But its real-time pace is leisurely enough to still feel like a camping vacation all about gardening, exterior, and interior design. The goal here is unendingly improving your remote island - that you get to name think real hard! - which may sound tiresome or a second job. Yes, there's the element of paying off loans for big-ticket purchases, like upgrading your initial tent to a house, which some people not-so-jokingly consider just another job in our already burdensome world, but there are no penalties or accrued interest on your payments Nook, Inc. The vast majority of gameplay is exploration and discovery, and there's plenty of hand-holding to explain exactly what you have to do the most frustrated you'll ever get is when you miss a fish striking your lure or you get stung by a bee and have to head to the main camp for some medicine. Like I said, even the least experienced of us is a perfect candidate for Animal Crossing. If you're still not convinced, in spite of the fact that all your gamer friends are absolutely going to be distracted with it all weekend, read on.Īnimal Crossing: New Horizons is for literally everybody Paired with online gameplay, there's a whole open world to escape to when you're stuck indoors. The long-awaited fifth installment in the series, out March 20 and the first since 2012's New Leaf, has much of the same markings as past Animal Crossing games: Your number one raccoon boy Tom Nook and his two twin sons, Timmy and Tommy, are here, running some shady island destination getaway business the resourceful Shih-tzu Isabelle is unlockable and tons of familiar and new Animal Crossing characters are waiting to be invited to your decked-out island. Can you walk around? Catch a butterfly? Enjoy a sunset? Pick some weeds? Harvest some fruit? Great! Then, Animal Crossing: New Horizons is for you. You don't need notoriously difficult Dark Souls-level combat skills to take down scary monsters or the kind of slick stealth moves required to beat Metal Gear Solid. Technically, sure, but it's also one of those low barrier to entry games that literally anyone can have fun playing.
"Isn't this a game for babies?" you might be asking if you've never touched one of the four major Animal Crossing games, starting with 2001's self-titled for N64. It is called "no mercy Island" and I hope you come and visit my beautiful getaway destination as soon as you download Animal Crossing: New Horizons for your Nintendo Switch, which should hopefully be right about now.
In these hell times, I, like with many, many others, have absconded to my own private desert island to resettle.
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