I just started playing it this week. It’s great but I’ve play new leaf a lot back in the day. I’ve played new leaf, wild world, folk, and new horizons. I will say new leaf is still my favorite game in the series.
Tbh my biggest issue is, how you mentioned, you're creating an island, not living in it. It makes me so upset because I'm not creative enough or have the motivation to make my island a beautiful place, I just want to play, mess around and do chores with friends and villagers in an island that I don't need to worry about making it good but I feel pressured In a way? There's nothing else to do than to decorate your island imo and it sucks..
i feel this. i don't come to Animal Crossing for a creative sim, i come for the social sim, which has been completely excised from the game at this point. i actually really appreciated the sort of limited creativity that New Leaf offered. it challenged you to stretch your creativity as far as it could go using the tools you had, but it still offered a pretty robust experience even if you just kept your town basic. with New Leaf, there was still a fun social sim game within its expanded creative elements. with New Horizons, once you strip away the creative stuff there is nothing underneath.
List of things I want to do: Collect stuff - Posters, gyroids and Nintendo Items but posters are too tedious and I can’t be bothered to return to my island for the Nintendo items. Do chores - The villagers ask almost nothing of me 98% of the time. Talk to the villagers - Yeah, no. I love any villager design but they have the least enthralling dialogue I’ve ever seen. Live on my island - Am I really? The villagers are the essence of what makes your island special and they’re just there for the sake of being there.
I loved decorating my town how I wanted it and made it relate to the old ones as much as I can . But it is missing a lot of personalities and objectives and games we can do etc
Unpopular opinion maybe, but i actually like how it's more of a decoration sim as i enjoy those games and they help me relax.. wish the villagers had more personality though
I've been playing the games since I was 7 and, tbh, I have always remembered even WW as, first and foremost, about having a home and decorating it. I mean, yeah, resetti did upset me, and I do remember villagers being mean and slowly warming up, but tbh for me the decorating is the first thing I think of (I definitely need the villagers to have more life put back into them tho)
Which would be cool if it was actually easy to get stuff instead of constantly time traveling or getting involved in 20 discord servers to trade with people...
My BIGGEST issue has to be that villagers don’t ever react to anything I do. I can place as many benches and stuff as I want but they don’t react. Nothing I do matters
I love the older animal crossings because you could just wander around talking to villagers and catching bugs and fish, it was a calm time. New Horizons doesn't match my play style at all, despite playing for 80 hours, I never even unlocked terraforming. I wasn't interested in building my town to be a pretty garden or get rich on turnips, I just wanted to chat with my villagers. But I got bored with how my villagers kept saying the same things and also frustrated and jealous with how everyone else's village was so much nicer than mine (even if I actually never put any work into mine). It seemed like everyone online only cared about how your village looked and it was reinforced by how the game's main mechanics all focusing on building your town and making it look pretty. It made me feel like I was playing the game wrong because my village wasn't aesthetic. I find myself going back to the older games where you could water your flowers without comparing your village to everyone else's. One positive thing about new horizons I do want to mention is how much I love the improved clothing and mirror. I loved buying clothes and how you could match outfits together in the mirror without having to put each thing on individually. It was the biggest improvement in the entire game in my opinion. Also, the graphics are good too. TLDR: I don't want to build my village, I just want to live in it. And I didn't like how the aesthetics of your village seemed to be the most important thing But I did really enjoy the fashion improvements to the game.
And I am very frustrated by the fact that new dialogue and interactions could probably now be easily patched into the game. I was so excited for the interactions to become deeper and deeper with time but Nintendo just keeps sleeping on it. It had infinite potential.
I feel this. So I deleted my 300+ hour island and started anew with zero input from others. I've been playing how I want which is the way you describe the older games and its been so fun. Probably not as fun as the older games though
@Sasha Cup Cake Lady it was a video about the evolution of Animal Crossing villagers from the first game to Wild World to City Folk to New Leaf and to New Horizons made by TH-camr Tama Hero, it's a really good video. That's all I really have to say, I'm terribly sorry.
@@sashacupcakelady6695 because there’s no content outside of decorating. for a game that’s labelled as a life sim, they stripped it down so much that it has became nothing more than a decorating sim.
@@demi-qs5zc i totally agree, yes. Once i got 3 stars i did nothing. I played with my friend for a little and messed around, but then after my nintendo online expired i had nothing else to do. So i got stardew valley, and haven't picked it up since that um peacock event. if you want a life sim play stardew valley it is incredible. so much content. on switch mobile, pc, mac, $15 and wow its packed with content.
If they could make villagers an actual personality like in wild world were every villager had almost an individual personality and every villager had their own hobby and stuff to do with villagers and friends online i would be satisfied it'd also be cool if Isabelle gave more and better info about the day
It just feels like villagers are forced to like you or don't even care about building a friendship and then there's the problem they all pretty much say the same thing and only talk about things you do or happen to the island
Wild World was my first AC game & I was so excited to be reunited with Bob & Wolfgang in NH but they're so... bland now. Villagers just feel like another piece of decor now :,(
agree w everything except the isabelle thing LOL, i skip through all her updates as theyre all the same, just wish she would be outside and could walk around etc
I’m a big new leaf fan, and I think the thing I miss the most are those extra npcs. I always loved the amount of things you could do with them, and how that impacted your play style. Also, the small tasks the villagers kept asking me to do honestly kept me playing the game, and were what initially pulled me in.
Same, it's crazy to me how they got rid of so many of the Special NPCs that really made the games feel alive, and now it's just nothing.. None of the mail Pelicans, Isabelle's character is whittled down to nothing, getting emotes from Frill/Shrunk was fun, Celeste having her own wing of the Museum, among so many others... never realized how empty the game would feel without so many of them :(
My issue was how little there was to do once you built it; and how everything I built was really just a diorama, a facade of the thing. I made this cute outdoor diner; but it was just a fake restaurant. I would rather have a cute downtown with programmed shops and restaurants where I could interact with the villagers there. Plus the furniture options are so limited and I miss all the furniture they had in New Leaf. I think if your favorite thing is to make convincing versions of shops and other places, it's great. But if you actually want to USE the things you make in some way, it just doesn't do it. It was fun for a while though! I don't regret buying it at all
Yes! Tbf it's not like animal crossing items have ever been that interactive. But you'd think for a game released in 2020 where the main feature IS decorating with items, that maybe they could have made them more interactive. I've got bikes nobody can write, a gym nobody can use, an amusement park with rides nobody can sit on... wouldn't it be cool if these items actually did anything?
New Horizons made me rediscover my love for The Sims. It's everything Animal Crossing is, but you actually can interact with everything you build, just about.
I got bored of it almost a year ago. It was super addictive for a while, but I just don't see myself ever booting up new horizons again. I don't regret buying it though, 300+ hours well spent.
Loool saaame.. I just kinda quit playing for a while bc I didn’t know what the fuck I wanted to do with my island..I just wanted to terraform at least before having to decorate and situate everything but nope, I had to get five stars before I could terraform. I FINALLY got terraforming and I recently came back to the game so I’m excited
i bought the game the day it came out and i was super excited and i spent so much time playing it, but now ive kind of drifted back to new leaf since it imo is better
Before getting new horizons: can't wait to see the new content, shops and npcs! After getting new horizons : can't wait for old content, npcs and shops to be patched in.
I really liked the island concept, graphics and the creative freedom. However, at some point it just becomes repetitive. I miss all of the shops and things to unlock and buy. I miss the characters that weren’t villagers (Reese and Cyrus’s shop, Brewster’s, the hairstylist etc.). But most of all, I miss the individual personalities of the villagers. It never felt like lines were recycled with each character and they all felt like individuals. I remember working so hard to bond with Chief (the cranky fox looking villager) and how rewarding it was when he actually became my buddy. I even miss how brutal some characters could be and the feuds. It was great being able to kick out villagers by hitting them with nets and trapping them in pitfalls. The game became too easy, too “nice” and too repetitive. There was almost too much control. There was no depth, it didn’t feel alive. You explained this all perfectly. I really hope that Nintendo can reboot New Horizons to add more life to it like in previous games.
My biggest issue is once you’re done designing your island, then what are you suppose to do? I’ve redone my island so many times and gotten bored and quit right before I finished because there was nothing else to look forward to after that
right, and with the november 5th update being the last major free update, I don’t think there’ll be anything to look forward to after that anymore for a game where it’s supposed to give you some other life to relax to, and no exact “ending”, it feels like after you’ve filled out your island, got a five star rating, upgraded the shops and collected all the furniture, bugs, fish and fossils, there is a ending after all that.
@@hndough i mean, that's in the same in all the ac games Once you finish collecting everything...you'rr done! That's how games work, it's literally okay
@@Mqstodonyou’re right, but what I meant with my comment was if there was a lot more activity and alot more sprinkle of new things into the game where even after you’ve cleared out alot of things, there are still a few things to do. I mean, i’m pretty sure you’ve seen or noticed, but there isn’t much activity revolving around the villagers, right? they just seem so bland and lifeless PS: i enjoyed ACNH a ton, it’s not my favorite out of all the series, but i definitely did have lots of fun with it! i do love the game the way it is, i just think if there was a lot more activity with the villagers even after everything is cleared out - it would be alot more nicer
I got bored of this game after a couple months last year, but I just remembered one nitpick I had. The game is supposed to have a desert island feel to it, but in order to make your island "better", you have to crowd the outside with decorations, so it feels more like a theme park than just an island. Also... watering cans breaking... just why? If someone's that rough on watering cans, they have problems.
Watering cans breaking was definitely a new one. But what peeved me was the golden tools breaking. In past games those were the pinnacle, the tools you grinded for. That made zero sense to me.
I feel like this was just a great quarantine game, it served its purpose at the time and it's ultimately something that made that initial period of the rona a lot less lonely, but here we are a year and a half later with what feels like the same bare bones experience
What's a quarantine game? Isn't the entire point of playing literally any game with single player content to be lost in a fictional world being anti social?
This vid explains it PERFECTLY. Feels like AC took one step forward and two steps back. So many great new features, but the returning features from past games have been watered down or completely removed. When you said Nintendo doesn’t know which direction AC is going anymore that is exactly how it feels!
Thanks! I’m glad I was able to present these thoughts well! There have been additional comments that makes some excellent points. The Animal Crossing community really is something else and I hope Nintendo can recognize that and take some feedback
I think the biggest problem for me is the fact that we waited 7 years between New Leaf and New Horizons and now a whole year after the release and there are still things we feel like the game is missing. I don't mind the slow trickle of content. I'm an MMO player, so I'll grind away and get excited about patches every 3 months. But there's no variety and spice in New Horizons. The villagers say the same phrases over and over, there are no tasks given really at all, and things are so slow and clunky. While I loved Animal Crossing in the past for being a slower-styled game, New Horizons has taken it to a whole other level. Bulk buying and crafting should've been introduced by now. Faster options to get online to play with friends are a must. The amount of time I spend trading with other players vs the amount of time going through all the wifi menus and codes and nonsense, it's exhausting. I will concede Nintendo has listened to a few things like giving us more design slots, being able to access the design portal outside of the Able Sisters, and increased house storage. But all of this doesn't change the fact that players are just uninterested. I've been in the middle of redoing my island for months now because I do a little bit and just get so bored. There are no fun additional interactions to have with my villagers, they are literally just ornaments. I've actually gotten to the point where I'm just thinking about letting anyone who asks to move out and just autofill the slots to give myself more variety and surprise. And I agree on the music. I'm someone who will listen to game audio over whatever audio is on my Spotify because I love to enjoy the hard work put into the music in the games. But New Horizons music is dull. I wish there was an option to play old AC music in the game instead just to change it up a little bit. And I find the songs get more and more grating when you end up playing around the same time every day, so you only hear the one or two same songs every time.
Sounds like we’re exactly in the same page! I’ve also been allowing my villagers to move out and letting the spots auto fill to see which characters I’ll get just to add a little variety into the whole thing!
@@SimpleBean I want to be excited for a potential E3 announcement, but my expectations are set very very low. I know one thing to consider is how COVID has effected development and patch times, but Nintendo isn't upfront about anything. It's always just hope and wait, but I don't think people can just be content waiting for as long as we have.
@@ErynRollsDice yeah we can never know exactly how the pandemic effected things but it already had several years of lead time and development so the game should be more fleshed out than it is in my opinion. I’m also keeping my expectations low for E3 but if something DOES drop then I am down to be hype for this game again. Until then maybe I flatten my island? 🧐
@@SimpleBean Ooof I wish you the best of luck if you do decide to do that. I think the benefit for me with flattening is I started using the cliff tree glitches and my campsite area has a bunch of lilies of the valley (lily of the valleys? lol what?) put on the 4th tier with that glitch.
