Like, I tried playing Ark and the one of my first strong Dinos died. I was so devastated and can't play the game anymore. I don't want it to happen again.
@@Anne-xm9sf FELT especially with my Minecraft dogs I feel so devastated I make them their own graves and if I do have dogs in a world I NEVER can bring myself to delete it
Its so wild to me that people are just now getting into playing the game the way it was originally intended. Dont get me wrong im all about playing games however you want to play it but everyone being like "woah forever islands!!!" As if its crazy and unheard of is really baffling lol. I still have my same island ive had since i first bought the game in may of 2020 and i even still have the two starter villagers i began the game with. I have another switch that was gifted to me and i like to reset my game on it every so often to start fresh but really nothing compares to having a long term island where you build relationships with your villagers, collect everything for the museum and just enjoy the game at the slow pace it was intended.
literally i thought that was the default…? in my sims kingdom on ds, i only ever restarted if id taken a break and forgot what i was meant to do next or got stuck fsr. couldn’t imagine deleting my acnh island tbh, it would feel like wasted time just to lose it forever, the animals, custom art, decorations etc. i assumed everyone was a “forever” island player until they got bored of their island style (and can’t adjust it quickly) or wanted to play the story from the start for some reason. especially since it’s a game without multiple saves.
The only reason I have had 2 islands is because mine got deleted by accident when transferring switch devices. I have had the lite, normal 2019, and an oled (my current switch, the rest was sold) The first time, no backup was available via cloud saving on AC, second time as well but the cloud saving backup was retrievable, so I could continue that one. On the other side, I was glad I could restart my island. I was just chilling there with my villagers and fishing, but sadly I am back at the point of having stress because of decorating lol
Yes exactly! I think it's great that newer players have decided to do it now and they can get still get years out of their game, but I agree when she was describing what it meant I was so confused bc that's the whole point of the game! And she's played the older games too so I believe that's why she described it perfectly!
ngl ive never really understood how so many people began deleting islands left and right just to build new ones all over, but it's probably because i also grew up with animal crossing the "old fashioned way" and the only time ive ever deleted a town i regretted it SO much. my new horizons island ive had almost since day 1 (i got the game like one or two days late lol) and its still constantly changing because i flatten so often, but i prefer doing that than just deleting it. it kinda sucks that playing the game how animal crossing is supposed to be is mostly an afterthought now, but ig it also does kinda make sense since it was so barebones for the longest time (and its still missing a ton of features older games had...) but in the end im glad people are finally turning around and seeing it as more than just a decoration sim
Thank you for this. I keep getting sucked into all the cool looking designer islands, and I can watch people do that forever. But whenever I try to do it to my island, I stop myself, thinking 'but if I do that, my villager can't get to work.' or 'I can't chop trees like this' or 'people are gonna get lost if the roads aren't straight.' Like I know I'm being silly, but I love my villagers and I want my island to feel more like home with art in it, instead of an art piece with a house somewhere in it.
I'm autistic and I'm very focused on having roads to everywhere. I just can't do anything other than having my neighborhood all in one place and fun things in the rest of the island, like a cafe, or a park, or a sports court. Everything is very boxed but I think I've managed to make it cute even though everything is in their little boxes haha
My first island since the launch of New Horizons is my forever island. I've finally "finished" it in 2023. After I completed decorating it, I took a 5 month break (I played it every day for hours, since March 20th 2020) and when I came back, I caught all the bugs, fish and deep sea creatures that I didnt catch during the previous 3 years of playing. I didnt time travel to do it, I just patiently waited until the month/season then logged back on to catch it. It actually felt more fulfilling than time traveling to catch them.
I swear, having a forever island is worth it. Doing everything at your own pace, having villagers you actually want without needing to fit in a theme and not stressing about having the "perfect aesthetic island" is amazing. Til some time ago i used to get so stressed out with Animal Crossing, because i wanted to have all the popular villagers only because people liked it, and this made me burn out frequently, now i only have villagers i love, no matter how unpopular or "ugly" they are. I also don't care about aesthetic anymore, i will put whatever i feel like in my island. It feels way more like home like that. Playing like this made me appreciate Animal Crossing even more, and the game is actually chill as it was supposed to be.
i’m a chronic resetter, but not for decorating purposes, but because i stop playing and feel like i need a “fresh start” once i get back into the game. i’ve done this for all the animal crossing games i’ve played but i always end up regretting it! i recently made an island again and i aim to not reset, even if i haven’t played in a while and just chill and play the game normally, cause i sometimes get caught up in making the most money or paying off my house immediately. but i find it kinda funny how the ac community has terms like “forever island” and “normcore island” like these are novel concepts for animal crossing games lol! but it makes me happy people are trying the game as the devs intended, i hope they find really fun and relaxing! and i love your island theme! i have always wanted to make a forestcore island but never was able to in all of my islands, i hope with my current one i can finally achieve it!
i can rlly relate to what you’ve said! as someone who used to delete their new leaf island, when I felt like it didn’t go as I planned to, I got caught up in this „don’t like it anymore? haven’t been around for a while? well, just re-start it!“ mindset and it transferred to acnh as well. I’ve regretted that multiple times, but sometimes in that specific moment it just feels like the right decision. I also intend to not delete my current islands anymore :) I would say, I’m the kind of person who doesn’t trust the process of my island, so when there’s something that I was really unsatisfied with, I always resetted that. Til this day I remember my first new leaf island! I really miss it 😭 And I don’t want this feeling again
@@selllnx2593 ah same! when acnh came out i told myself not to restart but i also fell back into bad habits, and i still remember my first new leaf and new horizons towns! i miss them dearly, funnily enough i named my new leaf town Eventide, but this was several years before BOTW! it would’ve been cool if i kept that town lol
I used to strictly play pocket camp, but i just got a switch, so ive been binging new horizons instead!! Ty for these videos, it helps me feel like im playin with someone lmao
I'm new to ACNH and thought that "forever islands" were the normal type of island tbh. I don't even know how to have multiple islands haha but still appreciate the concept and LOVE your Forever island a lot. I'm taking inspiration from it as I'm creating my own island :)
Most people don’t have multiple islands, but if they do they used more than 1 switch. Majority just get their island to 3/5 stars (you’ll learn about stars later) and looking nice, reset and repeat the process. I’ve only reseted once and I actually am happy with my island now in terms of villagers and the placement of some things. So, forever islands are great but you can reset too!
