What’d you want to play, Minecraft or Fortnite? This question, in my household, is as important as what’d you want for dinner, and as profound as what is the meaning of life? For my young five-and-a-half-year-old daughter and my three-and-a-bit-year-old son, it’s a tough one. At the moment, they absolutely love both Minecraft and Fortnite Lego. It’s hardly an easy pick for me either – I’ve dipped in and out of one for over a decade, and am currently besotted with the other.
“Mmmm,” my daughter puzzles, before settling on Minecraft. I ask her why. “I want to find another amethyst cave,” she says. “Maybe this time we can find different colored caves too.”
And so it is written. For the next hour or two we’ll throw ourselves into the pixelated, block-built world of Minecraft, throwing up architecturally questionable shelters with incongruous materials (of course this single-dwelling bungalow needs a slime room, duh), and digging interminable underground tunnels in search of undiscovered rainbow-tinted gems.
Over the last few weeks, my kids and I have had a proper blast doing similar things in Fortnite Lego. But I just don’t think this derivation of Epic Games’ familiar sandbox will (or even can) come close to Minecraft’s sense of wonder any time soon; nor do I think any other contender is capable of claiming the Eye of Ender-set crown. I love what I’ve seen of Lego Fortnite so far, we’ve mucked around in Roblox together in the past, and they’ve both peered over my…
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