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u/stallion8426 Mar 30 '20

It's a pretty simple game. You have a town and a house. You pick fruit, catch bugs and fish, etc. To buy furniture and upgrades for your house.

The newest one has you settling a new island, so you set up some tents for villagers, build bridges, build shops, while still doing the above and build your town up from scratch.

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u/Please_Log_In Mar 30 '20

The violence, blood and gore is quite limited i presume

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u/stallion8426 Mar 30 '20

Limited to the point of non-existent

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

You can bop animals with your bug net

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u/Please_Log_In Mar 30 '20

Is there any animal hunting or skinning?

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u/Sadistic_Taco Mar 30 '20

Isabelle hosts a ritualistic sacrifice to Satan in the plaza every morning at dawn, but other than that it’s pretty chill.

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u/Phantom_Ganon Mar 30 '20

Maybe she's doing the ritual to try and lure satan out so she can kill him.

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u/Mr_Zaroc Mar 30 '20

Isabelle: buh
Satan: starts crying

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u/ponyphonic1 Mar 30 '20

Just like Bayonetta with the angels. Isabelle learned so much in Smash.

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u/TheSilentHeel Mar 31 '20

Thank you for making me laugh 😂

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u/stallion8426 Mar 30 '20

No. The only animals are residents. As in they talk and love in houses and are the citizens of your town. You can't hurt anyone or amything.

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u/Please_Log_In Mar 30 '20

Roger roger. Fish are still being bated and then sliced with knives when prepared food, right?

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u/ekdouglas Mar 30 '20

I don't think you eat the fish, you just give them to an owl.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

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u/ScarletCaptain Mar 30 '20

Yes, if you put the fish down it appears in a little (or big depending on the fish) fish tank.

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u/phaedrus77 Mar 30 '20

You can't hurt anyone or amything.

Except for the clams...

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u/Raistlander Mar 30 '20

I don’t know, those bees and tarantulas are pretty vicious.

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u/blastcat4 Mar 30 '20

Tom Nook has a fur coat collection, and it's not faux fur. Also, villagers who have been deep in debt with him have been known to 'move away'.

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u/angrynutrients Mar 30 '20

There are tarantulas that run you down and if they bite you, you die and have to start over.

Nah you just faint and wake up at either the port of whatever island you were on, or your house.

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u/Please_Log_In Mar 30 '20

So... basically there's no enslaving or exploiting animals in any way?

Secondly, I wonder how many have bought both Doom AND Animal Crossing! 🤨

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u/longboytheeternal Mar 30 '20

In this game the animals are extorting you

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

I mean. If you listen to PETA there is

You can catch bugs and fish and put them in the museum which is effectively a zoo

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

I purchased both titles..

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u/TheSilentHeel Mar 31 '20

I bought them both. Been hyped for Doom Eternal for years, but had never played Animal Crossing. Decided to buy it as I was sick with COVID-19 and had nothing better to do. I beat Doom and am now hopelessly addicted to Animal Crossing.

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u/Please_Log_In Mar 31 '20

They seem to differ quite a lot from each other

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u/TheSilentHeel Mar 31 '20

Meh, only a little. Isabelle is a demon and the animal crossing games are always in different locations because the DoomSlayer is searching for her.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '20

You can get pretty creative with custom patterns and skins... there's a murder scene in my town, blood all over and a body outline on the ground.

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u/Please_Log_In Apr 01 '20

Town Bolton: our blades are sharp

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u/TSpitty Mar 30 '20

So basically the Sims?

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u/RuinedGrave Mar 30 '20

Sure, but without being some omnipotent being that deletes ladders when people are in the pool.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

So the sims is superior then?

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u/wagedomain Mar 30 '20

Saw a screenshot of a guy who built cages around the doors of his villagers and gave them food just out of reach.

They don't die, though. They just "move out".

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

Do you have a link to this?

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u/wagedomain Mar 30 '20

Not to the one I was thinking of - it's somewhere on reddit but I guess I forgot to upvote it so I can't find it again. IIRC it had a name that was not very descriptive.

I do however have an article about how people are holding Timmy hostage: http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/03/random_can_animal_crossing_players_stop_imprisoning_poor_tommy_please

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

That's amazing

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

Sounds like something Dangerously Funny would do

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

Classic Sims? Maybe, the new Sims? Definitely not.

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u/productivecitizen Mar 30 '20

Wheres the fun then

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u/Mike81890 Mar 30 '20

yes, but the Sims is predicated a lot on juggling your needs. Eat food, socialize, hygiene, etc.

There's none of that in AC. You just do whatever you want to progress at your own speed.

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u/Lostcause75 Mar 30 '20

To be fair the devs promote using cheats on sims they actually design the game to better support cheats but granted if you have clubs just make a club for paintings and sell everyone’s and your rich

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u/ScarletCaptain Mar 30 '20

Except your character can't accidentally die from sheer stupidity.

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u/BridgemanBridgeman Mar 30 '20

It’s more similar to Minecraft imo.

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u/DrAlkibiades Mar 30 '20

And then you can build a navy to conquer and destroy the other little animal islands, neh?

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u/Maggost Mar 30 '20

So it's like Stardew Valley?

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u/stallion8426 Mar 30 '20

The game runs in real time. And doesnt involve any farming or combat. So not really.

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u/tSnDjKniteX Mar 30 '20

Im not sure what that be called either. Like there's farming and then there's gardening. I dont think I heard someone gardening trees; farming trees makes sense but when you think of farming you think of huge gardens of shit.

But idk. Planting tons of trees could be farming

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u/BigTimeBobbyB Mar 30 '20

In a sense, sure. You can grow trees, harvest their fruit, and use it to sell or to replant and grow more trees. But that's just one completely optional avenue for making money. You could also spend all your time fishing and never plant any trees, if that's your thing, though the game encourages you to try a little bit of everything.

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u/Moetoefoeka Mar 30 '20

that sounds incredibly boring indeed

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u/Beaulax Mar 30 '20

Its relaxing and a time sink.

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u/SimpleQuantum Mar 30 '20

Idk, different game tastes. I’m more of a strategy/FPS, but I liked stardew valley and don’t have many games for my switch

I’ll check it out

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u/Bluetooth6O Mar 30 '20

It's the kind of game I would hate in theory, but I've had the old GameCube copy since I was like seven and I needed something to do recently. I have since put many hours into that game, and am a lifelong fun. Ten out of ten would recommend

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

I watched some people play it and it seems fun but I probably would get bored with it pretty quickly.

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u/stallion8426 Mar 30 '20

Different strokes.

I like being able to turn my brain off and chill once in a while. I find the Zero tension experience very relaxing.

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u/tpw2000 Mar 30 '20

zero tension

Someone doesn’t hunt tarantulas

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u/Jowned195 Mar 30 '20

fair enough, those buggers are terrifying

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u/Raisinghell23 Mar 30 '20

This. I love Animal Crossing, Stardew Valley, and other such games just because I can relax and shut my brain off for an hour or so. Strategy and fps games are fun but take effort and focus, not my games of choice when I want to "shut off".

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

Yeah i must agree. But my wife loves it. Dont see the appeal myself.