Review of Terraria, video game by Chandler Wang

 Terraria is an open-world adventure game that is often compared to Minecraft. In many ways, Terraria is fairly similar to vanilla, single-player Minecraft: You mine, build a house, avoid monsters at night, and journey around the world fighting enemies and gathering loot. However, Terraria is much more varied in its enemies, bosses, and items. It's focused much more on fighting enemies than Minecraft, and it is much more fantasy-like. Terraria is a massive mosh pit of laser pistols and miniguns, fairy wings and rocket boots, chainsaws and ninja swords, weaponized yoyos and hammer-battleaxes, magic wands and grappling hooks, zombies and demon eyes, giant wasps and bouncing slimes, skeleton wizards and goblin archers, massive sentient plants and demonic, multi-eyed worms. There are countless enemies to defeat, bosses to conquer, items to gather, and areas to explore. Many items are interesting and unique, such as a magic mirror that brings you to the spawn point, an arcane missile that you can control in flight, or a potion that allows you to flip gravity upside down. There's always so much to do, such as explore for more loot, defeat bosses to progress the game, build homes for new residents and shopkeepers in your town, or spend some time fishing or catching bugs and various other creatures. Terraria keeps you guessing with all its variety, and there are often surprise events, such as a "blood moon" or goblin invasion, and each new enemy will often bring new, unpleasant surprises. Perhaps this skeleton throws bombs, or this glowing figure teleports, or this seemingly innocuous patch of brush is actually an enemy. The countless surprises in Terraria keep looting and fighting fun, and it's a very fun offline game that you can sink countless hours into. 9.5/10.