Animal Crossing Switch 2: Is It Worth Coming Back? - Gamescast Plays

Summary

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Kinda Funny Gamescast Plays: Animal Crossing Switch 2 – Is It Worth Coming Back?

Episode Date: January 15, 2026
Hosts: Greg Miller & Joey Noel

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Episode Overview

This episode marks the premiere of "Gamescast Plays," Kinda Funny’s new editorial-driven streaming and podcast series. Greg Miller and Joey Noel give an in-depth, hands-on look at Animal Crossing: New Horizons Switch 2 Edition and its massive 3.0 update, released alongside Nintendo’s new Switch 2 console. The central question: Is it worth returning to Animal Crossing in 2026?

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Main Themes & Purpose

• Exploring what's new in Animal Crossing: New Horizons Switch 2 Edition & 3.0 Update
• Whether the new features and additions are compelling enough to bring back lapsed players
• Personal play journeys: revisiting old islands vs. fully restarting
• The unique rhythms and emotional connections Animal Crossing creates for players

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. What’s New in Switch 2 & Update 3.0?

(Starts ~01:04)

• Core Additions:
  • Mouse Controls for gameplay and island navigation
  • 12-player Online Visits (up from previous limit) – but Nintendo’s cumbersome invite process remains:

    “It still sucks getting them in though. So why would they do that?” (Greg, 02:54)

  • Island Reset Service: Option to wipe and restart your island cleanly
  • Kapp’n’s Family Hotel: New location where players decorate hotel rooms to earn a fresh in-game currency and unlock unique rewards

    “Kappn's family has opened a hotel… you need to decorate to get a new in-game currency” (Greg, 02:55)

  • Slumber Islands: Players can now have three extra “dreamscape” islands to visit or develop
  • Collaboration & Themed Items: Zelda and LEGO content is now available
  • Enhanced Resolution/Performance: Notably improved visuals and framerate on Switch 2, though load times remain poor

    “...putting it on a Switch 2. I was like, oh damn, this does run better. It does look better. I'm seeing a frame rate difference…” (Greg, 11:22)

  • Crafting from Storage: Massive quality-of-life—materials in your house storage are now accessible when crafting

    “...the best part of this update is crafting pulls from your storage now.” (Fan question, 10:43)

2. Restarting vs. Returning: Two Player Perspectives

(04:32–05:24)

• Joey: Restarted her island for the update, giving the sense of a fresh journey, but regrets losing resources:

  "I was scrambling, trying to like figure out how do I get the price. And now with all the decorating at the hotel too, I was like, I don't have nearly as many items as I had before on my old island." (Joey, 03:28)

• Greg: Picking up on his original 2020 island, surprised how quickly he got re-engaged with the new systems and content:

  "I have come back to it for this... I'm shocked to say, yes, it is [worth returning]." (Greg, 04:58 and 05:24)

3. Decorating Systems & Motivations

(06:00–09:31)

• Hotel Decorating: Room-by-room challenges inspire creativity within set themes—using both provided and personal items
• Themes Help Creativity: Frameworks dislodge creative blocks:

  "When it was like, oh, you know what, here we go. We're gonna give you a theme to work with for me, I was like, oh, that's really, really good. I like that." (Greg, 09:37)

• Notable Fun: Players enjoy showing off their personal “shrines” and thematic rooms, like Greg’s “Mizzou” room or “Jen bathroom”

4. Performance, Mechanics & Quality-of-Life

(07:46–14:19)

• Mouse controls & Handheld Use: Greg prefers docked; Joey is handheld-only
• Crafting from Storage and Movement: New options streamline tedious aspects
• Lingering Gripes:
  • Online multiplayer process is still slow
  • Certain villager and event systems feel outdated or underwhelming; not enough player-villager bonding
  • Persistent issues: “cockroach ghosts” in homes, clunky menuing

    “Why isn't this all under one sleeping menu? ...they're fucking patching all this shit on with God damn tissue paper and duct tape and trying to make it work.” (Greg, 25:11)

5. Personal Journeys, Nostalgia, and Social Play

(14:19–29:00)

• Game as Social Hub: Especially during the early pandemic

  "Because Animal Crossing… became such my connective social hub with my real friends… turnip prices… a way to hang out." (Joey, 16:58)

• Burnout & Returning: Both hosts discuss peaks and valleys—burnout after heavy play, and the comfort of coming back
• Online/Multiplayer Wish List: Greg details longing for a persistent, shared online world and deeper games-as-a-service support

6. Slumber Islands: Creativity Unleashed

(25:11–27:55)

• Greg’s Dream Island Tributes: Slumber/dream islands serve as themed sandboxes, opening new avenues for creativity—e.g., a special island as a tribute to cohost Tim Gettys

  "That's how he wants to be remembered. Mm. Take a screenshot. You know what I mean?" (Greg, 27:36)

7. Community Contributions, Merch, and Customs

(35:24–38:22)

• Fan-made Content: Shoutout to “Kebabs” for updating Kinda Funny-themed outfits and assets in-game
• Seasonal Dress Up: Greg changes his character’s look to fit the in-game season

8. Motivators, New Life, and Player Overwhelm

(38:35–44:08)

• New Content Motivates Daily Play: The hotel, new currency, and decor drive short, purposeful sessions
• Overwhelm & “Cheating”: Joey describes combining time travel, friend help, and the community to “speedrun” reacquiring items
• Console/Save Friction: Discussion of Nintendo’s lack of cloud saves for Animal Crossing and horror stories of players losing everything

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Notable Quotes

• On returning:

  “I am shocked to say, yes, it is [worth coming back].” – Greg, 04:58

• On crafting update:

  “The best part of this update is crafting pulls from your storage now.” – Fan comment, 10:43

• On ambitions for Animal Crossing:

  “…the fact that Animal New Horizons isn’t ...your persistent online world... Don’t even get me started on the fact that I think this should be a games as a service, always online.” – Greg, 16:24

• On nostalgia & comfort:

  “…there is, like, such a...different ways that, like, you find comfort...I feel like that, for me, definitely is Animal crossing, where it’s, like, just familiar, you know, what you’re getting into…” – Joey, 41:22

• On creative prompts:

  “I like the hotel thing. I like that they give you a list of. Hey, these are all of the items that we think fit this. ...But then you also have the freedom to choose stuff from your own.” – Joey, 12:49

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Key Timestamps

• 01:04 – What's new in Update 3.0 and the Switch 2 version
• 04:32–05:24 – Restarting vs. Returning to old islands: two contrasting player perspectives
• 07:46 – Disappointments and surprises with Nintendo’s patching style
• 09:31–10:14 – Creative challenges with hotel rooms, decorating, and theme items
• 11:22 – Visual and performance improvements on Switch 2 hardware
• 14:19–16:23 – Pandemic social hub memories; discussions on what might have been improved
• 25:11–27:55 – Slumber island showcase and creative potentials (Tim Gettys tribute)
• 35:24–38:22 – Community content: Kinda Funny fan-made merchandise and in-game swag
• 38:35–44:08 – Overwhelm, time-travel, and friend-aided progression
• 53:07–54:08 – Zelda/LEGO item unlocks, amiibo confusion, and ongoing Nintendo quirks
• 55:13–55:39 – Final verdicts and hope for a creative community resurgence

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Memorable Moments

• Greg’s enthusiasm at being reshaken by the hotel update and Slumber Islands (“Oh, fuck. Like, this actually is cool.” – 06:01)
• Greg and Joey mourning the lost Animal Crossing potential (online, games-as-a-service) but still feeling nostalgia pull them back
• Community involvement: the fan “Kebabs” gets credited for Kinda Funny-themed swag, earning in-episode praise
• Playful moments: Joey’s admission to time-travel shenanigans, Greg’s hunt for a specific frog villager
• Slumber Island tribute to Tim Gettys – “Take a screenshot... this is how he wants to be remembered.”

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Final Impressions & Takeaways

• It’s Worth Returning: Both hosts found themselves surprised by how quickly the update rekindled their interest—even as “non-decorators.”

