Naturally, the isolated and the bored are turning to videogames to help pass the time. Everyone’s been advised (or ordered) to stay home and stay away from others. Schools are shuttered and kids (of all ages) are home. “And it’s never felt more like that than now.”Īs Daniel Howley reported at Yahoo Finance, that sentiment seems to go well beyond Animal Crossing. “ Animal Crossing has never felt much like a game it’s felt like a comforting place, a cozy blanket to wrap yourself in,” Scott writes. Scott Stein captured this feeling perfectly in his review, remembering how the original Animal Crossing was there for him in the days after 9/11 and, now, New Horizons provides a much-needed respite for him and his family.
As a pandemic hangs over the world and drives us into our homes, a healthy dose of the cheer, routine, and pure normalcy Nintendo’s little life simulator brings is a welcome addition to our terrifying, chaotic new lives. Plus, a very special PC mod, an especially scrumptious RPG, and the beauty of Ori’s latest adventure.Īnimal Crossing: New Horizons couldn’t have arrived at a better time. This week, our writers are, like the rest of us, finding ways to cope with the state of the world. All the thanks in the world to Harold for putting up with me while I’ve been sick and filling in last week with a great installment of the column. XCOM 2 is immediately available for Windows, Mac, and Linux PCs.Welcome back to The Roundup, the New York Videogame Critics Circle’s weekly look at our members’ writing and news from around the world of videogames. Each one will be usable in-game, making the fight against aliens a little more adorable.
To install any of these mods and start using them in XCOM 2, head over to the Steam Workshop, subscribe to them, and you’ll be set. (It’d probably go well with the ACORG-47 Welsh Corgi-shaped gun.) It’s adorable, even though you have to get in really close to see the Temmie. Piggles has turned them into a pattern that can be applied to clothing and guns. In Undertale, you can run into cat-dog Temmies in the Temmie Village.
There is some clipping, and also some unexpected pink highlights, but it’s otherwise very accurate.įull body armors, heads, and hairs are still in the earliest days for XCOM 2 mods, but the cutest camouflage pattern ever has been added into the game. People who look under hair, when making a character, will find her iconic twintails for every possible character.
He’s also made it possible for everyone to look a little more like Hatsune Miku. You’ll find the option under Character Head Props in options.Īctually, Dafini has been quite busy when it comes to making XCOM 2 more adorable with mods. Once enabled, a male or female soldier could look like a male villager from the game.
Dafini has made an optional character head for soldiers in the game, based on a similar mod for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. To start, there’s a bit of Animal Crossing in XCOM 2. Three of the new mods available not only reference other video games, but help make XCOM 2 a little more cute. Aside from some mods being available at launch, thanks to Long War Studios working with Firaxis Games, others have embraced the game to add their own special touches to the latest entry in the series. XCOM 2 is quite new, but a robust mod scene has sprung up around the game.