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Tom Nook is NOT a Crook! (Animal Crossing)

Game Theory

The Game Theorists

Games, Leisure

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Join Game Theory Host MatPat as he reveals the TRUTH about Animal Crossing's biggest villain... Tom Nook!


*Credits:* Writers: Matthew Patrick, Mark Hofmeyer and Tom Robinson Editors: Dan "Cybert" Seibert, Tyler Mascola, AbsolutePixel, Pedro Freitas and Shannon (Bomb0i) Sound Designer: Yosi Berman

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Hello internet. Welcome to game theory.

0:23.2

Ah, Animal Crossing.

0:24.8

The wildly successful social simulation game that's been teaching us

0:28.0

about financial responsibility, debt relief,

0:30.0

and how to cheat in creative ways so you can get great prices on stocks.

0:33.5

I mean turnips.

0:35.0

And all of it is thanks to one very business savvy Tanuki, the one and only Tom Nook.

0:40.0

Who hands a two-story house with basement in a crime-free idyllic utopia,

0:44.7

all with no background checks or needing to prove your income.

0:47.2

It is probably the single most unrealistic thing to ever happen in a video game.

0:51.6

Sounds too good to be true, especially once you start looking at real-world housing prices.

0:55.0

But people that have actually played the game know that things aren't quite that simple.

0:59.0

While Tom might be offering you this wonderful house on a beautiful island in the middle of nowhere,

1:03.0

it's not going to come cheap. In fact when you first get there he doesn't give you the house but a

1:06.3

tent and even then he tries to charge nearly 50,000 bells for the thing and the

1:10.8

house with its expansions only get more expensive with time. By the end of New Horizons,

1:15.3

you'll have paid 5.686 million Bells. 8.966 million if you count all the storage expansions.

1:22.8

Fortunately, just like in the real world, there is a way to not be homeless while also

1:26.2

having very little money to your name.

1:27.9

You can get yourself alone.

1:29.8

Not from an official bank though, but from, you know, the guy who's selling you the house in the first place

1:33.7

yeah that is uh that is not sketchy at all sure and this isn't new behavior

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