Switch owners have had a very nice couple of years in terms of software released on the console. Nintendo’s trotted out some heavy-hitters early in the console cycle, with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild soon followed by Super Mario Odyssey and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate coming late last year. Newer favourites like Splatoon 2 have provided support alongside a selection of choice Wii U ports, and with Super Mario Maker 2 and Fire Emblem: Three Houses on the horizon - and more quality games on the eShop than we have time to play - life’s been pretty good for Nintendo fans of late.
We’re an insatiable bunch, though, always wanting more-more-more, and there’s one game fans are clamouring for on social media perhaps more than any other. Animal Crossing is a game that takes over your life, if you let it. One of the best descriptions of its undying appeal we’ve ever read appeared on UK Resistance, a classic (mainly Sega-focused) site from years ago. Writing about the then-current DS entry Wild World, they said it’s less of a game and “more like keeping a diary or remembering to have breakfast. Animal Crossing is just a simple little thing you have and do every day. It's like your kettle.” The whole article is a great read (with some strong language) that really captures the essence of the series; the way it hooks into your life and becomes a fixture of your everyday beyond the usual remit of a mere 'game'.
We’ve tried to satiate ourselves with Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, but it’s hardly the full-fat experience we’re hungry for (and some of its money-making systems feel worthy of Tom Nook himself). Despite worries that Animal Crossing Switch might slip, Nintendo recently reconfirmed to investors that it’s on course to release this year. As the Nintendo DS and 3DS versions demonstrated, the series is a perfect fit for handhelds, but while it has always been brilliant, there are still myriad ways it could be improved. Some things, like full HD and a shedload of new items and villagers, are a given, but while we await new details on the game, we’ve compiled a selection of things we’d love to see in this new iteration...
A persistent online hub city integrating Miiverse-style features
First up, we’d love to see a City Folk-style hub make a return. Obviously, we’d expect significant advances in the eleven years since the Wii game (oddly renamed Let's Go To The City in Europe and Down Under), but imagine heading into a metropolis for a Friday night out with friends or meeting up for a little Saturday afternoon shopping before dinner and a show. The opportunity to see K.K. Slider on another night of the week would be fabulous. How about an auction house where you could bid against other players on objet d’art to donate to your town’s museum without having to rely on that dodgy Redd character and his spurious wares?
We're thinking something like a cross between the intro hub of Splatoon 2 and New Donk City. The social posts (remnants of Wii U's Miiverse) coupled with a larger urban canvas would be great for Sunday morning market meet ups to chat and trade items, attraction park trips or city tours. A shared online space would open up a wealth of new location and interaction possibilities for the series while retaining the quaint small-town feel of your own village.
Expanded multiplayer activities
In addition to the above hub, and the usual town visits, an expanded set of minigames would be welcome. Tortimer’s simple games from New Leaf were fine, but something a little more comprehensive (and quicker to set up) wouldn’t go amiss. Simple things like being able to go to Tortimer's island (or the equivalent area) from the main menu would be a significant quality-of-life improvement and might make us more inclined to play those minigames.
Some sort of notification system
How many times has real life distracted you and caused you to miss your window to sell turnips or check Redd’s tent on a certain day? Even if you’re visiting regularly, it’s still easy to forget something. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could set reminders to come up on your Switch, or perhaps even better, push notifications to your phone?
We realise that this has the potential to turn the game into a chore, mixing it in with all the other reminders and things to tick off your daily to-do list, but then again, Animal Crossing is all about that – it would be a nice option to have for people who want it. Might as well use that damn Nintendo Switch Online app for something, no?
Labo VR Support
Why not? We’re not the biggest fans of its implementation in Breath of the Wild, but Super Mario Odyssey proves that bitesize VR can work well, and it might be fun to look at your townsfolk or tour your museum or perhaps try fishing via the Labo VR Goggles.
Alternatively, a couple of Tortimer’s minigames could be created for VR. Bug photography, anyone? With the Labo VR Kit out in the wild, the colourful world and characters of Animal Crossing would lend themselves well to Toy-Con experimentation. Even if the game doesn't feature a Labo VR mode, a little more camera control would help us enjoy our high definition village that teensy bit more.
