Terraria is a game that many people overlook, and some people have the audacity to call it a Minecraft clone. To that, I say leave now, your antics will not be put up with here. Today, the three of us are going to tell you about Terraria! A game that has captured many people's hearts since 2011. Quick little sidenote, Terraria actually started development before Minecraft gained any speed whatsoever, so throw away your diamond swords, and grab your possessed hatchet, and let’s get started!
So, first things first, the game is two dimensional, which means that it has some limitations, but also allows for some other things such weapons that have special effects and better dodging for bosses. The game has a huge fanbase, and is one of the most overly positive reviewed games on steam, maintaining reviews that are 96.58% positive, and has 390,000 reviews, taking a world record for the amount of positive reviews. It’s also highly downloaded, and has over 12,000,000 copies sold worldwide across all platforms.
Here are a few reasons to get this game:
The game has lots of bosses, and appeals to many crowds. The reasons for this, is that there are many different aspects of the game, including fishing, fighting, mining, exploration, and building. You can even make a small village, fly to the top of the world, or build huge cities within the confines of the world.
There are also a few classes, (weapon/armour/accessory limitations) including Ranger, Swordsman, Summoner, and Magician. Along with all of these classes, there is also the Spellsword, which is for more casual players, meaning you use all classes, and typically will have the most defense of all classes.
There's a bit more uniqueness in the biomes than games like Minecraft, in such the jungle is very overgrown and the underground is made of mud and is full of beehives, and there are unique biomes called the crimson and corruption, which are like the corrupted parts of the world, and can be cleansed with special powders or solutions, and the hallow, which is the good side turned evil, and his pixies and unicorns that try to kill you, and slimes that shoot lasers into your face. These biomes have their own everything, including replacements for stone, their own enemies, and peons, and even their own minibosses, the crimson, corruption and hallowed mimics. (Also there are normal mimics that are golden, wooden, or ice that have their own drops, but aren’t minibosses, but are just rare enemies.)
There is a world limit. Yeah, I know, infinite worlds would be great and all, but there are upsides to that too. Each world has a set size, and has a few biomes and structures that are required to spawn during world generation. One example is the Jungle Temple, otherwise known as the Lihzahrd Temple. This temple always spawn 500 blocks under the surface, also known as the Cavern Layer. Also there are chests that can spawn throughout the world that can give you lots of good gear that you need to progress further in the game. The reason that there is a world limit is because your character can travel between worlds. This means that you could go and play in 40 different worlds and get infinite resources! There are also accessories that change things from just stats to how your character moves!
This game is SUPER fun for multiplayer, and the three of us always play it online after school. It also gives more of a challenge because the bosses gain more health as more people join, making it more fun with more people instead of blasting through the game with 40 people. (this is almost impossible on a small friends server) You can get up to 225 players on a large server and get 10,000 mobs to spawn in an event like the goblin army!
Mods! There are many games with huge modding communities, like Skyrim: The Elder Scrolls V (which has the most mods of any game on NexusMods, having 30,000 mods) and Minecraft, which has curseforge. Terraria is an addition for these modded games, having an API that has over 2,000 mods on it, and includes mods that are as big, or bigger than the base game, and have teams as large as the terraria development team. These mods do include Thorium, Calamity, and (The now obsolete) Tremor mod, that was taken off the API three updates ago, due to the new update making it bug out and use more memory than necessary. Even after all that this game has gone through, mod creators and people downloading the mods are still resilient and keep updating and playing the game, despite the slow updates coming out from ReLogic, the game’s developers.
And last but not least, Terraria has some of the best building potential of any game, only second to Minecraft. There are thousands of possibilities for housing, biomes, and even AFK farms. Overall, in the game you can make amazing pixel art with the 2D style of the game, with endless color possibilities using the color pallets in the game. And yet, there is an even more possible build potential with the ability to paint every block that you can place, with the painter in your world, of course!
This concludes our reasons to get Terraria! Make sure to check out some of our other articles as well, and if you liked our review of the game, make sure to get the game on steam, Xbox 360 or 1, Ps3 or 4, Switch, 3DS, WiiU or mobile!
Stay Tuned for our next review about: Starbound!
-Noah Nostrati '21, Aren Oshagan '21, Shahan Oshagan '21
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