The game dropped about a day and a half ago now and honestly; after playing for like… a full 24 hours, I really am happy with it. Some new things aren’t explained super well (I probably would have spent some of my Complete tickets on the catalog items if I found them sooner) and having my crafting time reset kills me, but for the most part, it feels like a much more relaxing experience.
I do miss being able to help friends directly, but I think that may genuinely be the only thing I miss. It’s nice seeing them in Whistle Pass, but not entirely the same.
Leaf Tokens are so much more generous in regard to what you get from using them than Leaf Tickets ever were. If it was 25 Leaf Tickets for 5 pulls on a Fortune Cookie instead of 250, maybe I wouldn’t have been so upset with it all. I still think having premium-only stuff in a game that encourages collecting is an issue, but at least the price wouldn’t feel as awful. You even get 50 Leaf Tokens for leveling up over 10 Leaf Tickets and just, Leaf Tokens are so much more generous in nearly every way. Literally the only things that feel a bit expensive are some Terrain Options and the way you lessen the crafting time needed (which takes a total of 380 Leaf Tokens to get back to instant crafting/shortening by 24 hours– it’s 60 for 6 hours off, 120 for 12 hours off, and 200 for the full 24 hours off).
I do wish I had found the Catalog section for using the Completion Tickets sooner as I likely would have bought several items from there before doing more Fortune Cookie stuff. Honestly, I do kind of wish I could pay a bit of money for a bunch of Complete Tickets and Leaf Tokens because there is just so much, I want to get and I’m worried on how many of those Tickets you can truly get in-game. There is at least the option to spend 50K Bells for a bunch of Leaf Tokens per month.
I would say most of my other big issues are just ones I’ve had since the original like there still isn’t really a super great way to earn Bells fairly quickly. I still wish I could have a bigger campsite and RV (before anyone says anything on the latter, we already somehow have a fully realized 2nd floor– the RV space was never realistic). I still hate that some of the Gardening Event tasks unlock later (one of the things that frustrated me most when they started doing that).
There are some things suffering from the new format like I definitely am earning a lot less flower seeds than I ever did in the original game during garden events. Flowers at least need to be watered less, but the lack of flower seeds does kind of worry me for the next part, even if we can just buy them. I don’t have that many bells, okay?
Anyway, for the most part, I’m having fun. I don’t know if I’ll constantly be checking it as much as I am now, but I actually feel relaxed playing it again which I appreciate.
Finally, here is my Camper Card! As the winner of every poll, Merengue is on it with me. I’d really like to try and make a physical version. I think that’d be nice.