This was my boyfriend's first Animal Crossing game, and he loved it. I've played all of the games in the series, and I got so bored so quickly. He didn't seem to see why I was hating on it so bad. We recently played Amiibo Festival (because honestly, it's like 3 dollars at this point) and almost every event in the game I would turn to him and say, "Ooooh, who is that??" "Oh, what is that event??" "Oh, LEMONS?" because it would be all new for him. So many things were left out of this game, and for what? The nooks upgrading the store? No, it's the same forever. Phineas giving you badges? Nah, Nook Phone. Cyrus customizing things for you? Nah, just do it yourself. Lyle and Digby and the Happy Home Academy? Nah, it's back to just being a letter in the mail. Dr Shrunk teaching you reacts? Characters just do it at random now. Harriet styling your hair? Just look in the mirror. Gracie demanding you wash her car and then charging you 100,000 bells for a chair? Totally scraped. Copper, Booker, Brewster, Serena, Porter? Nothing. Lemons, lychees, bananas?????? Which are literally just cosmetic fruits????? Nothing. And for WHAT?
Sorry, but Harriet being removed from the game was the best decision ever made. The pathetic haircut quiz, and 1 haircut per day is absolute BS and the worst feature in all of Animal Crossing.
you're right about the stale villagers. At some point I just stopped talking to them each time I logged in. They get sad if you do but they just say the same dialogue over and over, especially when there's two villagers with similar traits. If they added a queue to crafting it'd improve things somewhat cuz clicking 80 times when I want to make several things in a row is so slow
The game stopped being charming and special after new leaf.. taking out Gyroids was a mistake (I know their origin is actually dark). However, it was quirky and unique and there was something special about it.
And here I was feeling bad I didn’t interact a lot with my villagers. Now I understand why! What happened to this game was so sad. We wanted more freedom in decorating but it didn’t have to become the sole focus of the game.
There is so much source material to pull from too! I would be ecstatic to hear an old dialogue line snuck in there from a previous game or referencing the old towns! Like what if Elle comes up and was like I really like the convenience of Dodo Airlines. I used to live in a town where the only way to travel was by train!
@@SimpleBean I just feel like talking to all my villagers is a bit of a chore. Talking to them is not exactly fun, especially - as you said - since there's not a lot of variance with the lines they say.
@@ReptilianTeaDrinker lol this made me laugh. One time my boyfriend and I were playing New Leaf and we went to his island. One of his villagers did not like me and when he walked up to her to talk to her she called me “ugly”. She tried to compete with me to win my boyfriend, then I beat her with a net the next time I stepped into his village and she complained about me and moved away. Those were the days.
And it doesn’t make sense, this game would’ve been perfect for that island! I really thought we were gonna get that when that photographer dog showed up but we didn’t :(
one of my problems with the game was the island rating system and how it basically forces you into expressing yourself a very specific way. when i played i didnt want to dump hours and hours into the game like a lot of people, rather i wanted to build bit by bit while enjoying the presence of my neighbors. i didnt want to fill my entire island with garbage in order to get 5 stars, i wanted to keep it quaint and with a good taste of wilderness alongside my infrastructure. there is no balance between playstyles, possibly because its much easier design wise to add a bloat of decorative content than to create personality and atmosphere.
I know this is a couple years late but this is just how I felt trying to get into new horizons recently! I can't express myself the way the game wants because I don't have 3 stars, I can't get 3 stars without dumping things around the island, I can't dump stuff around without spending tons of bells and space, and then my island is even less expressive of myself because it's covered in items in places I don't want them looking just bad! And I haven't even gotten to 3 stars because it's not enough trash around the island now. They should've focused on either making self expression more prominent, or having a balanced progression system. Either focus on a deserted island survival experience with the breakable tools and crafting and (more balanced) rating, or give people a little more freedom in the decorating and don't make them wait weeks minimum without time travel to do one of the main selling points of the game
Yeah once I got my island exactly how I wanted it, I realized there was no point in playing the game anymore, and the town felt empty. Like it was a set for a movie and not a real town.
Animal crossing in general is pretty dull tasting. All you do is walk around and collect mediocre things that don't do anything meaningful. Like, what if you could buy or find an animal that you had to take care of and doing so rewarded you, and what if the interactions with them had depth? Like Pokémon's Amie? What if you fed and pet and took care of a dog, and it was a fun gameplay experience that rewarded you with the dog helping you look for treasure? Or what if you could work towards buying like a boat to explore the ocean and discover different islands, or what if the scuba gear allowed you to explore deeper under water? AC has a very stagnant progression system. Nothing fun to work towards to enhance the gameplay, mostly because there really isn't any. You just decorate stuff.
I think Nintendo tried to turn Animal Crossing into Minecraft and it just doesn’t work. Just be glad that they didn’t try to make Animal Crossing into Fortnite, although killing Isabelle during her useless morning announcements might breathe some new life into the game…
My executive dysfunction left me with half of my island entirely empty and it burdens me. But honestly, starting on it again feels like a giant hurdle to overcome. I wish this game made me feel like I live in a community, like the old games did, but it just doesnt.
I grew up playing City Folk endlessly, and every couple of years since then, I would boot up the Wii and play again. I’ve come to appreciate the dialogue with the villagers, like stumbling upon a conversation. Recently, I had to choose between who more “had a face that scared kids” or something lol
To be honest, New Horizons just didn't feel like an Animal Crossing game. It feels too much like a sandbox. There's almost too much customization. After you've completed the main goals and expressed yourself fully, the border of the sandbox remains. There's no discovery, there's no new games, and since you don't check daily, you don't look forward to events. The sandbox stays the same without any rain, hail, snow, or anything that could possibly affect your island after years and years. In fact, there's more things to do in Happy Home Designer than in New Horizons, which was a SPIN-OFF. I love that they tried to revive the series, but it's disappointing that I can't enjoy it as much as I did with the other games.
I think it’s a possibility that many franchises go through this same kind of decline. My view is that it’s time for a new game to enter this space and make us fall in love all over again!
@@SimpleBean Yeah, I've seen many different franchises lose their popularity with time. Something similar happened to the LittleBigPlanet series. The original game developers had sold the franchise not long before they wanted the new game to come out, so the game was rushed and glitchy, so many people ended up leaving the fanbase. Recently, they sold the franchise to another studio, so it might be reviving soon, but it still follows the trend of dying franchises
Is it me or every game now tries to be sandboxy and open worldy just fails. They should stick to what made them special or think of better ways to mix old with new gameplay
I adore the graphics, especially the sky at sunset. Have enjoyed playing for maybe 7 months or so, but I find myself doing the exact same things each day - check mail, go to the shops (and spend 10 minutes buying clothes when in theory I could buy everything I want in a couple of minutes at most), look for the recipe bottle on the beach, dig up fossils, talk to the neighbours and maybe a few other things depending on who’s around. Sounds like a lot when written out, but all this can (usually) easily fit into a half hour, and there’s not much to keep me going beyond that.
I guess it does a pretty good job with that lack of depth if we see people online with hundreds of hours more than what it takes to complete the "deepest" and grindy RPGs.
When tou achievement about all of that game or even half and decore your island, then thats it, game is over. You just collect stuff and sell and nothing more. Events are boring, collect eggs, collect pumpkings, collect this and collect that, it is boring after some time. Villagers are boring also they always just say couple same things. Mystery islands are boring after you find all your villagers. It just really feel that you are alone in your island and online play doens't give your option visit and influence others island. Dream world is just pretty boring you cannot even ask friends or write nothing on messageboard. I hope they make that onlineplay better. Somehow the island that you are feels like death even you have villagers. It really is just decorate simulator after you got your house etc. I mean why onlineplay cannot have things like halloween or xmass party on some big island that have maby 100 another player or something? You can then celebrate and give present another players etc.
The game’s been about self-expression since at least Wild World. I read articles at the time that explained it’s success being this very customizable experience. People used to use those 10 design slots to design elaborate skins that would cover 70% of available tiles turning the village into underwater kingdoms and space cities. The problem isn’t that it gives you too much power it’s that it doesn’t feel lived in. I have so many individual problems with New Horizons but has they simply shipped the game with better village dialogue that would have been a massive improvement. In New Leaf I could talk to every villager every day for three weeks before getting a repeat conversation with a personality type. You get the same dialogue multiple times a day from half you villagers now. They don’t ask me to do anything and they’re never anything other than always set and pleased to see me and I stopped talking to them a few months into playing. The game shipped barebones but the thing that hurt the most was losing the spark of life from our animal neighbors
As much as I like the increased level of control over your town/island - getting to choose what villagers move in or out, where they place their houses, where EVERYTHING is placed, no risk of a favorite villager surprise moving one day and no random villager showing up and plopping their house right in the middle of some carefully placed path - it definitely feels... emptier. The personality types all seem much more the same and restricted in what they talk about. Cranky villagers less cranky, snooty villagers way less snooty, lazy villagers only talk about bugs in their houses. Everyone does what you say all the time and likes you immediately. I genuinely miss when cranky and snooty villagers in particular started out rude and gradually warmed up to you. And as much as it always sucked when a villager you felt like you'd formed a friendship with moved away, it felt more real, like they had lives of their own and could move away just like real life friends sometimes would - and whatever villager would move in next would have their own distinct personality, say things you were more likely to have not heard another villager say previously - I remember some unpopular or underappreciated characters ending up favorites just because I felt like I'd built a friendship with them, now it's all "I want that villager because they look cool" - villagers just feel like another decoration you can put on your 100% customized island.
ACNH is my first game in the franchise, so I never got to really know the charming life sim aspect that I always hear everyone reminisce about. I can't say that I'd find any joy in having my villagers bully me and be mean to me, something I hear a lot of AC veterans pine for. But I definitely can't stand the dialogue. A lot of my favorite villagers fall in the cranky catagory. As such I have 4 villagers from that archetype on my island and at one point I had 4 lazy villagers. There's SO many times where I'll talk to one villager, they'll give me the same line they give me when I greet them every day, then I'll go talk to another villager and they say the exact same thing. It really breaks the immersion when you have two different characters parroting the exact same 5 lines of dialogue. I'm so sick of hearing about Maglev Mike, bugs in the floor and the names of my villager's abs. Not to mention the absolutely tedious dialogue from some villagers. No joke, Gulliver has like 18 pages of dialogue you have to mash through before you can start his quest. I counted. Not to mention all the times where I mash through Blather's dialogue because I want to assess the fossils, accidentally click "Make a donation" because I was mashing through and then I have to sit through like 7 or 8 more pages of dialogue while Blathers explains to me what all types of donations they accept, even though all my museum sections except the art exhibit are complete. And then it kicks you out of the dialogue instead of giving you the option to reselect whether you want to donate or assess fossils. So you have to go through all that dialogue all over again... Another thing I really dislike about the game is the fact that it's almost 100% focused on decoration, but there's...very little variety in stuff to decorate with. Nintendo, you aren't fooling me, ok. I've SEEN the item catalog from New Leaf. There are literally hundreds of super cool items in New Leaf that ACNH players would kill to have. ACNH has a tiny amount of furniture sets, a fraction of what NL has, and for some reason, they cut some of the furniture items from the furniture sets that DID get ported over from New Leaf. New Horizons barely has any good indoor furniture, it has a lot of random kitchenware objects but barely anything in the way of tables or shelving. Virtually no counter tops. Can't put rugs outside for some bizarre reason. A lot of the cool landmark items from NL that would be perfect for Gulliver are missing. Barely any food items in the game. None of the cool store furniture like the 7-11 set, cash registers, all the cool cake and bakery display items. Like, all there is to do in ACNH is decorate your island, so I really don't understand why there's such a lack of items to do such with. And why most of the cool items aren't even interactive the way they are in Pocket Camp. That's not even mentioning all the NPCs they removed and all the previous events that they just straight up cut from ACNH for some reason. Would it have been that hard to give us a Valentine's event? St. Partricks? They even removed the Earth Day event that was in ANCH last year!
Yeah it’s funny how we miss the mean/ rude villagers. I think more than anything we miss having to earn their trust and respect. I mean maybe I need to go back and play again but I don’t remember the dialogue being nearly as repetitive as New Horizons. I would love to see some of the pocket camp furniture make it’s way over! Some of the best in the series
@@SimpleBean Talking to Bones: "Something's gonna happen today! I just know it! Any second now... I'm so excited!" Talking to Sherb: "Something's gonna happen today! I just know it! Any second now... I'm so excited!"
