"Last year, I threw a new year's party for my children in the game, but apart from that I have barely touched my island since the depths of lockdown, when sunny Alba was my preferred escape from the monotonous misery of the real world. Back then, I spent more than 200 hours on this island. Stepping out of her (now massive) house, my avatar's hair is all ruffled and her eyes sleepy after a long, long time aslumber."
"I half-expected Alba to be practically in ruins, but it's not that bad. Aside from a few cockroaches in the basement and a bunch of weeds poking up from the snow, everything is as it was. The paths that I had laid out around the island still lead me to the shop, the tailors, the museum; I stop by to visit Blathers the curatorial owl, and he gives me a new mission to find a pigeon called Brewster"
"I take myself on a little tour of Alba, investigating all the things I'd forgotten I made. Atop the highest cliffs on the island I find a half-finished bamboo zen garden. Down by the beach there is a playground; I had a baby and a toddler back in 2020 and I was spending a lot of time in playgrounds. The whole place is testament to the extent of my homesickness during the pandemic, during which I was stuck in a suboptimal basement flat in Brighton:"
Animal Crossing: New Horizons received a major update plus a Switch 2 upgrade that improve visuals and performance on newer hardware. A player's island remained largely preserved after a long absence, with minor issues such as cockroaches in the basement and weeds poking up through snow. In-game residents note elapsed time and assign new missions, including finding Brewster to open a museum cafe. The island contains pandemic-era personal touches—a half-finished bamboo zen garden, a beach playground tied to childcare memories, a Scottish-themed flag and tune—and an unexpectedly large bank balance of over 2 million bells.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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