Alright, we're FINALLY getting Brewster and The Roost in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, after what feels like years of people asking. So, we're all totally satisfied and content now, right?
Of course not. Brewster was just the beginning. There are still plenty more features that people would love to see in New Horizons, and many of them come from New Leaf, the previous game. We've covered the missing/requested features before — in celebration of the game's first birthday, and even as far back as April 2020, less than a month after launch — and, annoyingly, a lot of the things we wanted to see back then are still not in the game.
So... what else would we like to see in New Horizons? What would make us come back to our neglected islands? And what are we still harping on about, almost two years from the release? Let's get into it...
Brewster's Roost Upgrades
We know we're getting The Roost, but we don't know what that means yet. The bird-run café will be inside the Museum, next to the art gallery, but will it be the same as New Leaf? In the 3DS Animal Crossing, you could work at the café after ordering coffee a few times, and then you'd take part in a little minigame, where you would serve coffee to the island residents. It was a bit of a tricky game, that required use of a guide if you wanted to get it right — but players would no doubt love to have it in the game.
There was also the option to watch concerts with KK Slider in Wild World and City Folk, although New Horizons has instead put KK Slider in the plaza. What if it rains, though? Poor, soggy KK.
But what if we dreamed a little bigger? How about something new in the café? Maybe Brewster could hold seminars, or TED Talks, or... poetry nights. Maybe the café could turn into a bar at night (highly unlikely, given Nintendo's family-friendly vibes). Perhaps, given The Roost's new location, there could be some kind of tie-in with the Museum itself!
Or, how about...
Gyroids
GYROIDS. The Roost used to be closely tied to Gyroids, with Brewster offering storage, displaying them in the café, and even having his own Gyroid. Could the addition of The Roost mean the return of everyone's favourite wiggly bois? We sure hope so.
Gyroids, back in the day, were haunting little statues that you could dig up, and each one made a different noise when you "activated" them. In older games, they would sort of... sing along, kinda, to whatever music you had playing. Imagine setting them up around KK Slider in the plaza on Saturdays!
Resetti, Gracie, Dr. Shrunk, Wendell and Other Special Characters
Past games have included a slew of characters, but most of them were rolled into Isabelle or Tom Nook in New Horizons. We know Mr Resetti is lurking, of course, since he runs the rescue service and he's got a little statue in the game, but... it's not the same.
New Horizons just doesn't have quite as many visitors as before. How about fashion-focused giraffe Gracie, or the horrifying blank-faced cat, Blanca? Perhaps we could meet the Happy Home Academy employees, like Digby, Lyle, and Lottie, to bribe them for more HHA points? Or Katrina, the Fortune Teller, Dr Shrunk, the weird psychiatrist, Wendell the pattern-selling walrus, Pete, Phyllis, and Pelly the post office workers, Booker and Copper the cops, Harriet the hairstylist, or even... Joan, the turnip-selling boar who has been replaced by Daisy Mae? WHAT HAPPENED TO JOAN, NINTENDO?!
Most of all, though — we'd love to see Kapp'n. Not just because we love the old chap, but because his appearance at the pier would mean the potential to get whisked away on a new adventure.
We'd swap a hundred Zipper T. Bunnies for one glimpse of our old pals.
More Multiplayer Activities & Minigames
It's lovely to be able to visit the islands of our far-off pals during this pandemic, but LORDY does it feel like pulling teeth to get through the myriad loading screens. Nintendo's online multiplayer has never really been its strength, and the company seems to prioritise its cutesy in-universe loading animations and long-winded conversations with Orville more than it does speed, which we can understand.
But at the end of the day, it would be nice to have more things to do with said pals. Currently, we're pretty limited to visiting each other's islands in online play, and that's only fun for a while. We'd love to have some experiences, adventures, and games to do as a pair, or a group.
Tortimer Island, from Animal Crossing: New Leaf, was pretty fun, albeit limited to that one tiny island — but you could easily rope in a few buddies to help you catch all those lucrative fish and bugs, which made money-making a much more pleasant experience.
The May Day maze event featuring the return of Rover was one of our favourite events so far (although you lot preferred Halloween and Toy Day), so any expansion on that theme would be very welcome.
Batch Crafting
Please. Please. We've said our piece on this enough times already.
