Watering Flowers. It's just something you have to do if you want your flowers to survive for a couple days in City Folk. You know, I've been playing Animal Crossing since the release of the one on the GCN in 2002. You could plant flowers in that game; but you couldn't water them. Why? Because there was no watering can! That's right! No silver, no gold, not even a plain old one from Nook's. Sure, watering flowers gives you something to do and it's add to a more realistic environmental party of Animal Crossing, but how annoying is it when you have more than 100 flowers spread across town and you have to water all of them!
It makes me wonder about why so many people play Animal Crossing. What's so fun about planting flowers, loading your game everyday to water them, and try to set your flowers in patterns to try and grow hybrids? Pressing A in front of flowers is fun? Since when! But it actually is... To a certain extent, anyway.
Yeah, there's more to Animal Crossing than just watering flowers; but you have to admit. Watering them every single day is annoying. Everything in Animal Crossing is daily, too. You don't have to do all the activities daily, however, you're always doing the samething whether you think you are or not. You're always going after different goals. Paying off your house, planting trees, planting flowers, catching bugs or fish, attending certain festivals, going to neighbors houses, maybe venturing off to the city, trying to get a couple new tools, collecting certain things, trying to invent your own kind of 'Animal Crossing'.
Personally, I've always found Animal Crossing to be a fun series. A generic, yet interesting concept. It has this certain... 'Addicting' appeal to it that keeps you playing to do whatever you need or want to do with your town. It has something for everyone, really. Different furniture series and themes for different kinds of players, clothes, seasons to explore, sports. (Yes, fishing and catching bugs is considered a sport!) It's just not everyday you get a game that has a realistic appeal towards everyone. (Not saying Animal Crossing is realistic, but you know what I mean. So why do I like it? There's just always something to do. Even if you're just playing for ten minutes everyday it's nice to get into your home away from home and get a couple things done. It's especially fun when you're first starting getting everything organized. The longest I've played Animal Crossing continuously was for about two years; then I started to drift off and leave it for a year before I picked up the controller again.
I just turned on my game yesterday after playing for the previous week just to water the flowers and to say 'Hi' to one of my neighbors, Poncho, The animals have various personalities in which case one of them can at least come close to matching mine - which makes him pretty funny and 'cool', for lack of a better word, to me. Now... Speaking of flowers, I recently cut down every tree in my town just to put down some patterns and arrange the flowers to my liking. Then I planted the trees. Everywhere. It took awhile, but it was actually sort of fun. Landscaping is just part of the adventure!
What keeps you playing?
