With exactly two weeks to go until the launch of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, fans of the series really are starting to be spoiled with exciting new marketing material.
The latest content to be thrown our way is a set of three commercials from Japan, all of which show off a variety of things you can see and do in the game (including some incredible moving wallpapers) while simultaneously reminding us just how relaxing the whole thing can be. Some of these actors even have a giant indoor hammock to play it on for crying out loud.
If you haven't yet grabbed your copy of the game, you can find lots of options to do just that right here. The wait is finally almost over!
[source gonintendo.com]
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I was in a funny situation with this game. I absolutely adored Wild World, but New Leaf left me cold. I have no idea why, really. It just didn't feel as "warm" and atmospheric as WW, to my mind. I was going to skip New Horizions, but the more I see of it, the more I want it. Am going to pre-order now. 😊
At the risk of sounding stupid, I am still not entirely sure what you do in the game? Is it a bit like Stardew Valley?
The 3rd one shows climbing walls. Can we use them as you would the ladder?!
It’s bugging me a wee little bit that non of these commercials focus on the animals! Nintendo keeps showing how you can all hang out together with your human friends and family and sit on benches together and so on.
For me Animal crossing is escaping regular human society a bit and hanging out with talking animals in a cute, non real world. I wish they’d focus more on what is NOT like our normal lives by focusing on our furry friends more.
... Anyway I know it's wrong to judge a game before it's even released but other than terra-forming and higher areas I've seen very little that I didn't experience in New Leaf in the first couple of months of playing. I'm sure it'll be a good game and have many new surprises added over the years – but I'm personally mildly concerned with what's been shown so far.
I know everyone's going nuts for what's been shown, and my view will be unpopular – but I bet I'm not the only one. Maybe one of you guys can convince me this isn't just a 1.5 HD New Leaf.
@presenttense Well, you really don't have to do anything. You don't win or lose. Basically the more "tasks" you complete the more you earn in the game. For example, in New Leaf for the 3ds, You dig up fossils, catch different kinds of fish, and buy different kinds of artwork...now that is just to fill your museum. The more you put into your museum the better it is. Also you do a lot for your villagers...so they will ask you for favors and if you do that, they will give you something whether it's clothing or furniture or whatever...plus they may ask you to visit your house or you visit there's. They may ask you to give something to another villager..the thing I really liked about New Leaf is how "nice" they were to you. I'm treated better by my Kangaroo Kitt than most people I know...and that's a huge draw. Oh, I forgot, you can shop, plant trees and flowers, change your landscape, buy new clothes, add town decore like bridges, water fountains, clock towers, tons of stuff....I have over 1700 in animal crossing new leaf. I unwind before bed even if for 5 minutes checking on my villagers to make sure they are "ok"....yah, I'm fried...
I didn't know about the local multiplayer. That's pretty cool.
@Joe-b
Thank you so much for that!! It sounds really fun, I think you’ve just convinced me to buy it 😂
@presenttense I'm with ya
@presenttense I'm not an Animal Crossing pro, I've only been playing the GameCube version and the 3DS version just recently though, clocked about 50 hours in total.
In short, you don't really do very much. The game, as can be seen from these trailers, is centred around developing your home and community and making it as adorable (insert adjective of choice here) as you can by gradually earning money ('bells' - primarily from growing, harvesting and selling fruit I find) to buy different furnishings, clothes, upgrade your house, upgrade community assets.
It's a shallow life-sim. Based on my experience with New Leaf, your interactions with the NPCs are very shallow, you don't really build relationships with them, you just tell them to say something and then they might say something funny, or ask you to run an errand for them, or give you something as a present. I find the NPC interaction a bit dated in that respect - it's generally light fun, but lacks any depth or ongoing narrative.
As the year goes on there'll be community events, fishing competitions and stuff, but again, these are pretty 'lite'.
Then there's the online interaction you can have with other players, going to each other's houses etc. but I've not tried any of that out yet - I can't imagine it adds much more depth to the game, just lets users trade/gift stuff from their game to friends.
