What do you need to do in Animal Crossing to feel like you "beat" it?

[jumpman]

For me its...

Pay off house completely max upgrades

Fill museum all the way

Complete catalog


Have my favorite villagers in my town

 

[Khaelis]

You can't really beat a game like Animal Crossing as it doesn't have a proper ending credit sequence. However, you can beat it under the "100%" category as there is a goal to complete.

And for me, 100% means:
- Pay off all house loans completely.
- Unlock (and build) all permanent structures, including shops.
- Complete the Museum.
- Complete the Bug and Fish encyclopedia.
- Obtain all Silver and Gold tools.
- Obtain all Medals.
- Complete the Catalog.
- Obtain all villager and NPC pictures (they're a collectable item, even if not in catalog).
- Unlock all PWPs.
- Maximum Bells (999,999,999) in your ABD.

If you want a more reasonable "100%", remove "All Medals" and "All Villager/NPC Pictures".

 

[BluebearL]

For me "beating animal crossing" or more accurately as Khaelis said, 100% complete means the following:

-Having the town landscaped to my satisfaction
-Unlocked all shops and buildings
-Complete house with: complete exterior, full sized rooms, all storage and all loans paid off
-Unlocked all PWPs
-Obtain all gold tools
-Complete museum'
-Obtain all dream villagers
-A completed themed town that's organised into sections
-Lots of bells
-All medals
-Have citizen satification at 100%/perfect town
-Grow lots of hybrids and Jacobs ladders

Having full catalogs and villager pics isn't very important to me but that's just me. A lot of it is aesthetic to me

 

[NutmegMegan]

Probably:

- completely fill up the museum
- have all of the gold tools
- complete the catalog
- have all of my dream villagers
- have my town look exactly how I want
- unlock all of the shops and the police station, coffee shop, etc.
- be best friends with at least half of my villagers
- fully expand my house
- have achieved perfect town status
- fill up the encyclopedias
- collect all of the badges

 

[moonbyu]

- museum filled
- all tools including the golden tools and the silver ones
- all badges
- all bugs, fishes, deep water animals.
- have all your villager's pictures obtained by being friends with them
-have perfect town status
- filled out catalog
- pay off all loans

 

[UglyMonsterFace]

Finish designing the town and all house exteriors, get all badges and all items in the game, fully complete Main street, and complete museum.

 

[Annika.]

Design the town completely and unlock and upgrade anything that's reasonable, mostly the main shops.

 

[Dorian]

When I love it

 

[Mutti]

Il never be able to complete the game, there will always be something else i want to improve or fix