Animal Crossing New Leaf: A Terrible Decision

Animal Crossing is a game that we should all know by now. A game that hides behind a wondrous colorful setting, fooling us into not realizing the truth: that we are forever in debt to our landlord. A good lesson to teach children. Especially since it gives us a good physical description of what we should expect our average landlord to look.

 

Taken from Animal Crossing Wikia

Unfortunately the 3DS iteration, New Leaf, has decided that children should be taught a different, far more terrible lesson.

Initially, the game introduces us the same as it always does: forcing you to purchase a house, but now with the added bonus of suddenly being made mayor of the town. Truth be told that’s actually a good lesson for children to learn as well. That those in their government are probably the least qualified to actually be in that position.

But once you’ve paid off your first household and purchase its first expansion, the game brings forth its greatest sin. The game gives you access to an area known as the island, where it’s constantly the season of summer. If you spend hours on end catching bugs late at night, you’ll find you have a nigh unlimited source of the game’s currency to spend on everything.

 

Taken from Animal Crossing Wikia

Imagine the horror! Suddenly you don’t have any money troubles! There’s no limit to what you can do! You have all the money in the world. It creates an environment where the sky’s the limit and the only trouble you’ll have is finding enough things to spend your near limitless wealth on.

Not only that, but the entire process is so easy! All you have to do is dig out all the bushes, pick all the flowers, and cut down all of the non-palm trees on the island. Then you spend infinite hours circling around it catching nothing but beetles and sharks until you’ve caught all you can carry, then sell it to the one group of people that buy things. Overall, this version of the game is sickening in the horrid lesson it teaches children.

 

Taken from Animal Crossing Wikia

That destroying the entire ecosystem of a foreign land is the perfect way to get rich quick.

… Wait no that’s actually an amazing lesson!

Nevermind this is the best entry in the series!

Animal Crossing gets a Manifest Destiny out of Imperialism.