Animal Crossing 3 Years Later 

I'm 67. And just started 3 mos ago. I'm playing alot as I'm retired. I'm up to 4 stars and I'm loving my game so far. Thanks for the videos I'll be a loyal follower👍

If only we could start a new island via a new save file, I would be replaying it so much... :(

My biggest worry with New Horizons is that Nintendo will see the huge sales numbers and take the series even further in this direction instead of pulling back towards making another that is closer to New Leaf.

As someone who kinda dislikes the decorating aspect (I end up getting stressed out about it not being Perfect Enough), I ended up going back to New Leaf. I found that the gameplay of NL works better for me than NH. I prefer the slightly more restricted decorating options of NL. I’m currently working towards the museum renovation before I’ll eventually start trying to get The Roost. While NH is more open in terms of decoration, it feels very limited in everything else. I’m still kinda annoyed that the stores don’t upgrade when they did in NL. And I’m still somewhat bitter that they got rid of my boi, Dr Shrunk. He was one of my favourite characters in NL and I’m sad that he doesn’t exist at all in NH.

My wife and I started playing on my son's island when he got the game at release. He stopped playing after the credits rolled at the first KK concert. My wife likes to fish now and then. I'm still there, same island, every day, 5,600 hours of play time, (which isn't entirely accurate, since I'm keeping up on a list of dailies for all three of us). Got the five-star island rating, all the golden tools, finished every nook miles card (Pen Pals was the hardest, since every letter had to mean something). I've collected every DIY, hit max bells thanks to selling on Nookazon a few times a week. I've taken to dumping a few hundred million bells in the trash every so often. (No, that wasn't a typo). It's not about the bells, it's about seeing all the folks out there who are still playing. Also, thanks to Nookazon trading, I haven't had to buy a NMT for over two years. My Nook Miles tally is over 3 million now. And we still have one of our starter villagers. Shout out to Fuchsia! It took me about a year and a half to get into HHP but I have been building feverishly now that I figured out a motivation. I'm building vacay homes for all the villagers who've left our island over the years when I see them waiting out front. It brings a smile to my face whenever I see one of the older villagers on the back beach or playing in the water. I guess I'm rambling. I don't miss any of the old game mechanics, because this was the first AC game I have ever played. Are there some things I would like to have? Sure. Batch crafting would be ever so lovely. Mini-games would be wonderful. Is it enough to make me stop playing? Nah. BTW, I'm 55, BeeKayCee911, so you're not alone as an oldster. ;-) Will I stop playing? Maybe. Someday. But not just yet.

It feels surreal that it's been that long since the game came out, but at the same time that it hasn't actually been long enough. This game feels like an old friend, like something we've always had around, and I think when it came out it saved a lot of people from losing their minds or deciding that life wasn't worth it. Your villagers needed you, your friends needed you, there was so much to do and it was one of the few ways to stay connected in a slice of life way.

i’m finally picking up animal crossing again after a hiatus that lasted mooooonths 🌝 no other game has scratched the itch that i needed to satisfy all of the cuteness and decorating that new horizons had to offer 🤌🏼 the break was good and now i’m having so much fun again!

I love this video so much! I flattened my island over the summer and I spent the time making it what I never thought I could do, and now I’m treating it as a seasonal island. 😊

i just still wish quality of life was better… there’s so many minor issues that never got fixed and probably never will be fixed

Just came back to it after months of hiatus and immediately got hooked... Finishing parts of my island, renovating some parts that still uses pre 2.0 items, finishing HHP, renovating houses, applying all the additions to your islands, interacting with the community via trading... Like taking a break with this kind of game work wonders... 😊

I just bought my first switch two weeks ago because i missed the days playing wildworld as a kid. And i did not regret it. I am enjoying the heck out of New horizons maybe because i wasn’t used to play animal crossing with others.

This game is definitely one of my favorites of all time. And while it is missing some things from the previous series, I still enjoy playing after 3 years! There aren’t many single player games I could say that for.

I just got the game 4 days ago. I'm loving it! Just got a house today, and the museum opened up!

Well, ACNH is like a vacation island for me. When I was exhausted from the day and had a little time to kill, I would just walk around my island, doing random stuff while listening to a broadcast or sth. It's just a really good way to chill for me. Thx for making a video about this game!

Take Note Nintendo..... This is getting Ridiculous. give us something !!

