{"id":3733,"date":"2021-11-18T18:42:13","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T17:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/18\/old-friends-and-new-horizons-my-emotional-return-to-animal-crossing\/"},"modified":"2021-11-18T18:42:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T17:42:13","slug":"old-friends-and-new-horizons-my-emotional-return-to-animal-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/18\/old-friends-and-new-horizons-my-emotional-return-to-animal-crossing\/","title":{"rendered":"Old friends and new horizons: my emotional return to Animal Crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The smash-hit Nintendo Switch game has been updated with a wealth of new content \u2013 and no shortage of familiar comforts<\/p>\n<p>When I heard there was an enormous Animal Crossing update on the way, I was as unnerved as I was excited. I wanted to go back to my island, sure; Kissing was a tiny paradise I\u2019d painstakingly curated, hour by hour, in the depths of last year\u2019s lockdowns \u2013 but had been avoiding since January.<\/p>\n<p>For the past 11 months I\u2019ve let the place go to seed, missing in-game events and limited-edition items and, most importantly, ignoring the villagers who inhabit Kissing. Dom, the first creature on the land, a sheep who likes sports \u2013 how was he? What about Sprinkles, a blue penguin who wants to be a pop star? I\u2019ve been navigating my return to real-life society very slowly, and I know from experience that when left alone for too long, the villagers of Animal Crossing are notorious for laying on the guilt.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2021\/nov\/18\/animal-crossing-new-horizons-nintendo-switch\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9d5229eff0f5a353def964eef401ff065734d0a1\/37_0_1670_1002\/master\/1670.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=05d96e5a0d331790e0922bae0a8e2ae2\" title=\"Old friends and new horizons: my emotional return to Animal Crossing\" \/>The smash-hit Nintendo Switch game has been updated with a wealth of new content \u2013 and no shortage of familiar comforts<br \/>\nWhen I heard there was an enormous Animal Crossing update on the way, I was as unnerved as I was excited. I wanted to go back to my island, sure; Kissing was a tiny paradise I\u2019d painstakingly curated, hour by hour, in the depths of last year\u2019s lockdowns \u2013 but had been avoiding since January.<br \/>\nFor the past 11 months I\u2019ve let the place go to seed, missing in-game events and limited-edition items and, most importantly, ignoring the villagers who inhabit Kissing. Dom, the first creature on the land, a sheep who likes sports \u2013 how was he? What about Sprinkles, a blue penguin who wants to be a pop star? I\u2019ve been navigating my return to real-life society very slowly, and I know from experience that when left alone for too long, the villagers of Animal Crossing are notorious for laying on the guilt. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The smash-hit Nintendo Switch game has been updated with a wealth of new content \u2013 and no shortage of familiar comforts When I heard there was an enormous Animal Crossing update on the way, I was as unnerved as I was excited. I wanted to go back to my island, sure; Kissing was a tiny &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/18\/old-friends-and-new-horizons-my-emotional-return-to-animal-crossing\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Old friends and new horizons: my emotional return to Animal Crossing<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}