I’ve never happened across Minecraft and decided to play. I like to think of myself as someone not too unfamiliar with games, regularly playing a plethora of console titles, but I’ve never been impulsed to download Minecraft before. However, since I review quite a lot mobile apps, when Minecraft – Pocket Edition launched on iOS in November last year, the urge to try it out was born.

Before we get into the main body of this article, I should stress again that I’ve never played Minecraft before so I don’t have any desktop experience to compare it to. Instead of thinking of Minecraft – Pocket Edition like a spin off game, I’m going to conduct this review like any other without any previous bias. If you’ve played Minecraft, be sure to share your own opinion on how the Pocket Edition stacks up in the comments.

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