Animal Crossing: New Horizons

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5.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 6617 Ratings

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  1. Libits
    Apr 18, 2020
    2
    This game is very boring. It’s the same grind everyday: Find the DIY bottle, visit villagers, and spew crap around the island waiting for a 5 star rating which gives me………….Lily of the Valley and a gold watering can? Seriously? Yes, I’ve built inclines and bridges, caught bugs and fish and picked fruit until I want to puke.

    The islands to visit are a joke. There’s no sharks or    This game is very boring. It’s the same grind everyday: Find the DIY bottle, visit villagers, and spew crap around the island waiting for a 5 star rating which gives me………….Lily of the Valley and a gold watering can? Seriously? Yes, I’ve built inclines and bridges, caught bugs and fish and picked fruit until I want to puke.

    The islands to visit are a joke. There’s no sharks or exotic bugs and every single island I’ve visited (9 in total) has had the same fruit as my native island.

    In ACNL, there were lofty goals: Get the Emporium, pass Gracie’s clothing check, upgrade all the shops and museum. Maybe those are some of the goals in NH, too, but the game is too boring to keep playing and find out.

    What a shame.    … Expand
  2. BlondeLovesLabs
    Apr 18, 2020
    0
    Don’t buy if you want to play with more than 1 person. Trash experience as second player
  3. acnhorizonSUCKS
    Apr 18, 2020
    0
    Disgraceful that if you want a 2nd island for someone else to have their own save game you have to buy a 2nd console - this is EA levels of daylight robbery. Sort it out Nintendo!!!!!
  4. crismyc72
    Apr 18, 2020
    0
    If you are the first person is great, but if you want to share it with your family is awful. The main person gets all the missions and tools, but the others cannot help you with another account. Really bad!
  5. Luca72
    Apr 18, 2020
    0
    the only reason why i gave this mark was because i couldn't even play the game due to Nintendo's mysterious choice of giving the possibility to create only one island for console, thanks to that i can only hope that they will eventually fix this huge problem as soon as possible, if not this is the mark the game deserve as it is simply unacceptable in 2020.
    But what really blows my mind    the only reason why i gave this mark was because i couldn't even play the game due to Nintendo's mysterious choice of giving the possibility to create only one island for console, thanks to that i can only hope that they will eventually fix this huge problem as soon as possible, if not this is the mark the game deserve as it is simply unacceptable in 2020.
    But what really blows my mind are all the positive reviews from critics not even mentioning neither addressing this issue at all.
    This was my first Animal crossing ever and my worst experience in my whole life as a gamer.    … Expand
  6. Frap_gadz
    Apr 18, 2020
    0
    I'm sure the game is amazing if you're the 1st player, my wife is definitely having a blast, however as the 2nd player on the same console the game is extremely disappointing. It honestly feels like you're nothing more than an NPC on another player's island.

    I honestly didn't mind sharing the island, but the current gameplay design means I really have no incentive to do so, as the 2nd    I'm sure the game is amazing if you're the 1st player, my wife is definitely having a blast, however as the 2nd player on the same console the game is extremely disappointing. It honestly feels like you're nothing more than an NPC on another player's island.

    I honestly didn't mind sharing the island, but the current gameplay design means I really have no incentive to do so, as the 2nd player I can make no real decisions and I have no story. Please fix this Nintendo!    … Expand
  7. SignThePetition
    Apr 18, 2020
    0
    Let's all sign this petition to have MORE than ONE ISLAND
    http://chng.it/dGmKSjSJpk
  8. Scarletcord95
    Apr 18, 2020
    0
    Dude you can’t sell a game for $60 and lock the full experience to one player. Nintendo continues to be incompetent with every decision they make. Online for the Switch is still garbage, we have to download an app for voice chat, up until recently Nintendo would charge for you to use their content online (something other, smarter gaming companies see as essential to the community, as wellDude you can’t sell a game for $60 and lock the full experience to one player. Nintendo continues to be incompetent with every decision they make. Online for the Switch is still garbage, we have to download an app for voice chat, up until recently Nintendo would charge for you to use their content online (something other, smarter gaming companies see as essential to the community, as well as, ya know, free advertisement) and now one of their flagship games limits the user experience to one person. It’s 2020. It’s time to get with the times Nintendo. Stop limiting us..… Expand
  9. Silokkes
    Apr 17, 2020
    4
    One island, one switch... Fine. I guess me and my girlfriend can have a cute co-op experience. Oh what's that? I can't progress the game unless my girlfriend continues for me? Why?
  10. Leo5052
    Apr 17, 2020
    0
    The online play is dreadful. Do you want to stare at a loading screen for 20 minutes for every 3 minutes of play? Do you want a nonsensical chat interface that requires you to use your cellphone? That's ACNH online.