This also goes for buying things — let us buy all the accessories without having to buy them one-by-one in the dressing room!
Reduced Repetition
"You caught a sea bass! No, wait — it's at least a C+!"
"You caught a sea bass! No, wait — it's at least a C+!"
"You caught a sea bass! No, wait — it's at least a C+!"
Just throw us in the sea to drown already, Nintendo. It wouldn't be too tricky to just add in a few more options for the dialogue we're going to be seeing A LOT, and the same goes for the mystery islands — a few more island types wouldn't go amiss, especially when the tickets are expensive to buy and so time-consuming to use.
Also, let's pep up the villagers a little, eh? We're a bit tired of hearing that one story about the Maglevs in Love soap opera.
More Critters to Catch
Having spent almost two years catching fish bugs and, eventually, deep-sea creatures, many players will now have completed their Critterpedia and caught absolutely every critter in the game. There's not much challenge any more, once you've completed the Museum, and when Diving was added, it gave us something new to do for a while — could it be possible to add another new way of catching creatures to the game?
As we've described before, you could have a new, special NPC come to town once you've filled in the Critterpedia, much like Professor Oak in the Pokémon games, and tell you all about the rare, legendary, or even mythical creatures that need catching. Or, perhaps, a new type of foliage or flower that attracts new insects, or a new item that lets you discover things you couldn't see before.
And if we're getting really pie-in-the-sky about it... how about a new place to go, filled with rare and exotic bugs and fish?? Give us a good reason to own the bug net and fishing rod again!
The Ability to Change the Resident Representative
It might have taken a while, but Nintendo did eventually update the game to make it possible to transfer your island to a new Switch using the special Island Transfer Tool. You can also move individual players to other islands if they're not the island representative, but at present it's still not possible to switch an island's Resident Rep.
The Resident Rep has the ability to build new structures, move existing ones, pay off the mortgage, and generally make decisions for the town. Anyone you share the island with will be unable to do those things without the help of the Rep.
If you have kids, partners who don't play the game any more, or roommates you don't live with any more, this gets to be an issue after a while. Why not give us a bit more freedom?
A More Useful Isabelle
Listen, Iz, we love you, but... if you're going to make us listen to your morning bulletins every day, please at least give us useful information. Is Redd in town? Does Gulliver need our help? Just tell us what we actually want to know!
More Furniture
We've got pretty much everything we ever wanted. But collecting furniture is part of the reason we play Animal Crossing... so would it be okay to ask for just a little bit more? Some of us dream of the return of the Rococo series, the Alpine Series, the Minimalist Series... and most of us look at Pocket Camp's WEALTH of furniture (that you can interact with!) with envy.
The seasonal crafting recipes, Nook Shopping options, and the occasional brand partnership (like the Sanrio collection) are welcome additions, but the slow trickle of non-themed furniture is just too much to bear.
Unbreakable Tools
What more can we say? It's extremely frustrating to have to craft multiple tools every day. Even Minecraft has a repair feature. Shouldn't Golden Tools be unbreakable, anyway?
Shop Upgrades & New Shops
We'd love to revitalise our little island a bit more, and since Kicks was rolled into the Able Sisters, and Leif's shop has been reduced to naught but a cart, we're wondering what else we could get. Remember the hairdresser/stylist in New Leaf? Sure, we can do that ourselves now, but it's not quite the same. Or how about Dr Shrunk's weird nightclub?
We'd have to rejig our perfectly laid-out town, but it would be worth it for more things to spend our money on, after paying off the mortgage.
Cooking?
We already have crafting... how about a little cooking minigame? Give us something to do with all the fruits, fish, and nuts we have, other than selling them, crafting with them, and accidentally eating them and needing to use the toilet, just like real life.
More Life
This one is a general one, and touches on a lot of things we've already said, but... the thing we love about Animal Crossing is that it felt like a little life. New Horizons is very focused on the decoration aspect, which is a good thing, but that means its life is a little lacking.
Villagers seem a little more uninteresting, and there just aren't as many things to do, or interact with. No one visits your house any more uninvited (although maybe that's a good thing). Because the crafting, hairstyles, and customisation is all done by you now, there are fewer reasons to hang out around town, or with other characters. Even though you're no longer the mayor of the whole town, you actually talk to people less. It's a very solitary life.
