Like so many households during the early months of the COVID-19 isolation scare, we played more video games than usual in mid–2020. I loved playing Terraria in years past, but had put it on indefinite hiatus to free up more family time. But using the excuse that family time is more indoors due to COVID-19 isolation, we decided to resume, but with a strict policy of weekends-only play. We played 3-player local co-op for awhile, which was great fun, but one of my more sober-minded children eventually dropped out to make more time for her other hobbies such as drawing and writing. During the week we would plan out our campaign goals for the weekend. Eventually we made it pretty far into hard-mode, but ended up stalling out shortly after defeating the so-called “Lunatic Cultist” which is presumably the gateway to the end-game.
Future note: I eventually lost interest in Terraria, but my other child still loves the escapism aspect of it.
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