2020 is going to peak early for me with New Horizons and FF7R dropping in March.
I don't think I want anything less and it puzzles me that this is an attractive prospect for some. I don't understand the point of "the same Animal Crossing as always but the start is even slower and it takes even longer to access most of the features." It already took New Leaf too long to get going imo.
To me, a static town is boring. A changing one is fun. It's like the old adage about model railroading, if you think your layout is done, you need to find a new hobby? I think once you can "access most of the features" the game starts to lose its charm.
I feel like the solution people should want to this problem is for them to give us more options and things to do at the tail-end of the game, rather than taking things away at the start to make us wait longer for them. I love games where you start from nothing and have to build everything from the ground up, but not in a game where there's a real-time clock and the slow early part takes weeks instead of hours.
I agree with your first suggestion but won't concede to the latter; I think the early game with very little on the island will be plenty fun. I suppose we'll see though
The question here would be what, exactly, those features would be in a game like Animal Crossing. Most of the really fundamental options open up pretty early on, and the idea of having "more options at the tail-end of the game" just sounds like holding features and options hostage for way too long for the sake of not running out of things to do in the long term, which is exactly what you want to avoid when you say you don't like the game taking stuff away early on.
They're all the same everywhere when it comes to Nintendo nowadays.
My biggest worry is that it'll not feel like a game that grows when you aren't playing it.
Isabella is the New Leaf era mascot. I think her time came and went, and like Rover, and other old timers you'll just get a bunch of cameos in the cafe or maybe on a boat, or a rare event.
I was wondering if I'm the only one that missed the more potato-character look of the original games. It's become a bit more like a series of toys, the way it looks. As for lighting I think of it more as a typical Switch rendering thing. It's like that ugly period of graphics rendering where you've just got enough to do more realistic lighting techniques but not the GPU budget to render a lot of shadows, so it has this weirdly bright "unlit" look to it. I don't really like it either. Reminds me of the nauseating areas in Dragon Age Inquisition that are too colorful and bright.
I get the concern because it's something new, but everything related to crafting, building the island, etc, seem to be made in the chillest way you could design it. It'll definitely be a cool, relaxing experience, and 100% not punishing if you do something "wrong".
this is an interesting complaint, given that the game has self-shadowing and some of the best graphics on Switch:
No doubt is it an advanced game graphically, regardless of if it was on Switch or a PS4, but I just... don't like the vibe of the graphics this time, is that weird? Like the other person said it's just too bright and certain ground details are too clean. It has a less charming vibe somehow and it's not just because it's on an island. I liked New Leaf better but it was less charming to look at than Wild World. City Folks is the worst, most "plastic" look for the series though.
She's on the box art with a brand new outfit, and she's litterally on the last shot of this tv spot, with a close up.
You're right, and she has gotten an iconic status over others and still mascotted the mobile game... I just personally, as much as I liked her in the previous game, I want them to move on from having her be the voice that comments on your everything at this point. It would seem more tasteful if she only appeared at certain times of day or even just the week than to have her waltz around observing your progress for yet another game.
nah that's not weird, and a totally valid impression. personally I'm pleased by its simple, detailed, and clean look, plus all of the little technical things like the leaves blowing in the wind and the raindrops in the rivers and buckets, but I'll see how I'll feel when I'm playing the game I suppose.
