That is Animal Crossing New Horizons Items a reason each new game release inside the series is a highly anticipated event. The recent outpouring of memes, fan art, discussion, and rapturous praise for New Horizons specifically reinforces exactly how much the show has touched lives, chiefly due to just how unassuming it all is.

Additionally, it is not possible to ignore just how well-timed New Horizons’ coming has turned out to be. When Nintendo announced nearly a year ago that the game would be ready for a spring 2020 release, fans lamented the long wait. Fast-forward to March 20, when New Horizons became accessible on Nintendo Switch — just as promised — and that previously scheduled launching felt much more fitting than ever.

I had not seen my friends in over a week when the game eventually became accessible; I’d barely gone outdoors. The headlines gave me more anxiety with each push alert. All my friends were as excited as I was to play, staying up till midnight on release day to delve into at the exact same time. It was a new conversation topic, a point of unity in our own lives that we can coalesce around, bridging the social gap that has been created by a global health crisis.

When we talk to Animal Crossing Bells for sale each other while playing Animal Crossingwe do not wax nostalgic about the fantastic ol’ days when we didn’t require a life simulation to hang out together. We simply chat excitedly about whose island contains which animal people occupying it, which fruits we picked that day, or which fish we found swimming in the sea. Now on my island, I had been a lumberjack, collecting wood so I could build myself a very cute new bed.