Cross with animals

[thanate]

I continue to have philosophical difficulties with this Animal Crossing game...

Dear Isabelle,

I would like to place a complaint against your boss and his irritating raccoon children. I was specifically sold a "deserted island" package, only to arrive here and find that two other people were sold spaces on the same island, as well as the Nook family and a local airline. Subsequently Tom Nook set up a large centrally located plaza and has been coercing me into providing free labor and materials gathering for his population expansion plans while charging me personally for any infrastructure "improvements" to the island. Furthermore, after providing the materials for the shop, the young entrepreneurs who run it insist on following my every move while inside, but take no suggestions regarding what their customers might want them to stock.

I also object to his inviting a museum curator, a small horde of sketchy merchants, and a pushy fishing professional to wander about the island as they please while I am unable to leave without using the dodo airline which not only has a monopoly on off-island travel, but whose pilots will kidnap me & return me home if I attempt to relocate to a more deserted island.

No love,

Me

(I feel like I would be happier if this game had an option where I could choose to build a catamaran and sail from tiny island to tiny island collecting tree and flower species.)

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In other news, a blue jay just flew by with some sort of label or receipt in its beak.

Comments

[okrablossom]

>> build a catamaran and sail from tiny island to tiny island collecting tree and flower species

I would much rather play this game :)

[thanate]

I know, right? Cute Animal Crossing graphics, with a vibe somewhere between Voyage of the Beagle & Moana, and I would totally be ok with the occasional chance of a storm or violent coconut-creature fleet washing me back home with nothing to show for my travels but a couple of the things that were in my pockets & a better map.

[sovay]

Cute Animal Crossing graphics, with a vibe somewhere between Voyage of the Beagle & Moana, and I would totally be ok with the occasional chance of a storm or violent coconut-creature fleet washing me back home with nothing to show for my travels but a couple of the things that were in my pockets & a better map.

I would approve of that.

(I play almost no games, but still appreciate their existence as an art form.)

[okrablossom]

Er, please write this game/story??!? :) (I know you're busy, just know that you'd have an audience if you did)

[sovay]

(I feel like I would be happier if this game had an option where I could choose to build a catamaran and sail from tiny island to tiny island collecting tree and flower species.)

I don't know the game you're playing at all, but the catamaran idea sounds charming.

[thanate]

One more for the wishlist of games nobody is going to make for me, sadly. (see above thread for more)