A light is appearing at the end of the bright, pastel tunnel for Animal Crossing: New Horizons players, as Nintendo has announced that it's finally fixing its horrible Bunny Day egg problem. The seasonal Easter-themed event has been both a fun quarantine distraction and a cutely painted nightmare for the Animal Crossing playerbase, and this highly requested update is right on time.
Bunny Day has been an interesting experiment for how the Bunny Day event broke that balance by replacing almost every other fish with water eggs and raining down a tempestuous onslaught of noisy rainbow balloons bearing sky eggs and seasonal recipes.
Soon, Zipper's aerial oppression of players' islands will take a significant blow. Nintendo of Japan Customer Animal Crossing nightmare may be far from over.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a phenomenal time waster for a quarantined population bored out of its wits, and the game plays best when everything is working as players have come to expect. However, when its near-perfect gameplay loop has been thrown so far out of whack, players have understandably been feeling swindled out of their time by the Bunny Day event. Reducing the sheer volume of sky egg balloons whizzing over players' heads is a great start - and reverting egg rates to their initial frenzy on the event's final day is a generous boon for players scrambling to craft remaining recipes - but something still needs to be done about the plague of water eggs in the waterways and seas.
As irritating as water eggs continue to be for players (and as chillingly creepy as Bunny Day ringleader Zipper can be), the community's high expectations for how the game should play is entirely reflective of what a joy Animal Crossing: New Horizons is at its genial core. It's a shared experience that delivers as many heartwarming moments outside of the game as it does during play, so players' concerns over how holidays will be handled further down the road point to its probable longevity more than anything else.
Source: Nintendo Customer via Twitter, Nintendo