Maybe The Roost will change that... or maybe it won't.
A Reason To Come Back
A lot of us don't really know what we want, specifically — we're just hoping for a reason to come back to the game, after abandoning it months ago for one reason or another.
Whether that's a massive upgrade, a game-changing addition, or just the "more life" that we talked about above, what we would love to see is something that pulls us back in. Brewster alone sadly won't cut it for many.
We can only hope.
Are you still playing Animal Crossing on Switch? Would any of the above bring you back to the game? Let us know in the comments below!
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The return of Mr Resetti!!!
Honestly, for me, I have no real expectations. My only hope is that they add more things to work towards. Things that'll keep me playing, and stuff to actually unlock.
I can't tell you how frustrating it was when the game updated in the past, but allowed you to just.. get all the content after it updated. Like the Wet Suits, which you don't have to really unlock at all, and can just buy the moment you start the game, boundary breaking the tutorial.
Then you have Redd's art, which you didn't have to unlock and just had to wait until he came to you with a new painting.
Leif, who you also got without having to really unlock as well.
I just wish we had more stuff to spend bells on, or stuff to do that isn't just decorating an island. Places to go, like a rescue center island or something.
Just anything to make the game worth playing for years to come, without me having to drop it after a month or so due to the lack of content or anything to actually do.
Let me give pretty houses to the villagers who were on the island from the start!! I'm tired of the wood stuff! (says person who hasn't played since summer 2020)
And why don't the animals ask you to do menial tasks any more?
I almost voted for more gyroids, but the only correct answer is more life. The only way to want to come back and play more would be to give it more life, new varied dialogues.
This game focused too much on crafting and terraforming. I know it is new, but everything is so lifeless compared to the previous games. I just isn't the same.
I also miss my modern furniture.
All of the above and better village conversations. They've become so incredibly dull.
@Petew you're gonna be disappointed.
I just want some Quality of life improvements, but I'm not holding my breath. Just the Roost is good to.
This might sound dumb but I want to see more playable games maybe some gba games would be awesome.
But this is nintendo soooooooo furniture
I want to see more actual things to do in this $60 video game.
AC: New Leaf had island tours, decorative Nintendo systems with fun mini-games, multiple games to play with your villagers, meaningful day/night changes, and more.
If New Horizons added ANY of that, I would be satisfied, and probably be willing to pay for it!
But if the update is just more decorations and new holiday celebrations... I'll just give up entirely and trade in my copy of the game.
Collab villagers. I want Zelda, Splatoon, Monster Hunter, and other villagers based on other games back.
Kind of a long shot:
A mini game that is basically "Amiibo Festival". You play the Amiibo Festival but you can play it with any villager with boards based on all AC games.
I've been tossing around the idea of starting my file over from scratch, just for the busy work of organizing everything differently. Most of my AC friends have since stopped playing or sold their copies...I just want to have fun with it again 😞
@rdg that sounds cool but I feel nintendo would rather just re-release amino festival for 60 dollars that dare give it for free
@VoidofLight Do you mean Redd’s art?
@BabyYoda71 Yeah, I had a brain fart when writing this, sorry.
i want new animal friends
mostly those amiibo friends
Able change you name! I had changed my name in real life and want to not use my dead name anymore.
I really just want NES and SNES games. The NES games were an absolutely incredible feature of the Gamecube game and I want it back! I don't know why I want to play Parodius, Super Bomberman, Earthbound, Super Famicom Wars, and Tetris Attack in the basement of my Animal Crossing house, but I do!
@Thelastjedi2007 yep. A 60 re-release sounds definitely more likely.
theres a handful of stuff. QOL improvements, island minigames, streamlined menus, bringing back NPCs with new roles, upgraded shops (just let lief, label, and kicks be part of nooks and able sisters. theyre not interesting to get as weekly visitors)
i will be shocked if they still attempt to drip feed these big updates in another year or so. whatever gets announced in tomorrows direct i expect to be last major update. we're almost at the 2 year mark for this game and this game still feels incomplete, the rip the bandaid off and finish the game already
It's sad the only thing on this list that's guaranteed to come up back is the Brewster and the Roost but I feel like even that's going to be horribly neutered at launch, sort of how bare-bones the Dream Suite was when it was first added and got more features in future updates (seriously, why the f*ck did they apply the slow-feed release model to in-game features!).
