I know, I lived through a lot of different youtuber's and AC bloggers until I got my hands on it. It was definitely worth it though because it exceeded all of my expectation.
I got it the day it came out. I've since made ~8 towns (restarted 7 times) My play time is 1256:38 according to my activity log. Nice! I didn't realize I cracked 1k hours. I knew I was close.
Pretty late I guess. I didn't even know it existed until I randomly found it on sale in a game store and thought I'd give it a try. I'm so glad I did, because I'm a huge fan now!
I bought it on the day it came out along with a friend. Whilst I played it consistently and fully completed the town on my cartridge, my friend just didn't get into it that much. He gave me his copy a fortnight ago so I could have a second town. Even though I played my game for 2 years, its like everything is brand new and exciting all over again!