Revolutionary.

Was getting close to completing my Netherite gear, ready to face the Ender Dragon with buncha beds to explode... then my nephew deleted this world.

Lotsa work and hours of fun, gone

How do you rate Minecraft? If I were to rate it purely as how good of a "survival" game it is, it would probably have a pretty low score. For example, the game doesn't properly encourage you to explore because the risk (losing all of your items, probably for good) is generally much greater than the reward (seeing some new scenery and maybe getting a name tag, saddle, or some enchanting books if you’re lucky). After the first few hours of playing (casually), you will have plenty of food for the rest of the game. If your goal is to beat the game (once again, casually), then around half of the time you will be making a sugarcane, wheat, cow, and a chicken farm. And if you really want to bury this game in its grave, you could compare it to Terraria, which has leagues better inventory management, progression system, and more than two, yes, two, bosses.

So it seems like a pretty lame game, right? Wrong. Progressively building structures in a survival world is incredibly satisfying, whether it's automatic farms, a burger house, a super smelter, or a giant castle. Or if you want to get something made as quickly as possible without any worries, then you can probably build anything imaginable in creative mode. And playing with friends, or dare I say it, SMPs, make it all the more exciting.

And this doesn't account for all of the creative mods and servers out there. I could spend hours and hours in Hypixel alone, and I have yet to commit myself to complete Create, Pixelmon, RL Craft, or any other innovative mods that I don’t even know about. There are hundreds and hundreds of Youtube Videos that use Minecraft as a medium to share completely unique stories and experiences that could be separated from Minecraft and turned into a book series or T.V. Show. Not many games, if any at all, can claim this achievement.

Usually I assume that a 5 stars or a 10/10 rating means that a game is perfect or very close to being perfect, yet Minecraft is far from a perfect game. Because of its flawed core survival gameplay mechanics, I believe it will never become one. I can totally understand why someone would believe that Minecraft is an overrated, poorly made survival game. But since I can do more creative and fun things than I could ever begin to comprehend, it at least deserves 5 stars from me.