To be honest though, Nintendo has given me very little reason or hope that this update will be anything substantial considering how crappy almost of the updates have been on top of the fact that Nintendo have made it perfectly clear they've moved away from the slice-of-life aspect of the game in favour of the very flawed decorating/customisation aspect.
This update is going to be this games' last chance to win me over. If it fails to stick the landing (which it most likely will), I'll most likely just end up selling it.
First and foremost, i would like some kind of streamlining to make it easier for me to jump back in. I haven't touched it since feb, and the thought of just getting back to my island is kinda stressful. batch crafting would be amazing. add stuff like gyroids and some brand new npc's, but make some tasks a little faster to accommodate some fresh activities.
MORE BUILDINGS! As pleased as I am about Brewsters returning I was disappointed it's just based in the museum. New Leaf had so many shops and it made the game feel much more like a living, breathing community than New Horizons. The little stalls that appear in the plaza just aren't the same. At least Redd has his own place, his boat...
Would be great to see Kapp'n back as well to take us to another island (with sea shanties) to play minigames. Seems a no brainer when it's literally an island themed game.
Would be nice with a multiple choice option since there are a lot of things I want to see. But minigames is on the top of my list.
I'm a dreamer :')
@Ulysses The camera options aren't possible, given how the games work. To save on rendering, most of the outside objects are only modeled on the front, there are no backs. It would require them to fully redo every model in the game just to allow this. The furniture models are probably the only ones that are actually akin to this.
Also, Animal Crossing never had cutscenes in the first place, and this is the only one with a "Main story", which makes it feel more jarring, given how the story was never intended to be that way in the first place.
60 FPS will make it better.
@VoidofLight Hm, but now I want Resetti to be in the game, and sell artwork of players saving their game. 😉
The biggest crime in the poll is that we're forced to pick ONE option.
@VoidofLight I guess by story I mean to say that I'm just hoping for more interactions between characters, like Isabelle X Mable, Timmy/Tommy X Blathers, etc. I loved seeing those few interactions as you upgraded each building.
@Crockin ooooh, I feel you there. I'm still not sure if I transferred my island properly when I upgraded my Switch, and the thought of checking makes me nauseous 😅
@AmethystLeslie I can change that!
Now you can pick up to three!!
Placing rugs OUTDOOR!
I really want Mii Mask to come back, I love using my Mii in Animal Crossing!
LIFEEEEEEEEE
I'd love most of this. It just needs to at least equal the content of New Leaf
More types of interaction. Just touching something and watch it animate is not enough for me.
Let me ride the Carnival toys
Gyroids and unbreakable tools.
Tools breaking is the worst addition to Animal Crossing, it does nothing but make you stop what you were doing to get another tool.
The Mario items and swimming have been my favorite updates so far. More like that, please.
Changing the island rep is pretty basic. Needs to get done. Same for batch crafting.
@KateGray it gives me real anxiety lol. when i think of just how many things would need to happen...pull weeds, dig spots, roaches, catching up with everyone..having to see unfinished projects. Aye yai yai! Not to mention I've time traveled accidentally from messing with the clock for a different game.
As much as I like New Horizon, New Leaf is still the better game. I want residents to visit my house, store upgrades, more mini games, Dj night club, more chores to do for villagers, Brewster, tools that don’t break, and sooo much more.
COOKING and FARMING - both I think have been found when datamined and both would open up so much more to do. Work to get the bells to buy seeds, grow or catch the ingredients, cook said ingredients to make the achievement. It would open up so much!
MORE VILLAGER INTERACTION AND LESS REPETITION - For a Nintendo AAA game the repetition of the villagers gets really disappointing, there should be more factors to what they say, not just the type of personality. It gets tedious and a waste of time interacting with them after a while.
Also the villagers interact more with the items you place down in Pocketcamp than they do in ACNH! Again this is a higher priced AAA Nintendo game, they may sit on the bench you put down, or if your lucky a chair... but what about the instruments, the gym, the countless other things we work so hard for to decorate our islands... to what end... Pocketcamp is a mobile game and I never got bored of seeing Filbert bounce up and down on the trampoline!
These things alone would add another 100+ hours for me.
