Minecraft Dungeons Review (IrishSpock2230)
Minecraft Dungeons was one of my favourite games of 2020, the year it released.
To say, ‘I played the hell out of it,’ would be an understatement, as I have put in over 365 hours on Xbox.
As a player of vanilla Minecraft for 10+ years now, the mix of the familiar and new additions to the Minecraft Universe are both delightful and refreshing. I love all the new worlds to explore and mobs to encounter.
I also adore the vibe and the fact that once you know the story and what you’re doing, it is a perfect game to chill to a podcast with.
I’ve continuously enjoyed it over the years and was very much looking forward to starting the game over again via Steam and earn all 104 achievements I had previously earned on Xbox, once more.
Unfortunately, the second I started the game on the Squid Coast (the tutorial level); the achievements started to come in, all 104 of them! I was stunned and a bit upset to be perfectly honest.
Apparently when you have your Xbox/Microsoft account linked with Steam, this happens because it has crossplay enabled and saves everything you’ve previously done in the game (this is what I’ve heard from a handful of people who described it as a bug that shouldn’t have happened but I haven’t found any further info, so I can’t 100% confirm).
Upon further inspection, I was even able to use my old saves/characters.
I am all for crossplay but I don’t think saves and ESPECIALLY achievements should carry over.
I’m still having a great time replaying the game, already sunk a few hours into it and will probably put many more in over the years but as someone who enjoys achievement hunting, this is a shame.
Also, unlocking everything that took me 300+ hours to unlock on Xbox in 5 minutes, was kind of disheartening. :D