Video: What Island Life Is Like In Animal Crossing: New Horizons One Month Later

It's only been two and a half weeks! Stop trying to make us feel old!

I’ve found it a bit jarring after playing New Leaf for years and having my perfect town all set out. Plus, there’s a lot missing that New Leaf had. Presumably they’ll add all that stuff in over time. I’m playing daily but as it stands New Leaf is the better game.

I don't have ACNH yet, but i still have 3 copies of ACNL to be played.

Meanwhile, I’m still stuck with the same dang song every hour and only have two animal residents. My daughter, who is the resident representative, refuses to do any of the necessary tasks to advance the town. Nintendo, please patch this and allow other residents to become the representative

Love the kitchen Alex

@Fandabidozi Can you be more specific? I've been playing New Leaf since January last year until now, and haven't noticed anything missing in New Horizons. I presume New Horizons will have the town develop in time rather than it all set up at the start.

Under 3 weeks is the new month now.

@HalBailman He's probably referring to things like being able to scuba dive and activities like Hammer Time on Tortimer Island.

It honestly wouldn't shock me to see these come eventually in some form, especially now that the game is printing money.

Um. It's April 7th.

@Denoloco @Silly_G it clearly says that he got an early copy

Edited: It's not been a month yet for the rest of us, it seems like an oddly spoilerly video to put out.

ACNH is astoundingly beautiful, bustling with things to do...I honestly can say I have never spent so much dedicated time to a game. This is my first AC experience and I am astonished. So many details and plenty of growth capability. Slow and well-timed unlocks. The expansion patterns are an absolute delight. I'm with Alex...10/10. Such a lovely person!!!🙂👍

@RainbowGazelle try learning reading comprehension? It clearly says he got an early copy.

@Ryancrim Okay, fair. NintendoLife win this round. For once they weren't using hyperbole.

I'm waiting and hoping for an expansion (or even better, Season Pass, so long as the value is there). I miss Redd, Kapp'n, actually seeing Resetti, the Gyroids (Lloyd is the only one I've seen thus far in New Horizons), and the Art section of the Museum (those stairs to nowhere may well hint that it's coming). That pier on one end of my island appears to have no current use...but could eventually end up being either a swimming platform (like in New Leaf) or a dock for Kapp'n to take you who knows where (another type of island? The mainland??).

At any rate, I've nearly exhausted the decorative options available to spend my Nook Miles tickets on, and frankly those Nook Miles tickets are beginning to lose their appeal after probably 100-plus trips out only to find my native Apples, Oranges, and Bamboo. Yes, this game has a huge amount of content, but I'd be willing to bet there are many folks who're even more desperate to find something new to do/collect/visit by this point. Being shut in at home with a game like this will do that; you tend to blow through everything a lot faster than Nintendo probably estimated before the coronavirus mess struck.

As much as I really am enjoying the game, I have been playing daily morning and evening, I kinda wish there were more tasks after unlocking terraforming. I actually was bummed that we only needed to craft specific items for a couple of the villagers and the rest just show up.

But my town has its first fishing contest this weekend, so that should be interesting. And Egg day on Sunday, which... I am glad is ending, I crafted everything and have like 287,928 eggs leftover.

I want them to add more random islands and some more mini games.

It’s been 18 days, not a month.

Is that a stringfish in your museum? You lucky sod if so...

And I agree with some that want DLC. I think this game is a perfect match for that or of course free content. I want bigger updates than Bunny day though. I want the construction bit expanded and I want more shops and islands. More fruits and museum thingies to collect. They can easily add new fish rooms, fossil rooms and insect rooms as well as art galleries.

By now I am finally getting my Island to where I want it. Got all the initial 5 villagers, a campground, put up a new ramp and bridge and working on getting a few more put in. Should be nice by the time I am done with it, it's amazing how addictive this game is. I have even really gotten into my house decorating now that I got a second room!

@Likethepear For you, yes, not for the person presenting the video. For them it has been a month.

Now that I've unlocked the Terraforming, I feel like I'm finally getting the island to the way I want it to be. I've started shuffling houses around and made a lovely heart shaped pond for my garden 😊. It's such a charming little game. My only gripe other than the egg spawns is that I'm still waiting on a Nook's cranny upgrade. Their current furniture selection daily is quite poor so I'm visiting friends all the time to check out what they have.

I kinda unlocked terraforming a few days ago and since then I've had no motivation to play really.

Terraforming is cool and all, but when Tom Nook stopped having things for me to look forward to or do, it kinda fizzled out.

I've paid off all my house loans and built the bridges/inclines I want, so I'm kinda just doing nothing atm. Fishing a few minutes daily, grabbing my fruit, maybe hitting some rocks. It's chill but getting kinda boring.

I do check the fashion shop and nooks cranny as well daily. But hoping we get some more to do.

Easter event was cool but not tuned well enough so I finished making everything in about 1 hour. Recipes were unlocked super fast, and everything I got was eggs from all sources, so it was like, meh, done in no time.

EDIT: If you're wondering how I paid off my house loans this fast, me and my fiancée decided to have fun going all in on the stalk market. We were standing to lose a ton of money with 16k turnips bought, but saturday afternoon she opened her game and we had a turnip price of 573 bells a turnip. Needless to say that made us crazy rich. We'd spent a ton of time grinding bells for the turnips too.

It's a great game that's missing a lot of things on would expect after years of waiting and fans asking for features.

Wish they ( the developer ) put out a post and ask if anyone have any wish/suggestion to be on AC.
I would wish for: -
1. Increase villager ( maybe up to 15 ) We don't really need the whole 15 but the extra 5 more villager would be nice.
2. If we can buy fence recipe, it would be great that we can also buy gate recipe too. ( some fence I add, would look nice to have a gate attach to it )
3. there should have random visitor to the campsite even after the island is full.

I am not too into the turnip "stock" at the moment ( wasn't into it on NL either )

@UnknownReader Yeah good suggestions, I think the campground should just continue to be used for random visitors even if you don't need anyone to move in. I also think the 15 islander increase would be nice. Like, just making it optional expansion for people who want even more characters. They could make it work with the continued campground, where you will have an option to invite them whenever you initiate conversation sort of like giving a gift.

@JayJ The random visitor can request stuff being made, we earn DIY ( if we don't already have them and small token bells for items made ) Hey, I'll do anything for DIY and some bells ( minus turnips stock ), lol!

@UnknownReader Yeah sort of like the bug collector, they would just have their own interests or something they would want and you could try to deliver it for a bonus or some extra bells. That would really keep some interesting things to do.