REAL-TIME RELAXING
If you’ve played an Animal Crossing game before, you’re familiar with what you
can do. If you haven’t, you might be confused by how this even counts as a
game. Animal Crossing: New Horizons, like other Animal Crossing games, is
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bugs, collect seashells, dig for fossils, and interact with your neighbors. As you
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an orchard or clearing trees to make a playground.
Everything takes place in real time. When you play during the day, it’ll be
daytime in the game. When you play at night, it’ll be nighttime. The seasons
also change with the year, though you can choose to live on an island in the
southern hemisphere for reversed seasons. At least for the time I’ve been
playing, the game’s weather has mirrored my local weather pretty closely.
The items available in the Resident Services tent and eventually the Nook’s
Cranny store refresh every day, providing variety. You can collect only so many
pieces of fruit from trees or minerals from rocks on your island per day, but you
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