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DO NOT BUY Animal Crossing New Horizon - TERRIBLE game

2020-04-28 · 10 min

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  1. Well, well, what do we have here? Another

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  2. overhyped game from Nintendo that everyone

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  3. is praising and talking about, and turns

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  4. out it's just another piece of rubbish.

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  5. Animal Crossing: New Horizons is probably

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  6. the worst game that I've never played.

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  7. Okay, so first of all, let me just talk

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  8. about the price. This game is insanely

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  9. expensive. On the Switch Nintendo Store,

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  10. it will cost you— it will set you back

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  11. about the Great British pound. £50,

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  12. that's a lot of money just for a stupid

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  13. game where you run around chopping trees

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  14. and picking up apples and fake fishing.

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  15. And this is one of my problems with

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  16. Nintendo as a company. I think they're so

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  17. greedy for money, they're so money hungry,

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  18. even though they probably make way more

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  19. money than most other companies and they

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  20. probably make huge profits. But still,

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  21. they think that it's okay to be able to

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  22. charge £50 or £60 just for a

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  23. brand new game. And as you can obviously

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  24. see, this is a game designed children.

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  25. Look at it, it's basically a kids game.

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  26. What kid is going to have £50 just lying

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  27. around as spare change to be able to buy

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  28. one of their games? Obviously they won't

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  29. have £50 and they have to start going to

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  30. their parents, begging them to buy it for

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  31. them. It's just kind of like manipulation.

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  32. Nintendo makes a really cute, fun-looking

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  33. game, then the kid really, really wants it

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  34. and then begs their parents to buy it for

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  35. them. I think it's kind of manipulative.

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  36. So what exactly do you do in this game?

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  37. Well, that's a very good question because

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  38. I have been trying to figure figure it

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  39. out, and I just don't get it. I don't

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  40. understand what is so fun about this game.

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  41. It looks pretty boring most of the time.

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  42. You're just running about either

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  43. collecting resources, chopping down trees,

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  44. collecting wood, picking up fruits off the

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  45. ground or from trees, doing fishing and

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  46. getting fish. And then I'm guessing that

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  47. you have to build items using the

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  48. materials and resources that you collect

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  49. in the game. To build a house and then

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  50. build furniture, maybe build some kind of

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  51. farm that generates crops and food for

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  52. you. It doesn't really seem like there's

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  53. any goal or story to the game. It's just

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  54. kind of like a sandbox game that lets you

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  55. do whatever you want to do, however you

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  56. want to do it. It doesn't really seem like

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  57. a game that's going to be challenging or

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  58. difficult. It's not like a high-skilled

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  59. game where you rack up points or a high

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  60. score. It's not really a game that's going

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  61. to challenge you or make you, you know,

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  62. actually improve some kind of bodily

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  63. function I think it would be safe to say

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  64. that this game falls neatly into the

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  65. category of peaceful, relaxing gameplay

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  66. that's kind of boring to look at. Not

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  67. really much is happening, but I guess when

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  68. you play it yourself, it relaxes you and

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  69. makes you feel comfortable. I don't really

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  70. understand those kind of games. If you

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  71. want to feel relaxed or comforted, why

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  72. don't you just sit in a chair and listen

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  73. to some nice jazz music? Why play a video

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  74. game? When I play video games, I want to

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  75. play something that's exciting and

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  76. challenging, that has at least a good

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  77. story or decent gameplay. This game seems

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  78. to lack both. Seems to lack neither a

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  79. story or interesting and engaging

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  80. gameplay. And now that I think about it,

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  81. the game does actually look like Stardew

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  82. Valley, which is very cheap on Steam. You

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  83. can get it for about $5 or $10. And why

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  84. would you get Animal Crossing when you

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  85. could get Stardew Valley instead for about

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  86. a 5th of the price when basically it's the

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  87. same kind of game? You run around, you

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  88. collect stuff, you clear away stuff, you

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  89. make a farm, you make food and crops, you

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  90. buy stuff at shops. I don't really see how

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  91. that's different to this Animal Crossing

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  92. game. So why don't you just get Stardew

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  93. Valley, which is a 5th of the price? Now

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  94. for the graphic fidelity of the game, I'm

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  95. just going to have to say that

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  96. unfortunately the graphics of this game

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  97. are not quite up to my standards. I feel

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  98. like the colors are just way too washed

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  99. out and the heads of the people and the

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  100. characters are just way too big. There's

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  101. just no possibility that you could have a

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  102. head that big and still be able to run

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  103. around without falling over all of the

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  104. time. It just makes no logical sense.

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  105. It's kind of sad and a little bit

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  106. depressing that we've got a bunch of kids

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  107. doing gardening and fishing and outdoor

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  108. activities, which would be great if you're

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  109. actually doing them in the real world.

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  110. Why would I want to do gardening in a game

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  111. when I could just go out to my garden,

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  112. dig some holes, and plant some actual real

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  113. fruit and vegetable and get some real-life

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  114. results? But the saddest thing about it is

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  115. that it seems to be loads and loads of

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  116. adults playing this game, not kids. Even

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  117. though you look at this game, you think,

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  118. oh wow, this is definitely a kids' game

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  119. and only kids are going to be interested.

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  120. No, you've got legions of Nintendo fanboys

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  121. and fangirls playing this game and

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  122. actually enjoying it, which I just do not

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  123. understand. You look at this game and it's

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  124. obviously a game designed for kids. And

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  125. yeah, if I was 10 years old, I think I

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  126. would also really want to play this game

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  127. and probably have a lot of fun. But I am a

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  128. 31-year-old man. There's no way in hell

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  129. that you would ever catch me playing such

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  130. a stupid-looking game and actually

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  131. enjoying it. I think I'd rather play with

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  132. my Rubik's Cube. There's kind of like this

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  133. weird thing about Nintendo fans who are

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  134. adults. Yeah, I know they probably played

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  135. Nintendo when they were kids and they're

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  136. big fans of Super Mario, Mario and any—

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  137. everything. But they grow up into adults,

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  138. and you think maybe their tastes change

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  139. and they'll play more mature games like

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  140. Rainbow Six, but they don't. They seem to

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  141. carry on wanting to play the same childish

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  142. games that they used to play when they

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  143. were 10 years old, even though they're

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  144. probably 30 now. It's just really, really

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  145. weird. They also have this same kind of

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  146. look. You see these Nintendo fanboy

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  147. YouTubers on YouTube, they always have

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  148. this same look where they usually have a

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  149. beard and really big glasses and they look

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  150. really nerdy. I don't know, I just don't

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  151. get it. It just— the gameplay looks so

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  152. utterly boring. What do you do? You just

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  153. run about, you press buttons. There's

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  154. absolutely zero challenge to the game. Is

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  155. it even rewarding collecting wood and then

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  156. building stuff when it's not even

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  157. difficult to collect the wood in the first

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  158. place? So unfortunately, I'm going to have

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  159. to cut the review short today because I

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  160. can't really be bothered to do anything

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  161. else for this video. I would say in

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  162. conclusion do not buy this game because

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  163. you'll probably not enjoy it. And yeah,

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  164. I don't really want to waste £50 on this

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  165. piece of rubbish.

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