the unusual punishments of every Animal Crossing Game 

For the roaches one, I think they should have made it so that lazy villagers don’t get affected since they always talk about their bug friends.

Lol when I was a kid I had to restart my day once because I talked to Lyle but I didn’t have enough money to purchase “insurance”. So I got trapped in this dialogue loop and had to just shut off my game 😂

In New Leaf when you go diving, you can sometimes get stung by a jellyfish if you aren't paying attention. It doesn't really do much, you just stay in place rubbing your ass for a while.

I LOVED the tan mechanic, before they added darker skin tones-that’s all I had. 😂

Nothing scared me more then when Resetti got me in wild world and I couldn’t be let go because I couldn’t spell the apology properly, I was in tears, I still find it funny today

I think you missed this one older animal crossing game that punished you for literally just walking around in your town. The idea was that natural paths could be created that way but in praxis there were really ugly grassless spots everywhere

I disagree with the tanning being a punishment. The original Japanese version of AC didn't have tanning and it was added in the US release before they added it in to the plus version. So it was less a punishment and more of a roundabout way to get a character with darker skin before character customization was a thing.

I have such a weird nostalgia for Resetti in Wild World. As the one kid who understood English well enough in a small Norwegian town I was the one who had to help my friends when something needed translating. And usually it was Resetti. It was normal for us to just not read anything in games, just plow on through. So Resetti was naturally a HUGE roadblock for most because we'd just spam A but no matter how much we did that Resetti wouldn't go away! I was somehow the first one to think to maybe actually read what was being said and quickly found out all you had to do was write what he said in pink text. Still, 90% of the time we'd just write whatever English insults or swear words we knew at him :') Telling Resetti to fuck off was peak humor for us

Tarantulas and scorpions have been around for a long time in animal crossing, being introduced in Wild World. I have this vivid memory of seeing a tarantula for the first time in City Folk and being really scared.

2:36 this is actually a thing in japan, when people from specialized companies knock on your door and try to sell you scam products like idk, miracle cream that makes you look younger, or water from some random mountain etc... but super expensive, They are just so convincing youre almost forced to buy it I think its implemented in the game to educate the kids to not open the door to those scams

Cruel punishment from AC Gamecube: an animal decides to look through your inventory and take a random item just because you spoke to them. They take that super-rare, super-expensive item you got like 3 minutes ago and you have no way to get it back. After that, you learned to "protect" the item by inserting it into some mail.

Lyle’s scam in Wild World has a use, actually. It lets you set what day of the week Redd shows up.

I had a new one this week. I noticed I wasn't getting any more lily of the valleys--so I went to check on my rating. I was told that I had TOO MANY TREES on my island and it was seen as being TOO RURAL by visitors, so I was demoted to a 4 star rating!

15:58 Fun Fact about this plant. It actually really exists and it's name is Rafflesia. This plant lures flies and some other insects, because it looks and smells like rotten meat and when they sit on this plant it will eat the flies.

Two of the worst punishments I got in the Animal Crossing series: 1) Wild World: I’m not sure if my memory’s correct or not since it’s been a long time, but you can get roaches because of how “ugly” your house interior looks! HHA practically saying “Your house is so ugly we gave it roaches as punishment” (Edit: I haven’t seen any evidence of that happening to other players, so it might have been a Mandela Effect or something? If you had similar experience in Wild World, please let me know!) 2) New Horizons: I had too many flowers all over the island, and I decided to tidy up the island and remove most of the unwanted flowers. Apparently, Isabelle did not like that idea and dropped my island’s star rank from 4 stars to 2 stars! I was pretty frustrated too, because the island looked MUCH BETTER with the flower overgrowth finally under control… (Thank goodness it doesn’t undo your progress when you first reach 3 stars)

While yes, these days you can look up the artwork to tell if it's fake or not, back in Wild World (where fakes were introduced) and City Folk... there was no visual indicator if the art was fake or not. You had to hope and pray that the art was real. I used to get so frustrated with Redd that I'd hit his tent with an axe in Wild World because he kept selling me art that turned out to be fake- a rage I still feel to this day, over a decade after I first played Wild World. In New Horizons, the blue Plushie Muffler Coat has an orange fox plush like a scarf, and I like to wear that as a warning to Redd that I'm not playing around. There was a rumor back in the day that Redd's reaction would determine if art was real or not, but as far as I can tell... that just wasn't a thing.

