Terraria Review!!!!

Terraria isn't just another sandbox indie 2d Minecraft clone game. It offers a great deal of in-depth reactive game play. When you first enter the world of Terraria you sit there with your character with the simplest of tools in a seemingly infinite world that by day is safe but turn night is infested with monsters. Events ranging from meteor showers or a goblin invasion of your city or just some of the random things that happen in Terraria.

An example of how complex homes can be made

With a ton of different materials in the game the first thing you find yourself wanting to do, not because the game demands it but because it just seems like the right thing to do, is to build a base of operations or a home. Your home is your safe haven during the nightly raids and as the game progresses you can build onto it attracting more and more npcs which allow progression through the game. Homes can be castles or cities, forts or tree houses, literally as long as you can imagine it, you can probably make it or some form of it in Terraria. The best part is, its easy and fun, you get a sense of reward when you create a home in the game because as your running away from a ton of enemies that are chasing you across the map and you reach your home, you know, if you made it well, that you will be safe.

Eye of Cthulhu, one of the major bosses in game

Building a city isn't the only thing you can do though, there is a ton of fighting in the game. In the current version of the game there are over 30 different enemy types, at least 5 rare enemy types, and 3 major boss types of enemies. As you progress through the game you build your mine, the way you get most of your materials, further and further down reaching new materials used to make new items, gear, and weapons so that you can further progress down to the bottom of the world. But digging down isn't the only thing Terraria offers, there are deserts, floating islands, oceans, and dungeons on the surface that can take considerable amounts of time finding, crossing, or defeating.

The sword Muramasa

Terraria offers a wide array of weapons, armor, and items in game to mold your experience and your character the way you want it. Everything from swords, to maces and whips, guns and bows, and even a harpoon. Terraria is certain to be able to play to any style you like. There is even a star gun that shoots... wait for it... STARS!!!! The various types of armor add different bonuses like defense, resilience to magic, speed or damage increases, mana regeneration, but the character customization really comes from the accessory items. With a ton of different things to choose from you can get items that make you run faster, invert gravity, allow you to double jump, ROCKET BOOTS! and much much more. This aspect of the game, the customization of characters, is one of the things I love most about the game and definitely one of the things that makes it stand apart from Minecraft. 

Fortunately, the developers of Terraria made the game multiplayer, so as I'm struggling to cross this desert being attacked by vultures and hurt by cactus's, I know that my buddy that I'm playing with is there trying to help me through that area of the game. Unfortunately for the developers, the game did prove to be troublesome in the multiplayer arena as well. It took my buddy and myself quite awhile to figure out how to get onto the same server because of an issue with ports, finding the right ip address to put in and other various problems like the game just not recognizing the servers live status, but once we got it working it was great, very little to no lag at all, no server crashes (the servers are hosted on our end, not by Terraria) or any other major problems. The only other area that became a problem was that the person hosting the server has control of the world that we were working on which means that unless he has the server running in the background, there was no way for me to get on it and play on my own. Outside of those issues it was a fantastic experience.

The graphics of Terraria probably won't blow you away, but at the same time, I personally liked them more than Minecraft which is the first game you want to compare this game too. They are very colorful and bright, the game never slowed down at all even when there was a lot of stuff happening on the screen, and I never noticed it demanding very much from my computer even at very chaotic times. Collision detection in the game is nearly perfect, there are a few issue you might run into when you try to run into them but overall you probably won't notice any issues.

Terraria is a fantastic game, with a creative mind you will easily lose track of time and forget to eat lunch or dinner or maybe even sleep because the game just grabs and holds onto you. That is of course you get past the beginning, it is fairly slow to start and tedious at the beginning as you are uncertain what things do what and the best ways to go about your projects, but once it picks up, it won't let you go. With very few issues as far as gameplay is concerned outside of some minor glitches, the game is very smooth and very well made, so to the developers of Terraria I thank you. Also, the game is cheap. So it's not like you are dropping 50 bucks on it, wait for a sale on steam and get it for 5 dollars like I did or pay the great regular price of only 10 dollars!!!! (Last minute update, the game is on sale on Steam for the next 20 hours or so for 5 dollars! Get it now, you won't regret it.)

Terraria's Rating: 85/100

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