Expanded Amiibo functionality
After the disappointment of Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival on Wii U, you might be ready to jettison the entire idea of support for Nintendo’s NFC figure range, but Animal Crossing on Switch offers a great opportunity to add value to those little statues collecting dust on the shelf. Obviously the range of AC ones could offer bespoke abilities, but why not tie character colour schemes, wallpaper or upholstery to each of the figures? Imagine, for example, if each one unlocked a unique marble statue or topiary of the character to decorate your garden. Imagine if you could use your Blathers amiibo to summon him immediately to your location to evaluate your fossils and paintings.
There are countless applications and they needn’t be super complicated – we’re not expecting to be able to play as these characters or anything – but as we’ve written before, the potential in the amiibo line is arguably going to waste. We’d love a great excuse to crack out our collection.
Revamped museum and less repetitive dialogue
On the subject of Blathers, we love him dearly, but true to his name he does repeat himself an awful lot. It got to the point where we gave up on taking fossils to him simply because his spiel became irritating after three or four hundred evaluations - we wish he'd take things off our hands a little quicker if he's just going to repeat himself! The sheer amount of text that goes into each game is incredible, but we’d be very grateful if the old owl had a few more things to say when we tap him for his expertise. This could apply to all villagers and shopkeepers, really.
The museum itself could do with an overhaul, too – it’s all a little staid, like an underfunded local amenity. Let’s get some interactive exhibits in there! Let’s expand the aquarium! Maybe you could set up a relationship with the National History Museum in the big city and organise loans or travelling exhibitions – something a bit more exciting than a series of boxy rooms to house your fossils.
More K.K. Slider!
We like to get down Saturday night with K.K. whenever we can, but the reality is that most adults are too busy to catch his performance at the weekend. Yes, we might be able to squeeze in his DJ set, but we'd like to see him crop up a little more often. Not too much, you understand, we'd just like the opportunity to see him more than once or twice a week.
In fact, this could combine well with the 'online city' idea above. Perhaps Slider plays a matinee performance at the concert hall on a Tuesday afternoon. Or maybe he's singing the national anthem at the sports stadium for the big game on Sunday. Maybe he's a judge on the X Factor at the TV studio or gives music classes at the community college in the mornings. It'd be lovely to find him more frequently if we wanted to.
More item interaction, especially in the kitchen
There's something cute about Animal Crossing's restraint and the limited ways you can interact with household objects. Over the years, turning on a toaster or playing with the microwave has given us tiny thrills of discovery - just like when a villager suddenly drops a line of dialogue that you've never seen before - but surely it's time to expand on those little Easter eggs. If we've got a blender in the kitchen, let us make a smoothie with all the delicious fruit we've been collecting; let us bake cakes for our villagers; let us use some of these appliances we've got lying around the place!
We're basically looking for Animal Crossing X Overcooked - now there's an indie crossover we could get behind! Somebody give Ghost Town Games a bell...
More house upgrades and choices
Buying and upgrading your home has been a staple of the series from the beginning, and we've seen various improvements and refinements over the years. The addition of mechanics from Happy Home Designer into the updated version of New Leaf greatly improved your ability to furnish your home quickly and easily.
We'd like to see an expansion with more customisation options for house upgrades; to be able to decide the size and order of rooms, window placement, shape, layout, and have all those things reflected on the exterior of our home.
and finally, NES Games!
Oh, how we'd love to see a return of the NES games from the original Animal Crossing. And it's not such a far-fetched idea! Everybody who's signed up to Nintendo Switch Online has access to a small but growing library of those games already and there's nothing to stop the developers unlocking those to find in Animal Crossing, provided you've got an active subscription.
Of course, they could just throw them in anyway, but we're trying to anticipate the strange Nintendo-like issues that may get in the way. Regardless of the method, it would be a lovely nod to the origins of the series. SNES or N64 games might be pushing our luck, but if you don't ask, you don't get, right?
Those are a few things to get started, but we're sure there are plenty of other ways to expand on the series' winning formula. Which of these sounds good to you? What ideas do you have? Share them with us below.
