Summary
As a longtime fan of the series , I was one of those eager instrumentalist who hadAnimal Crossing : New Horizonspreordered from the first moment it was available and , like many , enjoyed the secure haven of my island during the COVID-19 pandemic . My practical island neighbour became my good friends , and the island itself was a place of comfort and a welcome sanctuary for friends and category to gather near while quarantine was in spot . I continued to faithfully visit my island throughout 2020 , 2021 , and most of 2022 . I completed every task , fill the museum , enjoy theHappy Home ParadiseDLC , and became ample with bells .
lamentably , life happens , as it does to everyone , and gradually other games took the place of myAnimal Crossingtime . Therefore , by the time I purchased my shiny , new OLED Nintendo Switch deep in 2023,it did n’t hybridise my mind to reassign myACNHdata over to the young Switch , which has to be done separately from the normal transfer of data when go down up a fresh console . By the meter I realized my mistake , it was too late .
About a calendar month ago , I decide to take the plunge andstart a new island . I reasoned with myself that it would be fun getting to start all over . In many ways , it is . However , there are many hurdles that I had to overcome all over again , and many store that will plainly never be the same .
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Despite Animal Crossing : New Horizons having over 400 villagers uncommitted , there are still more from preceding games in the serial that are missed .
8Animal Crossing: New Horizons Starts Out Painfully Slow
The First Few Days Don’t Have Much To Do, And All The Tools Break
After decide to take the dip and start up a new save inAnimal Crossing : New Horizons , I quickly take in that without sneakily adjusting the date / metre stage setting on the Nintendo Switch itself , there really was n’t much I could do in the plot for a couple of real - world days . Starting a new island is a lot of fun , andseeing the give scenes with Timmy and Tommy after four twelvemonth was a delicacy . The experience of start the game is an queer concoction of excitement and boredom , as there is n’t much that can be done in the first couple of days .
I was golden , and as presently as the airport was open I was capable to go chit-chat the island of a Quaker who was still playing , who provide me with Bell and materials to get me started . Even so , each time something is paid off to Tom Nook or resources paid for a building , there is still the biz mechanic ofhaving to wait until the following day for matter to progress . Only so much weed and shaking of trees can be done in one Clarence Day , although I was glad to see that the Nook crony do not have their store hours set , so they can take token all night long in the other days .
Despite being out for over four years , there are still many things that players may not live within the cosy secret plan Animal Crossing : New Horizons .
7Getting Stuck With An Unwanted Villager For A Long Time
Convincing Someone To Move Won’t Happen For A While
When begin an island , there are two villagers who come along at the very start . Because of this , many mass will keep restarting until they get two that are goodones to have despite having pretty low odds of receive the most want character out of a pond of 413 possibilities . After these two , however , the next dyad who move in during the first few weeks of gameplay are not ace that can be chosen by a actor , but are simply random characters .
gratefully , I received some characters who did n’t trouble me , although they would n’t be my first pick . If I were to have gotten someone who I despised , however , it would be a farseeing time before thechance to make them allow for the islandis available , which is frustrating after having so many years of an island filled with best friends from my previous save .
6Rivers And Cliffs Are Suddenly A Problem Again
The Island Feels Like It Shrunk
personalize an island inACNHcan call for using the Island Designer App on the Nook Phone to alter the landscape , as well as catch Tom Nook ’s assist to build span and ramps . When starting a new island , however , it is easy to forget how long it take for either of these options to become unlocked . This upshot in rivers and drop blocking off major lot of the playable country and restricting a histrion and other villagers to only a midget portion of the island .
I did n’t full consider the fact that I might be making a novel villager be immobilise on the top of a wad alone .
Perhaps this was n’t too bad , just a small vexation until I by chance trapped a young villager on the top of a drop-off across the river . By using a vaulting pole and vine that my friend had given me from their full functioning island , I had given myself access , albeit cumbersome , to the sleep of the areas .
Then , once Tom Nook need me to find locations for newfangled villager house , I did n’t amply consider the fact that I might be make a new villager be trapped on the top of a mountain alone . At least it was n’t someone I liked much .
5Recipes And Farming Are A Strange Mystery To My Character
Even With All The Ingredients, Nothing Can Be Done Yet
Cooking recipe with garden veggie was a late accession toAnimal Crossing : New Horizons , being added almost two eld after the game released in patch 2.0 . This stand for that I had no musical theme when a player wouldbe capable to make in the gameon a newfangled island .
My protagonist gave me starter vegetables , and I planted a nice garden next to my menage . I purchased a stove , harvested vegetables , and then realized thatmy character has no mind what to do with these objects .
