Raymond here is new to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and as such, you can’t just summon him into your game – he has to be found organically.īecause capitalism demands it, entrepreneurial players have set up multiple means to mitigate the grind, resulting in websites like nook.market and, laughably, Nookazon. If you’re keen to get a certain villager to live on your island, players can buy and use Amiibo Cards, but these only cover villagers from previous entries in the series. But the crushing reality behind his god-like status is so much darker than even I could imagine. At first, I saw all the fan art and thought it was cute that this sweet kitty was getting so much attention. If you’ve been anywhere near the Animal Crossing Twitter in the past two months, you will have most likely stumbled upon Raymond, the heterochromatic cat dork who wears a waistcoat. Judge me all you like, but this fickle approach to population control has spawned an entire industry, where people are laying down cold hard cash to get the villagers of their dreams. In my case, I restarted because there was an ugly frog called Diva in my starting duo.
If you’ve played New Horizons, you’ll know that you don’t get to choose who accompanies you on your island. In fact, a lot of the player-made systems that have cropped up as a consequence of its overwhelming success have exposed an alarming dark side to this supposedly wholesome game. It makes a lot of sense – Animal Crossing has become a serene salve for the millions of people stuck at home due to the coronavirus, but not every community development related to this game has been wholesome. Personally, I don’t have time for that, but there are hordes of people who have latched onto the game with admirable gusto. It wants me to check in every day, work to its schedule and meet its spectral standards so I can get a little dog with a guitar to come play ‘Wonderwall’ in my plaza. Yet, as the pandemic has trudged along, I’ve found myself increasingly disillusioned with this – admittedly – great game. Of course, I’m worried about the weeds and my ninja rabbit neighbour Snake who’s probably been aching to tell me about his workout regimen, that loveable little rascal. I put the game down one day in late March and I haven’t been back. I’m scared to go back to my town in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
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