10 GENIUS Ways Video Games Fought Cheaters
7. Sending Mr. Resetti To Hassle Save Scummers - Animal Crossing
The Animal Crossing series allows players to cheat by quitting out of the game without saving, moving the system clock forward to the next day and returning, letting them access replenished store stocks among other things.
However, players who quit the game without saving their progress will, upon reloading, be met by the supremely angry mole-man Mr. Resetti, whose central preoccupation is to pester players who attempt to exploit their way to riches and success.
At first Resetti will be polite-but-firm, but the more that you abuse the reset exploit, the more insistent and annoyed he'll get.
His actions vary in severity and weirdness across games in the series - he might simply talk you to death for a few minutes, or force you to type responses back to him such as "Forgive me" and "Resetti rules."
The pièce de résistance, though? Threatening to delete your entire save game as punishment for your abuses, yet after apparently doing so, it thankfully ends up being a fake-out intended to scare the player straight.