For those that said resetting didn’t bring back the original feeling of the game. I wonder how much of their experience was shaped by the fact that NH released at the very start of lockdown, meaning the excitement, comfort and joy the game brought was heightened by going through such a scary time worldwide. Personally I never reset, in part because the beginning of the game it just takes so long to get set up, but I’m also attached to most of the villagers I have.
A big thing some people don't think of is that Animal Crossing is meant to be played in short sessions over a long long time. The "issue" was it releasing right at Covid when everyone had nothing better to do but play ACNH for hours and hours, which means people "complete" the game much faster than intended
I've never reset and don't think I ever will. I had the luxury of building slow, taking my time, and going back to previous areas to improve them as my design skills kept improving. My island is complete now and I love walking around it. 400+ hours of care went into those areas and I love seeing my villagers hang out around the island.
is it insane to say this video makes me wanna reset again 😭 mostly bc it made me rethink how i've treated my themed islands and that i really wanna commit to something that is my own without feeling so stressed on making something so exact
After making 5 or 6 different themed layouts, I found that all I really wanted was a classic Animal Crossing island, no gimmicks, no clutter, just a layout I liked and could use to finish the bug/fish collection. I really hope the next game makes it easier to terraform because constantly changing the entire island one tile at a time is mind numbing, especially when you have custom tiles
you don’t need a theme. new horizons has tons of items, but how about instead of trying to make it a dream island, just go fishing, catch bugs, farm. getting truly attached to your town will make you want to never reset
I reset after moving out of my parents house in late 2021, at the time i wanted to start fresh in the game like i was doing in real life. in retrospect, i wish i hadn't. things ended up not going very well with my new roommates, and the homesickness was hitting hard. not having that same town that brought me comfort during the pandemic while holed up with my parents wasn't as freeing as i had hoped. im glad i at least get to visit it in the form of a dream town. but now it feels like visiting a time in my life that was much simpler. no job, no bills, no worries, just me and the town i spent every day in, preserved forever, but i can never live in again.
That sucks. Even if you don't have your old town, you can still love the game. As someone who played on the Wii and switch, I have reset my island before, but my villagers will always stay in my heart. They will never leave. I only reset my town because I *tried* to terraform my entire island, but once I did, it didn't feel like Animal crossing anymore. So I reset and found new villagers to meet. I hope the game can still give you comfort, all things considered. If you have a 3ds, maybe New Leaf would fit you better? Idk, I just think the older dialogue definitely helps.
I got the game immediately when it came out, and have never reset. Don't think I ever could. My island has become like a home and the villagers are like family. We've been through everything together and I couldn't stand for any of them to go away.
That's why even though I have a switch, I mostly play ACNH on the PC through an emulator. It's way easier to back up your saves and work on multiple islands at once. I have my casual island and my design island, depends what I'm in the mood for.
I did this too for this exact reason. The only think I dislike about this method is that you can't play online and use online features. It is nice however to be able to use a save editor to unlock color variations since certain items are color locked to your island. - I am sure this is to promote multiplayer and playing with other people... But honestly just like with older Pokemon games, this becomes a hindrance as the game gets older, and you are the only one in your friend group still playing the game.
I personally just struggle to feel attached to my islands. I started playing new leaf again sometimes and i remember feeling super mega apprehensive as a kid about resetting it because...the villagers were my friends! The lack of interesting relationship forming in ACNH makes it easier to reset.
I want to reset my island for a new river layout but the thought of going through the DIY recipe RNG makes me want to ugly cry. I'm on my original island and I only recently got my favorite recipes after 4 years. I couldn't imagine doing all that again without one of those Twitch islands.
Me but because I'm unhappy with what I've done and want a do-over because I'm lazy to move everything, it feels too slow and I'm not even sure what I'm doing, I had ideas but I'm the worst at exterior decorating
@@TheColourfulSidetwitch The thing is, I think what they mean is their river entrances and exits, which you unfortunately can’t change with just terraforming
For me, resetting my island taught me things come to an end eventually and to be happy with what you have. That first one was special, that first one felt natural, flowing, my villagers felt somewhat personal. Then I reset and it felt cold, unfamiliar, impersonal. I regretted that but I also felt that it was truly time to move on, I truly enjoyed every moment of my time on my first island and if I could do it over again(like erase my memory and experience of it) I wouldn't change a thing.
I had about 700 hours on new leaf, that was with about 3 resets and my sister having a house in the town yet she didnt go on it as much as i did. Just for having the game since it came out, id reset a few times for when id go and come back to it. But new leaf always felt like something more can be done. Obviously i understand aesthetics and such things have been around forever but i think for being younger and playing wild world, city folk and new leaf between the ages of like 5-15, i didnt have much acess to the Internet so i never felt a pressure to make my house or my town pleasing to the eye, i just put what i liked in my house and that was that. It was more just the love of collecting things i liked that i happened to get on the way. I think the Internet and the addition of giving so much freedom to the player in customisation has sort of set back new horizons in a way (for some players). As much as i love how free it is, its too much. I think the way players get creative and find theirself in the way they play is to have boundaries and limits to what they can do, and to then find a way to make it work for how they want to play. Ive reset 1 time for new horizons, yet ive played about 200 hours. And it was because i wanted a blank slate so i could make it picture perfect like i saw on my feed and it sucks that for me at least, a game that ive loved since i was little turning into a full on project feels very dull. It used to be my own world id go into to just run around and fish a ton because i liked doing that, but now its about the grind and showing off what you've done. And im not saying that peoples' efforts shouldn't be seen, people have made amazing stuff on their island and its great to see, but i wish it could just feel like a game with no expectation again. Sometimes i feel like people forget that it is a game, like its supposed to be fun and you shouldn't feel the need to put so much pressure on yourself to make it perfect if thats not how you want to play.
I was happier with every idea of an island I had during a reset. But the tedium of building it hit harder every time. I never really got my final island to where I would have liked to get it. And now, with a half finished island, and missing previous villagers (who felt more of a commodity than a character with each reset) I can say that I regret my final reset. I miss the previous island, and I couldn't deal with the tedium again. And now half my island is just an open field. I haven't played in 2-3 years at this point, and I still feel burnt out from it.
i've never reset, including launch day - i got lucky with home fruit and airport colour on day 1 - so this reset energy has always eluded me. it's interesting to see a more familiar perspective on it!
I love seeing others reset and restart despite never doing it myself. It’s sweet to watch people make lovely towns for all their villagers over and over again.
Ive reset once and it was actually becuase i had put a name in that i no longer identified with. I dont want to reset again and ive lost quite a lot of interest in the game though. I dont really know where to go from here. I think its mainly becuase i am focused on the aeshetics of the game too much but dont find decorating my island fun a lot of the time.
I just reset my island yesterday, only because I wanted my RS centered in the map. I like symmetry and having it in the bottom left threw my ideas off.
The thing is, resetting is seen as a way for a fresh start, a way to "play the game for the first time" again. But it doesnt work. At first, it may give *way more enjoyment* then still playing on your original save, but after a week or 2, it will start to feel empty. Soon, you''ll stop playing the game entirely, and regret deleting your save. I type this from experience, as i deleted my new leaf save, and regretted it immensely.
I did a "soft reset" twice by just adding player characters and just that convinced me that I would absolutelx regret resetting my whole island. It takes so long to get to a point where you have enough resources to just focus on decorating. Plus I have so many custom designs I don't wanna lose So if I evee got to a stage where my island was fully designed, I think I'd just redo different areas
I've had to reset my island twice, but not because I really wanted to. I always intend my island to be my one and only. But when my brother moved away and took the switch we shared with him I had to get a new one. Then the first island I had on my new switch was associated with people that I had to step away from permanently, so I restarted to have that in-game seperation. But my current island and switch are solely mine and I'm very happy with it.
