Board 8 > Non-gamer sister got Animal Crossing. Highlights:

(+) Yeah! (+)

(Specifically, she's 24 and hasn't played games in over a decade, with one of the last games she played being Animal Crossing on the Gamecube which she kind of remembers)

-She's still getting used to the idea of equipment degradation. She gasped out loud in shock the first time her fishing rod broke and said it made her 'very sad'.
-She's getting used to the button layout quickly but overall still feels a little overwhelmed. I'm not sure how long it would have taken her to figure out that the shoulder buttons are L and R if I hadn't told her directly. She keeps trying to press B to accept things and A to decline.
-She's terrified about messing anything up. I told her that Animal Crossing isn't a game you can permanently screw up but she doesn't care. Constantly googles every little thing that's new to make sure she knows absolutely all the details before proceeding.
-To add into that, she puts a lot of weight on doing 'what everyone else is doing', especially her friends who have been playing the game longer.
-Anytime she makes a good bit of progress in the game without needing any advice from me, she gets proud and wants to show me what she did.
-She is getting legitimately upset over how many bees are stinging her. She's not good enough with the controls to get away from them.

More highlights as they come.

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Easy tip for guaranteed wasp catching. Just make sure you're holding the net before shaking, and always shake from directly in front of the tree. The player will automatically turn to face the wasp nest, and then you just stand still and press A to swing the net.

I guess the only hang up is if she insists on whacking away at trees with an axe before shaking them.

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KamikazePotato posted...

Constantly googles every little thing that's new to make sure she knows absolutely all the details before proceeding

this is me

Wasps eat my face multiple times a day from chopping wood. Would love if they added a bee-keeper mask that prevented it.

Who were her starting villagers

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Bane_Of_Despair posted...

Who were her starting villagers

Not sure of the names. A mouse and a cat...thing.

Another bit: she spent a good half of a day thinking of a name for her town (on and off while doing other stuff, but yeah). Treated it like the biggest deal ever.

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KamikazePotato posted...

Not sure of the names. A mouse and a cat...thing.

Another bit: she spent a good half of a day thinking of a name for her town (on and off while doing other stuff, but yeah). Treated it like the biggest deal ever.

I mean...this is normal

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Yeah that's fair. I've been using the same town name for every game since Wild World and it took me lots of thinking to decide if I should change it up or not.

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Anagram topic?

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i need a name for my town too

Great_Paul posted...

Yeah that's fair. I've been using the same town name for every game since Wild World and it took me lots of thinking to decide if I should change it up or not.

you know I've only played two Animal Crossings ever but I still remember my original town was called Whamer and I would use that if I had the current game.

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Has she tried playing online yet?

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Blue-G posted...

Wasps eat my face multiple times a day from chopping wood. Would love if they added a bee-keeper mask that prevented it.

Any chance this is Aga? Brilliant?

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It's fun watching casuals play Animal Crossing. Such a great game for them.

I got the new Animal Crossing, and I mention on the phone to my mother about it, and it really took her back to when I was in school and she used to play the GCN Animal Crossing.

I ended up just recently giving her my old GCN, and found her town Memory Card, so she could replay her old town from all those years back. She's been calling me more and telling me about the stuff going on with her villagers. It's fun.

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GTM posted...

Any chance this is Aga? Brilliant?

Ditched the Brilliant! Thought about going with Lazy, but figured that might be a bit too far in the other direction.

Aecioo posted...

Anagram topic?

Not this time.

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