They are the normal type of island. I only see this "forever island" terminology in ACNH content creator communities where people quickly "complete" islands and treat them like individual art pieces, save the DA, and then start over with a new idea. Which, btw, is totally fine if people like to play that! I'm always in awe of the beautiful themed islands people create. But the "normal" way to play the game is to just have one island, where you play a little every day, form connections with your villagers, and casually decorate at whim based on your personal preferences. That is why the game only allows one save file. The intent of the Animal Crossing series is to simulate a community. The dev of the original Animal Crossing game had the idea after moving to the a new city and feeling lonely. He wanted to create an experience where people can play the game and feel like they belong and have friends there. It actually makes me a little sad seeing new players think the normal way to play is to hyperfixate on a "theme" for an island and decorate every single tile. A ton of my friends play ACNH and we all still have our islands we made in March 2020. I highly recommend, if you're able to, try ACNL on the 3DS and experience the real magic of Animal Crossing. You can't place furniture outside in that game. Though you can decorate with flowers, trees, and makeshift paths, it makes you value the peaceful nature of the game where you do some tasks while catching up with your villagers.
I recently restarted my first island because I got so burnt out bc I was doing cottagecore but the colors were very plain and I just overall hated my island, so I made the decision to restart and I’m so glad I did bc I’m so much more happy Moral of the story: have fun ur way 🫶
I like the best of both world, I have a forever island that i redecorate often on whims whenever i feel like, i just like testing themes out and have bunch of them in one go, i really appreciate the aesthetic acnh content creators/players without them i wouldn't have all the inspirations and custom designs! and i truly adore and find it charming to see people playing it organically too. thanks so much for posting this we need more of both
Your island's so cute! I plan to pick this game back up in March and I'm gonna try to play daily for at least an entire year with no time traveling and minimal terraforming.
I find this style more pleasing for day-to-day. It's a real island instead of like an art instillation just to be on the dream network like you said. I find it so hard to get started so I love how you have these simple little paths with base patterns in a lot of places. It's inspiring.
I like this idea and all the slow paced noncore vibe but then you said you had another switch, which is fine, but it’s the same as those who can’t afford a new switch that wipe to get a new vibe. I don’t want to part with my island but at the same time I’ve fully completed it so I cannot play it anymore and enjoy it.. I really wish we could have multiple saves
love this video! i started my forever island in july 2023 after resetting many times and started a no time traveling no trading island and i have played almost everyday since even if just for 5 minutes a day! it totally rejuvenated my love for the game and i've discovered so many things about it i never would have noticed before.
Thank you so much for this!! I've been playing AC since the begining of times on Wii and 3Ds, and I will continue playing ACNH untill the next game is released. With NH, the game has reached a lot of people, which is fantastic, but I've always felt like the pure and naive Animal Crossing vibe was missing and gone. So many perfect islands just to get the "perfect aesthetic" as you say and then move on... Too much anxiety for me, while I play the game to just unwind and truly enjoy. I've restart a couple of times because of this, and I regret now not having my original March 2020 island. Is so refreshing to share with people the feeling of having an aesthetic but also usefull island. Thank you again ❤🩹🙏
i played animal crossing the original way, but i decided to restart my island because i started it 4 years ago and i hadnt played in a year and the island felt so attached to the old me that i felt stuck with what i could do in the game, it no longer felt like it belonged to meand im a hoarder so i felt over whelmed by the stuff i felt like i couldn’t sell and restarting has made the game so much better! this time i have a goal in mind of what i want my island to eventually be, i get to redo the entire process of collecting fish and critters and gathering materials which was game play i finished a long time ago
i started what will hopefully be my forever island a few days ago. I had always gotten stressed out with trying to get the "perfect villagers" and decorate it well to fit the theme that I always reset my island.
I couldn’t agree more. I’m very attached to my island and I will continue to naturally let it evolve. I love the other more “designer” approaches and people do some amazing things with that aesthetic, but it’s just not me.
i just finished my first island (mixed theme took me 2 yrs to finish). i got attached and dont want to delete it. i also hesitate to rush in doing another island to avoid overlap. i visit a lot of players who have made soooo many islands . creatively its amazing but i also see a pattern of most of their islands looking the same. they're not much different from the last. and i know many wont mind, but if i make another island i want it to be very different from my last one. its a challenge im willing to take to expand my creativity.
I had my first island for four years and just was to a point where I wasn't having as much fun. It was so hard to delete it, I had to have my husband do it. Resetting was the best thing I could have done, I'm not as burnt out anymore and I'm excited to play again. This one will be my last one likely because I feel excited to make a cozy farming island, a mash up of my two favorite game genres. It's also been tough restarting because there isn't as much help as there used to be. So I'm gonna grind a lot of things but there's other things I may not do. Like getting that 100 fish in a row streak, fishing is the bane of my existence.
I just recently picked animal crossing back up and I am striving to play this way! I used to get so caught up in how perfect my island and theme had to be, to match with the aesthetic trends, that it would make me not want to play the game. Now I am not looking for inspiration for my island anymore and I am just decorating it as ideas pop into my head. Its made the game so much more relaxing and fun!
Thanks for this! I did a lot of work on my 2020 island.... but... it doesn't give me that good vibes anymore since it was created in 2020 when my vibes weren't too good so the memories are still there so I think I may reset it so I can make a happy forever island
i feel nostalgic for spring cos i picked it up in the southern hemisphere on release, i always seem to come back around this time of year - but not intentionally
I have so much joy whenever I see someone have Lolly on their island, she’s my favorite and birthday buddy and it makes me happy to know she’s so loved by many
i restarted my islands so many times over the last few years, and am just now getting to the point where i am just PLAYING the game. not trying to get a theme, just playing it for vibes. not time traveling a ton, just taking it day by day and gradually building it up. it has truly restored the love of the game for me, and i know this is going to be my forever island 🥹
I have a regular switch and a switch lite so I have two islands. One has a main theme and the other is a "go with the flow" kind of island. I have never finished a single island since the game came out because I have always played in a very slow and laid back way. But I still definitely felt pressure from other creators to have this perfect aesthetic island, but when I started playing New Leaf as well, it made me fall in love with the intended way to play these games again. it has made me love animal crossing even more. 🥰
I'm older (retired). My son-in-law loaned me his switch last year and I had a taster of AC. I've now bought my own Switch and I'm so loving the game. I love being older and get to play as much as I want without curfews of screen time. Yay pensioners and gaming. It's the best.
