Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp
We finally got an Animal Crossing game on mobile.
Genre(s): Life simulation Platform(s): Android iOS Release Date: AU: October 25, 2017 WW: November 21, 2017 Developer(s): Nintendo EPD NDcube Publisher(s): Nintendo Series: Animal Crossing Predecessor: Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival Successor: Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is the third spin-off title of the Animal Crossing franchise after Amiibo Festival. It was released on October 25, 2017.

Why It Rocks

1. It is visually gorgeous and has nice visuals and graphics, even for a mobile game.
2. Relaxing music.
3. Instead of customizing your house, you get to customize your camp, your RV and your cabin.
4. You can also invite villagers to your campsite or your cabin, and change their clothes.
5. You could also expand your RV too.
6. You can visit other players' campsites as well.
7. Unlike the other spin-off titles, you can catch bugs and fish just like the main series games.
8. Many fun events.
9. At the day of today, new content keeps being added to the game as new furniture and villagers.
10. You could exchange friend codes with other players, similar to the friend codes from the 3DS, Wii U, and Switch.
    • You can also add friends through Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
11. It features a photo mode where you can take snapshots with other villagers changing their expressions.
    • There's an augmented reality mode, as well.
12. It can introduce newer and younger players into the Animal Crossing franchise.
13. Introduces new features in the game like crafting items and furniture as well as placing furniture outside, though Happy Home Designer did it first, which some being brought into the new installment in the series that is Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
14. Animal Crossing Pocket Camp Complete introduces new features such as importing your New Horizon designs over to Pocket Camp, along with many features being overhauled.

Bad Qualities

1. Micro-transactions are present in this game, as leaf tickets are behind paywalls.
2. It has the controversial loot boxes, which was why it and Fire Emblem: Heroes was taken off of the app store for Belgium players because of the illegal loot box law Belgium has.
3. Some cool functions like saving presets for decorating and clothing are locked behind monthly paid subscriptions.
4. You can't play with other players. However, the only thing you can do with other players is buy items off of them and send gifts to them.
5. Newer villagers are unlocked via Blathers' maps, which require great amounts of crafting materials to be completed, and then you talk with them the first time like you have already known them before.
6. The smug villagers in your campsite will sometimes exclaim "yaaaas!" when you give them a rare fruit, fish, or bug, which might be an attempt to pander to modern culture.
7. The game is blocked in all of Hispanic America with the only exception of Mexico.
8. In order to play it, you are required to have an internet connection, which doesn't make any sense, because all the other Animal Crossing games can be played offline. This internet connection requirement would be removed in the Complete version.
9. Thanks to Mario Kart Tour, this game now has not one, but two subscription services added into the game. However now there are three of them.
10. On Thanksgiving Day 2024, the game's servers would be shutdown, meaning players aren't able to play the game anymore, however this time Nintendo decided to create a paid version that will allow old players to transfer progress in December.
11. While you could import your New Horizon designs to this game, many of the items aren't supported for it, and the designs look pixelated.
12. Despite the Complete version being released, many items from many Nintendo events have now been made unobtainable, meaning players won't be able to obtain them ever again.

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