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It feels like wherever you look on social media right now, you can’t escape the cultural phenomenon that is Animal Crossing: New Horizons. With numerous countries currently on lockdown, Tom Nook’s deserted island getaway package has become more than a mere life-sim, but a laidback second life where you talk to animals and get financially rinsed by a raccoon.
It’s essentially more of the same comfort food that Nintendo’s been cooking up in the series ever since the N64 version released in Japan just past the turn of the millennium. You fish, catch bugs, dig up fossils, harvest fruit, buy furniture, pay off loans, expand your house, and take things easy.
There aren’t any penalties for not visiting your town outside of a few pesky weeds showing up. You’re free to dive in, do as you wish, and then disappear again.
Nintendo hasn’t just been sitting on its laurels since the release of New Leaf on the 3DS back in 2012, though. The series has come on leaps and bounds in some elements in New Horizons.
Players can now terraform their island, creating slopes and bridges, there are more fish and insects to catch, and even new random event characters that pop-up every now and then, too. It’s why we deemed it ‘the definitive AC experience’ in our review.
All of these are welcome additions and tweaks. It’s helped breathe new life into the beloved series, but for me, something else has kept me coming back, toiling away on my island. That is, the quest to get K.K Slider to visit.