I’m shocked people didn’t already have their own forever island. I thought people just designed their islands in different aesthetics and just recycle items through out each design. It’s insane to learn you would design and delete and start all over. But glad to see you are enjoying your forever island. That’s how I started playing animal crossing and it feels rewarding
Thanks for explaining what a forever island is. I’m not an animal crossing player (yet) but I have been watching a lot of long new horizons videos lately and it’s been really helping my anxiety ❤
i hate my island name and originally i was so unmotivated to flatten everything but when i deleted my town i regretted it. so i got myself together and flattened it, now in the process of rebuilding and it looks great 💕
I only just started playing animal crossing again. I didn’t actually complete the game when I first played it, but this time I will get to the end credits then edit my island how I want but stay within the realm of how you have decorated your island. Your island is amazing 💖🌸
This is a great thing, i personally always told myself i was gonna restart but my current island i love it to much to get rid of it, 😅 it has a lot of work still need to be done but i love that about it cause i can change it based on how i feel later.
I still have my beginner island, I just redecorate/remodel every so often instead of straight up del-yeeting my island. As much as I dislike the layout I've chosen it's worth the nook miles/tickets/bells/items/diy recipes etc I'd lose and have to get all over again.
I've only ever had a "Forever Island".. I'm too attached to all the memories i have of my island. I had a whole rivalry against Claus because he forced his way on to my island, stuck on it for 2 years and kept giving me clown & joker clothing while i trapped his house and made him live on the outskirts, totally isolated. I'm currently on version 3 of my island as i've flattened it 2 times. Used to play hide & seek a lot with a bunch of friends when the game came out etc.
Your island is soo pretty! 💗 Love that there are still parts of the island that are untouched and not so cluttered. I also still have my very first island from when the game came out ✨ just love the idea of the island slowly growing and changing together with you 🪴🌸
I needed to hear this. Since I picked up acnh back in 2020 I haven't stopped resetting my islands and I've been wanting to feel the same with acnh as I did back when I played the older versions. I love this concept and I think it will help toward making me feel more attached to my villagers and possessions
Wow thank you for this. I’ve also had ACNH since 2020 and had a 2 year break because it was so overwelming with getting the “perfect” island.. I started to play again recently and am still not finished with decorating my island. BUT I’m excited to pick it back up again!
I actually recently started a new island because I got a new switch. On this one I aspire to have this kinda forever island. I won‘t terraform and I want to give all my villagers huge gardens that I fill with stuff and colors that fit their characters and interests. I also let them move out whenever they request it. This way I experience how nice a lot of the underrated villagers are. At the same time, I organically change the look of my island depending on who is living there. This makes it seem a little more authentic and I love it!
I've been working on my only island for years. I'm almost done! I can't imagine starting over it's definitely my forever island 😅 it's mostly highly decorated and "designer" but it's still functional and an escape for me. I like having people online over and soon when I finish I want to have fun meetups on my island (I made a big town square to make that easy)
I've had the game since release but restarted 5 times. I never started the game with the intention of deleting my island again one day, and I've never deleted an island because I "finished" it, made a DA and then moved on to a new island for a new theme or anything like that, though. I kept starting over because I kept hating something about my island 😆 The first island had RS super close to the airport, but diagonal. If you walked straight north from the airport you'd just hit the bottom right corner of RS after a few steps and I couldn't stand it anymore. Second island had the airport all the way to the left and RS in the center of the map, which I thought I liked but quickly grew tired of the fact that I couldn't make nice big entrances, especially symmetrical entrances because the beach on the left was so close. Can't even remember what annoyed me about the third one, just wasn't feeling it. I had turned it into a mess with terraforming I didn't like, didn't feel like flattening everything and I missed the cute beginning with the tents and stuff so I figured I'd just start over.. again. The fourth one had the airport and RS lined up, the peninsula shape I like best and other great things! ...But the airport was orange and I just disliked that too much. I played it for about a month, thinking I'd get over it but.. nope. So finally, I reset for 5 days straight, almost non-stop, hours and hours each day to find an island I knew I would be happy with. And I did ♥ Last October. It's still not finished, but I'm having fun ☺ And then 2 nights ago, I had a nightmare that I had restarted again and regretted it TERRIBLY and missed my current island so much 🤣 Yes, I literally dreamed that, lol.
Both my New Leaf and New Horizons saves are there from when I started (New Leaf: December 2019, New Horizons: March 2021) Fun fact, the very first day I played New Horizons, I was running around with a net, and I fainted from a tarantula. Not even kidding. I can look on my NM app and see March 3, 2021 as my first day AND the day I got Faint of Heart.
I’ve started a few new islands over the years (mostly related to the fact I’m trans & changed my name- but also partly me wanting a fresh start lol). I now have 1 island on my Switch and 1 on my Switch Lite, I’m restarting my Switch one soon (because it has my deadname 😢) but I think the Switch Lite one is here to stay now.
I’m glad I see this videos because I’ve never reset my island and I felt like I needed to do that to do something more aesthetically pleasing but I’m having fun just redoing stuff or just playing slow paced
I have my same island from 2020! I actually started playing with my daughter in 2020 and she lost interest in about a month so I restarted and now the island I have has been the same since. It’s undergone quite a few renovations but I still have my starter villagers and when HHP came around I renovated their homes.
I think nothing compares with playing the weeks after release day 🥰 I bought the oled zelda switch when it released and started a second island - well technically my 3rd one because I played a couple months on a map I ended up hating and then over a year on my second island With my 3rd, the OLED one, I finally created a forever island I think. I still struggle with perfectionism 😂 but I think we're doing well over on Port Auris 🥰 I'm pretty sure I will continue enjoying this island until the next AC will air :)
as someone with undiagnosed adhd/autism i often got hyperfixated with animal crossing then after a few months i would burn myself out and drop the game. i would get so overwhelmed that i would reset and do it all over again. last week i started a new island and i promised myself i would never reset again. i’d like to think this video popping up in my feed is a good sign.