It's not exactly bullying. It's just they had the capacity to be nice or mean which made them feel more like real people. It's super boring if they're basically sweet and kissing up to you all the time.
it makes me sad to think that i personally just can’t play the game with the same joy i had last year. i was so hyped and even defended it when other players thought it was lacking. i haven’t picked up the game in months because i don’t know what to do besides have my villagers say a bunch of recycled shit and spend hours making one spot on my island look ok.
I acknowledged that lack of content from day 1, but thought Nintendo was holding it back as to not delay the game again. I thought we'd get the stuff in a couple months..... Nope. 17 months later. Got almost nothing except, Redd, Dream Suite, Diving, and Lief
It’s so... boring. Like, we can’t actually eat food, drink coffee, or interact with any objects you place on your island. If you can, it’s a very small mechanic. Little to no quality of life updates. it’s pretty much ignored these days. Only updates available are for other animal crossing games. That’s it. RIP acnh!
@@SimpleBean I’ve never played any other animal crossing, ACNH is my first one and I’m a bit disappointed 😅 but i appreciate how much effort they put into the designs of furniture and what not
Why did fhey get rid of ordinances? I feel the game would have much more of a wider appeal if you were able to change how the game is to suit your playstyle. If you like decorating, make a pro decorating ordinance in place, and if you like villager interaction, choose a pro interaction ordinance.
@@TheTrueXaver We paid full price for this half made game. Then, they throw the actual new, game breaking content behind a paywall. I guarantee the next "update" will be dlc too.
I always wonder how we would have received ACNH if not for the pandemic. Would there have been a big boom in sales and players and would we have had the same first initial reaction? Me personally, my first reaction was very excited! But it got so bland so fast because the charm is gone. I really do miss the old AC feel.
I feel like AC still would’ve been received well upon release, just because it was hyped up right before any lockdowns started. I remember the AC Nintendo switch in particular being sold out days before we were ordered to stay at home just because we were hyped about animal crossing in particular. It was crazy how fast it went out of stock especially online. And when the actual game soon released, it got crazier. However, had we not gotten the extra increase in fan base when the pandemic DID start, and everyone was in lockdown, I don’t think that hype would’ve lasted long. The only reason the hype extended pretty much the rest of 2020 was because of lockdown. All the new fans caught on because they had nothing else to do, and they watched as our community got excited for the game and that inspired them to become a part of our fan base as well.
It ended up being a great backdrop for hanging out with friends when we couldn’t in real life. Had the pandemic not happened I think more people would have seen how flat it all is.
@@Val.Kyrie. it has. From what ik from friends that have stayed in Japan (military based so they lived there a few yrs) people often wear masks during cold and flu season. It was very common seeing people that mightve been sick and those not wanting to get a cold wearing masks around like nothing.
I need the life sim elements back, I want to be able to interact with my villagers more, sure I'd love a mini game island again to play with friends but want to play with my villagers as well; I designed my island with ease of traversal vs self expression, because whilst enjoyable at the start, I find no reason to continue to change it up as it were. My hope lies in E3, with more eyes on Nintendo than ever a large meaty update to bring in NEW players and bring back those who have left would be best revealed then. One can hope...
I'm glad we finally have an Animal Crossing veteran critiquing New Horizons and being brutally honest about it as a game. I've been saying this for years and all I get is a bombardment of fans who only started playing with New Horizons and Pocket Camp lol. Thank you so much, I really appreciate your perspective. You've certainly earned a subscriber :)
The newest update to the game has changed a lot of the problems. I would have rather them just released the game now, but from a business standpoint having it released mid pandemic was a real smart move. Better late than never I guess.
i REALLY wish we had proper goals after getting kk. like- maybe help build brewster’s cafe, or add more upgrades to nook cranny and able sisters. without a goal, you get tired of the same repetitive stuff over and over again.
A lot of the features from previous games are still missing! The Nooklings can’t expand their store more than once, so the item selection is still small, Leif and Kicks and Redd can’t create their own stores so if you want what they’re selling you have to wait for them to show back up, the vacation island mini games, villagers can’t come over to your house or play hide and seek with you, and placards in the museum so you don’t have to have the bug/fish/fossil in your inventory to ask Blathers about it (which made me hesitate to bulk donate). Isabelle basically does nothing and is just there because people liked her so much last time. It would be cool if Gracie could come back and make her own store in the upstairs of the Nook Shop or Labelle could have her own designer goods you could buy instead. Katrina isn’t here to tell your fortune, Brewster isn’t here to slowly befriend and make coffee with, Katie and Katherine don’t need reuniting, Blanca doesn’t need a new face, Lyle isn’t here to harass you to buy sketchy insurance, and, while their jobs have been taken by other NPCs or just new mechanics added in the game, I miss Harriet and Dr. Shrunk and Resetti and Tortimer and Pelly and Phyllis and Copper and Booker because their personalities added more color to the game. They made the game feel like a small town populated by people with strong/weird personalities like a lot of real small towns.
Got it rec'd to me after watching it lol. I DO agree with her tho in a lot of points here tho (Especially the blander villagers, even NL had some stuff I haven't seen in the dialogue rotation and whatnot, hope that changes in a minor update sometime), hopefully the November update will finally be that spice for Horizons.
The intimidation of terraforming and filling up my island and seeing everyone else's amazing creations really burnt me out playing and now I'm too scared to come back to it bc of how awful it looks. It makes me want to start over, but I have so much game progress and bells that I can't
fortunately i love the design aspect, the main problem for me is that it takes way too long to get the furniture i want, especially with how small the daily selection of items at nook's is, the limit on how many items you can order per day, how getting different colors of items requires you to trade with other players, and how trading itself is a hassle due to the tedious process of going through orville's excessive amount of dialogue every time you want to invite/visit a friend, plus the lag.
@@99xara99 was about to say that! I’d love a creative mode, I gave up trying to collect everything after a while and that discouraged me from enjoying the sandbox elements
this 100%!! They needed to figure out what they wanted you to do in the game and make the game less annoying overall Is the main point to design an island? Then why does changing things on your island take so long in real time. It's like one of those horrible phone games that make things so tedious to force you to buy "gems" to do things faster. Those games are made purposefully annoying this one is just intentionally so? Is the point of making things "slow" so that it encourages you to make friends in the game and trade with others and see their islands? I can get behind that design. But then why is online literally also the worst experience ever with the constant loading just to get someone to visit? I even got into finding and making my own designs but there were so few design slots after I made a couple paths with all the corner and edge pieces it was already full. ALSO: Is the point to make friends with the island characters? Then why couldn't they have at least gave them some unique dialogue instead of their only really being a handful of types that all say the same things... It just started to feel like a game that doesn't WANT you to play it!
The grind for items and money in this game is awful in a way no past AC has been. NL had the right feedback loop. Of course you can argue all of the games are just a grind but I think that’s really ignoring the pace at which you would get bells and see new items, not to mention all the old dialogue being better. Redd and Gulliver RNG, printing out tickets, frequently repeating items in the shop, all of those are in NH and noticeably worse than any RNG/grind in the old games. Maybe excluding City Folk but still… I think the DIY recipes themselves, just that one feature, is also significantly worse than any RNG in the old games. The breaking tools are also a form of grind in the sense that you have to continuously collect resources or bells to make or buy them and that’s like a debt you can never pay off. So stupid.
When I first went to play on my brothers switch, I was really excited! I was ready to create my world, do new things, have fun with creation… and then I joined on my brothers island. It really bummed me out how everyone has to share the same island, so I immediately had to stop playing. My brother kept advancing the island and doing new things while I never even paid off my first debt
I never played as a second player so I don't have a lot experience there. It seems like it wasn't handled well though from other comments I have heard. BUT to be fair New Leaf had that problem as well to a point
I'd love if there was so much more to explore, like cities with shopping malls, restaurants and attractions, or destinations like mountains, forests, you could go hiking or skiing e.g. You know, as if exploring the world. I wish there were activities you could take part in, like sports, arts, singing, dancing etc. and bond with your villagers that way. I love that kind of simulation in games. I bought the happy home paradise pack hoping there would be so much to explore, turns out there are only 5 facilities you can design and you stop unlocking new features after designing 30 houses which I did in a week lol, the rest is just designing houses in the same places over and over again (which is fun if you enjoy designing, but I do find it repetitive at times) Also having long genuine conversations with villagers would be great, instead of them saying the same thing over again after you have a small chat. I hope one day they could get to this point, the game has so much potential, I don't know why they don't use it?
I’ve always hated the fact that if you want a new island without deleting your old one, you would need to buy a whole new switch. It’s just so unfair that Nintendo of course has to be expensive and annoying. Honestly if they added 3 islands slots I would be happy-
My biggest gripe is the villagers feel the same. Like you will see them do stuff that feel like they clash with their personalities. I would like if they had more animations each villager personality types.
my thoughts EXACTLY. My friends will testify how excited and hyped I was for this game, and after only 3 months or so, I stopped playing. Honestly, despite how beautiful this game is, and how many exciting new features there are, it just feels empty and if i'm being brutally honest I would rate this as one of my least favorite in the series.
it just feels like a project to be worked on rather than a relaxing experience to play and progress as you go, i felt so guilty for never touching my copy after a month or so of playing it then restarting, despite playing my previous games for YEARS. happy to know other people feel the same.
I've been playing since Wild World.. and in between, I played pocket camp while waiting for the NH release. Here is my little list - How come villagers cannot interact with outside items as they can in PC? I feel pretty sad that I waste so much time decorating outside, for no reason other than aesthetic. - Why are grouchy villagers so saccharine sweet? Why do villagers repeat the same dialogue line constantly? - Why are the put up terrain and take down terrain actions, mapped to the same button? Just why. - What happened to all the cute outdoor stuff? Fairytale bench etc - why is the island smaller than the island in NL? - why can't we craft multiple things at once? Why give us annoying DIY stuff, that takes up alllll inventory space, and then also make crafting so mind-numbingly boring? I don't even care or have the energy to finish the list. Yes, the game is beautiful. It's gorgeous... But it's BORING. It's like Sims 4 all over again 😢😢😢
To add to this Why can pocket camp release multiple and varied items (both static and interactive) every month. Between events and fortune cookies there is constantly new clothes, furniture, bugs, flowers and fish. I am changing up my design all the time because there are so many items and only so much space (so if I want to use/interact with items I need to be redesigning regularly). It is baffling to me how a little phone app can do this, but not a larger release game
@@jenniferprisciak6402 I assume it's because we've already spent money on NH, while Pocket Camp still has ppl spending money to get some of the items. NH is bought once and that's it; PC probably has a lot of ppl that download it and then spend money every now and then on items they really want.
My thoughts as someone who hasn’t watched the video yet and hasn’t played any of the other Animal Crossing games: 1. Isabelle gets annoying 2. Characters don’t have enough variety in their possible conversations 3. LET ME BEFRIEND MORE SPECIAL NPCS THAN SABLE 4. I wanna be able to get a 5 star rating and still have my island look nice 5. It’d be nice to have an easier way to get villagers off your island that you don’t want or just gotta get rid of to make room so you can control which guy has to move out to make room for someone else
I think they relied too heavily on the customization aspect of your island and left other things to the wind. My main sticking point being that the villager dialogue being pretty one note and dry. They cycle through the same five lines between all of them.
I feel like it was a good thing it didn't go back to that "you're not sure if you belong here" theme with the kind of year we were having. It was a happy escape from what was (and still is) a very scary outside world. It gave you and your friends something to do together without having to be near each other. It gave people a way to be in lockdown or to social distance without having to isolate themselves from social contact.
True the older themes may not have worked so well given the times. And not every previous game reflected those themes as strongly. I thought New Leaf actually did a great job of finding the sweet spot between "Do I belong here?" and the enjoyment of building up your town!
@@SimpleBean I agree, New Leaf was a great combination of the two! That was the ac game I started with, and it gave me probably hundreds of hours of entertainment. :)
i agree. i got animal crossing this december, my islands at 3 stars and ive lost motivation. i need goals to do in the game, when i get on, i talk to 1 villager and then log off. im stuck and i always feel like my island looks like shit.
i got animal crossing for 2020's xmas, i have a 5 star island but its pretty unfinished. i think people dont realize that when they say "wild world had better personalities!" when there where like, less than 200 villagers. its weird
@@SimpleBean I personally enjoyed the whole concept of building my own island. That really appealed to me in this game. Is it perfect? Absolutely not, but it's not as shitty as some people try to make it seem.
new leaf was such a truly special game, i felt like i had close relationships with all of my villagers even if they were snooty. i miss the coffee shop so much and the hourly music change felt like a comfort blanket i knew new id miss :(((
Most of my friend quit since last year May 😂 truly say most ppl getting addicted to this game for first two/three months...once unlock KK concert and terraforming~nothing to do
Luckily I have a lot of friends still playing, I am happy when people can keep finding ways to enjoy the game! I’m trying to find new ways to enjoy it myself!
