While the world has been stuck at home, a lot of questions were brought up about how to celebrate the Easter holiday. Many people turned to their phones or any method of Face Time, but the gaming world brought their twist too. Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been a big hit since it was finally released on March 20th 2020 and they decided to give their players a fun holiday weekend full of fish and eggs.
Bunny Day
For the week leading up to Easter, players would come across their neighbors during the day and when you talk to them they often brought up Bunny Day and how excited they were getting. So whether you celebrate Easter or not, the Bunny Day event could be played by everyone. The setting changed as well with this event and the trees became Cherry Blossom trees that had bloomed and petals would be everywhere. This was nice to look at and really gave the island a spring feel.
As Bunny day got closer, trees started producing eggs. Crazy right? When you shook a tree, the eggs would fall and you could either eat them, sell them or craft with them. Suddenly these eggs started coming from everywhere, like the rocks, the underground, the water and the sky. Six eggs in total could be found. Quickly, the eggs became overwhelming until the Bunny Day recipes started flowing. Players were challenged to create all of the recipes for a reward. I did this rather quickly before Bunny Day had even started. So when Bunny Day arrived on Sunday, there wasn’t much to do. The Bunny himself was in the game on Sunday and he wanted to do an egg hunt (for all of the eggs you already had) and give one last recipe to make.
If you completed all of the Bunny Days tasks then you probably ended up with a ton of swag and the Bunny Day wand. I sold most of my stuff because I had way too much. Even though the event was fun and gave people something to do, Nintendo probably could have narrowed the time line to collect eggs and see the Easter Bunny. This would have been nice because the event seemed to last too long and other tasks got delayed, such as continuing to grow your island. For the younger players, it was really nice to see an egg hunt they could get into without going outside.
Fishing
The Bunny Day event was not the only event however this past weekend. Saturday a seasonal event was hosted too and it was a real hand killer. C.J., a friendly beaver, came to the island to host the beginning of the season by holding a Fishing Tourney. As a new player, I had no idea what this was, but I jumped in quickly. After talking to C.J., he explained that 3 minutes was on the clock to catch as many fish as possible. Each 3 minute stretch gave you points (depending on how many fish you caught) and you could switch those points for cool collectibles. At the end a trophy was given out for your work. I got the bronze trophy for getting 100 or more points.
My hands were killing me, no joke. Catching fish is time consuming. What made this harder was the need to make enough fish bait in between rounds so that I didn’t have to run around and waste time on the clock. Eventually I took a break and that probably was the difference between my bronze trophy and a silver or gold. This tournament was pretty fun and diverse compared to Bunny Day. Plus, all of my neighbor friends fished too and we didn’t have to do the gift exchanges and excess running around (if you didn’t want to). But take into consideration just how long you have to fish in order to get a lot of points. I can’t even begin to explain how many times I smashed ‘A’ to keep reeling them in. I have no regrets. I’m excited to do it again in July. I’ll be prepared this time too.
Overall, the weekend was fun and a little tiring. I’m still not sure if I want to do any fishing right away after this event, or look for more eggs at this point. I’m still a little traumatized when I dig in the ground and don’t find an egg but I’m not sure if this is a good or bad thing. Maybe next year will be different due to the feedback. One thing is for sure though, I’m ready for more events and probably in dire need of larger storage.