New Leaf gives you messy hair too where you have to go to Shampoodle to get it fixed. It also has the balloon thing where if the present falls in a bunch of flowers, you lose it.

In Animal Crossing New Leaf, it was even worse. If it was Halloween and a villager came up to you and you didn't have candy they would straight up change your clothes to something hideous. And there was no way to get your old clothes back either lmao

it bothers me when people call the wasps "bees" because you can see when you catch them it's a "wasp" and the item dropped is "wasp nests", not to mention there's also "honeybee" in game that flies around flowers and can be scared off

The gyroid face in ac gcn also happens if you reset during Rover's dialogue at the beginning. I found out because I messed up and selected the wrong option for the face type I wanted. Being a kid who was really into creepypasta, I was convinced that I was being haunted when my character came out like that lol.

Bones will actually compliment your roaches and will leave as to not disturb your bug playdate

4:32 I remember hearing somewhere that this is actually a fail safe put in place to ensure that your character’s face doesn’t become an incomprehensible mess of corruption. Spooky!

2:06 Resetti is the reason I compulsively save my game 3-4 times before closing it. He actually scared me as a kid

I think in Wild World, Tom Nook knows if you time travel to speed up the process so he will intentionally have crappy turnip prices every day of the week.

I read through the comments, and didn't see anyone mention in AC Gamecube, the villagers when talked to will randomly trade items with you. You could have just caught your first coelacanth, and a villager comes along and trades you for some mf stationary.

The "villagers moving without warning" thing was the WORST for me. I never had that many problems with New Leaf, because once I got it, I played almost nonstop. Every day, every night, and I would stay up late just to walk around my town and talk to everyone else in the town who ALSO stayed up late. Even when I stopped playing and wouldn't play for a month or so, my villagers all stayed around. No sudden heartbreaking letters, thoughts of moving...None of that! But the one day I couldn't play because I didn't have time to, due to school... Coco, one of my favorite villagers ever, moved away without warning. I was SO sad.

New Leaf Bunny Day might have been one of the worst punishments ever. A bunch of fake rocks would spawn all over your island, and if you didn't break all of them before the day was up, then they would turn into real rocks. And it's not like in New Horizons where you can eat a fruit to get stronk and smash the rocks, this was literally a permanent negative effect on your island, unless you hacked to remove them. I literally never touched the game on Bunny Day out of fear of missing a rock.

6:52 - this reminded me of a time when me and my cousin picked up dog poop in the sims 4 and gave it to another sim as a gift and it increased their friendship

in our city folk town as a kid, tom nook gave the “hey what do you look for in a store?” dialogue to my dad, and since he always played the game at like 5am (he got up early), he said “good hours.” we were all so peeved when we found out he’d caused our store to revert to nook n go lmao.

in Wild World I remember actually stopping some of my villagers from moving several times. When I caught my favorite ones packed up to move the next day I would just pester them and tell them not to leave several times, and sent them letters with gifts, pleading them to stay. Then they'd be back to normal by the next day.

almost certain tarantulas and scorpions have been in the games since like wild world and arent new to new horizons. used to be super scared of them as a kid

In the original up to city folk, there were no visual differences to fake and genuine art. So it was all a gamble if you got a genuine artwork. I like that they added the differences in new leaf and new horizons

Pretty sure tatantulas and scorpions have been around since Population growing. They were why I never wanted to play at night, I was terrified of them.

Despite having the best connection with Lucky on new leaf, he'd constantly talk about moving away. Like, no, shut up please and kiss me, you can try plenty of "new flavors" here... What a contrived reason!

Fun fact about the big ugly flower 16:00 , it's called the Rafflesia arnoldii and when in bloom, the Rafflesia emits a repulsive odor, similar to that of rotting meat. This odor attracts insects that pollinate the plant. So essentially you got a giant stinky flower.

