Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Nintendo Switch

It’s totally worth every penny.i absolutely love it and love Amazon

My family has been playing Animal Crossing since Population Growing on the GameCube. It’s been an incredibly relaxing game to play, an excellent stress reliever! My oldest child not only has anxiety, but has been anxiously awaiting a game that isn’t a shooter, or multiple dangerous enemies you have to watch out for. There is already so much to do from the get go, and the whole family gets excited when something new happens. The art style has improved incredibly since the last installment of the game, and it makes great use of the Switch’s larger engines. With the game being released around the time of the pandemic, it’s an amazing reason to stay inside and keep busy.

If you like Animal Crossing, then youll love Animal Crossing: New Horizons.....mostly. As of this writing, Im about 50 hours in and loving everything but the size of the map. Youve been given an island to develop....and thats the only glaring difference. Its not a huge island, but you do have room to expand and new parts to access. At the end of the day, its Animal Crossing. You love it, or you dont.

I remembered buying Animal Crossing New Leaf for the Nintendo 3DS back when it was released in america via 2013, while Japan got the game in later 2012. New Leaf was absolutely INCREDIBLE! It is the perfect game for the Nintendo 3DS and it is an insanely addicting game that is VERY hard to put down. The first 3-6 months I played new leaf anywhere between 2-5 hours per day. Then eventually I played it for 1-3 hours per day because there is ALWAYS something new to buy and do. I clocked in 1,325 hours for New Leaf according to my Nintendo 3DS playing time logs. My nephew accidentally started a new save file over my 1,325 hours file save. I stopped playing then cause I didnt feel like doing it all over again. Then, new horizons was announced and the whole world rejoiced! New Horizons absolutely blew my expectations of the game cause I was slightly worried the game would feel more like the portable version aka Animal Crossing: Wild Word for the original Nintendo DS and of course Animal crossing New Leaf for the Nintendo 3DS. Now, dont get me wrong, both portable games were stellar and absolutely FUN. However, animal crossing fans still miss the original Animal Crossing gamecube game cause that game was truly the best animal crossing game. I am glad and happy to say that Animal Crossint New Horizons for the Switch, definitely brings you back to the joy of playing the original game on the gamecube. New Horizons has so much new additions added that it really feels like a BIG console game rather than a not so big game on the handhelds. Ive logged about 15 hours already into new horizons and Ive already put more time into New Horizons than I did with New Leaf during the first 48 hours of owning this game. One example of New Horizons many features in the game is the terraforming addition. Yes, you read correctly! You can move mountains and dirt in order to design your island EXACTLY the way you want it to be. Being able to cross a river without going around it by finding a different detour path, you can add dirt/ground into the river, then simply walk over to the other side of the land. Just wait till you unlock that feature in the game cause I never knew animal crossing needed a feature like that and Im extremely happy the devs added that into the game. Anyways, I dont want to spoil anything else, just BUY this game asap. I strongly recommend you buy the physical copy of the game cause then if anything happens to your save file on the switch, you could end up losing it and never get it back due to Nintendo cloud saving feature being totally backwards. Only allowing one save file and each save file is for that specific switch you own. However, if you buy the physical copy of new horizons, at least your save file will always be saved in that cartridge copy of animal crossing new horizons. Apologized for the long nonsense review of this game but seriously buy it!

Over the years I have tried several iterations of Animal Crossing and never understood the hype. I always buy the big releases from Nintendo, and was thinking about passing this one by because I haven’t gotten in to this series before... but I am glad I gave it a shot! This game is super chill. You have a character on an island and do things like: - Search for materials such as wood, stone, clay, iron, tree branches, etc. - Find recipes to craft things. These might be given to you by other people on the island, found in a bottle on the shore of a beach, etc. - Craft things like tools, furniture, campfires, etc. - Visit a store that has different merchandise each day. - Go fishing. - Capture insects - Dig up fossils The typical gameplay loop for a given day is something like: go around and gather materials (there is a set amount you can get each day), search the beach for bottles that might have crafting recipes, visit the store to see if there is any interesting stuff for sale, craft/sell any items to the store that they are buying for extra $$ on a given day, dig up and donate fossils to a museum on your island. You collect money in the game by either just finding it or selling stuff, and can use it to upgrade your home from a tent, to a house, to a bigger house, etc (with more room to put stuff). The game seems to be intended to play in small chunks on a daily basis, which I actually really like. It has a lot of charm, is very relaxing to play, and has a really enjoyable gameplay loop that is fun but low stress. On the surface it seems like there’s not a lot to the game, which is part of why I have not gotten in to this series in the past, but playing this one I feel like I finally get it. It’s whatever you make of it. For me it is just a really relaxing way to spend 15-30 mins a day.

I have a fun time playing it, nothing much to complain about, and one thing before you start this game, being curious is a good thing.

Some of you gamers might know this already but if you stay up at 3:33am you will see an alien on your TV your your game Fun fact I thought y’all should know but other than that great game 10 out of 10 but I just wish the villagers had more personalities and things to say like in past games but it’s still good

This is a one person game. Do not make the mistake like I did and think that it will be ok and your kids can share the island. They cannot. It will lead to fights and arguments. I bought this for my 15 year old daughter to play and she was perfectly happy for a couple of weeks until her older sister decided she wanted to play as well. Although they can both live on the island, one person is always really in control of what is built and goes on. Might be ok if your kids are little and don’t know any better.

Animal Crossing is a very popular game and I got it for my daughter with a gift card she had from her credit card reward points. She plays it whenever she has time off and enjoys it a great deal, in fact she connects with her sister and her friends that also have it and visit one anothers island. They are trying to get me to play as well but I do not have a Switch yet. It looks like fun and they both give it 5 stars so I have to say that I would too. It is a great way to pass the time during this pandemic and stay safe at home also. Amazon prices are very comparable with any other company or store. Definitely well worth the cost and I would buy it myself if I had a Switch for me.

Since quarantine, this has become my life. I no longer exist, just villanger. My Islanders are my friends, my soil is my home. That being said, this game isnt for those who want a quick game. It is something you have to commit to, or there will be negative reprecussions. Also, it is lacking in curly hair options. So if those are things that concern you, probably dont buy animal crossing.