HOW do some of y'all restart your islands so easily?!

[PacV]

It wasn't easy, but there was this day where i was terraforming (or trying to) and realize that anything i've done so far worth and i was stuck. That was the “now or never” moment for me.

Now i'm way more happy with the new Island.

 

[-Mars-]

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[toddishott]

I've reset about 4 times now and I just got really bored of my first island and wanted something new. the other islands ive had i just got lost in the direction of how i wanted or changed my theme and the map itself wasnt what i wanted. Resetting had given me the motivation to be able to recatalog items and clothes and enjoy a different approach that would be easier than terraforming for hours to hating what ive done.

 

[Steampunk Mage]

Yeah, I can see restarting an island if you have multiples of them, but I don't understand restarting your main island.

 

[~Melody~]

I like resetting because starting again in a different town with new villagers is fun

 

[Pokeking]

The only version of Animal Crossing where I've restarted, I think, was in Population Growing. On my main memory card, I had my primary town. On the memory card that came with the game, I restarted just once.

This Animal Crossing gave us the ability to change faces quickly, just look at the mirror. Now imagine if there was a patch that gave the player the ability to change the player and island names. For me, I'm fine with my player name. However, there've been a couple times when I thought about having a different name for my island. I then think about all the progress I would lose. The cost is just too steep for me to go through with it.

 

[Bizhiins]

I’ve never restarted my islands. I definitely always chose one carefully in the beginning, but after collecting museum items and cataloging there’s no going back for me. If there’s something I don’t like about my island I work around it, haha. I think it’s a lot easier in NH to keep your island because it’s so easy to get other fruits/flowers and such that it really doesn’t matter. I think with terraforming now too, and being able to move your rocks around, islands can easily be molded into any shape you want. Yeah river basins and such can’t be moved, but there’s so much to do to work around that. The thought of having to start from scratch actually stresses me out.

 

[~Kilza~]

There's no way I could ever reset my island. I created my island on release day, I like my island and I've put close to 2000 hours into it. I have all the achievements, completed the museum, almost completed my catalog, almost have all DIYs, etc. I'd be devastated and never play NH again if I lost my island.

 

[VanitasFan26]

Yeah, I can see restarting an island if you have multiples of them, but I don't understand restarting your main island.

I would never restart my main island, I had it for so long that its like my special place for holding everything that I've had for the longest time. The 2nd island I can just easily restart but before I do that I have to make sure all my stuff is carried over to the main island just so I don't lose all of the items. Having a 2nd switch and 2nd copy of the game was the thing I needed the most last year.

 

[Soigne]

truthfully, i don't really get attached to my towns/islands in animal crossing. i quite enjoy the early period of unlocking things. every time i take a break and come back to the game months later, i usually boot up a new island.

 

[Romaki]

Yeah all those things suck, but I never got that far into the game while resetting.

It's just so much fun to reset, building your island up and getting villagers is the most fun part.

But I don't do it anymore because now I have most Nook Miles achievements and DLC progress.

Also I don't have the time to put like any real amount of time into the game. So it's better if I don't wanna play. I wish the game was more rewarding when turning on and walking around your island. As a kid I loved just talking to villagers at any given time, because their dialogue was engaging.

Now I just play with goals in mind, and my current goal is to finish my island design. But it bores me.

 

[_Rainy_]

I restarted my Island because i was sharing it and decided that i wanted my own Island where i could choose all the villagers and things that I wanted. It took a lot of effort moving all of the stuff that i wanted and ordering all the cataloged things and such including the posters which got deleted from being cataloged not long after, it really wasn't fun at all. if things were different i wouldn't have reset in the first place. I loved that Island and I had art on my board from a few people and thank you notes so many good memories and I miss that Island. I recently reset again, but this time i deleted everything and started from scratch and I don't really miss that second Island because I didn't have the same attachment to it. I'm having fun playing again, but I still don't have the same enthusiasm that I did when the game was much newer and the hype for the game has ended in the community as well so its not quite the same as before. not to mention that I put a lot of time and effort into decorating that first Island.