    Why in the world does every player need to exit out of all menus and interactivity every time a new player joins or leaves? Seriously, this actually happens. You will be    The online play is dreadful. Do you want to stare at a loading screen for 20 minutes for every 3 minutes of play? Do you want a nonsensical chat interface that requires you to use your cellphone? That's ACNH online.

    Why in the world does every player need to exit out of all menus and interactivity every time a new player joins or leaves? Seriously, this actually happens. You will be prompted to close whatever menu or window you are in so that you can wait for the game to autosave and then display a loading screen that can take as many as five minutes to load.

    Why does the game crash if a player gets sick of this garbage and leaves without using the airport?

    Why is it impossible to join a game on an island if even a single player on that island is active with a task?

    Why are second players treated like second class citizens? Different profiles on the same switch should have the option to play on their own island.

    Games have been offering seamless online experiences for YEARS. What a huge failure on the part of Nintendo. You're seriously telling me you couldn't get someone from Rockstar for GTA, any Counterstrike clone, any fighting game, or WOW to help you build this? Shame on you Nintendo. This is an awful letdown for what could have been an all time great game.

    Online play is unplayable. Even more inexcusable since Nintendo charges for the privilege of watching that f****** loading screen for hours.

    The online experience needs to be completely rebuilt and patched before anything else. Second is something to address the fact that second profiles on the same Switch are powerless to do anything in game. A very distant third would be addressing the clunky crafting system.

    Fix the netplay. Please. Its so bad. Netplay sucks - *HOLD ON WHILE I WATCH THIS LOADING SCREEN* - Like I said Netplay *EXIT THIS TEXT BOX SO WE CAN SHOW THE LOADING SCREEN* *HERE'S THE LOADING SCREEN* - Netplay blows. Fix it.    … Expand
  11. Piesaresquared
    Apr 17, 2020
    0
    Unable to visit other people’s islands. I get some kind of error it won’t let me visit friend’s islands and they can’t come to mine. This was marketed as a social experience and I can’t engage with the one feature I bought the game for. Nintendo won’t allow a refund, BUYER BEWARE!!!
  12. rocoberry
    Apr 17, 2020
    0
    Please fix the profile and save issues and i will immediately change this to a 10.
  13. amphibianalien
    Apr 17, 2020
    0
    Overall the game is fun and enjoyable. If you were to play the game for 20 minutes a day and didn't care about multiplayer features, local or online, then you could probably enjoy the game. However, the game is bogged down with hundreds of tiny flaws that combine to create an overall frustrating experience. With each new Switch game that releases it becomes increasingly more apparent thatOverall the game is fun and enjoyable. If you were to play the game for 20 minutes a day and didn't care about multiplayer features, local or online, then you could probably enjoy the game. However, the game is bogged down with hundreds of tiny flaws that combine to create an overall frustrating experience. With each new Switch game that releases it becomes increasingly more apparent that Nintendo simply doesn't understand how to design a game or what their players want. Nintendo is worse than EA because at least EA games aren't $60 seven years after release. Nintendo can't deliver what its players want in a game. They keep releasing titles with the philosophy of "we know best," and it doesn't lead to fun gameplay.… Expand
  14. DGmedic
    Apr 17, 2020
    0
    There are 4 of us in our household. Only 1 can play the game. Absolute garbage.
  15. RagnarX213
    Apr 17, 2020
    3
    Absolutely MEH

