There are other tasks, but none are particularly rewarding. What is the point of this if I cannot even lift? Eventually, I got a barbell as a gift, but the buff tiger won't come lift it with me. I could talk to my neighbors, or give them gifts, but, otherwise, they wandered around our little section of island taking up oxygen. After I'd placed tents for my neighbors, they proceeded to do nothing My companions were an obnoxious purple rhinoceros with a tic for saying 'yo' multiple times in a row and a gym-bro tiger who was admittedly pretty dope. So imagine my surprise when I was placed on a deserted island with only two fellow residents, not counting our Tanuki landlord and his sycophantic offspring. (The game has several iterations dating back to 2001.) Prior to this game, my exposure to 'Animal Crossing' was largely through osmosis, with Tumblr-era posts reminiscing about cute interactions with the lively denizens of their villages. The rest of the time has been frustrating, tedious, and immensely boring, mostly involving mashing buttons to get through endlessly repeating dialogue boxes with chibi animals mumbling gibberish and refilling countless holes I dug in the wrong place. Fourteen of them were spent on islands that are not my own, and one of them happened when my friend Dillon sent me a nice hat in the mail. Andy and I are both roughly 30 years old, but for a few minutes, I felt as happy as my small baby-proportioned avatar looked.Д«ut in the dozen hours I've put into the game so far, approximately 15 minutes have made me feel this way. Inside his house, one room was decked out like a club, and we ran around in circles and wiggled back and forth pretending to dance. Appropriately, Andy immediately gave me a pizza oven I purchased matching sporty sunglasses from the blue hedgehog posted up outside Town Hall.

A few days after purchasing 'Animal Crossing: New Horizons' - the wildly popular Nintendo Switch game in which the player lives life and completes tasks on a tropical island - I got an invite to visit my friend Andy's island, Flavortown.

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