i dont really like this one. i got the game day one pretty much, and after playing it for well over 300 hours i can confirm that yeah this one really aint my thing. its very focused on making everything a very specific way but like, the point of animal crossing, to me at least, is living with what life gives you. im also not a fan of the island aesthetic, although that's mostly a personal thing. i also feel like a lot of the villager dialog repeats way too much, and characters like mabel and isabelle got kinda thrown under the bus with their personalities. especially with isabelle, she was this bumbling secretary that worked way too hard and it always showed, and there were a lot of really cute and charming moments they did with that. she feels a lot more generic in new horizons, and it's just not really as interesting. mabel serves literally zero purpose anymore, other than giving you the same three dialog blurbs whenever you talk to her, and that kinda sucks since she's one of my favorite recurring characters. overall, new horizons feels like a huge downgrade from new leaf