Has Animal Crossing ever made you really emotional?

The other day, Zucker sent me a letter that said he had a nightmare that I disappeared from their town and it was pretty much begging me to never do that and that Steren needed me. I didn't cry or anything, but it was just this moment where I was sitting there just like 'Awwww...' I mean, I know they're just pixels on a screen with AI telling them to write things, but it's hard not to find that heartwarming.

Another heartwarming moment for me came today, it made feel all sentimental as well. Once again, I know it's the AI making him say it, but Kicks in Brewster's, commenting on how 'Public Works Projects' sounded quite harsh and official. But he then said about how the best types of things made people smile, and then he thanked me for building the cafe, and so did Brewster.
 
I cried when I got a new GameCube and played gc again seeing that Olivia,Eunice,pate,Wolfgang,joey,and sweet best of all Bea. I was crying like a baby to see the only one to leave through out 1 whole year was olive.

I cried when my WW town got bricked and seeded.

I cried when Butch moved out in CF. He had been in my town for 1 1/2 years and was really attached to him.

I cried a few days ago when apple moved out. I've had her since a week after NA game release.

But I cried the most on the GC scenario.

Off topic but a game that makes me cry is when an animal dies in Harvest Moon ANB. The music makes me bawl my eyes out!!
 
I cried when I let Colton moved. Instantly regret it when I got his picture. I'm so happy Ines lets me visit him but I always get emotional seeing him. I also cried when Zell moved because it was an accident and I had no intention, EVER, of letting him move. I felt depressed for days man.

It's also made me cry of happiness sometimes, like when Merry finally moved in after I won her from a cycling thread. I literally cried I was so happy to finally get her, because ever since I saw her in the city in City Folk I wanted her and when I finally did, I was so damn happy.
 
One of my favorite memories is when Ace came to my house and gave me the Donkey Kong NES game for my birthday on the Gamecube Animal Crossing. Every time i get on the Gamecube AC I feel very nostalgic...I just start to remember all the fun times I had on the game when I was little.

Another memory I have was when I realized my character was a guy instead of a girl. XD When i first started playing AC, I couldn't read. I just liked running around digging holes and buying things lol. So when I was at the scene on the train with Rover at the beginning of the game, I accidentally told him I was a guy. It wasn't until several years later when I started a new town that I realized I'd been playing as a guy for several years. XD I thought that was really funny.
 
When I first moved in, and all the villagers were telling me how important and wonderful I was as their brand new mayor.
I have never felt so loved in a video game, not even close. I'm not sure I've ever even felt that loved in real life.
I changed Tangy's greeting to "I love you", Zell's to "I missed you" and many animals call me by the nickname "Friend"
I get a little feeling of happiness every single time they use those.
 
Blues said:
I myself don't cry over AC (though I love some of the letters villagers send), but this made me cry.



There is a swear word on the page (not the gif itself), so if that irks you a lot don't watch it.
Click to expand...

This GIF is literally my life and deserves attention. I started playing GC AC around the time it came out. My mother rented it from Blockbuster for me because my family wouldn't be home for my birthday. She had too many doctor's appointments. I purchased the game a few months after she rented it. I played and played and PLAYED that game. She started to realize how much I loved it and gave it a try. She has played practically every day since, all the versions, with due dilligence.

Over the years, she's gone through various stages of cancer and illness. She still is sick today. While I'm off at college, she gets rather lonely and empty-nest like. For Mother's Day this year, my father and I decided to go in together to get her the Special Edition 3DS XL. We threw an AC party and cosplayed the day it came out and all played together. To this day, while I'm in class, I leave my gate open for her to bring me "care packages" she can afford-- hundreds of thousands of bells to reward me for doing well in class and to help me keep playing even though I am busy. Right now, we are SO close to finishing her sets through the internet, and she is THRILLED.

Animal Crossing... I just cannot explain...
 
It brings back memories of my best friends in primary school because me, him, my BFF <3 and her brothers and my sister used to play every weekend.We even had an ACWW christmas party on the 20th of November XD. It's been 3 years since we last played because we went to different secondary schools and my friend moved to Canada, but I'll seriously never forget those as the happiest days of my life. I remember one time when it snows in real life we sat on the trampoline, all six of us and just played for so long in the freezing cold, it was the best time of my life. :)
 
Whenever I feel sad and I play, it cheers me up so much. This game is almost like therapy to me. ┰ω┰
 
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I don't think I've ever cried or had that big a connection to ac as other people here
but i do feel like my villagers are in a way kind of like my online friends
the letters they send me melt my heart and i just-- hnnngggg
 
When Bob moved away in WW. I was pretty bummed and stopped playing for a while, I got him back later.

Yesterday one of my favorite Villagers was in positive messages mode. O'Hare asked me to dig up his time capsule which said:

Always stay excellent. Don't settle for anything less, ok? And someone thinks your style is weird? Be yourself twice as much

I got out of it: Don't settle for things as they are. Be yourself.


Later that night I caught Bob and O'Hare talking about fashion. Bob wasn't sure his stomach would be happy with tight clothes . O'Hare told him to be confident and it would work. He then told Bob the most important thing was to love yourself.

I have anxiety/trust issues/low self- esteem so these really kinda hit home. Made me to think positively yesterday.


I don't think I've ever cried over animal crossing though. I may or may not have cried at my animals dying in Harvest Moon. They are like pets to me, I get attached. I have way to many animals in ANB, and I can't sell any because I know I'll feel bad afterwards.
 
I have a connection to AC because I have physical issues that cause a lot of chronic pain. On bad pain days, I can't leave my bed. But in AC, I can live a life I don't get to live those days in this world. I get to harvest apples, go deep sea diving, accomplish stuff like a boss.

Unlike the .gif, I don't have other players to leave letters/gifts to, but it's kind of why I host giveaways. This game has been a comfort to me. And I never know how much of one it is to others. But if I can do something to make them feel special, loved, noticed and appreciated, why not? That's what I want my life to be about. If part of it is composed of pixelated benefactorship? I'm fine with that.

AC gives me an opportunity to do things for others I wish I could consistently do in life, but sometimes can't.
 
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Yes, when Whitney moved away without telling me I was soooo sad :(
 
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