  “I want to decorate every one of these rooms and I want to see what else they're going to add to the store.” (Greg, 07:46)

• Motivation to Play: New tasks, currencies, and social tools nudge players back into daily check-ins, unlocking the cozy grind of Animal Crossing all over again
• Resuming vs. Restarting: Easier than ever if you resume your old save, while restarting means more effort, but also opens a creative blank slate
• The Community Factor: Collaboration, sharing, and fan-made content remain core to the game's long-term allure
• Wish List: The hosts express hopeful frustrations for deeper multiplayer, games-as-a-service momentum, and richer villager engagement in future sequels

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Summary Verdict

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Switch 2 Edition and Update 3.0 is a shockingly effective “shot in the arm”—both for old-timers and curious returnees. The hotel, Slumber Islands, and QoL upgrades produce purpose and novelty even for the previously burned out. Yes, there’s still ample Nintendo weirdness and missed potential, but for now, it’s worth coming back.

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“It’s kind of nice to tap back into [that] nostalgia occasionally.” – Joey, 41:22
“I was shocked... I am in again.” – Greg, 04:58

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Transcript

[Greg Miller]

This episode is brought to you by Rocket Money. Cancel your unwanted subscriptions and let Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster. [e-mail] Kinda funny this episode is brought to you by Factor Make Healthier Eating Easy with factor. Head to FactorMeals.com KindaFunny50 off and use the code kinda funny50OFF to get 50% off your first factor box. Plus free breakfast for one year offer only valid for New Factor customers with code and qualifying auto renewing subscription purchase. What's up everybody? Welcome to kinda funny. Gamescast plays our brand new editorial streaming product here on YouTube.com kindafunnygames, Twitch TV, Kinda FunnyGames and podcast services around the globe. I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller alongside Christmas in January. Joey Noel, it's me, I'm here.

[Joey Noel]

We're here.

[Greg Miller]

Finally.

[Joey Noel]

We've been waiting for this day for so long.

[Greg Miller]

Since the launch of the Switch 2, Joey and I have been saying where is Animal crossing for the Switch 2? Even if it's just an update. And today, January 15th, Nintendo has finally released Animal New Horizons Switch 2 Edition alongside update 3.0 for Animal Crossing. If this is your first kinda funny games cast plays which it is because it's the first one we've ever done. The idea here is we're not just streaming and joking around, we're running you through what's new about this game, what's cool about this game and making an editorial product so you get value out of seeing us play games. Or if you're listening right now, thank you for just listening and hanging out with us on your car ride, wherever you are going. Of course we couldn't do this without our Patreon producers. Thought about this last second that you gotta do it. You know what I mean?

[Joey Noel]

Oh yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster Delaney, the Som Twany. Thank you for [e-mail] kindafunny remember you can get all of our shows ad free@patreon YouTube.com kindafunnygames Apple Spotify, we have the chats pulled up here. Thank you so much to everybody saying man, has anything been pre recorded today? They're really on it. They're snappy. No, me and Joey are going from here to the Nintendo Store for an Animal Crossing event. And so when they added in this Resident Evil thing at two, we're like listen, Joey and I are not changing our plans. At 2 o' clock you're going into Resident Evil. So we're trying to keep you all moving today. But here it is Animal Crossing. New Horizons Switch 2 Edition 3.0. I had to print off all the bullet points from Nintendo. In case you didn't know. You can use mouse controls now, which I haven't done for moving around.

[Joey Noel]

No, I'm a handheld. Usually with my Switch I'm just handheld. Yeah, I don't dock it very often. So the idea of docking it and having that.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, not my vibe. You of course can call them on the megaphone to get them to come in. It uses the microphone. You can see the island come to life with enhanced resolution. You see, I am playing on docked, obviously. Switch 2 right now. The Switch 2 edition. I'll talk about that in a second. And of course 12 people can come to your island now via online. It still sucks getting them in though. So why would they do that?

[Joey Noel]

That's a tough.

[Greg Miller]

More importantly, I think is update 3.0, which launched alongside this as well. Right. You have the reset service where you can come in and just clear your island completely off, which is fine. More importantly, Kappn's family has opened a hotel that you need to decorate to get a new in game currency to get new things out of it. We'll get there, don't worry. Slumber island is here. So you can have three additional islands via your Dreamscape. And there's a bunch of new collaboration islands like Zelda stuff and Lego stuff that I bought that I do believe actually is going to be over in my mailbox because I bought it yesterday.

[Joey Noel]

I'm glad that you have been able to do some of this stuff, Greg. Cause let me tell you, this update dropped yesterday. It dropped early. So I didn't have my switch with me at work. I got home, I was just like not in a great mood yesterday. So I was like Animal Crossing too much in a good mood.

[Greg Miller]

Oh wow.

[Joey Noel]

Balancing out. So I didn't start playing until this morning, but I did restart my island and there were things that I had not done because I restarted my island. So it was like, oh, you have to unlock Catton. Which I hadn't done because I didn't really necessarily care about the like extra islands and stuff like that. So this morning I was scrambling, trying to like figure out how do I get the price.

[Greg Miller]

It's a brand new thing. Yeah, exactly, exactly.

[Joey Noel]

And now with all the decorating at the hotel too, I was like, I don't have nearly as many items as I had before on my old island. So I was like, maybe this wasn't my best idea, but I like jumping back in because Now I have, like, purpose for doing all of it, and it's not. Cause I feel like sometimes just like, logging in every day, checking to see what's in the store gets a little bit old. So now that I have this new update and the hotel stuff, I have more motivation to jump in and really craft my outflow.

[Greg Miller]

I think this is titled or will be titled or is titled. Is it worth coming back for? Or something to that effect. The thumbnail's already awesome. I love the thumbnail I already saw. And I think it's gonna have two interesting perspectives. Then somebody who restarted their island, which I know a bunch of people have. I see over in the chat here other people saying, oh, there it is, Hero of time. I also restarted my island. Y' all are crazy. This is my 2020 island. I have come back to it for this or whatever, and, you know, I've touched base.

[Joey Noel]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

But I've never played. And then my perspective is somebody who says, oh, you know what? No, I haven't played. Restarted. I am in my old world. Is it worth coming back to? And I will tell you, I'll spoil it at the top. I am shocked to say, yes, it is. Yesterday, like, when they announced what they were doing for this, I was very much like, oh, okay, cool. I guess that we're doing that. Like, I don't know. Decorating usually isn't my biggest thing.

[Joey Noel]

Not either.

[Greg Miller]

My world here is very sitting LEGO fireplace ready to go. Right. I can spin the camera for you, but, like, you know, this is my house, obviously. Right. And I've left my house very similar. If you notice. This is all Mizzou. Right. I wanted to do an Ellis library room. My bedroom, of course. A shrine to everything I love. You have your Ghostbusters. You have your Shuhei, you have your Mizzou. You got my bedspread.

[Joey Noel]

Father, son, holy spirit, of course.

[Greg Miller]

Exactly. The real unification. Right? What's wrong with you, Barrett? And then, of course, over here, my favorite room, My shrine to Jen.

[Joey Noel]

The Jen bathroom.

[Greg Miller]

My wife that I. No, it's just the gen room. That's where I come and film.

[Joey Noel]

Oh, that's right. It has her body.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. You got the Papagenda logo. Lots of gen photos. A body there, her slimer or whatever. Oh, a place I like to reflect. But decorating. Once I decorated these rooms, I was very much like, cool, I'm done and out of it. Yesterday when we got the update early, which was great. And got to run over to the hotel and start it up as soon as I get In I was like, oh, fuck. Like, this actually is cool. And I actually do like this. It's the same thing I thought of with the slumber island. I was like, I don't know if I like slumber island as much. I never used when they introduced dream things. I was never fucking around it before jumping in last night and I had a vision for what I wanted my first slumber island to be, which I will reveal here on the show.

[Joey Noel]

Don't worry, I'm waiting with bated breath.

[Greg Miller]

You should be. Cause it's in the early stages. But I was like, damn, I like this a lot too.