I've reset a million times and it's literally the only thing that keeps the game fresh for me. But I also absolutely do put it down for months at a time, lol.
I just hate how after a while, playing the game feels like doing chores I *have* to do rather than things I *want* to do. Like the game feels so fresh when you start a new island. You have objectives, villagers are new and exciting and the Island feels like it's comming alive. But when you've played for a month, and all the villagers have repeated their dialogue 100+ times each, and all you're doing is logging on - digging up fossils and planting money trees, it get's really stale..
I havent ever resetted my island, I am way too sceard. When the Gyroids were added again I completely empited my main room in my house to make it have the centerpiece of the little guys, this was my version of resetting. And I am so upset about it, I think about the old room all the time, like even when I am not playing the game I think about how mad I was to no longer be able to see what the room looked like before. So that's my little way of thinking about it.
Clicked on this video thinking it would be about the absence of Resetti. I was wrong, but stayed anyways and now you have a new subscriber :) I've never reset my island and have no desire to, but I see the appeal. Love that you conducted the survey!
I reset my town in new leaf so many times I can't even count, but only twice in new horizons. It's quite hard to explain but I hate the feeling of giving up on something I have made myself. Islands are sort of like art to me.
I started playing ACNH again at the beginning of November this year and I didn't restart my island. I ended up manually replanting trees and emptying my island because I wanted a fresh start without losing my villagers and memories. After weeks of playing it, I randomly said to my mom "you know what, I think I'm enjoying this more, now that not a lot of people are playing" lowkey sounds crazy. When ACNH was at its peak I think it was draining to see everyone's perfect everything. From villager lineups, island designs, finished museums, etc. Like you said in the video; it really can feel like youre failing when your game doesn't look like the ones on Pinterest. Even though getting to that point is hours of playing and designing. With ACNH there's no correct way to play yet it still felt like there was. I also feel like the constant flow of animal crossing everywhere made it also feel overwhelming. Everywhere you looked people were talking about New Horizons, which I guess too much of a good thing can still make you feel overwhelmed
This video makes me want to pick up ACNH again and say hi to my villagers. 😊 I havent reset at all and i began playing on the launch date. I have radically changed my island layout multiple times though. Lol
I've reset so many times on this game it's just what I find the most enjoyable. I've only ever completed two islands but there's something cathardic to me about taking the game slow, doing what I want rather it be fishing, bug collecting or island hopping to shop at, or check out random islands without time travel. I started the game back up in August after surgery and ended up not playing again until after Christmas. So I once again - you guessed it, restarted my island. Maybe one of these days I'll actually complete another island project! But that might have to be saved for when the Switch 2 releases. Lately my new craze has been me wanting to get into custom designs since I just got my clothing shop in two or three days ago. It's nice. And yes, it is going to have an overgrown horror theme if I do ever get around to completing this one. ;)
It’s wild that this ever happened because there were several off-ramps. Save data backups as offered by Nintendo Switch Online? Allowing an absentee sibling to hand over island representative status to another villager, or share it in all its features and privileges? The game was just generally user-unfriendly, burned me out before I got the concert, and then caught my sister with the inability to progress by locking her out of the island representatives position. I wish I could run a multiplayer island. Size it up a bit and have several players play as island representative. The Minecraft effect of being able to specialize on different elements of the game and share spoils.
As someone who reset a lot of times but not for a particular theme, I did it mostly because I was running out of motivation to continue the island I was on and wanted to revitalize the game again. Except for the one time when my save got wiped
I’ve never 100% completed an island. I’ve never felt like my decoration was nice enough to finish the entire island. I’ve also never reset my game. I got it at launch and somehow just fought with my island and everything I disliked about it…THIS WHOLE TIME because I have anxiety about losing everything else. I’ve returned to New Leaf more times in the last two years than NH because it doesn’t have the quality of going ‘home’ like the older games do. That being said, I was a save editor for NL. I would do all my work designing my town on the save editor for the sake of my sanity lolol. Even though we had less control for exteriors, being able to switch up my rivers and add plants where they should and shouldn’t be made things feel magical. Picking that simple path that was just right. Idk I long for the simplicity but also the community of it. The interactions in game matter much more to me than terraforming and outdoor furniture ): I miss my animal friends that actually meant something to me as a kid. Camaraderie, a REASON to have a nice town for the other inhabitants I love and care for. Sorry for rambling , I just deeply miss what AC once was.
same, i spent around 1,5k hours on new leaf and i prefer it compared to new horizons. the first thing that i was disappointed with in NH was the musics. something was different, it didnt match the vibe of NL and WW (being the only ones i played) NL is more simple and easy and got that nostalgic feeling, that i think anyone can get even if u start playing NL when you're not a kid anymore. customization was simplier, more cozy. in NH everything is big and complicated, and the furnitures, terraforming makes u able to do realistic stuff and i HATE seeing that in animal crossing..
Same, new leaf is peak. I started with wild world. it's hard to go back now though because of missing some acnh features and it makes me feel restless about not being able to pick one to actually play and have fun with
My dad got my copy of ACNH for a late birthday present, a month after release. I hold my island close to my heart, all because of my dad buying the game and I can't stand the idea of deleting my save data, my island holds alot of sentimental value. Though I plan on flattening my island(for the 100th time lmao lmao). I still love this game, even after loosing the initial huzzah of the game releasing, I do enjoy seeing people on TH-cam reset, redo with a new island, but I personally couldn't do it
This video was very interesting to me, as it presented a perspective on the game that I don't seek out very often. I'm not a "perfection" focused AC player by any means, and very much prefer the life simulation vibe of the series' roots. Along with that, after having played ACNH for several months during the pandemic, I can also say that I don't currently like it very much, and haven't gone back to it basically at all since then. I largely feel that the gameplay changes made to it have fundamentally changed what Animal Crossing is about, and, it saddens me to see that as someone who likes the old gameplay style. The bit that's interesting to me is, specifically, seeing the perspective of a player who seems to not have a big issue with the direction that the game has gone in. You talk about resetting the game, rebuilding your town over and over again for fun, striving for these picturesque, idealized islands. Again, it's not a perspective I've looked for very often, and it was interesting to see how you, and players like you, perceive the game and the process of resetting it to have more fun in the future. I think often about how I wish ACNH "wasn't like that", but I would never want to remove the positive experience that you and others are having with the game. I hope that Nintendo will find a way to support both of our desires in the future. That's basically all I had to say. Thank you for the interesting, and thought provoking, video.
I’ve learned that the way I played the game was flawed. What I mean is, whenever I would play it, it would be the only thing I touched on my switch for months on end, leaving me bored and underwhelmed. So, I just restarted my island after 2 years, and I’ve learned that in order to rlly enjoy it for myself, I get through what needs to be done on ACNH (the chores, maybe some decorating, keep in mind I did just restart.) and then I take a break to do something in the house irl. I never took the time to step away from Animal Crossing during covid because at 13, I felt like it was the only haven I had. Away from the troubles of my family at the time, from the pandemic, from the failing school system. It was peaceful, but I’ve learned to balance that peace with reality now.
