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Time Traveling in Animal Crossing

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Updated May 07, 2020 at 04:33PM EDT by Adam.

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Time Traveling in Animal Crossing refers to the practice of manually changing the date in a player's console to a desired point in time in Animal Crossing, for one's own benefit. The act received further contention pertaining to newer installments due to it's increased player-base and disputed objective of gameplay.

Origin

On April 14th, 2001, Animal Forest, was released as a Japanese exclusive on the Nintendo 64. The game was setup to play with or without using the cartridge's internal battery[1] and the date can be changed anytime through the main menu.[2] On future releases such as Animal Crossing for the GameCube, the option to configure dates can be done through the console's startup menu or the game itself.

Online Presence

The morals of time-travelling have been up to debate, with some news articles and videos giving their opinion on the matter. For example, on April 1st, 2020, news site The Mercury News[3] published an article titled "Impressions: Don’t use this cheat in Animal Crossing: New Horizons" exclaiming that the game "should be something to look forward to everyday" and "it further messes up our sense of time."


Entertainment Impressions: Don't use this cheat in 'Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Time traveling may be tempting but it ruins the pace of the Nintendo Switch game く

On April 5th, 2020, YouTuber Arlo uploaded a video titled "Is It Wrong to Cheat in Animal Crossing?" In the video, he discusses certain viewpoints of players and later pointing out that "none of this really matters when it doesn't affect anyone else," but those who duplicate items and show off their game on social media are crossing a line.



"Animal Crossing Fans When They Play X"

Animal Crossing Fans When They Play X refers to Image Macros and GIF Captions that humorously highlight a purist's reaction to a video game or movie with time travel elements. For example, Twitter user @SB2749[4] posted a joke showing a broken DS joking it represented Animal Crossing players playing Mario and Luigi: Partners In Time, gaining over 4,200 retweets and 33,000 likes (shown below left). The tweet format was parodied by other users in his their replies.


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External References

[1] YouTube – Animal Crossing Internal Battery

[2] Wikia – Dobutsu no Mori

[3] Mercury News – Impressions

[4] Twitter – @SB2749

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The way I see it, the more time traveling is used, the faster you're going to get tired of Animal Crossing, at least in my case. You're going to progress farther in a shorter amount of time, so you're going to feel like you've done everything sooner. This is hard to think about, because it's a new game and everything, but every game gets used up at some point, and all good things come to an end. I like to pace myself when it comes to exploring Animal Crossing, but I don't mind if others wanna see what comes next sooner. It's a casual life simulation game. The whole series is predicated on doing what you wanna do. That's why Recetti doesn't punish you but comedically gets on your case every time you reset.

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