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All fantastic ideas. Expanded amiibo support would be an absolute joy.
(Quick note: thanks for the more regular strong language warnings! They don’t go unappreciated. 😃)
Whilst you're at it, get rid of grass deterioration.
Seriously, everyone hates that and it makes you constantly hesitant to walk or run anywhere in-town, as it leads to huge portions of a well-walked town turning to brown.
Bring back the 1pm music from the Gamecube version. Also bring back morning aerobics
@RupeeClock
I never knew that was a thing, and I played hours of New Leaf.
The Happy Home Designer elements need to be incorporated into the main game.
I would also love for split-screen local multiplayer. I was quite disappointed that the Wii game didn't include it considering how barebones it was (being mostly the same as Wild World on DS).
Amiibo support would also be appreciated considering how much I had bloody invested in those things. And would it kill them to issue a reprint of the cards? Especially the obscenely limited Sanrio pack?
And everyone can forget about the NES games. Nintendo realised that they can sell them piecemeal or hold them hostage in order to coax people into paying for a "service" that was free for the last 14 years. Given how lucrative decades-old ROM dumps are nowadays, no major publisher worth their salt would be foolish enough to give away their classics like that ever again. Even little fish like SNK and Atari saw fit to release compilations of their own.
I would also love for a more fleshed out metropolitan area in the next game. The promise of a "city" in the Wii game turned out to be such a profound disappointment because it turned out to be a hub comprised mostly of facilities from past games, and it contained nothing of substance. I would love an urban area that is every bit as fleshed out as the village (or forest, as it is known in Japan). Perhaps bird-watching can be the city's answer to fishing (though the village can include its share of birds as well).
i like all the ideas.
the classics would be neat to return, but i liked to see the return of the mini games you get from Welcome Amiibo update. those were pretty cool ideas that adds new things to New Leaf.
i also want our own buildings (like the Shops and School) return from Happy Home Designer, i liked those but they should add more to do in the switch game.
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i also want new holidays, the return of the island again, and amiibo support for villagers and furniture just like in the Welcome Amiibo update.
@edhe
Yeah, people would set down paths using custom textures for the express purpose of hiding the grass wear problem, and setting out areas that are okay or not okay for very frequent walking.
@Silly_G
If you mean like the improved furniture placement controls, that was actually added in the Welcome amiibo update.
Although not the half-tile overlap placement that was possible in HHA.
I want bigger rooms in my house. For some things the rooms are just too small. I'd accept having to make other rooms smaller for it.
@RupeeClock : Ah, okay. Cool. I confess that I am yet to play New Leaf post Welcome Amiibo (though I believe I have downloaded the update).
Poor Isabelle.
Online co-op is a must
I'm not really too fussed about what they change and add really. Just having a mainstream Animal Crossing game to play on the Switch is enough to keep me happy.
Just watched PBG’s 10 things for animal crossing switch list this morning and while he had some out of reach things (cough going to the moon cough) his list was far more imaginative, this list mostly asks for obvious stuff that will come to the game anyway.
10 Things i want to see from Animal Crossing Switch :
1. MUST have Building features like Dragon Quest Builders and The Sims.
2. Full 3D World.
3. All buildings have their functions, such as commercial buildings (Hotel, Restaurant, Cafe, Town Hall, etc)
4. More customize for characters and animal villagers.
5. NO MORE forcing to play the game everyday or villagers will Move Out.
6. Trim all the Chatterbox conversations. Make it brief.
7. A lot of Mini games and they have their advantages, for example playing Arcade games to get tickets, racing mini game, part time job as cafe servant, etc.
8. Boxing mini games like Animal Boxing NDS with animal villagers / other player as sparring opponent. Please, Nintendo...😅
9. Up to 50 animal villagers can be added in one town.
10. Multiple Save slots with different town each others (3 - 5 slots)
These Animal Crossing wishlists always miss the one thing that annoys me most with every Animal Crossing to date.