@@shaylane5013 Yeah bc before the concert , we had things to do, like build a bridge, work hard for able sisters and etc. Now there’s literally no objective.
Yup. I just keep beating the game and wiping my island over and over again, because the game gets so boring after you’ve done everything you want to your island.. ive had about 10 islands at this point and I’m about to wipe again 🥴
Exactly! This is a big decrease from different franchise games on their older consoles. Like, let's say Yo-kai Watch. (totally different genre but it has a ton of post-game content and stuff to do)
I can’t tell you how long I’ve been waiting for the ‘big’ update. Brewster, Kapp’n, Retail, Kicks (his own store)… maybe we were just completely spoiled with New Leaf, I’m not completely sure. But I found more joy in that side of AC over anything else.
it really feels like the team rushed to give us an AC game because we wouldnt stop asking for one and they rushed to give us this. i bet they were hoping that by saying there would be updates that it would give them time between updates to fully flesh out the finished game.
I don't play this game anymore, but it carried me through the pandemic. With literally over 1,500 hours clocked in, I'll always remember and appreciate New Horizons even if I never touch it again.
It’s incredible how post-modern gaming has given you the tools to express yourself like never before… but I want someone with a vision to guide me through their world. If you get me.
I totally do! We’ve had this huge shift towards open world gaming, self expression, user generated content and “freedom” that we’ve lost some of the beautiful and poignant storytelling and worlds we used to enjoy!
It can be a really good game and something for everyone to experience. I’m glad that they can out with it, but it needs more content. I have met amazing people because of the AC community. But the animal crossing switch is soo cute and a collectors item. I don’t think it’s a terrible game but they def did the fan base hella dirty.
Get Erik! He keeps things more interesting! I have both him and Sherb, and they are very much alike. But I never hear Sherb say its all just a game, or that everything in un-ok. Erik keeps it real.
I'm almost bummed about acnh booming success. Developers have no reason to make improvements to what old fans want now, and all of the new players have no idea what the game used to be and what they may be missing. I like self expression just fine, but if that's ALL the game is, I find it super boring. The best part of AC was the villager interactions.
Hi Keni ☺️ Dialogue is my big gripe too. Species specific dialogue was in NL, as well as some specific friendship level dialogue lines within those personality and species qualifiers. I wish they had implemented some time to build out those dialogue lines. Ironically the devs said they wanted the villagers to seem more alive by sweeping grass or sitting under a tree eating a popsicle.. but when we talk to them, they’re more robotic than ever before.
Kayleigh!!! Yes the dialogue is such a letdown. I have several villagers pictures but they don’t interact with me any differently than when I first met them!
We need objectives. Things to achieve. Like when we first started and we had to gather wood and iron for the twins and gather critters to open a museum. If we had plenty of objectives and activities then we wouldn't be bored
what is so annoying is that since this game is targeted mostly towards minors it’s requires a subscription that most minors will most likely not have access to, you lose SO MUCH of the game without it it’s really hard
@@JulianaLimeMoon You literally get to decorate the ENTIRE island. You NEVER got to do that in previous games! But I do agree that there isn't as much furniture as there was in older games. Like, I want them to bring back the sweets collection and Gracie items! In fact, I want Gracie's shop back and also would love to have even more storage space, because even though I am maxed out in storage, it's still not enough. I wanna collect every single item in every colourway. :'( I like DIY, but I still have a lot of stuff missing, like the cherry blossom items and a lot of balloons didn't really have recipes and it's even like that without having events.
but in every way you slice it its not "unfinished"? sure it doesnt have the passed features but that doesnt mean its bad or unfinished. i mean your allowed to not like it, but unfinished is a little harsh, an unfinished game means theres bugs in every turn, it crashes a lot (a lot meaning more than zero) and ive never even ran into a single bug in the game at all.
I completed the fossils section of the museum and now everytime I give Socrates fossils he just keep saying that none of the fossils are new and that he wishes to buy them for his collection. I wished this was changed because I'm always like, oh if you want them so much why don't I have the option to give them to you. The script he repeats all the time really makes me feel like I haven't completed the section of the museum. Something similar happens with Gulliver, he repeats the same everytime, the first times you read the text, but after a while you just smash the a button hoppin the text just ends
The final nail in the coffin, v1.0 of ACNH doesn't have a single Holiday except New Years Eve. And has 0 Nook's Cranny expansions. It's 100% an incomplete game.
@@TraceguyRune precisely, so so SO sick of developers releasing incomplete games just so they can update features later. No thanks I'm already bored while waiting for the actual game.
@@MizuFujimori They just want to make a quick buck. If you do not like it, then do not buy it. Boycott. I blame the people who keep buying these incomplete games because then you are showing that you like buying incomplete games. So stupid. Stop enabling the devs. I am buying few games that I know are complete.
With all the mystery islands, I hope they update and make them into fun mini game islands. Or bring back Tortimer island, Brewster, or anything that would encourage fun activities. I feel that with all the terraforming options, the game has become a competition on "who can make the best island" or something
I often feel that way when I see all the amazing builds on TH-cam and Instagram but I also really admire the dedication. And visiting them is always fun!
I like being able to design my island and I don't feel like it's a competition personally, because I'll make my island however the hell I want it without worrying about other people. lol But, I do feel you. I like getting to make my island how I want it, because I didn't get to do that in previous games and it was something I always wished for. Unfortunately, I feel like they cut so much out from previous games, like characters actually having personalities, some amazing NPCs (Brewster, Gracie, Pelly, just to name a few) and I wish we could still buy the Sweets collection furniture and Gracie Furniture, because those were sickening and iconic and I need them back asap! Plus, the music in NH isn't as good as previous titles. I liked WW and NL hourly music much more. I mean, 5am, 2pm and 5pm are pretty great in NH, but that's really about it.
While self expression has always been a part of animal crossing since the first game, it should never prioritize the life sim aspect of the game. New horizons is what happens when self expression prioritizes life sim.
Every single time I get into a franchise, the game I start with is always the one that the fandom criticizes the most, saying it used to be better 😭 it's the case for Animal Crossing but not only, same goes for Pokémon for example
@@sandraswan9008 she got into the franchise on one of the worst rated games by the community and liked. SO she may not even realized about those flaws and she may don't even care about these. So what's wrong with suggesting to keep enjoying the game?
The biggest thing for me is that after so much time it feels so mundane without any daily activities/discovery aspects or any real need to interact with my villagers. My favourite part of WW was the villager interactions.
Talking to my villagers feels like a chore and I think Nintendo knows that because they literally made it a chore through the nook phone. Talk to three villagers to get those nook miles.
I feel like they made it clear when they didn't announce anything AC related for E3 or since that they no longer care about putting out new content for the game and I'm tired of waiting for updates that are possibly never coming. ACNH is an unfinished game without any soul like previous titles.. Sadly it took me over a year to finally realize that's all it'll ever be.
Redd’s release is what broke me. When he came out I was near 75% complete for the museum. Which was great because I was getting to the point where the museum being completed was my final goal. Although here comes along Redd. I loved the idea of art. But here comes my issue as well. I wanted to complete the art catalogue and fake art because it was funny to have the fakes and real ones. But here was my breaking point. I got Redd twice. The first forced encounter, and once two weeks after. The whole system of random weekly encounters being restricted to two a week. While having nearly 6 I think at the time to pick from. I never got Redd. This began to crush my inner drive to play. I began loosing hope of ever completing the museum. I became less involved in the game because at this point I would only check if Redd had appeared on the island. But he never did. For a whole two month. This was the breaking point for me because I had nothing else to do. This was also when I eventually just bought New Leaf. But the shock that came to me from the change of pace really hit hard. I needed to step away from Animal Crossing for a while from burn out. I’m planning on buying Wild World soon and just coming in to it with no crazy expectations.
I don’t know if it’s true but I have heard that you can’t even get all the art from Redd but have to trade for some like the other furniture items? If so that’s a huge bummer
@@SimpleBean Either way I felt like they should have done a weekly thing for each visitor NPC like Flick and CJ every two weeks, Celeste once a week, and Gulliver as well. I just remembered hearing people get Redd almost weekly and then it made me sad I could complete everything. But hey I have a Wii U now and I’m planning on getting Wild World on it,
@@toad8848 I just saw that it definitely gets me excited to possibly play again. I just hope I don’t have burnout. At least now I can buy the items from Nookazon too.
I really wish Nintendo would add every DIY you collect in the store, that way every time you go on the beach you’ll always get a new DIY instead of repeating ones. There’s so much yet I feel like there were so many easy fixes n additions.
I am definitely gonna make an updated video once I have some hands on experience with the update. I’m not ready to make a judgment just based off the Direct but a lot of this stuff looks very promising!
Like the wise man said before "Good things must come to an end". Luckly I didn't purchased this game yet, I'm still waiting till it gets better ( I hope). I'm staying in New Leaf 🌿.
Smart choice. If folks knew that the game gets fully released a few years after launch, I bet they would’ve waited for a completed game. Nah. Nintendo did their fans dirty with this game.
I remember first playing and wanting to get Rosie so bad because in Wild World she became like my bff and I wanted to show my boyfriend. Well, we found her, and she was immediately my bff with no effort at all. It’s just kinda lame and boring now, there isn’t anything to do.
Same. I got Poncho back and I used to love him in Wild World. Now he's just constantly wearing ugly sunglasses and talking repetitive bullshit. In WW he always carried a shovel and talked about fossils non stop. Now he's just a full on jock and all attempt to get attached to him just failed. I'm seriously thinking of getting rid of him again. I loved that in the old games, villagers asked you to do tasks very frequently and they always gave you these little questionnaires or quizes or asked you about your opinion every now and then (anwering with a slider). Now even when one asks me to deliver something, I often just deny it to them because it feels pointless.
100000% agree with everything. I felt bored of the game so quickly as well after being obsessed at first, and couldn't put my finger on why that was -- why I had remembered loving Wild World and New Leaf so much more. Thanks for this video - I hope you talk about some of these things more in depth in a future video!!
This was my first Animal Crossing game and I did get bored pretty quick. The more I hear about the older ones though, the more I think that might be my thing. I think I’m also the type who wants to live in and explore a village rather than build one myself
I really enjoy New Horizons' focus on self expression and island design. Outdoor furniture and terraforming is a vast improvement to the public works project system from New Leaf and I've been able to sink in over 1000 hours of gameplay just from the game's first year alone. Although I do miss unlocking new public works projects. I want a reason to collect nook miles and talk with my villagers each day because I feel like I've obtained everything already. I'm also curious to know what you think about Nintendo's decision to make Nook's Cranny sell you only one color variant of each item? Initially, I didn't like it, but then I felt a sense of joy each time I popped a balloon to find an item color variant that I was missing. And I love that the game introduced dodo codes which has made trading with specific players that much easier (and this has paved the way for things such as Nookazon)
I definitely have mixed feelings on NINTENDO only giving out one color variant. On the one hand it does allow for participating in the community at large BUT you also have to have purchased a Nintendo Online Subscription in order to do so (if I understand correctly) I also wish we got some rotation of items available for “purchase” with the Nook Miles as I think this would be the perfect place to put larger public works-esque items
Personally I dislike that change they made, I know you can get the other colors via redd and the balloons, but for a game with such an emphasis on decorating I feel like it makes it overly hard to get the right colors of items to be able to decorate how you would want to. Plus, since it's so frustrating it just leads to people using trading instead which creates an imbalance where people who don't have online are left out in another way.
When you first start NH you have just a tent and Tom Nook is the Boss as he should be and you are beholden to him. Once you 'complete' the game, you then have the ability to reform the entire island, neutering Tom Nook in the process and i believe that is the point at which NH loses its way. With total freedom to do what you want to the island comes a loss of focus.
I found that the beginning of the game had that drive to keep me coming back each day, because I was limited with my resources. If I didn't have enough stone, I would have to wait until the next day to get more. Once I finished everything and got all my villagers, there wasn't a drive to do anything, as I didn't like crafting and I left like I had "finished"
I wonder, how was it that Animal Crossing: New Leaf that had only one update was played on longer than Animal Crossing: New Horizons with like 1-10 updates.
