While my household is still in mourning over the untimely demise of Disney Infinity, the former movie studio and now cultural monopoly has today unveiled a new video game that, if Disney is your thing, is very much catering toward your things.
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Here’s the trailer for Disney Dreamlight Valley, showing off a game—described by the developers as a “life-sim adventure”—that’s as inspired by Animal Crossing as it is The Sims:
That’s the good news! This multiverse shit is exactly what Disney fans are into, which explains the success of everything from Kingdom Hearts to (initially) Disney Infinity to…well, Disneyland itself. I showed this trailer to my wife and daughter this morning and they lost their minds, one for the casual crossovers between films, the other because it looked like Animal Crossing, only with Anna selfies.
And I gotta admit, for what this is shooting for—not a video game, but an exercise in the exploration of a fandom—it looks cool as hell. Do I want to play a fishing minigame? Eh, I could take it or leave it. Do I want to go fishing with Goofy? Yes. Here’s more from the game’s official pitch:
Now for the not-so-great news: this is a free-to-play game being developed by mobile specialists Gameloft, meaning that various stuff you’ve seen in that trailer above is going to be locked away behind purchases.
While early reports say there’s “fairly non-aggressive monetization” to be found, the jury is obviously going to be out on that whole thing until people have had a chance to sit down and play it, when it’s properly out in 2023 (though there’ll be an early access version available later this year).
