A Japanese man made his son hate Animal Crossing: New Horizons and here's how

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons has lots of fans across the globe. However, it seems like the title lost one of these million fans after he messed with the game on his family's Switch console.

The story was shared on Twitter by user @zikatu1, who explained that one of his elementary school students claimed that he did not like playing New Horizons or any other game anymore and proceeded to tell him why.

A Google translation of the tweet:

The post garnered a mixed response from the community. While some people believe that the father was teaching his son a valuable lesson, others thought he was making his son find a perfectly normal hobby unenjoyable.

According to the Twitter user's story, the father and son shared an interest in Animal Crossing: New Horizons and used the same Nintendo Switch console to play the game. Now, the son wanted to witness some event in the game that was a few days ahead in real-world time, so he decided to time travel to the required date to cut down on the wait time.

Naturally, this rendered all the turnips collected in the game useless, as is one of the most common cons of time travel. However, the father seemed to be unaware of this entire incident since when he picked up the Switch to play New Horizons, he realized that the in-game time and date were a few days ahead and had rendered his turnips worthless.

The father was clearly very upset with his investment going to waste since he decided to punish his son for the same. The punishment was that the son had to return the Bells that he had spoiled through turnips in the game, and what was worse was that he was not allowed to quit playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons till he had gathered the one million Bells.

Now, the turnip trade includes an element