Animal Crossing’s Lottie Is An Even Bigger Capitalist Monster Than Tom Nook
We can all admit that it’s a little bit strange to spend 30 bucks to come home from work and keep working, right? And yet that’s exactly what happens in the Happy Home Paradise DLC for Animal Crossing: New Horizons. It allows you to travel to an archipelago to work for Lottie, who has begun selling vacation homes to people on the varied nearby islands.
For some reason, I, like many others, couldn’t wait to get my hands on this DLC. I began work right away on a bunch of dream homes for my favourite animal companions.
You’re introduced to Lottie by Tom Nook. This should have set off alarm bells (sorry) right away since, as we all know, Tom Nook is a nightmare capitalist. Once you agree to design homes and visit the archipelago, your first customer is Eloise, a friendly and unassuming yellow elephant. Everything seems pretty innocent.
That is, until you start to pay attention.
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One of Lottie’s other employees is a monkey named Niko. He’s got a unique model unlike all of the other monkeys in the game. That’s probably because he’s native to the exotic islands where Happy Home Paradise takes place.
Once you get to know Niko a little better, he reveals that he was the one to show Lottie around the archipelago. Back then, Lottie was just a tourist. So, we know that Lottie saw the islands, fell in love with them, and then bought up the land for her vacation home business. What happened to Niko’s society, which was here for Lottie to visit? Where are his family and his friends? Where does Niko live? Is it possible that the vacation homes, which you refurbish and present to the animals, are all that remains of the society that once thrived here?
It certainly seems
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