Animal Crossing: New Horizons for the Nintendo Switch introduced last week and it’s been taking this strange quarantined world of ours by storm. It’s the 2nd greatest launch on the Change ever in regards to physical sales in the UK (after Pokemon Sword & Shield), and every Switch owner I know won’t stop talking about it.
I’m no much better than them. I got the game last Friday and I’ve barely stopped playing because– just like I couldn’t stop playing Animal Crossing: Wild World for the Nintendo DS back when I was 17.
So what is Animal Crossing, you ask? I don’t have a great shorthand to explain it, and there’s no other game like it.
I can tell you what you do in Animal Crossing: You do chores.
You fill your home with furnishings, you gather fossils to contribute to the museum, you embellish, you garden.
It’s likewise the reverse of what I normally like about computer game. I play frustrating games like Dark Souls and DOOM Eternal, due to the fact that I’m a sadomasochist and I want my games to penalize me for playing them. Animal Crossing never ever punishes.
Long story short: I enjoy Animal Crossing but I do not understand why– which’s an issue when you’re entrusted with examining it.
I had no option but to get some individuals who are method smarter than me to do my task for me. I hopped on Twitter, and DM ‘d some friends in the game market to assist me answer my two big questions: Why is Animal Crossing so addicting? And why don’t more games like this get made?
So how does Animal Crossing get individuals so connected?
Martijn van der Meulen, co-founder and development director at Snap Finger Click with nearly two years of video game industry experience, states “It’s the pressure of desiring to do the best you can for your village and your villagers.
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