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.

Reviewed on Sep 09, 2023


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