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Now whenever somebody says they started playing animal crossing I try to visit their town first before deciding what I should gift them bc if somebody& #39;s resident serv is still a tent, gifting anything bigger than like 10 ore or fruit feels like I& #39;m violating the Prime Directive.
Like at first everything is new and there is so many things. But also you& #39;re limited to appreciating: clumps of weeks, a few fish and bugs, one fruit, and random items from diy and balloons.
Like at first you don& #39;t even know other fruit exists. So that when you encounter your second fruit you& #39;re blown away.
Same with the bugs.. At first you figure there is just the 3 main bugs, then you slowly notice the bugs are different at night, which teaches you to pay attention to the critterpedia. Also Blathers shows up as a reward for paying attention to bugs & fish.
You can& #39;t even go to the outer edges of your own island until a few days into the game. I think it& #39;s great that the game limits how far you can progress each day.
Like losing a few hundred thousand bells to me is something to laugh about, but I clearly recall just 2 weeks ago I woulda cried if I lost 30,000 bells or more.
Used to be I would be so excited to get a diy, and I would build it immediately, but now I don& #39;t even bother to check what I learned until I need it lmao
It& #39;s probably because I spent so much time over weeks appreciating tiny objects and their tiny details that I have such a strong happy association with animal crossing.
Like I& #39;m still excited when furniture can be turned on and off, when instruments can be played, and when my townies wear small things I gifted to them.
Also every town has something cool and unique to offer as far as I& #39;ve seen. Shopping for clothes and wallpapers at other people& #39;s islands has become the core part of play for me.
I& #39;ve never been to an island& #39;s able sisters where I didn& #39;t want to buy anything.. I end up buying one of every color of something most of the time. Stuff I didn& #39;t even know existed!
Same with townies. Every town I see some townie I didn& #39;t know existed, or had only seen screenshots of. It lowkey feels like meeting a celebrity in the latter case.
