Hey there, cozy fam~

Here is a review for the new LEGO Fortnite! Have you folks tried it yet? What do you think?

I never thought, ever in my life, I’d download Fortnite. Battle royale games aren’t usually very cozy, neither are survival games. But sometimes they can be? Maybe when it’s LEGOs?

A dear friend of mine showed me the official gameplay trailer for LEGO Fortnite a few days ago and I was immediately drawn to it! Although not quite the same as Minecraft, the trailer did remind me of it, and it wasn’t long before l I found myself feeling nostalgic for my cozier cub days. When I think of early cozy gaming, I often think of hiding away in a corner of the library playing Minecraft on my laptop, when I should have been doing homework instead. This was nearly 15 years ago. I was a high school senior, and so many years later, I still seek out that same feeling.

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about gaming with friends, and I realized this is exactly the kind of multiplayer experience I’ve been wanting for a long time. Playing with friends, bonding over games, is a level of coziness that has to be experienced. I just want to chop wood and tend to my little garden with my favorite people. I want to give them all the raspberries I’ve collected. I want to build us a cute log cabin.

Cozy, isn’t it? Minus the bosses and quickly depleting hunger bar :’)

Of course, LEGO Fortnite is barely 2 weeks old, and it’s got a lot of patches ahead. There’s a lot of improvements that can be implemented.

• I think the inventory system can be greatly improved!
• Some clarity into what furniture items contain storage and how much inventory slots should be made clear. (For example, the counters contains storage, but it isn’t listed under storage, but instead, under tables.)
• Chests are so small! Small chests only hold 10 items, and the medium chest only holds 6 more.
• I think some kind of sorting and stacking system would also be appreciated.
• Items don’t auto-stack, and the merging mechanic doesn’t appear to be working.
• There is quite a bit of lag.
• Improved tutorial and guidance would also be helpful, as a lot of mechanics aren’t clear. I only just recently discovered that the sheep, chickens and cows will eat vines! It is unclear how to herd those animals into a gated pen.

I’ve got a long way to go, and there’s still much to learn and discover!

In terms of accessibility, I must say it does try! Yes, there is a Sandbox Mode, and that is great, but that hardly provides any kind of challenge. Survival Mode is customizable, meaning you can turn off the scary bosses and even reduce the penalty on your character death. The issue with turning off enemies is you do need those enemy drops to progress through the game, so unfortunately, if you want to continue to level up your town and continue to build and upgrade crafting stations, among many other items, you have to play Survival Mode, with the enemies on. And, unfortunately, there is no enemy difficulty customization at the moment.

All in all, I do think LEGO Fortnite is worth a try! If you find the combat difficult, you can enlist some friends to help. 8 players can share a world, and I think that’s more than enough to have a cozy, fun time with friends!

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