Fell off a bit with this and don't see myself returning daily as much, if at all. Paying off the loan in full and getting a statue outside the train station for the first time seems like a good enough end cap of sorts.

For all intents and purposes this is tonally my favorite Animal Crossing game. It has the best soundtrack, villager dialogue, and I love how off-kilter everything feels. It never quite feels like the animal neighbors do more than just tolerate your existence in the town which makes for an interesting feeling. Especially when comparing to some of the later games where it feels like everything revolves around you.

This also benefits from simplicity. With the lack of terraforming, a deeper flower system, and more there's less to do which prevents this from becoming a daily three hour time sink of chores that need to be kept up. On the other hand this might be a bit too simple which is why I'm having trouble sticking with it. The sweet spot definitely seems to be in Wild World/City Folk where they expanded on a lot of the systems here while adding here and there but not going as far as to ask you to be a mayor or to terraform a whole ass island.

Looking forward to picking up Wild World for hopefully at least a few months in 2021. I'd like to wrap back through and give all of the games a go, maybe by the end I can bring myself back to New Horizons and there will be more content I want to see.