[Joey Noel]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

But yeah, over here is the island or, I'm sorry, the hotel. The idea here, and I assume it's going to go this way, but obviously Animal Crossing is a game that moves in real time. Yesterday I decorated two rooms and they said, cool, that's all you can do for today, maybe tomorrow. So I'm assuming it's going to go two by two to roll out that you can decorate. More importantly, for people who love in game currencies like me, down here, they have a box that's asking you to make the DIY stuff. Like a garden wagon right now, garden bench, bookshelf, etc. You go make these, you bring them back, and then you get that number of tickets there. You see, I'm already at the 485. And then of course, inside there's a gift shop for the hotel that you can go into and actually get some stuff going and get. Oh, there we go. See Cap' n's family over here doing stuff. Now we're gonna get our update for the day here from Leilani. But yeah, super, super, super impressed. Not impressed, I guess, but shocked of just like you and me took a demo from Nintendo that we didn't even do a preview on because it was just a much longer, less well put together version of that trailer. When they debuted all this stuff.

[Joey Noel]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

And I was very much like, oh, damn. I was hoping for more. I don't know if this will be something I do a lot with and coming back to it. I'm not saying I'm committed for another 300 hours or whatever, but it's definitely like, oh, like I want to decorate every one of these rooms and I want to see what else they're going to add to the store. And that's where it started. I was walking around the island and I was shocked. I always think of myself as an animal crossing person. Not very much about who's on my island. But it was like, Moose came up, Penelope came up and Rattle. And I was like, oh, I remember your name. I remember your name. And then Skye came up, who's like a husky. And I could not remember their name. And Sky's like, I'm thinking about leaving. I'm like, you know what? Hit the brakes. I don't know who you are. I don't know who the. I don't even know who the fuck you are. Sky, get out of here.

[Joey Noel]

I feel like you don't love Sky.

[Greg Miller]

Well, I have a frog thing. I got rattle. You know what I mean? I'm there. I know you know, Kappen isn't a frog. I got Raddle, who I like a lot. And then I'm now blanking after I just put it over that I remember their names, but the other frog I have that. I'm like, yeah, yeah, I like all you. I want you to hang out with me or whatever. Let's see, we can check.

[Joey Noel]

What is your resident vibe? Is it just who you like? Are you trying to get all of one type?

[Greg Miller]

See, for me, it was always first come, first serve. Cause it wasn't about that. It was about building the island. And I've never had a real attachment to anybody in terms of the people. Cause again, as we come in here and see that Rory is staying in this room that I designed, everybody all right? This is Rory's first. Oh, Rory's one of missing links. Villagers.

[Joey Noel]

So interesting to see what you did with this room. With the same items I did.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. And that was, I think, a fun little idea of it of like, you know, the dreamscape obviously lets you use everything in here. They give you stuff. So when they were like, we want a seaside room, they gave me all this stuff over here, right? You know, the plants, the thing, the blah, blah. But then it was.

[Joey Noel]

They have, like, recommended items for the theme.

[Greg Miller]

But over here, like the art on the wall stuff I pulled from my personal collection, where I was like, oh, I want. What else would I want?

[Joey Noel]

Personal collection.

[Greg Miller]

My little hotel of doing this. And I was like, damn, you know what? Doing this and not being that interior designer. But I think also not for me. Something I wasn't expecting my house bare for a long time. Until it was like, oh, I'll do Mizzou room. I'll do this joke gen room. I'll do whatever, like everybody else. My video game basement or whatever. Then it was like, okay, I don't want to touch him. And I'm also not motivated to think of A new idea. So when it was like, oh, you know what, here we go. We're gonna give you a theme to work with for me, I was like, oh, that's really, really good. I like that. Did you do the second room too?

[Joey Noel]

No, I haven't. I'm still tweaking my first room.

[Greg Miller]

So the second room, they gave you a choice and one of them was just modern and it had all this wrought iron furniture. And I was like, cool, I'm gonna make an interrogation room. I'm gonna make it. You know what I mean? I'll make an interrogation room. And apparently this new tourist is here. Let's see who this. I don't know who this is. Barold.

[Joey Noel]

Barold does not look familiar to me at all.

[Greg Miller]

No, no, no, no, no. I don't know Barold at all.

[Joey Noel]

For as much villager hun to try and get my faves, I have no idea who this person is.

[Greg Miller]

Me neither. Got a Mike Drucker vibe going on. But yeah, that makes sense why they stay in my depression interrogation room. But I like again going in and having these. Just one room. And here's what we want to do. Like, oh, you know what? I like that. So let's see what we get today where we pull this chat is going off. Thank you so much. Oh no, there it is. Snavin says. I don't think Greg has mentioned it yet, but the best part of this update is crafting pulls from your storage. Now. Yes, before, if you were gonna craft something at your bench, you needed the items in your pocket. Now you can have them in your house storage and it'll pull from there. A very nice update. There's a bunch of little things like that. You can jump now, you can scrape. There's a bunch of little fun things. And I'm not even getting into the fact of. I think when we've watched it on streams and it's like, hey, this is gonna run at enhanced revolution and better resolution, better frame rate. I look at it, I'm like, still looks like animal crossing last night when at 9 o' clock this updated a Switch 2 version. And I'd already put a couple hours in as just hey, whatever. Putting it on a Switch 2. I was like, oh damn, this does run better. It does look better. I'm seeing a frame rate difference. I was happy with that. Load times still horrible. Still fucking horrible. I'm gonna do ranch room.

[Joey Noel]

Cause I just, it feels like a Greg vibe.

[Greg Miller]

I grew up, my parents had a ranch house, you know what I mean? But it's also. I just did the monitor room, which I felt like was very simple. Let's see what I'm doing here.

[Joey Noel]

I'm never the person to notice those performance updates, which is not my thing, but I. You probably playing the update before and after gave you like a better.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, for sure. Having a bat, like, literally slammed up against each other.

[Joey Noel]

Yeah. I'm very excited to start decorating because decorating is usually not really my thing either. I think that's the reason that the Sims never really, like, connected with me. Of like, I've played the Sims and stuff like that. But the design process is like, not usually my favorite. Especially like, creating something out of nothing. I feel like even with my island now, when I restarted it, I was like, okay, I'm gonna restart my island. What theme do I wanna be? And I was like, oh, I want it to be a Mamma Mia. Island. So I needed some sort of framework to work around to where then I feel like a little bit more creative for sure. Cause I think it's hard to just pull something out and do it. That's just not really how my brain works.

[Greg Miller]

I haven't used mouse controls or. Tell me what it is.

[Joey Noel]

Oh, I had to go through this to you. So that's why I think so far, I like the hotel thing. I like that they give you a list of. Hey, these are all of the items that we think fit this. You can pull from a bunch of those. But then you also have the freedom to choose stuff from your own.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, exactly.

[Joey Noel]

It's a good mix of creativity within guidelines.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. It's helping you do it right. So again, if you're watching right now, you can see you come in and here's the recommended stuff with all the new things. But yeah, I have the ability to go with my R1 and L1 over here and see all the stuff that I have collected throughout the years. Which is funny too, because talking about the update coming at Christmas time, I was hanging out with Angel Goldfarb and of course Goldfarb, obsessed with Animal Crossing back in the day. And he's like, yeah, well, if you need anything, remember I got everything. And I was like, oh, why would I need it? And now I'm like, oh, fuck. I have not kept up on. What have I missed?

[Joey Noel]

I'm gonna have text Andrew.

[Greg Miller]

What is not going on exactly right. I'm like, ah, man, I'm really gonna have to get into. Shoot. What do I need? Where do I need it? As I go through and really start figuring out how much stuff I want and what I want it to look like.

[Joey Noel]

I need to go back to one of those islands where you just go and you pick everything up.

[Greg Miller]

Yep.

[Joey Noel]

I was like, I don't know that I'm gonna make Andrew do that for me.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Joey Noel]

Cause that seems like a nightmare.

[Greg Miller]

Well it's also then you know the

[Joey Noel]

teacup thing is so cute. I don't think I've ever seen it.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Dude, back to it. Right. Of like I don't know how much wasn't there the first round. You know what I mean? Checking in on the store every day or also more importantly probably just like what came to stores after I stopped playing.

