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Seriously. The game lets you create semi-arbitrary 3D characters and have them run around and interact with a procedurally generated environment. With the amount of customization available to the player the fact that it runs at all has me convinced it was coded with ancient and magical runes of power. The way it lets you interact with and shape planets is also crazy. You can shape, colonize, paint, terraform, all to hundreds of planets and somehow your save file isn't massive. What is this wizardry.

Of course I can't pretend the game hasn't also earned the criticism it has and still does get. There's plenty wrong with it too. I just wish we could see another attempt at a game of that creativity and scope with modern technology. A true sequel to Spore could be one of the greatest games ever, but no one even seems interested in trying. Probably due to the aforementioned dark wizardry.