I have over 1,000 hours in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (1,1,30 hours to be precise) and I've kept the same island since the game came out. I've had it for this long that the idea of resetting just doesn't appeal to me. I've deeply considered it over and over again throughout the years, but honestly, there's nothing about my island that I can't really change. The only thing I'd like to do is change my name but that's it. I've flattened and redone my island over and over again. Then once I do that, I play for a little while, then put the game down. I had my reset era while New Leaf was out, and even before that. My reset era took place during the time I was playing Animal Crossing Gamecube, Animal Crossing: Wild World, Animal Crossing: City Folk, and Animal Crossing: New Leaf. I never had a consistent town in any of these save files and I guess you could call it perpetual tutorial hell. My younger self didn't really understand the idea of a long-term town (and also I didn't have enough space for more than one game on my memory card). It wasn't until the Welcome Amiibo update dropped that I had my first town for longer than a year. I made paths, I made my town beautiful, then I put the game down while waiting for Animal Crossing: New Horizons to come out. I do wonder how many players like me got their resets out throughout the years of being an Animal Crossing player. I very recently tried a challenge where I'd keep on top of every Animal Crossing game at once and I was tempted to reset my New Horizons island to do the same. In fact, I planned to do so on the New Year. But I didn't. My New Horizons island is something of a time capsule for me, a consistent in the unknown variables that is my life. Friends come and go, events come and go, but my island is always there and it has been since the beginning of 2020. It's seen my best, my worst, my highs and my lows. At this point, I've come to terms with the fact that there's absolutely no way I'm resetting my island. I'd much rather invest in another Switch if I have to do something like that. But I can't really imagine a different island other than Yabusame.
I'm new here but, i'll give a simple retrospective on my experience with my island. I have never reseted my island, but I've taken a very long hiatus from the game in April of 2022, due to burnout. It will have been almost 3 years since I last touched that save file, and yet I could pick it up again and it would feel like home because i spent hours working on it, no aesthetics, just made it how i wanted and progressed at my own pace. Even now, I'm thinking about my island and how it was left, and I'm pretty content with what i made it, and would never reset it.
I never reset my ACNH world but my sister let me make my own world on her switch (we have a family switch that my mom used to get animal crossing on so she gets to run that island but doesnt) and honestly, it was a great refresh, It felt like reseting my progress except now I had control over what the island would look like and now the island I play on constantly doesn't have flowers on every inch of the grass and I can decorate it nicely .
I play casually and on the odd occasion, its the only way to go for me. I dont think my island will ever be completed because everything is so tedious to do
I remember always watching all the animal crossing new horizons youtube videos back in 2020 really wanting the game but I only had new leaf. I finally got Acnh and the switch lite in january 2021. I was addicated to it for monthsssss. Thinking about the fact that my switch is now almost 4 years old is CRAAAZZZY
sometimes I forget me and my family got animal crossing around when it came out, so no, the reason my island isn't developed as much isn't just because we haven't been playing as long, we're just more casual players, but because I realized we got ACNH around when it came it I find it INSANE that some people have reset MULTIPLE TIMES!? WTF DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE ON YOUR THIRD ISLAND, I JUST GOT THE K.K. CONCERT FOR THE FIRST TIME A FEW MONTHS AGO!? (our island became a mess and it took about a month to clean it up, we also didn't really know what to do and finally decided to google it because we had been seeing a bunch of stuff about post-K.K.-concert features like terraforming)
It’s gonna cost me so much money, but some day, I’m gonna get an additional switch dedicated to aesthetic or hyperfixation islands. I DO love the idea of having a home to return to, so resetting always hurts me unless the island gets finished. So my main switch will be my home island (just my favorites of everything, fave aesthetic, villagers, fruits etc) And then the second will be for experimentation, so I’ll never lose home, but I’ll always be able to experience a fresh new idea. I really think if Nintendo let us have just two islands per account, half of the issues would have been dealt with. We could reset islands without having (at least MOST of our) regrets.
I've always been a bit of a "power user" in the Animal Crossing series; I started playing the game way, way back during Wild World, which would have been sometime around 2006, and like most people I had a pretty silly amount of free time to spend on video games when I was younger, and that fact paired with my lil sprinkle of tism giving me a penchant for hyperfixations meant that I poured _hundreds_ of hours into that game, and much faster than the developers really intended, so I kinda burnt out on AC and put it away for a little while, played other games, you know the deal. And then City Folk came out on the Wii and I did it all over again. And then New Leaf came out on the 3DS and I did it all over again. And then New Horizons came out on the Switch and I bought a Switch _just_ to play the new Animal Crossing game, and I did it all over again. And in all my years of playing AC I've never felt the desire to reset my game. I get incredibly attached to my towns, and my neighbors, and I would never want to give them up just so I could start over, because I play _the heck_ out of these games until I simply don't want to play them anymore, and resetting would definitely not fix that level of burnout; the only thing that does is time away. I _have_ absolutely set the games down for a while and then picked them back up much later to start playing again where I left off, but even when I do come back to them it never really sticks; the only thing that _truly_ invigorates me into wanting to sink hundreds of hours into AC again is a brand new game. I'm looking forward to when that happens, and I can come back and do it all over again.
Part of what contributes to reset culture is the fact that ACNH only allows you to have one island at a time, which for a $90 CAD game is nuts. I understand having a limit, but one?? I’d even be okay with a paid DLC that added extra islands. Happy Home Paradise is nice, I like having a chance to fully customize homes super easily, but it doesn’t mean much when it isn’t my own island to not only customize but to also complete tasks and interact with villagers. The only way to have a second island is to buy a second switch with a second copy of the game. Hundreds more dollars spent for a second island.
Ive never reset, for me, my town is a story, there's mistakes, neverending projects, etc. Ill likely keep checking in to this one town until the day it expires
I have only reset my island once. I saw all the themed islands and thought 'I can try something like that.' The terraforming completely ruined the vibe of my little island. So I reset to play a more chill environment with minimal furniture. And it worked. I did miss all the recipes I had after 2 years of playing, but I got a new island with so much fun stuff. I don't think I backed up my old island? It wasn't really a feature I used.
i think i just want lockdown vibes again. not to say they were good or that it was a nice time at all, but there was a big community on tiktok and it definitely had the excitement of a “new animal crossing game” backing it. just started a new new leaf town and ive been more capable and willing to return to that every day than i have my new horizons town. i reset in the summer of last year and haven’t even finished Project K between then and now
I'm one of those people that's never reset. I created a cozy enough island for me and contemplated resetting after every event was over with but decided not to. My villagers at this point are also like family to me i guess lol, only i drop in and see them every couple of months.
I was like millions of other players that started my island on launch day, but later reset my game due to boredom and discovering something huge about myself (transgender) and not being able to change my character's name. After I did it, I was relieved to have a new name but felt sad about everything I left behind. Huge shocker to no one, but COVID was hard for me ! I was a junior in high school with no clear direction in my studies, and was terribly confused about who I wanted to be. But animal crossing had been an old comfort for years, with my first game being back in the wild world days. Even though my island wasn't perfect, it was my escape, and I had thrown it away. You never realize how much work you did until its gone, and suddenly I had no DIY recipes, no furniture, none of my favorite villagers anymore. Whats more is New Horizons overwhelmed me from the very beginning. The sheer amount of control allotted to us as the player was too much for me to bare. Couple that with the overwhelming online presence and "perfect islands" being shared on tiktok and instagram, I immediately shut down. Suddenly every decision I made had to put me a step closer to my "perfect island" and I found myself judging every stylistic choice I made. I soon yearned for the simpler days of New Leaf and City Folk, even though they were extremely boring to me when compared to New Horizons. I tried to revisit the game this year, but left shortly after because I was soon stuck in my endless pursuit of perfection. Maybe one day I will free myself of my crippling internal critic, but today is not that day. My New Horizon's island will remain untouched until then.
i used to reset really often because i never felt like i was ever playing the game properly? (if that makes sense) i now know it was an OCD problem but honestly i would never reccomend it to anyone because it really hurts to lose all of your progress and little touches that make your island uniquely special :(
I feel like ACNH is surprisingly similar to Minecraft for the people who reset their Minecraft world to capture the nostalgia (or in animal crossing’s case, joy) but half of the time, it DOES end up failing, cause the spark of joy and nostalgia was when the game was still NEW. Other people think Minecraft is kind of mid now just because of the sheer amount of stuff that’s changed (saying it doesn’t feel like Minecraft anymore due to complexities in mechanics)
i feel like covid era kinda showed how many people just treated new horizons like a “cozy” dollhouse sims 4 with animals instead of a game where you actually interact with the world around you. i’m not saying that you can’t reset or flatten your town, but try to care about the things that the devs put in there
the only reason i reset was because i needed to change my name several times. if animal crossing JUST let you change your name i would have never had to reset my islands
I played ACNH for over 1000h and 500-600h alone were spent on terraforming and redesigning my island many times ( i would never reset my island ). I hope terraforming gets easier and faster in the new game. And I also need more space. I have so many ideas that i cant display because my town is so full 😢 I also hope for the mini game island from ACNL or something else so we can spent more time with friends and other players 🙈
AC fan since 2002. I've never reset any AC game. I was very happy with New Leaf. New Horizons, even with all the new features, almost feels tedious despite only playing it for a year (I got my Switch in 2023). The beginning stages of NH take too long to trudge through for me to ever want to reset.
