Amen. I knew that going in from two previous Animal Crossing games I bought and played, and yet I still bought this one in a moment of weakness that I regret. I played to the point where I assembled the stuff necessary to get three new people on the “deserted” island, put it down, and haven’t picked it back up.
It’s still capitalistic as fuck. Add in constructible tools that break after so many uses, and the grind felt even more grinding. Plus the realtime day/night cycle instead of a compressed one makes it even more annoying to try to fit into my real world day, since I’m not yet fully unemployed.
And when I finally am unemployed, playing Animal Crossing is not what I should do with my time.
