Disney Dreamlight Valley Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)

For this Disney Dreamlight Valley Review, we explore a world filled with the magic of Disney as we discover rich stories and build the perfect neighborhood alongside Disney and Pixar heroes and villains in this new life-sim adventure game. Welcome to Disney Dreamlight Valley.

Disney Dreamlight Valley Review Pros:

• Decent graphics.
• 4.3GB download size.
• Graphics settings – disable camera shake, disable flickering, and offset time of day.
• Life sim gameplay.
• Crossplay support for multiplayer. (all consoles and PCs except PS5 and PS4)
• Controller settings – Invert axis and sensitivity slider.
• Cloud save support allows you to take your save to another console/PC.
• Streamer-friendly mode allows you to turn off and replace copyrighted music.
• Controller settings – Invert the camera and sensitivity slider.
• You can play the Riff in Time DLC whenever you want as it’s a door in the Kingdom.
• At any time you can jump between progress and quests from the DLC and the main game.
• Tutorial pop-ups as you play.
• Goofy has shops around the world, you pay to build them and then upgrade them to increase and improve what he sells.
• The camera mode is good as it has filters, borders, animations, and emotes and is so easy to use.
• Clear Splinters of Fate (DLC) and Nightmare Thorns keep growing randomly around the game world.
• The DLC introduces a whole new area called Eternity Isle.
• Royal tools – camera, pickaxe, fishing rod, Shovel, and watering can, each can be upgraded via a mission.
• Full quest management and you can track and untrack missions at will.
• Quest text shows all the details.
• Your house can be upgraded, rooms made bigger, and another floor and rooms.
• Decorate your house and the outside world with items you buy/craft and earn.
• Your house transports itself to the DLC area Eternity Isle.
• Pets – you can buy/earn them or get them by making friends with the animals like bunnies, ravens, and turtles. Feed them their favorite food to please them.
• Full crafting and cooking lists.
• The Kingdom holds doorways to new Realms like Toy Story, Lion Kong, etc and you do tasks to get the characters to move into your Dreamlight Valley.
• When a character moves in you build their unique house and can place it where you want.
• Fishing can be done in any water source, ripples will show to improve your chances and they have rarity colors.
• You can move all aspects of the world around.
• Recipes can be found and earned but you can also stumble across them by combining ingredients yourself at the stove.
• Each character has a friend level (up to 10) and you build it by hanging out, doing their quests, and bringing them their favorite item/food. Each level you get a reward.
• Earn exp from doing everything and level up to increase your stamina bar and get rewards.
• Find jigsaws and picture pieces randomly in the world.
• You can dig anywhere, sparkly bits guarantee you find something.
• Mining spots can give random gems, if they are colored then that’s the gem you get.
• Everything you do uses stamina, eating and going to your house replenishes it.
• Play how you want.
• A living world.
• Save when you want, it does autosave and the save now button lets you know the last time the game was saved.
• An absolute time killer.
• Very in-depth open-room content creator.
• New events get rolled out throughout the year.
• The story and how it allows everyone to exist and make sense is great.
• Moonstone is the premium currency.
• Battlepass type system for events with a free and paid-for set of rewards.
• Quest management lets you track what you want but they split the quests up into friendship, story, and Realm.
• The collection is split into Dreamlight Valley, all areas, and Eternity Isle (DLC) and each category has a completion percentage.
• The map lets you see each character and see them moving around in real-time.
• Dreamlight is the currency you earn from doing many tasks and these are passive so you do them without realizing it. They range from simple things like talking to X amount of people to more in-depth ones like preparing five-star meals. They almost act like achievements.
• The DLC has its own set of Dreamlight tasks but instead of earning Dreamlight, you earn a new DLC-only currency Mist.
• Scrooge has a shop that has stock that changes every day, online people can join your town and buy from your shops.

Disney Dreamlight Valley Review Cons:

• The tutorials are not great.
• Not a fan of the fact that the DLC is the same gameplay loop of the base game as in having to rebuild Scrooge’s shop, the other establishments, the mist is just Dreamlight, etc.
• Some of the longest load times especially the I initial load, one of the longest.
• Bad performance on the switch, a lot of slowdowns, and screen tearing.
• The game has its good days and bad days, during bad days prompts won’t show, items won’t spawn, characters disappear, and more.
• The descriptions of quests are not clear.
• Bad mission markers.
• Characters use the same set of lines over and over.
• Weather-reliant tasks suck.
• The multiplayer is not great, it has so many limitations.
• In-game purchases with moonstone.
• Had a lot of crash to dashboard errors.
• No way to turn off all the over-the-top flashes and dazzling effects.
• Grinding for particular materials is a real pain.

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Disney Dreamlight Valley:

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Developer: Gameloft

Publisher: Gameloft Official

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