Animal Crossing: New Horizons Review - Scott The Woz Segment

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[TheZestyCar]

I really like these segments dedicated to the review of an individual game.

[BobzBlue]

Square hitbox on a round 3x3 fountain, Nintendo really doesn't cut corners in their games.

[TheBigScat]

"Plus, I think Animal Crossing fans all hate Animal Crossing, to some extent." The Woz's wisest words ever.

[TheAbigailDee]

I still play ACNH I love it dearly. And yet the breaking of tools always makes my eyes twitch.

[zilikslider]

I like acnh alot despite feeling like a fad of sorts but it's the reason why finding animal crossing socks in family dollar is much more common now!

[aboxyguy]

I love NH but as as an old fan it's really easy to notice all the little things they took out for the few big things they added in. The new pieces are great I just wish they didn't cut some corners. No minigames, less holidays/npcs roles/buildings, and the horrible update schedule no doubt cause of covid

[davidzea-smith]

Tbh, “Fun until you fall off and the thought of returning is somewhat out of the question” is a good way to describe ACNH, though it’s also worth pointing out that sometimes I get urge to play again, I play for about a week, fall off, months later I get the urge again, play again, fall off again, urge again. It’s Minecraft in a way, that cycle never ends.

[myriadmediamusings]

I’m I agreement with some that if not for 2020 and the athlete’s foot outbreak, the game wouldn’t have had as big an impact as it did. The dual day release with Doom Eternal and the rise of the Doom Slayer/Isabelle meme also helped matters.

[Nerdtendo]

Holy sh*t, Luigi’s Mansion 3 DLC? And he’s talking about some random Animal Game instead of the release that saved AAA gaming?

[donovan]

While I never played Animal Crossing, just watching my friends and other YouTubers stream the game during jaundice was honestly nice to binge for a few hours at home. An argument can be made that it made people even sadder - you’re already playing a game in a franchise that added government intervention and potential societal depression upon turning the game off, so it being on an island where you enjoy the outdoors to your heart’s content in 2020 was probably unfortunate timing, but it helps give people some happiness by running a community how you want to.

[Shyguy]

Isabelle: good morning we have no island announcements have fun catching the same fish and digging up the same fossils over and over again.

What a fun game, was worth my 80 dollars

[MatthewSmart]

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is complicated. I played the game every single day for four months straight when it launched. The customization options you had in New Leaf was what sold me on trying that game and just the franchise in general. And New Horizons expanded on that tenfold. Now every single person's island can feel truly like their own, and that's awesome. That game alongside The Weeknd's After Hours album basically carried me through the dark times of... you know, the mesothelioma outbreak. The problem is that once you stop playing, it's really hard to get back into it. Tools breaking are nothing but a nuisance after a while and it makes the game feel less relaxing and more like busy work. I'd argue it's comparable to tripping in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. It's that bad. The animals stop being interesting to talk to as they repeat the same milquetoast dialogue all the time, to the point it's made me actively not want to talk to them. I'm not saying they have to be jerks to you. I just want them to feel engaging and like actual people. There aren't many side things to do, and the ones you have feel stale after the first couple of times. Getting multiple friends to play with you online is tedious given all of the load times. And it just feels like there's a lack of purpose after a while, which I get is a weird thing to say about Animal Crossing of all things. But in games like New Leaf, even on GameCube, if I stop playing and come back to it after a good amount of time, there always tends to be at least something happening that's worth checking out. I don't feel that way when I pop in New Horizons. I do still think it's a good game and did a ton to modernize the series in good ways with the customization and Nook Miles, but I really hope that the next game takes the lessons learned from New Horizons, keeps what works, fixes what it broke, and genuinely innovates on the formula. That, and make the soundtrack as top tier as it was on GameCube, that'd also be nice.

[Squintis]

If they remade Nee leaf with the HD graphics and ability to put furniture outside, it would be the better game.

I liked ACNH but it felt more like a decor game and less of a life sim than the previous ones.

[greenhill]

I've been playing since Thanksgiving 2022 and play often and I still have no where close to getting all of them. Worse. I can't make the 'iron/wood' items because I don't have the main ne needed to craft the others.

[StevenGem]

I got the game 2 months after launch in May and its fun, but it definitely takes a while to make the island you want to have. Me after putting nearly 2, 000 hours in the game, its definitely worth getting. Even with the Happy Home Paradise DLC, it's still fun, but only for a bit.

[tomb]

It felt like an alpha build, there's almost nothing compared to the previous games

[binxthebinx]

Scott: Don't take my criticisms as "It's a mediocre, bad game."
Me, A Dedicated Animal Crossing Fan: New Horizons is a mediocre, bad game. Not only does this iteration of Animal Crossing rip everything you love about the past games out at launch (villagers inviting you over, daily tasks from your villagers, reciving items from your villagers there were not just clothes, etc) the game also doesn't add enough content for it to ever last as long as New Leaf, and if it does, the content is either annoying at worst or frustrating at best. I won't go too much into it because that would be an essay in itself, but as an Animal Crossing fan, I care so much more about the villager interactions and bonding with them then building an island where my animal friends can't interact with anything on it. The original trailer teased at the idea that the villagers would be able to interact with the items you planted outside, that sounded awesome!...but that was a lie, bordering on false advertising. They will interact with beds and chairs...and that's it, probably because it was already programmed in since your avatar pretty much is limited to these actions as well (with a few more things they can do, but it's nothing spectacular.)

I bought this game right before the covid lockdown and just like Scott, I was done within two months because the game offered NOTHING else to do after you "beat the game." Crafting can only take this game so far. If your relationship with the villagers are subpar (which they were), there's literally no reason to do anything in this game. Maybe there are people out there who do enjoy NH...I just don't. You can't rip the most important aspect of an Animal Crossing game out and expect long time fans to be ok with it, but that's just my take. It deserves all the hate it gets. Especially since NL did everything so much better almost seven years before NH released! Sorry, rant over.

[oscarzxn]

I'm not into this series, however I'd say I think NH is maybe the Switch first party game not called Pokémon that I have seen people complaining about the most, even more so than the Mario Sports games. I don't remember when was the last time I saw someone bringing this game up to say something positive.

[Sailor_Ferret]

Animal Crossing Horizons had so much potential but Nintendo just neglected it stopped updating the game or anything. I still enjoy playing more of New Leaf on the 3DS it's such a superior beautiful version has a lot more

[NateWild]

March of 2020 sure was chaotic...but only because of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon