TL;DR: Not a game you can properly review with a rating. Not in this day and age, anyway.
The original Pocket Edition is truly a product of this time and nostalgic to look back to, though predictably it doesn't compare to modern versions of Minecraft. And it doesn't have to. It was never supposed to. It was a serviceably solid mobile port of the Minecraft version of its time, and it did it well. From hardware-restrictive workarounds like the cyan rose and the Nether Reactor, to the tiny worlds and small local multiplayer rooms that you were confined to, everything about this game screams "childhood". You can't put a price on that, much less a review score.
I remember one of my first notable builds being an upside down house that hanged from a cliff's underside with chains made out of cobblestone stairs, and another one built on the side of a natural hill to hide the secret vault room I'd constructed behind a painting to hide it from the only other friend who played in that world with me. To this day, I'm proud of myself for finding out that trick without an online video or some other source. All me, placing paintings on open doors.
The original Pocket Edition is truly a product of this time and nostalgic to look back to, though predictably it doesn't compare to modern versions of Minecraft. And it doesn't have to. It was never supposed to. It was a serviceably solid mobile port of the Minecraft version of its time, and it did it well. From hardware-restrictive workarounds like the cyan rose and the Nether Reactor, to the tiny worlds and small local multiplayer rooms that you were confined to, everything about this game screams "childhood". You can't put a price on that, much less a review score.
I remember one of my first notable builds being an upside down house that hanged from a cliff's underside with chains made out of cobblestone stairs, and another one built on the side of a natural hill to hide the secret vault room I'd constructed behind a painting to hide it from the only other friend who played in that world with me. To this day, I'm proud of myself for finding out that trick without an online video or some other source. All me, placing paintings on open doors.
I wish I didn't have a habit of throwing my ipod up the stairs for some reason. Literally no clue why I did that, but there's so many dead pixels on that screen. This game won't even launch anymore, which is a shame. I had very fond memories of playing with my best friend. I still remember this weird multiplayer quirk where one player could have the game on peaceful and the other could have it on something else, which led to one player getting killed by invisible mobs. My poor friend detonated from an invisible creeper as I tried to warn him to the best of my ability. There's so many worlds lost to time that once resided on that device. I had mansions, mineshafts, and more. It's like a time capsule that got launched into the sun.
Minecraft if it was good (back when nether reactors were a thing and the worlds were like 200x200 blocks).
This version of the game is nostalgic for me, but I will not revisit it due to how clunky it is to play. Also, I had a creative world on here like 10 years ago on my first iPhone and I poured hours into that world
This version of the game is nostalgic for me, but I will not revisit it due to how clunky it is to play. Also, I had a creative world on here like 10 years ago on my first iPhone and I poured hours into that world