New flowers!! New villagers, including animal types like bats or possums. Several new shops, not JUST a coffee shop. More bridges and stairs. New KK music, as this game came with only ONE new song. Minigames to play with friends. New cute furniture sets, not just themed after a holiday. A hot air balloon to float around my island. Let me hang wall art on cliffs and trees. Honestly I could go on and on, I'll spare you.
@SpaceboyScreams It actually came with around 5 new ones I think. Although, I can only remember 2.
@VoidofLight Ah yeah you're right, I forgot of the 4 (I believe) I only kept Drivin' because it's the only one I care for. A couple are hard to consider songs since one's just the theme and one is very short and not exactly pretty. Regardless, I think it needs a lot more.
You offered a few really good suggestions and some really hit a nerve with me: unbreakable tools would be so welcome. Even if you could only choose one tool and have to swap it out for another. I’m not against the whole tool crafting thing outright but being able to cut down on that feeling of dread that my tool might break would go such a long way. I’ve literally stopped collecting bugs and stuff out of fear that my tool will just break and then having to spend time repairing it 😩
Allow me access to some unique kind of crafting material that I can melt into a single tool that renders it unbreakable. You have an unbreakable fishing rod but now you want an unbreakable axe? Melt down the rod and make the axe. I think that’s pretty cool. Might encourage people to work together: someone has the axe, someone has the fishing rod, etc… you can all go out with a “specialty” and go to town collecting without fear of breaking tools.
Anyway that’s my two cents… give me a reason to go back into the game! My play sessions have dropped to like… 3 minute windows… I realize there’s literally nothing for me to do and I just shut it off.
@SpaceboyScreams Drivin’ is my favorite of the bunch as well, with the rest being a bit forgettable except for the city folk city theme.
Also..
An online market, like Pocketcamp where we can sell to other players. That way it would be so much easier to complete a themed area with furniture, or get all fruits, share recipes, etc... All without having someone come to your island and trash your stuff or charge a crazy amount of bells!
More personality types like Pocketcamp would lead to less repetition in conversations.
I mean all the good stuff from Pocketcamp should already be in this game right?
★ Ability to change the music to play older AC game music.
★ Ability to make the grass deteriorate when walking on it.
★ Ability to choose when the shop is open.
★ Ability to make another island, and for family members to have individual islands.
★ More stuff (inspiration: Pocket Camp)
★ Interactive stuff (inspiration: Pocket Camp)
★ Ability to skip Isabelles monologue at startup.
★ Gyroids, Kapp'n, Resetti, Tortimer...
★ A lot more and different fruits and vegetables and mushrooms and nuts...
★ Ability to invite animals to activities.
Multiplayer activities, and minigames solo or multiplayer.
@Ulysses it sounds like New Horizons is your first AC game. Almost none of your suggestions are things that would help to salvage New Horizons... Instead they would make it feel even less like an Animal Crossing game than it already does for those players that have a history with the previous entries (besides the phone game.)
Nintendo, give AC its soul back, pleeeeze!
I’d like to see them announce a discount, then perhaps I’ll bite
I am very open. I just want enough new content to warrant returning to the game.
And I am saying it now, I will HAPPILY buy a big meaty DLC paid expansion if it's a thing.
I think ACNH is a fantastic game that I put hundreds, literally hundreds of hours into. I would absolutely want more and I think a big major DLC expansion would be justified.
@NImH They believe that New Horizons isn’t incomplete, so that’s why they didn’t include anything that would actually improve the game.
better Villager dialogue/interaction
more crops(tomato, Carot)
minigames like in New Leaf
a Cooking mechanic with a depth of the Crafting mechanic
a Nook Cranny expansion
QOL improvements such as Bulk Crafting or a shopping cart option to Able Sisters/Nook Cranny
Gyriods
more house customization
My wishes:
1. Police Station with Copper and Booker
2. DDR mini game 😁
3. Shop upgrade
4. Part time job
5. Interactable objects
6. More Crops to plant
7. Cooking and selling the food / drinks
8. Multiple Save slot
9. Villagers up to 20
10. Ability to keep the Resetti mute if he returned (Do shut up, old man!)
I love this game. So many great memories. The main thing I would like is to buy all the clothes items I want at one time without having to go back in to the change room. Also, more fish and bugs. Also, not having to stop the game completely while someone enters/exits my island.
