I'm an adult. I was an adult when Animal Crossing came out on the Gamecube. There's no reason I should have liked this game. You do chores for other animals, write them letters, shake trees for fruit that you can sell to Tom Nook to pay off your house to get get a bigger house to put furniture in. You dig up fossils and weird droid things and fish and cach bugs to put in your museum.
It's a life simulator with a ridiculously cute theme and it's played in real time. If it's 8 am in the morning where you live, it's 8 in the morning in the game. If it's Halloween, it's Halloween, etc.
You can also play with your family, friends, and roommates on the same console. There's a small competition between yo and these other players, but you can also collect furniture for your girlfriend or roommate and drop it in their mailbox so when they get off work in the real world and boot up the system they'll find your gift in the mail. And it will make their day. It's a weird blend of real life and life sim and it is highly addictive.
It's not for everyone. I wouldn't judge anyone poorly for not liking the game. I'm surprised I do. It's also not a game that you can watch a video of or play a demo of and fall in love. You have to invest yourself in it.
But yeah, it's a fair question to say, "What the f*** is Animal Crossing." But don't believe the posters who say this is a Japanese phenomenon. This game moved DSs. Even the subpar City Folk moved Wiis. And this title on the Switch will move units like you wouldn't believe.
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