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It's go time, villagers! This week we're kicking off The Deepest Dive on Animal Crossing: New Horizons and we need your thoughts, experiences, and insight to help fuel our discussion. Airing Wednesday, our community game club on Animal Crossing will feature friend of the show Ana Diaz, localization expert/streamer Sarah Podzorski, and co-owner of Pink Gorilla Games and co-director of the Video Game History Foundation Kelsey Lewin.

Please leave a comment below and there's a good chance we'll read it on the air during the game club, the more specific your comment is the higher the odds we'll read it. Let us know what you think of the new systems, why Reneigh is your favorite villager, or something that really made you laugh. We'll stop collecting comments early on Tuesday morning.

We can't wait to read everybody's thoughts on the game so far. Based on the internet, it seems like every person in the world is playing this thing. Thanks for playing along with the game club!

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Get Ready For The Deepest Dive On Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Sometimes the world can be a scary place, so we're here to help. We're officially announcing that the next Deepest Dive from MinnMax will be covering Animal Crossing: New Horizons on the Nintendo Switch! The Deepest Dive is a game club, where we play through the game together and read as many specific comments from the community as possible to have the best, most thorough discussion about Animal Crossing: New Horizons on the internet! The first episode of The Deepest Dive will air on March 25th, and you can unlock the podcast version by supporting MinnMax on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax Buy MinnMax merch here - https://minnmax.com/merch Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/minnmaxshow Go behind the scenes on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/minnmaxshow Follow us on Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/minnmaxshow Please support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/minnmax Thanks to the following Patreon supporters for their generous support of MinnMax at the $50 tier! Get your name on the list right here - https://www.patreon.com/minnmax Iam8bit Seth Walker BeatenDownBrian The Smak Jawarhello Mark Seliga Jesse Vitelli Zachary Pligge Mirko Arico-Torreno Rob Hudak (aka Rook) David Lacolucci

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Anonymous

I love how you can actually learn stuff from donating fossils to Blathers. Turns out the diamond shaped plates on a Stegosaurus' back were made of bone, but weren't actually connected to the skeleton. They just grew out of the skin, though their purpose is still a mystery. Who knew!? Also, is his name Blathers because he's always blathering about fossils?

Anonymous

This is my first and only Animal Crossing game and I've been loving it so far! My favorite thing is the museum. So many games have collectibles but this is the first one I've played where the things you collect actually enhances the game world. I love how well laid out the museum is and how you can look at all the displays. Not to mention all the little details like the butterfly hatchery and the submarine display. It feels like a zoo, aquarium, and natural history museum all rolled into one. And you get to participate in building it! I wish all games made their collectible grind as fun and interesting as this. That said, my least favorite thing are the wasps..... I really hope there's a way to deal with them. Yes I know to equip the net when shaking trees to deal with them but every time I've been stung has been when I was chopping wood. There's simply no time to switch to the net and catch them and you can't run away from them fast enough most of the time. The frequency at which they spawn is also very annoying. I've been keeping all the wasp nests to count the number of times I get hit everyday (and for the medicine) and the record is 6 right now! Does anyone have a good method to keep from getting stung when chopping wood???? Looking forward to the discussion on this awesome game!

Anonymous

Just wanted to say that I did not read or watch any preview content or reviews before getting the game. I played a lot of Wild World, a good bit of City Folk, and some New Leaf. Learning the new mechanics in New Horizons first hand has been a delight. Eventually I’ll look up a guide or “Top 10 Hidden Secrets” List but for now I’m playing it slow and steady and learning new things day by day. And it’s a blast! Stay home, stay happy, stay safe and stay healthy MinnMax! AdamWalkerSomethingRanger

Anonymous

So at the beginning of the year if you would have asked me what my GOTY was going to end up being I would have said FF7 Remake no question. While I still feel that will end up being the case, the excellence of Animal Crossing mixed with the unprecedented state of the world right now, it seems like this game has really taken the world by storm and the consensus is that it was the perfect game to come out during these very unique times. Do you think, with all these things combined, that Animal Crossing will end up being a VERY serious GOTY contender? While the franchise has been beloved for a long time, I don't recall any entry ever being in the greater conversation for consensus Game of the Year.

Mark Cruz

Hello Ben and friends. You said be specific so I will. The way they spread out content over each day is masterful and makes you look forward to playing tomorrow. Example I made 3 houses at once. But they slowly added the people day by day instead of having it so since I finished them all in one day the next day they will all move in. Nope one at a time that’s puck day(penguin villager name) and you should spend your day getting to know puck not all 3

Anonymous

Dear Ben and the disciples of the New Horizon. Do you all think the current pandemic is a scheme by Tom Nook for his business model? (But without joking, I think the current pandemic is skyrocketing AC:NH sales, mostly digital)

Anonymous

This game is teaching me so many things in life I didn't know. For instance, I know thought bamboo was just the sticks, but the top looks just like a tree when fully grown. Mind is blown

Hugo Pereira

Curious: what is you guy's default camera style? I'm mostly a low angle/rolling hills style, only ever going top down when customizing and fishing in rivers

micspam

As a *long time* Animal Crossing fan (10~ hours AC:PG/Mobile, 50+ rest) to me the most interesting change so far has been how many incentives for time skipping have been removed from the game. Balloons are much more common than they were before (common enough to be dailies), rare fish/bugs are much easier to get (Coelacanths, anyone?) and visitors are a daily things, rather than a surprising thing. (Still have Saharah PTSD from NL. She had to come to your town 4 times before you could get the last shop upgrade). Additionally, with the dailies and the island explorations, you run out of things to do much later. I'm also really enjoying how word-of-mouth everything is right now. Plenty of other *hardcore* Animal Crossing friends of mine are sharing information about this game that nobody else knew, and wasn't easily accessible online. Meanwhile more casual friends are able to be a part of the conversation in a way that's not normally possible when a large group of people is all playing the same game. Not to beat a dead horse here, but the release window so far has felt like the Strand Game experience that Death Stranding tried to be. Also, has "Breath of the Wild like" become the new euphemism for "your tools break"? Because jeeze louise, amirite?

Mason Cowell

My favorite super specific thing in the game is the character's little hop animation when he or she squeezes between two objects.

Anonymous

Do you guys think of the lore implications of these familiar faces just moving to a deserted island? Why in the world would Blathers leave his nice museum from New Leaf and set up the world's fanciest museum and aquarium on an island with a population of 5? Is Tom Nook running his real estate empire from his phone? How do they all have a network signal? I'm just asking questions here.

Anonymous

Holy crap do I have thoughts. First, this is my first animal crossing game and I am an idiot for ignoring before. Fun story: The first day I moved all of the NPCs away from me because I wanted have my own space, especially since I am quarantined with my wife and two kids. However, the very next day my six year old says to me “Dad, I started my own game on your island and moved right next to you!” So I am quarantined with my six year old in real life and video game life. Specifics thoughts Blathers... the freaking best. I LOVE how he hates bugs but will still give you facts about them. His factoids are interesting as well. I usually give all my new donations to him one at a time so I can listen to his stories.