Lady of Misrule @Lady@cat.family

lately you’ve been grim and determined to win; that’s how they want us to get

Rock Type Pokémon

diancie images

you might think diancie is a cute and innocent pokémon, but i’ll have you know that it crushes the carbon in the air into diamonds with its bare fists

sorry losers who only shower in the morning but only fuck at night; mix it up a little

when do you fuck more often?

@aschmitz fish rotate once a month. special events and holidays obviously aren’t happening every day. and my experience with new horizons was that those two things weren’t enough to keep me playing; there needed to be reasons for me to log in the rest of the time, when nothing much was happening

i never played the original Animal Crossing, but i played a lot of Wild World for the DS. in that game, the reasons you logged in were:

• to check the rotating stock in the various stores
• to check for special visitors (Saharah, Redd, etc)
• to complete the daily allotment of tasks for villagers in an attempt to get some of their rarer furniture
• to accumulate Bells to afford the prices of everything else

my complaint with New Horizons is that the crafting mechanic severely diminished the value of all of these things. for furniture you can craft, you don’t have to wait for it to be in stock, you aren’t gifted it, and you don’t need to save up bells. it’s just a matter of resource management, which can be grinded around with island tours.

so you get most of the things you want relatively easily. yes, more things will come next season! but it’s easy to lose momentum and run out of things to do getting to that point. i don’t want a game that i only turn on on holidays or play for a week at season changes; that’s not what animal crossing is about, to me

playing New Leaf i don’t actually think the villagers are any better than in NH. i certainly haven’t fallen for any of them the way i did for Pashmina in New Horizons. but you depend on them a lot more: for furniture, to buy your things in Re-Tail, to suggest Public Works Projects, and to provide most of the gameplay via Requests. it feels a lot more interdependent and more like a community

in New Horizons your daily tasks are given by notifications on your phone. you can make and customize furniture on your own. you don’t have to talk to anyone and they’re not as central a part of the gameplay loop

the thing with New Horizons is they were like “we will give the player superpowers so they can design their island exactly how they want, and use seasonal events to entice people to keep playing” and this simply isn’t as good of a game design as an actual player/town growth arc

ice series furniture isn’t GOOD but it selling for 8888 bells definitely is good

Snowmam melting tomorrow and there goes our entire town economy unless i can build another

watch pom poko