Totally agree with everything you said! I also played the original animal crossing and although I really enjoyed wild world their aspects of it that I didn't like. City folk felt like the first game where things started to get a little mucky so I didn't get into New Leaf until much later. But I still enjoyed it and played it like crazy. Recently got back into New horizons because my friend's younger sister got it so I've been playing it a little more with her and helping to build up her sister's island. But I find that once again I've gotten bored very quickly there's just nothing to accomplish. Especially with the lack of store upgrades and honestly the island feels a little small for what it is
Honestly, the only thing I want is the villager system from Gamecube: I want them to offer me tasks and get annoyed with me if I pester them. I want their personalities to shine. You could have 2 villagers with the same personality but seem completely different because you just genuinely are mean to a villager and they, in turn, will roast you. I miss that. Dolphin + the HD texture pack = a superior HD Animal Crossing experience.
now i feel that new horizons just came out so they could hold us over for a bit more maybe in a couple years they'll have a new leaf that looks like new horizons with lots of new npcs new buildings and new feautures... hopefully one day!
I really hate it, that you basically HAVE TO play online with friends or strangers… to get the items you like/need. :/ I don’t have a lot friends that play AC nor do I want to use Nookazon to get the items (in the color) that I want… I like playing by myself. And I also feel like there are not enough items in general. I don’t know how I’m supposed to fill my island? With the same furniture over and over again? In the most island tour videos you see the same stuff in a very similar setup (with exceptions of course) every time. I’m playing New Leaf atm and I love it. Why did they remove all the cool buildings? And there are also so many delicious-looking food items in NL. I don’t know where to put all the cool items and I can only place them in my house. 😂 And yeah, the villagers in NL also feel way more alive and unique. There is so much stuff, that is better in NL. I kinda wish they just would have updated the graphics of NL and put all the new features of NH into it. Then it would have been the perfect Animal crossing in my option. 😕
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I just started playing it this week. It’s great but I’ve play new leaf a lot back in the day. I’ve played new leaf, wild world, folk, and new horizons. I will say new leaf is still my favorite game in the series.
Tbh my biggest issue is, how you mentioned, you're creating an island, not living in it. It makes me so upset because I'm not creative enough or have the motivation to make my island a beautiful place, I just want to play, mess around and do chores with friends and villagers in an island that I don't need to worry about making it good but I feel pressured In a way? There's nothing else to do than to decorate your island imo and it sucks..
yep exactly this, i absolutely lived in my wild world and new leaf islands
This whole thought could be a video in its own
i feel this. i don't come to Animal Crossing for a creative sim, i come for the social sim, which has been completely excised from the game at this point. i actually really appreciated the sort of limited creativity that New Leaf offered. it challenged you to stretch your creativity as far as it could go using the tools you had, but it still offered a pretty robust experience even if you just kept your town basic. with New Leaf, there was still a fun social sim game within its expanded creative elements. with New Horizons, once you strip away the creative stuff there is nothing underneath.
List of things I want to do:
Collect stuff - Posters, gyroids and Nintendo Items but posters are too tedious and I can’t be bothered to return to my island for the Nintendo items.
Do chores - The villagers ask almost nothing of me 98% of the time.
Talk to the villagers - Yeah, no. I love any villager design but they have the least enthralling dialogue I’ve ever seen.
Live on my island - Am I really? The villagers are the essence of what makes your island special and they’re just there for the sake of being there.
I loved decorating my town how I wanted it and made it relate to the old ones as much as I can . But it is missing a lot of personalities and objectives and games we can do etc
New Horizons kinda feels like one huge decoration simulator
Which certainly has its place! I just need a little more spice.
Unpopular opinion maybe, but i actually like how it's more of a decoration sim as i enjoy those games and they help me relax.. wish the villagers had more personality though
I've been playing the games since I was 7 and, tbh, I have always remembered even WW as, first and foremost, about having a home and decorating it. I mean, yeah, resetti did upset me, and I do remember villagers being mean and slowly warming up, but tbh for me the decorating is the first thing I think of (I definitely need the villagers to have more life put back into them tho)
@@flyingmintbunny1286 That's fair. I have Happy Home Designer and I really enjoy that one.
Which would be cool if it was actually easy to get stuff instead of constantly time traveling or getting involved in 20 discord servers to trade with people...
My BIGGEST issue has to be that villagers don’t ever react to anything I do. I can place as many benches and stuff as I want but they don’t react. Nothing I do matters
I love the older animal crossings because you could just wander around talking to villagers and catching bugs and fish, it was a calm time.
New Horizons doesn't match my play style at all, despite playing for 80 hours, I never even unlocked terraforming. I wasn't interested in building my town to be a pretty garden or get rich on turnips, I just wanted to chat with my villagers. But I got bored with how my villagers kept saying the same things and also frustrated and jealous with how everyone else's village was so much nicer than mine (even if I actually never put any work into mine). It seemed like everyone online only cared about how your village looked and it was reinforced by how the game's main mechanics all focusing on building your town and making it look pretty.
It made me feel like I was playing the game wrong because my village wasn't aesthetic.
I find myself going back to the older games where you could water your flowers without comparing your village to everyone else's.
One positive thing about new horizons I do want to mention is how much I love the improved clothing and mirror. I loved buying clothes and how you could match outfits together in the mirror without having to put each thing on individually. It was the biggest improvement in the entire game in my opinion. Also, the graphics are good too.
TLDR: I don't want to build my village, I just want to live in it.
And I didn't like how the aesthetics of your village seemed to be the most important thing
But I did really enjoy the fashion improvements to the game.
Love the clothing options in game and the expanded character customization. Especially the fact that it doesn’t cost monies
And I am very frustrated by the fact that new dialogue and interactions could probably now be easily patched into the game. I was so excited for the interactions to become deeper and deeper with time but Nintendo just keeps sleeping on it. It had infinite potential.
Yess I agree! It takes far too long to get your island's rating up. Planting flowers is lame.
I feel this. So I deleted my 300+ hour island and started anew with zero input from others. I've been playing how I want which is the way you describe the older games and its been so fun. Probably not as fun as the older games though
@@madamebkrt literally i have 400 hours and only recently got 5 stars i started in may 202
If anyone ever asked me that "Is Animal Crossing a life simulation game"? I'd respond saying "It used to be".
Yeah it doesn’t really feel that way as much anymore. It just happens to share some of the same characteristics
what makes you say that? I'm actually interested
@Sasha Cup Cake Lady it was a video about the evolution of Animal Crossing villagers from the first game to Wild World to City Folk to New Leaf and to New Horizons made by TH-camr Tama Hero, it's a really good video. That's all I really have to say, I'm terribly sorry.
@@sashacupcakelady6695 because there’s no content outside of decorating. for a game that’s labelled as a life sim, they stripped it down so much that it has became nothing more than a decorating sim.
@@demi-qs5zc i totally agree, yes. Once i got 3 stars i did nothing. I played with my friend for a little and messed around, but then after my nintendo online expired i had nothing else to do. So i got stardew valley, and haven't picked it up since that um peacock event. if you want a life sim play stardew valley it is incredible. so much content. on switch mobile, pc, mac, $15 and wow its packed with content.
If they could make villagers an actual personality like in wild world were every villager had almost an individual personality and every villager had their own hobby and stuff to do with villagers and friends online i would be satisfied it'd also be cool if Isabelle gave more and better info about the day
It just feels like villagers are forced to like you or don't even care about building a friendship and then there's the problem they all pretty much say the same thing and only talk about things you do or happen to the island
I agree so much with this. I got 2 amiibos of characters that I had in wild world and I was so sad because it was so dry..
Wild World was my first AC game & I was so excited to be reunited with Bob & Wolfgang in NH but they're so... bland now. Villagers just feel like another piece of decor now :,(
agree w everything except the isabelle thing LOL, i skip through all her updates as theyre all the same, just wish she would be outside and could walk around etc
It’s honestly pathetically sad and inexcusable that a Nintendo DS game from 2005 has more charisma than a game 15 years later
I’m a big new leaf fan, and I think the thing I miss the most are those extra npcs. I always loved the amount of things you could do with them, and how that impacted your play style. Also, the small tasks the villagers kept asking me to do honestly kept me playing the game, and were what initially pulled me in.
Same, it's crazy to me how they got rid of so many of the Special NPCs that really made the games feel alive, and now it's just nothing.. None of the mail Pelicans, Isabelle's character is whittled down to nothing, getting emotes from Frill/Shrunk was fun, Celeste having her own wing of the Museum, among so many others... never realized how empty the game would feel without so many of them :(
Sheeeeesshhhh that new update coming surely tickles my nooks & crannies.
My issue was how little there was to do once you built it; and how everything I built was really just a diorama, a facade of the thing. I made this cute outdoor diner; but it was just a fake restaurant. I would rather have a cute downtown with programmed shops and restaurants where I could interact with the villagers there. Plus the furniture options are so limited and I miss all the furniture they had in New Leaf. I think if your favorite thing is to make convincing versions of shops and other places, it's great. But if you actually want to USE the things you make in some way, it just doesn't do it. It was fun for a while though! I don't regret buying it at all
You are going to love the new dlc 😅
Yes! Tbf it's not like animal crossing items have ever been that interactive. But you'd think for a game released in 2020 where the main feature IS decorating with items, that maybe they could have made them more interactive. I've got bikes nobody can write, a gym nobody can use, an amusement park with rides nobody can sit on... wouldn't it be cool if these items actually did anything?
New Horizons made me rediscover my love for The Sims. It's everything Animal Crossing is, but you actually can interact with everything you build, just about.
Eh....it's not limited anymore in furniture, seems like they finally fixed things.
I got bored of it almost a year ago. It was super addictive for a while, but I just don't see myself ever booting up new horizons again. I don't regret buying it though, 300+ hours well spent.
Absolutely! I don’t like to equate time played to money spent equals a good game BUT I also spent hundreds of hours on this game I don’t regret
Loool saaame.. I just kinda quit playing for a while bc I didn’t know what the fuck I wanted to do with my island..I just wanted to terraform at least before having to decorate and situate everything but nope, I had to get five stars before I could terraform. I FINALLY got terraforming and I recently came back to the game so I’m excited
i bought the game the day it came out and i was super excited and i spent so much time playing it, but now ive kind of drifted back to new leaf since it imo is better
same
@@babyyoda2745 you need to get 5 stars to terraform?
Before getting new horizons: can't wait to see the new content, shops and npcs!
After getting new horizons : can't wait for old content, npcs and shops to be patched in.
It’s a delicate balance
#FreeBrewster
I'm the 1000th like!
@@silverrain6330 what news?
@@nursemain3174 Brewster is being patched in
I really liked the island concept, graphics and the creative freedom. However, at some point it just becomes repetitive. I miss all of the shops and things to unlock and buy. I miss the characters that weren’t villagers (Reese and Cyrus’s shop, Brewster’s, the hairstylist etc.). But most of all, I miss the individual personalities of the villagers. It never felt like lines were recycled with each character and they all felt like individuals. I remember working so hard to bond with Chief (the cranky fox looking villager) and how rewarding it was when he actually became my buddy. I even miss how brutal some characters could be and the feuds. It was great being able to kick out villagers by hitting them with nets and trapping them in pitfalls. The game became too easy, too “nice” and too repetitive. There was almost too much control. There was no depth, it didn’t feel alive.
You explained this all perfectly. I really hope that Nintendo can reboot New Horizons to add more life to it like in previous games.
My biggest issue is once you’re done designing your island, then what are you suppose to do? I’ve redone my island so many times and gotten bored and quit right before I finished because there was nothing else to look forward to after that
right, and with the november 5th update being the last major free update, I don’t think there’ll be anything to look forward to after that anymore
for a game where it’s supposed to give you some other life to relax to, and no exact “ending”, it feels like after you’ve filled out your island, got a five star rating, upgraded the shops and collected all the furniture, bugs, fish and fossils, there is a ending after all that.
@@hndough i mean, that's in the same in all the ac games
Once you finish collecting everything...you'rr done! That's how games work, it's literally okay
@@Mqstodon but at least in the old games the villagers actually had SOME sort of personality and it was fun just to interact with them
@@LucasNatador that isn't relevant to their comment
@@Mqstodonyou’re right, but what I meant with my comment was if there was a lot more activity and alot more sprinkle of new things into the game where even after you’ve cleared out alot of things, there are still a few things to do. I mean, i’m pretty sure you’ve seen or noticed, but there isn’t much activity revolving around the villagers, right? they just seem so bland and lifeless
PS: i enjoyed ACNH a ton, it’s not my favorite out of all the series, but i definitely did have lots of fun with it! i do love the game the way it is, i just think if there was a lot more activity with the villagers even after everything is cleared out - it would be alot more nicer
Its gotten repetitive and nothing has really improved or changed. It feels like its stuck in the past and hasn't evolved.
