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Games like this make people think the Switch is underpowered. My electric meter has better resolution than this.

I just can't believe that in this day and age that a developer needs to be nagged into fixing shoddy products, I mean really!!! Everybody else on the planet needs to exchange various things for money and this developer doesn't seem to be affected by that concept. Surreal.

ACNH, S rating on my house and 4 stars for the island. Not impressed with turnip trading, I'm bringing in 100-130k Bells from fishing on a daily basis. Also getting annoyed with that deadbeat bird that washes up drunk and serves no purpose.

@Kev_Morrison Thanks will look into this tonight.

@rjejr Wow! That looks so cool! Not normally into JRPG's might make an exception for this one some day.

@rjejr is that Dragon Quest Builders 2? I got it, but stopped playing after the first island completion - might have to look at that again.

@Kirby_Girl I respect your point of view, but there are fallacies in your argument.

@Kirby_Girl AC is not competitive, but then that ignores the thousands of twitter and web related producers of design content. The hoarders of rare items.

He has some valid points. However rubbish the eShop is, there are a myriad of aspects of what triggers a buy. The most fundamental aspect is looking at the game. Seeing it's performance and USP aspects. Sorry, but a large proportion of the Switch dev's don't do enough marketing. How hard or expensive is it to put up a video!

@LUIGITORNADO Not really sure which angle your coming from... Without question, the virus is a current tragedy. People having something to distract them during lock-down's and employment furlough (myself), is a positive. ACNH is a remarkable piece of entertainment that is real time zen like nurturing that is perfect for this moment.

@Kirby_Girl I hear this a few times. It becomes an issue with Island Visiting and Dream visiting - otherwise no issue. When people visit and see cheat gained items. Especially kids.

@rjejr Thanks, planning to terraform those areas. Will still keep some level of hills. My island is 4 star at the moment and I got S rank on my house that is just missing a basement. The other thing I've noted is that cookers are super rare and expensive items! It would be super cool if the dev's allowed communal buildings, could you imagine islands with casinos or hotels! It would allow another level of showmanship for the players.

This is good! I will go for the ACNH as it was not relevant to me first time round.

They should stop weeds (and sometimes fossils), from spawning behind scenery like huts and most annoying - the lower unseen plateau's at the rear of the islands. The only work around I've found is having to look at the mobile which flicks the camera closer.

No doubt lock-down helped with ACNH.

I'm thinking of other things to do with 77p.

Might get it. Had it on mobile back in 2016. Played 3 games and deleted because you had to watch video adverts to continue... yeah.

Good luck with kickstarter a sequel.

Very, very conservative approach from Nintendo. It's kind of similar to their approach to NOS reward games. MK8 does not even get DLC's in case this causes an imbalance in Nintendo's release schedule. They probably have mollycoddling saints as shareholders.

@KoopaTheQuick LOL my opinion is that it's some kind of display of wealth. Deffinately not design related.

@Anti-Matter I can see that you are vigorously "closed minded" arguing your perspective is pointless. Others far better have illustrated the ethics of cheating and cheated materials being showcased. I'm going to retire from this thread with my own opinions cheating and cheaters. You reap what you sow.

@Anti-Matter Cheating is cheating. You've provided some valid points, but... if you was touting your island on Dream's as most competitive/proud users would - I'd be pretty unimpressed finding out that the island created outside of orthodox methods

I find a lot of island's are super cluttered! Like some kind of horizontal hoarding tick. Some islands look completely inoperable - as in no space for the villagers to operate. On my island I like to see the villagers stop and sniff or water the flowers, no way can they do that with several layers of chintzy fencing or obstacles. I've also found that by de-cluttering the natural vegetation, I can get the villagers to venture out further into the upper elevations (incline existing).

Punishing game. I'm happy with the Game boy tetris skin from way back. A lot of the latter skin events relate to games that don't appeal to me. Still love Tetris on the rare occasions.

ACNH and Konami Arcade Collection (Nemesis) and Pinball FX3 - the Williams tables have been on offer. On sunny days I love having retro arcade ports on my Switch, brings back childhood memories of arcades in Brighton and such.

Nintendo needs to up their numbers for the Switch to thrive. At the moment every student is dumping pixel art platformers because they don't know anything else. You got overpriced super niche Japanese franchises trying to fill Nintendo's gaps. Then you've got middling middle stuff. Finally you have epic proportions of shovelware. The gilded, gifted, top notch Nintendo titles... are old, very, very old. For every 1 quality Nintendo title, Xbox and Sony have prob 5-8. Nintendo's attitude is commercial suicide. Why wait another 8 years for the next Mario Kart? Exclusivity will kill the Switch far quicker than rival technology. Me, if one of the other big boys launches a hybrid handheld - I'm jumping ship!

