Hello there you gorgeous gamers and welcome back to another pure playstation video review on pureplay tv and this time we’ve got minecraft dungeons for ps4 i’m not the biggest fan of so-called dungeon crawlers at least not in the traditional sense without realizing it i kind of am a fan of them But only under certain conditions let me explain one of the first dungeon crawlers i played was the original x-men legends on the ogx box and again on the gamecube i love that game and i must have completed it a dozen times maybe more i didn’t realize it was a dungeon crawler to me It was just a really good x-men game then i discovered justice league heroes for the psp a similar game to x-men legends but with superman batman green lantern and other dc favorites taking the starring roles again to me it was just a really good justice league game Not a dungeon crawler and yeah maybe it’s not really good but it was when i was a kid in my mind dungeon crawlers are just that games set in dark and deer dungeons like the diablo series and its many wannabes i’ve steered away from them because Well they’re just a touch too nerdy for me and complicated but games like x-men legends marvel’s ultimate alliance and justice league they brought me into the fold without me even realizing it because they were really accessible minecraft dungeons is this generation’s x-men legends complete with creepers and skeletons The majority of my time playing minecraft dungeons has been in co-op with my four-year-old boy charlie you think that such a pairing would make for a very frustrating experience do four-year-olds even know how to hold controllers yes they do or at least the one i’m in charge of does He’s been playing minecraft since lockdown so he knows the ins and outs of minecraft perhaps even more than i do minecraft dungeons is actually best played with a partner i tried going it alone one evening when charlie was asleep and it just wasn’t that fun the communication between us is half the joy As we shout out creeper skeleton or i’m dying help me as we’re swamped by a mass of mobs alone it’s just me swearing under my breath in my underwear despite being called dungeons the game doesn’t really have many actual dungeons and most of the levels take place above the ground in various biomes Each level is themed and has objectives which for the most part are very straightforward there’s always an icon telling you where to go and what to do next whether it’s freeing some poor villagers hitting switches or fighting the bosses it’s simple and very easy to follow that doesn’t mean it’s very very easy Not by a long shot it’s still a challenge instead of having you pick a class from the start and play the entire game with that class minecraft dungeons gives you the ability to customize your character on the fly depending on what you’ve collected you start out with next to nothing but as You smash your way through the levels you’ll pick up loot the loot that drops is dependent on what difficulty you’re playing on me and charlie played on the standard difficulties leveling up our characters and collecting as many useful goodies as possible yet we still stumbled against some of the bosses He’s four years old come on he can’t keep up with me i’m a legend changing your appearance is done by assigning armor to your character your character has three slots one for armor one for melee weapons and another for a ranged weapon this is how you change your appearance And for me this is fine i don’t really care how my character looks i just want the best stats for some though the lack of true customization might be a bit of a bummer but it doesn’t directly affect gameplay so it’s not all that important in addition to your main Three slots you also have three other slots for powers ranging from firework rockets that can be fired from your bow a magic shield that shirts out purple death beams my favorite by the way and more deciding on what to use and when to use it is useful But not 100 necessary it will make your play through easier if you’re constantly analyzing the situation and making changes on the fly but charlie and i didn’t do that i change my gear between levels and upgrade my weapons with the points awarded from leveling up but charlie didn’t he’s four He can’t read yet i would nab the controller off him and get him sorted out if i notice he was dying a lot more but that wasn’t often the gameplay itself is very simple too and i’ll go back to x-men legends as a comparison you have your main button to hit Then your powers are all assigned to the face buttons with the right trigger being used for your range attack each player has the ability to heal using l1 or lb on xbox but it has a cooldown on it so you can’t just spam it this forced me and charlie to cooperate Because one of my powers was a healing totem that when placed on the floor gives players some health i’d shout charlie come and heal and he’d come bounding over running away from the nasty mobs we’d plan our attacks too depending on how we died you get a set amount of team lives And once they’re gone it’s game over and you have to start that level again discussing battle tactics with a four-year-old is certainly a strange thing but i’ve got to give it to the game and the designers they knew what they were doing and it worked like a charm charlie Learned a whole new genre of gaming and it brought me back into the fold with a game i can play with my boy there’s also pickups that you can get which charlie instantly recognized he saw bread on the ground and he knew it was a healing item Likewise with apples and meat this stuff was all up for grabs so whoever got it first they got it i would get annoyed and tell him that he didn’t need that bread and my health was lower and eventually we got to a point where he would ask if he should have it Or if i needed it very kind boy sometimes but not with sweets thankfully the more valuable drops like armor and weapons are already assigned to each player so there’s no arguing over who gets what it’s done with color too so even though the little bugger can’t Read he can tell right away which is for him and which is for me it’s another clever bit of visual communication which dungeons does really well i really enjoyed minecraft dungeons more so now than i would have if it was released five years ago and i didn’t have a child in my Possession for me the experience is elevated by playing with my boy and playing without him is just not as fun taking on mobs and eventually the evil illager is an adventure best played with an inquisitive youngster and that brings us to the end of this Review i hope you enjoyed it i hope it was useful if you haven’t already please consider hitting the like and subscribe buttons down below and maybe drop a comment if you’ve got something to say only if it’s nice until next time keep watching bloody hands dirty buggers Stay sexy and keep playing games until next time bye you Video 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