What is Animal Crossing?

Figured I'd start easy.

What is Animal Crossing you ask?

It's a video game developed by Nintendo and created by Katsuya Eguchi (source). It was first released in 2001 on Nintendo GameCube as Animal Crossing. Since then, Nintendo has released 4 more in the series, with the latest being Animal Crossing: New Horizons on the Switch (AC:NH).

Animal Crossing: New Horizons will be the focus of this blog (which will likely be heavily influenced by questions being asked by first time player friends I have on a Discord server).

Game play for AC:NH consists of you moving to a deserted island after buying a vacation pacakge from Tom Nook (he's appeared in every game and serves as the main NPC who increases your house size after you get done paying off each loan, this will be covered in another post in more detail).

Upon setting foot on your new island, it is filled with weeds, lacks bridges and inclines, and puts you in charge of beautifying it and making it welcome for other NPC animals. The game is played in real time (meaning you log in each day and it's the current real world day). Side note, you CAN time travel in this game, but be ware it can have consequences in game in the form of spoiled turnips (if you go BACK in time with turnips to sell) or lots of weeds if you go FORWARD in time a significant amount). Again, another topic I'll elaborate on in another post.

To beautify your island you must pick the weeds, plant flowers, plant trees, and it helps if you have ALL the different kinds of fruit, again, another topic I will help you with in another post.

Let's see. That seems to be about it for now.

I will see you all tomorrow for the next topic: What Endgame?