Did you never shake a tree with an insect catching net equipped? New Horizons makes it really easy to catch the wasps, as long as the nest drops in the spot opposite to yours.

I guess you could say that the punishment for being stung by wasps is worse than being stung by bees. In AC and ACWW, the first time, you got the familiar swollen eyelids, sure, but subsequent times didn't do anything additional or make it worse, even if you were stung all five times. In ACNH, however, the second time in a day you got stung (if you didn't take medicine) would cause you to faint and appear in front of your home. (Of course, in both cases, there's also the punishment that you don't get the insect to sell or donate to the museum, but that's also the punishment for escaping them instead of catching them.) I remember tarantulas in Wild World. I also remember one time in Wild World when I didn't even have enough Bells on hand to pay for the minimum insurance plan. There was no way to get Lyle to understand that and leave me alone. I think I had to turn the game off.

please never stop these little fact videos they fuel my weekly hyper fixation on animal crossing its like playing the game just without the effort of charging my little switch lite xoxo

I'm gonna make an edit if this one's in it: In NL, if you get too many correct Brewster orders in a row, you actually stop getting the best rewards until you get some wrong orders again, because the game will think you're using an online guide

It's interesting that cockroaches aren't catchable.

These videos are so detailed! Really love how much charm is added to the world with subtle nuances like villager’s reactions when gifting them trash or by having them over when there’s cockroaches

You seriously have the most creative Animal Crossing video ideas. Your AC playlist is a joy to binge during the work day or while doing other tasks throughout the day! Thank you!

The creepy gyroid face is actually intentional! In the Nintendo Power Player's Guide for the game, they mention it as a creepy zombie face (or something similar, I don't remember the exact wording)

I remember there being tarantulas in City Folk, but only at night. I remember one attacked me, I blacked out and ended up at home. So I never played at night again

9:57 uh..? Tarantulas and scorpions are not a thing that was added in new horizons, lol. They date back to at least WW/CF.

One time in New Horizons I got a 4 star rating for the first time, but the chief complaint was that I had too many trees, so I cut down a lot of them. The next day, I checked my rating, and I WAS DEMOTED BACK DOWN TO 3 STARS BECAUSE MY ISLAND WAS LACKING SCENERY. I was able to get it back up to 4 stars later, but still that made me mad

I miss villagers randomly moving. It makes it feel like a real town

I just started animal crossing 5 days and i love it your content is amazing im learning so much about the game and the game’s history I genuinely appreciate your hard work putting all these videos together

One not mentioned was in the Gamecube version, during some dialogue trees with villages if you picked an option that was a lie, they would call you out and take all the bells you had on you. Could be a major blow if you had a few hundred thousand on you at the time.

There was a new leaf glitch with walking with your net super slow, if you walked as slow as possible you’d walk into solid objects and if you walked onto the boat on the dock you would get stunned like getting bit by a tarantula and sent back to “spawn”

The only reason people were being banned and being reported was because of a RU-vidr by the name of versify he was constantly telling people to report users so that way he would be the good guy even though he was just the harasser I was not one of those people who had star trees because I stay away from those for any reason but people were always mad at him and then he was put to blame For at all

If I remember right, if you buy Lyle’s insurance policy and you get stung by bees then he sends you 300 bells in the mail the next day because of his insurance policy you bought from him. At the least that’s how I remembered him as a kid when I last played Wild World.

I really liked the tan mechanic, because for me as a kid, such things kind of made the world feel more alive which spurned my imagination on Little things like getting a tan from being out in the sun all day, gave layers to stories I would think up and made them more vivid ^^

3:05 you can actually get Lyle to not sell you insurance by telling him you're all set with everything, and that's how you get a claim on forged art. Then the king tut helmet pays out when running. When I learned that I never took it off.