It definitely needs to make up its mind on what kind of game it’s going to be
i've been looking at it as happy home designer plus
I agree, it is very sad as I have loved the license since Wild World came out
THIS it feels like its been stuck in march 2020 and nothings happened since then
The game was good back then. The issue is that they REMOVED a lot of stuff the old games had..so it’s just an empty shell
I got bored of this game after a couple months last year, but I just remembered one nitpick I had.
The game is supposed to have a desert island feel to it, but in order to make your island "better", you have to crowd the outside with decorations, so it feels more like a theme park than just an island.
Also... watering cans breaking... just why? If someone's that rough on watering cans, they have problems.
Rage Gardening
Watering cans breaking was definitely a new one. But what peeved me was the golden tools breaking. In past games those were the pinnacle, the tools you grinded for. That made zero sense to me.
I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who got bored after playing for a few months, tbh it made me feel very guilty.
@@striker0 right like what even is the point of working so hard just to get a breakable golden watering can..
@@noriii I'm still trying to comprehend who thought that was a good idea.
I feel like this was just a great quarantine game, it served its purpose at the time and it's ultimately something that made that initial period of the rona a lot less lonely, but here we are a year and a half later with what feels like the same bare bones experience
What's a quarantine game? Isn't the entire point of playing literally any game with single player content to be lost in a fictional world being anti social?
This vid explains it PERFECTLY. Feels like AC took one step forward and two steps back. So many great new features, but the returning features from past games have been watered down or completely removed. When you said Nintendo doesn’t know which direction AC is going anymore that is exactly how it feels!
Thanks! I’m glad I was able to present these thoughts well! There have been additional comments that makes some excellent points. The Animal Crossing community really is something else and I hope Nintendo can recognize that and take some feedback
I think the biggest problem for me is the fact that we waited 7 years between New Leaf and New Horizons and now a whole year after the release and there are still things we feel like the game is missing. I don't mind the slow trickle of content. I'm an MMO player, so I'll grind away and get excited about patches every 3 months. But there's no variety and spice in New Horizons. The villagers say the same phrases over and over, there are no tasks given really at all, and things are so slow and clunky. While I loved Animal Crossing in the past for being a slower-styled game, New Horizons has taken it to a whole other level. Bulk buying and crafting should've been introduced by now. Faster options to get online to play with friends are a must. The amount of time I spend trading with other players vs the amount of time going through all the wifi menus and codes and nonsense, it's exhausting. I will concede Nintendo has listened to a few things like giving us more design slots, being able to access the design portal outside of the Able Sisters, and increased house storage. But all of this doesn't change the fact that players are just uninterested. I've been in the middle of redoing my island for months now because I do a little bit and just get so bored. There are no fun additional interactions to have with my villagers, they are literally just ornaments. I've actually gotten to the point where I'm just thinking about letting anyone who asks to move out and just autofill the slots to give myself more variety and surprise. And I agree on the music. I'm someone who will listen to game audio over whatever audio is on my Spotify because I love to enjoy the hard work put into the music in the games. But New Horizons music is dull. I wish there was an option to play old AC music in the game instead just to change it up a little bit. And I find the songs get more and more grating when you end up playing around the same time every day, so you only hear the one or two same songs every time.
Sounds like we’re exactly in the same page! I’ve also been allowing my villagers to move out and letting the spots auto fill to see which characters I’ll get just to add a little variety into the whole thing!
@@SimpleBean I want to be excited for a potential E3 announcement, but my expectations are set very very low. I know one thing to consider is how COVID has effected development and patch times, but Nintendo isn't upfront about anything. It's always just hope and wait, but I don't think people can just be content waiting for as long as we have.
@@ErynRollsDice yeah we can never know exactly how the pandemic effected things but it already had several years of lead time and development so the game should be more fleshed out than it is in my opinion. I’m also keeping my expectations low for E3 but if something DOES drop then I am down to be hype for this game again. Until then maybe I flatten my island? 🧐
@@SimpleBean Ooof I wish you the best of luck if you do decide to do that. I think the benefit for me with flattening is I started using the cliff tree glitches and my campsite area has a bunch of lilies of the valley (lily of the valleys? lol what?) put on the 4th tier with that glitch.
@@ErynRollsDice sounds gorgeous and at least flattening will keep me busy for a little while longer
This was my boyfriend's first Animal Crossing game, and he loved it. I've played all of the games in the series, and I got so bored so quickly. He didn't seem to see why I was hating on it so bad. We recently played Amiibo Festival (because honestly, it's like 3 dollars at this point) and almost every event in the game I would turn to him and say, "Ooooh, who is that??" "Oh, what is that event??" "Oh, LEMONS?" because it would be all new for him. So many things were left out of this game, and for what?
The nooks upgrading the store? No, it's the same forever. Phineas giving you badges? Nah, Nook Phone. Cyrus customizing things for you? Nah, just do it yourself. Lyle and Digby and the Happy Home Academy? Nah, it's back to just being a letter in the mail. Dr Shrunk teaching you reacts? Characters just do it at random now. Harriet styling your hair? Just look in the mirror. Gracie demanding you wash her car and then charging you 100,000 bells for a chair? Totally scraped. Copper, Booker, Brewster, Serena, Porter? Nothing. Lemons, lychees, bananas?????? Which are literally just cosmetic fruits????? Nothing.
And for WHAT?
Ok but I LOVE Amiibo Festival. Also I imagine it’s fun to see the different reception of ACNH from a new player and old players perspectives
You didn't mention Pelly, Phyllis & Pete. I miss them so much!
And I miss digging up all the weird cute gyroids :-((((
Sorry, but Harriet being removed from the game was the best decision ever made. The pathetic haircut quiz, and 1 haircut per day is absolute BS and the worst feature in all of Animal Crossing.
I must be the only one who misses Kapp'n.
:(
you're right about the stale villagers. At some point I just stopped talking to them each time I logged in. They get sad if you do but they just say the same dialogue over and over, especially when there's two villagers with similar traits. If they added a queue to crafting it'd improve things somewhat cuz clicking 80 times when I want to make several things in a row is so slow
The game stopped being charming and special after new leaf.. taking out Gyroids was a mistake (I know their origin is actually dark). However, it was quirky and unique and there was something special about it.
so
And here I was feeling bad I didn’t interact a lot with my villagers. Now I understand why!
What happened to this game was so sad. We wanted more freedom in decorating but it didn’t have to become the sole focus of the game.
There is so much source material to pull from too! I would be ecstatic to hear an old dialogue line snuck in there from a previous game or referencing the old towns! Like what if Elle comes up and was like I really like the convenience of Dodo Airlines. I used to live in a town where the only way to travel was by train!
@@SimpleBean exactly! You inspired me to restart my New Leaf file and it’s truly been a breath of fresh air! The dialogue alone.. oh my!
@@Esandeech2 I just want the villagers to roast me again, like old times. Lmao!
@@SimpleBean I just feel like talking to all my villagers is a bit of a chore. Talking to them is not exactly fun, especially - as you said - since there's not a lot of variance with the lines they say.
@@ReptilianTeaDrinker lol this made me laugh. One time my boyfriend and I were playing New Leaf and we went to his island. One of his villagers did not like me and when he walked up to her to talk to her she called me “ugly”. She tried to compete with me to win my boyfriend, then I beat her with a net the next time I stepped into his village and she complained about me and moved away. Those were the days.
I miss the island in new leaf where you could do multiplayer games and catch rare bugs. They got rid of that. It was good for multiplayer
Imagine treasure hunting on mystery islands with friends!
And it doesn’t make sense, this game would’ve been perfect for that island! I really thought we were gonna get that when that photographer dog showed up but we didn’t :(
I loved teaming up with my friends and we would get in deep conversations at night while helping each other catch beetles…
the island was so cool when you met random people
one of my problems with the game was the island rating system and how it basically forces you into expressing yourself a very specific way. when i played i didnt want to dump hours and hours into the game like a lot of people, rather i wanted to build bit by bit while enjoying the presence of my neighbors. i didnt want to fill my entire island with garbage in order to get 5 stars, i wanted to keep it quaint and with a good taste of wilderness alongside my infrastructure. there is no balance between playstyles, possibly because its much easier design wise to add a bloat of decorative content than to create personality and atmosphere.
I know this is a couple years late but this is just how I felt trying to get into new horizons recently! I can't express myself the way the game wants because I don't have 3 stars, I can't get 3 stars without dumping things around the island, I can't dump stuff around without spending tons of bells and space, and then my island is even less expressive of myself because it's covered in items in places I don't want them looking just bad! And I haven't even gotten to 3 stars because it's not enough trash around the island now. They should've focused on either making self expression more prominent, or having a balanced progression system.
Either focus on a deserted island survival experience with the breakable tools and crafting and (more balanced) rating, or give people a little more freedom in the decorating and don't make them wait weeks minimum without time travel to do one of the main selling points of the game
Yeah once I got my island exactly how I wanted it, I realized there was no point in playing the game anymore, and the town felt empty. Like it was a set for a movie and not a real town.
New Horizons is a beautiful decorated cake but the inside taste bitter.
Yeeeeessss!
So new horizons is basically fondant in video game form
@@royalblanket yep
Animal crossing in general is pretty dull tasting. All you do is walk around and collect mediocre things that don't do anything meaningful. Like, what if you could buy or find an animal that you had to take care of and doing so rewarded you, and what if the interactions with them had depth? Like Pokémon's Amie? What if you fed and pet and took care of a dog, and it was a fun gameplay experience that rewarded you with the dog helping you look for treasure? Or what if you could work towards buying like a boat to explore the ocean and discover different islands, or what if the scuba gear allowed you to explore deeper under water? AC has a very stagnant progression system. Nothing fun to work towards to enhance the gameplay, mostly because there really isn't any. You just decorate stuff.
I think Nintendo tried to turn Animal Crossing into Minecraft and it just doesn’t work. Just be glad that they didn’t try to make Animal Crossing into Fortnite, although killing Isabelle during her useless morning announcements might breathe some new life into the game…
I’m hoping for Splatoon 3 to go the battle royals route! I wouldn’t mind grinding for materials if I had more to make with them…
@@SimpleBean I’m boycotting Splatoon 3. I refuse to buy the game that killed New Horizons.
@@Sara-hb5ys the same team works on both games so they are spending more time on that then NH updates. I think that’s my understanding.
@@parkb5320 lol, new horizons was dead to begin with
@@bl4mmed I liked New Horizons a lot. I played consistently until this month.
My executive dysfunction left me with half of my island entirely empty and it burdens me. But honestly, starting on it again feels like a giant hurdle to overcome. I wish this game made me feel like I live in a community, like the old games did, but it just doesnt.
I grew up playing City Folk endlessly, and every couple of years since then, I would boot up the Wii and play again. I’ve come to appreciate the dialogue with the villagers, like stumbling upon a conversation. Recently, I had to choose between who more “had a face that scared kids” or something lol
I loved when I had to take sides with my villagers or give them suggestions!
To be honest, New Horizons just didn't feel like an Animal Crossing game. It feels too much like a sandbox. There's almost too much customization. After you've completed the main goals and expressed yourself fully, the border of the sandbox remains. There's no discovery, there's no new games, and since you don't check daily, you don't look forward to events. The sandbox stays the same without any rain, hail, snow, or anything that could possibly affect your island after years and years. In fact, there's more things to do in Happy Home Designer than in New Horizons, which was a SPIN-OFF. I love that they tried to revive the series, but it's disappointing that I can't enjoy it as much as I did with the other games.
I think it’s a possibility that many franchises go through this same kind of decline. My view is that it’s time for a new game to enter this space and make us fall in love all over again!
@@SimpleBean Yeah, I've seen many different franchises lose their popularity with time. Something similar happened to the LittleBigPlanet series. The original game developers had sold the franchise not long before they wanted the new game to come out, so the game was rushed and glitchy, so many people ended up leaving the fanbase. Recently, they sold the franchise to another studio, so it might be reviving soon, but it still follows the trend of dying franchises
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Is it me or every game now tries to be sandboxy and open worldy just fails. They should stick to what made them special or think of better ways to mix old with new gameplay
@@MissGoobiCh I wonder if they’re trying to follow the success of minecraft when they should really be focusing on something new and different.
New horizons is flashy and fun on the surface but if you really look, there isn't much depth.
