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The New ‘Story of Seasons’ Is ‘Animal Crossing’ for Post-Lockdown Life – WIRED
Animal Crossing provided a respite for people overwhelmed in quarantine. Pioneers of Olive Town offers similar consolation, but with a bit more challenge.
When it came out last March, Animal Crossing: New Horizons was the ideal game to weather a pandemic: It provided new levels of digital connection when people felt incredibly far apart from one another. Each day, there were new stories about events within Animal Crossing (Im still sad Elijah Wood never came to my island). Slack and Discord communities sprung up to allow people to trade recipes, barter furniture and other household items, and find the highest turnip price every week. A friend of mine…
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