Hey guys, thanks for watching. If you'd like to help support the production of these videos, please consider pledging at: www.patreon.com/ShayMay Hope you're all staying safe and well! CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS:- - I say at 1:09:48, "Purchasing a piece of art locks the player out of buying any of the rest of them for practically no reason." This was vaguely worded and I'd like to clarify. I meant there was no contextual reason given (why wouldn't Redd want to make more money?), rather than there being no mechanical reason. Letting the player only take ones per day ensures they do their best to identify real art rather than just buy everything.

It's really sad what's happened to villagers over the years, it used to be fun talking to them and yeah, now they just feel like decorations.

The bit about your town name struck close. My first adventure in Animal Crossing was Wild World, and when the bus driver asked where I wanted to go, I answered "Home."

Pierce Brosnan ate Mrs Fitzsimmons Sea Bass

Things I miss about New Leaf: -Playing hide-n-seek with my villagers -Finding the fake gem-rock -Villagers doing an adorable little excited dance when they approach me with news -Villagers excitedly waving “bye” to me -Villagers stopping by unannounced -Ok I’ll just say I miss the villagers and interaction with them -The coffee shop building and the little police building -ISLAND TOURS -The 👏🏼 fur👏🏼 ni 👏🏼 ture 👏🏼 -Eels in the river (where’d they go?) -Changing the model of my home

It feels like each mechanic was designed by a different team, thus the inconsistencies. Sometimes you can use the touch screen, some times you can't.

I enjoyed New Horizons overall, but it didn't hold my interest for more than about a month. Now, by a normal game's standard, that sounds like a pretty good length of time. But previous Animal Crossing entries were able to hold my interest for several months, even years. I think I preferred New Leaf overall. It was closer to what was great about the original game, while still being feature-rich and polished. Just my two cents.

Funny that he said that updates could make the review outdated. Game has been out for almost a year now and the same issues that people were complaining about when it came out are still there. Not being able to use stored materials for crafting, to name one.

Villagers used to have so much personality and I actually felt like I was forming a real friendship with them it’s a shame they kinda flat, I also hope old features are brought back especially from new leaf, at this stage new leaf still remains my favourite game, wild world holds a special place in my heart

Anytime he says anything that starts with an R > everything else

I do think they should add more dialogue. That was the best part of the old game. They rarely said the same stuff

I could not disagree more with the Nook store downgrade being necessary, the crafting just doesn’t make up for what was lost in shop variety and ends up making the game just way to short. It’s probably the quickest I ever got bored of an animal crossing game. The Salt Factory does a very good job explaining what a massive downgrade this game was save for two features that are limited and get old fast

You know what could have fixed the art problem, if Blathers told you what made it counterfeit. It would make you know what to look for next time whilst still keeping it in game. Although increasing the frequency of art to once a week would have also helped this.

You can "repair" your tools if you customize them. It will reset their "HP" counter. (does not work for axes though) If you talk to K.K. and let him choose the song to play it will always be a song you don't own yet, which is pretty handy after a while as there are many songs and that ordering machine often offers duplicates

Wild World was my first AC game and I misunderstood the questions at the beginning and typed "home" when he asked where I was going but having a town named Home was adorable