I had my first island when the game first came out. And I didn't play nearly as much as other people. But I finished my island in a year and then I stopped playing until February of 2022. Originally I wanted to start playing again because of the update, but also wanted to start a new island because my old island just wasn't great. All my houses were in one section and it felt like I never went to some parts of the island. Plus I finished my museum. So I restarted my island completely. I played for about 4 months and stopped playing again until recently. I thought about deleting my island again, but decided I was just going to stick with the one I currently have. I have even started decorating more than I would have on my old island. The only problem now is..... my flowers have gotten out of control lol.
I’m so upset, I spent years on my island on my switch lite. My husband bought me a new OLED so I gave the lite to my daughter who has been dying for her own island and she immediately started it. I didn’t realize I needed the island transfer tool… it’s gone forever! It’s not her fault I didn’t transfer it over and I’m kinda excited to start over again but I forgot how much work I put in with a years worth of bugs and fishing in the museum and all my villager hunts and ACTUAL MONEY spent 😢. I loved my island and my villagers and all my villager photos. It’s ok, there’s much worse things in life but man it got my way more upset that I realized it would lol. But I’m having a ton of fun helping my daughter learn to play and starting her little island. It’s a great rainy or cold day mother/daughter activity. She’s 4 so she needs a lot of help but she does surprisingly well.
I still remember my first ever island. I DEEPLY regret deleting it to this day ;w; It would've become my forever island if i didn't. I might try to remake it some time
I regretted resetting my first new leaf town so much that I'll never reset my new horizons one. 4 years going strong lol. I'm also holding my og 2 villagers tybalt and mira captive haha they're not going anywhere
I wish i knew this before i deleted my island 😢 i kept seeing all these perfect islands and felt like i was doing it wrong. Then after restarting i just lost motivation since it wasnt as fun to play.
So I did originally start my island in 2020 but I didn’t really start playing until last December. I really haven’t done much with my island but I couldn’t really see deleting it and starting from scratch ever.
I regret deleting my first island so much 😭 i restarted bc i was bored, but i haven’t found the inspiration for a new island so i haven’t played. My original island really did feel like home 💔
I get the idea of creating animal crossing content but I also have had my one island since 2020 and it changes constantly. I change areas seasonal or if I get bored of what I'm seeing in an area I just rip it down and start that area over. I couldn't imagine being like "It's perfect.... annnnnnd delete"
i got the game in dec 2020 and i kept resetting. i compare my island to all the aesthetic youtubers and delete it, but i have a new island and i’m hoping to finish it. i’ve never completed an island either but i’m trying to make it my forever island. i am planning to get all my fave villagers and i’m enjoying my island so far!
I have the same island that I’ve had since launch and I forgot about the game for a while but suddenly a little over a month ago a bunch of my friends and I suddenly got back into it and I completely removed everything off of my island and redecorated it cuz I’m too emotionally attached to erase it and restart
i restarted my island because my sister wanted to play it and learn how to play but 2 years later we still have our shared island (even though i did most of the work) Its not my first island its my third island BUT to me this one is my forever island and the island name keeps the name theme of being named after flowers so I guess it is our own forever island
My current island is a forever island in the sense of: I restarted a few times, but this one in particular has stuck with me My thing now is, I tried so hard to try and follow other ACNH creators in terms of themes. I've been wanting to go back into it because my style and sense of self had changed. Every time I go through a change, I feel compelled to play AC. But, I'm not sure how to evolve my island into what I envision...
I have a forever island, then to quench my new island thirst but being too attached to my first island…. I bought a second switch…. The Acnh edition! Then transferred everything. Started a new island on my old switch. I got super lucky and my first campsite villager was Raymond! Then I got sucked into HHP
I don’t like people who reset their islands. They usually have so much rare stuff too!! It must’ve taken a long time to get those villagers and the items and the layout, like I don’t get it!!
This! I would like to restart and just start fresh, but my original island feels so... me? IDK how else to explain it, but it would feel wrong to delete all my progress! I'd sooner by a cheap switch and a new copy of AC haha
I don't have new horizons but new leaf and wild world and in new leaf I still have the same town I created in 2014 and when I don't like anything anymore I can just change it but I would never delete my whole town because I put so much work in it. But I once resetted my town in wild world. It was my big sisters town and I spontaniously thought I should make my own town after she gifted me her nintendo ds with the game. Now I regret it because I can never reach the last update for the supermarket because you need another player to visit your island and buy something from tom nook. Well nobody I know has this game because it's so old and for whatever reason I can't connect it with my wlan (even though I can with new leaf) so I can't even find someone online to help me with this 🙃
I always have a forever animal crossing island since I grow emotionally attached easily
same
I feel that. I also hoard things..
Like, I tried playing Ark and the one of my first strong Dinos died. I was so devastated and can't play the game anymore. I don't want it to happen again.
@@Anne-xm9sf FELT especially with my Minecraft dogs I feel so devastated I make them their own graves and if I do have dogs in a world I NEVER can bring myself to delete it
Me too.
I wanna buy a second switch so I can create a second one for more decoration purposes
Its so wild to me that people are just now getting into playing the game the way it was originally intended. Dont get me wrong im all about playing games however you want to play it but everyone being like "woah forever islands!!!" As if its crazy and unheard of is really baffling lol. I still have my same island ive had since i first bought the game in may of 2020 and i even still have the two starter villagers i began the game with. I have another switch that was gifted to me and i like to reset my game on it every so often to start fresh but really nothing compares to having a long term island where you build relationships with your villagers, collect everything for the museum and just enjoy the game at the slow pace it was intended.
literally i thought that was the default…? in my sims kingdom on ds, i only ever restarted if id taken a break and forgot what i was meant to do next or got stuck fsr.
couldn’t imagine deleting my acnh island tbh, it would feel like wasted time just to lose it forever, the animals, custom art, decorations etc.
i assumed everyone was a “forever” island player until they got bored of their island style (and can’t adjust it quickly) or wanted to play the story from the start for some reason. especially since it’s a game without multiple saves.
The only reason I have had 2 islands is because mine got deleted by accident when transferring switch devices. I have had the lite, normal 2019, and an oled (my current switch, the rest was sold)
The first time, no backup was available via cloud saving on AC, second time as well but the cloud saving backup was retrievable, so I could continue that one.
