Animal Crossing Will Get A Bunch Of Mario Items And Clothing In Next Update

This honestly should've been in the base game. Also, it's disappointing if this'll be the only thing in the update. Giving us furniture instead of features everyone wants back.

Warp pipe looks epic but no Waluigi costume, big sad activate

No more use for the vaulting pole!

I remember people on the internet hoping for working warp pipes and others claiming Nintendo couldn't do it.

Lots of fun items and my first thought was that I'll probably have to redo my island to fit them all.

Gonna have to restart this game from the beginning.. I wish I was like normal gamers who can see the credits and keep playing.. I’ve bought so much DLC that I never played because the game was ‘over’.. loving the Mario themes though

I'm actually kind of excited about this update (especially the warp pipes)!

I feel like the warp pipe is the best thing in the update

Can the animal residents use the pipe too?

I'm sorry Nintendo, I'll eventually get back to animal crossing, just don't kill me please...

I'm all like "meh Mario items", but to be honest, the warp pipe is a neat mechanic that I can see a lot of people having fun with in designing towns.

Won't complain about getting Mario items but I hope they don't stop there, all of Nintendo's franchises deserve some love.

@VoidofLight : There is a LOT that should have been in the base game. Hell, I wish they had delayed the game a year if it meant including more content in the base build. I get what Nintendo are doing with the whole patching as they go schtick, but come on. If people want to fast-forward to Christmas or any other number of holidays, then so be it. I was fine with playing at the game's intended pace.

Currently, I only play a day or two a month. In fact, I missed Festivale completely (the first major annual event that I have missed so far) because AC:NH is so off my radar at the moment. I'm tempted to turn the clock back for the first time so that I don't miss out, but part of me just isn't bothered anymore.

Too much content has been excised from past games, and I'm bored with going through the motions day in and day out (shaking all trees, finding all fossils, checking for any new furniture, repeat, repeat, repeat).

@Silly_G Same. I've been getting bored of the game, so I mostly just moved on to better things.

I thought when they had originally announced Mario items, it would be just clothing. But this was a welcome surprise. I still play everyday and continue to find ways to keep myself engaged. I bought NFC tags and along with my daughters, we've been picking and choosing what popular villagers to invite. I'm always finding ways to improve my island look and layout. The Mario stuff is gone a throw a wrinkle in that as I try to find ways to incorporate that stuff

Collectable coins? Warp Pipe? I'm all over that! Looking forward to dipping back into my lapsed game for a while.

@VoidofLight ,

Seems like a nice update to me, and please stop posting as if it's everyone who want's all these features back, you can't say that with no evidence to back it up.

As a new animal crossing player I am excited for this. Will make the theme park since I can’t physically go. Lol.

@Anti-Matter Actually, I LOVE it.

@johnvboy It's not everyone, but I'm not the only person. There's a lot of people who feel the same way as I do. I can link a video that shows that as well.

Wasn’t there also Toad clothing in New Leaf? Kind of a shame that doesn’t seem to be present here.

@FroZtedFlakerZz The warp pipe is a legit highlight of the entire direct

I just want brewster and to be able to upgrade the nook store. Upgrading the store in the previous games felt like such an achievement it really disappoints me theres just one store upgrade. The warp pipe was cool though and the mushrooms look like you can jump on them to the next level of your island.

@johnvboy Actually i hear the same thing from a real lot of people who have played animal crossing before NH. Calm down people are just voicing themselves on a messaging board, no ones going to go out their way to give you evidence dude, this ain't court.

@VoidofLight I agree and i have seen a lot of other people agree with you.

I think this may have have been the highlight of the Direct for me. After 530 days of waiting some warp pipes was the highlight of a 50 minute full Nintendo Direct.

I don't think Sony is too worried about PS5 sales after that.

I really do wish they at least let the actual Mario, or better yet Luigi, stay in the campsite for a day, that would be cool.

Oh look it's after midnight, what a day.

@Megz3,

It's still only a small portion of people at best, not saying you or others can't want more content, but to suggest it's a huge percentage of the Animal crossing user base is incorrect, just not enough data to back that up,

@VoidofLight,

Never said you were the only person, but you and others always seem to post as if your views are shared by the majority of the games owners, which is incorrect.

@Megz3,

Everybody I know loves the game, so does that mean everybody else does, no of course not.

