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Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Released On: Mar 20, 2020
5.7
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 122 Critic Reviews
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90% Positive
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 122 Critic Reviews
90
90% Positive
110 Reviews
110 Reviews
1% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
The latest Animal Crossing is also the best, full of life, charm, and near-endless ways to make your very own island paradise.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons takes everything good about Animal Crossing and improves it ten-fold.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 6,856 User Ratings
5.7
52% Positive
3536 Ratings
3536 Ratings
9% Mixed
625 Ratings
625 Ratings
39% Negative
2695 Ratings
2695 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 6,856 User Ratings
5.7
52% Positive
3536 Ratings
3536 Ratings
9% Mixed
625 Ratings
625 Ratings
39% Negative
2695 Ratings
2695 Ratings
Animal Crossing New Horizons is basically perfect. This games music atmosphere and characters are all amazing. This game is very calming and the community is amazing (Just don't mention Raymond)
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Nintendo Switch
I love this game, it's bright and friendly community helped me stay sane during covid-times. It was such a perfect timing with this game, lucky :)) but also the game itself is super adorable and relaxing!
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Nintendo Switch
Start from scratch on a deserted island, collect resources to help its growth, form a small community, progress to get an idyllic place we dream of and, when we think that there is nothing else on the horizon, millions of players will share with us their own vision of our own story. A different and deep game, something that is undoubtedly a sensation that lovers of video games should experience.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the premiere of the series on the Nintendo Switch and it makes the player feel right at home, whether newcomers or the more experienced ones. With an array of new elements and mechanics but keeping its formula well anchored in the series' conventions, New Horizons will delight its players thanks to a marvelous game environment and world development, and its hefty rewards, packing enough content to leave everyone growing attached and enveloped by its experience.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the best entry of the series so far, but it is not the ultimate Animal Crossing yet. There are some minor flaws, but nothing really noticeable. Its quality of life details, the daily routine of grabbing some fruit, chatting to your neighbors or looking for surprises, plus the very new mechanics are so delightful that we can only say good things about one of the most rewarding Nintendo experiences yet.
The series has managed to evolve without betraying the spirit of the previous parts: to spend peaceful days and do what we want, without pressure. Possibly, New Horizons is the breath of fresh air we needed.
By consolidating so much power in your hands, the game threatens to upend the Animal Crossing vision of community living.
This game single handley helped me through the first year of the pandemic , and made cozy games a whole new genre chefs kiss.
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Nintendo Switch
Animal crossing new horizons is a great looking game but lacks the charm and content the series is know for and feels to short. There is only a few goals in the game to keep the player intrigued and if the player fails to find a connection with the game they will probably stop playing as they feel unfufilled.
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Nintendo Switch
I really enjoyed my time on this game, especially during COVID. The game is great and the content was good and it was my first experience with this sage.
But since, there is a lack of content, things are always the same and it has been boring. We got 1 major update and the game was abandonned.
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Gotta be honest, I find this game really boring. The only improvements are the amount of customization options and different skintones (because animal crossing was way behind in that aspect). Other than that, this is a step down from New Leaf. The terraforming, which was the most advertised feature, takes forever to get to. New Leaf lets you jump into the fun immediately, but here you have to wait soo long until the interesting part. I actually didn't get to the terraforming because I put the game down a year ago and haven't checked on it since. I've never lost interest in a game so quickly. Another thing that bothers me is how washed down and boring the villagers (or islanders) are now. I know there were people who didn't like how some villagers were mean or sassy in older games, but you can't deny that it added spice and made them feel like real neighbors (because not everybody will instantly love you upon first meeting in real life, obviously). But now all the villagers have the same cookie-cutter niceness, making them lose what made them distict. Even villagers with snooty and grouchy personality types lack the edge they used to have. New Horizons was only critically acclaimed because it released during the pandemic when everyone was dying of boredom. If it was released before or a year after the pandemic, I'd imagine people would've been much more critical of it. I think they tried too hard to be "cozy" and "chill" that it backfired and made the game boring and bland.
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Animal Crossing New Horizons occupies a weird spot in my games folder.
It flourishes with great ideas and additions like terra forming, the crafting of tools and furnitures, and basically unlimited control over your island.
During the Covid pandemic, the game really appeared as a life saver, allowing us to get together in our little islands.
However, since then, we got barely any new content aside from a god-awful Easter event and a mild separate island for bonus characters like Redd the kitsune or Saharah the camel.
Ultimately, this meant having basically less content than what the 3DS game offered, but in a pricier package. No shop upgrades after the first one, no coffee shop separate from the museum, golden tools that are breakable despite their awful price, no Kappn Island, and a paid DLC that barely improved anything at all despite known issues for months.
This leaves ACNH as an unfinished, unpolished state that feels more like an open beta than a fully finished game. As such, while I cannot call it a "bad" game per se, I cannot in my right mind recommend it.
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Rated E
for Everyone
Platforms:
- Nintendo Switch
Initial Release Date: Mar 20, 2020
Developer:
- Nintendo
Publisher: Nintendo
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