Before Christmas I asked here about Animal Crossing - what it was all about and whether or not my 6 1/2 and 5 year old boys would be able to play it (given the limited reading skills). Well, just wanted to say thanks to everybody who recommended getting the game for them. They didn't have any idea what it was when they opened it, but my 6 year old in particular has really ended up liking the game. It does, however, require a lot of reading, and so I've had to do a lot of reading out loud for him, which gets tiring, especially at the beginning. Of course I get him to read some of it too (with help on the big words), but it's a lot of reading for a 1st grader. I started my own character in the same town, initially just to spruce things up for him, but I'm finding that I enjoy the game too, though I'm not exactly sure why. There's something addicting about it.
So far we've both paid off our initial loans and gotten our first addition to our houses (helped by getting 10,000 bells from "Mom" for the New Year.) But, wow, the new loan is something like 160,000 bells! We've both got nets, but neither of us have fishing rods. Neither of us have caught any bugs yet. In fact, I've never even seen one, although he has. Fossils are plentiful and Tom Nook pays a pretty penny for them, but you also want to have them on display at the Museum. Hmm... what to do....
So far we've both paid off our initial loans and gotten our first addition to our houses (helped by getting 10,000 bells from "Mom" for the New Year.) But, wow, the new loan is something like 160,000 bells! We've both got nets, but neither of us have fishing rods. Neither of us have caught any bugs yet. In fact, I've never even seen one, although he has. Fossils are plentiful and Tom Nook pays a pretty penny for them, but you also want to have them on display at the Museum. Hmm... what to do....