When Animal Crossing: New Horizons hit the market in March 2020, it introduced players to an Animal Crossing experience unlike anything they had seen before. The Animal Crossing formula was quite simple before 2020: transporting players to a quaint village inhabited by critters with different personalities. Catching bugs, paying off a home loan, and whacking aesthetically unpleasing villagers with a net in hopes that they would leave became the blueprint that players became fond of for a little over ten years. New Leaf provided a slight remix of the concept in 2012, giving players some control by making them the mayor of an equally recognizable village—the same script, with some new features. But Animal Crossing: New Horizonshad its eyes set on rewriting the beloved Animal Crossing script. The latest installment of the franchise placed players on a deserted island instead of a village and granted them the maximum expression of creativity with an almost fully customizable town.