The game gives you an unlimited supply of blocks (there are about thirty or so to choose from) to play with.

It could just be my lack of finesse but I found it a bit of a challenge to get the blocks exactly where I wanted them to go.Īsides from that, there’s not much else to Minecraft: Pocket Edition. Granted, you’ll probably find yourself doing a lot of the latter. Blocks are placed by tapping the screen and removed by holding a finger over the cube. Once you’ve grown acclimatized to the controls (it’s your standard D-pad sort of thing), building is relatively easy. You might as well complain that winter is cold. Again, this has nothing to do with Mojang small screens are small. But even then, it’s hard to be deeply impressed with a Big Daddy replica that someone has built when you find yourself running about in circles, struggling to take in every detail. Instead, what we have is something that feels more akin to an open-air museum, a place to exhibit your mastery of multi-colored blocks. There is no day and night, no sunsets to behold, nothing to reinforce the feeling that we’re in a world of our own. Everything is forever frozen in a state of unnatural daylight. Minecraft‘s familiar sense of scale is all but missing in Minecraft – Pocket Edition. To paraphrase the Genie from Disney’s Aladdin, phenomenal cosmic power and itty-bitty living spaces do not mix. Regardless of how you slice, the truth of the matter is that Minecraft just doesn’t work here (not yet, anyway). Nonetheless, there’s only so much you can do around technical constraints. If anything, they’ve done a rather masterful job at porting their world-famous IP onto the platform. Deeply pleased with this turn of events, I went ahead and generated my first world.Īnd that’s when the disappointments started rolling through the door. Was it a sign of good things to come? Perhaps. To my surprise, Mojang’s inaugural iOS title actually got along swimmingly with my hardware. I had expected to hear my geriatric iPhone 3GS to croon its swan song when I loaded up Minecraft: Pocket Edition for the first time.

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