Yes, and that is probably part of why I enjoyed it. I loath anime style but I really enjoyed the style this animation was in.

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This show as SO MUCH BETTER than I ever anticipated.

wow, this made me cry. One reason I have not returned to my island is for similar reasons: I don’t think I’m emotionally ready for my islanders to ask about her, or to find mail from her in my mailbox, and it’s been a few months now. AC was always *her* thing too, and I just wanted to share it with her once ACNH came…

I hear that, but you should ask yourself where you think the relationship is going.

You know as well as anyone that Kotaku isn’t just about reporting the goddamn news. I don’t read everything on the site, mostly because not everything interests me. Perhaps you should consider that other people might enjoy something you don’t, and just let them enjoy it. Thanks for the tasteless comment.

This piece made my heart ache. Lovely writing.

Woof, I feel you with this, except I’m the ex, in this case. We played together on my girlfriend’s switch, and it was her island. We had our houses right next to each other and decorated our little fenced-in front and back yard areas together. I don’t know if she’s booted it up again to play since the DLC dropped, I…

None of the islanders will remember them.

Even though I could never get into Animal Crossing, I always feel as though I missed out on something. Great story, thanks for sharing.

Maybe this has been a saving grace for me. I was pretty bummed I never got an Animal Crossing virtual date during lockdown. Most of it was pretty normal stuff: Zoom chats/snacks, watching a movie while chatting, Jackbox games, “phone stuff,” one game of online battleship... fun stuff, but not AC.

I was in a similar boat. I spent a lot of time traveling to my ex’s island, and she sent me a lot of items on ACNH. When we broke up, I dealt with it by making a second account on the island with an avatar who looked nothing like me and didn’t have my name, and dumped all the items she gave me in the second…

My co-worker had to start a new island entirely because her character name was her ex’s nickname for her, and I assume you just flat-out can’t change your name in-game. But helping her put together some seed money for turnips, and hopping back and forth to whoever’s island has the better turnip prices for the week,…

I haven’t been to my island in a year also, though I didn’t share it w/ my current partner I have often thought of asking her to play. We play Destiny 2 all the time but the thought of breaking up and then having to separate our things in a game as well as real life is too much to bare thinking of. I’m finally going…

I’m currently where you were at with ACNH before. My ex left me in May and I’ve not had the desire nor need to revisit our island. I know all our villagers will ask me about them and I still can’t deal with that. It was their decision to buy the game in the first place and they poured a lot of their time into building…

I don’t have anything poignant to add, so I’ll just say it was a lovely article.

I don’t know if it actually affects its ranking, but...

Some of the best times I’ve ever had gaming was playing the original AVP over LAN with a few friends. I’d play the Xenomorph, and slow-w-w-ly hunt them through the levels, using all the tricks to wind them up to a tense, nervous pitch .... and then, w-WHAM! A leaping attack and head-bite.

With all the cool military sci-fi equipment Aliens just seems to be the perfect, easy to make, action game. It’s obviously not. The problem is, it’s almost impossible to balance. Everything we know about the Xenomorph, as the perfect organism designed to kill humanity, is that they are super scary, intelligent, and…

Yeah this game isn’t really for you if you didn’t like Aliens or much of the expanded universe from novels/comics/games/toys.