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Creature Intersection: Fresh Plant is the fourth game in the best-selling Creature Intersection series, released in June 2013 for the Nintendo 3DS.

Gameplay
The player must collect fish, bugs, and deep sea creatures, as well as participating in the trading of turnips, in order to raise enough funds to remove the town from a state of poverty, caused by the controlling Tom Nook. Fresh Plant adds the ability to improve the town by building more facilities for the villagers, such as cafés and useless fenced areas. In addition, the game runs on a real-time 24-hour clock, as well as a 365-day calendar, meaning that if anyone wants to complete the game without looking like a total weirdo, they must change the time on the system to skip forward 6 months.The plot twist of this game is that the villager becomes mayor! The mayor's secretary Isabelle insists on becoming a dictator by establishing ludicrous ordinances! However, they still do not allow the mayor to move houses and destroy Tom Nook.

There are also villagers who populate the town, who are reskins of eight base personalities, all say pretty much the exact same things, but the eleven-year-old fanbase who play this game insist that Marshal is their best friend for life. Also, the player can choose to talk to certain shop owners for several days in a row, which is totally not stalkerish, to hear a basic backstory, as well as ride a boat and get flirted with by an old turtle man, to an island where there are bugs that sell for too much money and are too common. Despite this, completing the game is still one of the most grindy tasks on any Nintendo machine, rivalling spending 200 hours hatching eggs for Pokémon with decent natures.

The game is also humorous: players can shake trees and on occasion, furniture will fall out. Inevitably this will be something unfortunately named the 'man's toilet' or something similar, and the player will feel obliged to take a screenshot and post it on their personal Creature Intersection Tumblr diary, so that the three spambots who follow them will be delighted by such wit.

Reception
The game was very positively received by critics, who all described the game as a drain on one's social life, and has been the subject of many YouTube videos and fan websites. It was very negatively received by the socially conservative demographic though, who felt that the ability for male characters to wear dresses was 'five steps in the wrong direction'.