I still love ACNH and have been playing it for approx. 1800 h without ever really "finishing" my island 😅 I kept making new plans for the design of my island but I was never fully satisfied with what I came up with. Then, my ADHD brain lost interest for a couple of months and I came back to make new goals, changed a few things, hunted a few different villagers, then the cycle repeated. I also rebuilt my island like 3 times. I guess it will forever be unfinished but yes - new dialogue would be SO good. I love talking to my villagers.

New Horizons is my first AC game and I love it! I finally have all ten of my dreamie villagers, im in the process of fully decorating my island to match themes of some of them, and im trying to complete all of the nook quest even though i know it will def take me forever. And I havent even touched the dlc yet!

I remember playing acnh in 2020 for entire days during the pandemic, I also enjoyed a lot of people that made youtube content on it. When I clicked on this video I just realized that acnh is turning 4 tomorrow (20/3) and this makes me even more nostalgic

Your videos are a sweet and nostalgic reminder of the awesome experiences I had with ACNH. Played it for more than 2k hours, met some friends, had lots of fun with them, almost got a full catalog but I've gradually stopped playing after the release of the new Pokémon title. I think I will come back for the Halloween event which is my favourite.

I have been playing since March 2020. I have scaled back a bit, but my fixation has been set on collecting achievements and things while changing seasonal decorations. I’m close to getting models for all the bugs and fish and I’m still going for all of Gulliver’s swag. It’s still a nice leisurely paced game for me that is still therapeutic in hectic times.

I still have my island from day 1 and am still playing to this day (after a burnout phase of course) with so many goals left to finish!

It feels strange to see this video and seeing people in the comments filled with nostalgia. I picked up NH around day 1 like most, but I really only played it up until I got Isabelle, and I tried to replay it multiple times between bouts of restarting and juggling tons of busy work from going into college. Finally, now during the last semester of my college time, I'm doing a new play through with friends and I even have family playing on my island with me together this winter break. I feel so strange looking up a lot of your videos in the past few days on things like how to get more bells as a beginner or flower guide stuffs, and fast-forward two years on your YT and you along with a lot of other people here are viewing it with such nostalgia. While I do feel like I missed the gold rush of community content with things like the online thirdparty services and when it was all the hype of social media, I feel a strange sense of being like a lonely god, forging this island and relationships with the villagers into something beautiful yet also something that almost nobody will end up seeing. I'm not really sure where I can find an active AC community now, but I've seen so many of your videos lately and stuff from other animal crossing youtubers you collaborated with, and I really would like to find a community I can hang with and share my island and progress as I continue towards a satisfied sense of completion. Also big fan of your work, keep it up!

Been watching your videos after returning to ACNH last week- my first title was Wild World and have played every title since, played New Leaf pretty much daily for a year then kept revisiting occasionally up to and after the Welcome Amiibo update, so I'm another one of those "veterans" who was disappointed with all the missing content, and that our first major update was also the last update. I played ACNH pretty much daily for about 3 months before doing the occasional drop in, but like I said.. I'm back 3 years later and have been sinking time into it again. I feel like just finding a way to play where I can enjoy it despite its shortcomings has worked well for me. Like you said in your video, I've been going back and finishing what I abandoned years ago due to disappointment. I had never been a time traveler personally, not in previous games or during my active period of ACNH, but found it was necessary for my current enjoyment. I'm currently on NMT island 342 on the hunt for my last few dreamies, been visiting "treasure islands" to catalogue furniture that stubbornly has not showed up in my store so I can finish off my themed houses, and just been enjoying myself again now that I can accept that although not what I wish the game was, it *is* "complete" and i can go about "finishing" my island now. It made me sad looking back at my abundance of letters from friends who used to actively play, and think about times my island was at full capacity so no more visitors could come and toot their ocarina, but there's a weird sense of peace. I love the snow and don't get it irl so I'm looking forward to playing in the snow on my silly little island. Thanks for your videos! They help pass the time while island hopping :)

The first year it was so fun playing with friends and seeing different islands. Well it slowly died down and there’s no one who wants to play it 😢 so it’s lonely 3 years later

The biggest thing i reallly missed in this game, was things to do after fully finishing to decorate my island. Like minigames to play together with my friends.

I got my friend animal crossing and a switch just recently and honestly it made me love the game again. Having a friend that plays with you makes you remember all the hours I painstakingly spent on the game ❤️🥺

Hi! I haven’t touched this game in at least a year, but my kids just found it. I deleted my island and let them start from scratch. I was a bit sad about it at first, but we have been having a blast. I love being able to share this with them now!

