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Why I Love Animal Crossing, Because This Is Game Made For Haverst Moon Be Like Craft, Farming, Gardening, Talking & Singing

This game is just perfect ! Musics and visuals are so much relaxing and the storyline is the most simple you can find. Kids are happy cause this is a real source of distraction and adults are happy cause they feel weel as if they were in holidays in paradisiac island and it allow them to forget the present for a minute.

The only negative point that maybe bugs me that we can quickly being addict to this game.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a fantastic game and will keep you hooked for several hours. The gameplay basically consists of working you way up from a tent to a fully furnished house, farming fruit and vegetables, catching fish and bugs, buying and trading items, and digging up fossils.

You also have the abilities to change the landscape, this includes adding or removing rivers, clifts, pathways, plants and trees. You can also build many other things, such as fairgrounds, parks, and any other buildings a town could have.

Doing all the above is a very enjoyable experience, however you do get to a point when you think "what now!" and you feel you have hit a brick wall and there's not much else to do. However, as the game runs in real time new things happen on certain days, such as Halloween, Christmas Day, etc. One thing that really annoyed me in the game though was the fact you had to wait a WHOLE day to build, move or demolish a bridge or building! So if you wanted to move around your town it could take weeks as only ONE building or bridge can be moved per day...crazy!

The amount of work and detail that has gone into Animal Crossing: New Horizons is unbelievable, it looks absolutely fantastic and plays like a dream! Saying that, many Nintendo developed games are also polished to a very high standard.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a very worthy purchase, but you will eventually get bored with it and wanting to swap to another game. I think Nintendo could improve Animal Crossing, possibly taking a few ideas used in games like Stardew Valley.

All those years waiting, for yet another Nintendo Masterpiece.

This is just a beautiful game, I play it everyday! It's relaxing and peaceful. It's worth it, but...beware of Zipper T...

This game is a masterpiece. Working up to a 5 star island is a great feeling, especially when I get up too a new star rating. I sometimes wake up at the time it resets to another day (5:00 am) just so I can see pretty island sunset. The feeling of going outside and fishing, catching bugs, looking in the shops for cool items and clothing, and every thing else you can do in this amazing game everyday is really fun. My favorite part was when I got a 3 star island and I had a beautiful K.K. Slider concert. But I don't like having to pay my debt, and it is a bit annoying when getting stung by wasps and getting bit by spiders and scorpions. The first times I got stung and bit were scary, I thought the spider was a regular bug, and I didn't know looking for sticks would turn into me getting stung. I tried new leaf when I got my DS, and I really didn't like it that much because I didn't know how to fish or catch bugs and I couldn't make my island as beautiful as I wanted it to be. The only BAD part of the game was the eggs and zipper bunny. But with that gone, this game really helps me forget about how scary and terrible the world is right now.

I am absolutely in LOVE with this game. I've followed Animal Crossing since Wild World and I've always loved it. But this game became even more for me when I started suffering with depression and anxiety. I could take just 20-30 minutes to cool off.. wind down.. and refresh myself whenever I was feeling stressed or worked up. It's so calming and relaxing to play that you forget how you were feeling before you start to play. Totally recommend!

This game is the definition of greatness. It consists of slow but fun gameplay.

When this fine mess regarding the COVID-19 pandemic started, I was cooped up in my first apartment playing the same old video games I was playing (Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, The Sims 4, Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled, etc.), and they started to make me go stir crazy over not being able to do the things I would normally get to do...

...and then along came this Animal Crossing game I've gotten word of mouth from from a bunch of net friends. However, the first time I was able to experience this Animal Crossing game and know what all this Animal Crossing fuss is all about was when I picked up a copy of Animal Crossing: New Horizons at Walmart, which I hadn't been able to set foot in since the pandemic began.

At first things were boring. I started out with a few other villager animals that are still on my island (which I called GreenAcres after the 1960s sitcom of the same name) named Sterling (an eagle) and Hazel (a squirrel). Since it was my very first Animal Crossing game I had ever touched in my life, I got stung twice by wasps after shaking their nests out of a tree (ouch!), causing me to faint.

I won't go into much detail, but when I finally got a grip on how to get more stuff in Animal Crossing (and get me a house in the game) thanks to the powers of the Siri function on my iPhone, I sometimes will drag on with a session of this lovely game for what may seem like more than three hours. And you gotta love Isabelle, Tom Nook and his Nooklings (Timmy and Tommy), among other characters.

Bottom line, this Animal Crossing game got me through some hard times, whether it was COVID-19, being evicted from my first apartment (for being a noisy neighbor), or just if I'm feeling down. This is why Animal Crossing: New Horizons is still my go-to game on my Nintendo Switch to this very day.

Thank you Nintendo for making this game my favorite.

I was so excited to get this game, I watched so many gameplays on YouTube and it just got me so hyped up. I remember the day that I got it i was so excited and instantly started playing. The game was pretty fun and I overall had a great time playing it, but around a month and half of playing I started to notice some flaws. First of all, I really disliked how you had to wait a whole day (and sometimes more) to do some things. The daily tasks I made myself do were never fun, it felt boring and grindy, and it overall wasn't that good of a time. Another big problem I had is how much the house extensions were, It was pretty hard for me to make money and probably took me 2 weeks to get to 100k. I literally had to pay 90k bells for my one room of my house to get a tiny expansion. Also, advancing the main story line felt like a drag. I'm not the most creative person ever and instead of enjoying decorating my island i instead always got so stressed out because of how ugly everything looked, I couldn't even put the villagers houses in good looking places. ANOTHER thing is that the whole museum thing was cool at first but quickly became bland and a bit grindy. On top of all of that, I had to share an island with 2 other people which just made everything harder than it had to be. Why couldn't Nintendo make it so it would be 1 island per account? So yeah, I haven't gone to my island in months now because it just got boring overall, and I don't plan to return any time soon lol. I know this isn't the popular opinion but I just wanted to give out my own opinion on this game. Please, either like or dislike this review, I want to see if anyone agrees or disagrees with me.

I was so excited when I got this game as a present in May of 2020! I saw a lot of the game play on YouTube and I was constantly thinking about my island. While the ease of play is nice and understandable, there are a lot of features that you would have to buy to make the experience more enjoyable, including the DLC, Amiibo Cards, and Nintendo Online. I think that having these consumeristic features in the game makes it more P2P, rather than F2P and it gives F2P players a disadvantage. Other than all of the buyable features, I really like how there is a lot to do in the game, like fishing, bug hunting, completing collections, and expanding your island. The events are also a fun touch. Overall, I would recommend this game for someone who has completionist urges.

If you own your own switch or buy more than one Switch - this game is pretty good. But if you're trying to play on a second profile - forget it. You're stuck with the main profile's island and past choices. Have fun with your demo.

Bad qualities: boring after 10 minutes, all the islands are all too similar to each other, if you leave the game for more than a week there are annoying cockroaches invading the house until you kill them, annoying music, the characters are very one dimensional , the design of the houses is very unrealistic and banal.

Good qualities: Some character quotes are nice, the island is almost completely customizable.