Has Animal Crossing ever made you emotional?

[moonchu]

i've modeled my town after people i've lost, really a dream. my cousin who gave me animal crossing passed away recently. we played a bit of animal crossing before he passed. i re-made his character and have been finishing up his house etc.

on my main character i walk around a lot and my villagers have been talking about how they see him, how they think we're similar. . . . and how his birthday is coming up. yeah, haha. it can be pretty emotional but in a good way.

 

[OmgACNL]

Yep. Very, all the time :'(

 

[Chiffu]

Yup sometimes, but not so much now ^^;

 

[Camillion]

I met people who had Whitney and Punchy as dreamies.. Whit was a starter and Punchy in my first 10. When I let em go I got uber depressed. Same with Hamlet and Hamphrey. So far I've only gotten one of four back :c

 

[kyasarin]

Just when I fail to catch beetles during an island trip. Like if it was a golden stag and I moved too much it flew away kinda thing. I get carried away. lol. Or when doing mini games at the island too.

 

[Mango]

omlimtheonewhotookfangimsosorry

when pietro moved out i cried. like, for real.

 

[Gregriii]

When Rosie moved out.

 

[Momo15]

My villager, Chadder, has made me feel emotional. I mean, his quote on his pic, not to mention he sent me that one depressing letter. I just wanna give Chadder a hug ;-;

 

[Spongebob]

omlimtheonewhotookfangimsosorry

when pietro moved out i cried. like, for real.

Aw don't worry about it
I just hope I can visit Fang sometimes xD

 

[Swiftstream]

No.
Then again I never really get emotional.

 

[Ankhes]

Sometimes I do. When I am in an emotional state and play I get very emotional. Other times I'm very calm and things don't bother me at all. But then sometimes later on they do when I am emotional again.

I have to play carefully because I can get to the point where I take things way too seriously.

 

[FiveGran]

Yes when Keaton moved out. He was the first villager to move in when Cat Cove was born. Now Caroline, one of my original villagers, pinged me this morning that she wants to move and she seemed so excited that I said ok. It is just a sweet game to get emotional with.

 

[LyraVale]

Aw, that's really sweet!

And yes. ALL THE TIME! I actually get emotional to the point of tears. To be fair though, I'm a crybaby IRL too, and anything emotional (happy, sad, annoying, angry) makes me tear up.

But I have let a lot of villagers go, and even the ones I didn't like, who wouldn't leave for months and really p*ssed me off, I got emotional over their goodbye letter. I also take about a million pics IG, and when I uploaded them to my laptop, I went back and looked at all of the pics from the beginning, and it really made me emotional.

I think it's pretty amazing of the game...but also, we're human. Anything we spend a lot of time and energy on is going to feel that way. A lot of it is nostalgia, and the fact that most video games don't talk back to you, but this game does. It makes it all about you and your relationship to the villagers/town...so it feels very personal. That's actually pretty genius of Nintendo, when you think about it.

 

[MagicalCat590]

Yes but for different reasons than most of yours. I have a mental disorder that makes me feel emotions stronger than other people. On top of that, I also have social anxiety, which prevents me from making friends IRL. Because of this stuff, I always get really attached to almost all of my villagers and become extremely depressed whenever one of them asks to move. Like I'll log off in tears, even though I already knew that it was coming and even sometimes wished for it. Eventually, though, it gets to the point where I just feel nolgistic about them rather than depressed. But I never stop missing them.

 

[Bcat]

Once about 5 years ago when I was playing CF I went to pay a visit to Spork to find that he was packed up. I literally burst into tears on the spot. I love that pig. He was always one of my favorites. I literally went into mourn and didn't want to play for awhile since I missed him so much. Perhaps a little melodramatic but I was a very loving and sensitive tween.

 

[sanada]

I have before- had a villager I really liked and she stealth moved when I couldn't play for a few days. She left me the nicest letter when she moved ;.;

 

[Melgogs]

When Lobo moved away while I was on vacation and left me this very nice letter ;_;
I don't get too emotional over games tbh but this was still really sad to me.
I've moved on since, learned my lesson and I make sure to always speak to ALL my villagers before leaving when I know I won't be on for days.

 

[Stevey Queen]

Wild world nighttime music made me emotional

 

[mahkala]

♥ i about cried once when i messed up tting and lost carmen.. ; n;
she was my 2nd little baby.

and when i reset my town i got my diana back from the previous one and she was like;
i miss my best friend from twilight, tiwggy. i wonder what she's doing now...
(something like that.)
i was pretty much crying because she loves me so much. ; v;

 

[Elise]

Today is one year for me, as I've just made a thread about and it's made me quite emotional but in a happy way of course.

The most emotional part was when I got this letter that I wrote to myself the first night I played. It just made me feel really proud to have achieved everything I have (even though it's just a game) and the kind words from the past me kind of made me feel warm and fuzzy

Spoiler: The letter