Following a cross-over with Splatoon last month, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp for iOS and Android is now hosting a limited-time Eevee-themed Pokémon event.
In celebration of the upcoming release of Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, you'll be able to take part in a scavenger hunt by collecting Poké Balls laying around your campsite and using them - along with Leaf Tickets - to craft special Eevee items. As a bonus, you'll also receive an Eevee hood in the mail for your character to wear:
Special Poké Ball Hunt Packs are now available to purchase as well. One contains 20 x Leaf Ticket and 10 x Poké Ball for £0.99 and the other pack includes 180 Leaf Ticket (160 + 20 bonus) and 25 x Poké Ball for £7.99/€9.99/$9.99. Both packs are limited to a single purchase per person.
The event runs until 11th November. Pokémon director Junichi Masuda has even been spotted tweeting about his Pocket Camp life:
Does this at all tempt you to play Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp? What do you think about Nintendo cross-promoting its games like this? Are you excited for the release of Pokémon on Switch? How about Animal Crossing's big return in 2019? Tell us below.
[source twitter.com, via twitter.com, serebii.net]
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Cute. Saw this the other day on another site. Nintendo hates rooted phones though so I can't join the fun.
That's interesting seeing pokemon themed items. Pokemon doesnt usually like to participate in things like these.
Wake me up when AC Switch gets released.
I’d love to have some of these items in the Swich version of Animal Crossing. Heck, Pokémon-themed amiibo villagers would be amazing.
@MH4 Agreed! My Jigglypuff amiibo isn’t compatible with hardly anything besides Smash, and I’d love a jiggly-villager.
@g_ruz I have no idea why the Pokemon Amiibo have almost no use at all.
MHK
I agree that these items should be in the switch version. I haven't play pocket camp but i see all the new themes or planting and it make me green with envy. Nintendo better have them incorporated.
The Eevee costume is a little weird but the rest is cute!
Hopefully all of the new items from Pocket Camp comes to the Switch game, I'm not a fan of the fortune cookie system but the furniture is still (mostly) awesome!
all i want is the giant eevee.
but, i do agree with @MH4. i think it would be neat to see these furniture, clothes and etc from the mobile game to the switch game.
Oh God... Nintendo is trying to get all the casual Mobile people to come over.
I guess they didn't learn their lesson with the Wii after all the casual suburbia abandoned it or bought budget crap. 😐
I've already been playing this game daily since November 23, 2017 so this doesn't change that, of course, but honestly not a real big fan of Eevee. When they do the pikachu half of the event I'll be much more into it
oh my god they put the eevee mascot in
I haven't played AC Pocket Camp in what must be 6 months? I gave it another go a few weeks back but it still seemed far too shallow. It's a shame... I kind of feel it's tarnishing my love of Animal Crossing.
I still rock Isabelle on Mario Kart 8 DX though, she's my Woofu. <3
@Agramonte Are you serious?!😒 I swear this mobile/casual audience is inferior to us mentality is toxic. And before you say anything, you was IMPLYING it. I guarantee you they're mobile gamers that exist within the PlayStation/Xbox community?
That eevee costume sorta terrifies me...
Eevee theme is sure cute.
But for upcoming Animal Crossing for Switch, if this idea borrowed to Switch, i concern about the game will be.
Remember, we will have Dragon Quest Builders 2 on 20 December 2018 (JPN) with Minecraft, Harvest Moon, The Sims & Animal Crossing features. The game will be Absolutely Excellent.
If Animal Crossing on Switch want to be a Money printer game, the game SHOULD be at least adopt Dragon Quest Builders features (3D Open World, World customization, Building houses, Furnishing, Gardening, Fishing, Riding vehicles, Gathering materials, Combining items). Also, i try to predict the gameplay style for Animal Crossing on Switch judging from Tom Nook speech about "Smashing", i was thinking about "Shaping your world". Hopefully it's true.
Otherwise, if the game is still like New Leaf + HHD + Pocket Camp, WITHOUT 3D Open World, World customizations, etc, i'm afraid Animal Crossing Switch can compete with Dragon Quest Builders 2 in term of gameplay. So far, i can say Dragon Quest Builders 2 gameplay (And the prequel as well) is MUCH Better than Animal Crossing New Leaf 3DS despite i don't really adore Akira Toriyama's art style for Dragon Quest series.
So, i expect Animal Crossing Switch is Better than Pocket Camp and can Exceeding Dragon Quest Builders 2. I keep cross my finger for Animal Crossing on Switch.......
@Kimyonaakuma
Nintendo still use Fortune Cookies for Random Special items ?
Oh, come on.....
It's 2018.
@Slasher It has nothing to do with "inferior" it is a different mentality. $15 upfront is "Premium" in Mobile. SE had to give away 1 episode for Free of FF Pocket Edition.
They are toxic... "race to the bottom" with microtransactions is the norm for the entire industry
@Yosheel
But anyone can scan QR codes about Pokemon themes for Animal Crossing New Leaf 3DS.
My character on first copy of ACNL wear a Pokemon X trainer outfit.
@Anti-Matter Thats fanmade
It's interesting to see Pokemon appear in Animal Crossing, but... It certainly isn't making me pick up the game again. Mobile F2P games are toxic. PC was okay in the beginning (although a bit limited, repetitious), but then they introduced the lootboxes and the rest is history.
Besides, Eevee alone? Maybe LGP/E has just made me sick of Eevee. I feel bad, I like the Pokemon, but LGP/E and all related advertising/merchandise has just really made me feel sour about it all. It might have been neater if they represented all of the evolutions (and not just the Gen 1 ones, for goodness' sake) instead of just plain Eevee.
Pretty much the only way they'd get me to start playing this again, and really I start playing this at all, since I only played for like 2 hours before, would be to announce this game will connect with AC Switch.
Rather, I hope there is some connection between Animal Crossing New Leaf and AC Switch, if there is any connections at all.
@Harmonie : I saw the most adorable Vaporeon plush the other week, and it got me thinking about how nice it would have been to be able to have that wrapped around my neck in the game, and this is coming from someone who's never particularly cared for Eevee or its abundance of evolutionary forms.
I wish The Pokémon Company had instead chosen a Pokémon that is popular on its own merits as opposed to Eevee, who has had its defining feature taken away from it. Let's Go, Magikarp (for the sheer novelty of it, and to provide a real challenge considering how easy these games are expected to be), or Let's Go, Mew (with its ability to learn any TM, and to capitalise on its popularity) would have been far better options, I think.
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