Topic: Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer

a new Animal Crossing spinoff titled "Happy Home Designer" is coming to Nintendo 3DS
Launching:
July 30, 2015 (JAP)
September 25, 2015 (NA)
October 2, 2015 (EU)

My least favorite aspect of Animal Crossing was doing requests for villagers (get your own darn apple!), and I was always so nit-picky when it came to decorating, that I'm really not interested. I would have preferred a new main game for 3DS.

I'm still playing and loving New Leaf, but for me what I loved about Animal Crossing was the whole package: designing a town, your house, customizing your character, collecting items, befriending villagers and interacting with others.

This just seems to be decorating houses... which is fine, but, I can do that in my current game. I'm hoping there's more to this game, and that it features some sort of connectivity with New Leaf. Maybe you could unlock items and transfer them to your save file in ACNL.

Despite loving every version of Animal Crossing since the Japanese N64 original and being addicted to each until I'd collected every single bug, fish and fossil (without cheating) this does not appeal to me at all.

I do expect aspects of this will be included in the next proper Animal Crossing game though. Sigh.

@Miss_Dark Yeah, I suspect the same. Though with the N3DS out there, I kinda get the faint suspicion that they're working on a N3DS-to-WiiU cross-play Animal Crossing, with Happy Home Designer functioning as both a gap-coverage game as well as an exposure tool for the cards (they're most likely going to work with the next Animal Crossing main entry).

Proper Animal Crossing games take years to make because of all the text and then the localization of said text. New Leaf came out in Europe and America in 2013. I don't expect another main Animal Crossing game to come out until the next generation of systems in 2017. If one does happen to come out for the Wii U, it will likely just be an expanded HD port of New Leaf.

If this is a cheap app, I will probably gobble it up. The cards seem reminiscent to the eReader cards implemented in Animal Crossing for the GameCube.

Seems to me like it will be a free game with cards being required. From the direct it looked like you couldn't do anything without having a card scanned first. I could be wrong though. It's possible the assets and a small number of characters could be included in a discounted title to get people interested. Honestly, this is the type of thing I hope amiibo cards are used for (important for actual gameplay rather than glorified, overpriced DLC).

I actually like the idea. To design houses is something cool I love to do, mostly in Sims. But it depends if this is going to be another Nintendo game for 40 euro. As every game for Nintendo 3DS comes with such a ridiculous price here in Austria. If it is only up to redecorating, then no. But if there is more into this game, yeah
I do not understand why it should be that hard for Nintendo that we need this additional device to scan amiibo and those new Animal Crossing cards. :/

I know my daughter will love this game. if it's free I will get it myself. I love Animal Crossing

As someone who has played the games religiously since the first release, I am not looking forward to this at all. It seems great for ultra-casual players (ie. young children) but why would any actual Animal Crossing fan bother with this when they can do infinitely more decorating (and other activities) in any one of the previous games. This would work much better as one of their upcoming mobile apps, as it would pander to a much more casual audience and it could be used to promote New Leaf and (hopefully) an upcoming Wii U installment to an untapped potential fan-base.

Oh well, I'll just ignore it and keep hoping for a Wii U version as I've always enjoyed the console versions the most for some reason.

Maybe if you buy Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, you will get a discount on a new Animal Crossing game releasing soon?

It's a paid game: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/05/animal_crossing_happ...

I am still going to get it. I hope they bring that New Nintendo 3DS XL to the West. I really like the design on it.

With the amiibo cards, I hope they release a cute card book to store them all in.

Designing my house in AC was the least exciting aspect of that game...always has been.

Sad to say but I think I'll have to pass on this cheap cash-in on the AC franchise and I'll be waiting for the next FULL-fledged AC experience.

According to Media Create, it ranked first in the sales chart:

[3DS] Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer (Nintendo, 07/30/15) – 522,556 (New)

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wallpaper/summer_3ds/index.html

Nintendo of Japan has put up some Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer wallpapers you can download for your smartphone/desktop background.

@Octane: I think Nintendo has a cash cow in this spinoff. Those are actually pretty bonkers numbers for a Japanese release period, let alone a spin off game. Imagine all the amiibo card sales (if they can keep them in stock)...

It's one spin off my younger brother & myself are really looking forward to so definitely picking this up come October.

Was gonna mention that those interested in the amiibo cards for the game (UK at least) the packs of three are now available to pre-order. A tad pricey at £6 on Amazon per pack so hopefully they'll come down in price before then. GAME.co.UK are doing three packs for £12 though.

Hope that helps. Happy gaming.