@OmnitronVariant that’s understandable but considering how laggy my switch 1 island was with all my items, I’ll definitely be sticking with the switch 2 (also I never owned an oled lol)
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This update further cements that this series is no longer for the older fans I guess. It's pretty much just tripling down on the customization aspect that this game offers- without offering any meaningful content outside of that. It feels disappointing to see what's effectively just a downscaled version of the DLC being added to the game, and to see an island that gives you full god-like powers to do whatever you want with. I just want more features that actually offers things to do for people who dislike decorating- just like how past games used to do.
I'm also miffed that they locked the Zelda items behind Amiibo. Now you have to buy the Tears of the Kingdom Amiibo if you want the furniture- and the Amiibo in said set are around 25-30 USD each. I get the villagers being locked behind it, but the furniture really shouldn't be amiibo only. They didn't do that with New Leaf's Nintendo items, so it feels like a disgrace that they're doing it here.
The 12 player multiplayer is also extremely pointless. There's nothing to do in this game with eight people, let alone 12.
@VoidofLight I agree with this a lot. While I do enjoy the game, I really feel like New Horizons went all-out on "gamifying" Animal Crossing, which was a series most fans loved precisely because it wasn't gamified.
If they're working on a next entry, I hope they do a 180.
@OmnitronVariant I unfortunately have no hopes that the next game is going to walk back what they're doing here. I think this update is probably confirmation that the games in this series are going to keep being dollhouse sims instead of life sims. They'll continue to file back any points of friction and sand down all the rough edges that gave the games charm. I'm just going to probably have to realize that this series is unfortunately not for people like me anymore.
"It is fate. Many have tried, yet none have ever managed to escape it's flow."
@VoidofLight Looking at Nintendo's other series, I'm afraid you're probably right. While I did enjoy the game, TotK does something similar to BotW's design, filing back any friction and sanding it all down. Odyssey did it to 3D Mario to a degree, Bananza goes a major step further. And New Horizons made Animal Crossing into a dollhouse sim, as you perfectly put it.
@OmnitronVariant Tears of the Kingdom is one of the main reasons why I'm on a "wait and see" basis for Zelda. Used to be a huge fan who kept up with the lore books and loved the universe that Nintendo crafted- but after what Tears of the Kingdom did to the lore and to the gameplay for the series, I sort of lost interest in Zelda. Echoes of Wisdom didn't really do anything to calm my fears, and made 2D Zelda more like the newer 3D Zelda formula. It just doesn't sit right with me at all, and so I don't know if I'm interested in getting a new Zelda game. Especially if it's going to be 80 USD.
"It is fate. Many have tried, yet none have ever managed to escape it's flow."
I will say I watched this update thinking "oh that's cute but if I didn't get back into it for Happy Home Designer, its likely not happening" and then they confirmed the return of playing retro games in-game and my I am now IMMEDIATELY excited.
Not the biggest problem, but close to it for why the original stood out and the sequels never grabbed me in quite the same way is that it needed something more game-y in the game to keep my interest. Something else beyond the chill vibes of it all, at least for my tastes. Massive improvement for me. Also quite frankly, this is maybe the only way I'd play the majority of NES first party games on Switch.
It’s one game per console and it just runs them off NSO. Why is this even interesting in the year 2025..?
I think I pretty clearly explained it. It is a vital part of what made the original Animal Crossing work so well as a bit of more traditional gaming in the middle of the mostly chill vibes game. Without them (among the other big issue the sequels had), Animal Crossing often loses my interest sooner than I would like (with New Horizons having kept it longer than the previous three games primarily out of a mix of being the right game at the right time and feeling like I could take a week off and not be punished for it). And similarly, on their own, most NES games in particular rarely interest me anymore either. It's a perfect combination.
And I don't want to hear "well just open NSO instead" because the time between closing and opening New Horizons would be several minutes wasted.
I have a question, I couldn't find the answer for it online. Does anyone remember those New Year balloon arches for 2021 and 2022 that haven't appeared in the game since? I didn't start playing the game until September 2023 so I missed out on both of those. Can I get both of them if I time travel to the dates that they were available? And I've time traveled forward a few times without it affecting my island newspaper on Nooklink, but would time traveling backwards affect it at all?
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3: Animal Crossing New Horizons
4: Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
5: The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom
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