i think my biggest issues with the game basically boil down to how much is missing relative to early games and you pretty much hit the nail on the head when describing how in earlier games you move into an already existing town, while in this one you build it from the ground up. even having that level of customization, not having gyroids, brewster, or the roost was pretty disheartening. i felt like i was curating a little dollhouse for my neighbors when i think i would have wanted a more democratic/collaborative experience with them. i don't WANT to be the only person deciding how my town is going to look, and i feel weird having the ability to call up my neighbors anytime i want, even in the middle of the night, to tell them to move houses just because i felt like it. if i had my dream version of ACNH i think there would be an expansion on the town rating system where you could pitch certain projects to your town and have villagers vote to approve it based on location and how much it matches the town's aesthetics, so maybe if you have a bunch of snooty/preppy villagers they'll want a more bougie town and be harder to get a hold of, but a town with a bunch of jocks is going to be really excited about a climbing wall or gym. maybe villagers could suggest pieces of furniture they'd want at isabelle's counter, and the town could be planned out at nook's counter with him giving you a blueprint to carry around, like you said. the game is still great and fills me with a lot of good feelings, but with how emotionally attached i am to the series after playing both wild world and new leaf during some pretty difficult times in my life, it felt really disappointing to see how flat the villagers became. maybe they'll release a big 1 year release anniversary update but idk, with the last major game released in 2015 and new horizons already having been delayed by 8 months, i would have waited longer for a more complete game rather than one missing a lot of what i'd come to expect. thanks so much for this critique of one of my favourite game series ever! this was my first video of yours and your presentation style was very relaxing, so extra points for an accurate title :)!

As a tailor I commend you for thinking about light coming through the windows in the Able Sisters' shop. That's such a genuine and nice concern to have!

As an art history minor, this game made me feel so validated and excited by being able to notice inconsistencies in the art pieces. I know it's small, but it felt very affirming to me on a deeply personal level.

I’m kinda sad they aren’t bringing back Tortimer island from new leaf

the fact that you got kicked out for being scottish is iconic

I think ACNH’s UI could take quite a few cues from Stardew Valley. From giving a togglable option to highlight the tile a tool is aimed on to just letting you select where the building should move to on the farm, he really has it streamlined.

You really hit the nail on the head with this one. I fell off the game relatively quickly because it still doesn't respect the players' time.

I feel so sad... I purchased acnh thinking I was going to dedicate years towards the game, but now it sits on my switch left untouched. I've only played it for 2-3 months before it stopped being fun. I was so content with new leaf, I thought new horizons would be even better but I just set myself up for disappointment

This is exactly what I needed to keep my mind off of the fact that my house is being dismantled by a double hurricane.

I played New Leaf for 4 years straight. Has gone down as my favorite game of all time. I played New Horizons on launch for 1 month, before dropping it. Another month later I just sold it back to gamestop.

As someone that loves your omega ruby analysis, I’m so stoked for this one!

I started up a new town on New Leaf and I've honestly had way more fun then playing New Horizons

Man, you hit the nail on the head on why I never touched terraforming outside some small bits. It's extremely interesting on how you called the villagers trophies and I literally did just that. I found a way to mimic amiibos with an android app and blank NFC tags so I made the cards for the villagers my wife and I wanted and invited them so we could have the exact villagers I wanted, I, quite literally, have a designer village. The 20% price deduction makes even less sense when you realize you don't get the bells until the next morning meaning that if you just hold off then you will get more money in the same amount of time. There's honestly no reason for the deduction besides some forced immersion or if you need the inventory space but even then you can place things outside so it's not like space is really limited. The best way to use the slingshot I've found is with the top down camera. Even though it angles the camera down it still pulls it out and gives you a better field of view. You can line the present up with the top of the screen and you'll be the perfect depth for hitting the balloon.

In my case, I couldn’t get to play the game for more than 3 months cos of the sheer amount of patience and time required by the game. It took me about a month to move all my buildings into their new cosy spots, just to realize I didnt like it and have to spend another couple of weeks moving buildings cos of silly mistakes. I completely understand why someone would timetravel, even though I avoided it.

agree with most of your points BUT I think Blathers' dialogue is an improvement compared to New Leaf, where he didn't offer additional information when you donated new insects or fishes. Regarding fossils - I agree that he should only offer additional information when a fossil is completed and not when you just donate a single fossil though (like in Wild World and New Leaf).

Prior to ACNH, I never realized how much I valued the villagers. I was always more of a collecting-focused player, but I really miss the frequent fetch quests and better dialogue. The biggest downside of ACNH to me, though, is choice paralysis. I loved that New Leaf gave you more control over the town, but New Horizons gives you too much control, to the point where it’s easy to become neurotic and perfectionist about your town, or get overwhelmed by the sheer volume of choice and just think “this is supposed to be a relaxing game, not a degree in urban planning!” I end up feeling like a failure or loser when my island isn’t as “cool” as everyone else’s, because there’s so much control and freedom that theoretically I should be able to produce the perfect island.