The ethos of the game seems just to be easy-going chill out time. Gather stuff to sell, style your home, hang out with nice (but simple) characters.
It can be difficult to 'get' at first - I think after 20 hours of New Leaf I was wondering 'just what is the point?', especially because the game unlocks stuff as you go but doesn't really signpost the unlocks. Just a case of gradual perseverance opens the game up a little more, just enough to keep you coming back to grow more fruit, buy more stuff. Kinda gets a bit addictive, switching it on each day to harvest the latest batch of fruit so you can work towards more unlocks, but given that much of it revolves around 'material goods' that you then can't even really do much with, it's questionable how healthy a game it is. It's good for chilling, but addictively promotes consumerism for the sake of consumerism, it seems to me. I guess the crafting elements in New Horizons will offer a bit of an alternative to shopping and gifting, but the aim still seems to be 'so that I can make it look nice'.
My 2c.
New Horizons looks absolutely lovely, but I don't see it opening up the variety and depth of activities that much, so I'm very on the fence right now. Nintendo likes to keep the unlocks secret it seems, so maybe some cool new stuff happens later on in the game.
@presenttense Great! there's so much more, like firework events to celebrate some holiday, birthdays, fishing derby's, bug catching contests, and hide and seek!
Those moving wallpapers look great.
Just being able to put furniture outside is a huge game changer. Might be fun to make the area around my house like an opulent mansion and put all the animals into a hellish skid row area, using piles of tyres and barrels to make the place look awful. Then I will lord it up over them.
2 more WEEKS! I can not wait.
Graffiti Piano will be the new Froggy chair
@gcunit I can definitely see where you're coming in terms of some of the characters feeling a bit shallow. I suppose with Stardew, the relationships lead you down very set narrative paths whereas AC didn't so they didn't have the same depth.
Interestingly enough, none of the previews for the game so far have touched upon the interactions with your fellow villagers. I'm hoping that we will be pleasantly surprised with it but it remains to be seen just yet
@alpacatears I hope so too, but I'm not expecting it - it would be a strange thing to omit from the marketing of this game because I imagine pretty much the whole AC fanbase would be fawning over greater depth to the interaction.
Did anyone else notice the bear wasn't polygonal anymore???
Finally shows a commercial with a boy character...
Doesn't show a boy playing the game...
This marketing has gotten me hook line and sinker. Question though is it possible to not have any villagers on your island? I'd like to be a castaway for a little while.
I'm still on the fence.... Never played AC before, it does look lovely, but kind of like it's a mobile game... And yes I tried Pocket Camp and yes I know people say it doesn't do AC justice but I really didn't like it. New Horizons seem much more interesting, but games are expensive where I live and I don't know if I wanna fork that much money for a game I might not even really like
@Ryu_Niiyama I don't think so, apparently when you arrive it's with some random animals. You can even set their tent where you want
Where are these Nintendo games made? In China? I'm wondering if it's a good idea to disinfect the case and game when it arrives? I'm in the US.
@Investor9872 I’m pretty sure Nintendo consoles and games for the Western market are not made in China anymore, but in Vietnam (iirc). Anyway, the virus only lives a few days on most surfaces, so the game and box should be fine since they’re probably already packaged and shrink-wrapped and en-route to the retailers by now.
@Jooles_95 I'm a healthcare professional, and I'm telling you that viruses live more than a few days on surfaces. 2-3 weeks and longer even.
@Investor9872 Isn’t that usually only things like norovirus (stomach bug) that live so long on hard surfaces, though? As far as I know (at least, as far as I was taught studying microbiology at uni) most flu-like viruses only survive on surfaces for 24 hours or less. The exception for Coronavirus seems to be metal surfaces, where it looks like it can survive for up to 9 days, but plastics should be safe fairly quickly afaik.
@gcunit Thank you so much - that has helped massively
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