Sony’s recent State of Play broadcast was an exciting one, bringing a lot of brand new surprises, trailers, and reveals. From the long-awaited announcement of the Resident Evil 3 remake and a tease revealing that more Ghosts of Tsushima footage is coming at Thursday’s Game Awards, there was enough to make any PlayStation fan eagerly excited. One of the biggest reveals, however, came in the form of a release date trailer for a highly anticipated game that’s been in the works for several years.
This game is Media Molecule’s Dreams, which players now know will be hitting shelves on February 14, 2020. The studio’s first game since releasing LittleBigPlanet 3 back in 2014, the release date for Dreams is accompanied by an action-packed trailer which shows off just how expansive the game aims to be.
For those unaware, the core concept of Dreams tasks players with using their imagination to design fully-fledged levels and worlds that can be accessed by other users online. The trailer shows off just how much its range of tools can create, displaying large science-fiction landscapes, colorful fantasy worlds, and even a neon cityscape. It appears what players can do in these worlds differs vastly as well, with levels seeing you traverse environments, battle enemies, and race in crazy vehicles.
The focus of the trailer appears to be highlighting how Dreams is a community-focused game aimed towards all types of players. With so many tools for players to utilize, it’s a claim that’s seemingly hard to deny, with the trailer showing that every experience in Dreams sports a different appearance, style, and function. Hopefully, it will find a vibrant community full of creative users who are excited to build some awe-inspiring worlds to explore, and if footage from the game's beta is anything to go by, it already looks as though that could definitely be the case.
Media Molecule’s success with LittleBigPlanet will no doubt already be a calming sign for fans worrying if Dreams will live up to its ambitious goal. While the franchise’s final entry didn’t cultivate a community as wide as the previous two titles, the franchise was known as one of the most engaging and collaborative experiences of the last generation, with players building insane maps for each other to enjoy. Hopefully, Dreams will be the game to bring Media Molecule’s talent back in a big way, and luckily, we don’t have to wait too long to find out if that’s the case.
Dreams will be released for PlayStation 4 on February 14, 2020.