Stepford villagers exactly! All of the villagers liked me instantly and shower me with praise and gifts! They don't mind anything I do. This never happens IRL! It's...weird.

On the subject of terraforming, animal crossing should take a page out of minecrafts book, hear me out here. Minecraft does 3 things when you're trying to break blocks. First, you have a cursor in the middle of the screen to help aiming, 2nd the block you're aiming at is ever so slightly highlighted, 3rd you need to hold the button to break the block and if you stop holding then you stop breaking it. I think AC could implement the last two functions, a faint highlight around the tile you're aiming at, and keep the long animation but make doing it require you to hold the button, so if you realise you're doing it on the wrong tile you can let go and save yourself the hassle of filling it back in.

I have no interest in Animal Crossing. Never have. Despite this, I am happily watching a 2 hour dissertation, strictly because I like the man's voice and presentation. Mark of a solid entertainer/lecturer there, Shay.

Continuing what you said in the multiplayer segment: not only does online multiplayer disable outdoor decorating, it also locks out a frustrating number of other features, including but not limited to: - Balloon presents - Villagers thinking/noticing players - Certain creatures (spiders, wasps) - Animal villagers holding items or interacting with objects (they only walk around, though most go inside immediately) - Donating to the museum whatsoever - Using the Nook Miles machine/ABT whatsoever I definitely missed some... it makes the online experience feel like something is strange, or missing, even when you’re having fun. Some of them would be a blast to have & would be fairly simple to implement; it’s a shock they’re missing sometimes. I think one thing they added that I am SO glad to have in multiplayer is sending letters though. In ACNL you had to be *in the recipient’s town* to send a letter. In ACNH sending gifts to your friends is thankfully an option.

i think the reason you can only buy one art at a time is to encourage you to get it right the first time

For me, New Horizons was my first and I named the town with my sister, since we'd be sharing the island. When the prompt came up to name it I realized that I hadn't thought of a name at all and just started saying "oh no oh no oh no" and that's what we settled on: the lovely island town of Ohno

Literally just watching the Manual Labor segment made me sigh in secondhand frustration about three times. Terraforming in this game gets awful sometimes. This is like those unusually satisfying videos in reverse.

Welcome back, King

Mirror a lot of your thoughts but have one more criticism to add, Terraforming and placing inclines and house plots is relegated to the first user to open the game, even if other players use the same console, living on the same island, they can't have the admin powers. Which really sucks since my brother started our island but doesn't want the responsibilites, and I joined second, and want to use them. Another needless over complication, in the pursuit of simplicity.

That thing with the swapping dialogue options you mentioned at about 53:00 caused me to delete my town back in new leaf. Mostly my fault but still.

God, I love the format of this channel. Nice, long, chilled out discussions for you to go through at your own pace, all nicely labelled in case you want to hear something specific. Lovely work, Shay.

Re: I didn’t understand that Rover was asking me to name my town, I was 8 when I first got wild world. I was frustrated that I couldn’t start the game immediately, stating “just let me go to town!” So naturally, my town was named “town” with a lowercase t. Since then, I’ve kept the name for each future game, with one change. I name them “Town” with a capital T.

regarding resetti: when i was like 8 and playing wild world, i accidentally turned off my ds mid play session. when i booted it back up, resetti was there and his weird song and anger scared and confused me. so i turned off my ds. and then he was back. and i was scared and confused so i turned off my ds. it' took a long time for me to realize that he was angry because i quit without saving because i didn't know it could be exploited, and hadn't done it intentionally. it's been more than a dozen years but that experience scared me and i still don't like it

Lovely video! I wish there was a way for Animal Crossing to branch into an RNG-centric, social sim-focused subseries. We have so, so, so, so many games offering the same kinds of self expression as New Horizons, but I can't think of anything else like the first couple Animal Crossing games. Playing New Horizons, it felt all... vague, smiley, sociopathic. I appreciate that you pointed out many of this game's changes aren't strictly positive or negative, but on a selfish "me, me, me!" level, they often contradict what I love about AC.

