The story will start two months ago.
One day, a "little friend" who was addicted to "Glory of the King" suddenly asked a series of questions about the switch host, and carefully looked at the pictures she sent. Isn't this the exclusive switch of "Forest of Animals" just exposed online?
With its elegant appearance and fresh color matching, I decided to join the shopping cart when I saw this console. If it hadn't been for the pickles and steamed buns I had for dinner, I would have bought them!
Even so, the official price of this host was actually the same as that of the standard version, about 2000+RMB. (Netizen: Only? Anyone who eats an extra peanut will not do so.)
But two months later, this situation has changed dramatically. This limited host has been fired to 6000+RMB! If you want to ask why, there is only one reason: Nintendo's latest series of Animal Forest, Gathering! Animal Forest Friends, has been released.
01 Time Terminator
In any case, the sales volume of the physical version of "Gathering! Animal Forest Friends Association" exceeded 1.88 million in Japan in the first week, surpassing "Baoke Dream Sword/Shield" as the highest selling game of Switch in the first week of Japan and breaking the record. If the digital version is included, I'm afraid the number is even more terrible.
The series of "Forest of Animals" let players play a human role similar to "villager", live in a anthropomorphic animal village, and you can do anything as a villager, so the freedom of the game is high.
In addition, the series has always been positioned as a social simulation game, which means that playing with friends will be more fun.
In fact, the saying that "solo music is inferior to all music" can be applied at any time, especially in the old Ren's game. Moreover, in this extraordinary period when everyone needs to stay at home for a long time, the social characteristics of "Gathering! Animal Forest Friends Association" have also been magnified.
In the new work, the players are left on the uninhabited island. From "villagers" to "island owners", everything has to start from scratch, so the freedom of this work will be relatively higher.
At the beginning of the game, players can choose a foothold among four islands, which are distributed in the northern and southern hemispheres:
Different islands have different seasonal experiences. The snow covered winter, the red maple leaf autumn, and the cherry blossom spring are full of healing every frame and picture.
In order to manage the island, the island owners are working hard, fishing and materials, rapidly developing productivity and dressing up their nests.
However, I don't know whether it is because of supernatural phenomenon that people playing this game have found the same problem. Where has the time gone?
It seems that I have just opened the game, but when I put down the game machine, I saw the sky outside and turned from day to night, and it seems that I didn't do anything in retrospect.
Maybe he just cut down trees.
We planted flowers.
I fished by the river.
In the middle of the journey, I saw a Wulin spread on TV, so I got a tailor.
Ha ha ha ha ha What kind of neurosis is this? This game not only absorbs a lot of players' time, but also makes some players forget to eat and sleep! It's really an evil game, uh, evil.
02 | Simplicity is not simple
So what kind of magic is it that makes so many players addicted to it? There may be many reasons. If you just play with it as a simulation operation, you will miss a lot of fun.
For those imaginative players, Animal Forest Club is a platform to show self creativity, from which everyone can find their own fun.
You can be a pixel painter.
Show your ability to design clothes.
He even added his favorite animation (Ghost Blade) to the game.
Of course, for those who like to be funny in the game, the childlike interest in the game is also obvious. You can play a trick when catching insects, beat your teammates and catch butterflies while they are stunned.
When you were careful to catch the insects on the tree stump, the pig teammate sat down for it and gave you a contemptuous smile.
When you have bad luck fishing, those bad friends who run in front of you to show off that they have caught a big fish.
So let me remind you that when you are online, you should find some people you can reach.
The details of the game can be compared to "The Legend of Zelda in the Wilderness". As long as you put your heart into it, you will be pleasantly surprised to find it.
When your friends come to your island by plane, you can look up and see the sky is still full of exhaust gas, science!
When you try to pick up the ladder, you will consciously roll up your sleeves, true!
When they want to observe the small animals on the island from the perspective of God, they also think so.
Even if you go to the civet shop to buy something, they sometimes even miscalculate the money, revealing the essence of the profiteer When they sell your goods at a high price, pay attention to the expression of civet cats, and they will sweat.
03 | It's really a loss for you 998 not to sell this game
Some people don't know what is good, but no one can replace them. And some games are just like this. It's not interesting, but hundreds of hours of playing in life disappear.
There are always some funny games in the game, which can always find fun that ordinary people can't find, commonly known as "little smart".
Own orchard, select big fruit, now pick and send, Shunfeng package mail!
Hello, I'm Dawo, the league champion from Baokemeng Town.
Hello, I'm Pikachu trainer, Pipijun.
The film has been applied! The film has been applied!
This is probably the charm of attracting bees and butterflies!
Hello, everyone. My family runs an aquarium.
As a skirt controller, it's not enough, not enough! (Dumb Mao swallows a mouthful of water)
Young man, fish, 5 yuan at a time!
I saw the pictures we shared on the Internet and found that this water friend was too tough. Is it too bad not to buy your 998?
Of course, these are all small shows in the game. The real local tyrant has to look at the following one. He made me thoroughly understand the difference between "modern city" and "secluded mountain gully".
The island of Kaika, a Twitter user, has been completely urbanized, with asphalt roads everywhere. A bridge has been built between the rivers, and a variety of modern buildings are dazzling. I almost forget that this is an uninhabited island.
04 | A game that can deliver "love"
In this special period, everyone is locked at home, and with the help of the sociability of the "Animal Forest Friends Club", many relatives and friends are virtually closer.
A British girl named Sophia failed to hold her 9th birthday party. Her mother, Alexia Christofi, held a surprise party for her in Gather! Animal Forest Friends Association with her friends without telling her daughter.
Everyone took part in her birthday party in the game and gave her "Happy Birthday" wishes. They even played hide and seek in the game.
Looking at the smile on the girl's face, I must really enjoy it.
Coincidentally, a netizen named ashmush was also forced to cancel her wedding to her fiance due to her special period of relationship, which made her very depressed.
Unexpectedly, her friends held a wedding ceremony for them in the game. Her friends not only arranged the venue for them, but also wrote her and her fiance's English abbreviation N&S on the floor.
This also makes her feel that her regret has been remedied, because the wedding in the game is too unforgettable.
05 Conclusion
The lovely painting style of Gathering! Animal Forest Friends Club seems to be the type that girls prefer, but because of its fun, it has also attracted countless men to indulge in it. Therefore, many people on the Internet also tease that this is a "tough guy must play" game.
We often ask, what is a game? This may be difficult to answer, but "Animal Forest Friends" really brought us a lot of fun, let us find the innocence.
It has no fixed playing method and no rigid goal. You just need to do what you like in the game and have fun with it.