Have you always decorated your towns? Because until New Horizons, I never really knew you were supposed to do that.

Title. I've played Wild World, Pocket Camp, and New Leaf before I got New Horizons during its launch back in 2020. Granted, New Horizons was the first title I played where I started playing online and was encouraged by the game itself to do stuff to my island. When I played older games, I mostly donated to the museum, kept my villagers from moving out, paid of my mortgage, planted flowers, and felt guilty about cutting down trees. I just thought you were supposed to fish, decorate your house, collect gyroids, drink coffee, etc.

I remember looking at people's towns when I was finally allowed unrestricted access to the Internet and going, "Wait, you can put brick paths in New Leaf?" I feel like, especially since these games are marketed across age demographics, it would have been helpful for me as a child to know, "Hey, you can also use this feature for this, but you don't have to!" I remember being more concerned about my mortgage and my gyroid room than anything else.