I finally got my Animal Crossing big robot, or Jeager for you Pacific Rim fans. I had every item to build one except a recipe to build the Saturn 5/Apollo moon rocket with launch pad. The picture above shows the robot next to my avatar, with the Saturn 5 in back. I was gifted with three of the Saturn 5 items by my youngest daughter, who just happened to get the recipe and had more than enough supplies to create three of them for me. I used one to build the robot, one to just have out in the open, and I put the third one away in storage for later.

I’ve spent so much time in this game world (for an adult) that I’ve dropped to about one quick visit/month, just to pick up the weeds and look at all the mail. I’ve done everything including running through the minimum required in the Happy Home Paradise DLC to build all the buildings on that island. I think that’s designing houses for 30 characters.

I got started when the COVID19 pandemic kicked off. As the lockdowns and the worst parts of the pandemic fade into the past, the desire to play any game on the Switch is also fading. There’s too much to do IRL to be caught up in a fantasy world like Animal Crossing.

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If you tap on the robot, it will light up and laser beams will briefly flash out of its eyes.

A year ago I was talking about creating Animal Crossing Snowboys, and the difficulty of making sure the ratio between the head and body were correct so you could collect the single large snowflake they’ll produce when you make that “perfect” Snowboy. There are all sorts of how-tos on the web describing how to consistently pull that off. This year something’s changed in the game. I can quickly roll up my “perfect” Snowboy without going to all the trouble I did last year. This year the process of making Snowboys is faster and the resultant Snowboys are a lot smaller. I certainly haven’t developed any in-game super powers that I’m aware off. I can still goof around and make them top heavy like I did last year, and I have a number of times. I guess all I can say that’s different this year is I don’t care if I make them perfect or not. And it seems that I’ve make quite a few perfect Snowboys this winter season.

Or just maybe enough Animal Crossing gamers yelled loud enough that Nintendo got the memo and fixed the algorithm.

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