Have we seen any screens of the Passport app yet? Interested in if we'll be able to get pages for visiting friends' villages.
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct - Feb 20 @ 9am ET
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Am I nuts or did they say I could send letters to friends online without having to be in their town to do so?
That would be a great addition. I've always wanted that.
That would be a great addition. I've always wanted that.
I interpreted it that way too, but when I re-watched the Direct I think they only said 'friends', and didn't mention online. I think I just interpreted it as such since they talked about the various airport functions and stuff around the same time. But I might be wrong.
No, they only showed sending letters to villagers in your own town, and the way it's worded "feel free to interact with other residents" seems, to me, to imply it's only for villagers. If so, it's definitely confusing since it comes right after talking about visiting friends' towns
Friends are limited to offline only. They use "friends" when you invite people online to your island IIRC
All this Animal Crossing talk reminded me of that website that plays animal crossing music depending on what time it is. That led me to seek out a Firefox addon that could do the same and I came across Nook. It will play music from any of the games and has the rain/snow variations. There is even an option to play rain sounds and K.K. Slider at the appropriate time on Saturday. It's open source if you want to verify it doesn't do anything nefarious. It is also available on Chrome.
It specifically says "in-game" and "other residents" of your own island, and the pop-up only displays animal villagers. I'm sure you can also send cards to other human residents on your own island, but Nintendo has been leery of allowing direct online communication since that swapnote scandal. I doubt any direct online communication from one island to another island will be a feature. At best we'll get a pop-up keyboard for in-game chat and voice over ip through the app for online multiplayer.
Have Gyroids been confirmed for the game yet? I feel like I've seen them in house shots, but I can't be sure
I've never played an animal crossing game before, but I'm intrigued.
But I dont really know what I'd be getting into.
But I dont really know what I'd be getting into.
I mean, you still can't even turn any item diagonally and its still only 4 directions, so, are you really surprised?
Whatever you want to get into.
Want to make friends with an imaginary koala bear?
Want to contribute to global overfishing in hopes of establishing a futile record of flora and fauna?
Want to enjoy all the fun of paying off an actual mortgage but with no interest and no physical goods in return?
I have the game for you my friend.
There's also this. I wonder how the message in a bottle will work on Switch.
Oh man I missed this feature. There was some weird ass messages in there in Wild World.
My hype for this game is slooowly building. I'm of the opinion the series never truly surpassed the Gamecube original (I'm not counting Dobutsu no Mori for N64) and I've bought every game in the series besides Wild World and Happy Home Designer (we don't talk about Amiibo Festival).
I haven't seen anything that makes me go, "Woah, this is a gamechanger!" but it looks extremely solid and it's been long enough since New Leaf that I can get sucked into the Animal Crossing groove again.
The mayor stuff in New Leaf frustrated me with how restrictive and utterly pointless it felt. New Horizons emphasis on customization of almost anything with little restriction and direct action really does seem like enough of a breath of fresh air to draw back me in.
I haven't seen anything that makes me go, "Woah, this is a gamechanger!" but it looks extremely solid and it's been long enough since New Leaf that I can get sucked into the Animal Crossing groove again.
The mayor stuff in New Leaf frustrated me with how restrictive and utterly pointless it felt. New Horizons emphasis on customization of almost anything with little restriction and direct action really does seem like enough of a breath of fresh air to draw back me in.
I mean, I hold a special place for the GC game too, but is it at all possible that part of that lies in nostalgia, for both of us?
I mean, yeah. Diagonal paths would be a lot easier to implement because it's just taking a tile overlay and cutting it in half. They already let you cut tiles diagonally with the water and cliff tools.
Two big things I personally hope are back but possibly unlikely due to how the Switch works:
- Streetpass model homes -- Obviously the Switch doesn't have Streetpass but this was one of the coolest uses of it. I wonder if there's a way they could implement something similar somehow (it would obviously have to be on a separate island since the island doesn't have a Main Street area)
- Dream Suite -- I'm wondering if this requires some server setup for islands to be uploaded. But I thought it was really fun and cool to just hop onto random towns and see cool stuff people made, even the mundane stuff.
