And the apple does fall far from the tree
Ihave written countless pieces about my love for Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Just like my hatred for Tom Nook, my love for this game knows no bounds. But just one aspect of my admiration for the game and its creators lay in its treatment of food.
We all remember the Nintendo Wii, and the Wii Fit, aka my arch-nemesis. Cue flashbacks to scenes of intense embarrassment. You get on the Wii Fit board and find you’ve gained weight. Your Mii gets a little fatter. A visual reminder of the horrid effects of eating. Oh, dear.
In Animal Crossing, fruits fuel your activities. When you consume apples, cherries, peaches, oranges, pears, or coconuts, you can suddenly chop trees with just one swipe of the axe. You can crush stones with one heavy thump of a shovel. You can dig up a whole tree (roots included) and place it in your pocket. Then, you can plant that tree somewhere else around your island. It’s a beautiful reminder: your body needs fuel, and with that fuel, it can do things it wouldn’t normally be able to do.
The tree relocation aspect is particularly helpful when you have an aversion to shaking trees, like me. I don’t like the fact that a bee can zoom out of my leafy friend like a bat out of hell and follow me around until he’s stung me to death. It’s a no from me. I also don’t like the fact that, sometimes, the fruit falls in random places. I made the well-intentioned decision to plant a few coconuts near the ocean. Roughly two-thirds of all of the coconuts I shake from the tree now end up in the ocean. Great.
If you get a Nook Miles Ticket (go to the little Nook Stop machine in the town hall), you can fly to an uninhabited island, where there will be coconuts galore.
Hey, just a minute — why has Tom Nook named everything after him? He is such a megalomaniac narcissist. Let’s kill him.
Anyway, take a few of these coconuts back home to your island. You can sell them for a good mark-up of 250 bells (150 more than your native fruit), so four coconuts will give you the princely sum of 1,000 bells. Non-native fruit sells for 500 bells, which will make you a millionaire pretty quickly. Pay off your house loans to that capitalist overlord Nook in double the time if you sell exotic fruits to his freaky mini-me children!
This is particularly useful when you’re terraforming your island.
Island terraforming is one of the best things you can do in Animal Crossing. With the way the fruit works, you can move trees around with the landscape.
When you eat fruit in the game, your little character doesn’t change shape. Her clothes are all one-size and not the kind of one-size you sometimes get in stores which isn’t one-size at all. Which I hate. For someone with an eating disorder, it feels calming beyond words to eat (even in a game) and not worry about the effects after.
I don’t have to worry about my clothes not fitting, or about bloat. It’s just a little thing, but it’s a thing I’m really thankful for. For years I was caught up in a vicious cycle of restricted eating, overeating, and binging and purging.
New Horizons’ treatment of food as fuel reminds me that food is a good thing. It allows me to perform activities I wouldn’t be able to normally do…like chasing Nook with a pitchfork.
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