How about a decent inventory system? When I’m about to purchase something in a shop the game should tell me if I already own it. Wouldn’t it be great to know you’re only missing two of the green series of furniture without having to keep lists on paper or external apps? So simple to implement, and yet none of them have.
a release date is the number one thing i'd like to see
I have no interest in them adding any online stuff but I would like them to simply add more to do in the game. It's relaxing enough wandering around talking to villagers and collecting fruit/fishing, but that doesn't hold my interest for long. I guess it could become more of a life simulator, with some Harvest Moon type additions - simple agriculture, jobs, crafting, setting up a shop, training animals, leaving the town to go into the wilderness to find things/talk to people/explore.
Animal Crossing always struck me as a novelty which was at best 20% of a game. Its success is rather baffling.
I want a moped, bicycle, or car for I dont have to walk the whole town
@PleaseUnderstan they could tie in mini games to the vehicles, like pizza delivery, races
It would be cool if they could integrate the NES games back into Animal Crossing for those with Switch Online. While it really doesn't change much, there was a bit of joy that game from getting another NES game unlocked in the original.
Likewise, I hope they do something about the end game cycle. Once you manage to pay everything off and collect everything for the museum, there isn't anything really driving you past collection of furniture and decorating. For those of us that don't care for that, the end game becomes a little unexciting.
Pretty good list actually, but my number one thing I'd like to see — the game itself.
i love the idea of calling npcs like blathers directly to you with amiibo, that would be such a convenience to call other shops to buy and deliver stuff even
@JasonLee99 that would be super useful, a better catalog layout listing diff furniture sets would be great too. just adding a little check mark next to the items you've already acquired before would really help
Bring the music basic to the style of the original game. New Leaf's soundtrack is a soulless husk by comparison.
@JasonLee99 i think more inventory space would be neat idea. i think the devs should do something like that, by buying backpacks to add more space in the inventory without effecting the player anyway or to what you said.
Edit: maybe not with Backpacks, but an ability to buy more space by using some kinda of storage item (with Bells obliviously, but don't make it so expansive Nintendo )
id like to be able to buy more land for your town, so you can expand not only the shape of your town layout but the gain the option to have more villagers in your town too. id hope for more than square towns for the first hd animal crossing
Bring back the flat layout of the world or at at least tone the round world effect down, that effect was to reduce the load on the DS but makes the world feel tiny.
Bring on that other stuff. It'll just be icing on the cake to an already fantastic experience.
Personally, I'm down for deeper home customization ala Happy Home Design. I am also down for push notifications. And to prevent it from becoming annoying or a chore, you being able to pick and choose what notifications you want to subscribe to. For me, it would be residents birthdays and whether or not someone is planning on moving.
@JasonLee99 That would be killer as I end up discovering I have about 5 of an item, lol
The ability to have villagers move in where I want them is no.1 on my list (it’s possible on New Leaf but an absolute pest).
Having an option to keep certain villagers. Also all the amiibo cards to be compatible and the Monster Hunter Navirou amiibo in particular.
And, I want the whole thing to look like it does in MK8.
@boxyguy that would be a great turn for Animal Crossing in general.
i don't see the need to improve beyond from that idea. all i need is generated town with generated new land to buy and where good to go!
I Have Never played a Animal Crossing game in my Life so i am going t start with this one
We’ve got socks, we’ve got shoes but where are the stockings? I demand the ability to dress up my villager like a medieval bard.
I honestly don't know how Nintendo can improve on New Leaf, but I'm sure the Switch entry in the AC series is going to be great.
The biggest thing I want is not being pushed to fulfill certain criteria to unlock stuff. The game wants you to build your own town, but then it tells you how it wants you to do it to get access to things like the golden house parts and the golden watering can. I was locked out of the entire house evaluation because I wanted to keep my small bedroom and thinking about it, I'm actually fine with that because why would I want to be rated in a game whose selling point is building my town exactly how I want?
Also the ability to determine the amount of people who can be in my town when I open the gate. Sometimes I want to hang out with just one or two specific people. Sometimes I'm selling stuff on a forum and have to explain to my random friend that they need to leave because they take up the spot of someone who wants to buy things and I'm closing my gates after this anyway to add more people. Or just give us that online hub and let us do our trading there.
