My first Animal Crossing was New Leaf. I played it every morning for a year straight, for an hour. At the time I was taking an extended break from videogames to focus on Trading Card Games (huge mistake!). The TCGs were insanely frustrating. Broken cards, horrible designers, etc. My hour of AC was all the gaming I got for that year. De-stressing from Animal Crossing every morning helped me keep my sanity during that time. 

What I really liked about AC was how it could just be played for an hour or so a day. The longevity of playing the game year round, just really enforced the sense of community, as well as how memorable the game was. 

Weed would allow you to catch bugs and fish better. Alcohol however would only allow you to chop down trees quicker with side effect maybe cut it down wrong and hurt yourself.

Today's Prompt

With just 18 days left to go until Animal Crossing: New Horizons launches I thought we'd have a discussion about age.  Mainly, at what age did you play your first Animal Crossing game?  Did you ever resist the game because you thought it seemed to kiddie?  Were you actually too young to grasp some of the concepts at first, but were still drawn to the colorful style?  Have you ever gone through periods where you just felt like you outgrew the game, and if so, have you returned to the series or are you returning for this new entry?  Ecentially, let's discuss your interactions with the game from an age perspective and how that has affected your enjoyment of the game.

I think alcohol should make talking to other animals more animated and entertaining.

Weed should make the character have sudden moments of giant !!! before zooming in on something completely irrelevant and describing it in detail and what could be done with it.

In ultimate 7 (I think) you could eat mushrooms and some of them would make the world distort and be ultra colorful (some would kill you, too). I think it would be a great mod for someone to put in where the entire colorscape of Animal Crossing was turned into a psychedelic fever dream. Your animal neighbors could even turn into spirit animals and you would have to talk with each of them to find out which one was yours.

getting closer and my daughter keeps asking me about this game and the special edition switch

My local Walmart for some reason was selling Luigi's Mansion 3 for $50 at launch, so I'm hoping they'll do that again with New Horizons. Not that I need a lower price for this game, I'm sure it's well worth the $60, unlike certain other games. :L