Getting it just for the meat and spaghetti aspect. No map is fine, I grew up with rl map making on grid paper before the mod-con's of todays machines.

As someone who has never played the earlier AC's these features are welcomed indeed. The fireworks look really good. Love the lighting in ACNH, my house's living room has soft floor and table lights that give it ambience. Hoping the dream mode makes it easier to find island hosts.

Added to my wish list.

I'm find the Island Tours very limited. Probably have done a dozen or so and only came across bamboo and pears. With no friends who play, it's a real impossibility to visit another persons island, despite having online subscription. There should be a higher yield for non native fauna & flora. Other gripes is villagers not doing house calls. With the amount of varied objects, it would have been nice to create communal buildings like bars etc. I do love ACNH, it has way more scope for expanding than what it currently has.

ACNH Just got the loft room installed and doing some Bug Off to pay towards it. Island got rated 4 which is nice. Other than that I unlocked some European forest in Hunting Simulator. Nagging at myself to do some Skyrim as ACNH can get too sickly sweet. Might pick up that Konami Shmup collection on sale.

English lessons needed for some.

@Moroboshi876 You sound like you need a different gaming device. With this game you're getting a ported version that runs respectably as it is. Docked mode does not suddenly make the Switch anymore powerful. You also might want to consider what a ported game is vs a native game.

Most I would pay for a new game is £60, usually I'm buying for around £40-£45 (physical). Digital, is usually half those amounts. The only time I pay the higher prices is on AAA stuff. Lately, I've cut back on the cheap indie titles, some of them are rough as boots or not fully developed. EVERY purchase is very carefully reviewed beforehand.

Horse Mackerel is another one.

I've pumped in over 110 hours into ACNH within a very small number of days. The other game I'm playing is Hunting Simulator. It's on sale and after some gold coins spent just 87p to buy it. This game has had a LOT of flack. I was curious since I enjoyed a fishing sim (Ultimate...), and so I thought traipsing around the woods would be interesting. It is! and it was! Incredibly hard at first, but once you get used to the environment and use common sense - it's exilerating. Infact it is so good that I wish there was a similar FPS combat game. The care and investment needed to get a kill with positioning and scopes - Then making sure you kill hitting vital organs only, really scratches that sniper itch. It's not arcade, hard at first, but most deffinately a good (minus bullet drop & wind), gun game.

I'd like to see some tech info like resolutions output to and or dpi. Last thing I want to buy is novelty tech that gathers dust.

I'd rather put that kind of money towards funding my next gen console.

AC is a 'Live-in' game, in that sense periodic roll-out of content is very much desired and an extremely generous gesture. Makes sense with seasons etc. Also, I'm finding myself hoarding furniture for that "just in case" whim of a make-over. It's nice to have the media get into the spirit of the game, the discoveries become communal. The only other games that fall into this scenario are Stardew Valley and to a lesser degree - the early Sims games.

Deffinite no to this POS release.

It's certainly a complex topic and I do feel for the developers. Quality products and reputation is in my view the ladder to better prices. The eShop currently contains far too much junk and is hard for buyer and dev. Also there is a tendancy now for indies to go from low to mid prices with sub prime product - some with no back catalogue or history! The masturbation game highlighted by NL the other day shows that Nintendo aren't even checking what they upload!

The fixed camera does not do it justice. Loose, fluid trailing tail cam would have made this more Wipeout like.

Too graphically regressed for my liking. I know the world is moving on with the capabilities of the PS5 etc, and the Switch is what it is. This type of style is just depressing.

@noswitchbutidc Huh?

@Sim1 @dugan I think ACNH is set in a post global warmed world. You can grow any type of plant? And more... Nook is a rotund money grabbing dictator obsessed with spreading his doctorine to enlarge his populace. Resident Services has numerous speakers installed and lots of filing cabinets. Isabelle broadcasts party propoganda every morning. The balloons are sent in by a rival state to espouse freedom! Everyone on the island is paranoid and get agitated if you spend too long with them. Those Dodo guys are most probably CIA supporting the Nook regime. Finally, I don't think the residents leave the island... they are disappeared into that creepy looking door at the back of Nooks office.

@dugan Are you Northern Hemisphere? I am and it's near constant rain or overcast. Never seen so much foul weather. Weather is worse than Skyrim.

Loving the generalisations about reasons of stick drift. There are probably just as many shoe shiners as there are people with faulty joycons.

ACNH Today. Later on might get some pinball action FX3.

@Giygas_95 Many thanks. Will look into it. Game needs some clarification on the area of designs and projecting them on to surfaces. Trashed my house floor once - now I experiment in Harv's basement for floors and walls.

@Giygas_95 Cool! My next focus is custom designs. Blew an opportunity without realizing when one of the sisters first showed up running a stall. What really confuses me about ACNH is the very wierd antialiasing on the pixel designs... very hard to plot pixel art.