So last night I restarted my game because I was unhappy with what I did with terraforming, and because it's so tedious to fix everything square by square I decided to start over. I'm on day 2 of the tutorial and I'm starting to see differences in the feel of how things were in the beginning to now. When I first started the game, I played it day by day and never time traveled. But when I unlocked Isabelle and town hall I thought I would be done with the game and unlock the island designer app but found out you had to get a 3 star rating. I tried for days to get a good rating and I just got fed up with it so I time traveled and finally unlocked everything.
I think the hype of the game on social media made many people feel like they had to rush and the game felt like a competition of "look at me!" and people showing off their amazing islands in such a short amount of time. It's gotten to the point that many people are tearing themselves down and comparing their island to others or stressing to have the perfect island to show it off to the internet for likes.
Anyway to the main point of the topic, I miss the slower pace of the tutorial. Even though that gentle guitar song got on my nerves hearing it everyday for two weeks, it was definitely really soft and ambient unlike the music we have now. Its too high energy and I dont feel relaxed listening to the music. I liked that the game had a storyline like, collect creatures to get blathers to come to the island, collect stuff to build the shop, get miles to pay off your house, make DIY recipies, because it felt like you were working towards something. We also saw Timmy/Tommy walking around and got to interact with them and it just made the characters feel more alive when you saw them walking. I wish they had something like that with the store being closed and timmy/tommy, nook, isabelle walk around and you get to know them better. (I literally never talk to Isabelle at all, she feels pointless. I don't report residents and I've only changed my flag and tune once)
Once I finally got K.K. Slider to come and unlock everything my island life feels boring. I feel like they gave us too much freedom. If I was working on my island I wouldn't really talk to the residents, and also talking to characters of the same personality was annoying because they said the same things. When it was just my two island friends in the beginning I felt like I could get a closer bond with them rather than having to keep track of 10 people on an island. With the hype online and the fandom I just felt like a crazy person because all I did was time travel to get my popular villagers to move out so I can get nook tickets to find raymond or any other dreamie i had. The game just feels empty to me now because it feels like a design simulator rather than a social thing. It feels like the main point of the animal crossing series was to interact with your villagers and become close friends with them but with ACNH, I barely talk to my villagers.
With my point on how they gave us too much freedom, I feel like everyone is in a competition with the other for most amazing island to show off. If we at least had some of the things the same as other players with the option to change around things to our liking I feel it wouldn't be so competitive. And I wish there was at least a little bit of story like how it was in the beginning, because I really feel no desire to talk to my villagers if they just say the same things.
I know that this was all over the place but im really bad at putting my thoughts into words. >.< hopefully people understood what Im saying.
I think the hype of the game on social media made many people feel like they had to rush and the game felt like a competition of "look at me!" and people showing off their amazing islands in such a short amount of time. It's gotten to the point that many people are tearing themselves down and comparing their island to others or stressing to have the perfect island to show it off to the internet for likes.
Anyway to the main point of the topic, I miss the slower pace of the tutorial. Even though that gentle guitar song got on my nerves hearing it everyday for two weeks, it was definitely really soft and ambient unlike the music we have now. Its too high energy and I dont feel relaxed listening to the music. I liked that the game had a storyline like, collect creatures to get blathers to come to the island, collect stuff to build the shop, get miles to pay off your house, make DIY recipies, because it felt like you were working towards something. We also saw Timmy/Tommy walking around and got to interact with them and it just made the characters feel more alive when you saw them walking. I wish they had something like that with the store being closed and timmy/tommy, nook, isabelle walk around and you get to know them better. (I literally never talk to Isabelle at all, she feels pointless. I don't report residents and I've only changed my flag and tune once)
Once I finally got K.K. Slider to come and unlock everything my island life feels boring. I feel like they gave us too much freedom. If I was working on my island I wouldn't really talk to the residents, and also talking to characters of the same personality was annoying because they said the same things. When it was just my two island friends in the beginning I felt like I could get a closer bond with them rather than having to keep track of 10 people on an island. With the hype online and the fandom I just felt like a crazy person because all I did was time travel to get my popular villagers to move out so I can get nook tickets to find raymond or any other dreamie i had. The game just feels empty to me now because it feels like a design simulator rather than a social thing. It feels like the main point of the animal crossing series was to interact with your villagers and become close friends with them but with ACNH, I barely talk to my villagers.
With my point on how they gave us too much freedom, I feel like everyone is in a competition with the other for most amazing island to show off. If we at least had some of the things the same as other players with the option to change around things to our liking I feel it wouldn't be so competitive. And I wish there was at least a little bit of story like how it was in the beginning, because I really feel no desire to talk to my villagers if they just say the same things.
I know that this was all over the place but im really bad at putting my thoughts into words. >.< hopefully people understood what Im saying.
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