I'm glad this was a positive video! For me I got acnh on my birthday on 2020 (September) so by that time all base features were added so I didn't have to worry about that. I do feel a bit sad I wasn't apart of all the community before I got the game though sometimes, but that's okay. Halloween was just around the corner then so it was a really good start for me to play. My big complaint is so much that was free in New leaf is now behind the switch online paywall...can't even get every fruit to complete more recipes without it... but new horizons is definitely a great game it's just different and was affected by the state of the world when it came out

Animal Crossing New Horizons never fails to bring warmth and peace to my life. Every time I hear the theme song play I immediately feel seen and loved. I close my eyes and embrace every calm moment ACNH gives me. It truly is one of the best games I’ve ever played. It doesn’t matter how long of a break I take from visiting my island, I always feel as strongly connected to it as ever. I remember that first year so vividly, because we were all inside playing together. The long waits between small updates spoke volumes to how unprecedented the user engagement was. It’s definitely not ACNH’s fault we all felt some type of burned out after a year or so. It was not perfect, but it eventually got there with the 2.0 update. I found myself coming back after the long break I had between my original playthrough and now! Thankfully I kept my OG island. The memories I have there are so sweet! I plan on taking care of this island as long as possible. One day in 20 years I’ll reopen it and reminisce in this special game. I am really excited for what could come with a “Switch 2.” I wonder if they’ll change the series to fit a more “rise n grind” play style since that’s where most of the complaints stem from?

There's also official LEGO Animal Crossing now!

I'm playing more now than ever. My wife and I started a shared island together on the same switch. It's really fun because when I stop playing she often starts and continues our little projects. The only thing that drives me crazyyyy is that catalog items is per user and not shared between users even if we are on the same Nintendo :/ Sometimes she needs to start the game as me just to order an item or vise versa. But playing together like this has added a new level of fun because we each want to out due each others creations lmao.

I really think it was the pandemic that made this game not last "as long" as New Leaf but I still enjoy it time to time

I started playing after taking a break for several months. I am time travelling big time as I have a new goal of completing my critterpedia and completing my museum. Also, I will keep all my villagers until I have all their photos. These new goals along with growing every flower hybrid and completing all nook mile achievements have brought back a new zest for the game - super fun again!🤗 I caught a barrel eye fish earlier and I felt special lol plus I’ve joined a couple of fb acnh groups All good fun!💃🏽😄

I just randomly got back into the game again. Restarted, and I went in with a new mindset which has been going well. 1. Not caring about being the richest islander around. I burned myself out on this game because I only cared about making the most profit. 2. Not caring about who my villagers are. Tier lists ruined me. I used to think I’d only be cool if I had the most popular villagers, like Raymond. 3. And finally, no time travel. I’m going to experience this game at a slower pace, and not rush to get everything right away. Hopefully I stay with it long enough to last at least a year.

I never played any previous animal crossing games but during the COVID lock down i bought the game and the first i didn't really like the game but i slowly started to love it. During lock down i found out me and my wife we're going to have a baby so I will always associate the birth of my baby with lockdown and animal crossing lol. Once my daughter was born i stopped playing 100 % but i put over 1000 hours into my island and am very proud of it. I put my daughter's into game and my wife even though they don't even play it in my rationale was that one day I was going to give him a Nintendo switch to my daughter with my island. 😊 But for me my animal crossing Island is like a portrait of my life in 2020 and basic timeline. It's crazy because i want to start playing again and I know exactly the last project I started right before the pregnancy and it was like a garden. For someone who's all about horror games fighting games and FPS shooters animal crossing was like a very different type of game that I'm usually playing I think it kind of like calmed me and help me and help me and get into a much better headspace that wasn't all like amped up all the time I was much more relaxed I was smiling when I was playing video games not yelling at my TV 😅.

