Who remembers playing Animal Crossing? I know there are people out there who have payed Animal Crossing in a Game Cube when the game was first released during the 2000’s.

I started playing the game on my Nintendo DS with Animal Crossing Wild World. The hours I spent playing that game, I loved it.

Then Animal Crossing New Leaf came along. I spent many hours playing that game on my Nintendo DS, then my Nintendo 3DS and on my Nintendo 3DS XL over the years of playing Animal Crossing New Leaf.

I didn’t get to play Animal Crossing City Folk or Animal Crossing New Horizon as I didn’t have the gaming platforms to play those games.

In 2018 I saw in the app store on my phone the game Animal Crossing Pocket Camp and installed it. I started playing getting to level 5 and stopped playing. Over the years, I would play again a few more levels and stop again. This year, I started to get more involved with the game, rather than getting drawn away by other games on my phone and quickly discovered my love for Animal Crossing again.

For those not familiar with the game, Animal Crossing Pocket Camp has the player arrive at a Campsite and the player becomes the Campsite Manager for the game’s campsite, through a conversation with one of the game’s special characters. You also get a camper van which you can customise along with the campsite. At level 15, you unlock a cabin and can customise that too.

The player can travel to 4 locations in the game and speak with the animal campers in those areas, complete animal requests and build up the friendship levels with those animals. Once you have the friendship at the required level and have crafted all the items the animal asks to be made, they can move into the campsite or cabin.

There are lots of things to be made in the game, fulfill requests for your animal friends, customise your campsite, camper and cabin.

The animals move from the 4 recreational areas every 3 hours and the animals in your campsite and cabin, every 12 hours. Don’t worry, they come back in a random pattern so unlike other Animal Crossing games, if a favourite animal moves out, they are not permanently out of the game, never to be seen again.

The other thing about Animal Crossing Pocket Camp being a game on your phone is that in 4 recreational areas in the game, other player’s characters are present as campers too. It’s a social game where you can interact with people around the world but there is no way you can actually speak with a person, it’s all in game and safe for kids to play and cute for adults who are still big kids at heart to play.

There is more about the game but that’s the basics.

I remember when I first started playing Animal Crossing Wild World, Goldie was my first ever animal villager I met. She ended up being my favourite along with Chief, Benedict, Friga, Hopper, Egbert and many others. It’s been wonderful interacting with these animals again in another incarnation of the Animal Crossing series. I have several of my favourite animals from Animal Crossing New Leaf as well. Now I have favourites from Animal Crossing Pocket Camp too.

I have 2 Animal Crossing Pocket Camp accounts. On one I play as a female, since I’m a female and then this year I created a new account and play that character as a male. The female Kaida, she’s more like me, down to earth and into nature and the male character, he’s the cool guy who loves city living. It’s a lot of fun and I can get creative with both characters.

If anyone plays Animal Crossing Pocket Camp and needs new friends, I help with the mine, I gift when I have gifts, I help with various events and I try and sell the native fruit, lemons. Friend codes are for Kaida ID: 66037976955 and for Ozzy ID: 31946660683 so feel free to add me if you need friends who are active on the game.

Happy Animal Crossing everyone

Until next time

Kaye