I could never reset this game unlike previous titels because I know it won't bring back the spark, I'm to say "mid-way" and there is nothing to keep me playing anymore for even a few minutes
I like your video. It made me think why I restarted my first island. I now have two island on two systems. the second system belongs to my partner. Your video we will keep watching them.
i've reset twice, and i'm about to again. :p my current island was made in 2022, and i'm just so bored with it now. i've played since launch day, and every time i reset it's a difficult choice because i love my island and i love my villagers, part of what stops me from resetting is losing my villagers. (especially since my favourite villager is stinky, and he's considered ugly so no one ever is trading him or has him. :(() im a long time animal crossing fan, and ac has helped me a lot with depression over the past 15 or so years that i've been playing, but acnh is just so limited in its social aspect. while acnh does have a lot of beneficial things like the customization increase and the cute dlc, it's just unfinished. it feels empty and lonely in a way that the other games don't. i have over 1000 hours in the game, and one thing that i really noticed is how much you feel like a king rather than a townie. you're in a place full of "yes" men and no pushback or free will of the villagers. it's depressing. i still love playing acnh, but i recognize that part of the magic that made ac so incredible and re-playable was the guarantee that your villagers would always be different and treat you like a stranger at times. resetting can feel like a blessing, however short lived once you realize everything comes easy as hell and you hardly ever get a rude sounding comment or a strange interaction. it's missing key elements, and don't even get me started on the soundtrack OR the fact that it TOOK THEM ALMOST TWO YEARS TO ADD GYROIDS. :| im still pressed as fuck about that lol- but yeah, acnh is just a different kind of ac game. if you like having all kinds of freedom and building and doing whatever you want, it's great. but if you come for the silly interactions and fun little letters, it can very quickly become lackluster and dull. :( i literally cried when i saw the trailer for it in 2019 because i was so excited. i really hope that nintendo cleans up their act and that the next ac release will be out with full confidence and at LEAST mostly finished. 😭
You know what I think helps? Playing other AC games. I've been redoing the same island I've had since launch for the very first time and in between working on it, I also play Wild World and New Leaf on my 3ds, and then the original gamecube version on the dolphin emulator on my pc. The piece that holds the discs in the gamecube broke inside of mine and I don't have a physical copy for it anyways😭 NL was my first and I had never heard of AC until 2016 lol great franchise, we need more things from the older games in the next game, please Nintendo, hear our cries lol
So i def abused the turnip stocks on my first playthrough and was big rich the entire time. I wanted to do a playthrough where i was more genuine with the play (only time traveling to advance plot, not necessarily to game the whole system). Because of how i played in the first place im now dealing with how incredibly slow gameplay is by comparison and it’s making it hard. Add in the fact i was able to get so many great villagers the first time because of luck and also friends giving my favs away, and now this time im getting less luck plus im already bored of their dialogue. This is my 3rd time restarting over the past couple years just because i lose interest each time and dont feel a drive to build my island.
i only regretted a reset once and i'm not sure if it counts since it was when i got my switch pro and i hadn't set up properly to keep my old island. I had put so much work into that island from the villagers to the house layouts and the island decor, i've restarted a few times since with the idea of remaking that island but i just haven't been able to get very far with that so far!
I've never reset my Island. I'd rather flatten my Island than regret my choice. I don't time travel; I just play my island the way I like rather than comparing it to others. I've played daily and I'm now working on getting every villager's photo and I don't have amibo cards so it'll take a while aside from the Sanreo villagers and I have a list of 10 villagers I'd like on my island and i have 6 out of 10 so I keep cycling through the 4 spot for villager photo's and sometimes I see a villager I have on my list of wants but I don't have any of the 4 open spots photos so I have to turn them down or replace them with one of the 6 I already have and wan't.
I've restarted a couple times now, once on my own accord and the 2nd because I got a new switch and forgot to transfer. I definitely have the problem with wanting my island to be perfect and super detailed like the ones I see. I last left my island partway through decorating, but whenever I return I'm not sure if I have the motivation to continue or what I want to do with the game
I reset once and it was when the 2.0 update came out, I was at a lul with my original island anyway so the timing felt right. I miss my old island sometimes but I love the island I have now. AC isn't something I regularly play day to day anymore, but I find myself hopping onto it once and a while, say hi to my villagers, work on some oddball thing I missed, go to happy home paradise if I feel like REALLY wanna distract myself for a while- not that nonstop attention I gave the game originally, but it's definitely high up there for me in "comfort game" I know I can come back to 😊
I've considered resetting with WW and NL, but I can't even imagine resetting New Horizon! It feels like such a slog to finish up the game sometimes. It's this odd combination of too much grind and not enough to do, and the villagers being lobotomized makes it less fun to hang out in the game.
For those that said resetting didn’t bring back the original feeling of the game. I wonder how much of their experience was shaped by the fact that NH released at the very start of lockdown, meaning the excitement, comfort and joy the game brought was heightened by going through such a scary time worldwide.
Personally I never reset, in part because the beginning of the game it just takes so long to get set up, but I’m also attached to most of the villagers I have.
I ended up buying a second switch to satisfy wanting to reset - Completed museum+diy+gyroid collections mean theres no way I’m deleting my og island 😂
@@CrazyPoodle19bro are you richie rich?! 😮🤣
my sister deleted my data for more fornite space. thats when i knew she didn’t ever think about me
Thats evil
Rough. I can feel that in my bones. My brother is the same way.
if my little sister did that, lets just say i wouldn't have a little sister anymore.
Not archiving? Just straight-up deleting everything? That’s just evil.
the same thing happened to me but way back in the Gamecube era lol. my sister deleted my ENTIRE town and I had to start all over again.
A big thing some people don't think of is that Animal Crossing is meant to be played in short sessions over a long long time. The "issue" was it releasing right at Covid when everyone had nothing better to do but play ACNH for hours and hours, which means people "complete" the game much faster than intended
I've never reset and don't think I ever will. I had the luxury of building slow, taking my time, and going back to previous areas to improve them as my design skills kept improving. My island is complete now and I love walking around it. 400+ hours of care went into those areas and I love seeing my villagers hang out around the island.
is it insane to say this video makes me wanna reset again 😭 mostly bc it made me rethink how i've treated my themed islands and that i really wanna commit to something that is my own without feeling so stressed on making something so exact
After making 5 or 6 different themed layouts, I found that all I really wanted was a classic Animal Crossing island, no gimmicks, no clutter, just a layout I liked and could use to finish the bug/fish collection. I really hope the next game makes it easier to terraform because constantly changing the entire island one tile at a time is mind numbing, especially when you have custom tiles
you don’t need a theme. new horizons has tons of items, but how about instead of trying to make it a dream island, just go fishing, catch bugs, farm. getting truly attached to your town will make you want to never reset
Mr. Resetti would be so upset at just throwing our islands away
I loved resetti. I would reset my GameCube just to see him again. Cute mole, and his lanky brother.