Someone needs to do a video this long about pocket camp because it also has thousands of problems and you're almost required to perform in micro-transactions if you wanna have all the pretty stuff they put out every month and I will never forgive them for that

Update since 2.0: ordinances are no better now that they're back. The early-bird and night-owl ords used to alter things by 3 to 5 hours-- you know, enough to actually count. Now it's like one or two hours, and it just doesn't really matter anymore.

Replaying New Leaf made me go back to this video since the differences are night and day at least in terms of the fictional realism you highlighted. Sure NL was a bit of a start to some of the simplicity and a shift in power dynamics, but it was at least grounded and had some variety in villager dialogue (though WW definitely has the best dialogue out of all the entries), plus a lot more character. Being the mayor allowed you to do more than in previous games, but there were enough restrictions to the point where it felt like you were still part of the world. You couldn’t control your villagers, if the “ugly” ones moved in, or reshape your town, you just lived life while occasionally adding in a new building or decoration. Not to mention the loads of content that do help with that illusion of life. New Horizons feels more like the sequel to Happy Home Designer disguised as a mainline entry than an actual normal AC game which only hurts it. I’m glad a video like this exists that helps more clearly details what the problems are since they definitely go beyond just the usual complaints.

Excellent video, I fell off the New Horizons train after about two months, but the memories I have of playing with my friend who also had the game are great, and it was definitely a great time to have such a happy game to play. I think all the customisation options for the island kind of made me stop playing, since I’m not creative enough to really come up with a town design worth spending so many hours setting up, but I’m glad so many people could make such awesome islands.

I think my biggest issue with the game is that the actual gameplay is so bland. Nintendo put so much focus on the island designer aspect of the game and not enough on anything else. Yes, you have all these great tools and new ways of customising your island, but what are you going to do with that island once you’ve finished decorating? Listen to the same dialogue from your villagers over and over again? Invite a friend over to do nothing but wander around the island? I’ve been playing since Wild World, and I have many happy memories with this series. I think New Leaf is definitely superior here. There was just so much to do and i kept coming back to it every few months. I honestly haven’t picked new horizons up since June. I really would like Nintendo to add some updates that make the game more interesting.

You're back! I missed you. Hope you're staying safe and healthy

"I just wish it didn't feel like a chore" Summed up my feelings toward the whole franchise beautifully there

A note about the flowers: in New Leaf (my first and favorite Animal Crossing title) I would often clear out swaths of flowers by running around in them until they all got trampled and disappeared. I'd be sad but ultimately fine with that no longer being an option if it weren't for the fact that the shovel I now HAVE TO use to remove flowers from undesired locations didn't break after a specific number of uses. I've given up on managing my flower gardens (I used to make random flower gardens in different locations and periodically change/demolish them as the fancy struck me) because of both the pocket space the flowers are forced to take up whether I want to move them or I want to get rid of them, as well the annoyance of my tools breaking on me in the middle of a task. On a different note, I also lowkey hope my previous favorite villager never moves in because I don't want to see a boring dialogue-regurgitating husk of my former friend. I built a monument on top of his old house plot and a remembrance garden of black roses and clovers for him in New Leaf when he moved out unexpectedly, but I don't see myself caring about any villager in New Horizons enough to do something like that here. But hey! Nobody can move in right on top of a path I spent a week perfecting in this game!

1:16:05 this is a direct callout I am literally drawing right now

I'm glad someone has the same misgivings as I did. The previous Animal Crossings were your own little pocket universe where you didn't have to do homework and you could make money by fishing on the beach. New Horizons feels like a second job to make something inferior to Minecraft.

I literally just got my island to 5 stars last night, whilst listening to your Omega Ruby video, and here you are with another video for me to watch. You timing was impeccable. Good video by the by.

