new horizons was the first animal crossing game i got Really into, not counting the tiny bit of new leaf i played a few months before it came out. i was one of the people who played copius amounts of new horizons during lockdown and then dropped it after a year or two. recently i've been getting back into it and sprucing my island up a bit more, though! it isn't exactly youtube tour worthy but i do think it's coming out pretty :]. this page will be a tour when i can be assed to get my capture card out bc innate switch screenshots are... very blurry.
about the island
my island is called saturniidae (technically called saturniid because the full one didn't fit but shh.) and it was established on may 27th, 2020. my native fruit is apples!
. i've caught every fish and dug up every fossil, and with some time travel i'll be there with the bugs and sea creatures soon (i'll... get to the art gallery at some point). last time i checked, it had 5 stars :]
residents
i have a bunch of human residents via alt accounts on my switch for the purposes of decorating their houses eventually.
(that's a lot of bells, though >_<). my resident rep is just.. me of course, but the others can be ocs. they come in pretty handy if a friend wants to just like.. briefly drop in for party play, too.
and of course, the animals :]
i'm pretty happy with my islanders! marina is one of my favorite villagers so i'm very happy she's here ^w^. diva was in my new leaf town and then was my sisterly starter here so i'm attached to her. shes like an old friend..
speaking of old friends, some honorable mentions who Were here but i let move on. blows a kiss to the sky for them.
goose was my jock starter villager and lionel was the smug in the campsite you have to take during the tutorial.
a side note on pocket camp
pocket camp complete is a.. strange game. i say this lovingly. it reminds me of that post with a silly theory that the mainline games were enrichment for a captive human being attended to by aliens in a world where we're going extinct.
i played the orginal to the best of my ability in.. 2018-19ish? going off the character i opened complete to. she was going by a username i stopped using in 2020 and had the garish outfit of a microtransactionless girl doing her best to look cute in a freemium game.
i bought complete because i was bored and away from home one day in my current fixation and thought "god, i really wish i was playing animal crossing right now.." and then was pleasantly surprised that my old account was still there.that's the point of it, i suppose, the ds games aside. it's a complely offline version of the original that removes all the microtransactions, which makes you notice just how many microtransactions it had. it throws the former premium currency at you like isabelle's using you to launder it. there's a mechanic where you can appoint one of your campers to follow you around and help you with your jobs which i spent a very long time thinking was a cute new update they'd added in the years i was away from my camp before realising it had always been there probably, just locked behind a paywall.
its the constant dopamine a freemium mobile game tries to toss at you for a one-time payment. very satisfying game. i could see it get boring if you played it for too long, but you aren't really supposed to play animal crossing games like that.
welcome to saturniidae!
