There is a lot of discussion around Dream Valley — Disney’s shockingly blatant copy of Stardew Valley — has been centered around how it mechanically stands up to its comfortable farming counterparts. In a game like this, things like crop variety, villager interaction, and hoe feel are certainly worth mentioning…but no one seems to be paying attention to Dreamlight’s unique features. Anytime an evil cartoon lion inspired by Adolf Hitler could be in town.
A post about the game’s upcoming update revealed that Scar is the show’s protagonist, with the next big Disney character being added to the game, posing serenely next to the Disney adult player character. Our older readers will remember Ska’s somewhat erratic behavior in the 28-year-old film “The Lion King,” whose main hobbies included murdering the king in front of their children’s eyes and acting out a passion for the science of race for his army of geese Brilliant musical. – Step hyena. Somewhere between killing a king and being torn to shreds by his own minions, Dreamlight offers the possibility that Scar might be able to survive by moving to a peaceful country town and offering mining bonuses and a swan full of Lion King-themed furniture. Bonus track to take a short vacation. mayor.
The experience of playing this game is already very bizarre. Dreamlight is trying to capitalize on the warm, idyllic vibes of Harvest Moon and Animal Crossing, but that fantasy is constantly at odds with the complex and chaotic realities of characters where, from a mechanical point of view, such different morals are treated the same.
You can cook delicious meals and present them to hot-headed but harmless Donald Duck for friendship points, and you can do the same to famous child abuse mother Gothel. None of the other characters have addressed this, and no one has any issues. Interpersonal friction is Mengguanggu’s only sin. They are your best friends and help you harvest carrots. It’s as if Fred West moved into your Animal Crossing Village and did morning aerobics in front of City Hall. It slowly drives you crazy.
It will be interesting to see how the game develops and see if any characters are deemed too toxic to be added. We can probably assume, if for no other reason, that it didn’t inhabit the nostalgic sweet spot of the game’s target audience, the cartoon animals from the jaw-droppingly racist musical “Song of the South.” A game about owning a house because they can never experience it in reality. Beyond that, anything could be on the table when the game’s only tangled character is currently an evil witch who loves kidnapping children.
Once I assured him that no Roma lived nearby, I personally couldn’t wait for Judge Claude Frollo of Hunchback to move into town. I’ve always wanted to sh are gardening tips with someone trying to drown a baby in a well. Maybe they’ll join Esmerelda too, but don’t worry about any uncomfortable hostility between the two. My Valley is home to Ariel and Ursula – Ariel’s voice has been violently stripped by the evil sea witch – their houses are placed side by side. You can often see the two of them happily floating in the water on the beach, completely unaware of each other’s existence. like a ship in the dark. But what more can you expect from a company that offers its own villains a specially branded line of merchandise with its own logo?
You can’t sell a backpack with a real monster on it, so all sorts of outrageous crimes and deeds of Disney villains are meticulously polished off – the characters are reduced to queer-coded female bosses, so Hamilton-loving gentleman hipsters can get Their tattoos are innocent. Earlier this year, Disney released an ad for their doomed Star Wars Hotel, depicting a mother and her daughter enjoying their expensive vacation by dressing up as space Nazis and beloved revolutionary icon Chewbacca . The two of them giggle triumphantly as the stormtroopers take Han Solo’s furry best friend away in handcuffs, presumably to be executed or shipped as slaves to the Kyber mine.
This deliberate minimization and commercialization of evil is essential to the existence of The Walt Disney Company. This is the fundamental contradiction rotting deep within the filthy heart of that empire. You can’t sell one-offs for the killing of fascists Ska – but you can certainly sell one-offs for Ska the savage lion! You can buy an adorable official plush figure of Clayton, a poacher from Tarzan who plans to sell hundreds of gorillas on the black market. sure. For Disney, a company built on hoarding IP and returning it to us forever, there’s no functional difference between a Clayton plush and a Stitch plush. It’s a recognizable Disney character wrapped in fluff and ordered in bulk.
You can’t object to Ursula and Mama Gossel appearing in the Valley of Dreams. You cannot expel them. You can’t sound the alarm and stand on the soapbox in the town square yelling about their crimes. The Valley represents an ideal world Disney imagined—a world where evil goes unpunished, and even discussion of it is banned altogether. You’re there smiling happily for what you remember from the 90s and farms, planting pumpkins until your fingers bleed. This is the world they want to see; a nightmarish 21st century EPCOT where you have no right to do anything but reminisce about your childhood and toil for the betterment of an economy that will never give you anything in return.
Anyway, I hope they join Stitch soon because he’s cute and he makes me happy.
