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Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete review - ditching the microtransactions for a more forgiving experience

The paid, offline version of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is a lot more chill, but the legacy of its freemium systems still requires a little navigation.

The only thing helping me through this bleak time was the fact that, tucked at the very end of Nintendo's email, was the revelation that my save data could live on in a paid app - Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete - which would arrive in "the future". ), and the best features of the subscription plans have actually been integrated into Complete so everyone can access them, including the option of appointing a camp caretaker animal, the journal sticker system, and the provision of extra layout and outfit slots. In fact, I spent an hour curled up in a coffee shop with appalling phone signal just tinkering with my current pre-Christmas cabin layout - a feat that would have been nigh on impossible in the original Pocket Camp.

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