I reset after moving out of my parents house in late 2021, at the time i wanted to start fresh in the game like i was doing in real life. in retrospect, i wish i hadn't. things ended up not going very well with my new roommates, and the homesickness was hitting hard. not having that same town that brought me comfort during the pandemic while holed up with my parents wasn't as freeing as i had hoped. im glad i at least get to visit it in the form of a dream town. but now it feels like visiting a time in my life that was much simpler. no job, no bills, no worries, just me and the town i spent every day in, preserved forever, but i can never live in again.
That sucks.
Even if you don't have your old town, you can still love the game. As someone who played on the Wii and switch, I have reset my island before, but my villagers will always stay in my heart. They will never leave.
I only reset my town because I *tried* to terraform my entire island, but once I did, it didn't feel like Animal crossing anymore. So I reset and found new villagers to meet.
I hope the game can still give you comfort, all things considered. If you have a 3ds, maybe New Leaf would fit you better? Idk, I just think the older dialogue definitely helps.
That sounds sad hope you're ok
"Your mother-in-law never liked me" was so subtle, but so good!
I got the game immediately when it came out, and have never reset. Don't think I ever could. My island has become like a home and the villagers are like family. We've been through everything together and I couldn't stand for any of them to go away.
That's why even though I have a switch, I mostly play ACNH on the PC through an emulator. It's way easier to back up your saves and work on multiple islands at once. I have my casual island and my design island, depends what I'm in the mood for.
I did this too for this exact reason. The only think I dislike about this method is that you can't play online and use online features.
It is nice however to be able to use a save editor to unlock color variations since certain items are color locked to your island. - I am sure this is to promote multiplayer and playing with other people... But honestly just like with older Pokemon games, this becomes a hindrance as the game gets older, and you are the only one in your friend group still playing the game.
Hey... any idea how to download a Switch emulator nowadays? Some of them got nuked recently and I have no idea how to find one anymore. sigh.
I personally just struggle to feel attached to my islands. I started playing new leaf again sometimes and i remember feeling super mega apprehensive as a kid about resetting it because...the villagers were my friends! The lack of interesting relationship forming in ACNH makes it easier to reset.
I want to reset my island for a new river layout but the thought of going through the DIY recipe RNG makes me want to ugly cry. I'm on my original island and I only recently got my favorite recipes after 4 years. I couldn't imagine doing all that again without one of those Twitch islands.
just use terraforming!
Terraform or, if you need somewhere to keep stuff let me know any you can use my island
Me but because I'm unhappy with what I've done and want a do-over because I'm lazy to move everything, it feels too slow and I'm not even sure what I'm doing, I had ideas but I'm the worst at exterior decorating
@@TheColourfulSidetwitch The thing is, I think what they mean is their river entrances and exits, which you unfortunately can’t change with just terraforming
What’s your favorite recipe?
For me, resetting my island taught me things come to an end eventually and to be happy with what you have. That first one was special, that first one felt natural, flowing, my villagers felt somewhat personal. Then I reset and it felt cold, unfamiliar, impersonal. I regretted that but I also felt that it was truly time to move on, I truly enjoyed every moment of my time on my first island and if I could do it over again(like erase my memory and experience of it) I wouldn't change a thing.
omg the pressure of perfection is ruining me, plus with me being super anxious about everything, here I am on my 7th reset, yikes....
I had about 700 hours on new leaf, that was with about 3 resets and my sister having a house in the town yet she didnt go on it as much as i did. Just for having the game since it came out, id reset a few times for when id go and come back to it. But new leaf always felt like something more can be done. Obviously i understand aesthetics and such things have been around forever but i think for being younger and playing wild world, city folk and new leaf between the ages of like 5-15, i didnt have much acess to the Internet so i never felt a pressure to make my house or my town pleasing to the eye, i just put what i liked in my house and that was that. It was more just the love of collecting things i liked that i happened to get on the way. I think the Internet and the addition of giving so much freedom to the player in customisation has sort of set back new horizons in a way (for some players). As much as i love how free it is, its too much. I think the way players get creative and find theirself in the way they play is to have boundaries and limits to what they can do, and to then find a way to make it work for how they want to play. Ive reset 1 time for new horizons, yet ive played about 200 hours. And it was because i wanted a blank slate so i could make it picture perfect like i saw on my feed and it sucks that for me at least, a game that ive loved since i was little turning into a full on project feels very dull. It used to be my own world id go into to just run around and fish a ton because i liked doing that, but now its about the grind and showing off what you've done. And im not saying that peoples' efforts shouldn't be seen, people have made amazing stuff on their island and its great to see, but i wish it could just feel like a game with no expectation again. Sometimes i feel like people forget that it is a game, like its supposed to be fun and you shouldn't feel the need to put so much pressure on yourself to make it perfect if thats not how you want to play.
In older AC games, losing your town would be like a personal 9/11 and now with AC deleting your save has become part of the gameplay loop
I was happier with every idea of an island I had during a reset. But the tedium of building it hit harder every time. I never really got my final island to where I would have liked to get it.
And now, with a half finished island, and missing previous villagers (who felt more of a commodity than a character with each reset) I can say that I regret my final reset. I miss the previous island, and I couldn't deal with the tedium again. And now half my island is just an open field.
I haven't played in 2-3 years at this point, and I still feel burnt out from it.
i've never reset, including launch day - i got lucky with home fruit and airport colour on day 1 - so this reset energy has always eluded me. it's interesting to see a more familiar perspective on it!
I love seeing others reset and restart despite never doing it myself. It’s sweet to watch people make lovely towns for all their villagers over and over again.
Ive reset once and it was actually becuase i had put a name in that i no longer identified with. I dont want to reset again and ive lost quite a lot of interest in the game though. I dont really know where to go from here. I think its mainly becuase i am focused on the aeshetics of the game too much but dont find decorating my island fun a lot of the time.
i also reset because of my name and now i'm trying to get all the bugs and fish. i'm mostly grateful it freed my from my flower issue
i've looked at your channel description and honnestly i don't get why people don't like your voice, it's chill and very soothing.
also fun video
I just reset my island yesterday, only because I wanted my RS centered in the map. I like symmetry and having it in the bottom left threw my ideas off.
The thing is, resetting is seen as a way for a fresh start, a way to "play the game for the first time" again. But it doesnt work. At first, it may give *way more enjoyment* then still playing on your original save, but after a week or 2, it will start to feel empty. Soon, you''ll stop playing the game entirely, and regret deleting your save.
I type this from experience, as i deleted my new leaf save, and regretted it immensely.
I did a "soft reset" twice by just adding player characters and just that convinced me that I would absolutelx regret resetting my whole island. It takes so long to get to a point where you have enough resources to just focus on decorating. Plus I have so many custom designs I don't wanna lose
So if I evee got to a stage where my island was fully designed, I think I'd just redo different areas
The mother in law joke was so smooth I did a double take
me too LMFAO. so funny
I've had to reset my island twice, but not because I really wanted to. I always intend my island to be my one and only. But when my brother moved away and took the switch we shared with him I had to get a new one. Then the first island I had on my new switch was associated with people that I had to step away from permanently, so I restarted to have that in-game seperation. But my current island and switch are solely mine and I'm very happy with it.
I've reset a million times and it's literally the only thing that keeps the game fresh for me. But I also absolutely do put it down for months at a time, lol.
I just hate how after a while, playing the game feels like doing chores I *have* to do rather than things I *want* to do.
