Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The best 100-hour games of 2020
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- Date of premiere: 20 March 2020
- Studio: Nintendo
- Genre: Sandbox life simulator
What is Animal Crossing: New Horizons about?
In some sense, it is a game about everyday life. In Animal Crossing: New Horizons we find ourselves on a deserted island, where our task is to create and develop our own settlement. We start with a tent, collect wood, cultivate plants, fish or catch butterflies, pick mushrooms, and as time passes by, everything turns into a charming, idyllic village, where we can design our own backyard.
Gaming is embellished, with a bit infantile, but beautiful and consistent graphics with easy access to all its functions. It's one of those games where you can relax without the struggle against the interface, control, or stress yourself while attempting to complete a skill – demanding game-play. Animal Crossing: New Horizons mesmerizes and addicts you at a first glance.
What can you do for a hundred hours in Animal Crossing: New Horizons?
The main plot alone can be completed in about 60 hours, but squeezing everything out of the game is an investment of even 300 hours of our time. There is, of course, some form of grind, repetitive actions, and hoarding, but served in some kind of pleasant, non-irritating manner. The game is prolonged by the fact that many activities are connected to the authentic daily cycle and the real, actual seasons of the year, for example, you can pick mushrooms only in the autumn – and this autumn must be actually visible outside your window, not artificially created in the game world! Other attractions need various rare ingredients, and who knows where and when you'll come across them?
WHY WORTH IT? PLAYER'S OPINION
The ACNH phenomenon has been influenced by many factors (including pandemic and lockdown, and the generally hopeless year 2020). But even taking it all in parentheses (literally), there is simply something relaxing about the routine. You get up every day rested, you live along with nature and art, you have no professional or educational responsibilities. You greet your neighbors, pick the fruit from the orchard, shoot the balloons with a slingshot, which you have made yourself from the elements you have found, and seek for seashells on the seashore. You do not starve, and on top of that you accumulate capital by selling the extra goods that your island provides you with. You can afford the best clothes and furniture, and what you will have left in your swollen bank account can be used to beautify the area and the neighbors’ houses. Everyone is grateful to you. You are social activists, good people, island heroes, leaders. Everything is nice, money grows on trees, money grows in the ground, money flies in the air. There are only positive surprises. You can lie among the flowers all day long, catch butterflies, travel to neighboring islands, talk to people, decorate, plant, repot, plant, dress up and dress up, walk, catch bass on C+, improve. You love life, you are full of "piezza", no testosterone. No needs.
How many of these things you could do this year?
Don't be fooled into thinking that there is no ACNH without a subscription and a Daisy Mae Turnip's Market. If you need a break from worldly life, you will spend much more than 100 hours on your island. And as a bonus – you will unlock the whole branch of Animal Crossing memes on Reddit and finally you will be able to laugh at your friends' inside jokes. And on top of that, listening to Isabelle singing for an hour will be nothing unbearable.
Julia Dragovic