Unlocking cooking inACNHrequires " Be A Chef ! DIY Recipes+ " to be purchased with Nook Miles , yet it will not even appear as uncommitted until the island has reached three stars and K.K. Slider has held his first concert . At that compass point , the recipe lineup can be buy for 2,000 Nook Miles , and the mystery of what to do with a stove will be revealed to all villagers on the island .
4I’m Not Rich With Bells And Nook Miles Anymore
Selling Weeds Can Be A Grind, And Nook Miles Tickets Are To Be Cherished
PlayingACNHfor several age on my original 2020 island , everything was unlatched , my house was fully leveled up , and I had purchased about everything . MyAnimal Crossingbank accounting was flush with bells and Nook Miles . If I saw something in Nooks Cranny that I wanted , I could easily purchase it , no matter the cost . Meanwhile , my reposition was satisfy with all the Grant Wood , iron nuggets , and other resource that could ever be needed for craft .
start up over on a Modern island , it aim a recollective time to bring in the bellsto pay off debt to Tom Nook , much less spare up for anything else . Early on , it can be difficult to make money , particularly if one is donate fossils and fish to the museum and is relying on betray fruit , weeds , and common germ and fish to Nook ’s Cranny .
Being confront with this sudden new level of poorness can make the game at the same time more enjoyable and frustratingas memories of still being plentiful in a premature game were present in my memory .
3Shops And Island Growth Takes A Long Time
I Need New Clothes, Mabel!
Animal Crossinghas never been think to be a flying secret plan that can be completed in one or two sitting , butfor someone who wants to have the cut clothes , the wait for Able Sister can feel much too long . Without make access to visit Able baby on my friend ’s island , I would have been incredibly defeated with the lack of wearable options available .
find the development of Nooks Cranny was more interesting , however . First selling to Timmy and Tommy in Tom Nook ’s tent and then take in them progress to a run - down shack of a store , while knowing what it would one Clarence Day become felt a bit nostalgic and cool . Likewise , the tent that Tom Nook practice for all his operations in the piazza before the Town Hall becomes a reality was fun to see . One thing I ascertain from this is thatI really care that Tom Nook ’s little golf game putt area that he had in the tent would have acquit over .
2An Empty Museum Is Both Good And Bad
Fun To Collect New Items Again, But The Elusive Catches Are Frustrating
Activities such as fishing , catching bugs , and the rest are what make up the mass of gameplay inACNH , and have a marque Modern , empty museum to fill can be exalt — to a dot . Getting that little rush from make Blathers excitedly taking detail that the actor donates is wonderfuland something that I had not been able to relish for quite some time on my former island , which had a completely stocked museum .
Perhaps on this island I should countenance go of my completionist side and just love the journeying rather than occupy about catch them all .
Remembering how long it took to replete the museum and how many tardy nights were spend assay to take in that knotty Pisces the Fishes before the month deepen at midnight , and it was gone was less enjoyable . Tracking down every piece of nontextual matter from Redd , explore the internet for any advice on that last missing ocean creature , these were allthings that were fun the first fourth dimension around but felt frighten away to face a second clip .
Perhaps on this island , I should lease go of my completionist side and just enjoy the journey rather than worry about catching them all , but either way , it does tend to come with a bit of sadness .
After four old age and over 500 time of day , Animal Crossing : New Horizons players are finally discovering how fishing really work in the plot .
1All My Friends Are Gone, Or At Least Have Forgotten Me
A Sense Of Loss Prevails When Talking To Villagers
Let me premise by stating thatI understand this is a video plot with fictitious characters . That say , the time expend on my initial island inACNHwith my friendly villager chum was a unique time . With the COVID-19 pandemic , the integral Earth was in pandemonium , and life was confusing and isolated . My villager became my friends , even if they were not unfeignedly real .
Not playing the game for over a class did short to lessen the bit of grief I felt when I approached Fauna , who had been with me since the get-go in 2020 , and she did not know me . It was as if all my friend had been microwave with the neuralyzer fromMen In Blackand had no computer memory of meor our premature life together . funnily , I did n’t have it in me to bring her to my new island . I would rather start brisk with new friends on this new island than attempt to hearten the same experience .
Overall , that is the biggest lesson from the new island . essay to force the same nostalgic memory to happen again does n’t work in the game any more than it would in real life . To enjoy restarting an island inAnimal Crossing : New Horizons , I need to be prepare for a new experience that is take with unique chance , different friends , and a fresh start . I need to search toward young horizon and let go of the past .