I'm glad they toned down the Halloween event in new horizons. I rather have my character get a face paint rather than getting my items replaced. Also I'm not sure if you'll talk about bed hair in new leaf because it's like the same thing as well as the older games. Speaking of balloons... I lost one today by walking into a store and it flew by right when I was in the animation. With pitfall seeds, I remember many times that I tried to dig them up in new leaf and somehow, glitched and my character was on top of it. Of course, she fell in. I time traveled wrong and lost 2 villagers due to it. I lost a bunch of perfect pear trees because a villager moved on that plot in new leaf. I'll just sum it up here... The older games where hard core and very unfair.

I have been waiting for this weeks Video 😊 So excited to watch this

remember in new leaf when a villager you really wanted to move had the idea to leave the town and you said: sure! they actually changed their minds and stayed 🦭

Fun fact about turnips: in Wild World there's a glitch wnere if you put turnips on a table they'll never spoil.

Yeah once I was playing wild world and caught a hammerhead shark and my town had so many things on the ground where I caught it and my pockets were full of objects only so it forced me to release it

IN new horizons, if you travel backwords, you need to water your crops again.

When I was a kid playing New Leaf, I had my favorite villager move out, and it made me so sad that I'd check the game every day. I'd get so stressed trying to locate every villager so I could talk to them

I've been playing ACNH again recently and have been maintaining a 7+ nook miles check in streak because I play daily, and remembered this video when the town hall was undergoing maintenance (upgrade from tent to town hall) so I couldn't check in. I was upset that I was going to lose my streak because the bonus 300 nook miles a day is pretty nice, but if you check in the day after the hall is constructed, the ATM will actually give you 500 miles as an apology for the maintenance making the ATM unavailable that day, as well as set your streak to 7+ the next day. I thought that was neat.

gyroid face was definitely not a glitch, i remember seeing that on my game as a child and then not being able to sleep that night lol

I had the gamecube version & city folk as a kid. Resetti genuinely scared me so much every time. Most of the time I had just accidentally done it too, so knowing he would come was horrifying for me when i was little

Those Scorpions and Tarantulas have been around since at LEAST Wild World. I remember them from all them years ago, when I used to play AC:WW on the bus on the way to my community college classes. I also remember in New Leaf (but I can't remember if it was in Wild World too) you could actually wear paths into your fields. Basically, if you walked the same path day in day out (say, while you were fishing your river or something) the area you'd walk would get more and more brownish. I didn't really think of it as a punishment, because that made so much logical sense. But I can see it being seen as one to the right persons, if they have a super-clean, super-tricked-out town.

3:00 i remember back in wild world how lyle would try to sell me insurance for tripping. there was actually a mini exploit you could do with that. the insurance ACTUALLY WORKED. youd get 100 bells every time you tripped in your mail the next day. so on days when id see lyle, id buy the insurance and then put on the king tut mask, which was cursed to make you trip randomly at an extremely increased rate *like, if you ran without the mask, theres a 5% chance of you tripping if you just hold the run button down and run 5 minutes straight, with the mask, itd be like a 20% chance to trip every 10 seconds* the caveat was that the king tut mask was like 12,000 bells, but after 120 trips it paid for itself

Incase someone doesn’t know if you shake the tree with a net and you’re standing at the front of the tree you can just catch them everytime. I’m sure someone commented it already but I didn’t see it!

10:22 tarantulas have been in the game at least since wild world. I never managed to catch one as a kid in that game 😂

Me running around and chilling in New Leaf Tarantulas and scorpions: *i'm about to end this whole girl's career*

When I first played New Horizons, and I shook a tree that bees fell out of, I had no idea you catch them with a net to avoid getting stung. When I found that out, it was a literal game changer. On a separate note, bubblegum KK is my favorite out of all the KK tracks!

For Lyle, in Wild World I had the Pharao Mask, which meant I tripped like every 10 minutes, and that got me mad bank by my insurance

9:00 also a little fun fact about tree shaking if you get bees if you talk to villagers while you're being chased by bees you get unique dialogue

Fun fact, in new horizons theirs 2 furniture trees per day on your isle that you can find shaking

Someone has probably already said this, but tarantulas and scorpions existed in Animal Crossing: Wild World (2005). They only come out at night from what I remember, and COULD be caught but it was difficult. They’d chase you the same way and were incredibly fast.