On the other side, I was glad I could restart my island. I was just chilling there with my villagers and fishing, but sadly I am back at the point of having stress because of decorating lol
lol exactly. people binged 800 hours within the first few months of release bc of the pandemic then were all shocked bc they ran out of shit to do
Yes exactly! I think it's great that newer players have decided to do it now and they can get still get years out of their game, but I agree when she was describing what it meant I was so confused bc that's the whole point of the game! And she's played the older games too so I believe that's why she described it perfectly!
@@ZhannArtI hope it becomes fun again soon :) that does suck though...
ngl ive never really understood how so many people began deleting islands left and right just to build new ones all over, but it's probably because i also grew up with animal crossing the "old fashioned way" and the only time ive ever deleted a town i regretted it SO much. my new horizons island ive had almost since day 1 (i got the game like one or two days late lol) and its still constantly changing because i flatten so often, but i prefer doing that than just deleting it. it kinda sucks that playing the game how animal crossing is supposed to be is mostly an afterthought now, but ig it also does kinda make sense since it was so barebones for the longest time (and its still missing a ton of features older games had...) but in the end im glad people are finally turning around and seeing it as more than just a decoration sim
Same I always flatten my island and start a completely different theme but never delete it because it's too much effort to start over lmao
I've had 5 islands in the span of about 2 years lol
Thank you for this. I keep getting sucked into all the cool looking designer islands, and I can watch people do that forever. But whenever I try to do it to my island, I stop myself, thinking 'but if I do that, my villager can't get to work.' or 'I can't chop trees like this' or 'people are gonna get lost if the roads aren't straight.' Like I know I'm being silly, but I love my villagers and I want my island to feel more like home with art in it, instead of an art piece with a house somewhere in it.
Me too! I love a functional island
I'm autistic and I'm very focused on having roads to everywhere. I just can't do anything other than having my neighborhood all in one place and fun things in the rest of the island, like a cafe, or a park, or a sports court. Everything is very boxed but I think I've managed to make it cute even though everything is in their little boxes haha
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My first island since the launch of New Horizons is my forever island. I've finally "finished" it in 2023. After I completed decorating it, I took a 5 month break (I played it every day for hours, since March 20th 2020) and when I came back, I caught all the bugs, fish and deep sea creatures that I didnt catch during the previous 3 years of playing. I didnt time travel to do it, I just patiently waited until the month/season then logged back on to catch it. It actually felt more fulfilling than time traveling to catch them.
I swear, having a forever island is worth it. Doing everything at your own pace, having villagers you actually want without needing to fit in a theme and not stressing about having the "perfect aesthetic island" is amazing. Til some time ago i used to get so stressed out with Animal Crossing, because i wanted to have all the popular villagers only because people liked it, and this made me burn out frequently, now i only have villagers i love, no matter how unpopular or "ugly" they are. I also don't care about aesthetic anymore, i will put whatever i feel like in my island. It feels way more like home like that. Playing like this made me appreciate Animal Crossing even more, and the game is actually chill as it was supposed to be.
i’m a chronic resetter, but not for decorating purposes, but because i stop playing and feel like i need a “fresh start” once i get back into the game. i’ve done this for all the animal crossing games i’ve played but i always end up regretting it! i recently made an island again and i aim to not reset, even if i haven’t played in a while and just chill and play the game normally, cause i sometimes get caught up in making the most money or paying off my house immediately. but i find it kinda funny how the ac community has terms like “forever island” and “normcore island” like these are novel concepts for animal crossing games lol! but it makes me happy people are trying the game as the devs intended, i hope they find really fun and relaxing!
and i love your island theme! i have always wanted to make a forestcore island but never was able to in all of my islands, i hope with my current one i can finally achieve it!
i can rlly relate to what you’ve said! as someone who used to delete their new leaf island, when I felt like it didn’t go as I planned to, I got caught up in this „don’t like it anymore? haven’t been around for a while? well, just re-start it!“ mindset and it transferred to acnh as well. I’ve regretted that multiple times, but sometimes in that specific moment it just feels like the right decision.
I also intend to not delete my current islands anymore :) I would say, I’m the kind of person who doesn’t trust the process of my island, so when there’s something that I was really unsatisfied with, I always resetted that.
Til this day I remember my first new leaf island! I really miss it 😭 And I don’t want this feeling again
@@selllnx2593 ah same! when acnh came out i told myself not to restart but i also fell back into bad habits, and i still remember my first new leaf and new horizons towns! i miss them dearly, funnily enough i named my new leaf town Eventide, but this was several years before BOTW! it would’ve been cool if i kept that town lol
@tiktokki._. Good luck with your island! The resetting urge is strong I get it lol 🥲
Feel this ahhhh. I am recently thinking of getting back into it but it will feel a little boring for a bit haha.
I used to strictly play pocket camp, but i just got a switch, so ive been binging new horizons instead!! Ty for these videos, it helps me feel like im playin with someone lmao
I'm new to ACNH and thought that "forever islands" were the normal type of island tbh. I don't even know how to have multiple islands haha but still appreciate the concept and LOVE your Forever island a lot. I'm taking inspiration from it as I'm creating my own island :)
Most people don’t have multiple islands, but if they do they used more than 1 switch. Majority just get their island to 3/5 stars (you’ll learn about stars later) and looking nice, reset and repeat the process. I’ve only reseted once and I actually am happy with my island now in terms of villagers and the placement of some things. So, forever islands are great but you can reset too!
They are the normal type of island. I only see this "forever island" terminology in ACNH content creator communities where people quickly "complete" islands and treat them like individual art pieces, save the DA, and then start over with a new idea. Which, btw, is totally fine if people like to play that! I'm always in awe of the beautiful themed islands people create. But the "normal" way to play the game is to just have one island, where you play a little every day, form connections with your villagers, and casually decorate at whim based on your personal preferences. That is why the game only allows one save file. The intent of the Animal Crossing series is to simulate a community. The dev of the original Animal Crossing game had the idea after moving to the a new city and feeling lonely. He wanted to create an experience where people can play the game and feel like they belong and have friends there. It actually makes me a little sad seeing new players think the normal way to play is to hyperfixate on a "theme" for an island and decorate every single tile. A ton of my friends play ACNH and we all still have our islands we made in March 2020. I highly recommend, if you're able to, try ACNL on the 3DS and experience the real magic of Animal Crossing. You can't place furniture outside in that game. Though you can decorate with flowers, trees, and makeshift paths, it makes you value the peaceful nature of the game where you do some tasks while catching up with your villagers.
