They must wait for Blather’s museum to be built or the Nook’s Cranny to set up shop. Tom Nook, the fictional mogul and some say capitalist slave driver, initially announces the day and happenings about town before players go about the chores and activities to keep this experimental colony going.ĭuring the first few play sessions, “New Horizons” players discover a natural endpoint to their day. “New Horizons” has its own holidays and events as the system reads the time and date.
When it’s winter, they’ll see snow blanket the ground.
When it’s summer, they’ll have more sunny days. If it’s morning and the sunrise casts its glow across a real-life table, players will see that same lighting pattern on the eastern side of their island. The Nintendo Switch game moves in real time. The world could in the middle of an apocalypse but inside the island that players mold, they will find a slower flow of life. It doesn’t care much about what’s going beyond the screen outside. “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” moves at its own pace.
Don't use the time travel cheat in 'Animal Crossing: New Horizons'
