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Best iPads. Best iPhones. Best External Hard Drives. Browse All News Articles. Smart TVs Ads. Team Comes to Workplace by Meta. Block People Spotify. Verizon Selling PS5. Think you're getting even a 4-star island without populating it with dozens of floral friends? Even if you don't play Animal Crossing , you've probably heard a lot about it. It's a cartoonish life simulator that puts you on a deserted island and tasks you with turning it into a paradise.
The joys of this process are hard to describe to someone who hasn't played an Animal Crossing game before. Much of the gameplay revolves around fishing, chopping wood, mining stone and crafting.
It's relaxing, but goal-oriented enough to be stimulating. Its March 20 release coincided with much of the world entering coronavirus lockdown and it was the perfect game to help calm that chaos.
There's no confronting story or complex mechanics. New Horizons is a timesink, but it's also simple, low-commitment fun. At least, at first it's low-commitment fun. But now, two months in, it's becoming a problem. If you're the type of person who likes to commit to one single game for long periods of time, New Horizons is a dream. If you like to play multiple games at once or, God forbid, juggle gaming time with reading or binge watching, it's a waking nightmare.
A colorful, cheerful waking nightmare, which substitutes a grotesque Freddy Kruger monster for an enterprising raccoon named Tom Nook.
But a nightmare nonetheless. Animal Crossing doesn't really have an end. At a certain point, you're given an island rating 1 star and tasked with improving it to attract more villagers. So you can get a 5-star island, the highest rating on the scale, but does that mean you won Animal Crossing?
I don't know. The text then appears above your character's head in-game. It can be cumbersome to use two different devices, but this is the best way I've found to speak with people without going crazy trying to navigate the Switch's virtual keyboard.
Note: To link the app to your game, you'll need to press the minus symbol on the game's loading screen and choose NookLink Settings. Eventually, you'll be able to use the Island Designer app to terraform your island. It lets you lay down paths, alter your rivers, and edit your cliffs. Let's say you want to build a bridge somewhere, but the river isn't suitable. You can open up the app and use the corresponding permit to reshape the waterway.
These permits and designs are unlockable within the NookStop. Want to use a certain song as your town tune, but not sure how to make it sound right? Check out this subreddit. If you can't find what you want, you can request that someone else help you out. You can also give this site a try. Your island's general store only sells a few types of flowers.
Other islands may sell different types, or you can purchase those when Leif is in town. Hybrid flowers grow when certain types of flowers are blooming near one another, and you water them using a watering can. There are all sorts of guides out there for growing specific kinds of hybrid flowers, but my best advice is to plant flowers of the same type near one another, with room around those flowers for more to grow. Then water them every day. The more flowers you plant, and the more you water them, the more likely you are to grow special hybrids.
Want to send a letter? Head to the airport and check out the card stand next to the main service counter. You can send a letter to a current resident, your future self, or a friend you've marked as a Best Friend in the NookPhone app. You can attach a present before sending the letter off—and if you want to wrap that present, be sure to do it beforehand with wrapping paper purchased from your island's general store.
Sending a card costs Bells. If your favorite villager is proving elusive, you can use their Amiibo card or figurine to bring them to your island. Due to the Covid pandemic, finding Amiibo online is trickier than usual. You can try your local game store, but if you don't want to take the risk, your best bet is searching for the villager you want on eBay.
Cards tend to be cheaper and easier to find than figures. We have a handy guide for shopping smartly on eBay that you should check out before getting started. Once you have your Amiibo card, you can visit the NookStop, select Invite a Camper , and follow the on-screen instructions. Maybe you really want to finish that Cute furniture set, or you're struggling to grow the right hybrid flowers. Run mainly through Discord, the site is full of users selling everything from fashion items to furniture.
Exchange Bells for the goods you just have to have. Be ready to haggle, and read through the rules to ensure that your trades are safe.
Check out this guide to getting started for more. You might already know that pressing the square button on the left Joy-Con will take a screenshot, but you can use the NookPhone Camera app to take some stylized shots. Traveling to Harvey's island via your airport also provides a great environment for staging photos.
Additionally, if you're filming a TikTok or want to capture footage of you finally catching that elusive scorpion, you can long-press the square button to save a file of the last 30 seconds of gameplay. Photos and videos are saved in your Nintendo Albums. There's no elegant solution for saving the photos, but you can link your Twitter and Facebook accounts to post them directly from the console.
I edited my Facebook privacy settings to ensure that Nintendo Switch Share photos are only visible to me, so I can save them to my computer after sharing. The Albums software lets you share up to four photos at once if you opt to "Post Batch.
He'll show up occasionally on his boat, parked at the private beach on the very back of your island, and he's got both art and furniture up for grabs. Be wary, though. During each visit, you'll only be able to buy one of the available pieces of art, and all of them but one are fakes. Blathers won't accept counterfeit paintings, so you need to be careful before committing to buy. When you're in Redd's boat and checking out a piece of art, be sure to tell him that you want a closer look.
This will shine a spotlight on the piece in question. You'll be able to zoom in to check out the details. View original tweet on Twitter. Akemi says she tries to make her virtual world as 'leafy' as possible. Image source, Nintendo. Not sure this player has quite mastered using a telescope. The game rewards players who do tasks for others and are sociable to their virtual neighbours.
Hannah says there's a nostalgia to Animal Crossing. Image source, Knightenator. Knightenator has tens of thousands of followers on streaming site Twitch. Image source, Yelanis.
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