i thought everyone had a forever island ;-;
I just reset my first one the other day, I started it in 2021 but got a bit bored because I could never decorate it the way I wanted
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I recently restarted my first island because I got so burnt out bc I was doing cottagecore but the colors were very plain and I just overall hated my island, so I made the decision to restart and I’m so glad I did bc I’m so much more happy
Moral of the story: have fun ur way 🫶
I like the best of both world, I have a forever island that i redecorate often on whims whenever i feel like, i just like testing themes out and have bunch of them in one go, i really appreciate the aesthetic acnh content creators/players without them i wouldn't have all the inspirations and custom designs! and i truly adore and find it charming to see people playing it organically too. thanks so much for posting this we need more of both
I absolutely love the idea of both! Great idea when your a decorator at heart, yet also get attached to your island easily!💗💗
Your island's so cute! I plan to pick this game back up in March and I'm gonna try to play daily for at least an entire year with no time traveling and minimal terraforming.
I find this style more pleasing for day-to-day. It's a real island instead of like an art instillation just to be on the dream network like you said. I find it so hard to get started so I love how you have these simple little paths with base patterns in a lot of places. It's inspiring.
I like this idea and all the slow paced noncore vibe but then you said you had another switch, which is fine, but it’s the same as those who can’t afford a new switch that wipe to get a new vibe. I don’t want to part with my island but at the same time I’ve fully completed it so I cannot play it anymore and enjoy it.. I really wish we could have multiple saves
love this video! i started my forever island in july 2023 after resetting many times and started a no time traveling no trading island and i have played almost everyday since even if just for 5 minutes a day! it totally rejuvenated my love for the game and i've discovered so many things about it i never would have noticed before.
Thank you so much for this!! I've been playing AC since the begining of times on Wii and 3Ds, and I will continue playing ACNH untill the next game is released. With NH, the game has reached a lot of people, which is fantastic, but I've always felt like the pure and naive Animal Crossing vibe was missing and gone. So many perfect islands just to get the "perfect aesthetic" as you say and then move on... Too much anxiety for me, while I play the game to just unwind and truly enjoy. I've restart a couple of times because of this, and I regret now not having my original March 2020 island. Is so refreshing to share with people the feeling of having an aesthetic but also usefull island. Thank you again ❤🩹🙏
i played animal crossing the original way, but i decided to restart my island because i started it 4 years ago and i hadnt played in a year and the island felt so attached to the old me that i felt stuck with what i could do in the game, it no longer felt like it belonged to meand im a hoarder so i felt over whelmed by the stuff i felt like i couldn’t sell and restarting has made the game so much better! this time i have a goal in mind of what i want my island to eventually be, i get to redo the entire process of collecting fish and critters and gathering materials which was game play i finished a long time ago
your videos give me such dopamine it's insane I love this so much
I LOVE YOUR ISLAND SO MUCH THE YELLOW AND PINK AHHH 😭😭😭
i’ve had my forever island since march 2020. but the island in the thumbnail looked so cute i just wanted to see your decorating 🥺
i started what will hopefully be my forever island a few days ago. I had always gotten stressed out with trying to get the "perfect villagers" and decorate it well to fit the theme that I always reset my island.
I couldn’t agree more. I’m very attached to my island and I will continue to naturally let it evolve. I love the other more “designer” approaches and people do some amazing things with that aesthetic, but it’s just not me.
Your island is so cute! 🌸 I’m sentimental and I still have my original island from when I got new horizons
i just finished my first island (mixed theme took me 2 yrs to finish). i got attached and dont want to delete it. i also hesitate to rush in doing another island to avoid overlap. i visit a lot of players who have made soooo many islands . creatively its amazing but i also see a pattern of most of their islands looking the same. they're not much different from the last. and i know many wont mind, but if i make another island i want it to be very different from my last one. its a challenge im willing to take to expand my creativity.
I had my first island for four years and just was to a point where I wasn't having as much fun. It was so hard to delete it, I had to have my husband do it. Resetting was the best thing I could have done, I'm not as burnt out anymore and I'm excited to play again. This one will be my last one likely because I feel excited to make a cozy farming island, a mash up of my two favorite game genres. It's also been tough restarting because there isn't as much help as there used to be. So I'm gonna grind a lot of things but there's other things I may not do. Like getting that 100 fish in a row streak, fishing is the bane of my existence.
I just recently picked animal crossing back up and I am striving to play this way! I used to get so caught up in how perfect my island and theme had to be, to match with the aesthetic trends, that it would make me not want to play the game. Now I am not looking for inspiration for my island anymore and I am just decorating it as ideas pop into my head. Its made the game so much more relaxing and fun!
Thanks for this!
I did a lot of work on my 2020 island.... but... it doesn't give me that good vibes anymore since it was created in 2020 when my vibes weren't too good so the memories are still there so I think I may reset it so I can make a happy forever island
i feel nostalgic for spring cos i picked it up in the southern hemisphere on release, i always seem to come back around this time of year - but not intentionally
I have so much joy whenever I see someone have Lolly on their island, she’s my favorite and birthday buddy and it makes me happy to know she’s so loved by many
i restarted my islands so many times over the last few years, and am just now getting to the point where i am just PLAYING the game. not trying to get a theme, just playing it for vibes. not time traveling a ton, just taking it day by day and gradually building it up. it has truly restored the love of the game for me, and i know this is going to be my forever island 🥹
I have a regular switch and a switch lite so I have two islands. One has a main theme and the other is a "go with the flow" kind of island. I have never finished a single island since the game came out because I have always played in a very slow and laid back way. But I still definitely felt pressure from other creators to have this perfect aesthetic island, but when I started playing New Leaf as well, it made me fall in love with the intended way to play these games again. it has made me love animal crossing even more. 🥰
I'm older (retired). My son-in-law loaned me his switch last year and I had a taster of AC. I've now bought my own Switch and I'm so loving the game. I love being older and get to play as much as I want without curfews of screen time. Yay pensioners and gaming. It's the best.
