Animal Crossing used to be so much darker...

Ah, Animal Crossing, the game that keeps most of the population sane while 2020 burns outside our windows, like many fans of the franchise. I have a very special place in my heart for Animal Crossing. See, I put it there growing up. I loved video games but I didn't have many friends sad and within those few friends most of them were not very interested in video games sad so I grew up playing alone or with my brother sad what I mean is that I'm not

used

to it to be able to connect with people through video games let alone experience them with my friends together, but the only game my few friends played was Animal Crossing Wild World on the DS.

I remember playing Animal Crossing for hours, days, sometimes mostly weeks. Rowing during the summer holidays with my best friend Kate was always the highlight of her summer and depending on your point of view that may or may not be depressing, my family also had a tradition of visiting the rest of my family in Canada every July. So my brother and I would still play Animal Crossing with our cousins. Nothing could stop us, not even the great borders of the United States of America. We had this game we made up where we all met up in one person's town.

We dug a lot of holes. in a maze fashion and then one of us would chase the others with a bunny hooded gas mask and an ax as some sort of morbid etiquette. We called it the bunny game, which, looking back, was a little misleading given the innocence of the actual premise. When Animal Crossing New Leaf was released, Kate and I got it on the day of our sophomore high school prom and we really wanted to get rid of it completely just for the game, not that we were dating or anything for that matter. the style, but we ended up going anyway. and it was boring, overall I love Animal Crossing.

I understand that it's not a game for everyone due to its slow pace and open nature, but it was one of the few games that I was able to experience with friends on a really deep level and I gathered a lot of good memories now that we have new horizons, the game who parted the clouds and descended upon us when the world needed it most. I like the game a lot. I have my complaints, which I'll get to at some point, but While playing, I started thinking about the original Animal Crossing for the Gamecube. I had a Gamecube growing up, but my mom didn't buy us Animal Crossing, so that meant I had no idea it existed, so that's how the world worked for me.

When I was a kid, if my mom didn't buy it for me then it didn't exist, so now as an adult I started to make the connection that not only do I have my own money to buy my own video games, but I can do that too. I do what I want mainly and use that new power. I've decided to go back to basics and experience firsthand the beginning of one of my favorite game franchises. What has changed? What secrets have they been hiding from me? Well, I guess we're about to. discover together the classic train scene Rover approaches me and asks me if he can sit with me promising not to fall asleep and drool on my shirt to which I reply no way wow, it's good to know that there are still a lot of rude people in the world and he sit there anyway so you go through the typical beginning of an

animal

crossing

game who are you?

I'm jaden where are you going mustard what's your credit card number and your mother's maiden name? September 27 My friend has a house for you because you're stupid Okay, you get to town, you meet Tom Nook and he offers to let you see the empty houses he has. Ah, let's see, we have a medieval torture dungeon. a locker room please, after deciding on a place, Tom Nook asks me to pay 19,800 bells, to which I realize I have nothing, so I say, uh, no, and he says: " You better give me the money, so I'm here for which he realizes that I barely have point zero five percent of what he wants from me.

Any laugh right in my face. You're just kidding me. .Why are you so short? I can't help but laugh so he puts me to work in his shop to earn the rest of the money. see well. I planted them around my house meeting the other villagers who made deliveries, brother when I gave this girl suey like a signed copy of the notebook on blu-ray or whatever garbage she ordered, it just completely destroyed me. nothing, boy, that's mine, why do you have it, jayden, are you working for tom nook or something, oh, are you? how funny you want to tell me that you didn't have enough money to buy a house when you moved in, well what a fool you were to mentally run to the trash or what, oh I'm just having a little fun with you, I guess everyone has to. take a bold step once in your lives, so you must not have money to buy furniture, don't be ashamed, take this blue wardrobe, you just have to take it, I bet you come home to a sad empty little house every day, do you?

No? It may not be

much

, but beggars can't be choosers and that's when I realized how absolutely brutal this game had the ability to be. I heard he could be risque at points, but I was directly murdered by this goth drag queen pig. Being a delivery guy, you can't say that to Amazon Prime delivery guys, what the hell is it, how do they destroy your stuff? So you know what I did. I sent a letter to the biggest guy in town, Rocco, and

used

my fluent speaking skills. to try to send her a signal and take care of her and in case that didn't work I made a post on the community bulletin board to warn others after you are done being a corporate wage slave the game eventually becomes the

animal

crossing

experience.

