A Quick One: Minecraft (2011) Mojang

After playing this "game" for almost a year, I have created many things. A giant Pokemon, towns, castles, etc. The "game" itself isn't what most would call fun, you have to create your own fun. Until recently Minecraft didn't even have a purpose, as most could see. Now the purpose is to gather very difficult things and to kill the final boss, a dragon.

I find this game very difficult to critique, as you may have noticed I kept writing "game." I do this because Minecraft is not a game in the normal sense. Minecraft is a creativity tool, with the latest additions it can be considered as some strange misconstrued idea of a game, but I still cannot call it such.

This game isn't for everyone, if you don't like to create your own fun or don't have fun creating things then you will not have fun playing Minecraft. There is no story, the soundtrack is very limited, the fighting is click until they no longer exist.

I feel as though I'm rambling, lets try to get some structure in this critique, shall we?

Minecraft: An "indie" game created by Mojang, mostly Notch from my understanding. Minecraft has been in the works since 2009 and still is, but is not in full release. The game is about surviving in a world were all you have is your hands and what you can create. Unless you only want to build and only build then you either play without enemies or in creative mode. What most people need to know is, this is a creativity tool above all else.

Story: There isn't one, you are plopped down on an island with only your hands to chop down trees and create your own tools and house. From there, you create your own story. With the number of mods you can get to add stories, this, as I said, is a creativity tool and yours and others creativity help define the world you created.

 Game Design: The graphics are horrible but they add a nice touch to the game and actually make it very nice. The worlds are randomly generated or you put in numbers or a phrase and an algorithm created the world. There really isn't much to the game design, but don't tell Notch I said that.

In the end, this game just boils down to your preference, there is noting to it to make it a good or a bad game. As I said earlier, it really isn't a game. If you like to create things, this game is for you, if you don't ... well don't play it then, because, as the earlier part of this, the game has no structure. Everything is up to you.