They are fundamentally different gamesI really shouldn't have played Stardew Valley before playing this game.
It just feels so empty - there's nothing to do...
They are fundamentally different games
Animal crossing is a real time life sim so you are meant to play a little bit each day - stardew is a more traditional game
If you don't wanna wait 24 hours before each 20-30 minutes of fun then animal crossing is not the game for you
Alternatively you can time travel every day but it kinda ruins it after a bit
Collect all the bugs, fish, fossils, paintings. Get an island rating of 5. Get the best villagers. Design your own map. Play the stalk market. Design your house interior to get highest house rating. Collect your favorite furniture sets. Visit other people's islands in the dream world. Build perfect snowmen to get the snow set. Etc etc.But even irl you have actual goals that go beyond building stuff.
I think that's where this game fails.
Collect all the bugs, fish, fossils, paintings. Get an island rating of 5. Get the best villagers. Design your own map. Play the stalk market. Design your house interior to get highest house rating. Collect your favorite furniture sets. Visit other people's islands in the dream world. Build perfect snowmen to get the snow set. Etc etc.
it makes me sad that the biggest animal crossing game we've had yet started off super good with big updates, and now it's just table scraps worth of content that really should've been in the game already
It's a self directed game in a lot of waysI'd say only the first two are even real goals though. The rest are just subjective.
I always wonder why people say it sucks, that updates like this didn't come with the game out of the box. I mean, without time traveling you aren't able to access these time based events earlier than their release anyway.
That makes no sense. I don't know about the money argument, since I only played AC:NH, but if all that stuff was included in the game from the get go, it's size would also be bigger. You'd still have to download the same amount.Because games nowadays cost more money that just a year ago and people hates having to add downloable updates in a console that has so little space as the Switch.