[Joey Noel]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Cause I don't know your entire journey but like obviously this is our Covid game. So March, you and me review it. Are all in on it. And I was there daily I wanna say well into the summer before whatever review got in the way or moved on and yada yada yada like it always does. But it was like I came back for Christmas and I remember being disappoint or Halloween. In both Halloween and Christmas I was disappointed where the Halloween stuff I want didn't unlock until like the end of the Halloween event. And so it was like ah, sorry.

[Joey Noel]

Well now I have this.

[Greg Miller]

But like yeah, it's like that's why I mean I'm an all Halloween town still. That's what my vibe is out there or whatever. But it's still like ugh, this could have gone a different way and been more enjoyable or whatever.

[Joey Noel]

I think personally yeah I played like I had a second full time job for like the first six months of the game. So I think like fall is where I fell off and then I came back for like a little bit of the Christmasy winter stuff. I think I did like a full year where I was playing like pretty consistently. But then I had a better balance after the fall and then. Cause I think I just wanted to like finish all the collection stuff and like get through the full year. And then after that I like. I think I just played too much too quickly. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. For sure.

[Joey Noel]

And burnt out on it definitely. So then I didn't really touch unless it was the seasonal events. Not was it festival that they did.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Joey Noel]

Or all of those things and cherry blossoms and stuff like that I would come back for. But they didn't really give us a ton of reason to come back.

[Greg Miller]

And that's always been our story with it.

[Joey Noel]

Right.

[Greg Miller]

Of like, you know, I'm excited to be back for this. But even playing this it's still so much like, why didn't you do this? Why didn't you do that? And when I was like, why don't I have a better connection to my villagers and a villager I care about? It really dawned on me thinking in the run up to this of like, well, the reason is for me, Animal Crossing starts on GameCube where I lived in a house with seven other guys and we had a GameCube in the living room and all of us had a house, or not all of us, whatever the player count was, had a house. And so we all shared the same village where it would be like, I'd go to class and then Hayes would take over and I'd come back and do something and then Brian would come over and you'd be like, did you shake all the fucking peaches? Like, what do you mean? I can't believe that it's such a

[Joey Noel]

chaotic way to play the game.

[Greg Miller]

I understand that we talk about Nintendo and wnds, but like the fact that Animal New Horizons isn't. And here's your persistent online world of you, me and Kevin have an island that we live on and do a thing and then I have another island over here. Don't even get me started on the fact that I think this should be a games as a service always online. There's always a new event, there's always a new drop. There's always some like they're doing events, not just letting this thing be there. Cause obviously Animal Crossing New Horizons kick the living shit out of all their expectations, I guarantee it. But they could have done so much more and they should have done so much more. I feel like.

[Joey Noel]

Yeah, I think for me too of like I cared about getting like my favorite villagers in initially, but that was just, that was a one and done thing. I think because Animal Crossing, when it dropped, became such my like connective social hub with my real friends of like getting people to come into islands and like everybody always being like, my turnip prices are this. And like it just became a way to hang out with my friends when we were all like stuck in our houses.

[Greg Miller]

For sure, for sure. Which I to anticipate the global pandemic that would then change the way we all looked at this game.

[Joey Noel]

Maybe they would have optimized the coming into the islands loaded. That's the one thing that I am surprised and I don't know anything about game development, but that I feel like was such a consistent criticism of the game that I am kind of surprised that it's not Updated, but I also don't know how hard that is to do, so maybe that's it. Or, fingers crossed, they have it figured out for whatever the next animal crossing is. Cause, yeah, it's not so fun to play with your friends when you have to spend, like, 45 minutes trying to

[Greg Miller]

get everybody in and out 1,000%. I've seen a couple of you say lobbin. Does Greg know about the new L button feature? I don't know if Nintendo actually mentions it. I've seen that. The hopping, the movin. The what? We have. No, I don't know what the. I don't know what you're referring to. Maybe I do know about it, but I don't know what you're referring to. Please inform me as I was trying to get us out of here so we could go see something else, but then it's like, no, you have to do it.

[Joey Noel]

No, you have to do it.

[Greg Miller]

I'm like, okay, well, then hold on, I'll finish this. Just. Cause again, I could come back. I'm sure we do it some other time. But it's like, I don't. We're here. You know what I mean? I don't want to. I don't want to screw.

[Joey Noel]

Hold on. It's also, I guess because I've only done the one room. I have, like, such a. And I think this is my issue with animal crossing in general and the decor stuff of like. I'm like, these are all rooms. This is a hotel. This is a bedroom. Everything needs a bed.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I know, I know. That was the modern room when I was like, ugh, nothing looks good for a bedroom. I'm like, you know what? In this hotel, first off, nobody's fucking sleeps in this game.

[Joey Noel]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

So, like, I'm not gonna worry. I'm not gonna worry about it. I'm just gonna do hold down L on your character. Strafes and sidesteps. Yes, yes, yes. Okay, okay. So I've heard of that. Yes. And I know the jumping thing. I saw Rebecca Valentine's amazing jumping thing yesterday.

[Joey Noel]

I can look that up now, too.

[Greg Miller]

Well, I hold down L, apparently when I'm outside of this. I want chat, audience, whatever I want. I will be back for this room. I assume you can update him again, even though she was like, if you're leaving, I guess, whatever. But I can't just leave it. What do we got here?

[Joey Noel]

No, you might as well just leave it mostly finished. And I press the plus button to get on. It's all these things, too. Of Being like, what are the controls? Like, how do I do all of this again? I did feel bad walking into my house and I was like, oh, the cockroach.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, it's disgusting. And they're there, so even once you stomp them, they're there so long still.

[Joey Noel]

I know. And they're little ghosts.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I know.

[Joey Noel]

And just float up for so long.

[Greg Miller]

Throw a rug down and I'll call it a day on this. I would do it better, everybody, but I want to go show other things.

[Joey Noel]

Yes. Is this anything that Ben's gonna care about? You think it's funny to think about

[Greg Miller]

Ben playing Ben playing actual games, not

[Joey Noel]

being around for your first.

[Greg Miller]

Oh yeah, one of it, right, started, yeah, 100%.

[Joey Noel]

Cause Jen was pregnant.

[Greg Miller]

No, not even. Oh my gosh, 2020. She was not pregnant yet. Yeah, no. When Ben is a big fan of looking at my switch and he knows his games. And so early on when he was finding games, he did see Animal Crossing. And I put him in there and I let him run around, but no cars.

[Joey Noel]

There's nothing for him to do.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, you're playing Spider Man. You come in here, you're trying to do this. I'm like, I don't know. You know what I mean? I don't know if that's gonna hit the same way.

[Joey Noel]

Dad, why are you just doing chores?

[Greg Miller]

Exactly, right? Yeah.

[Joey Noel]

My favorite kind.

[Greg Miller]

And that was the funny thing of getting into the rhythm again last night with it where I was like, oh yeah, yeah. And it's like, okay, cool. So cool. Now I gotta check in on Skate every day to get my free currency there and do. But then I gotta check on Amber. I'm like, oh, here we go. This could be an addiction problem. And I was like, well, is skate ever gonna come to Switch? Cause that would make it so much easier.

[Joey Noel]

Oh yeah. That you could just have one thing that you're having.

[Greg Miller]

Just running like complete ass. I'm sure.

[Joey Noel]

But that is the problem with like the games as a service is like the daily check ins and all of that kind of stuff. Cause yeah, that was Fortnite for me for so long of like Battle pass and all that kind of stuff. But.

[Greg Miller]

But yeah, I was not enough time popping in last night, getting my cup of coffee over at Brewster's. Right. Like I was checking in here. I was like, damn. Yeah, the hooks are in me again to check in. You know what I mean? To have carry it with me. Pop in, see what's going on.

[Joey Noel]

Are you a completionist? Come here.

[Greg Miller]

You're Completely disappointed. No, that's. Well, I am for certain things, as,

[Joey Noel]

you know, like the museum and art.

