You buy his amiibo card and scan him in or you hope he randomly comes to live in your village.
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct - Feb 20 @ 9am ET
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I wouldn't expect more than 10, the island doesn't seem big enough to support more than New Leaf had.
The direct implied there'd be a handful of animals going to the island with you in the beginning of the game. Do you know the amount that starts the town?
Has anyone done the math based on existing footage for how big the island is? If shops are being put back into the main map, plus you're now expected to have a large front lawn with lots of stuff in it, it seems like it should be a little bigger than in the past at least.
It was either 2 or 3.
Everything we've seen suggests you start with only 2 animal neighbors.
Regarding villager numbers, I've been wondering about this a bit.
Is it possible we don't have a singular hard number for animal villagers on an island because...that maximum might change based on how many human players enter? The amount of space taken up and crowded feeling would be waaay different if you were to have 1 human and 12 animals compared to 8 humans with 12 animals. There may be more of a rolling max based on total population to some extent, though I have nothing to base that on.
Is it possible we don't have a singular hard number for animal villagers on an island because...that maximum might change based on how many human players enter? The amount of space taken up and crowded feeling would be waaay different if you were to have 1 human and 12 animals compared to 8 humans with 12 animals. There may be more of a rolling max based on total population to some extent, though I have nothing to base that on.
I loved most of what I saw in the Direct. I'm curious about a couple of things though.
I'm not interested in micromanaging the villagers. Do you have to mark lots for them to move in or is that just an option? I'd rather they move in wherever and work around them.
Also, this might be a stupid question, is all of the themed furniture coming back? I know you can buy some premade stuff, but is it a limited amount of items or will all the old stuff cycle through. Or is all that stuff craftable too?
Regardless, I can't wait. I've started up a new town in Magician's Quest to kill time, but it's not the same.
I'm not interested in micromanaging the villagers. Do you have to mark lots for them to move in or is that just an option? I'd rather they move in wherever and work around them.
Also, this might be a stupid question, is all of the themed furniture coming back? I know you can buy some premade stuff, but is it a limited amount of items or will all the old stuff cycle through. Or is all that stuff craftable too?
Regardless, I can't wait. I've started up a new town in Magician's Quest to kill time, but it's not the same.
I've got one of those amiibo things that lets me duplicate it as any uploaded amiibo. Will come in handy here.
Based on the E3 trailer it's a tiny little bit larger than New Leaf, though that seems to be mostly because it has beaches on all sides. I haven't seen any updated estimates from the direct though I doubt it would have changed much. I'm worried that it's going to be too small
Yeah, a compromise like that would be ideal. Additionally, since anyone moving in has to be approved by the player choosing a location, you should theoretically be able to decline any more animals if you feel your island is already crowded enough. Having the maximum number of animals be somewhat high, while then giving the player the freedom to choose how many they want would be an even better solution.
Gotta questions. Shop owners such as Gracie, Brewster, Labell (even KK Slider?) will first come to our island in order to see if it's ready to get their shops established on It? I didnt understand it well... But seeing Harvey as a tourist and then as a place owner made me think that.
If that's true, could be the reason why we haven't see barely any special characters (nor shops) and could be a way to get updates including new ones. I miss Cyprus and Resee :(
If that's true, could be the reason why we haven't see barely any special characters (nor shops) and could be a way to get updates including new ones. I miss Cyprus and Resee :(
I should definitely make a park area. Somewhere cosy to hang out on rainy days. Bit of a dilemma, 'cause I probably need to make it myself but I want it to look natural.
I'm still undecided on whether I'll build a neighbourhood or not, but I'm definitely gonna group my favourites together, like they used to live in my old GameCube town. I've missed seeing Bill and Dizzy hang out ever since Bill moved out, like fifteen years ago.
I'm kind of skeptical that Reese and Cyrus will be in since you're able to customize stuff by yourself now, and Tommy and Timmy seem to be in charge of recycling stuff again.
They'll probably pop up somewhere, but I'm having trouble racking my brain to think what they could permanently be in charge of.
I'm also a bit concerned about overall size. It's hard to see and compare right now with the footage we have. It could be a little bit bigger than NL though. Well... that's what i'm hoping for anyways.
That section was just talking about the usual special visitors. Harvey in particular is set up on a different island, Photoopia, rather than just a building you can make. And some like the new turnip girl and Saharah will likely just be usual visitor-only characters.
I do think we'll see them eventually able to "add on" to stores, though, since we kind of already had that in New Leaf with Gracie and Katrina. Label in particular seems like she'd join up for a boutique expansion ala Gracie and Kicks seems like someone who'd get his own store again. We haven't seen Leaf, but him joining back up with the nooklings would make a lot of sense.
