This was great!
I mean it was really really good!!!
Reviews for "A Shiny Minecraft tale"
Very good!
It remember me myself playing Minecraft. Lapis's useless... However, i'm always glad to found it lol.
Anyway, that was a great movie! Can't wait to see more!
Hemingway
This tale reminded me very much of "The Old Man and the Sea", about an aging Spanish fisherman in Cuba who struggles to reel in and return a large Marlin to sell to the people. In the end, sharks manage to swarm and devour the fish, leaving him with a skeleton. Despite his failure, the other fishermen are astounded by the sheer size of the skeleton, about eighteen feet and five inches.
In "A Shiny Minecraft Tale", the honor of struggle, even against futility, is championed throughout a simple prospector's quest. After a brutal assault by a creeper during a long and difficult expedition, a lowly prospector builds up his defenses and trains hard to extract a massive payload of diamonds amidst a lake of lava and underworld vermin. Will his prize be everything he ever dreamed of?
Ernest Hemingway's last published novel (within his lifetime at least) had a similar sweeping tone rooted in Biblical-style storytelling. Here, the source is a bit more pragmatic, with a heavier emphasis on irony and cynicism. That torches the message entirely and makes the message murky at best. Little can stand up against "The Old Man and the Sea" and hope to win, let alone win, but an effort should be made on occasion. This is effortless, just another Minecraft parody that fails to transcend the traditional analysis of its useless collecting and building, more a programmer's experiment than an actual game.
The production values and narrative, standing on their own, stand tall nonetheless. It takes some effort to emulate the pixelated, block-driven style of Minecraft, even though it looks simple. It's just difficult to look at and get right, so props for the fans who make an effort. The music score is also solid.
Still, the plot is painful. It's just a twist ending but without the subtle hint of it being what it is. People who read mystery novels will pitch the book at the wall when they discover no real mystery in the novel. Similarly, the payoff for the joke is lukewarm, far detached from that lava lake. In "The Old Man and the Sea", we are introduced to sharks that threaten the prize itself (once claimed) and the fisherman makes an effort to repel them. Here, we just find out the material is as valuable as pyrite (Fool's Gold) without any indication of it being different than what the prospector anticipates (Diamonds, of course). This failing keeps the splendid action and animation far from becoming legendary, as the story fails to support all the hoopla. The only reason this gets high billing from most critics and viewers is because a palpable percentage have played Minecraft and are naturally sympathetic with what often happens inside that nefarious "Skinner Box".
"A Shiny Minecraft Tale" is less a thrilling comedic adventure cartoon than an outright moral tragedy with a depressing end. No matter how colorful the animation or swaying the soundtrack, it depicts the horrid fate of another plucky adventurer drawn into a dicey gambit with nothing but his determination and avarice. Only in the end does he understand his folly, right before the creatures swarm him. To pass this off as a mere parody of a video game is to short-change it, but when compared to a classic reminiscent of its approach, it falls short. The fact that it is compared to one of the literary classics, however, should be considered a gracious compliment. Regardless of the drawbacks, Willva's little tragic epic should enlighten and inspire any game-player in danger of sacrificing countless hours upon a series of monotonous quests for wealth whose lessons on life go unheeded by the vain ambition of those witless names the storytellers do not sing.
I loved it.
It was really good. The end was so funny.
Awesome!
This is great. The medals are cool. But there's a glitch. I got all the tools, and all the weapons, and I missed 2 diamonds. It gave me 1 diamond at the end. I tried again and got 2 diamonds, and it gave me 2 diamonds at the end. I had a hard time getting the last diamond, but when I did, it only gave me the middle diamond at the end. :\ Several tries still got the same result, even after reloading.
wynand responds:
=D thank you kind sir. All fixed now, I'm not really a coder by trade haha =D. Thanks