Like the game feels so fresh when you start a new island. You have objectives, villagers are new and exciting and the Island feels like it's comming alive. But when you've played for a month, and all the villagers have repeated their dialogue 100+ times each, and all you're doing is logging on - digging up fossils and planting money trees, it get's really stale..
I havent ever resetted my island, I am way too sceard. When the Gyroids were added again I completely empited my main room in my house to make it have the centerpiece of the little guys, this was my version of resetting. And I am so upset about it, I think about the old room all the time, like even when I am not playing the game I think about how mad I was to no longer be able to see what the room looked like before. So that's my little way of thinking about it.
its too late now, but you could save your room design.
Clicked on this video thinking it would be about the absence of Resetti. I was wrong, but stayed anyways and now you have a new subscriber :) I've never reset my island and have no desire to, but I see the appeal. Love that you conducted the survey!
I reset my town in new leaf so many times I can't even count, but only twice in new horizons. It's quite hard to explain but I hate the feeling of giving up on something I have made myself. Islands are sort of like art to me.
I started playing ACNH again at the beginning of November this year and I didn't restart my island. I ended up manually replanting trees and emptying my island because I wanted a fresh start without losing my villagers and memories.
After weeks of playing it, I randomly said to my mom "you know what, I think I'm enjoying this more, now that not a lot of people are playing" lowkey sounds crazy.
When ACNH was at its peak I think it was draining to see everyone's perfect everything. From villager lineups, island designs, finished museums, etc. Like you said in the video; it really can feel like youre failing when your game doesn't look like the ones on Pinterest. Even though getting to that point is hours of playing and designing. With ACNH there's no correct way to play yet it still felt like there was.
I also feel like the constant flow of animal crossing everywhere made it also feel overwhelming. Everywhere you looked people were talking about New Horizons, which I guess too much of a good thing can still make you feel overwhelmed
This video makes me want to pick up ACNH again and say hi to my villagers. 😊 I havent reset at all and i began playing on the launch date. I have radically changed my island layout multiple times though. Lol
I've reset so many times on this game it's just what I find the most enjoyable. I've only ever completed two islands but there's something cathardic to me about taking the game slow, doing what I want rather it be fishing, bug collecting or island hopping to shop at, or check out random islands without time travel. I started the game back up in August after surgery and ended up not playing again until after Christmas. So I once again - you guessed it, restarted my island. Maybe one of these days I'll actually complete another island project! But that might have to be saved for when the Switch 2 releases. Lately my new craze has been me wanting to get into custom designs since I just got my clothing shop in two or three days ago. It's nice.
And yes, it is going to have an overgrown horror theme if I do ever get around to completing this one. ;)
and that's why you mod your switch and backup your save!
It’s wild that this ever happened because there were several off-ramps.
Save data backups as offered by Nintendo Switch Online?
Allowing an absentee sibling to hand over island representative status to another villager, or share it in all its features and privileges?
The game was just generally user-unfriendly, burned me out before I got the concert, and then caught my sister with the inability to progress by locking her out of the island representatives position.
I wish I could run a multiplayer island. Size it up a bit and have several players play as island representative. The Minecraft effect of being able to specialize on different elements of the game and share spoils.
As someone who reset a lot of times but not for a particular theme, I did it mostly because I was running out of motivation to continue the island I was on and wanted to revitalize the game again. Except for the one time when my save got wiped
I’ve never 100% completed an island. I’ve never felt like my decoration was nice enough to finish the entire island. I’ve also never reset my game. I got it at launch and somehow just fought with my island and everything I disliked about it…THIS WHOLE TIME because I have anxiety about losing everything else. I’ve returned to New Leaf more times in the last two years than NH because it doesn’t have the quality of going ‘home’ like the older games do. That being said, I was a save editor for NL. I would do all my work designing my town on the save editor for the sake of my sanity lolol. Even though we had less control for exteriors, being able to switch up my rivers and add plants where they should and shouldn’t be made things feel magical. Picking that simple path that was just right. Idk I long for the simplicity but also the community of it. The interactions in game matter much more to me than terraforming and outdoor furniture ): I miss my animal friends that actually meant something to me as a kid. Camaraderie, a REASON to have a nice town for the other inhabitants I love and care for. Sorry for rambling , I just deeply miss what AC once was.
same, i spent around 1,5k hours on new leaf and i prefer it compared to new horizons. the first thing that i was disappointed with in NH was the musics. something was different, it didnt match the vibe of NL and WW (being the only ones i played) NL is more simple and easy and got that nostalgic feeling, that i think anyone can get even if u start playing NL when you're not a kid anymore. customization was simplier, more cozy. in NH everything is big and complicated, and the furnitures, terraforming makes u able to do realistic stuff and i HATE seeing that in animal crossing..
Same, new leaf is peak. I started with wild world. it's hard to go back now though because of missing some acnh features and it makes me feel restless about not being able to pick one to actually play and have fun with
My dad got my copy of ACNH for a late birthday present, a month after release. I hold my island close to my heart, all because of my dad buying the game and I can't stand the idea of deleting my save data, my island holds alot of sentimental value. Though I plan on flattening my island(for the 100th time lmao lmao). I still love this game, even after loosing the initial huzzah of the game releasing, I do enjoy seeing people on TH-cam reset, redo with a new island, but I personally couldn't do it
This video was very interesting to me, as it presented a perspective on the game that I don't seek out very often. I'm not a "perfection" focused AC player by any means, and very much prefer the life simulation vibe of the series' roots. Along with that, after having played ACNH for several months during the pandemic, I can also say that I don't currently like it very much, and haven't gone back to it basically at all since then. I largely feel that the gameplay changes made to it have fundamentally changed what Animal Crossing is about, and, it saddens me to see that as someone who likes the old gameplay style.
The bit that's interesting to me is, specifically, seeing the perspective of a player who seems to not have a big issue with the direction that the game has gone in. You talk about resetting the game, rebuilding your town over and over again for fun, striving for these picturesque, idealized islands. Again, it's not a perspective I've looked for very often, and it was interesting to see how you, and players like you, perceive the game and the process of resetting it to have more fun in the future.
I think often about how I wish ACNH "wasn't like that", but I would never want to remove the positive experience that you and others are having with the game. I hope that Nintendo will find a way to support both of our desires in the future. That's basically all I had to say. Thank you for the interesting, and thought provoking, video.
I’ve learned that the way I played the game was flawed. What I mean is, whenever I would play it, it would be the only thing I touched on my switch for months on end, leaving me bored and underwhelmed. So, I just restarted my island after 2 years, and I’ve learned that in order to rlly enjoy it for myself, I get through what needs to be done on ACNH (the chores, maybe some decorating, keep in mind I did just restart.) and then I take a break to do something in the house irl. I never took the time to step away from Animal Crossing during covid because at 13, I felt like it was the only haven I had. Away from the troubles of my family at the time, from the pandemic, from the failing school system. It was peaceful, but I’ve learned to balance that peace with reality now.
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I have over 1,000 hours in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (1,1,30 hours to be precise) and I've kept the same island since the game came out. I've had it for this long that the idea of resetting just doesn't appeal to me. I've deeply considered it over and over again throughout the years, but honestly, there's nothing about my island that I can't really change. The only thing I'd like to do is change my name but that's it.
I've flattened and redone my island over and over again. Then once I do that, I play for a little while, then put the game down.
I had my reset era while New Leaf was out, and even before that. My reset era took place during the time I was playing Animal Crossing Gamecube, Animal Crossing: Wild World, Animal Crossing: City Folk, and Animal Crossing: New Leaf. I never had a consistent town in any of these save files and I guess you could call it perpetual tutorial hell. My younger self didn't really understand the idea of a long-term town (and also I didn't have enough space for more than one game on my memory card).
