This is why I don't play Animal Crossing games. It starts out fun-you just stroll around town, getting to know your neighbors, making some friends, finding some nifty furniture and the like. Then you start to want to get further ahead in the game-you make it a point to get on at certain times so you can visit people, collect bells, do a bunch of slow, grindy things. Then, it occurs to you that you're not really having a lot of fun anymore. You decide to quit playing.

Time passes.

After a long while, you've grown bored with your shooters, your action-adventures, your fighting games. You think something nice, simple, slow-paced will cheer you up. You open up Animal Crossing. You stare at the destruction. Weeds everywhere, vermin infesting every corner, the friends you knew (and even came to love) gone. You start a new game, but the sight of your old town haunts you-next time you decide to play something else, you can't help but look at the case now and again, knowing in your heart that your town is slowly dying in your absence.

…………….Cool.