They could’ve Minecraft’d ACNH by just constantly giving it new updates, keeping the animal crossing community always fed and happy. maybe they could get a little extra money from a second DLC? You know people would’ve payed for it…

Imagine all of the lemon recipes we could have?! Nintendo, give us lemons

I love this game, it’s so fun and such an easy relaxing thing to do. It makes me feel productive in some way when I hop on and get a new section of island finished. But I would love to see better villager dialogue since I love my villagers (especially prince) so I’ve taken to coming up with my own stories with them haha

I’m still playing it very often. Sometimes I wint play for a couple of months while I play something else but I always always come back 🤷‍♀

Havent't touched Animal Crossing: New Horizons since last year. Haven't experienced the newer updates the game has to offer. This video has definitely inspired me to saddle back up on that horse. From the perspective of someone who's played all the main line AC games, I was hoping for more content in NH then we inevitably got. Here's hoping that changes with the series new installment. Whenever and if-ever that occurs.

i'm thinking about restarting my island today because it was boring but seeing this is making me want to go through wuth it

I'm kinda getting back into it after playing it a lot in early 2022, which is nice. You just can't play the game fully for hours every day or you'll get burnt out, I've learned. Also playing new leaf, and maybe wild world too!

I'll love this game with all my heart and i can't change it

I'm not usually someone who sticks with one game for more than a few months. However, I played ACNH for over 2 years basically every single day! When the final update came out, I really felt like they were cutting it off too early. I think it had at least 1 more year in it before people WANTED to move on. I was able to accomplish most of the goals I had set for myself and it was hard to stay excited about New Horizons without anything new... on the horizon... I hope the next AC game is made with a more long term plan in mind, but also dread it becoming a micro-transaction mess...

I just want to go back to where the Animal Crossing are a story/vibe/journey game first and creativity second. The old ACs introduced so many characters, they had so much to tell, and every week something new happened like a shop upgrade or new things to buy in the city

_New Horizons_ was my first ever _Animal Crossing_ game, as I didn't have a Gamecube growing up, didn't get around to _Wild World_ or _City Folk_ (and don't really remember seeing them in the store either, as they would've been right up my alley) and _New Leaf_ was always sold out when my friend was playing it and I wanted to get in on the action. Really, my main experience with the _Animal Crossing_ world was the _Sweet Day_ mini-game in _Nintendo Land,_ which admittedly I _did_ love and played all the time with my friends. ACNH couldn't have come out at a better time though, for not only was it the pandemic, but I'd recently lost my brother as well. I sunk _sooo_ much time into it! I'd play every single day, I'd play out in the sun, I'd play inside watching telly, I'd spend _days_ just designing my real life bed linen, my clothing - chiefly my -pumpkin- yellow camo anorak and grey Wu-Tang cap - and I enjoyed it so much! Taking the best photos I could, meticulously recreating every detail as best I could… I did play it so much that I ended up getting a bit burned out on it, but I did get really into it again after 2.0's announcement. I don't think I've played much since Halloween of 2021, I didn't play much games in general for a lot of 2022, but the game will always hold a special place in my heart. Crazy to think it's been three years since I stepped onto that island… I still haven't paid off my loans to Tom Nook, and I never played the DLC, so there's still stuff waiting for me, waiting for the day I get the urge once more. It is not this day, nor is it the next, but I will always cherish the game and I will feel it calling my name once more, some sunny day… I'm a hobby-writer, and the game inadvertently gave me the name of an island kingdom in one of my stories, as I ended up giving it my in-game island's name, so it really will stick with me forever.

ive reset my island countless amounts of times but not once have i filled any part of my museum

I played ACNH like months continously, then burnt out, came back for months then burnt out again. And now I came back again just last week to finally "finish" 3 stars, that when I started watching more of educational videos about ACNH and several of them mentions Nookazon and it did look like I was late for the party :(

I got a second burst of enjoyment out of the game cuz my parents got Switches and Animal crossing. It was fun watching them be ruthlessly efficient at getting KK songs, filling out their museums and criterpedia's and comparing turnip prices.

Only the OG's know about the cockroach in the kettle😂

Love it! 29 with my first baby on the way. This game thrives on pace and long term tasks. Will never time travel for that reason. Yay ACH!

Hello! I'm quite new to ACNH,I started on my birthday this year,when my mom bought me the game by request. (16th of August.) And my first AC is City Folk. :D I really like the game,and the fact that there's Jazz!

Genuinely really don’t like how Nintendo handles the update model. It already has a ton of issues but due to how long they took to implement pre existing stuff to a game that doesn’t have a lot to do in comparison to even the first game, most of the players stopped playing before they got the good stuff. Not to mention how they said that there’d be at least 2-3 years worth of updates and outside of 2.0 there was nothing of substance added. I feel bad for the dev team since there was a lot of effort out in but higher ups seemed to want to continue their already controversial business model at the cost of a game people wanted to play for years to come.

