It's been two weeks Crossing the Animals: New Horizons they came out, and almost everyone in the Kotaku staff are working hard trying to make our new desert islands feel like home. It's been a process … full of blood, sweat, and a lot of broken instruments — and we have thoughts about it.
I hope you have now read my colleague writer Ian Walker excellent review of the game, but more than that, we wanted to share the ideas, reactions, personal tragedies, and success stories of others on staff as we survived the new era of Tom Nook's new era.
Maddy Myers
I don't play role-playing games. I don't waste any time on character creators. I never played the Animal Crossing game before. Also, Crossing the Animals: New Horizons has become a game I play almost every day.
I'm not sure if I enjoy it. But I know it fulfills some hyper need for me now. As a straight person who already works from home, I don't get to interact with a lot of people in my daily life, other than spending time with my equally straightforward girlfriend. Before the covid-19 happened, I was getting in touch with a lot of the impact that had been made in the regular week by chatting with a waiter at a grocery store, or by doing small talk with other people at my gym. All of that is gone now.
Instead, I did small talk with Timmy and Tommy. I discuss exercising with Flip, a jock monkey resident who lives in me Animal Crossing city. And, of course, I decorate my crazy Animal Crossing apartment and we invite my real friends to see you, and I apologize to them, because it looks worse than my real-life house. Animal Crossing it allows me to be able to re-balance everything that is unpleasant but somehow fulfilling the social interaction I once had while the community was working.
Then I will continue to sign in Animal Crossing daily after the covid-19 epidemic has passed us? Probably not. But until then, it has given me the opportunity to see what other people enjoy in this way. And it made me realize that I needed to work on my interior decorating skills.
Ian Walker
I own two pairs of jeans in real life, but I run out of clothes every time I buy them Animal Crossing. Here are some of my outfits:
Mike Fahey
Each day Crossing the Animals: New Horizons launched, the 512-gigabyte Micro SD card on my switch is dead. Four days later, after my wife started playing, her Shifin abruptly stopped charging. When I was trying to get his Switch to work, my system, which had been purchased a few weeks before the game began, stopped releasing the video. As I'm used to playing in TV mode, it's not good. I have a switchch Lite, but I ran it with my wheelchair and broke the screen.
Nintendo's warranty adjustment is low, so I'll have to wait until the world returns to normal for any of these consoles to be fixed. With Nintendo's down payment, it's almost impossible to buy a new Switch now. So my wife went on eBay and bought a refurbished Switch tablet for $ 250. It's really nice that we have more bonding Crossing the Animals: New Horizons.
I can't play when he can't play. It is very sad. I feel bad about sharing my stuff, the clothes I'm wearing, and the bugs I collect with her. The several days we played, which meant that in one room, it was all too easy to forget to suppress real-world anxiety for a while.
We stayed late to harvest the weights. We woke up early to see what was happening on our islands as we slept. Our jobs to be done on our islands are more fun than we should be doing in real life. It's still a chore, but they spend time and make us happy.
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Natalie Degraffinried
I spent 105 hours playing Crossing the Animals: New Horizons over a period of several weeks. I think I like it Crossing the Animals: New Horizons. Or my OCD is back with a vengeance. I continue to celebrate the entrance ramps and bridges even though I'm tired of them, so maybe it's OCD.
I didn't think I could take the fine art of raising prices to new heights, but I am here in the endless cycle of Nook tickets, tarantula grinding, and organizing my list by item launch. All to pay for my Able Sista shopping problem, in the end. However, I look like a plane.
Max entry in Animal Crossing it's not for the faint of heart, and it's not a great way to play regularly. It may be difficult to do now as the seasons have changed. Will that stop me? No. I will continue to be upgraded and try to pay them the same day. Do what gives you peace, I say.
Just don't be a miserable criminal like my friend.
Riley MacLeod
New Horizons Crossing Animal Creation for the first time – our editor-in-chief Stephen talked a lot about the game so I was curious. I started playing this week, so everything feels a little slow – when I get a bite to do something, I've always wanted to switch to Stardew Valley, but I'm most impressed with how happy the NPCs are when doing simple tasks and how often one can hit you. And I really like having your character run around with their arms out. I put a face painting on my person and I have no idea how to find it, so you have face paint now I guess.
Ari Notis
Short version: This is the most annoying game ever played.
