The Adventures of Batmom

Animal Crossing Wars

Alright, I'm late to the party on this one. I constantly heard everyone talking about it and I really didn't see what the big deal was. I never wanted to play it. That's a lie, there was a part of me that was curious and wanted to play it. But still, I didn't go down that rabbit hole.

Until Christmas.

I bought the Switch for my son and we got Minecraft, Mario Kart 8 and you guessed it, Animal Crossing. The two youngest played for maybe a day before getting bored, so my teenager and I were stuck on the Island, not being able to move forward. If you play, you understand why.

After a day my teenager and I were already invested and stuck, you don't understand. I tried to get my son, the Island owner to do anything, but he got bored after five minutes of playing.

So I did what anyone would do and told my teenager to reset the island and let her be the island owner. Good plan right?

Wrong.

When I say she reset the game 5 times, I'm not exaggerating. She hated the villagers they kept trying to put on the island with us.

I just wanted to play the game and be able to progress. But apparently we had to have pretty villagers to move forward.

I told her after the fifth time that if she didn't like it, I was taking over. Guess what, we got the most wretched looking villagers, so I took control.

FINALLY, I picked the next one and we got cute villagers, win win.

Everything was well on the island and going great, until Blathers showed up.

Don't get me wrong, I love this adorable little guy, but he started a war. Suddenly EVERYONE wanted to play to see who could get fish, bugs and fossils to Blathers the fastest.

I'm still in the lead. Toot toot.

Then came Tarantula island. Faith had brought this up in passing and I thought she was just pulling my leg because when I say I screamed like a little girl as a tarantula chased me, I mean it. So, I thought she was just trying to get my goat and just waved it away saying, "Psh, there's no such thing as tarantula island!"

A week after saying that, I found out that Hell really does exist. 

Here I am all excited to find a new island. I'm strutting around doing my thing then hop over the small river. Suddenly 4 tarantulas come running at me! I let out an unearthly scream and fled the island before texting Faith and screaming that they had brought me to tarantula island.

She had the nerve to laugh at me.

A week after that horrible horrible nightmare. Faith was playing the game and went to go to a new island. To my amusement and horror, she was brought to Tarantula Island.

"That's it! That's Hell!" I screamed.

In true teenager fashion, Faith rolled her eyes at me. "It's not that bad," she proceeded to say as she hopped to the middle section and was spotted by the tarantulas.

The satisfaction I got from her screams of terror was evident on my face. However, unlike me, she stayed and was on a mission to catch a stock full of tarantulas. She screamed the whole time, but she accomplished her mission.

We give each other tips on where to find stuff, but we're always trying to find it first. Like I said, war.

We also have a war on island decorating. I want a whole Disney theme. Everyone else disagrees. Patrick wants Among Us, Faith wants Gnomeo and Juliet and Hope... well she doesn't have direction, she wants to just throw everything everywhere.

It's chaos.

Now my husband, this isn't his kind of game. He likes Final Fantasy, Injustice, Kingdom Hearts, stuff like that. I do too, but I like to switch it up. So when he sees me playing the game, and I show him around what we have, he's kinda been wanting to play. He was like me, not interested but always hearing about it.

However, now he can't, because I've made alt accounts to decorate houses on the island the way I want. See how I am? 🤣

I'm pretty much the only one that plays it these days anyway. Faith gets on every now and again and the two youngest get on for five minutes then complain they're bored because their houses are too small.

I've tried to explain logic to them, but it just goes in one ear and out the other.

I must say though, that Animal Crossing has some lessons in it, that are actually useful. Patrick is learning about banks and finance, so when a question came up about putting money in and taking money out of the bank, he knew it was Deposit and Withdraw because of Animal Crossing. That amused me.

So, that's our adventure and sadly, my addiction. Curse Nintendo for making such a cute game.

P.S I have yet to catch a tarantula. Probably never will because I run every time I see one.