I first played in April 2020 but didn't really get into the game. October 2023 I started a brand new island and I'm having lots of fun with it. I do wish I had more people to play it with though.

The only thing the next Animal Crossing needs is to bring back the ball. For anyone unaware, the Animal Crossing game on gamecube had a ball that would spawn somewhere in the town and you could kick it around. That's all it does, but I think it would be neat if it came back.

The 3DS eShop closure this past spring got me back to playing my 3DS again. When I fired up New Leaf, I realized how much more I love it than New Horizons. Ive been playing NL pretty much daily ever since, and haven’t touched New Horizons in months. Like Kora said, NH in itself is a good game that’s worth playing, but it leaves a lot to be desired for veteran players. I think it lacks a lot of the heart and soul that can be found in New Leaf and other previous instalments. From a creative freedom standpoint, NH is unmatched in the series. But beyond that, it’s surpassed in almost every other way by New Leaf imo, which is a game 7 years its senior. Your town in NL feels more like a living breathing community full of actual individuals, whereas your island in NH comparatively feels like a bit of an isolated, plastic personal sandbox full of action figures and standees for you to dictate as you please. Some players may prefer it that way, and as a creative person myself, I initially had a blast with it. But once I had all my dream villagers and the island exactly how I envisioned it, my interest started to wane when I realized just how much was missing. Trying to socialize with neighbours now yielded shallow, repetitive dialogue that made it obvious you were talking to NPCs as opposed to neighbours. A trip to the post office to see Pelly or Phyllis had been replaced by a post card stand. A visit to Harriette had been replaced by looking in a mirror … beloved characters who helped give the town life were nowhere to be found, like copper and booker, the resetti’s, and Pete the mailman. So much of the feeling of community and overall soul that defines animal crossing was no longer there, so going back to New Leaf was like going back home to all of it. I still look back fondly on my time in NH, but for the sake of future Animal Crossing games, I also sincerely hope that Nintendo doesn’t let its commercial success stop them from realizing the areas where they fell short this time around

The dog interruption 😂❤

i played this day 1 lockdown and stopped after 3months. it was really fun. now i just got back from my first time in Japn and visited nintendo stores, it made me created a new island and start over.

I just started to properly get into it last week so I'm loving life rn ! 😊

My classmate recently had a stop by the game after leaving it behind long ago right after gaining terraforming. Isabel's announcement went on and on due to how much has been added to the game, and we both bursted into laughter when a villager said he hadn't seen him in 3 years and 4 months.

I love it I don’t mind how many times do we start because it’s just so much fun when I get to start all over again and feel the love again

Just restarted my island after a year of not playing. I’m really enjoying it and plan to create my full dream island.

Ive had new leaf for 10 years now and when new horizons came out I got it the day of release 2 months went by and I was burnt out but with new leaf I’m 10 years in and still enjoy it

i got this game when it first came out and now i’m addicted to playing it again

I still love ACNH! Three years playing and counting. 😊❤

Restarted last month, After a half year break. In love again with the game 😍🏝️😍

I went from City Folk on the Wii to this game so it was quite a jump! Even though I don’t play it everyday I still get on occasionally to work on my pumpkin pie farm to sell them on Nookazon. 😅

The lack of dialogue options for the villagers absolutely killed the game for me.

I haven't played this game since I started playing Disney Dreamlight Valley in February 😅 This is my sign to start playing again 😊

Personally I'm still trying to get that cool upgrade for the Fish area of the museum. I still haven't gotten it! The one where you get a cooler background.

I reset my island all the time, for my self i've never regreade it for my self. And thats why I keep playing the Game.

My wife used to vibe playing Animal Crossing on our Switch 2 or 3 yrs ago i didn't even know the old & retro games e.g New Leaf would end online.

I have been playing this game since the Game Cube and still loving it. I have recently bought the actual Animal Crossing Switch and have started another town. Since growing as things came on the New Horizons things are coming at me differently. It’s so weird. The first one that just happened was getting the honor of reconstructing the land. On my new one you have to buy each thing or pattern on the kiosk, now I don’t recall having to do that last time. Am I correct on that or is my memory deceiving me!! lol Just thought I would check on this.

I honestly love all of the imaginitive stories and things I can create in New Horizons. I just hated so much of the community trying to achieve picture-perfection. Now that they're mostly gone, I feel like I can enjoy it again!