[Greg Miller]

No, those. It's like, that doesn't motivate me. I know that when talking to Goldfarb in the heat of 2020, he was all about that. And I was like, that's just. If somebody asked me, why do you play Animal Crossing? I guess it really is for me, this evolution of SimCity, of making a town and then watching it function, where it's like, the decorating, honestly, has not clicked with me until this thing where I was like, oh, shoot, maybe this is actually fun. And maybe I would like to do this and let me go show you one of my slumber islands here, where I was like, well, why would I do that? And then the idea of, like, oh, well, in the same way I could have themes for rooms, even though I've never touched them, once I've done it, what could I do with more space and more things? I'm like, oh, I get that. But no, Animal crossing isn't about that. So now as I try to get a little bit like, okay, who do I want on my team now with this new open house? And who else needs to get knocked out of here? If you walk up and I don't know your name, you're gone. Yeah, we're going into our dream world. Of course, dreams. Correct me if I'm wrong on this, Joe and Chat. You might have to, because I know me and Joe are the same. The dream world didn't launch with it. Right. That was an update where now you had the dream island where you could have people come visit your island even if you weren't online.

[Joey Noel]

And I feel like that was, like, definitely after I had stopped playing daily.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Joey Noel]

Maybe like a year.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. It wasn't that far because when I went on, it was like, there's this dream and thing and yada, yada, yada. Right. I. Last night, after I'd done my first Slumber island, it then started talking to me about the dream island thing again. Oh, right. And I was like. I was confused. I'm like, go somewhere I've been before, thinking I could get back to my slumber island. And the last dream island I went to was Joe Biden's Dream Island. When we did that stream for me and Gary.

[Joey Noel]

Oh, yeah, I forgot about that.

[Greg Miller]

So that was 2020 still. That was 2020. So that was not that far out. Yeah. So here we go. Right? Oh, so, yeah, revisit a dream. Right. Show me Biden's Fucking island. Yeah, there it is. The only one I've ever visited or whatever.

[Joey Noel]

That's so funny.

[Greg Miller]

I guess. Yeah, it's still. I was gonna say it's still up. It's up. It's never been updated, but here we go again. So I screwed this up. So let's back out of this because I messed it. So, like, I. I don't. About my dream.

[Joey Noel]

My island's dream.

[Greg Miller]

No, see, this is. And this is my Go to my dream island. If you want, I'll update it for you right now too. So if you're an audio listener, go to the YouTube part. It's already off the screen. What my thing was. I'll add it up there. I think I have to back out. I must have put the wrong thing trying to go to slumbers. I'm still learning on the slumber islands. You know what I mean?

[Joey Noel]

Yeah. It was also something that never really spoke to me.

[Greg Miller]

No. Yeah. Again, you're like, okay, cool. Whatevs.

[Joey Noel]

Yeah. Just not what I was using animal Crossing for.

[Greg Miller]

All right, so if you're an audio listener later and you want to go to Smallville, my town dream island address is DA 703-381-055951. All right, so how do I get back to my slow. Because if I want to dream, it takes me. I did something wrong for the. We're gonna wake up. We're gonna wake up and get back in the bed.

[Joey Noel]

Wake up, get back into bed, wake up.

[Greg Miller]

Cause yeah, I do not recall because it's a weird one of like last night when I was how to get in there. I started working on a slumber island and left and then I came back and then it was my dream island. I'm like, wait, no, those are different things. I must. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. So get out here. Stretch it out. Okay. Get back in. Okay. Should I get some sleep? And this is it. It's slumber time.

[Joey Noel]

Slumber time.

[Greg Miller]

There it is. Fucking Nintendo. Fucking Nintendo. Just make. Take it easy. Why isn't this all under one sleeping menu? You're asleep. Do you want to go to your slumber islands or this? And you know why? Cause they're fucking patching all this shit on with God damn tissue paper and duct tape and trying to make it work.

[Joey Noel]

I will say there are just those fun things. I went to, oh, it must have been the museum to empty my pockets and get some fossil stuff and I clicked the wrong thing and then I was just immediately bothered that I was like, now I have to Click through seven different dialogue options before to even get to the. Like, I knew immediately that I clicked it wrong.

[Greg Miller]

So we're gonna go to.

[Joey Noel]

This is Animal Crossing. I Love youe and I Hate you.

[Greg Miller]

My first slumber island is a work in progress. But as I said, what's important about it is it got me excited for the slumber Islands, where, oh, what can I do with this for what Greg Miller would do with these islands. You know what I mean? What's the team Orange island gonna look like? That's not where you're going right now. I have not made the team orange, but I do think there will be. I know there is an orange party coming up in 2026 where we're all gonna get together and celebrate me and winning game Showdown Season four. But I will. If you can't make it make you an orange island, you can visit.

[Joey Noel]

Wow.

[Greg Miller]

Right now, we're gonna go to RIP Ti Ammo. That's the island I started working on last night that I'm pretty stoked about. It's a small one.

[Joey Noel]

What's even better is that Gia can come visit this island.

[Greg Miller]

Yes. Yes, yes, yes.

[Joey Noel]

I don't know how much longer she kept playing. I think there was definitely no.

[Greg Miller]

I talked to her when we were a week or two when we were coming up on that preview. I was like, hey, did you keep going? Cause, like, we're. And she's like, no. I'm like, okay, well, then we don't need to do that. We don't need to bring you in for this one here.

[Joey Noel]

Now that she has her feet. When she understands Animal Crossing, then for the next one.

[Greg Miller]

Yes, yes, yes, yes. Maybe that's it. I was gonna say we're not gonna get her to try this right now.

[Joey Noel]

Oh, no. The Getty's family has a lot of fun.

[Greg Miller]

She could be as silly as me and Jen were and bring switches to the hospital. Oh, there you go. There's my hump.

[Joey Noel]

What is it?

[Greg Miller]

It's just hold on left.

[Joey Noel]

Oh.

[Greg Miller]

And then you can strafe around like this.

[Joey Noel]

I think it was Reb that reposted on Blue sky this morning. Somebody used all of those to the cha Cha slide.

[Greg Miller]

I saw that.

[Joey Noel]

So fun.

[Greg Miller]

All right, so this is my first dream island where I was like, what could I do with a dream island?

[Joey Noel]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

The one thing I would want to do. Live a dream. You know what I mean?

[Joey Noel]

Surrounded by blue color.

[Greg Miller]

That's how he wants to be remembered. Mm. Take a screenshot. You know what I mean? Everybody, you can screenshot this too, in case anything ever happens to Tim. Yeah, this is how it is.

[Joey Noel]

We will be holding part of Tim's funeral in Animal Crossing.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, we want as many people to come as well. You know what I mean?

[Joey Noel]

The pixelation, slightly horrifying. One on the right is definitely better.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. You know, you work with and like, you want to talk about like, what a trip this was of like, how do I upload an image to Animal Crossing again and like Google that and be like, all right, there it is. Figured it out.

[Joey Noel]

I'm glad that I'm not the only one that was doing intense Googling about this thing.

[Greg Miller]

I think so many of us coming back.

[Joey Noel]

I was like, where is the hotel? Why don't I have it? And they were like, oh, you have to have a three star island rating. I was like, I think I do, but I guess I've just never three

[Greg Miller]

star island rating for that. I didn't realize it.

[Joey Noel]

To get Cap and then Cap' n unlocks the hotel. I guess that's the linchpin of it all. But I had to then go ask about my island rating and I think it's been a three. But I didn't do the thing where then it triggers the KK Slider concert. And I was like, oh, is that why I've never been able to terraform? But I just was doing other stuff so I didn't dig into it. And I was like, wow, there's just all these dominoes that needed one little thing.

[Greg Miller]

Who would have thought?