I adore the graphics, especially the sky at sunset. Have enjoyed playing for maybe 7 months or so, but I find myself doing the exact same things each day - check mail, go to the shops (and spend 10 minutes buying clothes when in theory I could buy everything I want in a couple of minutes at most), look for the recipe bottle on the beach, dig up fossils, talk to the neighbours and maybe a few other things depending on who’s around. Sounds like a lot when written out, but all this can (usually) easily fit into a half hour, and there’s not much to keep me going beyond that.
I guess it does a pretty good job with that lack of depth if we see people online with hundreds of hours more than what it takes to complete the "deepest" and grindy RPGs.
When tou achievement about all of that game or even half and decore your island, then thats it, game is over. You just collect stuff and sell and nothing more. Events are boring, collect eggs, collect pumpkings, collect this and collect that, it is boring after some time. Villagers are boring also they always just say couple same things. Mystery islands are boring after you find all your villagers. It just really feel that you are alone in your island and online play doens't give your option visit and influence others island. Dream world is just pretty boring you cannot even ask friends or write nothing on messageboard. I hope they make that onlineplay better. Somehow the island that you are feels like death even you have villagers. It really is just decorate simulator after you got your house etc. I mean why onlineplay cannot have things like halloween or xmass party on some big island that have maby 100 another player or something? You can then celebrate and give present another players etc.
The game’s been about self-expression since at least Wild World. I read articles at the time that explained it’s success being this very customizable experience. People used to use those 10 design slots to design elaborate skins that would cover 70% of available tiles turning the village into underwater kingdoms and space cities. The problem isn’t that it gives you too much power it’s that it doesn’t feel lived in. I have so many individual problems with New Horizons but has they simply shipped the game with better village dialogue that would have been a massive improvement. In New Leaf I could talk to every villager every day for three weeks before getting a repeat conversation with a personality type. You get the same dialogue multiple times a day from half you villagers now. They don’t ask me to do anything and they’re never anything other than always set and pleased to see me and I stopped talking to them a few months into playing. The game shipped barebones but the thing that hurt the most was losing the spark of life from our animal neighbors
As much as I like the increased level of control over your town/island - getting to choose what villagers move in or out, where they place their houses, where EVERYTHING is placed, no risk of a favorite villager surprise moving one day and no random villager showing up and plopping their house right in the middle of some carefully placed path - it definitely feels... emptier.
The personality types all seem much more the same and restricted in what they talk about. Cranky villagers less cranky, snooty villagers way less snooty, lazy villagers only talk about bugs in their houses. Everyone does what you say all the time and likes you immediately. I genuinely miss when cranky and snooty villagers in particular started out rude and gradually warmed up to you. And as much as it always sucked when a villager you felt like you'd formed a friendship with moved away, it felt more real, like they had lives of their own and could move away just like real life friends sometimes would - and whatever villager would move in next would have their own distinct personality, say things you were more likely to have not heard another villager say previously - I remember some unpopular or underappreciated characters ending up favorites just because I felt like I'd built a friendship with them, now it's all "I want that villager because they look cool" - villagers just feel like another decoration you can put on your 100% customized island.
Might as well sell them
@@SimpleBean Lmao we do
ACNH is my first game in the franchise, so I never got to really know the charming life sim aspect that I always hear everyone reminisce about. I can't say that I'd find any joy in having my villagers bully me and be mean to me, something I hear a lot of AC veterans pine for. But I definitely can't stand the dialogue. A lot of my favorite villagers fall in the cranky catagory. As such I have 4 villagers from that archetype on my island and at one point I had 4 lazy villagers. There's SO many times where I'll talk to one villager, they'll give me the same line they give me when I greet them every day, then I'll go talk to another villager and they say the exact same thing. It really breaks the immersion when you have two different characters parroting the exact same 5 lines of dialogue. I'm so sick of hearing about Maglev Mike, bugs in the floor and the names of my villager's abs. Not to mention the absolutely tedious dialogue from some villagers. No joke, Gulliver has like 18 pages of dialogue you have to mash through before you can start his quest. I counted. Not to mention all the times where I mash through Blather's dialogue because I want to assess the fossils, accidentally click "Make a donation" because I was mashing through and then I have to sit through like 7 or 8 more pages of dialogue while Blathers explains to me what all types of donations they accept, even though all my museum sections except the art exhibit are complete. And then it kicks you out of the dialogue instead of giving you the option to reselect whether you want to donate or assess fossils. So you have to go through all that dialogue all over again...
Another thing I really dislike about the game is the fact that it's almost 100% focused on decoration, but there's...very little variety in stuff to decorate with. Nintendo, you aren't fooling me, ok. I've SEEN the item catalog from New Leaf. There are literally hundreds of super cool items in New Leaf that ACNH players would kill to have. ACNH has a tiny amount of furniture sets, a fraction of what NL has, and for some reason, they cut some of the furniture items from the furniture sets that DID get ported over from New Leaf. New Horizons barely has any good indoor furniture, it has a lot of random kitchenware objects but barely anything in the way of tables or shelving. Virtually no counter tops. Can't put rugs outside for some bizarre reason. A lot of the cool landmark items from NL that would be perfect for Gulliver are missing. Barely any food items in the game. None of the cool store furniture like the 7-11 set, cash registers, all the cool cake and bakery display items. Like, all there is to do in ACNH is decorate your island, so I really don't understand why there's such a lack of items to do such with. And why most of the cool items aren't even interactive the way they are in Pocket Camp. That's not even mentioning all the NPCs they removed and all the previous events that they just straight up cut from ACNH for some reason. Would it have been that hard to give us a Valentine's event? St. Partricks? They even removed the Earth Day event that was in ANCH last year!
Yeah it’s funny how we miss the mean/ rude villagers. I think more than anything we miss having to earn their trust and respect. I mean maybe I need to go back and play again but I don’t remember the dialogue being nearly as repetitive as New Horizons. I would love to see some of the pocket camp furniture make it’s way over! Some of the best in the series
@@SimpleBean Talking to Bones: "Something's gonna happen today! I just know it! Any second now... I'm so excited!"
Talking to Sherb: "Something's gonna happen today! I just know it! Any second now... I'm so excited!"
It's not exactly bullying. It's just they had the capacity to be nice or mean which made them feel more like real people. It's super boring if they're basically sweet and kissing up to you all the time.
You missed a lot :(
There was an earth day event last year?
it makes me sad to think that i personally just can’t play the game with the same joy i had last year. i was so hyped and even defended it when other players thought it was lacking. i haven’t picked up the game in months because i don’t know what to do besides have my villagers say a bunch of recycled shit and spend hours making one spot on my island look ok.
I’ve been really interested in the idea of doing challenges recently to keep my playing!
I acknowledged that lack of content from day 1, but thought Nintendo was holding it back as to not delay the game again. I thought we'd get the stuff in a couple months..... Nope. 17 months later. Got almost nothing except, Redd, Dream Suite, Diving, and Lief
Same I hate it
It’s so... boring. Like, we can’t actually eat food, drink coffee, or interact with any objects you place on your island. If you can, it’s a very small mechanic. Little to no quality of life updates. it’s pretty much ignored these days. Only updates available are for other animal crossing games. That’s it. RIP acnh!
I haven’t popped into Pocket Camp in a while but I think I should
@@SimpleBean I’ve never played any other animal crossing, ACNH is my first one and I’m a bit disappointed 😅 but i appreciate how much effort they put into the designs of furniture and what not
Yeah it’s sad. I really thought we could eat the food that we made during turkey day.. was so disappointed
guys guess what
@@youremyrock the food eating?
Why did fhey get rid of ordinances? I feel the game would have much more of a wider appeal if you were able to change how the game is to suit your playstyle. If you like decorating, make a pro decorating ordinance in place, and if you like villager interaction, choose a pro interaction ordinance.
well they comin back
ha.
@@ConspiciousAction Yeah, and it's still shitty that they keep introducing "new" content in updates when they've already had them in previous games.
@@Mihawk16 well atleast were getting them back...
@@TheTrueXaver We paid full price for this half made game. Then, they throw the actual new, game breaking content behind a paywall. I guarantee the next "update" will be dlc too.
I always wonder how we would have received ACNH if not for the pandemic. Would there have been a big boom in sales and players and would we have had the same first initial reaction? Me personally, my first reaction was very excited! But it got so bland so fast because the charm is gone. I really do miss the old AC feel.
Great thought! In addition to this it seems NINTENDO did not anticipate how MUCH people would be playing due to being at home so much more!
I feel like AC still would’ve been received well upon release, just because it was hyped up right before any lockdowns started. I remember the AC Nintendo switch in particular being sold out days before we were ordered to stay at home just because we were hyped about animal crossing in particular. It was crazy how fast it went out of stock especially online. And when the actual game soon released, it got crazier.
However, had we not gotten the extra increase in fan base when the pandemic DID start, and everyone was in lockdown, I don’t think that hype would’ve lasted long. The only reason the hype extended pretty much the rest of 2020 was because of lockdown. All the new fans caught on because they had nothing else to do, and they watched as our community got excited for the game and that inspired them to become a part of our fan base as well.
@@Meimoons masking has never been a norm in Japan.
It ended up being a great backdrop for hanging out with friends when we couldn’t in real life. Had the pandemic not happened I think more people would have seen how flat it all is.
@@Val.Kyrie. it has. From what ik from friends that have stayed in Japan (military based so they lived there a few yrs) people often wear masks during cold and flu season. It was very common seeing people that mightve been sick and those not wanting to get a cold wearing masks around like nothing.
I need the life sim elements back, I want to be able to interact with my villagers more, sure I'd love a mini game island again to play with friends but want to play with my villagers as well; I designed my island with ease of traversal vs self expression, because whilst enjoyable at the start, I find no reason to continue to change it up as it were. My hope lies in E3, with more eyes on Nintendo than ever a large meaty update to bring in NEW players and bring back those who have left would be best revealed then. One can hope...
I guess we’ll find out next week!
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Well took a few months but with a new ACNH* direct next month has me hopeful.
I'm glad we finally have an Animal Crossing veteran critiquing New Horizons and being brutally honest about it as a game. I've been saying this for years and all I get is a bombardment of fans who only started playing with New Horizons and Pocket Camp lol. Thank you so much, I really appreciate your perspective. You've certainly earned a subscriber :)
The newest update to the game has changed a lot of the problems. I would have rather them just released the game now, but from a business standpoint having it released mid pandemic was a real smart move. Better late than never I guess.
We’ll see if the hype for the update lasts! So far I’m enjoying it but will it give the game long term staying power is the question
Acnh is technically A design simulator after you get KK :/
And that is GREAT for a certain kind of person
@@SimpleBean yes, For some people but I Liked older versions ):
i REALLY wish we had proper goals after getting kk. like- maybe help build brewster’s cafe, or add more upgrades to nook cranny and able sisters. without a goal, you get tired of the same repetitive stuff over and over again.
A lot of the features from previous games are still missing! The Nooklings can’t expand their store more than once, so the item selection is still small, Leif and Kicks and Redd can’t create their own stores so if you want what they’re selling you have to wait for them to show back up, the vacation island mini games, villagers can’t come over to your house or play hide and seek with you, and placards in the museum so you don’t have to have the bug/fish/fossil in your inventory to ask Blathers about it (which made me hesitate to bulk donate). Isabelle basically does nothing and is just there because people liked her so much last time. It would be cool if Gracie could come back and make her own store in the upstairs of the Nook Shop or Labelle could have her own designer goods you could buy instead. Katrina isn’t here to tell your fortune, Brewster isn’t here to slowly befriend and make coffee with, Katie and Katherine don’t need reuniting, Blanca doesn’t need a new face, Lyle isn’t here to harass you to buy sketchy insurance, and, while their jobs have been taken by other NPCs or just new mechanics added in the game, I miss Harriet and Dr. Shrunk and Resetti and Tortimer and Pelly and Phyllis and Copper and Booker because their personalities added more color to the game. They made the game feel like a small town populated by people with strong/weird personalities like a lot of real small towns.
It’s all too nice and too perfect. Stepford Animal Crossing
Who is watching this after the direct
Got it rec'd to me after watching it lol.
I DO agree with her tho in a lot of points here tho (Especially the blander villagers, even NL had some stuff I haven't seen in the dialogue rotation and whatnot, hope that changes in a minor update sometime), hopefully the November update will finally be that spice for Horizons.
The intimidation of terraforming and filling up my island and seeing everyone else's amazing creations really burnt me out playing and now I'm too scared to come back to it bc of how awful it looks. It makes me want to start over, but I have so much game progress and bells that I can't
If I start over I’m gonna need to find a friend to drop my stuff off with!