I love that you have experience with previous animal crossing games
I’m shocked people didn’t already have their own forever island. I thought people just designed their islands in different aesthetics and just recycle items through out each design. It’s insane to learn you would design and delete and start all over. But glad to see you are enjoying your forever island. That’s how I started playing animal crossing and it feels rewarding
Thanks for explaining what a forever island is. I’m not an animal crossing player (yet) but I have been watching a lot of long new horizons videos lately and it’s been really helping my anxiety ❤
i hate my island name and originally i was so unmotivated to flatten everything but when i deleted my town i regretted it. so i got myself together and flattened it, now in the process of rebuilding and it looks great 💕
I only just started playing animal crossing again. I didn’t actually complete the game when I first played it, but this time I will get to the end credits then edit my island how I want but stay within the realm of how you have decorated your island. Your island is amazing 💖🌸
This is a great thing, i personally always told myself i was gonna restart but my current island i love it to much to get rid of it, 😅 it has a lot of work still need to be done but i love that about it cause i can change it based on how i feel later.
I still have my original island from 2020 when I got the game! It’s gone through several transformations, but it’s still my Tiny Island 😅
I still have my beginner island, I just redecorate/remodel every so often instead of straight up del-yeeting my island. As much as I dislike the layout I've chosen it's worth the nook miles/tickets/bells/items/diy recipes etc I'd lose and have to get all over again.
I love my precious Raymond kitty. 🐈 He's not leaving ever. No matter how much the rest of the aesthetic is different.
I've only ever had a "Forever Island".. I'm too attached to all the memories i have of my island.
I had a whole rivalry against Claus because he forced his way on to my island, stuck on it for 2 years and kept giving me clown & joker clothing while i trapped his house and made him live on the outskirts, totally isolated.
I'm currently on version 3 of my island as i've flattened it 2 times.
Used to play hide & seek a lot with a bunch of friends when the game came out etc.
My forever island is my first island. It is a flower island as I bred all the hybrids.
Your island is soo pretty! 💗 Love that there are still parts of the island that are untouched and not so cluttered. I also still have my very first island from when the game came out ✨ just love the idea of the island slowly growing and changing together with you 🪴🌸
I needed to hear this. Since I picked up acnh back in 2020 I haven't stopped resetting my islands and I've been wanting to feel the same with acnh as I did back when I played the older versions. I love this concept and I think it will help toward making me feel more attached to my villagers and possessions
Wow thank you for this. I’ve also had ACNH since 2020 and had a 2 year break because it was so overwelming with getting the “perfect” island.. I started to play again recently and am still not finished with decorating my island. BUT I’m excited to pick it back up again!
I actually recently started a new island because I got a new switch. On this one I aspire to have this kinda forever island. I won‘t terraform and I want to give all my villagers huge gardens that I fill with stuff and colors that fit their characters and interests. I also let them move out whenever they request it. This way I experience how nice a lot of the underrated villagers are. At the same time, I organically change the look of my island depending on who is living there. This makes it seem a little more authentic and I love it!
I love your layout of spread out houses!! I hateee when they r all lined up so close to eachother it feels so unnatural
I've been working on my only island for years. I'm almost done! I can't imagine starting over it's definitely my forever island 😅 it's mostly highly decorated and "designer" but it's still functional and an escape for me. I like having people online over and soon when I finish I want to have fun meetups on my island (I made a big town square to make that easy)
I've had the game since release but restarted 5 times. I never started the game with the intention of deleting my island again one day, and I've never deleted an island because I "finished" it, made a DA and then moved on to a new island for a new theme or anything like that, though. I kept starting over because I kept hating something about my island 😆
The first island had RS super close to the airport, but diagonal. If you walked straight north from the airport you'd just hit the bottom right corner of RS after a few steps and I couldn't stand it anymore.
Second island had the airport all the way to the left and RS in the center of the map, which I thought I liked but quickly grew tired of the fact that I couldn't make nice big entrances, especially symmetrical entrances because the beach on the left was so close.
Can't even remember what annoyed me about the third one, just wasn't feeling it.
I had turned it into a mess with terraforming I didn't like, didn't feel like flattening everything and I missed the cute beginning with the tents and stuff so I figured I'd just start over.. again.
The fourth one had the airport and RS lined up, the peninsula shape I like best and other great things! ...But the airport was orange and I just disliked that too much. I played it for about a month, thinking I'd get over it but.. nope.
So finally, I reset for 5 days straight, almost non-stop, hours and hours each day to find an island I knew I would be happy with. And I did ♥ Last October.
It's still not finished, but I'm having fun ☺
And then 2 nights ago, I had a nightmare that I had restarted again and regretted it TERRIBLY and missed my current island so much 🤣 Yes, I literally dreamed that, lol.
I've only been able to buy a switch for myself rather recently, but I've grown so attached to it I cannot imagine not having a forever island 😭
My forever island is my first island, I put too much work in that thing 😂
i’ve always had a forever island, i get too attached to all my villagers
Both my New Leaf and New Horizons saves are there from when I started (New Leaf: December 2019, New Horizons: March 2021)
Fun fact, the very first day I played New Horizons, I was running around with a net, and I fainted from a tarantula. Not even kidding. I can look on my NM app and see March 3, 2021 as my first day AND the day I got Faint of Heart.
I’ve started a few new islands over the years (mostly related to the fact I’m trans & changed my name- but also partly me wanting a fresh start lol). I now have 1 island on my Switch and 1 on my Switch Lite, I’m restarting my Switch one soon (because it has my deadname 😢) but I think the Switch Lite one is here to stay now.
I’m glad I see this videos because I’ve never reset my island and I felt like I needed to do that to do something more aesthetically pleasing but I’m having fun just redoing stuff or just playing slow paced
I have my same island from 2020! I actually started playing with my daughter in 2020 and she lost interest in about a month so I restarted and now the island I have has been the same since. It’s undergone quite a few renovations but I still have my starter villagers and when HHP came around I renovated their homes.
I think nothing compares with playing the weeks after release day 🥰 I bought the oled zelda switch when it released and started a second island - well technically my 3rd one because I played a couple months on a map I ended up hating and then over a year on my second island
With my 3rd, the OLED one, I finally created a forever island I think. I still struggle with perfectionism 😂 but I think we're doing well over on Port Auris 🥰 I'm pretty sure I will continue enjoying this island until the next AC will air :)
as someone with undiagnosed adhd/autism i often got hyperfixated with animal crossing then after a few months i would burn myself out and drop the game. i would get so overwhelmed that i would reset and do it all over again. last week i started a new island and i promised myself i would never reset again. i’d like to think this video popping up in my feed is a good sign.
i honestly wanna go back to playing animal crossing like how i played new leaf, so im so glad this video popped up on my feed!