Bro I’m sick rn and not playing video games and this just reminded me my nook miles streak 😭

In gamecube on Halloween villagers would steal your belongings in trade for jack in the boxes and old moldy stuff if you didn't have candy, I also remember the first time my face glitched and that was terrifying the first time and funny but frustrating every time subsequently

5:57 I live that you went through the editing to say this and put footage

scorpions and tarantulas were in new leaf and city folk too??

With the wasp thing, I always just hold my net when shaking trees and it makes it rlly easy to catch them! They sell for 2,500 bells too which is nice

Considering the Villagers in GC Animal Crossing, during loading ask about you being in the other town I'd say...No: the Gyroid face is not a glitch It also doesn't revert back to the previous save, as what should happen if it was a glitch of some sort, the only time it wouldn't is if you exit while it is saving, in which case it would be a glitch but...no. You don't just revert to previous save and run into Resetti, you lose all items and bells...doesn't that seem...too coincidental? like...it's not a corrupt save, it just...deletes all your items and bells with no artifacts or bugs from it? I feel it was done to prevent item duplication by dropping items in the town, then leaving as the save is being done so that the items save but the character doesn't effectively duping the items

On my first island a villager customised my face in Halloween and it never send away so I had to restart😢

I always thought a really good life lesson from animal crossing although I guess not technically a punishment per se more of just something you have to be cautious of was getting stung by bees when you shake trees. I remember talking to my dad on the phone he was a little bit into animal crossing (which was rare because he wasn't really big on video games) and he went online and looked up easy ways to make money and find furniture in the game and told me about shaking trees and I told him I was afraid to get stung by bees and he told me well sometimes you have to take risk in life to get ahead and sometimes you might get stung and honestly I don't know if the developers intended it like that but I've always thought it was an incredible life lesson

this went from silly bees to real life protests real quick. Good overview, good things to know.

New Leaf's scary painting had the best fake. 👉👉 "Eyyy!"

So i haven't played the game for two years and four months and my little penguin guy really pointed that out and made a pretty big deal about it lol

Do you know that, in New Horizons, you can use the net to catch the wasps before you get stung? Just run far ahead, get your net ready when they are swirling around in a circle…then swing around and net ‘em. Boom! No stung face.

This is off topic but I wanted to say this for him to maybe use in a future video? Cephalobot’s birthday is on April Fools, I thinks he is the only animal in the entire series with that birthday

Don’t forget the jellyfish stings when diving. I hate those

you can actually find a loop hole with wasps in new horizons (idk if it works for the others) if you have your net out and are standing at the right angle (basically straight on) when shaking the tree you can actually then catch the wasps and avoid being stung altogether! it’s not fool proof especially if you’re not at the right angle, but i rarely get stung any more!

Tarantulas and Scorpions have always been around since the older games, not just new horizons

I remember in animal crossing wild world I would on purposely turn off my ds with out saving so I would get me resetti because for some reason in my 8 year old brain it was so funny to see him mad and I would laugh so hard when he would get mad at me lolll

Speaking the words "Hell hath no fury" has summoned me

One time a villager on my island made my face a different color on Halloween, and i didnt know how to change it back, so I was stuck with it for like a year until my cousin told me how to fix it!

5:02 That also happens in new leaf, I remember being gone for a few months and there were cockroaches and a neighbor came into my house and left immediately

Another thing about not playing in nh, if you leave flowers alone with the one ordinance, and return after ages, you’ll end up spending forever removing them all because you can’t just pick them up or run through them like in past games.

In my first ever town in new leaf i time traveled ONE DAY and my favorite villager at the time (kiki) moved out. I have been internally in pain to this day

resetti didn’t just scare me. he actually was a huge fear of mine for many years and he visited me in many of my nightmares

8:50 I have played it, if you get stung by bee/bitten by spider twice without taken medicine, you faint

I remember as a kid my animal crossing for the ds crashed. I never figured out what caused it but I remember getting a picture of mr ressetti and after rebooting mr resetti got angry at me but it wasnt as long.

4:28 I don't know anything about coding, but from what I've seen, glitched textures normally don't line up with the model that well.