

This series of shorts looks to have something for everyone. The trio are only able to defeat the house when Goofy can’t decide what he needs and unveils all of his needs at once causing the house to catch fire. The house tries to anticipate their every need but becomes jealous when the house learns of Minnie. Or perhaps Mickey should just stay up late for one dang night so I can finally get his girlfriend back.In the second episode of the “The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse” original series on Disney+, Mickey, Donald and Goody visit Professor Von Drake’s new house of tomorrow and get an early sneak peak that turns disastrous. Perhaps they will teach me to be patient. Perhaps I shouldn’t force these characters to cater to my whims, like I did to my New Horizons villagers. Admittedly, it is remarkably in character of Mickey to be an “early to bed, early to rise” sort of person and even though his hours frustrate me, he’s just so dang endearing that I can’t get mad.


And Elsa seems to keep the same hours as me, so we can hang out together anytime I want. The villains are night owls too, and I can always count on Gothel to make a passive-aggressive dig at me when I walk past her. I should be thankful that at least Scrooge’s store and Goofy’s stall are available 24 hours a day (capitalism never sleeps, babyyyy), and that I can pick up fish from Moana and crops from WALL-E’s garden whenever I want. I need a Disney version of New Horizons’ Night Owl Ordinance, which lets me force my villagers and the local businesses to keep the same hours as me. with a cheery “Good morning!” I knew we were kindred spirits.) And I can’t even unlock Minnie till I progress more with Mickey. (Notably, Goofy once greeted me at 6:30 p.m. When I do play a little earlier and manage to catch him, he always yawns and says something like “GAWSH IT’S GETTING LATE.” Sometimes, this is at 8 p.m. In one of our rare meetings, Mickey fishes backwards Image: Gameloft via Polygon I just really wish Mickey Mouse kept the same hours as me. So I’m going to continue this nighttime ritual of playing Disney Dreamlight Valley. It helps me turn my anxious brain off and get to sleep. I could play the game earlier - and I do, when time allows - but there is something very soothing about playing a game where you run around collecting little things and helping characters right before bed. But she shares her house with the other Frozen characters, and because Kristoff was asleep I couldn’t enter, which meant that I had to wait till the next day to progress. The most egregious example, however, came when Anna asked me to search inside her house for a quest. I feel really guilty about yanking her from sleep, but a gal has got to get her rainbow trout, y’know? Moana operates a canoe for the player to catch fish from, and interacting with it means that Moana shows up for a second to say hi - no matter where she is or what she was doing. He’s not the only character with an early bedtime.

I guess I’ll never get to level up our friendship. And when it’s 11 at night and I’m on my couch in cozy pajamas with a mug of tea, Mickey is fast asleep in his house. Much like Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Disney Dreamlight Valley follows real time, which means when it’s day time in real life, it’s day time in the Valley. Now, I might be a Disney fan, but I am also a working adult and a night owl, which means that I usually play the game after 11 p.m. Mickey lives right across the street from me and he is always asleep when I play. All is well in Dreamlight Valley, except for the fact that I never fucking see Mickey Mouse. It has all the coziness of a life simulation game where you rebuild a town, with the added bonus of Disney characters bouncing around and greeting you. Like many other Disney lovers, I have fallen down the rabbit hole of Disney Dreamlight Valley.