This review is 5 hours too short!!! In all seriousness this was a blast to watch. I can't get enough of long-form reviewers like you, MauLer, and ExoParadigmGamer. Plus, this may be a deep cut, but are you teasing that Pokemon Moon review at the end?

I always like these types of videos where I can just listen because I’m often working outside with my hands, so I can’t necessarily watch the video. r/entitledparents videos do some good but they only last 20 minutes and I lose interest very quickly so I constantly have to stop and rewind to understand what’s going on. Critiques where people dive deep into game mechanics or character development in shows I watch, it keeps me interested and entertained while I’m mucking stalls. What I’m trying to say is thank you for making this video!

I'd soooooo love a follow up video if you are still playing after the big update

Wow the last bit is a foreshadow for sun and moon huh

I love how it’s been a year since the game and this rewiew is even more accurate

When I played Wild World as a kid, I did the exact same thing re: misunderstanding the town name prompt, but didn’t edit for the character limit and ended up in “Somewher”.

Agreed with everything but the Nook shop upgrades. They sell furniture that you can't craft, but they only sell, what, 3 pieces of furniture a day? 4 for special holidays. I'd love an upgrade where they could sell 5 or 6 items, and actually sell other color variations. I loathe that they expect us to visit other people to complete the catalog.

Somebody needs to talk about the fishing tournament and having two accounts on one file. My first experience with the tournament was multiplayer, two players on one shared ACNH file. Me and my partner have been looking for something fun we could do together and, honestly, ACNH is NOT a good game for that. So little of the game is cooperative. This is furthered by the inability to travel to Nook Miles islands together as using tools is one of the few things the non-leader player can actually do. Seriously, two player only works online here since you can give the other player a best friend rank so you both can actually do things. Two player on one Switch are limited to far less. No split screen either. So we got excited when we realized you could have 2 players gather points in the fishing tournament. It made us believe there was a possibility for exploit. Nothing major. The idea was that while one player fished the other player would move up the beach so that as soon as the other was done fishing, a player would have a head start on reaching the next fish. If the leader was the one moving to the edge of the screen they could just sprint as soon as player two hooked the fish and the second player would be poofed next to them, cutting even more time. It SHOULD have net us more points, if only by a small amount. It SHOULD have been possible for 2 players to work past the jank and catch 1-2 EXTRA fish per go with a bit of practice. Except... then I tried playing a few rounds solo afterwards and realized that for the entirety of the two player side of the tournament.... My fish spawn had been nerfed. This wasn't a "it was barely noticeable" thing either. The average I could pull solo was 6-8 fish. The average multiplayer? 4-6. Now that doesn't sound like a huge difference but when you take into consideration that two players can traverse the beach FASTER if they know what they're doing? Something was happening to my spawns. While playing two player we'd even believed that something was happening to our spawns as is but we believed it was because the tournament was supposed to be challenging. It looked like there were more fish swimming around in rivers and beaches until the tournament actually started. So why is this? Honestly I don't really know. "Two player one account" already has quite a few perks, two money rocks--unless player one has already hit all the rocks on the island. Two money tree spawns? Extra DIY? The ability to complete a quest NPC twice? Except those things aren't fun for two players. Those are fun for exploiters, or one player who wants to progress the "main" account. Why couldn't a fishing tournament be one little thing that would be better with a friend? The lower amount of points actually DISCOURAGES this kind of play. A lot of the game does. Most of the time me and my partner spend playing the game is on one file with the other watching, only switching to two player mode for small periods to trade items if one of us gets something we don't need. It's not really fun. I just wish there was an activity that two players could do that took advantage of two people working together. (Swapping leaders by shaking the controller is a fun idea as opposed to needing a menu but the trigger for it is way too sensitive.)

