Animal Crossing Retrospective - Nintendrone 

Night Owl + Island Bug Hunting was peak money making

@@mississippiking1366 bug hunting at night in general was pretty cool i always saw it as a sort of part time job. It's how I made most of my money in City Folk too

That explains why I have over a million bells in my savings on New Leaf

Def totes probs a Canadian or Westerner

@@andrewhanson1180 Or has family in Liverpool.

I imagine a literal nuke with Tom’s face on the side of it. Which is definitely something Tom would do 💀

Over Animal Crossing, no less

Loved it

Spit out my dinner listening to this shit my god lol

@@pro-toman Yeah! I love this part and I laughed so hard! It’s without a doubt my favorite part of the video! Not only does he present a good point, it’s also very dark and perfect with Sam’s sense of humor! It’s a little sad, however, because the rest of the video can’t really live up.

That was hilarious 🤣

He executes his humor in a way that makes me wonder how more people don’t watch him

He's a Wii U hater how dare you support people who hate the Wii U.

Nice seems cool.

Yeah, it’s unfortunate. I am not too fond of it. New Horizons is by far the worst game in the franchise because of the lifeless personality, because you know, that matters in a game about life.

My GameCube clock is screwed up too... Also, how could you be unimpressed by Zelda!? It’s, like, the most perfect game franchise of all time!

