{"id":31476,"date":"2011-01-13T13:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/regardless-of-what-platform-you-choose-to-play-it-2\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T10:28:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T17:28:36","slug":"regardless-of-what-platform-you-choose-to-play-it-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/regardless-of-what-platform-you-choose-to-play-it-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-31476 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/regardless-of-what-platform-you-choose-to-play-it-2\/attachment\/31477\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lem6j3O29I1qescwho1_500-1-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Regardless of what platform you choose to play it on, Animal Crossing is broadly identical: as a lone human settler in a forest clearing full of animals, you settle into an idyllic, dreamlike existence of gentle adventuring and crafting. You can collect shells on the beach and exchange them for money, dig up bags of gold and go fishing. There are battles to fight, and you\u2019ll never die. It\u2019s like a fantasy retirement village for the people who love shopping and collecting things. The reality Animal Crossing\u2019s society of doe-eyed, sweet-talking creatures masks the game\u2019s horrifying agenda. It\u2019s actually a simulation of capitalist oppression, first saddling the player with a crippling mortgage that grows as fast as they can pay it off, before luring them into a materialistic treadmill of drudgery and spending. Before you know it, you\u2019re in thrall to Tom Nook, the apparently benign shop owner who rules the state of Animal Crossing with an iron fist. As the game goes on, Nook\u2019s megalomania grows, his initially tiny shop gradually increasing in size until it\u2019s become a sprawling department store. At the same time, your home gradually swells from a tiny hovel to a palace, allowing you to fill your life with an ever greater accumulation of furniture, trinkets and other pointless tat.  (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/games\/717486\/when_cute_graphics_mask_evil_games.html\">When cute graphics mask evil games &#8211; Den of Geek<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regardless of what platform you choose to play it on, Animal Crossing is broadly identical: as a lone human settler in a forest clearing full of animals, you settle into an idyllic, dreamlike existence of gentle adventuring and crafting. 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