new animal crossing game, spoilers
Apparently, Nintendo botched region locking for Australia, so the new Animal Crossing game is “available” for Australian accounts and in APK form.
Giving it a try on my Android device, it is cute! And impressive that they ported the ACNL experience to mobile using Unity.
Though, I still feel conflicted about it having micropayments. At least Nintendo decided to use Tom Nook to take real money. It just seems appropriate.
new animal crossing game, spoilers
Also, micropayments on the Android build work with US Google Play. Also, literally everything has a timer now. Also, they expect ~$5-10 apiece to unlock each current limited time item. Huh.
I probably won’t get in too deeply, because the timer management seems difficult to impossible while also having real world responsibilities (unlike the main series’ once per day). And even cold hard cash doesn’t improve that.
But, at least they finally released this thing!