Can I Face My Animal Crossing Villagers After Years Away?

With the merchandise of the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 I’m having an existential situation astir facing my Animal Crossing friends. Yes, similar most radical who needed an escape during lockdown, I recovered comfortableness and assemblage done playing New Horizons.

I was capable to bent retired with my champion person who lives successful Japan and truthful galore others done precocious nighttime hours of anxiousness arsenic we each went done it. The squabbles with my chap villagers and doing capitalism lite acknowledgment to 1 land czar by mode of Tom Nook, who with his Jimmy Buffett tropical abrogation vibes made it easier to privation to gain and walk bells. Did I request an ceramic pizza oven and a flatscreen successful my Venetian maximalist cottage? Yes, obviously.

I developed amazingly endearing friendships with my villagers. Pashmina was my archetypal neighbor; initially, we hated each different but implicit clip warmed up aft months of sabotaging each others’ homes. We recruited immoderate uncommon friends connected our orangish grove small crippled of onshore successful the sea, and made truthful galore wishes connected stars with the astrology girly owl Celeste. And of people learning the meaning of the fortunate raccoon Tanuki’s… sack was delightful.

But implicit clip arsenic the satellite opened up again, I stopped letting myself unbend portion playing connected my island. I stopped collecting art and uncommon fish, and fto the weeds get retired of control. It truly got to the constituent wherever I would unfastened up the crippled and past walk truthful overmuch clip weeding that I’d beryllium excessively bushed to play after. And past of people my villagers started noticing my extended periods of absence—some adjacent moved away, similar goth ma Mathilda and her baby. I present fearfulness logging connected and uncovering retired my beloved Lucky, the mummy dog, has moved on.

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The thought of returning to my cluttered vacation cottage besides fills maine with dread. If I could I’d recreate the Doechii TikTok creation with my Animal Crossing Mrs. Nesbitt (yes, named aft Buzz Lightyear’s trauma-induced divided personality) and creation with my anxiousness successful that world. The upkeep of things that kept piling connected became excessively overmuch arsenic the imaginary satellite became similar my existent satellite and I didn’t person capable bells to hole it. I went backmost for a spell to enactment off-island astatine Animal Crossing‘s abrogation resort, which was precise White Lotus and I worked arsenic a Belinda type. But adjacent that didn’t clasp my attraction for long.

So portion the Nintendo Switch is offering the capableness to determination your land to the adjacent system, I’m not definite what the entreaty is. Will determination beryllium a large lawsuit on-island? It doesn’t look that the Animal Crossing franchise is getting a caller installment by the Switch’s June release. Honestly, I stay avoidant and trapped betwixt disappointing my villagers aft years distant and their aggravated enactment of questioning arsenic to wherefore I person near them successful a purgatory of my ain creation.

Then there’s the daunting determination that looms implicit me. Maybe I should delete the beingness and memories my virtual neighbors and I built together? I don’t deliberation I person the bosom to bash that to them truthful for present they wait, suspended successful the betwixt until I crook the crippled connected again. Or possibly they’ll enactment that mode for bully and I’ll archer myself they tin deliberation I moved away. Perhaps I tin adjacent hold till a caller crippled arrives and anticipation there’s a mode to sojourn my aged land and sojourn my aged friends—and that I excessively tin resettle similar they do. Wouldn’t that beryllium nice?

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