Hey there! It’s me again back with another weekly post about info that I’ve gotten recently throughout the week, although today I bring you a small review and information over Animal Crossing’s new title in New Horizons for the Nintendo Switch. Animal Crossing is a slice of life game series that first spawn with it’s first title “Animal Crossing” for the GameCube back in 2004, although for Japan it had come out in 2001 for the Nintendo 64 console, how neat! Anyways, the growth of the series as one of Nintendo’s most profitable series is very apparent, with 7 main games and 2 spin-offs under it’s belt. The game is mainly famous for it’s calm and endearing nature, one that doesn’t feel too kiddish but still keeps the aura of innocence and cuteness to charm people into enjoy the characters, the setting and the atmosphere. New Horizons, announced all the way back in September of 2018 alongside the inclusion of the game’s famed secretary, Isabelle, into Super Smash Brothers Ultimate, has finally gotten released in early March of 2020 after it’s delay from the original 2019 release. It has turned out to be a big success, with almost billions of copies sold world-wide, even spawning a meme that it seems to be the best thing in 2020 so far, keeping it’s light heated and endearing nature to appeal to the wider audience.

With each new addition, some changes to the atmosphere and settings are given to make every game a different experience to play through, with New Horizons going for an island adventure sort of feel. In this title, you take a vacation of sorts to a “deserted island” that’s sponsored by the Nook foundation, mainly by the Nook family of Tom, Timmy and Tommy, and your main goal is to live and build up your settlement up from a group of tents to a small village with houses and such. Along with this, there is also online play in that other villagers are able to visit other islands, get visitors themselves and interact directly with others with the in-game chat, another new feature that has grown in popularity is the design creator, where you’re able to build up designs from the ground up for pieces of clothing, and being able to give them to other players and let them use them as well.

All in all, while I haven’t gotten too far in the game due to my lack of free time with college work, it’s still nice to go back into and check on my island to see how much it has produced. It’s definitely a great game to try out if you enjoy the type of games that take their time to build up and those that enjoy to exploring a bit, as the islands, while small, are still nice to visit around and change up as well to the person’s pleasure. It’s a definite 9/10 for me, a pleasure to play and perfect for someone stuck in quarantine, hopefully I’ll be able to focus more on the game soon, at least before summer kicks in, now then, thank you for your time and have a wonderful day!

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