The game is cute and certainly aims to mimic the feeling of the mainline Animal Crossing games, but it has a few issues. You can craft the stuff easily enough, you give a blue-furred alpaca the necessary goods and some money and he’ll get it made after some real-world time has passed, or your bribe him with the currency that can be bought with real-world money to speed this all along. Once an animal likes you enough you can invite them over to your campsite, but, like the snobbiest squirrel on the planet, they won’t come unless you have the very specific sets of decorations that they like. Level yourself up and you get access to new friends, crafting items, and shops.
Level them enough and they’ll want to come visit you at your campsite.
Interacting with an animal fills a bar for them, representing the deepening of your friendship-or the more they feel like they can con you into bringing them stuff)-and, in turn, contributes to an overall player level. In fact, if there is an overarching goal in Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp: it’s to grind reputation like an early MMO. Those bugs and fruits and fish will come in handy however, as all of your prospective friends seem to want these sorts of things, and will like you better after you’ve handed over you squid or beetles or whatever else they want today. Travel time between these locations is long enough to be annoying especially considering how quickly one can deplete an area of resources. Fishing is done in the ocean or by the river, bug catching in the forest and on the island, and so on and so forth. Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is no different, simplifying things for ease of use of a touch screen and relegating hobbies to specific, smaller areas.
Animal Crossing usually amounts to daily listless wandering and approaching whatever activity tickles the player’s fancy, while conversing with friends and neighbours. It’s not that I dislike peaceful simulations that focus on communities and simple living, I just prefer mine with a bit more focus, maybe some farming or shopkeeping. Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp – gameplay image via Nintendo
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