@@nickk3077 ok first of all, I respect your Pikmin pfp hardcore. One of my all time favorite game series. But anyways, this has actually been the subject of much internal conflict for me. I mean, out of all the Nintendo series that I could’ve felt weren’t that interesting, why did it have to be Zelda? It’s a game franchise that’s so ingrained into gaming culture, with so many concepts it introduced going on to become staples of game design. It’s a series of games with an almost unparalleled reverence. I’ve always been appreciative of a wide variety of games, and I’ve always been a big fan of Nintendo games, which is why my disappointment with the Zelda series bothers me so much. Overall, I’ve been playing a lot more Nintendo series in the past year or so and I’ve found a lot of games that I love in the process. I’ve found two of my favorite games of all time with the paper Mario’s, I’ve found my favorite racing game ever with f-zero GX, I found a great tactics RPG in FE three houses, I thought kid Icarus uprising was fantastic, I discovered a love for 2D Metroid, StarFox 64 surprised me with how much I enjoyed it, animal crossing has been a joy to play so far, and even Mario strikers charged and toadstool tour have been pretty fun Mario sports spin-offs. But there are 3 series that just haven’t clicked with me the same way those other series have: The mainline Kirby games, the Metroid Primes, and most of classic Zelda. Kirby just isn’t for me. My favorite Kirby game is Air Ride and the only other ones I’ve played are super star and Dream course and the only other ones I intend to play are 64 and planet Robobot. I don’t really care much for his games. I think they’re objectively good and I kind of liked them, slow paced floaty platforming just isn’t for me. I liked Air Ride more because I just like arcade-y racing games and because City Trial. 3D Metroid and Classic Zelda are a bit more difficult for me to put my finger on, however. If I had to guess one thing that’s probably the culprit, it’s most likely just how often it felt like nothing was happening and it just felt like I was holding a direction on the control stick. Metroid Prime had way too much of this, I was getting so sick of backtracking and how slow the game felt by the time I was at the end. If I had to pick another thing, I’d probably say I didn’t enjoy the combat of them either. Metroid Prime’s enemies were so bullet spongey that I would actively avoid fighting them by the end of the game, and 3D Zelda combat has never felt that enjoyable to me. I always hated that in order to use an item, you had to press the button once in order to equip it. It made me feel less in control because I’d often just want to use the item but then I wouldn’t because of the first button press and then I’d get hit by an enemy, and it made me try to stick to general sword combat, which I’ve also never found to be that enjoyable in the Zelda series. Its still got that sort of clunky feeling where it just doesn’t feel like I’m in total control, and there’s also just not a whole lot going on in most encounters. But if I had to point out one thing in particular, it would have to be how disappointing I felt Ocarina of Time was. I played it at first back in like 2015 and I tried to love it. I wanted to see the same Ocarina of Time that everyone else seemed to see, I wanted to love this franchise that everyone else seemed to love. But I just wasn’t interested. The child dungeons were all incredibly boring to me, the world felt like it was unnecessarily large and devoid of interesting content which sucked to me because id heard all about how these games had fun exploration but I was disappointed when I found that there was just a couple peahats and some trees in Hyrule field, the combat felt really awkward and the enemy designs in particular felt cheap, and progression seemed way too obtuse. I know a lot of people like to say that it’s entirely possible to figure everything out by just playing the game but I don’t care, you could beat Zelda 1 without a guide too that doesn’t make banging your head against a wall for an hour any more enjoyable. I dropped it right before the forest Temple and didn’t beat it until recently. I had actually never beaten a classic Zelda game until I revisited my old wind Waker HD save and forced myself through it some months back, which was when I finished Ocarina and then proceeded to buy almost every other Zelda game and play through them. I’ve beaten the link’s awakening remake, Ocarina of Time 3D, Majora’s Mask 3D, Wind Waker HD, Minish Cap, Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword, Link Between Worlds and Breath of the Wild, beat Zelda 1 and ALttP with save states, and played some of Zelda 2, Oracle of Ages, Four Swords Adventures solo on emulator, Spirit Tracks and Triforce Heroes. After playing them all, I came to the conclusion that there were only five that I actually cared about. Wind Waker, Link Between Worlds, Twilight Princess, and the only two that I actually think are deserving of the praise they get, Majora’s Mask and Breath of the Wild. The rest weren’t my thing. That’s not to say I didn’t enjoy them; I enjoyed exploring in Zelda 1, and the dungeons were usually solid. But (and this is MY PERSONAL OPINION) I think Zelda games tend to do many different things and I think that only a few of them managed to do all of those things competently. I think that objectively, Breath of the Wild, Majora’s Mask and A Link Between Worlds are the best Zelda games. Breath of the Wild was the first time where I played a Zelda game and actually loved it. The combat was amazing, exploring has never been better, the puzzle solving always felt very interesting because of its open-ended nature and the physics engine, and the game just felt like what I wish the earlier games in the series were. The dungeons were a pretty big hiccup, but the rest of the game was so fun compared to the earlier games that I didn’t even care. A Link Between Worlds also felt like one of the only Zelda games that accomplished everything well. The Maiamai hunting and the item renting made exploration super enjoyable, the gameplay overall felt a lot smoother and combat felt tighter, the puzzles were really good and some had multiple solutions which was cool, the wall merging mechanic added a layer of depth to the gameplay that I enjoyed, and the dungeons were all very solid. I honestly think A Link Between Worlds is the most “Zelda” Zelda game out there, since it’s got the freedom of open-ended exploration from the first game and BotW combined with more iconic series staples. And then there’s Majora’s Mask, which I think is a very special game in the grand scheme of Nintendo. While it inherits things I find boring from Ocarina of Time, it also found ways of circumventing those obstacles and remained enjoyable despite them. An example is the walking. Normally walking in Zelda games just feels like a chore, but the time limit makes you sit on the edge of your seat whenever you’re walking somewhere and the bunny hood also speeds everything up so that it’s not as painful. It’s also a completely unique and wildly interesting world that hasn’t been seen in any game since and it’s my favorite world, story and set of characters in any Zelda game to date, and it has one of my favorite soundtracks of all time to boot. It’s a fucking masterpiece game that I think still stands the test of time. Those three are really the exceptions to the rule, however. The rest of the series, while I wouldn’t say they’re bad, just felt kind of boring to me. I never really felt accomplished after beating a Zelda game, which is strange to me but that’s just how it was. I liked Twilight Princess because I thought the combat and dungeons were cool, I liked the exploration and the aesthetic in Wind Waker, I thought Link’s Awakening was a relatively tight package, but after that I don’t really care about the other games all that much. Majora’s Mask and Breath of the Wild are the only two games in the series that I’d rank among the best games I’ve ever played. Once again, this is all just MY opinion. But yeah, I just kind of felt like nothing really happened in most of the games, and like the gameplay just wasn’t very interesting for a good amount of the gameplay. One thing I will say about Zelda is that it’s perhaps the most consistent game franchise in existence. It’s impressive how the series only ever faltered during the DS/Wii era, and even then, those games still have their fans. But while I think they’re very consistent, I also think they’re consistently not games I find to be as fun as most people seem to say they are. My opinion on Zelda has always been this: the presentation will always be good, the music will always be good, the game will always function perfectly fine, but whether or not I enjoy the game that much is up in the air. Again, my opinion. Sorry for rambling, but this series has been giving me a headache from how much I’ve been thinking about it because I’m still just trying to understand my own feelings about these games. Edit: whoa, didn’t realize how long this got, sorry lol

