Right now gamers the world over are heading to deserted islands and losing themselves, setting up new lives in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The game offers an amazing escape and is just what we all need right now. The scenery is beautiful, guests are varied and you can feel like you’re really growing a lovely community.
However, not everything makes sense in this island paradise. There are a few things we’ve encountered that we just can’t get our heads around. Here are some of the things that make no sense at all about Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
10 The Island Has Strange Priorities
When you appear on your island the first thing you’ll notice is that our overlord Tom Nook has some strange priorities. The most important building is the store, in which you can buy a random selection of items that are mostly useless on a desert island, and a few staples.
After this, we get a museum, campsite and clothing store. Oh and a larger guest services. No doctors, no food store, just a general store and clothes. Not to worry though, if you do get sick the very generic off-brand medicine will cure you, we hope.
9 Bugs And Fish Are Caught With Suitable Tanks
If the store is closed you can use the dropbox but it will take 20% of your profits. As a result, many players stack up their catches for the morning. This in itself is understandable, what doesn’t make sense are the tanks they appear in.
Where do they come from? As we place a fish from our pocket onto the ground, a tank complete with suitable habitat just appears from nowhere. Do we all have a secret supply of aquariums up our sleeves?
8 Making Furniture From Fruit
Making furniture is an enjoyable task. Using wood, iron or clay to produce beds, wardrobes or chairs makes sense. Using your hands and a crafting bench to decorate and furnish your house is fantastic.
However, we are struggling to understand fruit furniture. How does a TV made with an apple and no electronics of any kind actually function? Don’t the apples go off? Are all apples equipped with aerials we don’t know about? Should we be eating them? We have questions!
7 Money Grows On Trees
Every day a small part of your island will glow and beneath it, a stash of 1000 bells will appear. The hole in which these come out of has some strange properties as if you replant the bag of bells it will grow into a money tree.
That’s right, the investment you bury in the ground will grow into a tree that will yield 3 bags of bells, each containing the same amount as the one you buried. This is helpful but makes no sense at all.
6 The Museum Layout
Blathers claims to be an expert on everything in the museum. He also claims to hate bugs. So why do so many of them wander around the place? Surely there is a natural bug pecking order that isn’t being observed here?
Also the spiders in the trees? They are freaking us out. If Blathers detests them so much then why does he allow them to land in front of your face as you walk through the museum?
5 Bells Don’t Look Like Bells
The main currency of Animal Crossing is bells. However, the fictional money looks nothing like bells. They don’t even have a picture of a bell on them. Instead, they are small gold coins with a star image in the center.
So why are they called bells? Why not stars? Or some totally made-up word? Even bags of bells don’t have any form of bell imagery on them. There is a theory that they are called bells because money jingles but we prefer to think they are named after Isabelle.
4 You Can’t Buy Food But You Can Poop
Your island diet is about to get interesting. As mentioned, there is no food store on the island. At least not that we’ve seen so far. If you want to eat, then the trees are calling you. Native fruit fresh from the branches is the order of the day.
Later in the game, you can grow and eat other fruits but there is no other option for sustenance. Maybe this entirely fruit-based diet is why the game does have a usable toilet, although it doesn’t explain the entirely useless kitchens you can create.
3 You Are Taught How To Express Emotions
If you want to express yourself on your new island then you can’t just do it. Oh no, you have to wait until random villagers come and demonstrate how to be happy, sad, excited or shocked.
We aren’t entirely sure how we became unable to express emotions without the help of an anthropomorphic hippo or lion but yet suddenly here we are. Talking animals are now experts in emotions. However we phrase that one, it still makes no sense.
2 The Entire Airport Experience
Dodo Airlines is a thing of beauty and chaos. We can see the reason why these lovable fools became extinct if we’re honest. Firstly they have no actual concept of navigation. They claim to burn all their flight plans so you can never return to a specific island but you will, sometimes on the very next trip.
They are also incapable of doing more than one thing at once. For example, if you have your gates open then in order to do anything else they will need to be shut since apparently having a gate open and doing anything else is now multitasking. Who knew?
1 The Spacious Houses
We love our houses but they don’t look exactly spacious. However, this isn’t an issue. While our house looks small on the outside, inside it is growing with extra rooms and furniture galore.
The only possible explanation we can think of is that The Doctor and his T.A.R.D.I.S. technology have been visiting, ensuring all island residents have plenty of space, in a house the size of a small garage.
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