Animal Crossing Pocket Camp
Nintendo announced the mobile Animal Crossing game called Animal Crossing Pocket Camp recently. While it did say it won't release till late November, it is out in Australia early probably for testing. Though now people are trying to get the Australian version including myself. So if you can't wait, you can google guides on how to get it.
If you're not familiar with Animal Crossing, it is a game where you manage a town and get in good terms with the characters. For this mobile version, you manage a camping site instead of a town. Animal Crossing is a nice chill game to play, but it may bore people. You will mostly be gathering items like fish and fruits to make money off of and use that money to buy things to decorate your campsite and camper.
The campsite has two types of areas: there's space for furniture and separate space of amenities which are labeled as tents. These tents can be leveled up unlike the furniture. Both take time to make, and both require materials which you get from doing requests from the villagers. There are four different types: natural, cute, cool, and sporty. They affect how much the villagers will like you when you have them at your campsite.
To get villagers to your campsite, you find them in other locations and get their level up. Level will start at three to invite them but it will increase as you level up. Max level is 7, but when you craft tents you can level villagers beyond 7. Then you can invite them, but they will give you a list of furniture they require you to have before they go. By doing requests and talking to them, you also level up. Each time you level you unlock a new villager. Since your campsite has a max of 8, you can have more villagers available to talk to by having them at your campsite. When you level high enough, there will be more villagers than there is space. You can use a Calling Card to call a village that isn't anywhere to any of the areas. They would replace the random user that would normally be there so there would be two villagers at an area. Request Cards are to unlock more requests. These requests would usually unlock once they move to a new location.
There are four areas they you'd find villagers and items: Lost Lure Creek, Sunburst Island, Breezy Hollow, and Saltwater Shores. Every 3 hours fruits will respawn and the villagers camping in each are will change thus unlocking more requests. Bugs and fish will take a few seconds to respawn once you've caught everything. Since there is a limited inventory space, you can sell items or put them up in your Marketbox for other users to buy. There is one area where you can buy furniture already made and clothes. Another area is to customize your camper. This is where you can expand the inside of your camper for 10,000 bells. There will be a loan for this like with the house in the console Animal Crossing games. The second camper upgrade costs 30,000 bells and it gives you a small second floor. Third upgrade is a bigger second floor for 50,000 bells. As you level you unlock more camper paint patterns and camper types. The last area is the Quarry which you need 7 friends to get you in or pay Leaf Tickets to get in. This is just breaking 5 rocks and getting reward for it.
Since this is a free mobile game, there is a currency that you can buy with real money and its called Leaf Tickets. You use these tickets to get more space in inventory and crafting. You can use it to immediately finish crafting, and to get a bunch of fish or bugs at once. The most useful thing you can use these tickets is buying more crafting spots as they only limit you to one craft item and one amenity. You can purchase two more spots which you can easily get enough of from doing Timed Goals, Stretched Goals, and leveling. Each spot costs 80 leaf tickets.
I have played Animal Crossing before and it is nice to play, but sometimes it can feel like work with all the weed pulling and fishing and bug catching is not terribly easy sometimes. This game makes it really easy to catch bugs and fish. I do like this much simpler Animal Crossing game. Overall I am really enjoying it so far so and plus its really cute. I highly recommend it!
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