Weird coming back to my island and all my villagers are just like "whoa, where'd you go, you have anything cool, show us pictures!", more surprised than anything, I must just have really really chill villagers, or they think I'm some kind of rich jet-setter or something because I actually leave them like that a lot, like A LOT a lot.

ALL I WANT IS THE ONLINE ISLAND FROM NEW LEAF UGH

Went back my island this week... And I was shocked how long it took to load everything. The game was lagging much more than I ever remembered (on TV screen, works much better in handheld mode) and I tried to do a bit of island maintenance. Just to remember how desperately the game needs those +1000 quality of life upgrades we never got. I can't make another island on my switch, which is beyond absurd. I wish for a new game, but it's not coming. Just like all my favorite games, I'll be old and gray before they come out, IF they ever come out.

I was a resident on my sister’s island until this year when she got me my own game copy. I was able to move to my own island and keep everything in my storage, my house, my phone, and my bells :)

Nintendo...is it really THAT HARD to just add an update making it possible to buy more than one thing at a time in the able sisters dressing room, and give an option to keep things in your pockets instead of shipping it alllll the way back to your house...please😑

i played acnh for 2 years quit for one year and im playing now again

i took a break from NH shortly after the 2.0 update came out. i was annoyed by all of the new content that they added after i had already put 300 HOURS into the game, so i just didnt get back on. now that its 3 years later and im in college, i always have a spare hour every now and then and i recently reset my island. so far ive been having fun going through the early bits of the game again (although not getting paths and terra forming until after kk is killing me) and im excited to build back up to the point i was at on my original island but with all of the new furniture and other features they added!

I played it and found it relaxing for the first few moments I've played it... I started to play it lest and less in the next couple of months then stopped playing it entirely because it went from relaxing to boring... I don't know if I could pick the game up again... Especially since I found fun in other games that I've gotten for the switch, including Stardew Valley...

Its funny because i just got back into this game about a month after abandoning it for a year and a half...its fun to come back and play too

Still a hollow empty lifeless husk that I have long since stopped playing 2 full years now. Hell, I flinch even just seeing its icon on my Switch home page these days!

I think NH lacked in the immersive part of Animal Crossing and mainly catered to the people who liked making their clothes, patterns for paths in their town and styling their house. The villagers just feel like sets of dialogue that you won''t regret skipping because you'll see it a million more times, the island feels so empty all the way up until you either finish it and have it look exactly how you want or just give up because you could never get all the items you needed to fill it up. When I was younger and played the gamecube version (Other animal crossing games were out at that time, but NL wasn't and i didn't own a DS) I did spend way more time on the decoration aspect than my older brother, who actually knew how to play the game, but we both agreed that we liked playing mostly because of how alive the villagers felt and how entertaining they were to talk to and try to become friends with. The thing with NH is that, once you've completed the main story and decorated the island to your liking, that's pretty much it. You can log on daily to do small tasks like collect food to make something or see what's in the stores, but if you have the museum filled up and all the clothes and items you could ask for, then you're basically done. There's other things you can reach for like golden flowers or golden tools, but given the fact the golden tools still break, you won't want to use them because they took so long to make and you won't really have to if there's nothing new to catch. But with the gamecube version and even NL, there was always something new to do with the villagers, some task, some game to play, maybe one of them would have moved away in the time you were gone. It felt real almost, like this was a town you lived in and the villagers were friends you had to learn about to get along with and grieve once they left. But NH, they're just like shiny keychains, decorations to make your island look prettier. And they don't leave unless you say they can. Overall, I do like NH and I have invested a lot of time into the game, even picking it up again recently due to sheer boredom. But, it doesn't feel like an animal crossing game really. It feels like while focusing on the designer aspect of the game, it lost what really made it special to a lot of people. What good is having a villager rivalry when the villager doesn't fight back or say anything actually rude? To me and a lot of my friends who played the game, that was a core feature of it that is completely lost in it's newest installment. Having a villager you hated and constantly butted heads with was an experience unique to this game that won't be replicated in NH. Same with having a favorite. Now the only way to love or hate a villager is by their design alone, which is what created a weird, toxic community around them back when the game blew up (Raymond and Marshall). Though, there is one element of the game that stayed in NH that I appreciate. In every animal crossing game, when you go to able sisters, Sable (the shy one) won't talk to you the first couple of times you approach her. But, over time, speaking to her daily will have her slowly open up to you and eventually gift you patterns she created for you. I liked that, it made her feel like a real person. That still exists in NH but it feels, shorter and less impactful. And that used to exist for all of the villagers too. The whole idea of moving away to a whole new place, filled with people you need to get to know and starting from the ground up to make the town a place you call home, it's sort of lost. I remember telling a friend about the game NH and how to play and she responded "So, it's basically a dictatorship?" and i had to agree because, that's what New Horizons is. It asks nothing of the player and tries to give you everything while still being limited in weird ways. Like, how can I terraform the entire land but not the beach parts of it?

