Terraria Review

Terraria is an action-adventure/RPG indie game released by independent game studio Re-Logic. The game features exploration, crafting, building structures and combat with a variety of creatures. The game's slogan was previously "Shut Up and Dig Gaiden", a reference to another indie game, Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden. Released on May 16, 2011, the game is estimated to have sold about 50,000 copies during its first day of release, with over 17,000 players online at the same time during the first day's peak. Over the course of a week, 200,000 copies of the game were sold, making it the top selling game on Steam for the week, "ahead of games like The Witcher 2 and Portal 2." It remained number one on Steam for the first six days of its release before it eventually dropped to the number two slot.

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Review:

The game was only 5mb when it was first released; the graphic was a 2D 8-bit Super Nintendo Style when I started playing Terraria. To be honest, I was not intrigued by how it looked since 8-bit era extincted nowadays.

I got bored when I played it alone. I started out on the middle of nowhere with a red moon on the background and got pawned by a huge bunch of zombie with flying eyes, and whenever I got killed, my character spawned on the same spot repeatedly!

So what I did was, I pressed Alt+f4 and then played another game. After a few days, my friend asked me to play Terraria with him using Multiplayer mode via Hamachi. So I created a new character and thank god it's not midnight, because it's the time when monster spawns.

We played for a few hours and finally! I'm starting to understand why it became top on the list, "It was good" - I said to myself. After all I haven't even played the whole game yet, though my friend explained the mechanics of the game that's why I made some ideas to my head or should I call it prediction that's why I felt that it was going to be a great game.

He also told me why every character starts out with an axe and a pickaxe which I only used for killing zombies when I first played the game. Axes are used to farm wood by cutting trees required on building a house to fend off monsters during the night, while Pickaxes are used for digging.

Building a house is your first important objective in order to survive. So after we built my wooden shelter, we dug downwards below the surface of my house to find ores that we can use in order to make an anvil which is another essential tool throughout the game.

What's exciting about it is you can explore below the ground. There are treasures, monsters, and different kind of ores to forge items such as weapons and armors using the anvil. It's like there's another world when we explored the underground. My friend finally left me alone playing when I learned the basics of the game.

I played non-stop for like 12 hours and got addicted to it and I was right on my prediction after all. The first treasure I got was a Cloud Bottle accessory, which allows you to gain the ability double jump when equipped, it was a similar ability from other 2D platformer games like Megaman and Castlevania.

There are also weapons that had different abilities, for ex: A sword that had the ability to summon shooting stars and damage monsters on an open area. There are also long ranged weapons like a Hand gun for example that fires bouncing bullets. My favorite item was the Rocket Boots, which allows you to fly but drains your mana slowly while you are using the ability. Unfortunately the developers changed the ability of Rocket Boots after a couple of patches, even so, there's a lot of Item to hunt and to forge with different cool abilities and that's one of the biggest factor why I loved the game.

If you think land and underground exploration is the only thing this game can offer, then you are wrong, because you can dig all the way down to find hell, it's where you can find the rarest ore to make weapons and armors. If you are starting from the land, you make a ladder all the way up and say hello to the sky world where you can find the sky islands with rare treasures on every one of those. You can also build up your secondary headquarters in mid air just for fun.

The gameplay was very enjoyable despite of how the graphics looked. In my opinion, Terraria is very fun game to play, there's a lot of things you can do, specially the multiplayer mode where you can help your friends on their own world, you can also do PvP with other players.

Rating: 8.5/10