@@shadowpheonix1751 that’s an interesting point. For me, the Nintendo series I’m not super big on are Pokémon which I hate, Star Fox because I’m not an arcade game type person, and funny enough Animal Crossing because its kind of boring to me.

@@ThomastheDankEngine8900 Yeah, I can understand people not liking those series. I’m almost in the same boat with Pokémon; I don’t hate it but I feel like I enjoy talking about how the Pokémon themselves and which Pokémon I like more than I enjoy playing the actual games. They’re just not very interesting mechanically. I’ve always enjoyed more arcade-y types of games so StarFox turned out to be a game that I could totally get behind. Animal Crossing was perhaps the most surprising one because I had NO idea whether I was going to enjoy the series, but I find it to be too irresistibly cozy.

@@shadowpheonix1751 I think Star Fox and Animal Crossing are at the very least are good game series that are not really for me due to personal taste. However I think main series Pokémon games are just trash, bad stories and bad gameplay lol. I also really hate the fanbase because they bitch and scream about the most trivial things all the time and its really annoying because they are also hypocrites who recycle talking points from clickbaity RU-vidrs and argue in bad faith. I just really hate obnoxious fanbases. The fanbase acts more immature than the target audience. That said, the strengths of Pokémon would be the Pokémon themselves since I enjoy playing some of them in Smash. Actually, I was wondering, have you ever played Pokémon Colosseum or Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness? Both are on GameCube and are examples of Pokémon games done right imo.

Thanks for watching!

@@HyperCharge you're worst video by far but im still looking forward to anything that comes out after

That's fair, maybe I went a bit too far in that regard. Sorry

April 14?

I was born in 97 and I'm only 26. You're not old lol.

Whats the difference? Never played either. Played new horizons for maybe an hour or two and got bored lol.

Or how asinine the building function is. Having to place down pathing one at a time, tile by tile on this 2000 sq. ft island is so beyond terrible. Or how we still don’t have mass crafting.

35:46 "The game had notably less interactions with villagers."

This tripped me up a lot when I was looking stuff up, because there's a lot of conflicting information resulted from all the different versions of the game.

Someone clearly doesn't care about RU-vid guidelines.

This video does not violate RU-vid guidelines, unless you clip it out of context and ripped the entire video of it's context. It's an argument against suicide if anything.

@@HyperCharge If that's the case, then I've seen a bunch of channels get screwed over. Between what people get in trouble for and what is actually written, it's confusing to me. I don't want that to happen to this channel, but I also don't want it to be censored to avoid the system.

I made an older Animal Crossing video before, so perhaps it was that

@@HyperCharge probably was the case. Anyways your content fucking slaps and I can't wait to see whats next!

@@epicsena He's planning on getting a smash roster video before this year, but first he wants to do an uncivil synopsis. but if he can't get it before the end of the year he'll just continue to work on the smash roster which he already has recorded and scripted

Yeah, I think that would've worked well for the Wii U.

