Do you ever miss your old island?

[Moritz]

I will preface this by saying I do not regret resetting.
My original island had things that bugged me for over a year (such as fruit and airport colour), and now I have an island where nothing bugs me. Its a work in progress still, but I love it.

I'm just dreaming of my original island and I really miss it.
I spent over 1000 hours there.
A year and a half where I spent nearly every day.
I spent that time fine tuning and tweeking every detail to make it the best version of the island it could be.

And even though I own a second switch, I know nintendo will never give it back, even though its in their power to.

Just makes me sad.

How about you?

 

[Croconaw]

I haven’t reset in New Horizons, so I can’t say for this particular game. However, I’ve reset on previous titles. I did miss my old towns after resetting those. I always craved a fresh start, so I had a bit of an obsession with resetting. I don’t think I knew what I wanted with my town(s), so it was very easy to just reset. With New Horizons, I had a clearer picture of how I wanted my island to look. I think this is what made me keep my original island. There were parts of my island that I’d be devastated if I lost. I obtained all of my dream villagers that I worked very hard for. I put time into it that I couldn’t just bring myself to erase. Even though I do not play the game anymore, I have never reset on New Horizons. I cared too much about my island and knew what exactly went into it. It would have sucked to lose it all.

 

[PacV]

In New Horizons, no… I really don't miss it. In New Leaf, yes… I hate my card just suddenly die.

 

[Moritz]

In New Horizons, no… I really don't miss it. In New Leaf, yes… I hate my card just suddenly die.

I do miss my original town in new leaf.
But I don't remember it at all.
I only recall playing it for the first time on the train home after buying my 3ds.

It was my first animal crossing game so that memory holds a special place in my heart.

I found the game ran out of stuff to do after 4 months as your town was complete by then.

So every 4 months I would make a new town.

But your first ever animal crossing experience will always be something special.

 

[Robi]

That release date town creation was pretty nice. Plus there were some event items there that I still haven't gotten back. but honestly, resetting was a good idea. I'm happy with my island.

 

[Disneyfangirl23]

I’ve had loads of islands and I miss some of them sometimes but they all had themes but my current one doesn’t have a theme which is better really

 

[angelcat621]

I do sometimes miss my old island. I had the same layout for both my first 2 islands. My second island existed almost a year and a half. I spent many hours on that one layout so anything else feels kind of weird. I reset it for 2.0 and got a very different map. It has the right airport color, fruit, and flower and all the villagers I want. I don't regret restarting but I do long at times for the first map I had. It had a cool multi-level sideways waterfall from the beginning. But I don't miss all those pears.

 

[kayleee]

I haven’t reset my island, but I did reset my WW town a couple years ago and I regret doing that. I had that town since launch and randomly decided to reset it one day, and now I wish I could go back and see what it was like after so much playtime.

 

[Roxxy]

I couldn’t reset Bayside isn’t perfect but I have spent so long making it perfect for me. It’s my happy place that I can now go and just relax and do little things (like weeding atm as I haven’t had much time to play )

I did reset my NL towns honestly far too many times. It got to the stage that they didn’t feel personal. I guess that I learned from that and didn’t want to repeat my mistakes.

 

[Honie]

I've reset my island three times now, and I don't really miss the previous two. I miss the progress I made on them? but as far as the islands themselves, no. There was things that bothered me (the maps, fruit, airport, etc) or I just flattened the island and then couldn't bounce back to make enough progress so out of frustration, I just reset. Though with my current island, I've been really struggling as to not reset, but I've come so far once again that I don't think I'll ever do it. I think I'm more so opting to getting a second switch vs. resetting. :')

 

[Robi]

Ooh I just thought of my first new leaf town. I accidentally had that erased because when you put the game card in another 3DS and play it, it won't acknowledge the save data and you'll save over it. I really miss that town. I'm never getting back all that streetpass data I had.

 

[ZeldaCrossing64]

I hardly remember my old islands, so I can't say that I miss them.

 

[angiepie]

Yes and no. Yes because it was my first ever animal crossing game that I got at launch. My first ever island/town that I had decorated on my own. I traded a lot for that island, spent a lot of time on that island, a lot of tears (lol dramatic) but it will always be my baby because that time era was such a strange one (the pandemic barely starting and all) so I do have fond memories and miss it sometimes, but I restarted it and will have more fun with this one because I won’t be so focused on getting the perfect island and having it set up in a certain way. I’ll just take my time and play around with things more.

 

[Moritz]

Other than the horrible frame rate issues I'm getting on my current island, I'm not missing my old island any more at all.

I think you just need to get used to the new island, and fill out the areas that are empty with things you like.

 

[mouthrat]

honestly, at first, i reset because i thought it would lead me to play the game more. and for a short while, it did. however, as time went on, i found myself bored doing just the same things i did on my old island, and it took me FOREVER to get my island to 3 stars. if any of you saw my oldest posts when i first joined TBT, might i remind you how upset that particular topic made me...

despite of all that though, just recently i finished my fossil collection on my current island and i hadn't had that on my other one. on this one i also have several million bells (some of which i obtained from trading on this website), many nook miles, and a village that feels like family to me. now that i know the game, i have more of a love for it and while i sometimes visit my old island via dream suite, i don't regret it because i love my new island so much more.

 

[Snek]

I haven't reset at all for NH, but I do miss my town in NL. There are certain things about NL that I really do miss. The villagers, the shops, perfect fruit, some tropical fruits, etc. I don't own NL anymore so it does make me nostalgic for it again.

 

[JellyBeans]

on occasion yes because i sunk *so much* time into it, plus i had a nice release date on my passport so i felt like a true 'og'. now that a lot of time has passed since i reset, despite not having played as much on this island i definitely don't regret the reset because i feel like i learned a lot about terraforming and decorating etc on my first island that i can now implement a lot better onto my current island. i do miss my nicely padded catalogue and recipe knowledge though!! i feel like a lot of my demotivation around building this island up comes from having to go and find all the furniture all over again
then again i have been considering resetting my current island so i guess i dont feel all that torn up about it haha. i'm just cautious to not make the same mistake i did with nl where i was resetting over and over again to the point where i didn't really feel a connection to any new town