I don't enjoy playing, can you guide me?

[osaddda]

Keep practicing catching bugs and fish in New Horizons, and sooner or later, you’ll view the mobile game’s way of doing it as way too simplified and easy. That’s how the majority of the main series players view it because we are so accustomed to it being a little more challenging. Especially the summer beetles.

That logic really goes for anything between the two games though. With Pocket Camp, you’re essentially getting a simplified, “lite” Animal Crossing experience. With the main series, you are treated to a game with way more complexity.

I recommend you keep at it, follow the guides the other players linked you to, and try not to view this game through the same lens as you do with Pocket Camp! It’s so worth it.

It's just that HN is harder in some places for no reason. I enjoy hard games, but it's about how the game rewards you. I wrote this post because I want to start enjoying this game, I don't want to regret buying it.

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Just to manage your expectations, Animal Crossing is a sim game focused mostly on building up a town (in this case, island) from scratch into a bustling community day to day according to your own pace. Try not to compare or liken it to Pocket Camp because they are worlds apart and very very different from each other. Think more like The Sims but with animals instead of people or the Harvest Moon series without the farming aspect.

I noted the games you mentioned you played are all adventure games with storylines and goals and you’ve played them all until completion. There isn’t such a thing in Animal Crossing. You can never really beat or complete this game. There’s a bit of a story in this iteration but not much and you still mostly shape your own island’s story or mythos if you have a theme and lore. It’s mostly sandbox so it’s really very slow and you really can’t measure progress as it doesn’t really have levels. Also, just to manage your expectations again, this game is heavily heavily based on RNG. This iteration already gave us a lot more control compared to previous versions with terraforming and island hopping but it’s still a sim game rooted on a lot of RNG. Given this, you might want to relax yourself a little when it comes to playing. There are gonna be villagers you won’t like. They may be your starters or they can move in after. But it’s always gonna happen. The first camper for example, is a forced move in. You’d have to move in whoever shows up in your campsite first. There’s no way around it. You can’t not do it or you won’t progress. You can reset again if you don’t like but that’s not advisable because you’ll lose all your progress and will have to start over. So you’d have to be more accepting of villagers. Sometimes, a villager can win you over. Some villagers you hate may eventually be your bestie in the future. Some you will really hate and you’d have no choice but wait for them to go. Then they go and you miss them because there’s no one to antagonize anymore. It’s all these things that make the game fun. Again, this is a life sim game. We can’t always control it how we want so sometimes we have to go with the flow and enjoy it even some parts are horrible. In terms of decorating, it’s also RNG so you can only decorate with stuff you will obtain early on from the game. You can trade for some if you’re looking for something specific that you don’t have yet or you can patiently wait and see your island develop from a literal wasteland to an aesthetic paradise. It’s your call, work at your own pace.

With those things out of the way, maybe you can see the game with fresher set of eyes. As for the fishing and bug catching, it’s super easy once you get the hang of it. For fishing, just listen to the sound and pull when the fish bites. For bug catching just try to not scare them all away by moving too fast. For the tools breaking, as everyone said just progress your game enough to get your hands on better tools recipes. Same for the inventory in your pocket and your house. As you progress you’ll be able to avail more inventory space. Just play and play and play without “missions” in mind and you’ll naturally progress in the game. You said you didn’t touch it for four months and it’s still the same. This is true because you will only slowly unlock things as you play. You don’t need to have everything at once. Like golden tools etc. If you play animal crossing trying to consume everything at once you won’t enjoy the game, it’ll just stress you out. Take your time and enjoy life in your island, and you’ll barely feel any effort at all and the next thing you know you’ve been completing achievements and milestones unknowingly. That’s really the core of animal crossing. Everything else is extra.

Good luck and I hope you discover the joy in this game.

Thank you for your answer I enjoyed playing Stardew Valley I have spent about 300 hours in it so it's not that these types of games are not for me. But yeah, I will lower my expectations and will try to relax.
So many people answered me today. It was really helpful. And seeing how much you all love AC, it would be a shame not to try to fall in love with it too!

 

[5pmtheme]

I knew that the beginning is slow, I just didn't think it's this slow. But maybe I was doing something wrong.
I never got the chance to play 3ds, and I know that PocketCamp is so much different, but catching bugs on the telephone was so much easier it is frustrating for me. But I really love collecting, so completing the museum is my main dream.
As I said in another post, I completed BOTW today and I hate that tools and in this case weapons break so fast in vidya nowadays. It feels like I just crafted a tool and the next minute it is gone.
Thank you for your answer

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Thank you!! I really love villagers. I played pocket camp when I was on lsd, and I felt so much love for them, so much connection. I know it's really silly, but no one even congrats me on holidays. Animal crossing is great when you feel lonely

it's not silly, don't worry! I saw your list of favourite villagers and you have a lot, so I'm sure you can get a big group of them that you like it's fun to go island hopping on mystery islands to try and find them too! I hope you have better luck this time around with trying to get into the game, keep us updated!

 

[mermaidshelf]

I empathize with you. I've a veteran Animal Crossing player and I find this game to be so tedious. It's hard for me to recommend it to casual players because the beginning is so long. I remember how hard it took to get my starter villagers to move out. I have Amiibos for all my villagers and even that is tedious (you have to build something for them for 3 days). I remember when I didn't and it took forever to move the specific villager I wanted out and not the ones I wanted to keep and it was hard to time the villager moving out with finding the villager I wanted within that small 24 hour window.

I think you need to start by reading a lot of guides. That will really help you through the beginning of the game. You mentioned you have a low town rating. Pick up all the trash and then start putting up furniture, flowers, trees and fences outside. They don't have to look good or cohesive, just keep checking with Isabelle.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons guide: How to get a 3 star town rating for K.K. Slider

Isabelle provides essential advice

www.polygon.com

My advice is to find villagers you can connect with. If Tom Nook allows you to move someone in (you have to buy land from him first), then move on to the next step. If you have 10 villagers already, move out one of them you don't like. I found this guide was the best in getting villagers to move out. It involves time traveling but I think it'll help make the game enjoyable for you if you had villagers you liked.

With an open plot, move in someone you do like within 24 hours (or the game will randomly give you a villager). You can find people selling or sometimes giving away villagers for free here (JKDOS linked the subforum).

You can do trades on the Nook's Cranny forum. People are often generous and will trade fairly. The best way to make a lot of money is turnips. Buy turnips on Sundays before 12:00PM from Daisy Mae. Then find an island with high turnip prices to sell. You can look on the Turnip exchange subforum or other sites like:
https://turnip.exchange/islands (click villager: neither, categories: turnips, Patreon: all islands, fees: no)

Good luck!