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To those who are saying Animal Crossing games have always been this way:
New Horizons is explicitly about letting you build your village from the ground up. In previous entries, your town was already established when you moved in. But in New Horizons, you decide what gets built, where it gets built, and when it gets built.
There's an unprecedented amount of design freedom this entry, which is fantastic! It allows you to customize each little square of your island exactly how you want.
That's why it's a much bigger deal that Switch users are forced to share the same play space.
Users will (potentially) disagree on issues like:
- Which shops to build
- Where villagers should put their houses
- What paths to put down
- Where bridges should go
- When to transition from remote island life to bustling town life
- Which sections of the town should be devoted to construction projects vs. natural beauty
It's precisely because of the freedom this game allows that there will be so many friction points that didn't exist in previous shared towns.
Also remember: with the original, Wild World, and New Leaf, you could at least buy a second memory card or copy of the game to have a new or separate town experience. But it appears New Horizons saves to the Switch itself, so no matter how many copies of the game you try, you'll always end up in the same save file.
New Horizons is explicitly about letting you build your village from the ground up. In previous entries, your town was already established when you moved in. But in New Horizons, you decide what gets built, where it gets built, and when it gets built.
There's an unprecedented amount of design freedom this entry, which is fantastic! It allows you to customize each little square of your island exactly how you want.
That's why it's a much bigger deal that Switch users are forced to share the same play space.
Users will (potentially) disagree on issues like:
- Which shops to build
- Where villagers should put their houses
- What paths to put down
- Where bridges should go
- When to transition from remote island life to bustling town life
- Which sections of the town should be devoted to construction projects vs. natural beauty
It's precisely because of the freedom this game allows that there will be so many friction points that didn't exist in previous shared towns.
Also remember: with the original, Wild World, and New Leaf, you could at least buy a second memory card or copy of the game to have a new or separate town experience. But it appears New Horizons saves to the Switch itself, so no matter how many copies of the game you try, you'll always end up in the same save file.