Minecraft

There is something to be said for a game that makes you think. Most of the time when I play an rpg or any of the slower none FPS games I listen to an audiobook or a music album., but when I play Minecraft the thought of doing so just goes away. It's not it's a complicated game, the only point is to keep on digging, and explore as you will. Everything made of blocks which can, in most cases, be smashed into pieces, and then reused as you like. Even Lava and Water can be picked up and moved around, with a little work.

The only time I'm tempted to find something to distract myself with is during the night periods, which cannot be fastforwarded, and last 7 minutes, during which skeleton archers and zombies spawn by the truckload, and your only hope is building a shelter, and making sure they don't know you're there, cause otherwise the Creeps will arrive, and blow themselves, and everything around them, up in a pretty darn decent explosion.

One of the neat things is that only a few blocks obey gravity, sand, gravel, water and lava sort of; but the other ones merely require that they be placed against any of the six sides of another block, and then they'll remain there until destroyed. I myself, in one of my worlds, am building myself a floating castle. This is a much more difficult undertaking, because balancing my character on the edge close enough to see the side of it, so I can place another block, often leads to falling. which when you're foolish enough to do it at night is a death knell really. Happily death does nothing more then send you back to the spawn point, which you cant move, at the same time of day as when you dies, which sucks when you die at night.

Night does not always restrain you though, if you're lucky enough to find flint and steel early enough to make a fire starter, and you can figure out how to make eternal flames, all you need is a block of wood, and you can keep on doing what you like. Even mining, so long as you make sure to put enough lights that monsters dont spawn. expect to come back to see you shelter populated by animals when you return though, they do not have a light requirement for spawning, merely a distance from you.

That's all I have to say for now. I ment to merely post some musing and ended up writing a small review... oops?