And of course I want all the items from Pocket Camp. Since I've always loved getting random things out of mystery packages keep the fortune cookie system and let us obtain them through ingame activities (fishing, diving, random NPCs, villager gifts, museum donations, balloons, whatever new they come up with).
I think it'd be great if the new Animal Crossing added tourism elements. Like, you could build up your town to be more desirable and attract tourists with specialized attractions, and you could even have new villagers move in if they're impressed enough. It'd also add one of Happy Home Designer's strongest aspects to the mainline games - designing the town square's buildings. It'd be a nice evolution of the public works projects. I just hope for more of a shakeup to the formula, something that makes the Switch entry more than just New Leaf in HD.
We need an option to flip the seasons
It is so weird for us, in the south hemisphere, to see snow in January - a very hot month around here.
Do this, Nintendo.
No. No Labo VR. Zelda was enough.
I would like to see an airport, where you could visit other towns and various locales.
From what I understand, one of the reasons why Nintendo used that "rolling log effect" in later versions of Animal Crossing was because of memory limitations. (Not sure that excuses the Wii version, "City Folk," but that's neither here nor there.)
So, with that in mind, I really, really want to see Animal Crossing break out in all its glory: Make it a town you can actually see all of from, say, a cliffside. You don't have to make it Breath of the Wild big; enough so it actually feels like your part of this world rather than feeling like you're in a boxed-off part of a world.
Admit it: You all stopped your racing in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe so you could take in the sights in sounds of the Animal Crossing track. You actually tried to go off the track to try to get to Nook's. Don't deny it. I won't.
Making patterns was always one of my favorite aspects of the series, but I have some ideas for how that could be improved in AC Switch:
1. Pro Design pants
2. Patterns placed in Able Sisters' storage stay displayed on furniture, ground, etc.
3. 64x64 grid for patterns. I doubt 32x32 patterns will look as good when displayed in 1080p.
4. Online pattern gallery accessible through Mable's Wi-Fi-enabled Super Sewing Machine. Upload your pattern to NSO and give it a category (shirt, tile, painting, pant, umbrella, etc.), and search for patterns with a selection of categories depending on what you're specifically looking for, or use keywords. I'd prefer this to scanning QR codes on tumblr.
an option to become mayer in an election instead of it being forced apon you like it did in the 3ds version.
i hope nintendo allows us to pick the map type we want (gamecube, wii, DS, or 3DS). and makes it so that the town naturally evolves over time that way if we dont want our town to start with a shopping center like in the 3DS version; one could potentional appear in the future.
@Tirza let the season change on their own, but it would be nice to pick your towns region and time zone so that the seasons would match. time zone differences would be nice as well....
@KingKRoolMain
an airport seems nice for traveling from town to town. (for international traveling.) but i would rather my villager arrive by train like in the gamecube version. the train works best for in city and in state town to town travel.
i just hope that using the joy-con controllers is optional. i would like an option to play with the pro controller. being forced to play with the wii-remotes in the wii version made me stop playing the game
Everything on this list needs to happen!!! Additionally, one of the things I loved about New Leaf on 3DS was the ability to send letters to friends. What I hated though was they had to be online at the same time and have their town gates open. What I'd like to see is the ability to visit one's own post office in their own town and send letters (with or without presents attached) to friends on our Friend List. We already have to exchange friend codes for the Switch, let's put it to use. You send the letter from your own post office and it winds up in their mailbox the next time they connect open up the game while connected to the internet. Would be a fun way to keep in touch, especially with friends who live far away, and to organize getting together in-game for events and such.
Now now guys there working on super smash dlc and more stuff you can't force them to make one game right now..
Also on the amiibo side of things. I hope they also use the card amiibo to allow you to summon the character to your town just like New Leaf was able to do after that update. Too often, characters I like move away even after I dote on them to the point of absurdity. So it would be nice even if they leave to be able to force them back to live in my town with amiibo functionality (I know that's very Misery-esque but I don't care, LOL)!
