{"id":6377,"date":"2022-09-06T13:15:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T13:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/06\/review-disney-dreamlight-valley-a-surprisingly-touching-take-on-the-life-sim-genre\/"},"modified":"2022-09-06T13:15:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T13:15:58","slug":"review-disney-dreamlight-valley-a-surprisingly-touching-take-on-the-life-sim-genre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/06\/review-disney-dreamlight-valley-a-surprisingly-touching-take-on-the-life-sim-genre\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Disney Dreamlight Valley &#8211; A Surprisingly Touching Take On The Life Sim Genre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A rough, but charming, work in progress.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Imagine waking up and seeing Mickey Mouse pottering around in his garden, while Scrooge McDuck opened up shop, and WALL-E the timid robot searched for flowers to help make someone smile that day. It\u2019s the stuff of dreams for anyone with any level of attachment to Disney properties, and it&#8217;s what you get to experience every day in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/disney_dreamlight_valley\">Disney Dreamlight Valley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dreamlight Valley could easily be a cynical play on nostalgia, letting you build a miniature Disney theme park village, sprinkling some shallow life-sim elements, and leaving it at that. Instead, it\u2019s a surprisingly character-driven experience that\u2019s heavy on customization, with some thoughtful commentary on growing up and a (mostly) relaxing loop that wants you to have as much fun as possible. It\u2019s just a shame it runs so poorly on the Switch.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/disney-dreamlight-valley\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Review: Disney Dreamlight Valley &#8211; A Surprisingly Touching Take On The Life Sim Genre<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>A rough, but charming, work in progress.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Imagine waking up and seeing Mickey Mouse pottering around in his garden, while Scrooge McDuck opened up shop, and WALL-E the timid robot searched for flowers to help make someone smile that day. It\u2019s the stuff of dreams for anyone with any level of attachment to Disney properties, and it&#8217;s what you get to experience every day in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/disney_dreamlight_valley\">Disney Dreamlight Valley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dreamlight Valley could easily be a cynical play on nostalgia, letting you build a miniature Disney theme park village, sprinkling some shallow life-sim elements, and leaving it at that. Instead, it\u2019s a surprisingly character-driven experience that\u2019s heavy on customization, with some thoughtful commentary on growing up and a (mostly) relaxing loop that wants you to have as much fun as possible. It\u2019s just a shame it runs so poorly on the Switch.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/disney-dreamlight-valley\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}