[Joey Noel]

I know. And just like so rusty. Cause it's been.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, that's been the funniest thing of coming back here. And then like all the buttons, like, wait, why do I. How do I. I'm trying to call up this. I'm doing the wrong thing. Rest in peace, Tim. We'll never forget you. No, but that's how I think I'm gonna use my eyes. You slumber here, you know, you do this over there. You have a great time. Speaking of a great time, we couldn't have a great time on gamescast and gamescast plays and all the kind of funny content without your support, remember? Of course you can go to patreon.com kinda funny, YouTube.com kindafunnygames, Apple or Spotify. You can toss us $10. You can get each and everything we do ad free. You can get your daily dose of me, Greg Miller and a 15 as it is today, 24 minute podcast called Greg Way. And of course you'd get good karma for supporting an 11 person small business that's 11 years old. However, right now you're not using your benefits. So here's a word from our sponsors. This episode is brought to you by Rocket Money. The amount of times Mike has signed up for something, forgotten about it after the trial period ends, and then been charged month after month after month is quite frankly, terrifying. He didn't even realize he was paying for SoundCloud for 10 years until Rocket Money helped find and cancel his unwanted subscriptions. But he is not alone. So many people have at least one paid subscription going unused each month. Rocket Money is a personal finance app that helps find and cancel your unwanted subscriptions, monitors your spending, and helps lower your bills so you can grow your savings. Thanks to Rocket Money, you can see all of your subscriptions in one place and cancel them within the app with just a few taps, saving time and avoiding charges. Cancel your unwanted subscriptions and let Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster. [e-mail] kinda funny that's RocketMoney.com kinda funny RocketMoney.com kinda funny this episode is brought to you by Factor. It's a new year, which means new goals and even more things to take up our time. That's why so many of us here at Kinda Funny love Factor. Factor makes it easy with fully prepared meals designed by dietitians and crafted by chefs so you can eat well without the shopping or cooking. On many occasions, Factor has completely saved me and Jen when we needed it most. Choose from a wider selection of weekly meal options including premium seafood choices like salmon and shrimp at no extra cost. Enjoy even more GLP1 friendly meals and new Mediterranean diet options packed with protein and good for you fats. Feel the difference no matter your routine. Head to factormeals.com kindafunny 50 rupees off and use the code kindafunny50OFF to get 50% off your first factor box plus free breakfast for a year offer only valid for new Factor customers with code and qualifying auto renewing subscription purchase. Make healthier eating easy with Factor hey you. Join us in person for our live in review of Howard the Duck. That's right, Howard the Duck joins MCU in Review. Wednesday, January 28th at 7:30pm at Cobb's Comedy Club for SF Sketch Fest. You can come watch me do all the podcasts within a podcast you love. Andy will be going, Nick will be shopping for pants during it, but everybody else will be there too for you to come hang out and see. All you have to do is go over to kind of funny.com sketchfest right now to get your tickets before they sell out. Because come and watching a bunch of people talk about a very old Howard the Duck movie is really selling tickets fast.

[Joey Noel]

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[Greg Miller]

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[Joey Noel]

What?

[Greg Miller]

I'm just. We're coming back from ad break, actually, what I do want to do. Oh, Ponton. Yeah, Ponton. I love how Greg kind of does the Trump hands in ad reads. Motherfucker. I'm doing Bill Clinton. That's Bill Clinton. Learn your presidents. All right. When I'm doing this, I'm doing Bill Clinton snl back in the day. Don't worry. You know what I mean.

[Joey Noel]

Yes. It's so funny to be playing Animal Crossing with other people because you just realize how differently people play. I almost always play handheld. Cause I'm usually like watching something and I'm like tinkering around. But I never play with the sound on. So I forget about how good the music is.

[Greg Miller]

The music is so good that I had the similar thing where I totally forgot about it. And then one day I was like, oh shit, the Nintendo music app. And just put it on and just listen to while I was doing dishes, driving around, which is not usual for me.

[Joey Noel]

No, I've never downloaded the Nintendo music app.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, really? You really should.

[Joey Noel]

Yeah, no, no, clearly I should.

[Greg Miller]

Free music. You know what I mean? It sucks that they, you know, hide all that stuff over there. Yeah, I'm not ignoring you right now. I was hoping I could make something easy, but of course, in this world, nothing is easy. No, nothing is easy. I'm scrolling as far back as I can go, but I can't get it to work for some reason. Earlier 13 days ago on a kind of funny subreddit known as the kind of funny subreddit. Here it is. I found it. A young lead who I've never met or heard of about before named Kebabs. I know. Kebabs.

[Joey Noel]

Thank you for explaining that if you

[Greg Miller]

don't know, Kebabs is not allowed to come to the orange party.

[Joey Noel]

Oh.

[Greg Miller]

That was a decree made when I won the championship because Kebabs didn't believe in me. Kebabs, as you all know, a dedicated kitty, kinda funny best friend in the chat all the time. Kebabs posted all of the new kinda funny merch.

[Joey Noel]

Oh.

[Greg Miller]

So I wanna go into Able Sisters and I already downloaded it off. Hold on, let me throw some on for it real quick. I should have probably done that before we came in, but you know, one of the cool things about Animal Crossing. Of course Kebabs is here right now. I know, I know. I saw Kebabs earlier. I saw Kebabs earlier. This is what I wanted to. Again, dated. Let's look at my Biden yard signs and my custom design.

[Joey Noel]

All the Portillo stuff is so cute too.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, I know. Know, right? Yeah, yeah.

[Joey Noel]

Oh, wait, did you use any of that pathway stuff?

[Greg Miller]

I did at one point on Halloween that first year. Oh, there it is. So here are all the clothing stuff and you see, here's a lot of old stuff. I don't want to start naming names. I want to say Olive Party made a lot of the old stuff back in the day that we used, but Kebabs has gone through. Yeah. And did, like, all the new stuff that, like, are more recent kind of funny.

[Joey Noel]

Oh, my gosh.

[Greg Miller]

That's technically a throwback. Right. But like, yeah, here's the, you know, kind of funny. Games daily 2000. Here's the pokey smiley one, which I like. I'll wear that the rest of the way since I wear that one all the time. But great job, Kebabs. I do want to give a shout out to them if I can favorite and if I did favorite before. But we'll jump in and see so that you all have it for your what up, Mabel?

[Joey Noel]

Oh, that sweater's cute.

[Greg Miller]

You want me get it?

[Joey Noel]

Greg, buy that sweater and send it to me. Yeah, you got it.

[Greg Miller]

That is a good sweater.

[Joey Noel]

I walked in this morning to my shop and I was like, I don't want to be like the medieval knight. This is not an exciting day of purchases for me. I did have to do the thing that I don't love doing, which is that I did have to time hop to, like, fix all my stuff this morning.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, yeah. I hate that. Can't do it. Can't do it.

[Joey Noel]

I know. But I just, like, needed to get it all done

[Greg Miller]

jumping in here to show this. But yeah, if you're new to Animal Crossing, you're not. Obviously, there's no. Never been. There's never been a better time to jump in, obviously, because of how much stuff has been. Yeah. So I didn't. I for sure didn't favorite you. My favorites are Roger, Lottie, Lou, who, I don't know. Team Joe. That's my favorite people. So here we're gonna pop it in there for everybody to do. So if you wanna go follow kebabs, like you should. Ma. 3, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 1 2, 1, 3, 7, 0. Boom. Pop that in there. Favorite kebabs. So I'm always up to date on what they're up to. Boom. Nailed it. See? But how do I even favorite somebody now? Cause I'm in there. There's all the kind of funny clothes. I didn't even download it all. I just downloaded the stuff that I usually wear. Of course, a lot of nitro rifle stuff here. We're not gonna advertise, Andy. All right.

[Joey Noel]

We're not gonna advertise. Even though you do wear his sweatshirt a lot too.

[Greg Miller]

We're not gonna advertise in this. So pop in. Oh, there you go. Boom. Favorite like that. Ah, perfect.

[Joey Noel]

There we go.

[Greg Miller]

Favored it up on that one. I like that a lot. So real cool stuff. Hold on. So, Joester. Yes, I know I talked about my own. Hey, I'm coming into this.

[Joey Noel]

Yes.

[Greg Miller]

This is enough that I'm. Ooh. I want to turn it back on. And I imagine that's gonna get its hooks in me to keep me going for a few days, weeks, whatever it is. Right now with a brand new island.

[Joey Noel]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Now unlocking all the stuff, right. Of having Kapp', N, having the boat, having the hotel, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. What are you thinking it's looking like for you playing more.

