These are not moodboards

Umm, so I had an idea to make some kind of moodboards or collages of my childhood games... I WOULDN'T call them pretty but ya know.. Something.. Quantity over quality, right?

With these collages you pretty much can say you played the games cause these are the main points and tells perfectly what the game is all about, ya welcome :)

Sonic Aventure 2

Pokemon Channel

Pikmin 2

Star Fox Adventures

Tales of Symphonia

Wind Waker

    

Doshin the Giant

Twilight Princess

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles

My problem with Animal Crossing

(Note: I am not up to date with the updates Animal Crossing has made)

I bought Animal Crossing the second that it was released. I loved the graphics and the villagers were hella cute, I was obsessed. The game's idea is to build and design your island, upgrade your house and public houses, make bridges, develop your friendship with the villagers and collect items for the museum such as fish, fossils and bugs. You have to pay debt to Tom Nook and to do so you fish, gather fruits or sell turnips. 

The gameplay follows the same structure every day. There are certain things you can do daily and what will respawn into the world. Such as one money tree and a rock. Also you can talk to the villagers a few times and they will respond in a new way maybe three times and after that their only answers differ from why are you so obsessed with me to why do you follow them everywhere. The shop's items change every day and sometimes some characters spawn on your island, at day a seagull and at night a ghost. You do the same tasks for them, gathering the same things and then you get an award which is usually an item. There are also some characters that will come to your island and buy fish, bugs or weeds at a higher price.

As said, very repetitive and daily things usually take too much time for what the gameplay is and if you are upgrading something or some villager is moving in, you have to wait one day for it to come to the island. I am super impatient so I just hop straight for the switch’s settings and switch the settings to trick the game to think it’s the next day. I did it, the controversial time traveling. Some people don’t accept time travelers in the game and think it's cheating, but hey if it's allowed that is one of the things that devs wanted to include as well. I counter every objection with, people have something else to do. It’s a real time game and people have work and they can easily miss the island activities or certain fish that appear only for example 12pm-2pm. That is why I think time travelers are legit although I time travelled just to progress and I didn't have anything else to do than play animal crossing, but like I said I am very impatient.

I quickly got to the point where I didn't have anything to do and the whole game was repetitive. Action animations took a long time and you had to perform the same actions day after day and I literally didn't have anything new to do. I am sure that animal crossing is not the best game for me.. I am very content driven and if a new game is released I forget the outside world and just play it till I have experienced everything with the gameplay, the reviews and the memes. I am not saying that Animal Crossing doesn’t have content but it all seems to be a have to and I could only see the same patterns of what you can do and what the end game is. That’s the problem, the game never ends. 

Most frustrating part of the game was to scroll instagram and see that everyone has an amazing island, outfits, houses and “the best” villagers. It did unmotivate me a lot. The fandom is just so bizzare and too high on achieving the best. I KNOW, I am the same, but I couldn't compete with the other players. As I am writing this I can see that I totally miss the point of the game which is to chill, but I CAN’T. 

Post summarized: First month with the game was amazing! but after a while it was not so amazing.. I have no chill💣💣

💖💖💖SPRINKLE💖💖💖

P.S. one of the reasons I stopped playing was that I got so guilty for not visiting my island for couple of days.. I couldn't deal with the guilt and sprinkle asking me where I have been...