It wasn't until the Welcome Amiibo update dropped that I had my first town for longer than a year. I made paths, I made my town beautiful, then I put the game down while waiting for Animal Crossing: New Horizons to come out.
I do wonder how many players like me got their resets out throughout the years of being an Animal Crossing player. I very recently tried a challenge where I'd keep on top of every Animal Crossing game at once and I was tempted to reset my New Horizons island to do the same. In fact, I planned to do so on the New Year. But I didn't.
My New Horizons island is something of a time capsule for me, a consistent in the unknown variables that is my life. Friends come and go, events come and go, but my island is always there and it has been since the beginning of 2020. It's seen my best, my worst, my highs and my lows. At this point, I've come to terms with the fact that there's absolutely no way I'm resetting my island. I'd much rather invest in another Switch if I have to do something like that.
But I can't really imagine a different island other than Yabusame.
I'm new here but, i'll give a simple retrospective on my experience with my island.
I have never reseted my island, but I've taken a very long hiatus from the game in April of 2022, due to burnout.
It will have been almost 3 years since I last touched that save file, and yet I could pick it up again and it would feel like home because i spent hours working on it, no aesthetics, just made it how i wanted and progressed at my own pace.
Even now, I'm thinking about my island and how it was left, and I'm pretty content with what i made it, and would never reset it.
I never reset my ACNH world but my sister let me make my own world on her switch (we have a family switch that my mom used to get animal crossing on so she gets to run that island but doesnt) and honestly, it was a great refresh, It felt like reseting my progress except now I had control over what the island would look like and now the island I play on constantly doesn't have flowers on every inch of the grass and I can decorate it nicely .
I will never reset my island, that’s why I like watching people doing it
I play casually and on the odd occasion, its the only way to go for me. I dont think my island will ever be completed because everything is so tedious to do
I remember always watching all the animal crossing new horizons youtube videos back in 2020 really wanting the game but I only had new leaf. I finally got Acnh and the switch lite in january 2021. I was addicated to it for monthsssss. Thinking about the fact that my switch is now almost 4 years old is CRAAAZZZY
I quit when I saw how much better people were at decorating than I was
this just makes a great case for emulation tbh
sometimes I forget me and my family got animal crossing around when it came out, so no, the reason my island isn't developed as much isn't just because we haven't been playing as long, we're just more casual players, but because I realized we got ACNH around when it came it I find it INSANE that some people have reset MULTIPLE TIMES!? WTF DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE ON YOUR THIRD ISLAND, I JUST GOT THE K.K. CONCERT FOR THE FIRST TIME A FEW MONTHS AGO!? (our island became a mess and it took about a month to clean it up, we also didn't really know what to do and finally decided to google it because we had been seeing a bunch of stuff about post-K.K.-concert features like terraforming)
It’s gonna cost me so much money, but some day, I’m gonna get an additional switch dedicated to aesthetic or hyperfixation islands.
I DO love the idea of having a home to return to, so resetting always hurts me unless the island gets finished. So my main switch will be my home island (just my favorites of everything, fave aesthetic, villagers, fruits etc)
And then the second will be for experimentation, so I’ll never lose home, but I’ll always be able to experience a fresh new idea.
I really think if Nintendo let us have just two islands per account, half of the issues would have been dealt with. We could reset islands without having (at least MOST of our) regrets.
i love resetting my island, but i always regret losing all my money 💀💀💀
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I've always been a bit of a "power user" in the Animal Crossing series; I started playing the game way, way back during Wild World, which would have been sometime around 2006, and like most people I had a pretty silly amount of free time to spend on video games when I was younger, and that fact paired with my lil sprinkle of tism giving me a penchant for hyperfixations meant that I poured _hundreds_ of hours into that game, and much faster than the developers really intended, so I kinda burnt out on AC and put it away for a little while, played other games, you know the deal. And then City Folk came out on the Wii and I did it all over again. And then New Leaf came out on the 3DS and I did it all over again. And then New Horizons came out on the Switch and I bought a Switch _just_ to play the new Animal Crossing game, and I did it all over again.
And in all my years of playing AC I've never felt the desire to reset my game. I get incredibly attached to my towns, and my neighbors, and I would never want to give them up just so I could start over, because I play _the heck_ out of these games until I simply don't want to play them anymore, and resetting would definitely not fix that level of burnout; the only thing that does is time away. I _have_ absolutely set the games down for a while and then picked them back up much later to start playing again where I left off, but even when I do come back to them it never really sticks; the only thing that _truly_ invigorates me into wanting to sink hundreds of hours into AC again is a brand new game. I'm looking forward to when that happens, and I can come back and do it all over again.
Part of what contributes to reset culture is the fact that ACNH only allows you to have one island at a time, which for a $90 CAD game is nuts. I understand having a limit, but one?? I’d even be okay with a paid DLC that added extra islands. Happy Home Paradise is nice, I like having a chance to fully customize homes super easily, but it doesn’t mean much when it isn’t my own island to not only customize but to also complete tasks and interact with villagers. The only way to have a second island is to buy a second switch with a second copy of the game. Hundreds more dollars spent for a second island.
I did reset after 1000h, I transfered over a few things I liked but I don't regret it, starting fresh was a good choice
Ive never reset, for me, my town is a story, there's mistakes, neverending projects, etc. Ill likely keep checking in to this one town until the day it expires
I have only reset my island once. I saw all the themed islands and thought 'I can try something like that.'
The terraforming completely ruined the vibe of my little island. So I reset to play a more chill environment with minimal furniture. And it worked. I did miss all the recipes I had after 2 years of playing, but I got a new island with so much fun stuff.
I don't think I backed up my old island? It wasn't really a feature I used.
i think i just want lockdown vibes again. not to say they were good or that it was a nice time at all, but there was a big community on tiktok and it definitely had the excitement of a “new animal crossing game” backing it. just started a new new leaf town and ive been more capable and willing to return to that every day than i have my new horizons town. i reset in the summer of last year and haven’t even finished Project K between then and now
I regretted at first to reset, but now I love my Island and I'm so far when ever with this savefile:)
I'm one of those people that's never reset. I created a cozy enough island for me and contemplated resetting after every event was over with but decided not to. My villagers at this point are also like family to me i guess lol, only i drop in and see them every couple of months.
Oh I've been waiting for this one 🤩
I was like millions of other players that started my island on launch day, but later reset my game due to boredom and discovering something huge about myself (transgender) and not being able to change my character's name. After I did it, I was relieved to have a new name but felt sad about everything I left behind. Huge shocker to no one, but COVID was hard for me ! I was a junior in high school with no clear direction in my studies, and was terribly confused about who I wanted to be. But animal crossing had been an old comfort for years, with my first game being back in the wild world days. Even though my island wasn't perfect, it was my escape, and I had thrown it away. You never realize how much work you did until its gone, and suddenly I had no DIY recipes, no furniture, none of my favorite villagers anymore.
Whats more is New Horizons overwhelmed me from the very beginning. The sheer amount of control allotted to us as the player was too much for me to bare. Couple that with the overwhelming online presence and "perfect islands" being shared on tiktok and instagram, I immediately shut down. Suddenly every decision I made had to put me a step closer to my "perfect island" and I found myself judging every stylistic choice I made. I soon yearned for the simpler days of New Leaf and City Folk, even though they were extremely boring to me when compared to New Horizons. I tried to revisit the game this year, but left shortly after because I was soon stuck in my endless pursuit of perfection. Maybe one day I will free myself of my crippling internal critic, but today is not that day. My New Horizon's island will remain untouched until then.
i used to reset really often because i never felt like i was ever playing the game properly? (if that makes sense) i now know it was an OCD problem but honestly i would never reccomend it to anyone because it really hurts to lose all of your progress and little touches that make your island uniquely special :(
I’ve never been here so early omg hey Salem
I only reset once, but only because I didn’t like my island name. I think the name is fine now, I just flatten and revuild when I get bored.
