{"id":9089,"date":"2022-10-26T10:16:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T10:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/26\/no-bandai-namcos-new-fishing-game-isnt-an-animal-crossing-spin-off\/"},"modified":"2022-10-26T10:16:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T10:16:03","slug":"no-bandai-namcos-new-fishing-game-isnt-an-animal-crossing-spin-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/26\/no-bandai-namcos-new-fishing-game-isnt-an-animal-crossing-spin-off\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Bandai Namco&#8217;s New Fishing Game Isn&#8217;t An Animal Crossing Spin-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sure looks like it, though.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We all love a bit of fishing in our video games, right? Well, you&#8217;re in luck, because Bandai Namco Entertainment is about to launch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/ace_angler_fishing_spirits\">Ace Angler: Fishing Spirits<\/a> on Nintendo Switch, a game packed to the rim with sharks, frogs, turtles, octopi, and much more. In short, everything you could hope for if you like to just kick back and reel in a few fishies.<\/p>\n<p>What we can&#8217;t quite get over, however, is just how similar it looks to <strong>Animal Crossing<\/strong>, at least in terms of aesthetics. Just look at those characters! They look like they&#8217;ve been plucked straight out of a bunch of Animal Crossing villages and dropped into Ace Angler. It&#8217;s not a bad thing, of course; the design choice arguably fits the tone of the game to a tee, and you can even explore a fully formed Aquarium, just like the museum in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/animal_crossing_new_horizons\">New Horizons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/10\/no-bandai-namcos-new-fishing-game-isnt-an-animal-crossing-spin-off\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]No, Bandai Namco&#8217;s New Fishing Game Isn&#8217;t An Animal Crossing Spin-Off<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sure looks like it, though.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We all love a bit of fishing in our video games, right? Well, you&#8217;re in luck, because Bandai Namco Entertainment is about to launch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/ace_angler_fishing_spirits\">Ace Angler: Fishing Spirits<\/a> on Nintendo Switch, a game packed to the rim with sharks, frogs, turtles, octopi, and much more. In short, everything you could hope for if you like to just kick back and reel in a few fishies.<\/p>\n<p>What we can&#8217;t quite get over, however, is just how similar it looks to <strong>Animal Crossing<\/strong>, at least in terms of aesthetics. Just look at those characters! They look like they&#8217;ve been plucked straight out of a bunch of Animal Crossing villages and dropped into Ace Angler. It&#8217;s not a bad thing, of course; the design choice arguably fits the tone of the game to a tee, and you can even explore a fully formed Aquarium, just like the museum in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/animal_crossing_new_horizons\">New Horizons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/10\/no-bandai-namcos-new-fishing-game-isnt-an-animal-crossing-spin-off\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}