{"id":129034,"date":"2022-10-19T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-139347"},"modified":"2022-10-19T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T21:00:00","slug":"soapbox-disney-dreamlight-valley-feels-like-a-villain-rehab-is-that-a-bad-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/10\/19\/soapbox-disney-dreamlight-valley-feels-like-a-villain-rehab-is-that-a-bad-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Soapbox: Disney Dreamlight Valley Feels Like A Villain Rehab. Is That A Bad Thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the world of Disney, a deep line is drawn in the sand between Good and Evil. On the side of Good, we have most princesses and fairies, anything and anyone with large eyes, and all women under the age of 30. On the side of evil, we have most non-prince men, all witches, some wizards, and any woman with wrinkles. I won’t get into the suspicious gender division of this list right now, and admittedly, there are some characters who straddle that line (like Peter Pan), but overall, it’s pretty clear who’s evil and who isn’t.<\/p>\n

So, why is Disney Dreamlight Valley<\/a>, Disney’s supposedly wholesome take on Animal Crossing<\/a>, so full of these criminals? I wonder if it’s part of a new attempt by Disney to rehabilitate their villains for potential use in new ways, because it’s not like they couldn’t just use the gigantic pile of non-villainous characters in their warehouse instead. There has<\/em> to be a point to it all, right?<\/p>\n

Spoilers ahead for some of Dreamlight Valley’s characters and plotlines.<\/em><\/p>\n

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This week, as part of a big new update, developers Gameloft added Scar to the game, who is a lion, but also a MURDERER. His murders, both successful and attempted, are so heinous that they actually have specific words for them: Fratricide, Regicide and Nepoticide. That’s a high percentage of the named murders, dude. Those are the bad<\/em> ones.<\/p>\n

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I can forgive slightly predatory legal practices, but I cannot<\/em><\/strong> forgive breaching a contract<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And he’s not the only villain in the town. There’s also Ursula, a sea-witch who offers transactional curses, and you know what? I can forgive that. If some idiot teenage mermaid wants to sign a binding contract that she didn’t bother reading, even after<\/em> Ursula did a whole villainous song about it, then that’s kind of on her. But then Ursula went back on her word in order to try to steal Ariel’s man. I can forgive slightly predatory legal practices, but I cannot<\/em> forgive breaching a contract.<\/p>\n