So I read that you used to be able to read museum descriptions in AC, but that is no longer so. That's disappointing, because I just found out that you couldn't find out about each creature's interesting trivia from Blathers... if you mass-donate all your creatures! GAH! I found this out all too late, and closing the game did nothing to revert the damage, so I have to Google each creature I donated and read the description from the wiki. Talk about immersion-breaking... Speaking of which, can we have a manual save system like in Pokémon so that we could reverse this kind of goof-up?
Honestly, there should've been a warning label for something like this. Like, "Warning! If you donate all your creatures at once, you'll miss out on one of the most interesting features of the game: learning about the stuff you're putting on display!" Sigh.
Oh well. Time to reset the game.
But for real: other stuff I could tolerate, like not being able to get some stupid achievement like Cast Master because I suck at gaming, but this... this is just frustrating. If your game's main appeal is the immersion of its atmosphere, it's kinda important that you get this sort of thing right. This is a major letdown that has soured my experience, especially after my heightened expectation yesterday from Sasey's tour in his museum. This is definitely something that should've been in the tutorial for something for beginners who have no idea what they're doing. It's not like accidentally giving away your portable radio to a villager and buying it back (which I did). You can't "buy back" the experience of learning about creatures you worked so hard to catch.
And sure, you could always catch it again and get Blathers to talk about it... unless it's a rare or even uncommon creature that's difficult to encounter and possibly difficult to catch! Like, hello? Nintendo, ever heard of a thing called, oh I don't know... the Pokédex?!!! The thing where you can find out interesting information about the creatures you catch without stepping out of the game? If you could implement that for a game series that you've been developing for decades, you didn't think to implement it in an upgraded Switch version of your other popular franchise? The one where immersion is a bigger appeal factor on your huge TV? If I sit comfortably on my bed playing my Switch, I don't want to have to get up so that I could Google on my PC each creature I've accidentally donated without learning about them. Could you imagine if a kid played this game and accidentally mass-donated them? Then the father, if he's an AC fan and found out about this, would probably have to have his kid sit on his lap as they Google all day the creatures his son didn't get to learn about... "Isn't that an interesting fact, son? Ow, my legs are starting to get numb... Yeah, just imagine my voice sounds like Blather's often amusing voice chords, son. Good time to practice that imagination of yours!"
Also, why isn't there a better interface to see which creature you've donated? Why do I have to go to Critterpedia and see each creature I've caught to see which I've donated, and which I might have accidentally sold in the past? Why not just have some kind of indicator to better show that?
But anyway, that's your tip for the day, AC Newcomers: DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT mass-donate creatures if you're playing for the first time, period. If you will excuse me, I have some creatures to Google and imagine their descriptions in Blather's voice... while uncomfortably turning back to my TV with each creature I Google on my PC. You know, it's a good thing the hardworking men and women of Fandom Wiki enter the data from these games so we could conveniently browse through them. If it didn't exist, my AC experience would've been far more unpleasant than it already is.