“Pierce Brosnon ate Mrs. Fitzsimmons seabass ... oh wrong video.” Excellent work and amazing analysis.

so my biggest issue with acnh... i'm someone with autism which means i struggle with motivation and getting things done. i have a friend with adhd who has the same problems. and acnh's defence of "adding updates slowly makes you want to play more!" has the exact opposite effect for me and my friend: things that should be like new opportunities or different things to do feel more like chores that we have to complete in time for the next update. we didn't finish the halloween stuff just because we felt like we had to since it was the new update instead of something fun. i don't know if any other mentally il people have this problem??? but it's been my main criticism of the game so far lol

in new leaf once I got Resetti, I purposefully reset my game just to hear the music and see him again. It’s such a nostalgic thing for me, since I’ve played since the GameCube game and it’s really like an empty hole without him. I wish there was an option to disable the auto save feature, and/or replace it with Resetti saying something like “I saved your data for you, don’t try and reset again!!” or even just changing the auto save symbol to him popping out of the ground or something. I know the rescue service is where he is now, but with unbreakable ladder and vaulting pole what’s the point in ever using it

I think it's so sad that the first Animal Crossing game released almost two decades ago has more content, features, details and character than this game.

Your Omega Ruby was my favorite video on this website and you making another long analysis on a game i like is a dream come true

I notice that the origin story of your Island name is almost exactly the same as the origin of the name of your Torchic. You were some kid, huh?

I love the story of your island name so much, i had almost the same misunderstanding. When rover asked me what the name of the town i was going to was i answered "town". So i lived in Town Town. And now my island is called "Isle Island".

It's eerie that there are no microtransactions, and yet "In-Game Purchases" are written on the back with the ESRB rating. Wtf is that about?

Can I just say I love your voice? It's so relaxing and is definitely a part of why I love listening to you for literal hours on end.

I've always preferred the designs of the gamecube characters compared to the newer ones. Something about the more chibi look just seemed more appealing to me. The stretched out, more average proportioned character models really don't do the designs the same kind of justice.

I do have a funny story about a camper wanting to replace a villager I liked. Chevre visited my primary island the day I completed my Bug encyclopedia. As minigame rewards, she gave me a gizzard sushi costume, a kitchen scale, and a chef's outfit, in a row. She wanted Vivian, one of the first villagers who ever came to my island, to move out. At first I didn't like the idea of losing my only Snooty with the Snoot, but then I came up with the outlandish story of Chevre disappearing Vivian and cooking her into Wolf Sushi, casually moving in to Viv's house, and gifting the other islanders the aformentioned sushi as a welcoming present. Her house is now themed around that horrific and stupid idea. I also have another long-running gag. Years ago in New Leaf, Samson started sending O'Hare, my favorite villager, quasi-romantic letters, to which O'Hare would act very oblivious about, and constantly ask me what they meant. Since then, every time I'd get O'Hare in a town(which was weirdly common in New Leaf for some reason). It finally came to a head when O'Hare was my first camper in my second Island, and a year and a half later, in a brike joke to end all brick jokes, Samson finally moved in in an effort to be near his unending and unrequited crush. But aside from that, Villagers in general have very little character outside of headcanons I make up for them based on random circumstance. I'm actually afraid of interacting with them for fear of raising griendships and as a result, removing the more interactive and interesting lower friendship tiers, where favors, games, and interesting dialogue happen.

Thanks for addressing problems with terraforming. I was very hyped about that feature but it died down pretty quick. My first gripe with terraforming is that you get it relatively late in the game. You need to brush up your island and have K.K perform, by that time you'll probably have all villagers and some kind of setup. But okay, if you have an easy way to renovate stuff on your island, it's not the problem. Except, there is no easy way. You can only move one building. And if you're planning to terraform an ENTIRE island, your best strategy to put buildings away where they don't mess with your planning of landing which means you're gonna move buildings twice. Imprecision is a problem that's not super noticeable at first but it's definitely annoying the more time you spend on changing stuff. And each action has animation so watching your character accidentally remove a floor tile for god knows how many times will kill you inside. All in all, I understand the game requires patience and a slow approach to building up your island but for a game that is so hardly focused on customization compared to previous titles... couldn't they make this a little bit easier? At least, make visible tiles so a player knows exactly which side he terraforms.

