No Animal Crossing announced for Nintendo Switch 2 yet, but the life sim RPG I've waited 11 years for is coming to Switch next month

Two players outside a house with a dragon during the upcoming PS5 game, FANTASY LIFE i: The Girl Who Steals Time.
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The big 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Nintendo Switch 2 reveal gave Tomodachi Life fans the announcement they've wanted for more than a decade, but their Animal Crossing companions across the pond were left hungry for neꦦws on what's next for their life sim obsession.

Wander a bit further in the valley of life and social sims and you'll find more good news. I've been eating like a king for m🤡onths because Level 5's new life sim RPG, Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time🅠, is finally coming after 11 years.

A new trailer for Fantasy Life i, the first non-mobile installment in the series since 2014's underrated 3DS banger 🐎Fantasy Life, was released e🤪arlier today (in Japanese but with English subtitles), and this long-awaited follow-up looks better every time I see it.

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It won't be a native Switch 2 game, but Fantasy Life i is coming to Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC on May 21, ahead of the June 5 Switch 2 launch. I'll probably end up playing it on my Switch 2 anyway to help justify spending a small fortune (now a slightly larger fortune, with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Switch 2 accessory prices rising in the US) on a co🏅nsole that has one exclusive game I'm actually interested in.

As a reminder, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders now open in the US on April 24, and the base price of the console is holding at $449.99 in the region.

The Fantasy Life bug has slowly been spreading around the GamesRadar+ office, with my comrade Anna joining me in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:despairing over its repeated delays.

There's something about this series' – which is to say, the previous game's – mix of💞 crafting, gathering, and combat skills that hits my brain in a way no other life sim has. It's more adventurous and goal-oriented, and quests and progression systems loop back on each other in a way I found irresistible all those years ago.

The new trailer spotlights the cycle of accepting a quest to craft a specific item, sourcing the materials out in the wild (sometimes by courteously escorting monsters or skill b💃osses into the afterlife), and then crafting up a storm back 🤪at the carpentry desk.

Fantasy Life i lets you change jobs as needed out in the field, increasing your options and reinforcing the synergy between different life paths. A good Carpenter can make good෴ bows to use as a Huꦯnter, for example, while a skilled Angler will find it easier to make better dishes as a Cook.

I've always described Fantasy Life as a life sim moonlighting as a Zelda game, and the latest entry looks like an expanded, spruced-up version of that. Enlivened by a Japanese narrator describing these life path🧸s with the energy of a MOBA esports🔜 moderator shouting "pentakill," the new trailer communicates that same charm.

This one can't come soon enough.

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Austin Wood
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Austin has been a game journalist for 12 years, having freelanced for the likes of PC Gamer, Eurogamer, IGN, Sports Illustrated, and more while finishing his journalism degree.🐷 He's been with GamesRadar+ since 2019. They've yet to realize his pꦦosition is a cover for his career-spanning Destiny column, and he's kept the ruse going with a lot of news and the occasional feature, all while playing as many roguelikes as possible.

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