Animal Crossing: New Leaf had rather decent online features for sharing and visiting towns, which certainly added to its allure. Having been on the Japanese market for a short while, it seems that Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer will be following suit and improving its online features.
There'll be a free update on 16th September in Japan, and we'd expect there'll be a day one update for the Western release which is coming on 25th September (North America) and 2nd October (Europe). The key features will be the option to share designs with others and enter monthly contests.
In addition to uploading your designs for others to view, you'll be able to browse others online using search parameters "Cool," "Cute," "Unique," and "I'd live there", though there may be tweaks to wording for the West. Designs are scored in these categories, and after viewing a house you can naturally share a score; as for the monthly contests, these will be themed and winners will apparently be able to pick up unique items as prizes.
These sound like neat additions, which will hopefully be implemented with the game when it lands in the West soon.
[source siliconera.com]
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Almost on topic - what's the latest on AC:aF? Last I heard somebody said there was more to the game than they showed at E3, but that was at E3, which was now months ago.
Though I guess the same could be said about Star fox Zero, but at least that's dated, as is Yoshi and XCX. I think we've seen the most of XCX.
@rjejr That's the last that I heard said. They really haven't brought it up since then. But Nintendo has been relatively quiet since Iwata's passing. It should come out with the Animal Crossing amiibo figures, but I'm not sure if those are dated yet either.
@Samuel-Flutter - "relatively quiet"
Well relatively is relative, Nintnedo has been making some noise about SMM, it's just that they only seem to be able to promote 1 game at a time. Not sure if we'll ever get another Direct but by late Sept they should be pushing Yoshi and then early Nov StarFox then late Nov XCX. Not sure when or if AC:aF will get covered, wouldn't be surprised to see it pushed back to next year in the US due to amiibo manufacturing.
Last year I kept waiting for them to market games together - Hyrule Warriors and Bayonetta 2 would have made a great pairing, best exclusive pair on any console last holiday - but they just seemed focused on SBB. Wii U is geting a bunch of exlcusives this holiday, Fatal Frame and Devil's Third as well, but Ninteod just doesn't want to promote them. But they are making some effort w/ Super Mario Maker compared to most of their other games.
@rjejr all they announced where how the figs were coming at least in the US, digby and isibelle will be exclusive to game bundle, recie and cyrus along with kk is a 3pack, the remaining 2 or 3 are single chars.
so yeah most people are only gonna want 2 or 3 chars... but to get those 2 or 3 chars in the US you'd end up with almost a full set of AC figs!
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