Great game, but has many issues (Long review)

I wished that the original Minecraft had touchscreen support and now it is here! The touch controls are very intuitive and add to the original Minecraft experience a much better way to interact with the game. Other than that, I have a few issues with the game:

1. You cant craft dyes from flowers like in the original Minecraft. This should be easy for the developers to fix by adding in those recipes.

2. Dungeons are all one room and the jungle temple isnt anything special in this version. In the original game, dungeons were more intricate and there were abandoned mineshafts to explore. Also, the jungle temple has pointless switches and tripwires that dont do anything except move a piston that is lodged in a wall. In the original game, the jungle temple had working traps and actual puzzles.

3. Crops take way to long to grow in this version. I planted wheat seeds and waited 8 whole HOURS of actively playing the game, yet the wheat did not grow despite it being in fertile land. Also, it takes 7 bone meal to grow 1 wheat seed to the point of maturity. It is so pointless that I think the developers should just remove farming from the game entirely.

4. Minecraft is no longer unique like it once was. In fact, you can get generic versions of the game for free on the App Store. I guess since Mojang was successful with Minecraft PC, everyone wanted to copy it and publish those copies. There are so many derivatives of this game that the original fails to stand out from Discovery, Cube Life: Island Survival, Survival Craft, and many other less noteworthy knock-offs of the original. Since these games all use the same formula, some people may be burnt out on the whole genre of sandbox survival games. You get wood, then stone and iron, mine for diamonds, get obsidian, and go the nether (but my portal doesnt even work).

5. I guess I am burnt out on the whole genre, but I am bored of the run of the mill survival sandbox sequence. Here is the formula for these games:

First, get wood to make tools.
Then, make a pick axe and mine for stone and ore.
After that is done, make a better pick axe so you can mine better ores like platinum or diamonds.
Finally, make the best pickaxe in the game (after repeating the last two steps if necessary) and then you are done.

Minecraft adds a few things like exploring the nether, underground dungeons, and temples, enchanting equipment, and defeating the Ender Dragon. This version offers a lackluster version of these special experiences, but there is still enough new stuff to interest me for a little while.

6. There is a lot of red tape involved in playing anything besides the vanilla version other than paying for it. You need an Xbox Live account which is a $90/year subscription that you also need a Microsoft account for. When you use only Nintendo or even Sony stuff, this is a huge undertaking for the user especially since my Microsoft account was hacked into on day one with a strong password (that means you need a cell phone in addition to your iPad or even a SECOND iPhone to secure your account).

That my friend is a lot of red tape.

Tae98Lily about Minecraft: Pocket Edition, v1.1.5