[Joey Noel]

I'm at an interesting point, Greg, because I feel like I in the last six months have played the least amount of games that I've played in the last 10 years.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Joey Noel]

There's just not enough time for all of my hobbies. You got to be hobby what it comes down to. There are so many books to read, there are so many needlepoint projects to do now I have new needlepoint friends and we have like all of these things that we're doing. So it's just, it's hard to balance out all of the stuff that I want to do. I'm trying to be better about seeing movies.

[Greg Miller]

Ah, yeah.

[Joey Noel]

All of these things. So I feel like the gaming section of my life is getting a little bit smaller. However, the great thing about Animal Crossing, A, that it's handheld and B, that I can do it while I'm watching other things. So it does have that leg up on me. I think that this update is kind of a double edged sword in the sense that it's motivation because I have a new thing to do where I feel productive and I have motivation to log in every day to buy all the new items so I can use them in the stores and decorate my island and stuff like that. But then it's also a little bit overwhelming of being like, oh, I'm kind of starting over still and having to acquire all of that.

[Greg Miller]

That's why I can't believe it. The amount of people who are like, I'm restarting, I'm. I could never. And it's like I just, and it's just to go back to having the tent and shaking the trees for the stick to make the thing. Like, I was like, I can't go back.

[Joey Noel]

It wasn't that bad because I, especially for my second island, like, I broke so many of my own purist rules of like, I was time traveling all over the place. I was going to my friend's islands. I was like, lauren, I need you to log on. I need you to drop me 2 million bells. And she was like, sure, why not? I don't care. I haven't logged on in like a year. So I was really working the system on that one to try and make it as quick as possible. So it wasn't as hard as it would have been from the beginning. So I think that I just don't necessarily care about it, care about it in that way because I've broken all of the usual.

[Greg Miller]

That's fair. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I couldn't do that either. I can't time travel. I thought it was a very funny thing when you run into Resetti and he has a whole conversation, you know me, yeah, I had a whole thing. But maybe I won't be that bad anymore about Resetti. Such a fucking callback to all the animal crossings of old, of him screaming at us for doing everything wrong.

[Joey Noel]

Yeah, it's funny, too. Cause it's like, I had to. I just found Brewster on an island this morning and stuff like that. All the stuff that I had kind of forgotten about because it's been so long. There is, like, such a. Something that I was talking about with friends is, like, the different ways that, like, you find comfort, whether it's like, going back to, like, old podcasts that you used to listen to or listening to old music and stuff like that, I feel like that, for me, definitely is Animal crossing, where it's, like, just familiar, you know, what you're getting into, you know, exactly like, what you're doing and how it all works. And it just brings back, like, such a nostalgic mindset of, like, when this was, like, the only way that we could all hang out and stuff like that. So it's kind of nice to tap back into that occasionally, too. The real problem that I have with jumping back in is that finding all of the codes for the paths that I want is so much harder now because of the time that's passed and, like, things have expired and people aren't updating as quickly. So it's like anytime I'm looking up inspiration on Reddit for, like, Mamma Mia. Islands and stuff like that and, like, particular designs and stuff like that, half of them I can't find, and I'm just not talented enough to make them myself.

[Greg Miller]

This should give it a shot in the arm, though, of a, you know, recreating and getting in there.

[Joey Noel]

And, yeah, hopefully this will bring more people in because I would like to finish my island like that. I think part of it, too, is just, like, the daily nature of it worked really well for me back then because it was like, you always had something to do. But now I'm like, no, I have other things that I need to do outside of this game, and I need to, like, make the days go by a little bit quicker. I want to get all of my, like, blue and white flowers to decorate my island so it looks very Greek and stuff like that. And then, yeah, like, the acquiring of the items. I don't necessarily have the patience to wait day by day, but that's my. This is a problem of my own making. I understand.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. And again, like, Goldfarb does have it all. So we do have a cheat code of that. And we also have the kind of funny best friend where I think that, you know, when we.

[Joey Noel]

Who were also so wonderful in dropping stuff for me and Gia when we played last year.

[Greg Miller]

And that's my thought on it, right? Of like, okay, cool. Like, if I come back in, it's more of like, you don't know what you don't have. And so when I go into the hotel and start like, oh, shit, that. Like, if I want that or I find something I need for the orange island, then I can go, okay, I can go get that somewhere else and get that.

[Joey Noel]

Do you have, like, a vision for the orange island? Are you starting to, like, put it together?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I want it to be the orange party. You know what I mean? So really, you get it off. And it needs to be disco. I need that DJ set. I'm gonna get a bunch of orange stuff and lock it in. So it's locked in. It doesn't feel like you're out on the island anymore.

[Joey Noel]

Yeah, you're gonna have a lot of work to do to put that together in world, I think.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Kebabs. Over in the chat right now says Steve Saylor, of course, friend of the show. Wanted to go back to his island, but found out the hard way the islands are tied to the console and aren't part of Nintendo's cloud service. He wiped his Switch 1 and gave it as a Christmas present. So he had to start over.

[Joey Noel]

Ooh, that's a tough way to find out.

[Greg Miller]

Matt Kim, who's former ign, coming on next week to do Games Daily and the gamescast with me, he had the same revelation on bs. That's a blue sky, Tim. And I was like, it's one of those where you take for granted what you know, as, like, just like, all the stupid, intricate PlayStation knowledge I have where it's like, oh, you didn't. I remember that being such a thing and having to get the island mover app to move it between switches. And of course, when I got the Switch 2, that was like my main. Like, I can't fuck this up. I need my Animal Crossing island. And then to a lesser extent, my Pokemon save, because that was the exact same way. Right. There's another Joe sign. We're ready. Ready. This is. I mean, this is why such a moment in time. This is why Kamala lost. Never saw an island for her.

[Joey Noel]

It's funny, too, because with, like, the Switch and the transferring and starting a New island every once in a while. And, like, now I'm getting to the point where I kind of regret it. Where, like, maybe it was, like, 20. It might have been, like, 2019, where I got a new phone and I, like, didn't restore it from a backup. So there's, like, just years of stuff that I only have in, like, weird places, like Facebook pictures and stuff.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Joey Noel]

And I feel like it's kind of similar where it's like a. Sometimes it's nice to have a fresh start and just be like, I'm starting over. But then you're like, oh, I do having all of this stuff. Oh, are you gonna kick?

[Greg Miller]

No, I love rattle. I'm with rattle rat or die. Calls me Bing Bong, which is what I used to call porty.

[Joey Noel]

Oh, that's so cute. Come up with something fun to do. I just always assume that that thought bubble means that they're trying to look. That's always what I'm hoping.

[Greg Miller]

It's that thing where I, you know, you so rarely. I at least me talk to people. I was like, hello, how you doing? You just move on with my life. Hello. Goodbye.

[Joey Noel]

As I was running around this morning and, like, switching days and everything like that, I saw one of the villagers who, like, I don't really care about had one, and I was like, oh, on any other day, I would be, like, kicking you off immediately, but I have to, like, figure this out, how to get all of this stuff back up and running. So now I'm stuck with one of those hippos for who knows how long.

[Greg Miller]

A knit cap. This is the other thing about me, right? Where it's like, I love all the kebab's clothes, but so many of them are T shirts. And with it being snowy outside, I can't do it. Like, I have to be in a sweatshirt or a jacket or whatever.

[Joey Noel]

Oh.

[Greg Miller]

With the hat and everything I need to make. Yeah. Well, now that he. That's a great pick for right now.

[Joey Noel]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I should go and get. There we go. That's what I have to see. Gavin, what up? I should go out there and get kind of funny hats made.

[Joey Noel]

That's so. I've never thought about dressing seasonally in this.

[Greg Miller]

It's like a backbreaker for me.

[Joey Noel]

I'm always in, like, the weirdest amalgamation of things. Even today, I was just like, I had a tiara on, but a wetsuit and, like, these boots. I was like, what was I doing? Last time I logged on here, I was like, I must have gone to, like, Becky or somebody's island and like picked up a bunch of clothes and been like, shoot, I have to put something on to like free up space. Oh, I don't think I. It's always fun to like rediscover what your island and like what your house looks like to me.