Land bridges! And more staircases! And some easier way of getting recipes/items you don’t already have!
Not expecting anything. Would very much like to see more unique villager dialogue though. New Horizons villagers have very boring things to say compared to Wild World villagers, for example.
The thing is, I have a Blanca amiibo card, and when I try scanning her, it just says she can’t come. Soooo maybe that makes it more likely?
Aside from content I would love for them to fix the loading times. Especially when loading up the game and getting to Isabelle. Those times are horrendous! Though of course they wouldn't flat out say it in the direct, but if they were to come with this content update.
Maybe stuff to do other than catch fish and shake trees and catch bugs? I mean it’s fun for a day or two then it’s like okay what else can I do? Just felt empty and repetitive. Maybe it’s just me.
@NRLPLSTCTY Have you seen what people have done with their islands? It takes a lot more than shaking trees to squeeze all the juice out of this game. It's a creative sandbox.
Kate once again gets me to laugh out loud - TED talks, indeed 😁
And I don’t think I’ve seen anyone ever use CAPITAL LETTERS as humorously!
Flattery aside, you make many excellent suggestions and I really hope Nintendo announces some of them tomorrow. It was hard to just pick 3 from your poll, but I went with:
1) Special characters
2) Multiplayer activities
3) A reason to come back
My elementary school aged daughters and I played a lot of the game together in 2020, but quit pretty much cold turkey early this year once Festivale ended and holidays/seasons started to repeat.
I guess mainly I’m hoping for something enticing to lure us back - more interactivity with our islands, or some fun mini games or activities we can do together.
ACNH was our first Animal Crossing game, and we shared a lot of fun with it overall so I really am grateful, but I guess I didn’t expect it to get so stale for us this soon. Hopefully Tom Nook presents a great new revitalization plan tomorrow!
@SpaceboyScreams I mean, to be fair, not everyone plays this game for the decoration aspect. I personally don't like decorating that much, since I'm extremely bad at it, and it's a hassle to do. I'd much rather just work towards the other goals.. which this game seems to be lacking in. Other than upgrading your home, and completing the museum, there's nothing to do outside of decorating your town. Sure, there's the occasional holiday, but they're not as fun as they used to be in past games.
The house upgrades took me like a couple of months to finish, and that's just me playing every once in a while on and off. I just didn't have anything else to sink my money into, so I sunk it into the house itself, and finished it off. First game where I actually did that... and it felt underwhelming afterwards.
All I want is to be able to build more than 8 ramps.
I mainly just want more life. New Horizons is probably the biggest Nintendo disappointment I've ever experienced personally, I dropped out before even getting KK Slider to show up because the whole game felt like a tedious slog. I loved City Folk and New Leaf and wanted a bigger life sim to enjoy at my own pace, but now all of those cozy life sim elements have been replaced with a grindy town builder. It's cool for people who enjoy town builders, but that's not what Animal Crossing has been about, at least not to the degree in NH. I'm fine with having it there as long as there's more to do outside of that, but it just feels barren otherwise. I really want a reason to return to the game, and ultimately, breathing life into it is the main thing it needs.
That being said, more multiplayer options and shops would be my next two requests. The lack of anything really fun to do in multiplayer doesn't help with NH feeling empty outside of crafting and designing your island, especially after how much New Leaf offered. I miss having a bunch of shops with special NPCs to visit as well.
@VIIIAxel Honestly, after you roll the credits, the game doesn't even feel like a town builder. It just feels like a sandbox decorating game, with nothing to offer to the fans of the life-sim elements.
I just want to know what time the Direct is, I couldn't find it in the article? 🤷♂️ I'm pretty sure it's 9 or 10 tomorrow morning, I think. I have to have my car at the garage at 8:30 so I'll check then.
@VoidofLight Sandbox decorating game is probably more like the term I was looking for, town builder's just what came to mind. I see the appeal in making a town that looks really nice, but New Horizons just felt lacking in every other way to me, and I'm not as into the decorating aspects. I just wanted more variety in what I could do, and unfortunately, NH felt like a big step back from the previous games in that regard.
I find it very strange that Gracie, a notable queer character that's been around since the very beginning of Animal Crossing, is notably absent in this game. What's up with that, Nintendo?