@Silly_G How am I just learning of Sanrio amiibo cards for AC? I can't believe I missed that. Obviously they never came to Canada. I hope these get a re-release. I love Sanrio, I even have a Sanrio Tamagotchi Mix.
I think it should be like the original (GameCube) and New Leaf (3DS) But with more things to do in you house and in your town.
SOME OF MY IDEAS WOULD BE (Somethings you could do inside your house) Use your TV and watch YOUR town News and you can change the channel to watch animal crossing cartoons. Another thing that would be cool is if you had a music player or something and you can crate your own music. If you go into your kitchen take some fruit + items you picked up or bought and use them to cook something Kinda like Cooking mama. SOME outside things I am thinking of would be for making you house you could customize each color of your house and some of the design. A bit like some sims games. I have other Ideas but this is to long so do any of you like my ideas.
@PBandSmelly you dogs might go all Super smash bros on isabelle
@KingKRoolMain Instead of the train or something (Maybe instead of a town its a City) You can go to an Airport and see other people online and talk to them and if you want to go to their town you Take a Plane to the other players Town (Maybe City). If you want to you can go to the airport you can connect to some else's switch. I Love YOUR IDEA I HOPE THAT WOULD BE A GOOD THOUGHT FOR NINTENDO TO DO THAT.
One Thing I hope they do Is Make each Day you get on A Fresh new Day Like Everyday for us. You can do different things instead of pick some fruit or items and sell them to get bells or pull some weeds a day and your done.
@Silly_G A local multiplayer with you friend would be awesome, and Online multyplayer would have atleast 10 people in a town at once so you can have 5 groups of 2 on the same Town.
I loved the NES games in the GCN version, however... I feel like I just really don't care about their absence in later AC games. Back when the GCN version was released, VC wasn't a thing and Nintendo was only just beginning to rerelease NES games in various formats. It was special back then. Nowadays, NES games are everywhere. I don't feel like it's that neat to have to boot up AC to play games I can already play on the system without booting it up. To each their own, though, I guess.
Would love a more in depth clothes designer (hats, shoes, shirts, long shirts, sweaters, pants, shorts, etc). And maybe be able to add layers on what characters wear (like a shirt and pants with a sweater over it). Fashion designer and showcase.
With multiplayer there should be 2 ways to interact.
1) dream visits (similar to new leaf), going to people's neighborhoods and being able to others villages and not changing anything. But maybe leave some hidden dream messages or something cool that would make the interactions worth while (maybe dream points, etc)
2) actually being able to visit friends villages and interact with their towns. Mess the place, help take out weeds, get new fruit , etc.
I would like to see the return of NES games and that puzzle game from New Leaf, but with multiplayer!
Also they could have more minigames you can play for activities like in Stardew Valley and whatnot.
With the Online service, NES mini, past VC titles - I don’t need another way to play the same NES games. It was novel for the GC, but old hat at this point.
All I want to hear at E3 are the words “...and it’s available starting...TODAY!”
Give me a tool belt so I don’t have to waste pocket space on tools.
Maybe purchasable rucksacks/bags with varying storage capacity?
Remove time travelling!
@darkswabber Ah. I must have missed that video of his! I need to check it out!
This is a pretty decent list. I honestly just want more things to do and more types of items to collect. Don't get me wrong, fish, bugs, paintings, and fossils are quite a few and they take a good while to complete but I would like a little more variety so I don't end up doing the same stuff every day. I kind of want to have a different experience each day, which tends to not happen as you get into late game Animal Crossing. Granted, I did play New Leaf for well over 500 hours. I just want it to feel like a neverending experience if possible. These games don't come around very often. Oh, and make the seasons and holidays even more interactive than they already are. That would be awesome too.
Instead of actual NES games... how about original 8-bit games made just for AC for us to collect, adding more over time? They don’t have to be huge things, just simple minigames with basic graphics, with leaderboards and vs modes. I think the novelty of the NES games was collecting essentially little minigames to display in your house and play, and with the availability of them on Switch, we don’t need those games... but I wouldn’t object to original ones, a bit like the minigames in Splatoon that were used while you wait for a match to start!
