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Jun. 25th, 2020 10:04 pmI was going to write a huge long thing but stuff happened and now it's basically a choice between a) monstrously involved Impossible Task that will never get written, or b) short teal-deer summary. So I'm going with b.
I have (as of like three weeks ago) a Switch, and of course Animal Crossing. I'd played AC (new leaf) on the 3DS but that's a little too small for me to handle easily now; the switch is enough larger that I can do it, with minor effort. And AC is fucking adorable and also a good way to feel productive when my life is going to shit. I do pocket camp too but it's less AC-ish than new leaf and new horizons.
(For those not familiar with it, AC gameplay is basically ... catch bugs and sell them, catch fish and sell them, shake trees for fruit, dig up fossils for the museum, craft things, and make friends with anthropomorphic animals that range from cute to weird. It's very relaxing imo. And there's really no way to lose.)
I didn't get it as soon as it came out, so I'm behind in terms of "progress", but I finally hit three stars, which is kind of the end of the storyline part, and the beginning of the design part. Terraforming reminds me of a really slow way of doing Minecraft, but oh well. I have no clue what I'm going to do! Too many possibilities aaaahhhhhhh.
Also my house is up to having three extra rooms, thanks in part to a friend having turnips selling for 570. (Turnips are a ... thing ... in AC. You buy them Sunday, and then the store on your island has varying prices during the week, and it's kind of a gamble because the sell price can be higher or lower than the buy price; but you can also visit friends if they allow it. 570 is an amazingly good price, and so I made about 500,000 profit.)
I mostly play during the day, but sometimes take the switch to bed with me. Yay fireflies! I've only done night play a couple of times because it's kind of awkward juggling everything. I'm thinking about changing the time zone on my switch to give me, like, some combination of daytime and nighttime -- like, instead of 11am-6pm, maybe 3pm-10pm? Or 2-9 which would be eastern time? -- but then I wouldn't be able to buy turnips.
Also I am so fucking excited about the summer update coming up. Swimming omg yay! It's been a little frustrating being on a (tropical?) island and not being able to dive in.
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I'm also open to suggestions for other good switch games?
In addition to AC, I have Unravel 2, though I don't quite have the coordination to do well, lol. Im aware of Mario Kart but am crap at it so don't know if I want to spend the money.
As a general thing I prefer low stress games; untimed is good, though not required; competitive, especially multiplayer, is not what I want right now. Puzzle games are good. Smashy-smashy games are good as long as they're not too complicated. (Back when I could do computer games more easily, things like Diablo and Torchlight, where the gameplay was more or less "run around bashing monsters in the face", were very therapeutic, lol.) The last several years, most of my games have been things where there isn't a way to lose: zen koi, neko atsume, merge dragons, pocket camp.
I have (as of like three weeks ago) a Switch, and of course Animal Crossing. I'd played AC (new leaf) on the 3DS but that's a little too small for me to handle easily now; the switch is enough larger that I can do it, with minor effort. And AC is fucking adorable and also a good way to feel productive when my life is going to shit. I do pocket camp too but it's less AC-ish than new leaf and new horizons.
(For those not familiar with it, AC gameplay is basically ... catch bugs and sell them, catch fish and sell them, shake trees for fruit, dig up fossils for the museum, craft things, and make friends with anthropomorphic animals that range from cute to weird. It's very relaxing imo. And there's really no way to lose.)
I didn't get it as soon as it came out, so I'm behind in terms of "progress", but I finally hit three stars, which is kind of the end of the storyline part, and the beginning of the design part. Terraforming reminds me of a really slow way of doing Minecraft, but oh well. I have no clue what I'm going to do! Too many possibilities aaaahhhhhhh.
Also my house is up to having three extra rooms, thanks in part to a friend having turnips selling for 570. (Turnips are a ... thing ... in AC. You buy them Sunday, and then the store on your island has varying prices during the week, and it's kind of a gamble because the sell price can be higher or lower than the buy price; but you can also visit friends if they allow it. 570 is an amazingly good price, and so I made about 500,000 profit.)
I mostly play during the day, but sometimes take the switch to bed with me. Yay fireflies! I've only done night play a couple of times because it's kind of awkward juggling everything. I'm thinking about changing the time zone on my switch to give me, like, some combination of daytime and nighttime -- like, instead of 11am-6pm, maybe 3pm-10pm? Or 2-9 which would be eastern time? -- but then I wouldn't be able to buy turnips.
Also I am so fucking excited about the summer update coming up. Swimming omg yay! It's been a little frustrating being on a (tropical?) island and not being able to dive in.
#
I'm also open to suggestions for other good switch games?
In addition to AC, I have Unravel 2, though I don't quite have the coordination to do well, lol. Im aware of Mario Kart but am crap at it so don't know if I want to spend the money.
As a general thing I prefer low stress games; untimed is good, though not required; competitive, especially multiplayer, is not what I want right now. Puzzle games are good. Smashy-smashy games are good as long as they're not too complicated. (Back when I could do computer games more easily, things like Diablo and Torchlight, where the gameplay was more or less "run around bashing monsters in the face", were very therapeutic, lol.) The last several years, most of my games have been things where there isn't a way to lose: zen koi, neko atsume, merge dragons, pocket camp.