My favorite environment is the town in Animal Crossing. Animal Crossing is a game where you start a town and become a mayor of the town. The player is supposed to farm, pick apples, fish, talk to towns people in order to run the town. Every time I feel stressed out I feel the urge to play this game. It almost has a soothing value to it because of the music, lifestyle, and the characters.
As soon as you start the game, I can notice that the game has started due to the song. Animal Crossing has a very distinct music that plays as the player interacts with the game. Player can even make their own songs. Whatever, soothes the person can be played throughout the game.
It is also the lifestyle the game has. The objective of the game is not fighting against evil monsters nor becoming a hero. However, the game focuses on what a person would do on a daily basis if they lived outside the city.
The main reason why this game is my favorite environment is because it portrays the ideal lifestyle that I would like to live. The reason why this game is so popular, I believe, is that it lets people run away from the busy reality and lets them explore what its to like to live a simple life.
This game also reminds me of a transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau’s book Walden. The book is about the author living independently nowadays considered a ‘a manual for self-reliance’. Although it is seems almost impossible for me to actually life a self-reliant life, it seems possible through playing Animal Crossing.