ANIMAL CROSSING NH: Day 1/APRIL 10

So after all these days being in self isolation, I finally gave in, unsealed the game and started my journey on Animal Crossing: New Horizons. I mean I did try to go get the copy few weeks back on the day I closed the business, but it was all sold out and wasn't able to get a physical copy till just last week.  But even after I got it, I put it away knowing what the game can do to me once I start investing my time on it. Honestly after my first attempt trying to get the game, I told myself that I didn't want to play it anyways for many reasons.

One of those reasons is that the name of the game reminds me of the days when I played Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Most of em were bad memories. I started the game with someone I dated before. She was very special to me and when I did play this game with her, the game became linked to her and with that the game became very special to me. And then she was gone, and I had no motivation to ever touch or play the game. Until a few years later  my Instagram days began, and along with it many new friends, and 3 among them became new Animal Crossing friends. Because of them I picked the dusted game and recommenced the once joy of playing it with them. Till one of em that I became even more closer to, and then pursued and failed. Due to that fact my days with playing Animal Crossing ended due to linking and attaching the game with other people.

Other reason is that the game is not only about immersing into the depth of building your world or for in this case your island. Its also about sharing the world with friends and others. To show out and present your hard work and the progress you have made. Making that most creative, and jaw dropping designs for all to see. But that's where envy and disappointment comes to play. But before assuming that I would experience those feelings again, I have to first have friends to play with. Or at least friends who WANT to connect with me. I have become so self isolated in general(even before the Coronavirus pandemic) that I wasn't sure if there would be anybody to share my world with. If this was the Sims then okay, I wouldn't mind playing this on my own, but this game has a different feel and purpose to it. Its about sharing with others, to me at least. And so for these reasons I said to myself a few weeks ago that its probably just kosher if I don't pick up on this game. I remember beginning of last year a guild friend of mine when I played Final Fantasy 14 online, named Alex told me that he wanted to connect with me once Animal Crossing comes out. But its been almost a year since I last played the FF14, and I'm sure he has forgotten.

But of course Bow(Mariza) came to save the day....or came to do the devils work and brought me into a highly addictive game, and the most time absorbing game. Ive already been absorbing myself into SIMS 4, but putting this into the mixture will become a death trap for me. LOL. I do appreciate her though. After all the years we've known each other, and all the years apart from one another in life, only seeing each at those once and awhile conventions and yet she still thought about me, asked me if I was playing the new Animal Crossing, and then encouraging me to play.

And soooo....DAY ONE has begun.