    Like most Switch owners, I was very excited for this release. I felt like this would be a great game to enjoy with the wife and our 8 year old daughter. The game looks very cute and the characters are adorable. The graphics are easily the biggest +. The concept itself is great but the execution is just terrible. This game was released before it was finished. Its as    Absolutely MEH

    Like most Switch owners, I was very excited for this release. I felt like this would be a great game to enjoy with the wife and our 8 year old daughter. The game looks very cute and the characters are adorable. The graphics are easily the biggest +. The concept itself is great but the execution is just terrible. This game was released before it was finished. Its as simple as that. This is not a complete game. There isn't really any campaign which is just preposterous. It would have been so easy to send your character on a variety of cute quests to help the islands residents, but no... Everything about this game, aside from the graphics need to be refined. It feels like no one tested this game before it was released. There is a long list of issues that should have been fixed prior to release. No option to craft multiple items (unbelievable). Not enough resources to craft things (even if youre prepared to grind). Terrible controls for building (its a crafting game but you feel very limited in what you can do and where you can place things). Not enough quests. Seriously just preposterous. Even the mobile version of this game has better quests. All you do is keep paying off enormous loans to build up your house, its just an endless grind that isn't very creative or innovative. This game is the definition of half-baked. I wont even get into the fact that its only one island per console. In my opinion Dragon Quest Builders II is a much better game if you want to play a crafting type game. There are just so many things about this game that aggravate me when its being touted as a game that is enjoyable and relaxing. I guess I will give it a 3 because of the beautiful graphics, otherwise I would be hard pressed to pay $20 for this half baked rubbish    … Expand
  16. Endlessninja
    Apr 17, 2020
    0
    0 for forcing players to share an island for no other reason than to encourage multiple console purchases. games have had multiple save file slots for virtually all of gaming history. there is no explanation other than greed.
  17. ch4ndler
    Apr 17, 2020
    0
    My brother and I were super excited for this game, until we bought it and found out we would not be able to have our own islands. You may say that we should’ve known this before purchasing, but the Switch has multiple profiles, therefore leading us to believe we could have multiple save files, just like every other Switch game. We now share a character in order for us to both shareMy brother and I were super excited for this game, until we bought it and found out we would not be able to have our own islands. You may say that we should’ve known this before purchasing, but the Switch has multiple profiles, therefore leading us to believe we could have multiple save files, just like every other Switch game. We now share a character in order for us to both share Resident Representative duties, but we would much rather have our own personal islands. We are very disappointed that Nintendo would do such a greedy thing in order to sell more consoles.… Expand
  18. BronzeMantis
    Apr 17, 2020
    0
    Very sad to find out the second player is like a slave for the first player. I have to stop playing until this gets fixed. Really disappointed.
  19. Mhaaad
    Apr 17, 2020
    0
    This game is EMPTY and only allows one island per console, these are my issues with it.

    Animal Crossing: New Horizons's release date was pushed back 9 months, but a lot of fans said they would prefer the game to be pushed back more than releasing the game incomplete. So far, this game is EMPTY! all you do is collect furniture and items and recipes to make furniture and items! New Leaf    This game is EMPTY and only allows one island per console, these are my issues with it.

    Animal Crossing: New Horizons's release date was pushed back 9 months, but a lot of fans said they would prefer the game to be pushed back more than releasing the game incomplete. So far, this game is EMPTY! all you do is collect furniture and items and recipes to make furniture and items!
    New Leaf was full of things to do and goals to reach and achieve unlike this game.