We bought my mother in law a Switch and Animal Crossing when the pandemic first started to keep her busy and keep her mind off things. She still plays it every day, her mission for the last few months has been to collect every single villagers portraits. She was running out of room in her basement for them, so I told her to make a new character, dress him up like a serial killer and have all the portraits in that characters house like trophies of his victims.
Removed - inappropriate
@SpaceboyScreams I only said the character is queer, so why bring up genitals?
@Yosher,
I will never understand this comment, my villagers say new stuff all the time, you just have to get beyond the initial repeat, one of the most impressive thing about New Horizons, and by far the best in the series.
The return of GracieGrace's high-end furniture line would be great and is sorely missed, though I doubt that Nintendo are going to be adding much in the way of buildings in the impending update.
And for those mentioning him, Resetti seems more like a relic of the franchise that Nintendo and/or the producers have no intention of bringing back, at least not in a prominent fashion (I suppose Resetti can be compared to Jynx in the Pokémon series, who continues to appear in current games, but was deprived of an evolution in Gen IV alongside its bipedal/humanoid counterparts Electabuzz and Magmar, and has been cast out as something of an elephant in the room possibly due to a single indignant woman who went on a misdirected tirade about the character 20+ years ago).
Back on topic, Resetti was dubbed as "too mean" a few years ago and his role in the series was drastically reduced (nowadays, one might say that he was "cancelled"). Similarly, "mean" dialogue has been virtually nonexistent in more recent Animal Crossing games (just compare the dialogue of the GameCube release to New Horizons) because mild disparagement from a video game character is now off-limits due to the irreparable harm that they may cause to collective human decency. I thought it was hilarious and the dialogue was one of the best things about the game (and Nintendo of Japan even reverse-localised the international release of the GameCube instalment as they too loved the dialogue).
I continue to be disappointed by how increasingly bland the dialogue has become in Animal Crossing games, which had become particularly noticeable from New Leaf on. I fear that there may soon come a time when AC will become so bowdlerised that I may forgo the franchise entirely (and I suspect that certain other major franchises may follow).
@Miraj2081 : Why bring up the topic of sexuality regarding a stereotypically flamboyant anthropomorphic giraffe in a video game?
@Silly_G Because LGBT representation is a good thing? I am honestly surprised at the reactions bringing that up is getting. This is an inclusive community, is it not?
@johnvboy They repeat dialogue for me all the time. When there's no events going on or coming up, they'll repeat the same dialogue a lot when I speak to them or they come to speak to me. When an event is upcoming or going on, they'll constantly go on about that event in particular.
It got grating real fast. Plus they're all a bunch of yes men who just agree with everything you say 90% of the time, they don't feel like actual villagers, they feel like bots made to entertain you but didn't get enough time to have a wide variety of things to say. I didn't even bother speaking to them anymore shortly before I put the game away out of boredom.
Glad you're not experiencing it like that though. It's possible I just went through it all too quickly and that's why I saw the same dialogue pop up too much.
Just more to do in general, it still feels pretty bare bones to me. Furniture in general needs more interactivity and little things like why can't I kick a ball outside?
I'm looking forward to the direct, but at the same time I feel like the magic has passed. How ironic that this game came to us at the perfect time when we needed escapism the most so now that for most of us things are slowly turning to normal, we no longer truly need our precious island...
@Miraj2081 I think LGBT representation is a good thing, I genuinely do, but not in kiddies games about fluffy animals.
@Miraj2081 this is a response feed to an article on a videogame. It isn't a "community". I hope you are well. Perhaps go for a walk, get some fresh air, speak to a real friend or family member? You don't need acceptance from strangers on the internet for any kind of validation.
@Yosher,
The initial greeting is a repeat, but after that there is a lot of new stuff. and I have played over 1400 hours, very impressed to be honest.
@johnvboy Even when talking to them again they often repeated the same dialogue for me. I've played the game a few hundred hours myself, not as much as you, but at least 400 hours I'm sure (can't check right now). I've seen a lot of the same stuff over and over again ad nauseam. But even if not, them agreeing to everything makes them incredibly boring if only for that.
Still, glad you're not experiencing it like that! I hope I'll be able to enjoy the game again too after this coming update and put in many more hours. I just need a really solid update for that to happen.
If only I could tell you October 14 people what was coming from the future
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