"dunno" feels like a genuine prewritten joke. saying you "dunno" where youre going and it turns out thats exactly the name of where you go is magical to happen on complete accident

A very good critique, I've learned some words from you which is must apperiacted! You speak very clearly and intellgently! Thank you for this video, it was enjoyed.

Cracking video. One to enjoy with your feet up & a nice glass of whisker.

Amazing video! Really hope you make a followup video a year after release, or whenever the updates are done. Would love to see how your opinions have changed when the game is finished. On that note, as much as I love game updates, most of them don't work for me in New Horizons. Holidays do, but others won't really work because they'll increase the daily playtime at a point where people are already burnt out on the game. I doubt anyone will see The Roost being added and go "Well, I guess I should start playing the game regularly again."

id love to hear a review by you after the new 2.0 update comes out!

Thank you so much for calling attention to the commodification of villagers its really insidious

"Pokemon shouldn't rise up in a communist revolution" ...unless...

Wow, I seriously just watched this. I felt like thanking you "personally" for making this, it was very entertaining! I watched it while sewing and sometimes stabbed myself because you made me laugh so hard. Thanks for that! In all seriousness though, thank you for making this, I enjoyed it a lot :)

A smart man with an amazing voice. Honestly, if you made a video where you read the dictionary cover to cover, I'd listen to the whole thing. Your long-form content makes for beautiful background noise, and I don't mean that as "just something to sleep to", I mean listening to every word while my eyes are focused on a muted game, or creating art. I can't wait to see what you do next, I was shocked to see that I wasn't subscribed already.

The way he says “R” thoooo

I loved your omega ruby analysis, and I’m glad to see the long-form content sticking around! Awesome video, you’ve put into words my grievances with NH that few people around me seem to understand.

Would we possibly be seeing overly exhausting reviews for X/Y, Sun/Moon Ultra S/ Ultra M, Sword/Shield because I fucking love your previous one and believe you've struck st a gold mine

This is very relaxing and after watching it the first time and being very engaged and interested, I've started putting on this on every night when I fall asleep. Since I've already heard everything, my brain doesn't need to actively listen, but it's still interesting enough that by mind doesn't wander. So I have this really lovely background sound to keep me from getting freaked out in the middle of the night and help me fall asleep. Thank you so much.

I appreciated the "flower immortality" at first, but these days I wish they'd die, or at least be easier to remove. My town is overrun with flowers and the prospect of having to dig them all up to make space is daunting and tiring (and part of the reason why I haven't played new horizons in months). And what you said about some of the character models being slightly off? Yeah, I felt that. I love O'Hare and went out of my way to get him as soon as possible, only to find he looked... well, the same for the most part, but different enough that something didn't feel right. It was strange and your explanation fits. This is a great review btw, you touched on pretty much every aspect that has worn down my appreciation for the game. Things I liked at first, quickly became tedious and frustrating. Which is a shame, because I still love the concept a lot.

A little short from that previous 7 hour mark! lol, thank you so much! I have listened to the pokemon review several times and I'll just add this to the list.

Oooooh boy, I can't wait for the 17 hour exhaustive look at cyberpunk

Boy, I put off watching this for a while One little thing I really dig about this video is you have issues, but you aren't sitting up here saying the devs didn't know what they are doing Boy is that small subtlety a lost art in critique

"it just removes a core part of the game and leaves it feeling empty" jokes on you, New Horizons already feels empty!

This game focuses less on characters and your villagers and more on island customisation, it’s quite nice and I did enjoy making my island but I hope this is a one off and next game both sides are included

The stock market bit is especially entertaining considering recent events in the U.S.

Aaah, I make bells by selling underwater creatures. It works going diving while listening to videos on KZfaq.

In New Horizons i just looked at K.K. Slider as a way to get specific records for someone who knows them. Problem is if this is your first AC game you most likely wont know his records which makes your arguments about KK valid.

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