4:19 you know what else is massive?????
LOWWWW TAPPPERRR FADDDEEEEE
I bought a whole new switch lite so i didnt have to reset my current island 😭
I feel like ACNH is surprisingly similar to Minecraft for the people who reset their Minecraft world to capture the nostalgia (or in animal crossing’s case, joy) but half of the time, it DOES end up failing, cause the spark of joy and nostalgia was when the game was still NEW.
Other people think Minecraft is kind of mid now just because of the sheer amount of stuff that’s changed (saying it doesn’t feel like Minecraft anymore due to complexities in mechanics)
i feel like covid era kinda showed how many people just treated new horizons like a “cozy” dollhouse sims 4 with animals instead of a game where you actually interact with the world around you. i’m not saying that you can’t reset or flatten your town, but try to care about the things that the devs put in there
Salem do NOT tell me that ACNH’s 5 yr anniversary is coming up and that it’s half a decade that hurts my brain
THE INTRO IM CRYING IT WASNT MY DECISION TO ADOPT KIDS SALEM IT WAS YOURS
2020 was so peak that Animal Crossing: New Horizons was the only thing I remember on L.I.B EBOYZ
watching this video makes me want to reset my island
the only reason i reset was because i needed to change my name several times. if animal crossing JUST let you change your name i would have never had to reset my islands
I played ACNH for over 1000h and 500-600h alone were spent on terraforming and redesigning my island many times ( i would never reset my island ). I hope terraforming gets easier and faster in the new game. And I also need more space. I have so many ideas that i cant display because my town is so full 😢
I also hope for the mini game island from ACNL or something else so we can spent more time with friends and other players 🙈
I’ve been resetting and making new islands since I got the game. It’s basically how I play.
AC fan since 2002. I've never reset any AC game. I was very happy with New Leaf. New Horizons, even with all the new features, almost feels tedious despite only playing it for a year (I got my Switch in 2023). The beginning stages of NH take too long to trudge through for me to ever want to reset.
Your final challenge: play new horizons until you're happy with your island 💀
"Your mother in law never liked me" in this hypothetical this means your mother never liked you 🤔
Wait…if I BUY another cartridge of the $70 dollar game, I still have one island ????? 0:56
Yeah
Yep, i bought my boyfriend a copy and thought he could play on mine. Lo and behold i had to take myself to the store again to buy a whole new console.
Never gonna resest. My island may be somewhat bearbones with no clear theam but its mine.
You are ballin'
I could never reset this game unlike previous titels because I know it won't bring back the spark, I'm to say "mid-way" and there is nothing to keep me playing anymore for even a few minutes
I like your video. It made me think why I restarted my first island. I now have two island on two systems. the second system belongs to my partner. Your video we will keep watching them.
i've reset twice, and i'm about to again. :p my current island was made in 2022, and i'm just so bored with it now. i've played since launch day, and every time i reset it's a difficult choice because i love my island and i love my villagers, part of what stops me from resetting is losing my villagers. (especially since my favourite villager is stinky, and he's considered ugly so no one ever is trading him or has him. :(() im a long time animal crossing fan, and ac has helped me a lot with depression over the past 15 or so years that i've been playing, but acnh is just so limited in its social aspect. while acnh does have a lot of beneficial things like the customization increase and the cute dlc, it's just unfinished. it feels empty and lonely in a way that the other games don't. i have over 1000 hours in the game, and one thing that i really noticed is how much you feel like a king rather than a townie. you're in a place full of "yes" men and no pushback or free will of the villagers. it's depressing. i still love playing acnh, but i recognize that part of the magic that made ac so incredible and re-playable was the guarantee that your villagers would always be different and treat you like a stranger at times. resetting can feel like a blessing, however short lived once you realize everything comes easy as hell and you hardly ever get a rude sounding comment or a strange interaction. it's missing key elements, and don't even get me started on the soundtrack OR the fact that it TOOK THEM ALMOST TWO YEARS TO ADD GYROIDS. :| im still pressed as fuck about that lol- but yeah, acnh is just a different kind of ac game. if you like having all kinds of freedom and building and doing whatever you want, it's great. but if you come for the silly interactions and fun little letters, it can very quickly become lackluster and dull. :( i literally cried when i saw the trailer for it in 2019 because i was so excited. i really hope that nintendo cleans up their act and that the next ac release will be out with full confidence and at LEAST mostly finished. 😭
You know what I think helps? Playing other AC games. I've been redoing the same island I've had since launch for the very first time and in between working on it, I also play Wild World and New Leaf on my 3ds, and then the original gamecube version on the dolphin emulator on my pc. The piece that holds the discs in the gamecube broke inside of mine and I don't have a physical copy for it anyways😭 NL was my first and I had never heard of AC until 2016 lol great franchise, we need more things from the older games in the next game, please Nintendo, hear our cries lol
So i def abused the turnip stocks on my first playthrough and was big rich the entire time. I wanted to do a playthrough where i was more genuine with the play (only time traveling to advance plot, not necessarily to game the whole system). Because of how i played in the first place im now dealing with how incredibly slow gameplay is by comparison and it’s making it hard. Add in the fact i was able to get so many great villagers the first time because of luck and also friends giving my favs away, and now this time im getting less luck plus im already bored of their dialogue. This is my 3rd time restarting over the past couple years just because i lose interest each time and dont feel a drive to build my island.
i only regretted a reset once and i'm not sure if it counts since it was when i got my switch pro and i hadn't set up properly to keep my old island. I had put so much work into that island from the villagers to the house layouts and the island decor, i've restarted a few times since with the idea of remaking that island but i just haven't been able to get very far with that so far!
I've never reset my Island. I'd rather flatten my Island than regret my choice. I don't time travel; I just play my island the way I like rather than comparing it to others. I've played daily and I'm now working on getting every villager's photo and I don't have amibo cards so it'll take a while aside from the Sanreo villagers and I have a list of 10 villagers I'd like on my island and i have 6 out of 10 so I keep cycling through the 4 spot for villager photo's and sometimes I see a villager I have on my list of wants but I don't have any of the 4 open spots photos so I have to turn them down or replace them with one of the 6 I already have and wan't.
I've restarted a couple times now, once on my own accord and the 2nd because I got a new switch and forgot to transfer.
I definitely have the problem with wanting my island to be perfect and super detailed like the ones I see. I last left my island partway through decorating, but whenever I return I'm not sure if I have the motivation to continue or what I want to do with the game
Vis, Amanda and Salem all in one video!? what is this a crossover episode? /pos
“Your” mother in law never liked me? lol. That’s not how it works.
You can have multiple islands if you have multiple switches
Wait you can’t have a separate file? What of the Switch owned by a family? They have to share the island?
I reset once and it was when the 2.0 update came out, I was at a lul with my original island anyway so the timing felt right. I miss my old island sometimes but I love the island I have now.
AC isn't something I regularly play day to day anymore, but I find myself hopping onto it once and a while, say hi to my villagers, work on some oddball thing I missed, go to happy home paradise if I feel like REALLY wanna distract myself for a while- not that nonstop attention I gave the game originally, but it's definitely high up there for me in "comfort game" I know I can come back to 😊
I've considered resetting with WW and NL, but I can't even imagine resetting New Horizon! It feels like such a slog to finish up the game sometimes. It's this odd combination of too much grind and not enough to do, and the villagers being lobotomized makes it less fun to hang out in the game.
I got bored with ACNH BUUUT! My mother wants to play it now so- YAY ima go back to it.. eventually…”