Here's how I really feel: Each time, this stupid game presents a problem for a whole new cast: how should the Bllies check the fossils before handing them over; how did the Nook twins stop you from thanking them before leaving their store, and how they said it all in a negative way (WTF does) how to eat one fruit at a time; how your shovel keeps breaking, your ax just breaks, your net is constantly breaking; how two players can buy from one person at the same time in a co-op; how impossible it is to dig a hole when you want to; and that every day, that huge garbage beast spends my time telling me nothing new is happening. I know that nothing new is happening! This is Animal Crossing! Nothing new is happening! This game should be an escape? Please. It would rather be Xerox headache for daily life pains.
Luke Plunkett
Everyone says this is a game the world needs right now, but the last thing I need is a second handle hanging above my head. At least this is at sea.
Heather Alexandra
I never played the Animal Crossing game before now. Somehow, I missed a lot of Nintendo games as my focus shifted to Nintendo 64 in favor of PlayStation and especially the PC simulation scenes like Half life. When I needed a home remodel away from home, I was playing Harvest Moon. That resulted Stardew Valley and long hours at the co farm with a former partner. I enjoy the quiet of city sims and gardening games. I also try to find the time for them.
I didn't take a big hole ACNH. I had to focus Nioh 2, is Eternal Judgment, is Disadvantages of Living 3. Arriving people at my moment every 20 minutes was a strange and fun way. I can't compare New Horizons to others in the series, but I would say it's a very good game during a time when solidarity seems rare. Sometimes, a good day means a lot less than the back of your room. In some cases, it determines where you can place the memory block you received. Animal Crossing it's simple, but that's easy why you play it. Planting a new tree, invites a new animal companion to your island. Little things that can feel trivial.
Now, if that ends a freako rabbit out of my island …
Ethan Gach
Every night I shake all the trees, pick up all the weeds and beat things with my ax until they are all broken. In the morning I sell things, and the cycle repeats. Talks with other citizens pass as I hit the A-button to get back to work. I buy everything I can from Tom Nook like I'm completing the Sears Catalog Pokédex. I pay off all the loans thanks to the million metals I received New Horizons & # 39; the church -the one endless thing of glory and subsequently invested in the Burnip market. I provide the wood and metal needed to build new homes for new citizens. I'm adding new bugs and fish to improve science. And all the while I've been waiting like Vladimir and Estragon for an epiphany that will help transform each of the mundane work and help them reach a larger story that I can find with a deeper sense of meaning and purpose from.
Instead I have a list of things very similar to a CVS receipt. I suspect that's the problem with me and not the game.
Nathan Grayson
Last week, I wanted to play with it Eternal Judgment and in the end, you are in for good Control. Instead, I played a lot Animal Crossing.
I don't really like it? I respect the analytical speed it tries to make, but by forcing players to get into its heavy machinery and needlessly repetitive NPCs, it manages to annoy me as often as it pushes me into a happy island environment. Also, I'm not bad at interior design, so now my house looks great The World of War"Molten Core's attack if Ragnaros was an unplanned college freshman who knew what he was going to do with his dorm.
Oh, and all my neighbors suck. In the past Animal Crossing (correct quantity) (Editor's note: Hmmm, no lmao), that's not really important, because I enjoyed working for them for small tasks and felt like I was creating a sense of community even among the characters I couldn't see. In New Horizons, however, is about land development, which feels personal. I don't want the KK Slider to appear because I've done my town well. I want him to play the tunes of the locals to me because he's a nice, cool relative.
All told, this game gave me one of the coolest moments of the game I've had since we were all trapped inside our houses. I wrote about this for a long time in another episode, but one night, DJ and Clarke “Grimecraft” Nordhauser threw a rave for the game, and I went. We are surrounded by avatars of strangers and dancing along with poorly developed movements, feeling the same mixture of fear and excitement that I have heard in many shows in real life. After I tossed my nerves (read: drinking a glass of wine), it turned into a relaxing, fun time where everyone talked a lot about how good the music was and how much they enjoyed the whole thing. Sometimes, a vacation can be 90 percent, but then years later, all you remember is a happy day at the beach or a beautiful sunset. Animal Crossing it has very good sunlight.
Paul Tamayo
I've already mentioned how Crossing the Animals: New Horizons you couldn't have come at a better time, but the methods help me networking with friends sending gifts through the game, getting help from my podcast listeners, and making phone calls to visit each other's islands has moved the game to another level. It also gives me space to take care of my own island as my beautiful bonsai tree. I take care of it and improve upon it in a million different ways. My partner actually made a good impression yesterday that even after jumping off the island through the islands of our friends, it would be really cool to come home to your space.
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