I find the GCN game to be one of my favorites in the series as well, along with WW (mostly bc of the online). One of the things I actually disliked about NL was the feeling of being "in charge". This time around you're just another person settling into the island (with a few privileges of your own, of course).
From what I've seen of NH, it really does look like they've implemented many long lost features from GCN and WW. That is what's making me pretty hype about the game, because they're also obviously looking to work over those features and make them better as well. We'll never have a WW or GCN game, but an AC like that in times like this would feel stagnant and unoriginal. NH allows to to keep whatever feeling you want from the game: chill and relaxing like GCN and WW or busy and filled with your designs and projects like NL.
Join in on flowing breading. It's a mad science to get rare colors that might drive you crazy. AC is wild.
Or become a billionaire on the Turnip Market by conspiring with players from parallel dimensions to game prices.
This makes me realize: if what allows you to reshape the island is a development permit explicitly provided by Nook, Inc... dammit, you're sort of working for him again, in the end.
Incidentally, I've never really gotten much into flower-breeding, but the flowers look so much nicer this time around, and there's so much to do with them, that I'm considering it. The one downside is that, as far as I'm aware, there isn't any sort of way to keep track of all the varieties/hybrids you've grown. That'd be a nice new section for the museum, actually.
Get ready for insanity. 60% of my town is covered in flowers at least the other 40 is mostly Perfect Peach trees. It's mad fun.
And yeah it would be nice if flowers got more recognition in the museum or somewhere. The insect/fish guide is phenomenal looking in NH. It would be really nice if there was a notebook for flower breeding too cause it's stupid complicated.
But definitely not in WW. At least I don't remember it there.
EDIT: Also it's pretty funny that in a world of texting and instant communication, a feature I really want in a video game is to send a virtual snail mail letter to my friends 😅
The dream suite needs to return for those cool spooky weirdo towns
It does not. 383 is the number of normal villagers in the four series of AC cards plus the Welcome amiibo series.
I wouldn't count Reese and Cyrus out of returning yet, in any case - Nook may have taken over their customization role, but nothing else we've seen so far has dealt in secondhand sales, which was always their primary function. It seems like exactly the kind of thing they'd keep in, with them emphasizing sharing an island with a bunch of other people.
... Porter, on the other hand, I'm less sure about.
Can someone provide me a in depth explanation of how the hybrid flowers work in Animal Crossing?
I understand the connections and which colours result in which, as well as that they need to touch, but what is actually the best combination?
As in, side by side, diagonal, where do they spawn, what are the actual odds, etc?
I understand the connections and which colours result in which, as well as that they need to touch, but what is actually the best combination?
As in, side by side, diagonal, where do they spawn, what are the actual odds, etc?
oh christ. how lame. can't they just make some kinda "best friends" list for this crap? sheesh.
God I hope atleast Cyrus/Reese return. I'd like Porter to return too, but Flip is a better design anyway.
I wouldn't count anything out. With content updates they could come back at any time. Even a year from now. If New Horizons gets a true "living game" treatment the possibilities are kind of endless.
Saint Valentine's special character could be a teddy bear. He may give u some chocolate and a brand new love furniture series.
Dia de muertos could be Jack's brother (instead of a pumpking-head a skullbone mask). Could be great if that day we remember Tortimer and get typical things of that day.
Beginning of Summer's special character could be Captain's family who organise some kind of market on the beach where u can buy fireworks to use them at 00:00, summer accessories, ice creams...e
This is how I feel as well. It may be nostalgia (Probably is) but I enjoyed the villagers I had more and I don't really like the reliance on more of the "special" characters. Isabelle felt like a forced fan favorite to me personally. But the biggest change I disliked for the longest time was the grid based camera. I loved the old NES Zelda style camera movement from grid to grid and I really, really disliked the globe look it got later on.
They have no incentive to do this unless there are DLC/microtransaction plans.
They did this with Splatoon (both games, including the first game that had no paid DLC).
The incentive is to keep the community alive so that social media is still convincing newcomers to purchase it years from now. Just like any game with consistent free updates, such as Splatoon, which is from the same team.
