No matter how rocky life can be, you will always have the stability of Minecraft waiting to embrace you. Even if now you're afraid to visit bedrock because it became a horror game somewhere in your break. It's like Endermen all over again.

Favourites
Character - Slime will always be my bff. But Mooshrooms are up there.
Moment - The excitement of a fresh server, of new patches, new mods, of discovery and friendship.
Music - controversial opinion, but we prefer the caves and cliffs ost. The original music is forever legendary.

This game was our childhood, and despite amnesia we still remember the month before Christmas, reading the back of the box in the car, knowing that the next month of not being able to play it would kill us. But it didn't, and when we finally got it? It stuck with us.

As a child, this game had it all: unique designs, loveable characters, repetitive dungeon grinding gameplay, photography, crafting, and even a town builder system that let you Walk Around It in 3D??? That was always the coolest back then. We forgot a lot of details over the years, but we'll always remember crying at a particular mid-game reveal.

But to access the final boss, we needed information we forgot. And we didn't have internet back then. We never finished it.

Playing it two decades later, I don't think we would have ever succeeded as a kid. Without spoilers, the end bosses are Brutal, and if we hadn't ground the whole game for very good weapons it may have been abandoned a third time.

But we did it. And it feels like a weight off our chest, something off the bucket list. It was slower than we remembered, but a child's view of the world is so much more magnificent. Despite that, it was a wonderfully charming game that we would highly recommend to anyone who loves a good retro rpg.

4 stars for the actual game, 1 for how much it impacted our life. ✨

Favourites
Character It's somewhere between Flotsam, Elena, & Mayor Need, but I love them all. 🥹 Bonus shout-out to our childhood love for Monica.
Moment - The motherly discovery. Also Paznos, but that was a lot cooler as a child; as an adult you can't help but realise how clunky the cutscenes are.
Music - Kazarov Stonehenge hits different, and to this day we feel such strong emotions listening to it.

Dreamlight is a genuinely decent cozy game; it's pretty, moreish, the plot isn't half bad, they've done a great job characterising, and its Star Path feature is actually really decent (giving you half your moonstones back if you complete it). The gameplay loop is good if you like collecting things, the quests feel neverending in a good way, and the decoration is Very engrossing.

But then there's the Microtransactions. I haven't seen a game this greedy in a while, obviously whalefishing more than caring for fair prices.

Half a star has been added because it's easy enough to get premium currency via the Dreamsnaps feature, but between the above and going back on its free-to-play promises and charging a ton for DLC, it won't go much higher.

We wanted to like Infinite as much as the other two. We really did. But no matter how much we tried, it just didn't as special, and if it weren't for an autistic fixation on the Lutece Twins, I think we would have abandoned this game.

Don't get me wrong, this was a Bioshock game; but we wonder if perhaps it would have benefitted from not being a Bioshock title (plot & dlc aside). There was a sprit that 1 & 2 had that Infinite failed to elicit from us; Columbia was no Rapture, it didn't feel as fleshed out, as lived in, as full as the haunted empty underwater city, despite the countless citizens that lined the streets and the incredible atmospheric sound and design of the city. The characters were good, but- apart from perhaps the Lutece twins- every character felt flat compared to the quirky, messed up citizens of Rapture (and I sincerely do not think that was helped by the benign choice to have the Generic Gruff Main Character of the era).

If not compared to its predecessors, it was a gorgeous game that perhaps didn't appeal to our tastes as much as we'd like. It was interesting, and beautiful, and had some very memorable moments. But alas, by wearing Bioshock's shoes, it doomed itself to trip.

Favourites
Character It's been so long, and we've yet to find a duo character that hit quite the same way as the Lutece. Brilliant designs, fantastic story, and a wit about them that just has you excited the moment you hear their leitmotif.
Location - Battleship Bay always sticks with us; as someone who grew up in a seaside town, it really did get the atmosphere down wonderfully.
Moment - Booker's remembering.

This game gave us a hyperfixation on a Charming Southern Capitalist and I don't know how to feel about that. 5 stars.

Favourites
Character? Sinclair by miles, but almost every character in this is a wonderfully flawed personality.
Location? Home apartment in the Multiplayer Mode.
Moment? There's Something In the Sea.