Also, since we’re paying for online, actual decent sized city hubs would be nice, where you could have friend only hubs (with the ability to go to each other’s towns through it) and public hubs (where you can see other players walking around and still interact in ways). Maybe even new online locales to visit over time!
@Tirza yesss, this would also be cool as mechanically you would then be able to travel to people’s towns in opposing hemispheres and get things like bugs and fish that you currently can’t find! Maybe even have regional species that encourages online play and visiting other towns!
I feel like making the game have free camera control would be amazing. Just think about how cool it would be to walk around in that mario kart 8 stage.
@RupeeClock oof you talk from my heart! I like to plant hundreds of plants and can't run anymore in lategame because I would destroy them...
I’m really looking forward to this. But I’m also a little afraid it’s gonna be the same old same old.
I just want more than 10 Villagers again at this point.
@DarthFoxMcCloud : They were exclusive to Nintendo's eBay store, at least as far as its availability in Australia and New Zealand was concerned.
They also only had 300 units. -.-
I really want local multiplayer
The magic of Animal Crossing dies once you start seeing the animals repeat the same thing another animal said.
At this point they don't feel alive anymore.
So there need to be a lot more possible conversation combinations.
Make the custom picture feature more detailed and allow people to just upload pictures instead of having to spend a few hours placing all the pixels themselves.
Allow for a visit random town feature. You can visit a random town, but when doing so you can't change anything in the town.
They probably aren’t going to turn it into an MMO sort of game. Animal Crossing works best when it’s your own personal space, not shared.
That said the one feature I really wish they’d put in is 4-player local co-op. My family had 4 of us living in the same village on Wii but no way to interact in real time. As well as a raft of Mario Party-style mini games they could also have events like the big hunt or fishing competitions across the village. Leaving challengers for other family members to pick up on would be a nice touch.
They could even make it the core macguffin of the game and have the player live in a shared house with AI or real housemates. Maybe the player moves into Tortimers old 4-bedroom mansion that is ran down and needs fixing up?
Amiibo scans could unlock guest parody Nintendo characters: a plumber to fix the pipes, a wandering hero, a fishing bounty hunter etc.
They also need to have the core game link right up to Pocket Camp, with characters crossing over and the camper van making an appearance.
I’d like yards. Maybe one could have a fenced in space with their house and a garden or something.
1 Let me determine where new houses are built.
2 Give the villagers jobs.
3 Allow villagers to move in together.
4 Let me do proper landscaping in my town. It can cost a bomb and take ages but I want it!
5 Get rid of that otter that tells me he came into my house at night and doesn’t like it because it’s not the same matching set everyone has. I like it this way!
6 More furniture interactions.
7 New museum collections.
8 Let me scan all my amiibo cards to get a town of cats.
And 2 other things.
That’s my list.
I really don’t want large chunks of the game dependent on extra purchases like Nintendo Switch Online or Amiibos. I want to receive a full experience with just single player.
romance options
Enough is absolutely enough with changing greetings, catchphrases and nicknames. That got stale 10 years ago. How about just an option in the dialogue menu for those things, rather than daily harassment about it?
After starting my first ever Animal Crossing recently, on 3DS, my only gripe is the incessant chat you must suffer to do things. Obviously the Owl is the biggest villain, and it shouldn't be too hard for an option to become available after the third visit that allows a quick process . So he'd analysis and take of anything in your pocket at the press of one button. With the retailers, when you enter you get a menu of actions rather than sifting through the talk. Talking to other animals, you just get the list of options, including returning a lost item if you're trying to do that. Taking the boat to the island should be instant. If you miss his inane chat, you can switch it back on in the options.
As for notifications of events, this should be in game only. As long as you enter the game once a day, then you won't miss anything. Otherwise, add notifications to your own phone manually if you really don't want to miss anything.
VR is of no interest, and the only Amiibo functionality I'd like is any Amiibo you have, whether that's Mario, Samus or Fox, those characters would actual enter the game. Perhaps they're just visitors, or they could become actual villagers.
Since I've only just started with the series, the Switch version would need to offer something quite different and good to get onto it immediately.
