Does anyone else refuse to restart, even if you ‘finish’ your island?

[maria110]

I'm the opposite. I can't imagine not restarting. I'm on my 9th island. But I think it's cool that people keep their islands. Maybe I just have adult ADHD or something.

 

[Manah]

I build things because I like to have finished things, not throw them away once they're done.

Generally I'm not someone who constantly needs to move on to something new. And I don't feel pressured so it's not really something I "refuse."

 

[Imaginetheday]

Youtubers need to create content to keep viewers coming back, but most I see just flatten their island. I might do that if I ever "finish" my island, but usually I just redo a few areas. I would not want to restart my island. No way.

 

[Fawg]

No way, not after all the work I went through going to islands to catalogue items. It was easy and fun to do when the whole world seemed to be playing at once. Players have dropped off a lot since the first couple months after launch.

 

[lexy_]

I would never, ever restart. I play with weeks of breaks in between sometimes, so I’m far from finished. It took me a looooong time to acquire all of the things I have, and I would not ever want to have to start over.

This ^^
when I think about all the effort I put into my game to complete the nook miles challenge, the museum, the ordeable catalog, the DIYs...I just cannot do it
well I can use the same island to build/create an another theme but I am too lazy to destroy everything
So I am waiting for a new gameplay and play some other games I have ^^

funny thing, my island's name is Serenity too lol

 

[Blueskyy]

This ^^
when I think about all the effort I put into my game to complete the nook miles challenge, the museum, the ordeable catalog, the DIYs...I just cannot do it
well I can use the same island to build an another theme but I am too lazy to destroy everything
So I am waiting for a new gameplay and play some other games I have ^^

funny thing, my island's name is Serenity too lol

Haha great minds think alike! I remember sitting there and thinking of synonyms for peace and happiness and did a little eeny meeny miney mo

 

[kirbbys]

Heading into my 3rd 'flattening' stage, but can't bear to restart it now. Way too much work put into it all.

 

[DJStarstryker]

I have less issues with this for New Leaf because you can have multiple towns very easily. But because you can only have 1 ACNH island per Switch and I put so much time and effort into my island and collecting DIYs (the hours I've spent grinding out some of them... ugh)... No. I'm not going to reset.

I honestly feel like there's less reason to reset in ACNH than other AC games. Because of terraforming, you can make your island look completely different without resetting.

 

[tiffanistarr]

I'll buy another switch and copy of the game if I want something new. There is no way I can let this island go. I put too much work into it and still love it.

 

[Furrton]

It seems like a huge waste of time to me. Just clean it off and rebuild. I am a perfectionist/procrastinator so maybe this response has been programmed into my brain, but seriously... why.

 

[Blueskyy]

Maybe it's nostalgia for the early stages of the game? Sometimes I see AC youtubers play the first few days on their new island and I miss the music, the wind and the simple look of a barren island. Also, their experience restarting is probably different from most people, some have a second switch with another island, or they have a community of viewers to helps them get items/villagers/nmt/diys. This way they can skip through the slow beginning and just focus on building the island.

But I understand not wanting to give up everything. Every time I restarted it was because I felt like my island was going nowhere and I wasn't attached to my villagers, so I thought "I might as well restart". It felt like there was not much to erase/give up. But because of that I never managed to "finish" an island, or even fill it up halfway. If I ever finish an island I'll probably choose to flatten instead of restarting.

Now that you mention it, the wind in the early stage of the game was so peaceful to me compared to now. There was an element of freedom when my island was so barren and it was just me, Teddy, Reneigh, and the Nooks. I think it was also so special because I was scared to go out to do anything at that time with the shutdowns. I will not restart, but maybe I need to go watch a video of those moments on someone’s island on YouTube.

 

[moo_nieu]

i wont ever restart my island c: im already at a point where i wont be making any major changes, but i always regretted restarting my first new leaf save. plus im satisfied with every aspect of my base map, so i probably wouldnt be as lucky again.

 

[VanitasFan26]

Now that you mention it, the wind in the early stage of the game was so peaceful to me compared to now. There was an element of freedom when my island was so barren and it was just me, Teddy, Reneigh, and the Nooks. I think it was also so special because I was scared to go out to do anything at that time with the shutdowns. I will not restart, but maybe I need to go watch a video of those moments on someone’s island on YouTube.

I think the enjoyment kinda dies down when you finally get to 3 stars and unlock the terraforming. Whats interesting to me is that some people who played the game the first time never touched it again because in their mind they were thinking that they saw the credits when KK slider showed up and that was it.