He has a right to be mad at those people Edit: Just realized what you were talking about yeah I can agree with that

I didn’t even say a thing about gyroids, the annoying online, no cafe, only one shop, no Resetti, how the hame doesn’t surprise you and all the secrets of the older games become routine, and, like, a lot more. I’m kinda drained at this point.

@@nickk3077 I'm sad Animal Crossing has become the way it is for Switch, even discouraging me to buy it because of the absent of some of the things I like about New Leaf and things I heard in the previous titles. I loved the animals in New Leaf and how I can become friends with them and grow a relationship and to see a lack luster of them in New Horizons makes me sad, heck I don't like talking to people anyways so I rather talk to the animals. It sucks more if I'm wrong that people love this creative freedom, not that New Horizons is bad just a weird change that destroys what I liked in New Leaf and past titles. Hopefully this is just a phase and the next Animal Crossing game will return on switch with all the stuff that made Animal Crossing amazing, plus I just want to play Animal Crossing on the big screen and not on my small 3ds XL.

So, don't buy New Horizons, got it.

Tell us what you REALLY think.

@@leeartlee915 I agree with almost everything he said. The game is trying to sound calm and relaxed but it feels like I’m playing an ad for a vacation resort with an oversimplified and soulless art style. 🥶👌 🦵

Haven't gotten around to them yet. They look neat though

No point in making a "Channel Update" video when I could just work on my next video instead. Lol

We have partition walls now so it’s the best game ever now.

Honestly, New Horizons just sucks! Imagine waiting several years as an anxious Animal Crossing fan just to get something with less new content than the DS game! I made a comment here displaying my thoughts on the game in further detail if you are interested.

@@nickk3077 I agree with most of it but a few, Nook miles would be better if the game actually gave you stuff to buy with them, you could easily just have a million pile up, at least you use bells to move buildings. I like the idea of terraforming and making your own town how you want it but like in the video they make you wait to do that instead of giving you the choice at the beginning but yeah it's a shame a lot of people waited almost 10 years for a new mainline title for it to be missed potential, worried this might be the norm for a lot series

@@TwilightYonder720 I don’t know though, man. This is Animal Crossing, it’s a life simulation, not a god simulation game. Having the ability to raise the ground to your heart’s desire is uncharacteristic of Animal Crossing. There’s a reason this isn’t a feature in any of the previous Animal Crossing games. Terraforming doesn’t even have challenge and just wastes your time arbitrarily.

@@nickk3077 I see what you mean (although god simulation is a reach since you can't control what your villagers do) I feel like a better way to handle this is maybe have a animal in town you have to pay to terraform for you and you can rearrange your town on a chart instead of doing everything piece by piece because it's very slow for no reason. that way you aren't doing it and it's much faster

I didn't think of it that way, but I suppose it sort of is.

Probably not. I had a video planned for it and I didn't like the way it was coming out. I've come to realize that I honestly don't care that much about Paper Mario to make a 6th video about it.

@@HyperCharge That's a shame I always thought you had the best analysis on why Color Splash was mediocre, but at the same time I don't blame you Origami King is just more of the same from that last 2 games and it's just echoing at this point until someone at Nintendo changes things

@@TwilightYonder720 it’s arguably the best Paper Mario since TTYD. Not a high bar, but a lot people wrote it off without trying it.

@@HyperCharge damn that sucks, so does that mean you didn't like origami king?

@@ThomastheDankEngine8900 Super was a way better game then OK and I don't think highly of Super either. I mean can you really blame people for not trying it not everyone can just buy stuff they probably won't like especially when you can just watch a whole game online and save some buyers remorse and never touch it again

I recommend New Leaf. It’s like the ultimate Animal Crossing game, but with kinda mediocre villagers and a slight over reliance on town decorating, but still really good! The best game is still probably the GameCube version however.

@@nickk3077 I have New leaf and I love it, just what I heard about how the villagers acted in previous games sounded more compelling because they weren't just nice to you. But New Leaf's villagers are still mean to you if you give them a reason too, so there's a little of variety with the way they treat you.