I had my first island when the game first came out. And I didn't play nearly as much as other people. But I finished my island in a year and then I stopped playing until February of 2022. Originally I wanted to start playing again because of the update, but also wanted to start a new island because my old island just wasn't great. All my houses were in one section and it felt like I never went to some parts of the island. Plus I finished my museum. So I restarted my island completely. I played for about 4 months and stopped playing again until recently. I thought about deleting my island again, but decided I was just going to stick with the one I currently have. I have even started decorating more than I would have on my old island. The only problem now is..... my flowers have gotten out of control lol.
I’m so upset, I spent years on my island on my switch lite. My husband bought me a new OLED so I gave the lite to my daughter who has been dying for her own island and she immediately started it. I didn’t realize I needed the island transfer tool… it’s gone forever! It’s not her fault I didn’t transfer it over and I’m kinda excited to start over again but I forgot how much work I put in with a years worth of bugs and fishing in the museum and all my villager hunts and ACTUAL MONEY spent 😢. I loved my island and my villagers and all my villager photos. It’s ok, there’s much worse things in life but man it got my way more upset that I realized it would lol. But I’m having a ton of fun helping my daughter learn to play and starting her little island. It’s a great rainy or cold day mother/daughter activity. She’s 4 so she needs a lot of help but she does surprisingly well.
I still remember my first ever island. I DEEPLY regret deleting it to this day ;w; It would've become my forever island if i didn't. I might try to remake it some time
I regretted resetting my first new leaf town so much that I'll never reset my new horizons one. 4 years going strong lol. I'm also holding my og 2 villagers tybalt and mira captive haha they're not going anywhere
Always forever Island
I wish i knew this before i deleted my island 😢 i kept seeing all these perfect islands and felt like i was doing it wrong. Then after restarting i just lost motivation since it wasnt as fun to play.
Okay but the hedges outside of the museum?! Amazing haha
hehe thank you!! 💗💗
I started making my forever island a few months ago and I love it.
Highly recommend mods. I’m making a forever island on my modded switch and feels like a brand new customizable game..amazing
So I did originally start my island in 2020 but I didn’t really start playing until last December. I really haven’t done much with my island but I couldn’t really see deleting it and starting from scratch ever.
havent played acnh for a year...this just brought me back
i refuse to ever delete my island so i've had the same one since 2020
I still have my island from 2021 when I started... I could never think of resetting it and losing my villagers and stuff
Your island is so pretty and cute. The cherry blossom are my favorite season in the game😊
I have a forever island too and I want to decorate it more
I like having forever islands and just redecorating every season. the reasons ive resetted in the past was to fix my character's name lol
I regret deleting my first island so much 😭 i restarted bc i was bored, but i haven’t found the inspiration for a new island so i haven’t played. My original island really did feel like home 💔
I get the idea of creating animal crossing content but I also have had my one island since 2020 and it changes constantly. I change areas seasonal or if I get bored of what I'm seeing in an area I just rip it down and start that area over. I couldn't imagine being like "It's perfect.... annnnnnd delete"
i got the game in dec 2020 and i kept resetting. i compare my island to all the aesthetic youtubers and delete it, but i have a new island and i’m hoping to finish it. i’ve never completed an island either but i’m trying to make it my forever island. i am planning to get all my fave villagers and i’m enjoying my island so far!
Good thing I have two switches so If I get bored working on my forever island I won’t reset, I can just play on the other!
I have the same island that I’ve had since launch and I forgot about the game for a while but suddenly a little over a month ago a bunch of my friends and I suddenly got back into it and I completely removed everything off of my island and redecorated it cuz I’m too emotionally attached to erase it and restart
i deleted my save once in new leaf and i regretted it so much 😢
i restarted my island because my sister wanted to play it and learn how to play but 2 years later we still have our shared island (even though i did most of the work)
Its not my first island its my third island BUT to me this one is my forever island and the island name keeps the name theme of being named after flowers so I guess it is our own forever island
i have a forever island it's my very first island I've never restarted 🥰
this is how I have always played it
My current island is a forever island in the sense of: I restarted a few times, but this one in particular has stuck with me
My thing now is, I tried so hard to try and follow other ACNH creators in terms of themes. I've been wanting to go back into it because my style and sense of self had changed. Every time I go through a change, I feel compelled to play AC. But, I'm not sure how to evolve my island into what I envision...
I could not get my self to delete my old island so I bought a new switch just for animal crossing
your island is perfect ☺️ i love it
Still got mine and I'm making a return to it with some new ideas!
I have a forever island, then to quench my new island thirst but being too attached to my first island…. I bought a second switch…. The Acnh edition! Then transferred everything. Started a new island on my old switch. I got super lucky and my first campsite villager was Raymond! Then I got sucked into HHP
I worry that having restarted im now "too late" to start a forever island but rlly wanna dedicate myself to it
its never to late!! Even if you start now, its totally worth it!
ye i still got my island from october 2020 :)
Omg i love this game, I started this past December
I hate the idea of starting new islands, I work so hard to get all my bugs and fish and furniture, I couldnt let it go :(
I did this with my second island i did still kinda a vibe but its forever lol havent checked either ds game in a while but they were too.😭😻
I don’t like people who reset their islands. They usually have so much rare stuff too!! It must’ve taken a long time to get those villagers and the items and the layout, like I don’t get it!!
Ah I love this I’ve definitely found my forever island
This! I would like to restart and just start fresh, but my original island feels so... me? IDK how else to explain it, but it would feel wrong to delete all my progress! I'd sooner by a cheap switch and a new copy of AC haha
I don't have new horizons but new leaf and wild world and in new leaf I still have the same town I created in 2014 and when I don't like anything anymore I can just change it but I would never delete my whole town because I put so much work in it.
But I once resetted my town in wild world. It was my big sisters town and I spontaniously thought I should make my own town after she gifted me her nintendo ds with the game. Now I regret it because I can never reach the last update for the supermarket because you need another player to visit your island and buy something from tom nook. Well nobody I know has this game because it's so old and for whatever reason I can't connect it with my wlan (even though I can with new leaf) so I can't even find someone online to help me with this 🙃
I would make a forever island/make a new island but my nintendo online expired D: (i am HORRIBLE at making custom designs)