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Animal Crossing: New Horizons | Review Thread

predict the metascore

  • 100

    Votes: 56 4.1%

  • 95-99

    Votes: 106 7.7%

  • 90-94

    Votes: 583 42.2%

  • 85-89

    Votes: 497 36.0%

  • 80-84

    Votes: 113 8.2%

  • 75-79

    Votes: 10 0.7%

  • under 75

    Votes: 16 1.2%
  • Total voters
    1,381
  • Poll closed .
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Puffy

Puffy

Banned
Dec 15, 2017
3,585
fetchimage

The gaming equivalent to cleaning the house
 
Doskoi Panda

Doskoi Panda

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 27, 2017
15,046
The posting equivalant to letting your dog shit on someone else's lawn :p

Good time for some spring cleaning I say
 
Odeko

Odeko

One Winged Slayer
The Fallen
Mar 22, 2018
15,180
West Blue
I'm saying 91. There will be a handful of negative reviews just due to it being such a weird genre, but the vast majority will be glowing.
 
ClickyCal'

ClickyCal'

Member
Oct 25, 2017
59,760
Based on the other scores and the switch bumps to ratings, I'll go flat 90. Reviewers won't have been able to get the full expwrience, but enough to show it's the best in the series.
 
Dwebble

Dwebble

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
9,633
I can see the global situation pushing scores up, as reviewers come to value escapism more. 91.
 
Kouriozan

Kouriozan

Member
Oct 25, 2017
21,184
Wild World did 86 MC and 88 for New Leaf. I'll guess 90 just for the continuity.
Don't forget that IGN is going to give it a 8

 
Rodney McKay

Rodney McKay

Member
Oct 26, 2017
12,247
I voted 90-94, my prediction is probably about 90.

From everything I've seen the game seems to do enough little quality of life improvements to appeal to the people who are already AC fans (inventory, graphics, decorating your house, etc.), but I think it'll also do enough bigger things to appeal to reviewers who haven't gotten into the series as much yet (island terraforming, more customization outside, more specific goals for you to do with those Nook Miles challenges, etc).

I'm personally not the biggest fan of the series yet myself. The DS one was my firet and I liked it fine for a while, but eventually got bored. New Leaf was a big improvement to me because it added more things that I could do as the Mayor (building bridges and other public work stuff), but I felt it could have even more.
So this one seems like it could be the perfect next step to hook me for a long time.
 
Droidian

Droidian

One Winged Slayer
Avenger
Dec 28, 2017
2,391
I'm surprised my AC Switch from Target was delivered early this morning.
The packaging is real neat and the controllers, HOT!
 
Buzzth

Buzzth

Member
Jan 15, 2018
731
Japan
It should get around 90 unless a bunch of websites decide to nominate the reviewer that couldn't care less for Animal Crossing, then yes, maybe in the high 80s.
 

Texan365

Member
Oct 27, 2017
146
My hope is that the consensus is "better than New Leaf." If it can attain that, it will be a staple on my switch hard drive.
 

mk_68

Banned
Feb 3, 2020
942
This is a hard game to predict. I feel like it'll fall somewhere between 88-92, which is not an option. So I went 90-94. It could easily be a 90 just as easily as it could be an 89 lmao.

Historically AC games do below 90 but I think the form factor of the switch is a big positive and almost adds a handicap of sorts to games, particularly 1st party games.
 
mnk

mnk

Member
Nov 11, 2017
6,382
I don't get why so many people think this will score lower than New Leaf and Wild World. I mean I know it's not impossible, but nothing we've seen has indicated that should be the case.
 
LightKiosk

LightKiosk

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 27, 2017
11,479
90-94 in my opinion. As a whole it looks great and incredibly polished from what we've seen so far. I'd also wager the delay further improved the game.
 
BigTime_2018

BigTime_2018

Member
Dec 31, 2018
1,319
Rodney McKay said:
I voted 90-94, my prediction is probably about 90.

From everything I've seen the game seems to do enough little quality of life improvements to appeal to the people who are already AC fans (inventory, graphics, decorating your house, etc.), but I think it'll also do enough bigger things to appeal to reviewers who haven't gotten into the series as much yet (island terraforming, more customization outside, more specific goals for you to do with those Nook Miles challenges, etc).
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I also voted 90-94, and for pretty much the same reasons.
 
Opa-Opa

Opa-Opa

Attempted to circumvent ban with alt account
Banned
Oct 16, 2018
1,766
Under 75 is my vote.

Or else I may lose my job.
 
Doskoi Panda

Doskoi Panda

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 27, 2017
15,046
mnk said:
I don't get why so many people think this will score lower than New Leaf and Wild World. I mean I know it's not impossible, but nothing we've seen has indicated that should be the case.
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"Have you watched last month's Animal Crossing: New Horizon Nintendo Direct?"

Yes, I have -> 90-94
No, I haven't -> 80-89
 
Dyle

Dyle

One Winged Slayer
The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
30,026
I'm thinking 90 or 91. I suspect New Leaf's score was hurt by some of the annoying little qol things that New Horizons has done a lot to fix, while the changes to the core gameplay loop should make the early game more engaging and dynamic.
 
ShinobiBk

ShinobiBk

One Winged Slayer
Member
Dec 28, 2017
10,121
85-89

It will be a great AC game but a lot of reviewers won't know what to do with that and give it a generic 8-8.5/10
 
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