@johnvboy it’s not the majority, as most of the people who’re playing it never played a animal crossing game, or play it for social media clout, with some playing it because they liked the series and played the other games. Most of the original fans actually feel meh about the games though.

@VoidofLight,

Again no evidence whatsoever about the original fans of the game, I and another four of my online players have all played every game since wild world, and we all think this one is the best, stop putting yours and a small minorities opinions as if they apply to everybody.

And again you have no evidence that the 12 million or so players of New Leaf are not enjoying this new game, as i doubt you have seen enough opinions to form any sort of consensus. And again just because there are new players to the franchise does not mean they have low standards, as by this rationale any new player to the franchise can't have an opinion to it's merits, because they have not played previous entries.

@johnvboy thing is though, you can’t form much of an opinion on a series, unless you’ve played said games. If you started with New Horizons, you may think it’s the best game ever, only to eventually play an older game and think it’s ***** the next day. Same with any game series. If you start with the most underwhelming game, like Sticker star for instance, you may enjoy it. However, if you play the older games you might see how bad it is in comparison.

I’m not saying “no old fans enjoy this”, but I’m saying that there are a lot of fans from the original games who simply just don’t like New Horizons, and their opinions aren’t invalid just because it’s a “small minority”. When I talk about this game, I talk about it through the perspective of the people who are in that group. The people who are like me that want this game to actually become good. Who desperately wanted a good successor to New Leaf, but feel like this game doesn’t deliver at all. And it would seem people here, tons of people on twitter, and tons of people on youtube share the same sentiment I do about this game.

@VoidofLight,

So by the same reasoning you can't critique a movie sequel without seeing the previous ones, rubbish you judge a movie like a video game on it's own individual merits, people on here moan to death when things are the same game after game, then complain when Nintendo add something new to the franchise, and trim something else. And again the previous games being better in this case is a personal opinion, this game reviews very well just like the previous entries in the series did.

Define a lot of fans do not like this, as I have very little issue with you or others on the internet not liking this new game, my problem stems from the fact you seem to be suggesting it's a lot of people, when there is no evidence of this.

@VoidofLight,

Looking at the reviews for these games new Horizons was the first time the series reached 90% overall metacritic score, the rest range from 73-88 as an average score.

Where is Bowser ?

@johnvboy Not saying that. I’m saying however that if people did play the originals, chances are they could feel the same. Not to mention, Animal crossing new horizons only adds two new things for all the things that it killed. Don’t think that’s very balanced.

@johnvboy also, the reviews were made in the first two months, before the honey moon period of the game wore off for people.

@VoidofLight,

Even in new leaf you will eventually get bored, it's a game where you do tend to do similar things day in day out, and as i said this is a personal thing for me, I have not tired of this game as soon as did with new leaf, I guess I like the island decoration and customizing more.

@VoidofLight,

True, the new players will not have experienced the older games, and because of this we can't automatically assume they would prefer them, it could be either way, as I said the people I know with previous experience with the franchise prefer new horizons, you and others have a different opinion.

To me all the Animal crossing games are classics, but I prefer the new one, just hope they add what you and your fellow players want, as in the end the day we are all fans of the series.

Take care now, and nice debating with you.

@VoidofLight

They are adding 2 japanese items between Feb 25 and March 3rd om celebration of Girl's day holiday

March 1st to March 14th a Pi Pie, to celebrate Pi day, I like this one because I miss the plethora of food items from NL

March 10th to March 17th we get 3 items celebrating Saint Patrick's day, one of them is a "soda"

@ares9090 Still, it's just items. While some of them are really neat.. I'd prefer more gameplay additions.. like actual shop upgrades, or the villager update that's in the code where the villagers get the functions they had in new leaf back. The Roost and Gyroids as well. Items won't bring me back to playing the game honestly, only gameplay will. We should've gotten those things I listed at launch.

@VoidofLight I know, I am so disappointed how the game has being handled, they added artificial replay value, there are a lot of missing features like Kapp'n and the tours, so many funny characters like Gracie or Katrina, instead they ruined Wisp and completely removed his lamp.

We are getting items that should have been in the game since day one, like the whole Nintendo items set, I'm missing a lot the Zelda items, the Varia Suit and the plethora of series and food items we had in New Leaf.

while disappointed, I still enjoy ACNH, but not as much as I did enjoy NL

@ares9090 I like Wisp in this game, since it returned to his gamecube roots. However, I agree with you on everything else.