Category: Animal Crossing

25 Years of Animal Crossing!

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It’s been 25 years since Animal Crossing was released and I felt like I needed to make a little appreciation post for this game series. It came into my life around 2006 and I am so grateful. I made a post way back in 2014 on my Animal Crossing Tumblr about my journey with Animal Crossing but I thought it was time to make an updated one because it’s been 12 years since then.

So my journey with Animal Crossing did not start on the GameCube, it started on the DS with Animal Crossing: Wild World. I don’t remember much about that time other than in my very first town I cut down all my trees and immediately regretted it. I didn’t want to go through the effort of replanting them all so I did restart my old town.

Since then, I have restarted Wild World a bunch because I never play long enough and my town always becomes overrun by weeds lol. I love revisiting Wild World as my first Animal Crossing game because it brings so much nostalgia and peace.

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The Grand Opening of Hotel Reverie! | Exploring the 3.0 Animal Crossing: New Horizons Update

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Who would’ve thought I’d be back making Animal Crossing content in 2026? This is a LONG video but I wanted to do my best to showcase the new 3.0 features and see if there was anything else new that wasn’t mentioned in Nintendo’s trailer.

The real question is if this will bring me back to playing Animal Crossing, and truthfully it won’t. At least not full-time. Sure, I want to play to decorate all the hotel rooms but once that’s done I am not sure if there is much else worth of substance here for me. I have enjoyed this game a lot over the years but I think I have done all that I want to.

My main concern is that with the next instalment of the game, it is just going to be a decorating game. Which is fine but that to me is not what Animal Crossing is about. So we will see what the future has in store for the game, I am just hoping we don’t forget its roots.

An Animal Crossing: New Horizons Update in 2026?!

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I was not planning to make so many YouTube video posts on this blog in a row…sorry but that’s just how I’ve been feeling making content recently so here is my latest video talking about the new Animal Crossing update coming next year!

I don’t think anyone was expecting this so it’s a nice surprise. I am looking forward to seeing what it is like but at the same time, don’t think any of the new content is super groundbreaking. Still, I think it’s nice to have something to tide us over until they announce a new Animal Crossing game. But based on this update I am wondering if we are still a few years off another main title game…

For now we will take what we can get.

Meeting up with Friends! (Via Animal Crossing)

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Even though we are all on lock down and are not able to see people in real life, there are lots of ways we can still talk and interact with people.

This past week I have been spending basically all my free time playing Animal Crossing and I’ve been able to spend lots of time with old friends and new.

I really love this aspect of Animal Crossing because it really helps fight the loneliness of being on lock down. I am thankful I am living with my boyfriend so I am not totally alone in this whole craziness but sometimes you need to talk to other people lol.

Please enjoy some cute screenshots of me and my friends living our best island lives in Animal Crossing. 🙂