Animal Crossing games are kind of hard to rate, because they're very much the definition of "make your own fun". There isn't really much of a progression loop in them besides just fishing and catching bugs and selling turnips in order to get more bells to pay off your house loan with. However, the reason why I like New Horizons is precisely because it gives you a bunch of tools to make your own fun with. The Island Designer mechanics offer something that I've always wanted from an Animal Crossing game: the ability to shape my town's entire layout, placing cliffs and rivers wherever I want them. The amount of customization on offer is invigorating, and I greatly enjoyed being able to convert my island into a cozy town full of cliffsides and waterfalls and fill it with furniture of my choosing. I just wish it was easier to choose which villagers you want in your town.