Disney Dreamlight Valley pitches itself as a “life-sim journey sport”, in which you’ll be able to return a cursed land to well being whereas hanging out with characters from throughout the Disney pantheon. I am skeptical of it in a number of alternative ways, however there’s now a free character creator to obtain and take a look at forward of its launch subsequent month, and hey, I had enjoyable with it.
You will discover the character creator over on Steam. It means that you can create your avatar for the complete sport, which you do by choosing from round a dozen preset characters after which swapping out their constituent elements through a menu of alternate options. There aren’t any sliders or extrudable meshes, so you are not in a position to create something monstrous, however you’ll be able to 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 is from versatile, however to its credit score it does not restrict what customisation choices you should use on which physique kind.
When you’re carried out, you’ll be able to then go additional by creating your individual textures for the garments you are carrying. I knocked collectively the skeletonberry within the screenshot above in a few minutes, however the device looks like one thing which, in additional decided palms, may very well be used for precise creativity.
As soon as your match verify is full, you’ll be able to take a selfie with Mickey. Taking selfies appears to be a giant a part of the Disney Dreamlight Valley gross sales pitch, if the sport’s trailers are to be believed. It is a part of my skepticism. Dreamlight Valley up to now seems much less like a “life-sim journey” than a sequence of licensed minigames, and it is being developed by Gameloft, who primarily produce free-to-play cell video games like “Fashionable Fight 5” and “Warfare Planet On-line: World Conquest”.
I due to this fact haven’t got a whole lot of hope for Dreamlight Valley as a deep, beneficiant expertise, however we’ll know extra when it launches in Steam Early Entry on September sixth. Till then, the character creator is a nice diversion, as most character creators are, and the 2GB obtain gave me quarter-hour of enjoyable.