 

[Yanrima~]

I cannot imagine myself restarting my island. For starters, items like New Years arch and 1st anniversary cake are unobtainable. Second, It takes a long time to fill up the catalog, unlocking resident services and unlocking Harv’s island shops. Lastly, I hold dear onto this island and I cannot stand watching my hard work being erased when I restart.

and I never restarted since 2020.

 

[Croconaw]

My little cousin was frustrated with the tutorial phase. It was really a poor introduction to the franchise, especially since this was her first game in the series. This was also a lot of peoples’ introduction to the series considering a lot of us got it to keep busy during the lockdown. I think opinions would be different if their introduction was the Gamecube version.

I haven’t restarted on New Horizons, but I did have a bit of an obsession with restarting City Folk, lol.

 

[VanitasFan26]

My little cousin was frustrated with the tutorial phase. It was really a poor introduction to the franchise, especially since this was her first game in the series. This was also a lot of peoples’ introduction to the series considering a lot of us got it to keep busy during the lockdown. I think opinions would be different if their introduction was the Gamecube version.

I haven’t restarted on New Horizons, but I did have a bit of an obsession with restarting City Folk, lol.

Yeah if there is one thing about restarting that can get annoying is that you're still forced to learn tutorials of how the game works. I mean its 2022 and we still don't have the option to skip tutorials. The only thing that you can skip is the opening cutscene that shows the title of the game, but other than that you have to go through all that frustrated tutorial nonsense.

 

[Croconaw]

Yeah if there is one thing about restarting that can get annoying is that you're still forced to learn tutorials of how the game works. I mean its 2022 and we still don't have the option to skip tutorials. The only thing that you can skip is the opening cutscene that shows the title of the game, but other than that you have to go through all that frustrated tutorial nonsense.

I also hope this game isn’t a preview of what’s to come because it’s definitely changed the name of Animal Crossing. That’s a whole different point, though. I think this tutorial phase has been a factor in how many times people reset. I definitely wouldn’t want to do this tutorial phase more than once.

 

[icky]

Honestly, I regret restarting my first island. I’ve been trying to recreate that magic ever since. I‘m pretty sure I restarted because of a glitch where you‘re not able to catch certain fish if you terraform the clifftop ponds. (even if you make your own)

 

[-Blue-]

I'd have to say I have the least emotional attachment to my NH island compared to all of the other AC titles where I've made a town. But even then, I couldn't reset it. It'd be different if a lot of the catalogue could get transferred over like they did so in NL when you sold your town, but I can't see me resetting fully and having to do it all over again.

I have a friend who accidentally deleted their AC data when they transferred Switch memory. Common issue that happened to a lot of people. (Why can't Nintendo fix that or have a warning pop up if someone has NH save data?) And he lost all motivation to play the game. Hasn't even booted it up.

I also hope this game isn’t a preview of what’s to come because it’s definitely changed the name of Animal Crossing. That’s a whole different point, though. I think this tutorial phase has been a factor in how many times people reset. I definitely wouldn’t want to do this tutorial phase more than once.

Yeah I couldn't deal with listening to the generic tutorial music for a whole week. Or even TTing would be a few hours or days and that would get old.

 

[VanitasFan26]

Yeah I couldn't deal with listening to the generic tutorial music for a whole week. Or even TTing would be a few hours or days and that would get old.

After restarting like 20 times I got tired of hearing all the tutorials. Thats when I told myself "Okay maybe I should just relax with this 2nd island and accept it for what it is" not gonna lie it was getting repetitive.

 

[Wickel]

I feel like once you start resetting, you don't stop resetting. The more often you reset, the less emotional value the islands will have. I still have my launch-day island and I just can't give it up even though I would like to relive the start of the game again (when it really is a deserted island). But it's just not worth it.

Also, back in the day I used to play for hours. But now I don't have as much time or interest anymore so if I reset, I don't think I'll ever get back to the point where I am now.