I'd like for the towns to have far more variety. And I'd like to be able to move towns. Sell or rent my house. And I'd also like to be able to move the land around. Put some new paths in, if I pay a company
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Ah, MiiVerse and StreetPass... still waiting for those on Switch.
I worry about the idea of an online hub city– or any online functionality – though... what happens to the game when they shut the servers down in a year or two? It dies like MiiVerse...
Every Saturday night at 8pm I still think of K.K. Slider.
And I am sad when I think of the "dear john" letters my favorite villagers sent me when they moved away - why?? ;-(
@rhyeee3216 Start with either New Leaf or the Gamecube version. New Leaf has a lot of features and things to do, but lacks the soul of the original. Due to villagers in New Leaf having very similar nice personalities, vs the ones in Gamecube that could outright insult you. It's refreshing, along with the non-round aesthetic being more pleasant, and the music having a lot of personality to it. Though...the Gamecube one is very archaic too, such as having little to no storage space.
@Manah To add to your first idea, yeah the HHA is crap. They basically want you to have specific full furniture sets to max it out. I think what would be better is to rank people based on how unique their room is compared to everyone else. This would allow you to do what you want and inspire creativity, as the same tired design would bring your score down. Along with that, maybe having complementary colored furniture next to each other and giving furniture values like cool, cute, etc that would be used for scoring.
Everything apart from the NES games.
@DarkKirby It took me awhile to figure out that there are about 7 or so different "character types" for NPCs. And yes, there dialog repeats. While i wouldn't say "the magic dies"-- i understand what you mean. That said, the amount of dialog content with all the NPCs and all the events in a year and unlockables, amazes me.
@AlphaElite I love your K.K. Slider thumbnail picture! On this website i have Link, but my switch pic is K.K. Go K.K. Slider!
@blecch YES! I actually have been turning on my 3DS on Saturday night to catch a song or two that I have not heard.
I just grabbed a "boot" in my pocket of the rare "Birthday Song"
Lost me place things like picnic tables and grills outside my home. The yard is there waiting for things other than flowers.
@RupeeClock Oh yeah, everyone would agree to get rid of grass deterioration, sometimes realism isn't the best thing to have. People wouldn't exactly appreciate having to feed themselves fruit just to keep playing XD
@Aozz101x I like the idea of new holidays, June and July just have the Bug-Off (excluding birthdays), making them boring without much else to do : |
@Silly_G Of course. LOL.
I would love more minigames, and more viable ways to make money. It was either turnips or endless bug catching on tortimer. I would like some more variety in things to do. And an easier way to place upgrades in the village. A grid system would be perfect.
Idea for the switch version. Animal crossing should add in gardens and cooking. So there could be a new tool from nooks shop that allows you to plow land. And from the garden shop they could expand it to allow you to buy fruit and veggie seeds. Each one having a different grow time like real life and each one needing proper maintenance(watering and maybe even fertilizing. Just like trying to maintain plants in real life). Once you grow more stuff you unlock different crops to grow.
However you could also use the ingredients to cook or sell if you choose. Perhaps a restaurant is something you could build for your town and you maybe even choose the theme. Wanna learn sushi? Grow some rice and catch some fish. Dive for a little seaweed(obviously a complex recipe). It’d be a cool feature to have. Idk what’s your guys opinions on this? Also the restaurant could be an alternative yet rewarding way to earn more bells
What’s crazy is the more you think about it the more you realize it could work. Rainy day? Great that means the crops will grow quicker. Frost season? Maybe you could build a green house(that one is a little bit of a stretch). Need an ingredient you don’t have? Maybe you need to combine a couple to make said ingredient ex: apple+honey(would get from bee hives)= apple jam
I would like to be able to choose maybe 3 out of the let's say 15 villagers. Then you could always have some of your favorite animal friends. Picking 3 would be tough but it would be better than having to wait for some of your favorites to come along. I have been playing, and still play New Leaf pretty much every day for the last 3 years....I'd like to keep Kitt, Agent S and Ruby with me! I really like all my villagers and would like them all to come with me to the Switch.
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