this has all probably been said hundreds of times and i'm not so sure if it's an unpopular opinion at this point. but i find this game pretty annoying and irritating to play through.
first of all, it's filled with filler dialogue that's a slog to have to mash A to get through to do what you actually intend to do. For example, when you're going to visit someone's island, you have to go through 4 prompts just to visit someone, and saying yes/no to connecting to the internet is one of them, which is ridiculous. For opening your gates, it's about 6 prompts, and two of them "do you want to connect to the internet" and "are you sure you want to open your gates to anyone" if you choose to let anyone in by dodo code. Yeah, I just checked. You might think, it's only 4 or 6 which isn't a large number, but the thing is, you have to do this EVERY SINGLE time you want to visit someone or let them into your town. And that's not even including the massive waste of time of cutscenes you have to painfully endure when people fly to your island because Nintendo just can't get the memo that they need to improve their multiplayer. There's a lot of "are you sure"s in this game or straight up unnecessary dialogues (like Mable interrupting you to tell you to 'go ahead' and use the dressing room. Yeah, I was already TRYING to do that before you stopped me and wasted my time) that just make everything so tedious.
As another point, the crafting system is straight up atrocious, and the whole system with tools breaking has absolutely no place in animal crossing and I strongly dislike whoever thought that was a good idea to put in the game. It's nothing but a huge waste of time to artificially add gameplay and a resource sink. You can't even craft multiples of an item at once, which makes it double the waste of time if you need a large quantity of an item. You can't access items from your storage, so you have to run all the way back to your house if you're missing something trivial like 1 hardwood or something. It's like they added all these little nuisances into the game to artificially extend the amount of time you spend on it, and it's more irritating than engaging. Yes. I understand that Animal Crossing games are supposed to be slow, and I have played more than 2 of them so it's not like I didn't know what I was getting into or was new to this style of game.
I haven't even mentioned all the content that they cut from the game that was in previous games at launch, and instead are painfully drip feeding that content to us and we're supposed to be hyped about that or something, I guess. The game's straight up not worth 60$ at all. I would have waited all the delays in the world if it meant the game wouldnt be so monotonous, and boring, and EMPTY. As another small note, there's absolutely nothing to do in multiplayer. There's no island tours like in New Leaf, there's no Club Tortimer where at least if you didn't meet some nice folks and make new friends, you could see the crazies and the trolls and be somewhat entertained.
Also, I'm very tired of people saying the community was better in New Leaf days, because there were a lot of the same problems you see people griping about now in those time, just in a smaller community.
It's a real damn shame for me because I played City Folk, Wild World, and New Leaf all when I was younger and I really loved and enjoyed those games. I played New Leaf for YEARS after release and yet I can't be bothered to play New Horizons, a game I had been anticipating for over a year now, for more than 3 months after it's release. I turn on the game, do something, am annoyed by the game for reasons above, and turn it off because I just can't be bothered. At all. I can't even be bothered to get 3 stars so I can unlock terraforming, which I also heard is tedious so yikes. Also I didn't edit this at all, so my grammar's probably doodoo but I dont really care and it doesn't change/invalidate my point.