Does anyone know of its possible to live on the same island as someone on a different switch?
That's pretty good if you're still up to date on that. I abandoned those fuckers years ago.
I see it as a QOL feature to make your island more personal to how you want it. Animal Crossing to me has always been about the events and activities you take part in with the villagers and they didn't do much innovation on that front. I was hoping we'd get more activities instead of the usual fishing and bug catching.
I'm sure people that love to decorate and customize their islands will see terraforming as a gamechanger though
I am so glad I have a full set of the AC Amiibo cards. Hoping the Felyne from the Monster Hunter amiibo is there too.
Someone here probably knows more than me about it, but was this cell tower in the previous titles? With the introduction of the NookPhone, I got the immediate feeling it opens up phone features, but then again it can be completely cosmetic.
I suspect that while Nook will offer his own workshops, as shown in the direct, there will be other special seminars that you can get recipes from that are handled by the Alpacas.
basically think of Nook as to the Abel Sisters what the Alpacas would be to Label or Kicks
I also wouldn't be surprised if we see other special npcs come in to offer improved or take over other aspects. Like right now, Mail is handeled by the Dodos. But I would be pretty surprised if we're never able to bring in Pelly, Phyllis and Pete for a proper mail office.
I didn't have much expectations of New Horizons and I didn't plan to buy it, but after seeing all the things you can do, I might buy this at launch. That was a good presentation. Chill and jolly.
That's certainly all possible. I was kind of wondering if they might change things up this time around and provide upgrade options for more locations. Seeling Labelle as a traveling guest kind of made me think that the Able Sister's shop might be upgradable this time so that she adds her accessories to it again.
Maybe down the line the Airport gets a similar upgrade, and Reese and Cyrus set up shop in the T&T shops.
Ah yeah, I can understand.
Hopefully, if you do get it, you'll still find some fun in it.
Someone here probably knows more than me about it, but was this cell tower in the previous titles? With the introduction of the NookPhone, I got the immediate feeling it opens up phone features, but then again it can be completely cosmetic.
I'd figure it's just cosmetic, entirely because it would feel a bit restrictive to tie gameplay mechanics to something that might mess up the aesthetic of your town. It's neat, though! I might make a little suburb with some of those for flavour
It's crazy that the visuals are actually pretty close to the mk8 track. Arguably better in some aspects.
Celeste is a special NPC, neither her amiibo figurine or amiibo card will work to summon her. None of the AC amiibo have that functionality in NH, AFAIK.
I doubt that, because then you'd end up in situations where you have to force animal villagers to move out before you can create more human characters.
No you don't need it.
Especially for non villagers. The amiibos let you do a photo shoot in a set with the characters you summoned via amiibo or amiibo cards.
For villagers, amiibo cards just let you have them in your village for sure. Otherwise, it's just pure luck. You can go to the deserted island a lot since you'll find a villger other there that you can ask to come to the village. So go there as much as you can, and hope to find the one you want.
Quick, what are the highest selling? I need to take advantage of this racket.
I'm gonna be so sad if he doesn't come to the island. Just going to his shop and chilling with a coffee was one of my favorite things to do.
There's some official art of some Arms character with a cellphone too. Twintelle comes to mind.
It's actually crazy - somehow, New Horizons makes this level look more like those "MARIO 64 IN UNREAL ENGINE" videos - despite the fact that I wanted the Switch AC to look like this level SO BADLY when it came out.It's crazy that the visuals are actually pretty close to the mk8 track. Arguably better in some aspects.
New Horizons is seriously gorgeous.
There's the Rotom Phone from Sword & Shield, but Pokémon's a grey area. If you counted it you could even technically count the PokéGear from way-back-when.
Also kinda sorta Kirby
New Horizons is definitely the first fully featured one in terms of gameplay mechanics, though
Jimmy T from WarioWare has a flip phone in the GBA game. Maybe later, too.
New Horizons is leaps and bounds beyond the Mario Kart track. Just look at the tree in the fall snapshot and compare it to one of the trees in New Horizons, it's a night and day difference. The lighting in Hew Horizons is way more sophisticated too. The only thing that is close or better is the water, but they are so stylistically different that it's hard to make a comparison. In retrospect the Mario Kart track looks a little ugly, the stock bushes and grass kind of ruin the look for meIt's crazy that the visuals are actually pretty close to the mk8 track. Arguably better in some aspects.
Woah
Woah, I did not see this screenshot before. This game is beautiful and the outside customization is insane.Someone here probably knows more than me about it, but was this cell tower in the previous titles? With the introduction of the NookPhone, I got the immediate feeling it opens up phone features, but then again it can be completely cosmetic.