    I think it should have been called: AC: Happy Island Designer. the glorified version of AC: HHD.
    all the praise from reviewers (Gamespot, IGN, ...etc) is getting on my nerve.

    anyway, since there is nothing more to do in this game, I gave the stirch to my sister to start her game, and what do you know! SHE CAN'T HAVE HER OWN ADVENTURE UNLESS I DELETE MY SAVE FILE!! WTF NINTENDO? i PAID 60$ FOR THIS EMPTY GAME!    … Expand
  20. Whitfieldgreg
    Apr 17, 2020
    0
    If you have multiple people in your home, you'll need another console to have their own island. I didn't know Nintendo was turning into EA but this is bulls**t.
  21. Feberhuber
    Apr 17, 2020
    1
    Despite a few glaring flaws, Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a good game IF you have got it for yourself. As this is not the case for every human being on our planet, the story doesn't end here:

    The fact, that you cannot have more than one island per console is definetly a deal-breaker and rather despicable. Doing so was a conscious and calculated decicion by Nintendo, considering that    Despite a few glaring flaws, Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a good game IF you have got it for yourself. As this is not the case for every human being on our planet, the story doesn't end here:

    The fact, that you cannot have more than one island per console is definetly a deal-breaker and rather despicable. Doing so was a conscious and calculated decicion by Nintendo, considering that having more islands was possible on previous versions. Charging 60 € or whatever currency you're using is far from okay and nothing but a shameless cash-grab. I do think that Nintendo deserves significant hate for their decicion and also think that my score is justified for this reason: A game, that forces family members to be some kind of slaves to whoever happened to start the game, does not deserve any rating above five and considering that there are many other things (visiting friends is difficult, villager dialogue is repetitive) I will not be ashamed of considering this to be a bad game overall.    … Expand
  22. Lushen1212
    Apr 17, 2020
    9
    Nunca habia jugado un animal crossing y he de decir que me ha resultado super divertido, tiene una facilidad enorme para engancharte y que pasen las horas volando.
  23. lfnagata
    Mar 20, 2020
    10
    Vários jogos do Switch só podem ter um save, eu não sei pra que reclamar tanto
  24. Cupofjoe1
    Apr 17, 2020
    1
    I am long time player of animal crossing (I’ve played every version of the game), and this is the worst yet. The game mechanics themselves and the new features are wonderful, but Nintendo did a terrible job when it comes to multiplayer. The way it was setup only one island is available per switch system. Who decided that was a good idea??????? Why not one island per account?!?!?! OrI am long time player of animal crossing (I’ve played every version of the game), and this is the worst yet. The game mechanics themselves and the new features are wonderful, but Nintendo did a terrible job when it comes to multiplayer. The way it was setup only one island is available per switch system. Who decided that was a good idea??????? Why not one island per account?!?!?! Or something that makes sense for a console. They designed the game like it was for the ds. It made sense on the ds because normally that isn’t a shared console. BUT THE SWITCH IS MEANT TO BE SHARED!!!! SO WHY CAN ONLY ONE PERSON MAKE IMPORTANT DECISIONS?????????? A great game series with a horrible idea by Nintendo. I am very disappointed. IT NEEDS TO BE UPDATED SO EVERYONE ACCOUNT HAS THEIR OWN ISLAND!!!! I WOULD GLADLY START OVER INSTEAD OF BEING UNDER THE DICTATORSHIP NINTENDO GIVES TO THE FIRST ACCOUNT THAT PLAYS THE GAME!!!!!!! FIX THIS!!!! It’s the only complaint people have, it should’ve been fixed by now.… Expand
  25. TeaCupTeddyBear
    Apr 1, 2020
    0
    One island is not enough! Why would you make it to where I can only have one island when I have a full household of people wanting to play? Fix this NOW!
  26. hwao
    Apr 17, 2020
    0
    terrible experience

    UI/UX make like in games from late 90.
    Multiplayer experience its a sad joke.

