Terraria

Hello people's. Today I'm talking about another game. Here it goes!

The game I'm reviewing is called Terraria. Terraria is a sandbox game for PC, Plastation network, Xbox, and mobile devices. I have played it on Playstaion and my iPhone. Currently the version of the game with the most content is for PC and that's the version I recommend. The game is similar to a pixelated 2D version of Minecraft and some people accuse it of stealing from it but it is an amazing game and while it has some aspects of MC it doesn't copy it.

You start the game creating your character with the option to be male or female, hair style, hair color, eye color, skin color, and clothing color. Once a world is started the player spawns in a forest biome with a copper pickaxe, axe, and sword. Your first priority should be to cut down some trees with your axe and clear a small area on the ground to build your house. You can go ahead and make the walls and ceiling with the wood. (A ceiling is important because there are flying enemies at night.) Inside the shelter you should go into your inventory and craft a workbench. Whenever you are near a crafting station like a workbench you can craft a much wider variety of items in your crafting inventory. You should go ahead and craft a door or two for your house allowing for easy access. The space for the door has to be three blocks high, the same height as your character.

One of the most essential things in Terraria is a mine. You can start mining in a cave if there is a sizable one close by, but eventually you're gonna need to start mining straight downwards. Simply use your pickaxe to mine straight down 2 blocks wide. Collect any ore that you see on the screen by tunneling sideways and fully explore any caves that you stumble on to. During this process you can explore the biomes above ground, build houses for the other helpful NPCs, (non playable characters), you find on your travels, crawl through dungeons, and summon and fight other bosses. Continue digging downwards, mining and upgrading your tools and armor with the ores you've collected to get to the lowest underground layer, the underworld. This area is necessary to fight the hardest boss yet and if you beat him you get to move to the second half of the game HARDMODE. DUH DUH DUHHHHH.

HARDMODE is generally just a world filled with a few more, harder, bosses, new ores to mine, and harder enemies. There is also a more disturbing aspect to HARDMODE... If you've thoroughly explored you would've found the corruption biome and you know how nasty it is. If you haven't it's filled with really nasty flying beasties and a sickly purple environment. Well now this biome is going to start taking over and consuming the other biomes. HARDMODE also makes a new biome called the hallow. It's filled with rainbows and Unicorns... Literally but it is still hostile and will also take over other biomes. As far as I know the only way to stop this is to surround the two new biomes with a block that can't be corrupted or hallowed, like wood which is long and time consuming. Hallow can't hallow the corrupt biome and corrupt can't corrupt the hallow biome. If you don't want to work to stop the spread of the biomes then the easier choice is to live in the hallow since it is less dangerous than the corrupt. You can also corrupt the hallow or hallow the corrupt using corrupt or hallowed seeds.

So that's Terraria. It's an amazing game and you should get it for yourself. Bye.


By Ashton