Game Review: Animal Crossing

You get on a train from the train station and see all these empty seats until you are called by a blue cat who introduces himself as Rover. Next thing you know you’re thrown into an adventure that’s not too big and not too small. Just taking care of a small island and making new friendships. What is this you ask? Well it’s an animal crossing game!! For those unfamiliar city folk was the first animal crossing game to come out on the GameCube. In almost every single game not including spin offs or pocket camp you are the island representative and it’s not exactly a goal but more of a note in mind if you’d like to nurture your town back to its former glory.

The new installment New Horizons which came out in 2020 has taken into account only some aspects that the old games have incorporated though and even if they have

expanded on them, like crafting, diys, nook miles, cooking and even new ways to decorate houses like in the dlc happy home designer which is now happy home paradise the old games have just some level of charm to them that seems to be just missing.

From the back stories of each npc to the slow burn friendships you make with each villager instead of them being a little too friendly in new horizons.

One old feature I’d like to take into account in this article though is the center tree in New leaf. There’s a small ceremony where you plant your own tree and after it grows you can then sit at it.

Doing so initiates a cutscene with slow and memorable music and lists the dates of each achievement that passes throughout your time in your little town. It’s something that’ll never leave my mind to this very day and I so wish that was the case for new horizons but just keep in mind that it’s not a completely bad game because of it. The thing is New Horizons was promised to be updated for at least three years but stopped and decided to go the dlc route.

Though the wait for dlc from New leaf was even longer there was still stuff to do within the game, such as tortimer’s multiplayer Island. I just hope that the next installment takes into account the things that have made animal crossing… Well, animal crossing!!