TheRevienne
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Hello Everyone!
I hope you're all doing well, I'm writing this post today to see if anyone else is feeling the same way as me 1 year since the game released.
So, a bit of backstory firstly.
My manager had told me last year I needed to take some holiday days as I'd struggle to fit them in later in the year, so I booked off the week ACNH was released. I'd saved the money for the game since my birthday in June 2019 and then preordered it as soon as I could so it came on release day. Then, the week I was off work on holiday, the UK announced that we'd be going into lockdown. I work in non-essential retail, we're a charity shop which sells furniture, so, I and my other workmates went on furlough.
Whilst on furlough, like I imagine a lot of people did, I poured nearly all my time into my island, by June I think I had about 500+ hours. I'd spend my days playing ACNH, with my window open, then go outside in the garden for a while to get fresh air, and come back to it. I was terraforming by the beginning/middle of April and got my 5*s in May. I spent a lot of time on a FB group and on here trading with people, getting DIYs, furniture etc, and aside from talking to a friend (who I kinda met through ACNH) it was my main social interaction.
We're now a year onwards from the game being released, while I could go into a long rant on how I feel the game is currently, I won't because it's not really relevant, all I'll say is that whereas this time last year my mind was constantly occupied with what I'd do on ACNH that day, what bugs or fish I needed etc, now it doesn't feature too much. I still go on occasionally, but I remember the first time in June last year where I purposely missed playing for a day and thought I was being a rebel. Now, most days I'm only on for an hour or two, some days not at all.
I opened the game up on the 20th, forgetting it was the release day until I saw my memories on Facebook, and saw the photos I shared of my island and my first day, and I felt a real pang of nostalgia. I felt a mixture of pride, but also unfulfillment. My island is finished, it's how I want it, but it's the changes I'd like to see in the game which lends to the unfulfillment.
I started the game up today, and I have my window open by coincidence, and it brought me right back to when I started, it brought back that original feeling of excitement, and wonder. I've been playing the AC games since WW, and something about ACNH was such a breath of fresh air at the beginning, maybe it was the crafting system, the fact we had a whole island to create and make our own, I don't know. But the nostalgia is mixed with something else, which I can't quite put my finger on.
Has anyone else who's played since release or near release felt the same way at all?
It would also be remiss of me to not thank people who'd helped me in my first year of ACNH, from Brian on the FB group who helped me with fruit, to my IRL friends for helping with DIYs, and letting me spend copious amounts in Able's, to Jihux who helped me with their amazing catalog store, Jhine for letting my buy so much stuff (there's going to be more, you know it), and so many others who I've got flowers, DIYs, furniture and clothes off.
To close off, I'm putting in the original Tarasaigh, and Tarasaigh now:
I hope you're all doing well, I'm writing this post today to see if anyone else is feeling the same way as me 1 year since the game released.
So, a bit of backstory firstly.
My manager had told me last year I needed to take some holiday days as I'd struggle to fit them in later in the year, so I booked off the week ACNH was released. I'd saved the money for the game since my birthday in June 2019 and then preordered it as soon as I could so it came on release day. Then, the week I was off work on holiday, the UK announced that we'd be going into lockdown. I work in non-essential retail, we're a charity shop which sells furniture, so, I and my other workmates went on furlough.
Whilst on furlough, like I imagine a lot of people did, I poured nearly all my time into my island, by June I think I had about 500+ hours. I'd spend my days playing ACNH, with my window open, then go outside in the garden for a while to get fresh air, and come back to it. I was terraforming by the beginning/middle of April and got my 5*s in May. I spent a lot of time on a FB group and on here trading with people, getting DIYs, furniture etc, and aside from talking to a friend (who I kinda met through ACNH) it was my main social interaction.
We're now a year onwards from the game being released, while I could go into a long rant on how I feel the game is currently, I won't because it's not really relevant, all I'll say is that whereas this time last year my mind was constantly occupied with what I'd do on ACNH that day, what bugs or fish I needed etc, now it doesn't feature too much. I still go on occasionally, but I remember the first time in June last year where I purposely missed playing for a day and thought I was being a rebel. Now, most days I'm only on for an hour or two, some days not at all.
I opened the game up on the 20th, forgetting it was the release day until I saw my memories on Facebook, and saw the photos I shared of my island and my first day, and I felt a real pang of nostalgia. I felt a mixture of pride, but also unfulfillment. My island is finished, it's how I want it, but it's the changes I'd like to see in the game which lends to the unfulfillment.
I started the game up today, and I have my window open by coincidence, and it brought me right back to when I started, it brought back that original feeling of excitement, and wonder. I've been playing the AC games since WW, and something about ACNH was such a breath of fresh air at the beginning, maybe it was the crafting system, the fact we had a whole island to create and make our own, I don't know. But the nostalgia is mixed with something else, which I can't quite put my finger on.
Has anyone else who's played since release or near release felt the same way at all?
It would also be remiss of me to not thank people who'd helped me in my first year of ACNH, from Brian on the FB group who helped me with fruit, to my IRL friends for helping with DIYs, and letting me spend copious amounts in Able's, to Jihux who helped me with their amazing catalog store, Jhine for letting my buy so much stuff (there's going to be more, you know it), and so many others who I've got flowers, DIYs, furniture and clothes off.
To close off, I'm putting in the original Tarasaigh, and Tarasaigh now: