Media Molecule has moved on from Little Big Planet to Dreams, an unimaginably comprehensive game creator... game. Is it as good as it looks and can your average gamer make the most of it? JDR's review has the answer.
Fans of Rare's Banjo Kazooie can finally take the bear-bird duo on a new outing in a game exclusively available on PlayStation.
I don’t see this single level as a fan made but as a demo pitch from the studio to revive the franchise with a new game and to measure the want of PlayStation for a full game
It's a great engine to quickly prototype and publicly test a game concept. Honestly, had they approached the business model differently, Dreams could have been very successful... They could have made their money from the creators, not just off game sales, if they'd made a system that lets you pay a fee to export your games/levels so that they are playable on any PlayStation even if you don't have Dreams installed. That would have opened up an additional revenue stream that would have made the game profitable. Charge an export fee, then take a cut of each sale for the games created... it gives financial incentive for developers to invest serious time into making games in that engine, which increases the quality of the projects made within it. Dreams was just ahead of its time.
That's happening when you’ve got a great IP but no clue how to use it, while others are yelling at you to get to work on them.
I always said that Dreams should have released on every PC/console capable of handling its graphical prowess, not like it was so much of a powerhouse anyways. It should have also had PSVR2 compatibility.
It’s a shame the game was put out to pastures so early in its life.
It should have had kb/m support and no mp implementation was a mistake ..... I miss lbp , they should have just stuck with that franchise . If they didn't kill the servers it would still be installed on my ps , it was a game of endless fun
Banjo Kazooie isn't the only franchise Microsoft is sitting on and doing nothing.
Same can be said for Sony also , a couple years after the ps4 launched and after the success of TLoU they basically abandoned everything except for GoW, GT, R&C and MLB .. such a shame . Was never a XB or MS person but knowing all the franchises Sony will never touch again stings a lot
EyELET GAMES has announced they will be releasing the unofficial Courage The Cowardly Dog Game via Dreams on November 28th, 2025.
Such a shame media Molecule and sony didnt know what to do with this game. Now would be a perfect time to release it multiplat like helldivers 2. It needs a large community.
A dream it shall remain
Dreams had potential but it really needed to get off of the PS4. It released so late in the gen when everyone was already wanting to move on to next gen systems. It should have come to PC, and a native PS5 version should have definitely released.
I bought it Day 1 but the 'campaign' was pretentious and just didn't work for me. I had no intention of making content so was left to fumble through the user created content. Some good stuff, with the pig detective being the most memorable. However, just moved on to other stuff, and despite owning VR, never once played in VR either.
Media Molecule always seem to be too ahead of the curve to have a big hit. Hopefully whatever they are working on now finds a big audience.
For whatever reason/s they somehow dropped the ball hard with Dreams, our loss
Dreams was fantastic, especially when VR was added. The things people managed to build was incredible. Some of the best VR experiences are still from Dreams experiences. The huge crux for it was being on consoles however and it was missing one thing that they didn't have back then and that we have now..... A.I.. With the advent of AI today, if they could have had Dreams running on PC and somehow got AI to work where we just typed in a prompt and it did things, it would have been a massive game changer, it could have just made the AI "Dream" and create its own things. It could have solved their problem of somehow getting one dream to just change into another one seamlessly. I really think Dreams deserves a second chance.
It was an awesome idea but even with tools that were supposed to make it easier to make a game, it was still so hard and convoluted. It tried to do to much at once. It would have been better to separate everything into easier parts, build the world, then the character's, then the music, etc. Not everything all at once. Some people understood it but most were overwelmed or confused.
Definitely not your average gamer. I am skilled and smart but creating is this game is so complicated and requires a lot of learning taking notes and time to practice and get better.
Media molecule mm 33 Mason numerology on their name title is not a coincidence. Just something to point out.
Could have made it easier to help less experienced gamers to develop ganes in it but they are letting their community do that by allowing us to use others creations to be used and change if they want . But that should been done nmby themselves and not onky give us very basics tools. Plus creating a character is a nightmare hence you don't get to see fictional characters creations in the game. Whoever's help to do the character creation in the game should get fired. It's useless and not intuitive character come apart. And lots of time or most they don't work once you think you are done. Zero common sense or logics