feel proper to describe my experiences with Minecraft.

Minecraft is a game that helped birth new creativity within me. Be it Survival, Creative, or even custom made adventure maps, I loved seeing, or even building my own little worlds with their own history. Even in my single player survival worlds, it felt like I had crafted my own narrative, starting from nothing, and making a true home for myself. I remember my first set of rudimentary houses, before I got better at building, learning, and finding new materials in order to create something even better. I remember venturing off into the wilderness to find stunning land generation, running into new structures, or new biomes. I remember the moments I stopped to farm, craft, and plan what the next little chunk of progress I wanted to work on was. And whatever I did, whatever narrative was told, I was the one telling it. All of those experiences were caused by my own actions.

For me, Minecraft holds a lot of memories. I remember back before I even had a full copy of Minecraft, demos allowed you to play really old, like Beta 1.3 versions of Minecraft for free, and I did that a lot. I remember getting Minecraft proper around Release 1.7, for a time frame of reference. Even after a decade now, Minecraft has still stuck with me. It’s a game I play whenever I’m stressed, and I need to relax. It’s a game I play if I’m feeling creative and I want to build. It’s a game I play with friends when messing around online. Minecraft is so much to me, even if I don’t play it as much as I did as a kid.

And it’s weird, right? This review, this general examination of Minecraft may not, likely will not, remain true. Minecraft as a game is ever changing, when I put this out, Minecraft is seemingly close to releasing 1.21, while I played on 1.20. There will always be more to see in Minecraft, Minecraft when I was a kid is wildly different than Minecraft as it is now, and even then, I still end up falling in love with it all over again. In the next ten years, when I’m in my 30s, who knows how different Minecraft will be, and how different I will be as well.

It is a little bit of a wonder to me too that it took me this long to finally “beat” Minecraft. Minecraft isn’t too difficult of a game, and if you know what you’re doing, the Ender Dragon isn’t that hard of a fight. I think the reason why it took me this long to finally do it was because I just never prioritized it. I always focused on other things, building, farming, exploring, those sorts of things are what I loved to do. Only once I set out to finally fight and beat the Ender Dragon did I finally do it. And with how long I’ve had Minecraft and it taking over a decade for me to finally “beat” this game, I had a feeling that I haven’t felt in such a long time. It felt like beating my first ever game all over again.

I used to be really bad at videogames, I’ll admit. My first ever videogame was Pokemon Diamond, I got it around its release date, and I could never beat it for years. I think the 3DS was already out when I finally beat Pokemon Diamond for the first time, and it felt amazing, refreshing, and it felt like a book closed that has been longing for this moment. I felt a genuine sense of joy and sadness when it was over. Even looking back further, the first game I ever beat proper was Pokemon Ranger: Guardian Signs, so with the general frame of reference there, it took me 4 years from my first videogame to the first time I beat a videogame. With the fact I had Minecraft for over a decade, this joyous, and sorrowful sense of closure has hit me once again.

I have no doubt I’ll return to Minecraft. I don’t know if it’d be on the same world, or on a new save, but I’ll be sure to play it again. Minecraft is a game to relax, and reflect when the world outside becomes a bit too much. It’s a game where you can truly test the limits of your creativity. It’s a game where communities can be formed. It’s a game where stories are told, and memories are made. It’s a game that’s always changing. It’s a game where everything is possible.

while i don't play it anymore, i can't deny that it's one of the most charming and nostalgic games i have ever played. it's no wonder it's the best selling video game of all time! the ost is so good and melancholic that it resonates with me even years later, creative mode and the minecraft youtube videos is where i had the most fun with the game! i can't put it into words anymore just please play it.

One of my favorite forms of meditation. Especially because the music makes you think about your purpose in the universe.

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