Terraria

Open-world sandboxes are not typically my thing, and I honestly expected this to be an exception with the 2D side-scrolling and cool aesthetic.

Unfortunately, it did not live up to that. It felt like more of the same to me, and actually came across to be even more of a slog than 3D open-world stuff. While the limitations of the 2D approach to this can, in theory, open up new worlds and possibilities, my time with the game did not bear any fruit to that. And who knows, maybe if I persisted harder, it would have! But it's such a chore to get through at first that, despite knowing what the possibilities were later on, I could not be convinced to keep pressing on. A shame, because the art style and aesthetic is the biggest single selling point for me, and I imagine for a lot of people it'll be enough of a hook.

i like this game, it has a lot to do and its amazing how much care re logic has put into this game

Graphics
they are very pleasing, the detail on some of the bosses is incredible and the gore when an evil thingy is killed is very satisfying

Sound/music
The soundtrack is a bop what can i say,each piece is fitting and one of my favorites is the mushroom biome theme for it has very funky noises i like.And the the sound design holds a lot of weight to it and feels satisfying.Like every crunch or cry from my enemies that i slaughter sound like they actually killed a man.

Game play
Some call it 2d Minecraft i call them mentally unstable for this game has an almost addictive game play loop. This game is split into 2 parts, pre hardcore and hardcore mode.Pre hardcore is essentially just: getting the necessary accessories like hermies boots and cloud in a bottle, building homes for npcs, kill worm/brain, get cool picaxe, mine lava rock and make stuff from that, kill bone and loot dungeon, and then sacrifice a living human so you can fight a big lump of meat. So now in hardcore you go beat up alters, mine ore, kill metal bosses,kill plant, kill rock,kill a conspirecy theorist, kill 4 floating flesh lights and then kill cathulus brother.Pretty neat

Story
There isn't one

The bad
if i had to complain, it would be that a new player would be completely lost in what to do, there's only the guide but hes lame so the player must depend on external sources like the wiki which i think shouldn't be the case. Also after pre hard mode i felt like the momentum fell of by having to mine 3 ores but that's just a minor complaint.

I am not so enthusiastic about pure sandbox games: thus Terraria with its slightly bigger emphasis on exploration and adventure takes the concept to more interesting direction.