Any device that houses my animal crossing game, will always have the wrong time. Hell, sometimes it's not even the right week!
But in general, I feel like time travel is fine, as long as you don't just go back and forth purely to cheat the game.
Like right now it's 7:02pm on Easter Sunday......oops, I mean it's actually 3:02am Monday.
But if I had my time set properly, I'd come home from work, and the whole village would be asleep. Except Blathers. Blathers is cool. Hangs out in Museums at 3:00am reading a good book, and later spills the blood of the innocent, on a heavy metal slaughtering spree.
What? Oh. I guess you don't know Blathers like I do. We're pretty tight. His mom has cancer.
:(
But back on topic. I'm just getting home from work. I can either experience the game and play in real time on a delay. Getting to experience the bulk of the game.....or I can play in an empty village every time I get home from work.
And this is why I think Nintendo knows we chage the time, and makes no attempt to stop it. Because you KNOW if they cared, they would have some bullshit update to force your clock to always be right when playing Animal Crossing. It may not have been possible on gamecube, but it certainly is possible on switch. It's just a dick move. Which Nintendo loves doing, but they don't in this case. Which I think means Nintendo know this happens, and allows it willingly.
Because work comes first. Also, sometimes I play at work on my retroid pocket flip 2. But I only get brief 10-20 minute downtimes. It literally has to be in my pocket already, and ready to go at a button press. Which I do.
But the bulk of my time is when I get home, and connect the flip 2, to my TV. So yes. I do approve of time travel in this way. But using it to manipulate the stalk market is too much. That to me ventures into the realm of cheating the game.
Yes, Nook requires huge amounts of bells, but thats the game. Selling shells and making bells. Collecting fruit. Fishing. Even if the fish you just caught isn't great, you can still sell it, and get some bells. So the game is rewarding you for doing something. Even if you fail, you're not discouraged as wasting your time if you don't catch the fish you need. Because sometimes that takes a while. And if seabass didn't sell for 200 bells, I'd be mighty angry that I keep catching them for 3 hours. But if you cheat the stalk market, now those seabass are just.....wasting your time, because you have millions of bells. 200 bells means nothing, and you have no debt.
Even if you’re getting stuff via time travel, but it makes you enjoy the game more, it’s not cheating. You have no opponents. It’s a cozy game, so why let any of it stress you out. If your life is out of sync with the game, change the game since you can do that easier than changing your life.