The next Animal Crossing should be a socialist uprising against Tom Nook – Reader’s Feature

Tom Nook, gaming’s greatest supervillain (Nintendo)

With still no official word about a new Animal Crossing game on Nintendo Switch 2, a reader has a very unconventional idea of what direction it should take.

Reflecting on the challenges of overcoming class oppression, the leader of the October (Russian) revolution, Vladimir Lenin, famously posed the question: ‘What is to be done?’ We might ask the same question of Nintendo’s Animal Crossing, especially in the wake of the arguably better Pokémon Pokopia.

The comparison to overcoming oppression may sound trite, and in a ...