Disney Dreamlight Valley

As someone who has put in hundreds of hours and been a player of Dreamlight Valley since Day 1, I have to say that the Apple Arcade version is truly a breath of fresh air! I may be in the minority here, but I am actually RELIEVED that the Star Path is gone from this version! On the PC I have been stuck on the same quest for months. Why? Because a Star Path comes out and then I spend WEEKS grinding doing pointless and mundane tasks over and over and over again because of FOMO. By the time I finish one Star Path another one has just dropped. So I’m not actually making any progress in the game because I’m constantly doing trivial and monotonous tasks. I am actually really excited to just play the game on the Arcade version and not have to worry about any of the nonsense. Not to mention I can play on my phone, iPad and Mac and not have to buy the game 3 times and all of my progress is synced! Yes, I have to start over, but I’m actually fine with that. I’m looking forward to experiencing some of the earlier quests again. Honestly, for a diehard D.V. Fan like myself, it would be worth the cost of Apple Arcade even if this were the only game on the service! The only thing that makes me nervous is if one day Gameloft decides to pull it from the Arcade and we lose everything. (WE WILL NEVER FORGET WHAT HAPPENED TO COZY GROVE). If Apple is listening: If I invest hundreds of hours in this game and it gets pulled without any way to transfer our save to just a standard iOS app…I will never pay for Apple Arcade again!

After my girlfriend getting on my case for however long it has been since this game first went into early access on consoles and pc I finally decided to download this thanks to it being available on Apple Arcade. I get that this “Arcade Edition” might not be the highest priority as it is not really generating revenue due to the lack of access to the premium shop and season pass, but I’ve noticed some truly baffling decisions. First off I’m having performance issues on my iPhone 12 Max. I suppose this shouldn’t be a surprise considering how I’ve seen it perform on my girlfriend’s Nintendo Switch, but I still expect more polish out of this especially when I’ve played more impressive games on this phone that run significantly better. But even more baffling is the fact that there is no option to name your avatar upon creation (at least that I could find) and that there is no option to rename once created. My avatar is stuck with the name “player”. This was automatically applied. It didn’t even take my Game Center name, which I’m assuming possibly is due to it being too many characters as looking online the console versions allow up to 12 characters and my Game Center profile is 14. This is really an unacceptable oversight. All other versions apparently have a change name option within the help menu in the settings. Please update this with this simple feature.