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Green Pages: Animal Crossing Notes
Purple Pages: Super Mario Bros Notes
Yellow Pages: PacMan Notes

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In the first session of playing this game called Animal Crossing, it held my hand throughout its entire introduction. This story is set on a deserted island that I, along with three other animal-human-like characters inhabit.

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In this game you are playing as "yourself," and by that, I mean that you get to personalize your character however you wish and to your likings. It's not as realistic as the avatar personalization ability that the popular game Sims has but it's personable enough to be able to say, "Ehh good enough."

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Pictured above is the founder of Nook Inc., Tom Nook, his associates are Timmy and Tommy. These characters are a raccoon and dog-like mix who are guides on how to navigate the island that you inhabited and how to operate about it. There is discourse about the role that Tom Nook displays as a mass of players learn and observe his nature claiming that his motives are that of greed and power through capital.

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I was scrolling through TikTok, as many of my peers do, and was introduced to the Super Mario World attraction opening soon at Universal Studios in Osaka, Japan. This then inspired me to download Super Mario Bros because it used to be my favorite Nintendo game that I would watch my older brother play. I'm coming back to this post because I was to emphasize the impact that advertising had on the influence of my choice to download this game. If I wasn't reminded of this game I probably would've continued to play Animal Crossing but I can't pass up not playing this game for this class.

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In this game, it's a virtual obstacle course. It gives the option to play with up to three players, or even solo. When I was younger, on an older generation of the Nintendo DS, I would play my DS everywhere I went and would play this game religiously. Up until I got to a level that neither I nor my brother could complete, I gave up. Now being older I felt that I reached a higher level of fine motor skills that would better equip me with the ability to complete this game. I invited Marco along with me when we didn't have anything to do one weekend and the biggest decision we've ever had to make came up. Who was going to be Mario and who was going to be Luigi? Obviously, I chose Mario and Marco ended up with Luigi but only because somehow it just makes sense.

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This feature has to be, arguably, one of the most annoying features of the entire game that can ruin a good day. I have had 57 restarts which means my death count rounds up to about 580 deaths in total, throughout my gameplay with Marco. About 88% of my deaths were caused by this feature alone.

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At the time of this game switch, academically, I was facing so much pressure to the point that elongated game play felt so much less enjoyable. I needed to simplify my game so much that it took as minimal thought as moving up, down, left, and right.

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I had a reoccurring nightmare over the span of a week playing Pacman. I was the yellow guy and my parents and professors were all chasing me down as the ghosts.

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I can't play video games, I take them way too personally. If I were to choose a mode to destress, video games would probably be last on my list. I'm simply not built for the pressure of trying to be perfect when perfect equates to a supernatural high score. Pacman is too stress inducing, and Animal Crossing is too slow. I have not met my happy middle yet. Maybe playing video games is just not for me. But in contrast, I absolutely love watching other people play video games. That's the way I fell in love with video games and that is probably how I'll continue to enjoy them for the time being.