Maybe you’ve rolled your eyes astatine the modern mentation of Tom Nook, Animal Crossing’s capitalist overlord. You know, the 1 wherever radical effort to accidental that it’s wholly OK that he’s saddling you with crushing indebtedness and perpetual location upgrades you don’t want, each portion hand-waving distant the information that helium wields a predatory power implicit the system successful your small portion of paradise. But you cognize what? After playing the caller Disney instrumentality connected the Animal Crossing life-sim genre, I’m inclined to hold with those forgiving types. Maybe Tom Nook isn’t truthful atrocious astatine all. Not erstwhile compared to Scrooge McDuck.

Though they stock DNA successful presumption of mechanics, Disney Dreamlight Valley is acceptable up overmuch otherwise than Animal Crossing. For one, Scrooge doesn’t commencement disconnected asa the large canine successful municipality adjacent though helium has oodles of currency and could astir apt bargain the full spot outright. For immoderate reason, helium needs you, the player, to assistance him re-open his dilapidated store. Nook sends you connected errands too, of course, but Scrooge is an implicit crap astir it from the get-go.

For 1 thing, this duck is talking to you astir the worth of investments astatine a clip erstwhile the full municipality is overrun by acheronian magic that is making radical vanish and everyone other is dilatory forgetting everything astir themselves. Tell me, bully sir, who is going to beryllium spending coin successful your store erstwhile Mickey Mouse can’t retrieve what his woman looks similar anymore? What worth does wealth person successful the post-apocalypse, speech from being a cold, metallic substance to aquatics in? Why are you having maine marque your store much charismatic erstwhile you intelligibly person the superior to person hired hands bash it, oregon could adjacent utilized the wealth to assistance immoderate of your neighbors from impending doom? What the fuck. I spot the elephantine vault hiding successful the back, Scrooge!

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But fine, sure. We’re present to rebuild and eventually, each the menacing thorns and spooky mists that are destroying everything volition vanish truthful that we whitethorn erstwhile again interest ourselves with giving each our wealth to the rich. But past this asshole wants maine to assistance him advertise the store, to a clientele that, again, is dilatory losing their minds. To execute this, Scrooge demands that I enactment connected A SHIRT OF HIS OWN FACE SO THAT THE OTHER VILLAGERS CAN SEE IT due to the fact that remember, yes, the system indispensable ne'er stop, adjacent if 99% of my friends and household person perchance died.

While wearing this shirt, helium asks maine to spell retired determination and enactment retired signs pointing to his store, which I ideate is little to bash with advertizing per se than acknowledging that everyone is suffering from aggravated dementia truthful possibly they request the signposting. After all, astatine this constituent successful the game, determination are only, like, 3 functional buildings successful the full town. It’s hard to miss a elephantine section store having its lights connected erstwhile everything is formed is eternal darkness. But, being my ain marque of asshole, I simply placed each motion that Scrooge gave maine close extracurricular his store alternatively than anyplace wherever it mightiness beryllium useful. I’m not sullying my town with this capitalist garbage. I conscionable request your relationship points, aged man.

Throughout each of this, erstwhile you speech to him, his dialog is incorrigible. If you inquire him wherefore you’re doing each the hard work, helium rebuffs you and says actually, he did the hard enactment backmost erstwhile [situation that does not use oregon substance to the task astatine hand]. If you permission the conversation, helium doesn’t accidental goodbye. He wishes you a bullish time connected the banal market. And the large reward for opening the system backmost up? The privilege of giving Scrooge much wealth successful his store, of course. He won’t fto you preview thing you can’t afford, though, truthful don’t you poors commencement getting immoderate comic ideas.

I’m inactive reasonably aboriginal connected successful the game, and I cognize each of this is expected to beryllium endearing if not reasonably faithful to the existent character. It’s Scrooge, for goodness’ sake. It would beryllium weird if helium were a generous dude, right? Still, it’s hard not to balk a small astatine everything Scrooge wants maine to do, precisely due to the fact that of the benignant of quality that helium is. Why is it that he’s asking maine to merchantability precious gemstones to Goofy’s stall, the marketplace that is typically booming with 1-dollar seedlings? Am I helping him launder money? Why won’t helium permission Goofy’s concern alone, anyway? He’s got an empire, Goofy conscionable wants to bash his thing! Stop pushing him to expand! Goofy would astir apt travel and driblet each his wealth connected the water anyhow with a large ol’ gawrsh, and past ne'er springiness it a 2nd thought again. The lanky canine lives a elemental beingness Scrooge could ne'er imagine.

It’s imaginable I’m getting Scrooge each incorrect and that, with time, I travel to find retired he’s really a beauteous bully dude underneath each the concern talk. But this asshole makes adjacent relationship difficult. His favourite things conscionable truthful hap to beryllium the rarest items successful the crippled that are worthy the astir money. Sure, Scrooge, I’ll springiness you a GOLD BAR for immoderate banal marketplace tips. TF.

Sorry for ever badmouthing you, Tom Nook. You’re a chill dude aft all. Nintendo did try to archer america helium Nook was misunderstood mode backmost when. And hey, astatine slightest with Scrooge, you cognize precisely what you’re getting due to the fact that helium ne'er tries to fell it.