    Enjoy your time well spend on loading screen
  27. alesguzik
    Apr 17, 2020
    10
    My wife bought this game and we started playing it together. We enjoyed it a lot for a few days, until it turned out that I, as a second player, can't progress on the main quest on the island and really don't have any purpose. I had to order a second Switch console to be able to play this game, and now it is much more enjoyable. After playing with two separate switches I kinda see why itMy wife bought this game and we started playing it together. We enjoyed it a lot for a few days, until it turned out that I, as a second player, can't progress on the main quest on the island and really don't have any purpose. I had to order a second Switch console to be able to play this game, and now it is much more enjoyable. After playing with two separate switches I kinda see why it is the way it is. And having a separate console I can enjoy playing games on my own again. I was actually missing that a lot.… Expand
  28. McTPA
    Apr 17, 2020
    0
    I have 2 kids but only one can actually play the game. The other can just follow. There is only one island per console so only one kid’s story progresses. The other child can just follow and there are some tools they can’t even get because of no story progression. You basically need 1 console and 1 game per child. This seems like a way for Nintendo to force people into buying extraI have 2 kids but only one can actually play the game. The other can just follow. There is only one island per console so only one kid’s story progresses. The other child can just follow and there are some tools they can’t even get because of no story progression. You basically need 1 console and 1 game per child. This seems like a way for Nintendo to force people into buying extra systems and games while everyone is stuck at home due to pandemic. Shame on you Nintendo!!!… Expand
  29. ofsho
    Apr 17, 2020
    8
    The game is fun but can be a bit boring if you are not skipping days (cheating) but it is very fun and addictive if you do skip days and complete missions. The bad side is that you need to log in every day (like most animal crossing games).

    Mostly recommended in the quarantine.
  30. kamhagh
    Apr 17, 2020
    4
    as someone who really loved Stardew Valley I was really excited to try this game but honestly it's been disappointing. SPECIALLY for 60$ if this game was 30$~ My rating would be say 6.
    let me say that the first week of my game play was absolutely a blast and very fun!
    but after a week? the real time clock soon turned into an annoyance rather than a good thing. and the game feels like a    as someone who really loved Stardew Valley I was really excited to try this game but honestly it's been disappointing. SPECIALLY for 60$ if this game was 30$~ My rating would be say 6.
    let me say that the first week of my game play was absolutely a blast and very fun!
    but after a week? the real time clock soon turned into an annoyance rather than a good thing.
    and the game feels like a chore. constantly spamming and clicking buttons to get wood and water my flowers as I don't even pay attention and read stuff online. I thought to myself after a while "what even is the point?"

    i start my morning by just water my flowers which with the bad controls takes a long time. then I chop some trees and pick fruits. by then i'm so exhausted and bored that I don't even bother with anything else. there simply isn't much to do. Stardew Valley leaves a lot to explore and do!

    the controls aren't nice. I don't like how you have to wait for the flowers to sparkle to tell if they're watered . with a lot nearby it's not a nice way. a lot of the mechanics like donating to the museum feel so unrewarding. I feel no reason to do it. unlike stardew valley that I donated every first of any item I got there.

    stardew valley is simply 20x better and costs less than half as much when not on sale.
    it started of very fun but they haven't managed to make the tasks rewarding. there's just something about the animations the speed of them and the rewards that you get for them that makes this game not fun. and I LOVE games like this. farming stuff and the type where you get stuff and unlock more new stuff. this is my fav genre of games so it's not a "I only like call of duty" kind of issue, They just haven't made it work well for me. But a lot of my friends absolutely love it so yeah. It sadly doesn't have a demo. but a demo would be unfair since the first week of this game is actually fun since your'e showered with new items and don't have much time consuming but boring tasks to do.    … Expand
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90

Universal acclaim - based on 111 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 110 out of 111
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 111
  3. Negative: 0 out of 111
  1. Universo Nintendo
    Dec 19, 2020
    95
    Animal Crossing New Horizons is basically perfect. Full of wholesome content that helped us cope with the COVID-19 pandemics, the game keeps the heart of its predecessors while innovating enough to make it unique. It may not have won Game of the Year but it'll be the game we all remember from 2020, for sure.
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  2. The Digital Fix
    Jun 22, 2020
    80
    Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a stunning new instalment in the Animal Crossing franchise, hindered only by its lack of immediate content, quality of life issues and missing returning characters and features While future updates will give the game long-term playability, for those already sipping vacation juice on their five-star islands, island life feels pretty mundane right now.
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  3. CD-Action
    May 12, 2020
    95
    It’s full of detail, pretty small things, and surprisingly well working simulations and systems – everything polished in such a way that the player really does care about everything that’s going on. [06/2020, p.40]
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