Disney Dreamlight Valley pitches itself as a “life-sim journey recreation”, in which you’ll return a cursed land to well being whereas hanging out with characters from throughout the Disney pantheon. I’m skeptical of it in a number of alternative ways, however there’s now a free character creator to obtain and check out forward of its launch subsequent month, and hey, I had enjoyable with it.
You’ll discover the character creator over on Steam. It means that you can create your avatar for the complete recreation, which you do by choosing from round a dozen preset characters after which swapping out their constituent components through a menu of options. There are not any sliders or extrudable meshes, so you are not capable of create something monstrous, however you may create a convincing additional from a Frozen film by pick-and-mixing physique shapes, hairstyles, eyes and ears and mouth shapes, and make-up. It’s removed from versatile, however to its credit score it does not restrict what customisation choices you should use on which physique kind.
Once you are accomplished, you may then go additional by creating your own textures for the garments you are sporting. I knocked collectively the skeletonberry in the screenshot above in a few minutes, however the software looks like one thing which, in extra decided fingers, could possibly be used for precise creativity.
Once your match test is full, you may take a selfie with Mickey. Taking selfies appears to be an enormous a part of the Disney Dreamlight Valley gross sales pitch, if the sport’s trailers are to be believed. It’s a part of my skepticism. Dreamlight Valley to date appears much less like a “life-sim journey” than a collection of licensed minigames, and it is being developed by Gameloft, who primarily produce free-to-play cellular video games like “Modern Combat 5” and “War Planet Online: Global Conquest”.
I subsequently do not have numerous hope for Dreamlight Valley as a deep, beneficiant expertise, however we’ll know extra when it launches in Steam Early Access on September sixth. Until then, the character creator is a pleasing diversion, as most character creators are, and the 2GB obtain gave me quarter-hour of enjoyable.