[Greg Miller]

For sure. Yeah. This was like. Honestly, this is my most uninspired area.

[Joey Noel]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I saw everyone else doing it and I was like, oh yeah, I should have a game. And I just didn't. And I never come down here. Now this is one of my things. I love where they made the panda musk shirtless spider man. Oh yeah. Insert for the magazine. So it looks like I'm. I am interested. I wonder. It wasn't in this 3.0 update last night or yesterday, but I haven't checked. I wonder if they've added a switch two now to the nookshaw. Oh, like the bell's atm. Whatever you call it, I forget the name of it. All right, Rad, I'll get out of my house. Let's go.

[Joey Noel]

I appreciate the face of it.

[Greg Miller]

I got things to do. No problem. Love you, Raddle. It's driving me crazy that I can't. I was like, oh, I know all the frogs names and I can't picture the second frog. The one that lives in the name. Yeah.

[Joey Noel]

Well, now we have to go find him.

[Greg Miller]

Or her.

[Joey Noel]

Have you used the megaphone stuff?

[Greg Miller]

No. Okay, where do we get the megaphone?

[Joey Noel]

From the store.

[Greg Miller]

Let's go get the megaphone and then we'll call for frog.

[Joey Noel]

Probably not helpful in this particular thing since we can't remember its name and we need the river thing.

[Greg Miller]

Kebab says pull up your map. I know, I know. No, no, I know. But I'm trying desperately to remember. Cause I was so impressed last night when they walked up and I was like, ahmado.

[Joey Noel]

Especially if you knew it last night. Then you're like, it's there.

[Greg Miller]

I blame him. Tim talked to me today. He ruined me.

[Joey Noel]

You've asked so many times for Tim not to address you.

[Greg Miller]

Exactly.

[Joey Noel]

Just so sad that he doesn't listen. We're looking for the Switch 2. Is that the deal?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. And I don't even know if I'm in the right section. I'm also just looking. You know what I mean? Cause this is where the Lego stuff is too. This is one of those things that drives me mad though. Of like I can't tell what I've bought or not.

[Joey Noel]

I know you can do that in

[Greg Miller]

your Switch two's in the hotel. Shop now. Thank you, hero thumb. I'll go check that.

[Joey Noel]

Oh, hell, yeah. Did you buy everything from the.

[Greg Miller]

Well, you know, you're limited.

[Joey Noel]

Oh, that's.

[Greg Miller]

So it's that thing where you go. You can only buy so much on the day, so it's like. I know. I bought lots of this. Where I stopped, though. I don't remember. Is it five? I can only buy five things, so I must send that. That. That.

[Joey Noel]

You tried to customize any of it with the customization kits. I'm just wondering if you can change the colors.

[Greg Miller]

No, I don't think you can. Can you? I definitely do.

[Joey Noel]

I don't love the primary colors. Let me make them pretty.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Five things a day. I must've been right around there, then. That's for me. Big annoyance there.

[Joey Noel]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

If you can pull all my crafting materials from my house, why can I pull all my goddamn bells from the atm? Cause I was. I ran out or I didn't have enough to buy last night. I was like, damn. And so I went to the ATM, and I had 10 million bells. I'm like, right. Fuck. I forgot about the stock market when we all abused that.

[Joey Noel]

Yeah, that seems like an easy, like, analog feature. Or not analog, but Melissa with a Y.

[Greg Miller]

Can you show us the Zelda stuff? The Zelda stuff is tied to an amiibo, and I don't have a Zelda amiibo. Does anybody have. Nobody has amiibos here, really. Right.

[Joey Noel]

I feel like probably not here.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, there he is. Huck. I love you, Huck. I'm sorry, Huck. I'm gonna give you a gift. All right. What do I got to give you? You're the man, Huck. Take this stupid wing. Enjoy.

[Joey Noel]

I feel like you don't think somebody has, like, a. You don't think Barrett has a Zelda amiibo on his desk?

[Greg Miller]

Well, Bear can hear us.

[Joey Noel]

That's true.

[Greg Miller]

Barrett's probably out there scouring because we

[Joey Noel]

used to have him in the old studio on the shelves.

[Greg Miller]

You're right.

[Joey Noel]

Like, is there anything over there?

[Greg Miller]

You're right.

[Joey Noel]

I was like, that's an amiibo, But I don't know. Where was that?

[Greg Miller]

I don't know what that is. Yeah, that's my amiibo. I don't think that's.

[Joey Noel]

Oh, that's the custom.

[Greg Miller]

I don't know. Yeah, Barry, you gotta tell my people. All right, everybody. Joey Google. No, no, I actually remember. I remember. It's in my phone. It's in my phone.

[Joey Noel]

But do you have to have your switch well, no.

[Greg Miller]

Cause it's on here. It's on the touchpad or the thing.

[Joey Noel]

I believe in you.

[Greg Miller]

No, yeah, it's another one that. It's like, I've never used it, but I saw it recently when I was screwing around with this

[Joey Noel]

page over.

[Greg Miller]

No. Island Life 101. Best friendless chat log. Rescue services, the ATM. Thank you, Melissa with a Y. Melissa with a Y.

[Joey Noel]

The best we don't talk about is enough.

[Greg Miller]

Pulling all these clowns through their stupid ass Elden Ring game, Saving our bacon over here.

[Joey Noel]

Tolerating all of my heated rivalry ranting and raving on a constant basis.

[Greg Miller]

Ooh,

[Joey Noel]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Does every amiibo invite somebody to the island? Damn, you're terrifying.

[Joey Noel]

I love whoever this is. I'm about to use all Barrett's amiiboes.

[Greg Miller]

I know, right?

[Joey Noel]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Okay. It's just Mineru and Tulin. Okay. How do I unlock the stuff to wear? Whatever. It might not be wearables, but there's Zelda merch. I know, too. In the game. Right? And I assume I can only do it one at a time, but I'm.

[Joey Noel]

Check just this.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, we're here. We're streaming Daniel Z Go to Nuke Shop. I checked the other day. I guess I just. Maybe I was too early. Oh, I can only do one a day.

[Joey Noel]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, it's unlocked automatically now. Thank you, kebabs. Okay. Okay. I'm not Joester. What you do on your switch. What you do on your switch is your own business, not me. All right, I want to see the Zelda stuff IRL over here at the shop. Or was it. No, they're gonna be in here.

[Joey Noel]

This is where you get the megaphone.

[Greg Miller]

I got 60 bells.

[Joey Noel]

Well, at least all your stuff is nearby here.

[Greg Miller]

What we're gonna do. Oh, it's nook on my phone. I'm out of bells, remember? And we're out of time. I want to make sure they get over for that Resident Evil thing. So we're just going to run over, meet Mineru over at the campsite. This is the problem with Animal Crossing. You move one rock, you find five different things you want to go do.

[Joey Noel]

Time just flies so quickly.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, we're both drinking. We're friends. You're welcome.

[Joey Noel]

I forgot that you have the music. The kind of funny jingle tune.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, right. So there you go, Zelda People here on the island, Zelda things on the app is embarrassing. Melissa with a Y. She's so cute. I can't wait to have her on my island. I don't care who I'm going to sacrifice. Yeah, I'll have to make sure when Sky's ass is gone that I get over here and make it happen. Oh, it's Nick Miles. On the other hand, everybody, this has been your first ever kind of funny games cast plays. Us actually looking editorial wise at a product. I'm very impressed with this update. It's doing what I want, Joey, and that's getting me back into Animal Crossing, giving me a reason to turn it on multiple days in a row which I hope then hooks me and makes me go, okay, yeah, I will play this longer than I thought I was going to play it and have new life breathed into it.

[Joey Noel]

I agree. I'm excited now. I do really think that I'll have enough to like get my island to the way that I want it and an excuse to log in every day and then maybe also like Ravagel Farm's island for all the stuff that I don't have. But yeah, I think it'll be fun. I hope that more people jump into it and I hope that this is like kind of the shot in the arm in Animal Crossing that people have been waiting for because I would love for people to start designing new things that I can steal from my island.

[Greg Miller]

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