I'm used to catching bugs, finding fossils, waiting a whole week for Tom Nook to finally sell a stupid fishing rod. I admit that I come from new horizons. The original animal crossing doesn't have

much

to offer, maybe it was better kept in the past or I was able to have more fun because I was younger and it was easier to entertain myself, but I found myself with things to do to make sure I could fish for two hours straight to earn money, but I could also play another game, why do I think it's new? Horizons is the best game in the series so far, Rick's big ass so far is that he saw where the players were taking the franchise and took it much further than we could have expected.

Oh, people really enjoy being able to customize their house and they are using the small pattern spaces to make cool paths for their city, so let's give them a bigger city and more pattern spaces and hundreds of new, modernized furniture and let them place them out wherever and however they want and let them shape their Earth and look, I've already invested hundreds of hours in new horizons and I'm not done with the game yet. My island still looks like shit. I played the original Animal Crossing for a week or two and could only spend at most an hour on it. per day because I ran out of things I wanted to do oh so New Horizons is the most superior game in every possible way right lol no while New Horizons has so much more for you to do what I think the original animal crescent done well. the new one isn't the villagers, as I got bored of continually failing at fishing in the Gamecube version.

I found myself talking to the villagers a lot more often and that's where I enjoyed the conversations with the villagers the most in the Gamecube version. I have a lot of flavor, sure Sue called me to mentally run for the dumps just a minute ago, but that brought out something in me that New Horizons hasn't been able to do within 300 hours of playing the game talking to villagers in the version from Gamecube. She reminded me why I loved the game so much as a kid. They say and do interesting things. I don't know if it's just me, but New Horizons has some of the softest writing I've seen in Animal Crossing, but it feels like what's it?

It's limited to about five things and honestly, I don't enjoy talking to them and I haven't. established a single connection with none of them on my island. I don't care who moves in as long as they're really super attractive. I'm talking hunkalicious it feels like it's been raining all the time lately I hate getting wet jayden you feel the same no I don't really care oh alright why don't you stay in the rain then since you love it? a lot and I hope you catch a cold I don't know what's wrong with me but I seem to be equally popular with boys and girls it's crazy meanwhile in new horizons hello jaden sometimes I like to sit no I don't want to Anybody, I'm telling you for the last time , you disgusting creature, go away, hippie, oh wait, it's just you.

I thought he was another one of those weirdos who hand out tissues. Hi Jaden, I've had a good day, see you later. and flying shrimp at one point I approached suey and she started screaming I beg you, could someone change that horrible city tune, jaden? I highly doubt you have a talented bone in your body, but it seems like you're capable of it. run fast, so be nice and go change that horrible music, would you? So of course I changed the city cartoon for anything to demand and your wish is my command. I will say that I'm not normally a big city cartoon changer in games, but this one made me laugh is that you better suey you like that I wasn't expecting to have an archenemy in animal crossing again because it hasn't happened to me since wild world but Sue actually came into my life and slapped me begging.

For him to hate her, don't you owe Tom Nook a pretty large sum of money? I was just wondering if you ever managed to pay him back. Well, what do you care? Wow, you seem a little touchy Jaden, I guess you're still just a burden on society, but that's where Nintendo got it wrong in the new games. I want drama. I want enemies and bloodshed. Animals and new horizons feel like just objects for me to judge by appearances and get elements of everything. I really like Animal Crossing. I know New Horizons isn't for everyone and is far from perfect, but I'm a big fan of the type of game it is and the cons don't outweigh the pros for me.

Would I like the villagers to have a bit of life? Yeah, I hate the new music they wrote and I desperately want the old music back. Yes, but I can set up my Godzilla statues like they're on a date. The old Animal Crossing lacks objectives and is even slower than it could be. I've figured so, but at least my neighbors are verbally abusing me and I can sue e with my network, so if you haven't heard oh god Ari, if you haven't heard James just announced his new mayhem at Game Cafe, it's a shift. Card game based on which you create food combinations and try to win a food fight against your opponents.

There are different skills and characters you can play with and if you get the animator expansion pack you can find me there with Ari and many other animators. The meal card is pasta without sauce. It's a fun game that James and his team worked very hard on. What else are you going to do during the quarantine? You can see more details by going to Kickstarter. Anyway I put the link in the description. Thanks for watching. the video I didn't know what to expect when starting the game, but I'm sure I did because it was quite an experience, well, we'll talk later, bye.