Animal Crossing: New Horizons launched at the perfect time, with so many people stuck inside, often alone, for months. After those first few months, the mainstream popularity died down, but millions of players continued to pick up the game every single day. To get the full Animal Crossing experience, you need to play over the course of at least an entire year since the seasons and holidays change in real-time. The past year has been filled with regular updates that added new content and events, and for the most part, fans have been pretty satisfied.
To keep players interested, the game will need to be continuously updated with new content just like it was last year. Will we see any major, game-changing updates during year two of Animal Crossing: New Horizons?
Or will all future updates bring small tweaks to the game? In New Horizons, a total of 10 villagers can move to your island and live there at one time. We want to invite more of them to live with us!
We also had seasonal events such as cherry blossom season, maple leaf season, and mushrooming season. You can collect shells, fruit, and seashells to sell for a profit. You can spend time socializing and sending letters or gifts to residents and real-life friends. Although this might not sound compelling on paper, the way Nintendo presents Animal Crossing elicits a sense of calm and serenity that few other games can match.
The naive art style, soft yet vibrant color palette, and lullaby-like music is good for the soul. Sitting on the beach watching the sun go down while fish nuzzle your line is a genuinely soothing experience. Your animated fellow residents are almost always happy to see you, and they make meaningful changes to your interactions the better you get to know them. New Horizons introduces a few long-awaited features, including a robust crafting system.
You can use basic resources like wood to craft items, then use items you have crafted to craft even more items. In previous titles, you could only decorate your house, but New Horizons lets you put furniture and decorative items anywhere on the island. The game also introduces a new currency, known as Nook Miles, that you earn by completing various tasks around the island. You can use your Nook Miles to buy unique items not available through other means.
A deeper social system allows you to influence how other residents behave, including where they should build their homes. Multiplayer Gameplay - Animal Crossing has always been fun with more than one person, and New Leaf adds to that by allowing players to play mini games together on the game's island, which can be a lot of fun. It's also fun to meet up with people, explore their towns, and speak with their villagers. Engagement - Because there are so many things to do and so many different elements to the game, it all manages to feel completely engrossing.
Animal Crossing doesn't feel like a video game, it feels like a tiny world that lives inside the Nintendo 3DS. I and I'm sure many others develop an emotional connection with the game, the tiny town that I run, and my villagers, which encourages me to keep checking up on the game day after day. Of course, all of these gameplay elements assume that you don't use time traveling to earn in game achievements earlier than expected.
The whole point of the game is to play a bit each day, watching your village slowly grow and progress over the course of a year or more. News U. Politics Joe Biden Congress Extremism. Special Projects Highline. HuffPost Personal Video Horoscopes. Follow Us. Terms Privacy Policy. More questions on Games :.
Once you have shelter, you'll be free to fill your days with whichever activities and calm hobbies you choose, including fishing, gardening, making furniture, and collecting fruit.
There are also special events and tournaments to take part in and attend. Not to get too deep it is just a video game after all , but there are some compelling psychological reasons why Animal Crossing is so popular right now.
Given that we are all experiencing the global COVID pandemic and many of us are in lockdown , this gentle game is providing some much-needed levity. It honestly feels a bit like a safer, more friendly world to retreat into. But it's more than that. Animal Crossing is a social simulation game. Players interact with their friendly and cute village neighbors, do favors for each other, and contribute to a functioning society—something so many of us are missing right now.
Simply engaging with a community, even virtually, feels really comforting. You can help your fellow characters to plant flowers, gather fruit, and spend time socializing together, something we're all longing to do IRL.
Another benefit of Animal Crossing: New Horizons is that there is a natural progression. You start with a tent and move on to your own home, building upon what you have, little by little. There's something very satisfying about that gradual progression especially as you are rewarded along the way.
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