For some, the familiar jingle that plays when starting up “Animal Crossing” is a callback to early pandemic days. Inside “Animal Crossing,” players complete tasks like fishing and shaking trees to find critters for the island’s resident collector, Blathers. Just as people experienced pandemic burnout in real life, they did so in “Animal Crossing” too. “Around the time before the Halloween event came out, I didn’t play ‘Animal Crossing’ at all. A common thread among these “Animal Crossing” super fans is that once all the content has been played through, there’s almost no draw left to the game, and that during the first few months of ‘Animal Crossing,’ updates didn’t come frequently enough.

Source: Washington Post March 19, 2021 19:00 UTC