Anyone else use Animal Crossing as an escape?

[SillyPrinny]

Title.

 

[Chachamaru]

Yes. Especially the gamecube version when I was young, that had the biggest impact for me I think. Animal crossing provides me tremendous stress relief and distraction from horrible anxiety and intense emotions. I think you’ll find a lot of us use it as an escape..!

Also, fun fact, I have k.k. tattooed on my inner left forearm because animal crossing is so nostalgic/special to me. Really magical little game.

 

[FrankenBerry]

Yes i use animal crossing, harvest moon, rune factory and story of seasons as escapes

 

[SillyPrinny]

Yes. Especially the gamecube version when I was young, that had the biggest impact for me I think. Animal crossing provides me tremendous stress relief and distraction from horrible anxiety and intense emotions. I think you’ll find a lot of us use it as an escape..!

Aye, I remember those late night writing my villagers letters on the GameCube version of Animal Crossing. Having Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) I had a very hard time learning. Especially with reading and writing, and I believe without Animal Crossing nor the internet I wouldn't be able to do either. School was very hard because of it, being labeled as a idiot at school and my parents not wanting anything to do with me those pixels on the screen made me feel better. Now here I am alone in a dark smokey room almost done with the bottle fishing in my game. I find it sad for the most part, but at the same time I've never felt so comfortable.

 

[Sweetley]

Yeah, it is a escape for me, especially since you have to stay at home because of the whole Coronavirus madness, it's a nice way to just feel a bit better by playing the game and have some fun when you can't do so much right now. But in general, AC was always a help to take a break from real life stuff and getting more relaxed for a while.

 

[John Wick]

I did, yep.

 

[Violet~]

For sure. AC games have always been a calm escape for me, and now with all this quarantine craziness... It's definitely helping me get through it.

 

[Chris]

Not intentionally but it is certainly proving to be a good distraction from the knowledge I won't have a job after the end of April. I came out from meetings with the CEO and my line manager, then got a text from someone at home saying the game had arrived.

 

[pocky]

I'm a nurse and so are my parents. Grateful to be an essential employee during a time when so many are losing their jobs, but also incredibly stressed about whats to come. Patients parents have questions to which I do not have the answer to and because of my line of work it seems most of conversations revolve around COVID19.

My dad called me today to tell me that he doesn't want me to visit him anymore because he is being forced to work without protective gear and doesn't want to expose me to anything in the event that he gets sick. Really worried about him because he is a heavy smoker with not so great lungs.

ACNH came at the perfect time to help me forget these problems, if just for a few hours.

 

[namiieco]

Totally. But recently online school has only given me around an hour to play if I try and squeeze it in so I'm quite sad about that
But in a similar way, drowning myself in work is also an escape lol

 

[Wrathie83]

Yup, i have anxiety and depression, i've found personally that this game helps me on my darkest of days. It's also kept me sane during my country's lock down lol.

 

[DaviddivaD]

With what's going on in the real world right now I love the super cheerfulness of this game.

 

[Dizzardy]

I feel like right now most people are probably using it as an escape.

I don't think even the original Gamecube game felt like an escape the same way New Horizons does.

 

[Chachamaru]

I feel like right now most people are probably using it as an escape.

I don't think even the original Gamecube game felt like an escape the same way New Horizons does.

Thats interesting. The original gamecube game felt way more relaxing to me. This one has a LOT more to do.

- - - Post Merge - - -

Yes i use animal crossing, harvest moon, rune factory and story of seasons as escapes

Harvest moon, particularly another wonderful life.. Oh my goodness. Another really sentimental game franchise for me. Stardew valley is cool too.

 

[Romaki]

Definitely. Times are tough, so it's nice to have something so cheerful in your life.

 

[Xara]

definitely. with how stressful the real world is rn, it’s nice to be able to sit back and lose yourself in the wonderful world of animal crossing aha

 

[Evadere]

Yes! I suffer from anxiety and completely zone out onto my own little island whilst playing. I named my island Evadere as it's apparently latin for escape

 

[Rowintuit]

Oh absolutely.

I didn't have too many consistent friends growing up, so Animal Crossing made me feel cared for and was my second home.
Wild World and TBT forums were how I made my first online friends, and I spent a lot of late nights playing.

Now it's even more relevant as an escape because I'm currently in quarantine, laid off due to the pandemic. So I need it now like I needed it back then.

 

[DJStarstryker]

Yes, but that's not unique to Animal Crossing. I use all video games as a form of escape.

 

[SetsuTheYena]

I still have to work full time, but we are made to work from home now, so I can play while working. That's definitely a plus :'D