Part of me still feels like there was suppose to be more to do after you unlock terraforming, but Tom Nook at this point becomes pointless. Sure you can talk to him to pay off your loans and build bridges and inclines, but his "What should I do?" feature is no longer used because I had the feeling there was suppose to me more that Tom Nook says to you.

I went back an replayed May Day and Tom Nook said something along the lines of "I can't help but think about all of the support I've gotten from our wonderful island residents." That line is so dated because since we are in March 2021 the villagers have done really nothing to support the island when its only us (the player) who did most of the work.

Sorry to go off on a rant there, but the point is that Tom Nook was suppose to be more supportive and celebrate how well you made the island and how far you have come with the villagers. The point I'm trying to make is that Tom Nook in the beginning he was really peaceful to be around and he would be the person you would see whenever you start the game and he reads the announcements. However when Isabelle took over it just changed where she just talks nothing about her personal life. That enjoyment you had at the beginning is gone. I'm just saying how it feels now compared to how it used to be at the beginning.

 

[dizzy bone]

I've always been tempted in the past to restart my New Leaf towns, but I've never been tempted to restart my New Horizons island. My base island on its own is fine to me so there's nothing that I can't change without a little terraforming. Also just thinking about grinding for all the DIYs again just... puts me off the whole idea of restarting in general. This is also the first AC game that I've started on the launch date so that is really special to me.

 

[Marshmallows]

If we could do a soft restart, maybe.... like moving to an all new map, but we keep our character(s), bells, diys, house inventory, and catalogue.

As things are... no way. At least not at this time. I doubt I'll ever be finished with my island. I'd maybe like a different peninsula and secret beach, but those things are minor. Being able to rename our island would be a way to restart and re-theme as well.

 

[VanitasFan26]

If we could do a soft restart, maybe.... like moving to an all new map, but we keep our character(s), bells, diys, house inventory, and catalogue.

As things are... no way. At least not at this time. I doubt I'll ever be finished with my island. I'd maybe like a different peninsula and secret beach, but those things are minor. Being able to rename our island would be a way to restart and re-theme as well.

The truth is back on the original Animal Crossing on Gamecube there was a way to have 2 Towns but they were on both memory cards. Which explains why when this game was first released last year how a lot of people were very disappointed when they found out that you can only have one island per switch. After a year has passed I can see why people were mad. Back then I thought everyone was just overreacting, but now I can see why they would want to have a 2nd island on their own Switch.

This is something that most Animal Crossing games besides the original did not do. Sure you can have another user created in the same town you made but it wasn't possible to make a 2nd town. Thats why they were putting all their hope into New Horizons for it to be able to let us create a 2nd island, but sadly it wasn't the case. I know we cannot depend on Nintendo to give us what we wanted, but still this is one of the reasons why this game got so much hate last year on Metacritic.

 

[peachycrossing9]

Me restarting? I could never. I have put in over 1,000 hours to my current island, Liliana which I have had since release date. It's my baby, and I have worked really hard on it since the game came out over a year ago.

I have really considered restarting though. A couple of months ago, I almost bit the bullet and did it. But I don't want to lose all my progress with the museum, all my diy's, all my catalog, all my bells and nook miles that I have saved up. I feel like I would be more upset than happy if I was to reset. Honestly the only reason I even wanted to restart was because I wanted a different native fruit. Which is a really minor and kind of stupid reason for it (I have oranges, but I really want peaches as my native fruit xD).

I have flattened plenty of times however. That I don't mind doing because you're still keeping your actual island, just changing up the look of it.

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

The idea is tempting. My island is pretty basic/normal and it would be nice to do something weird. But I think I would miss my original island, and I don't think there's any guarantee that 'saving' it as a dream address would be a permanent thing - what's to stop Nintendo from removing tons of inactive DAs after a couple years? Pretty sure they did that in NL

 

[Moonlight.]

i restarted several times and never again. the first few days are an extreme slog to get through even with time travel, and this isn't even including the lost villagers/diys/etc. just don't have the patience to ever restart again at this point, much easier to just flatten the island tbh.

 

[michealsmells]

I could never restart my island. Even if it seems "finished", it won't be. I'll get tired of it's layout one day and completely redo it (like I'm doing now). My island has gone through like 5 iterations since I created it, all the same island with the same name and same villager, just the way I like it.

I know why people restart their islands but personally just get too attached to do it. To me there's no end goal. If I feel finished I'll stop playing the game for a while and come back when new inspiration hits, just like in New Leaf.