Any tips for a new AC:NH player?

[Millz_97]

Hi everyone,

I’ve just bought a Switch 2 and will start New Horizons later today.

Haven’t owned a Nintendo console since the Wii but played City Folk and Wild world religiously back in the day, so I am very familiar with the series but know very little about NH specifically.

Does anyone have any tips for a new player that you wish you’d known when you started?

Thanks

 

[UpFalls]

I watched several videos before I got my copy.

Otherwise, here are a couple of things:
#1. The green grass is always triangles. In my first save I kept trying to restart for circle grass then found out the only circle grass is the snow in winter.
#2. Your first two villagers will be, without fail, a jock and a big sister.
#3. There is an entire week of basically tutorials, and some of it's pretty great but otherwise it can be fairly mundane, but the game does a fairly good job of holding the player's hand and getting through it.
#4. Tools break so you have to get used to the idea of making new ones, a lot.

There's so much more to discover but I would not want to spoil it all.