I still play most days, the completionist in me wants me to keep going. Makes me kinda sad when people drop a game but it is what it is.

As someone that’s played it since August of 2020 and played it every day since and wish it had more DLC like the sims

I've been playing since 2020 on and off. I'm about to bulldoze parts of my island to redecorate it for winter-- not that anyone is going to see it, all my friends quit playing 3 years ago. But I love to decorate in games, I wish I could combine New Horizons with New Leaf, it's really lacking in content if decorating isn't your thing. Which, most of my friends don't like decorating, so understandably they dropped the game pretty quickly.

im about to restart on my island because i didnt play for like 5 months lol.. theres still a lot more stuff i could do but i think i just want a fresh start

Playing this game was so fun 😢😢 Me and my dad quit because we 100 percented the game (in our books) and no updates We will play again if they add a gyroid museum.

I'd love to have people to play with and exchange stuff with...

Great video, i especially agree with the point of asking villagers if they have a job for you. I would love that !

After putting the game down for a while (two years), I recently came back to it and have been playing it daily again since. There's still a handful of Nook Miles missions I haven't completed so I have been focusing on chipping away at those. I just wish the game had more stuff to spend miles on; I have over 1 million banked! I only recently got my island up to a five star rating, and have been having fun decorating for holidays as they come and go. I just finished taking down my Halloween decorations last night, now I'm thinking about what I can do for turkey day. I just wish I still had friends playing the game to come see my island and hang out, maybe do some fishing or hunting contests, that sorta stuff. My wife has her own Switch and copy of the game, but she hasn't played it in years. I don't even know if she "beat" the Happy Home Paradise expansion. She's kind of ADHD to the max, so her sticking with any game for any amount of time is unusual.

I agree with Kora,we NEED more fruit

I got a good 2 years out of New Horizons and I played it a lot. I put thousands of hours into the game. Although I don't have much of a desire to go back, I am ready for the next installment and hope it has more features similar to New Leaf.

That thumbnail was mean for such a nice video! xD Good observation about how playing ACNH 12 hours a day during the pandemic probably burned out a lot of people. But yes, it's really nice to think about the new players, or players who *didn't* play 12 hours a day. :) I personally like to browse the Animal Crossing tag on social media sites, and a lot of players keep posting really pleasant, creative, funny, and wholesome stuff. I have 1,535 hours in New Horizons, and I still pop in every now and then to play, usually because of the DLC islands. Plus, it's just a great vibe to leave it on if I'm relaxing indoors, but want some ambience.

Is it just me or do the villagers get new dialogue? I saw new dialogue from the villagers I haven’t seen since it launched

Even though it is missing things, ACNH is a very well designed game and still my fave after playing various cozy games. Nintendo's dream team will need to step it up for the next one though, since it's now competing with games it inspired, like Dinkum, Faefarm, DDV, and the upcoming Loftia. Ideally, 360° with quests and way more to do to keep everyone's interest, like speeding around on fun rides on a much, much larger map, especially with multiplayer, coz gaming really is way more fun multiplayer. There's so much potential for it to have everything we've all asked for, plus more. I remain hopeful. 🙏🏼👍🏼❤️✌🏼☺️

This video makes me want to reset my island and experience it all over again. Maybe I'll do it one day.

The winds of my ADHD has carried me back into playing New Horizons after dropping it after I did everything the DLC Update could let me. I've added new things to my island and trying to get all my dreamies to live there to inject some well needed adrenaline into the game. I want this to be the island I dreamed of back when the game first launched. And with a possible minigame/story element they could add: you could offer to work for Timmy and Tommy like you did for Nook in the original Animal Crossing, delivering items to villagers and things like that to get money taken off your debt. Villagers could tip you in extra bells or furniture and if you didn't want to work you didn't have to.