@@SimpleBean Same, None of my friends play animal crossing so I'm a bit stuck
Same it’s not meant to be competitive now it just makes you depressed comparing your island to others
fortunately i love the design aspect, the main problem for me is that it takes way too long to get the furniture i want, especially with how small the daily selection of items at nook's is, the limit on how many items you can order per day, how getting different colors of items requires you to trade with other players, and how trading itself is a hassle due to the tedious process of going through orville's excessive amount of dialogue every time you want to invite/visit a friend, plus the lag.
All great points! If the game is going to be fore the designers I wish they made that as flawless as they could.
@@SimpleBean I almost feel like I'd rather just have a "creative mode" at some point. Like the building mode in Sims, instead of this tedious process.
@@99xara99 was about to say that! I’d love a creative mode, I gave up trying to collect everything after a while and that discouraged me from enjoying the sandbox elements
this 100%!! They needed to figure out what they wanted you to do in the game and make the game less annoying overall
Is the main point to design an island? Then why does changing things on your island take so long in real time. It's like one of those horrible phone games that make things so tedious to force you to buy "gems" to do things faster. Those games are made purposefully annoying this one is just intentionally so?
Is the point of making things "slow" so that it encourages you to make friends in the game and trade with others and see their islands? I can get behind that design. But then why is online literally also the worst experience ever with the constant loading just to get someone to visit?
I even got into finding and making my own designs but there were so few design slots after I made a couple paths with all the corner and edge pieces it was already full.
ALSO: Is the point to make friends with the island characters? Then why couldn't they have at least gave them some unique dialogue instead of their only really being a handful of types that all say the same things...
It just started to feel like a game that doesn't WANT you to play it!
The grind for items and money in this game is awful in a way no past AC has been. NL had the right feedback loop. Of course you can argue all of the games are just a grind but I think that’s really ignoring the pace at which you would get bells and see new items, not to mention all the old dialogue being better. Redd and Gulliver RNG, printing out tickets, frequently repeating items in the shop, all of those are in NH and noticeably worse than any RNG/grind in the old games. Maybe excluding City Folk but still… I think the DIY recipes themselves, just that one feature, is also significantly worse than any RNG in the old games. The breaking tools are also a form of grind in the sense that you have to continuously collect resources or bells to make or buy them and that’s like a debt you can never pay off. So stupid.
Remember when in new leaf the villagers called you out for time traveling?
Or they were like you’ve been playing for 12 hours maybe you should STAHP
@@SimpleBean or grumpy Resetti.. 😭
@DJ Pauly D he was always so mean sometimes I cried 😂💀
@@amyangel5196 He's the most annoying character in gaming history.
When I first went to play on my brothers switch, I was really excited! I was ready to create my world, do new things, have fun with creation… and then I joined on my brothers island. It really bummed me out how everyone has to share the same island, so I immediately had to stop playing. My brother kept advancing the island and doing new things while I never even paid off my first debt
I never played as a second player so I don't have a lot experience there. It seems like it wasn't handled well though from other comments I have heard. BUT to be fair New Leaf had that problem as well to a point
I'd love if there was so much more to explore, like cities with shopping malls, restaurants and attractions, or destinations like mountains, forests, you could go hiking or skiing e.g. You know, as if exploring the world. I wish there were activities you could take part in, like sports, arts, singing, dancing etc. and bond with your villagers that way. I love that kind of simulation in games. I bought the happy home paradise pack hoping there would be so much to explore, turns out there are only 5 facilities you can design and you stop unlocking new features after designing 30 houses which I did in a week lol, the rest is just designing houses in the same places over and over again (which is fun if you enjoy designing, but I do find it repetitive at times) Also having long genuine conversations with villagers would be great, instead of them saying the same thing over again after you have a small chat. I hope one day they could get to this point, the game has so much potential, I don't know why they don't use it?
I’ve always hated the fact that if you want a new island without deleting your old one, you would need to buy a whole new switch. It’s just so unfair that Nintendo of course has to be expensive and annoying. Honestly if they added 3 islands slots I would be happy-
I would settle for two
dude island slots would be amazing, especially for people w/ siblings who each want their own island (like me)
based af, i got the game a few weeks ago but didnt realize there was only 1 per switch so me and my brothers have to share lol
This is one of the main things that really annoyed me as well We can only afford one switch but both me and my husband wanted to have our own island.
Can’t you just make a new Nintendo/switch account abs add that account ti your switch and make a new island?
My biggest gripe is the villagers feel the same. Like you will see them do stuff that feel like they clash with their personalities. I would like if they had more animations each villager personality types.
More animations more better
Yeah seeing a lazy villager lifting weights is just weird.
my thoughts EXACTLY. My friends will testify how excited and hyped I was for this game, and after only 3 months or so, I stopped playing. Honestly, despite how beautiful this game is, and how many exciting new features there are, it just feels empty and if i'm being brutally honest I would rate this as one of my least favorite in the series.
it just feels like a project to be worked on rather than a relaxing experience to play and progress as you go, i felt so guilty for never touching my copy after a month or so of playing it then restarting, despite playing my previous games for YEARS. happy to know other people feel the same.
I've been playing since Wild World.. and in between, I played pocket camp while waiting for the NH release. Here is my little list
- How come villagers cannot interact with outside items as they can in PC? I feel pretty sad that I waste so much time decorating outside, for no reason other than aesthetic.
- Why are grouchy villagers so saccharine sweet? Why do villagers repeat the same dialogue line constantly?
- Why are the put up terrain and take down terrain actions, mapped to the same button? Just why.
- What happened to all the cute outdoor stuff? Fairytale bench etc
- why is the island smaller than the island in NL?
- why can't we craft multiple things at once? Why give us annoying DIY stuff, that takes up alllll inventory space, and then also make crafting so mind-numbingly boring?
I don't even care or have the energy to finish the list. Yes, the game is beautiful. It's gorgeous... But it's BORING.
It's like Sims 4 all over again 😢😢😢
I haven't played Sims 4 yet but now I am worried >__
oh god, acnh really is the sims 4 of animal crossing games, huh? at least the sims 4 has more variety in npc personality than acnh
To add to this
Why can pocket camp release multiple and varied items (both static and interactive) every month. Between events and fortune cookies there is constantly new clothes, furniture, bugs, flowers and fish. I am changing up my design all the time because there are so many items and only so much space (so if I want to use/interact with items I need to be redesigning regularly). It is baffling to me how a little phone app can do this, but not a larger release game
@@jenniferprisciak6402 you are sooo right. I didn't even think of the constant events in PC. Wow.. that makes me kinda mad
@@jenniferprisciak6402 I assume it's because we've already spent money on NH, while Pocket Camp still has ppl spending money to get some of the items. NH is bought once and that's it; PC probably has a lot of ppl that download it and then spend money every now and then on items they really want.
My thoughts as someone who hasn’t watched the video yet and hasn’t played any of the other Animal Crossing games:
1. Isabelle gets annoying
2. Characters don’t have enough variety in their possible conversations
3. LET ME BEFRIEND MORE SPECIAL NPCS THAN SABLE
4. I wanna be able to get a 5 star rating and still have my island look nice
5. It’d be nice to have an easier way to get villagers off your island that you don’t want or just gotta get rid of to make room so you can control which guy has to move out to make room for someone else
You have got your finger on the PULSE of the Animal Crossing fandom
This reply made my day, haha
I think they relied too heavily on the customization aspect of your island and left other things to the wind. My main sticking point being that the villager dialogue being pretty one note and dry. They cycle through the same five lines between all of them.
I feel like it was a good thing it didn't go back to that "you're not sure if you belong here" theme with the kind of year we were having. It was a happy escape from what was (and still is) a very scary outside world. It gave you and your friends something to do together without having to be near each other. It gave people a way to be in lockdown or to social distance without having to isolate themselves from social contact.
True the older themes may not have worked so well given the times. And not every previous game reflected those themes as strongly. I thought New Leaf actually did a great job of finding the sweet spot between "Do I belong here?" and the enjoyment of building up your town!
@@SimpleBean I agree, New Leaf was a great combination of the two! That was the ac game I started with, and it gave me probably hundreds of hours of entertainment. :)
i agree. i got animal crossing this december, my islands at 3 stars and ive lost motivation. i need goals to do in the game, when i get on, i talk to 1 villager and then log off. im stuck and i always feel like my island looks like shit.
I’ve been trying to think up new quests and challenges to stay engaged!
wow how is that literaly me rn
Same
i got animal crossing for 2020's xmas, i have a 5 star island but its pretty unfinished. i think people dont realize that when they say "wild world had better personalities!" when there where like, less than 200 villagers. its weird
@@SimpleBean I personally enjoyed the whole concept of building my own island. That really appealed to me in this game. Is it perfect? Absolutely not, but it's not as shitty as some people try to make it seem.
new leaf was such a truly special game, i felt like i had close relationships with all of my villagers even if they were snooty. i miss the coffee shop so much and the hourly music change felt like a comfort blanket i knew new id miss :(((
It sounds like the New Leaf community and love is still going strong which makes me super happy
I don't even care about bulk crafting. I just want more villager dialogue.. I want THEM to give me tasks.
The Nook Phone is probably by far the worst design decision in the game. Way to rip out so much villager interaction
Most of my friend quit since last year May 😂 truly say most ppl getting addicted to this game for first two/three months...once unlock KK concert and terraforming~nothing to do
Luckily I have a lot of friends still playing, I am happy when people can keep finding ways to enjoy the game! I’m trying to find new ways to enjoy it myself!
Yeah. It’s hella boring after KK Slider is unlocked.
@@shaylane5013 Yeah bc before the concert , we had things to do, like build a bridge, work hard for able sisters and etc. Now there’s literally no objective.
Yup. I just keep beating the game and wiping my island over and over again, because the game gets so boring after you’ve done everything you want to your island.. ive had about 10 islands at this point and I’m about to wipe again 🥴
Exactly! This is a big decrease from different franchise games on their older consoles. Like, let's say Yo-kai Watch. (totally different genre but it has a ton of post-game content and stuff to do)
I can’t tell you how long I’ve been waiting for the ‘big’ update. Brewster, Kapp’n, Retail, Kicks (his own store)… maybe we were just completely spoiled with New Leaf, I’m not completely sure. But I found more joy in that side of AC over anything else.
I’m dumb and hopeful
New leaf was honestly perfect and the best example to follow going forward. Obviously they did not do that.
it really feels like the team rushed to give us an AC game because we wouldnt stop asking for one and they rushed to give us this. i bet they were hoping that by saying there would be updates that it would give them time between updates to fully flesh out the finished game.
I miss Kapp’n so much. I spent so much time playing mini games in new leaf.
Since Brewster will now finally happen, maybe there’s hope!
I don't play this game anymore, but it carried me through the pandemic. With literally over 1,500 hours clocked in, I'll always remember and appreciate New Horizons even if I never touch it again.
It’s incredible how post-modern gaming has given you the tools to express yourself like never before… but I want someone with a vision to guide me through their world. If you get me.
I totally do! We’ve had this huge shift towards open world gaming, self expression, user generated content and “freedom” that we’ve lost some of the beautiful and poignant storytelling and worlds we used to enjoy!
I literally just bought the Animal Crossing version of the Switch...
I just cancelled the order, I can just borrow my bfs switch/island
@@mirisoji8406 I think it’s a good idea to try before you buy! I totally hope you love it though!
I really love the game! I think I’m going to buy the AC switch eventually
It can be a really good game and something for everyone to experience. I’m glad that they can out with it, but it needs more content. I have met amazing people because of the AC community. But the animal crossing switch is soo cute and a collectors item. I don’t think it’s a terrible game but they def did the fan base hella dirty.
Get Erik! He keeps things more interesting! I have both him and Sherb, and they are very much alike. But I never hear Sherb say its all just a game, or that everything in un-ok. Erik keeps it real.
I'm almost bummed about acnh booming success. Developers have no reason to make improvements to what old fans want now, and all of the new players have no idea what the game used to be and what they may be missing.
I like self expression just fine, but if that's ALL the game is, I find it super boring. The best part of AC was the villager interactions.
Honestly I think there is a lot of potential for a new IP to come in and take over
Hi Keni ☺️ Dialogue is my big gripe too. Species specific dialogue was in NL, as well as some specific friendship level dialogue lines within those personality and species qualifiers. I wish they had implemented some time to build out those dialogue lines. Ironically the devs said they wanted the villagers to seem more alive by sweeping grass or sitting under a tree eating a popsicle.. but when we talk to them, they’re more robotic than ever before.
Kayleigh!!! Yes the dialogue is such a letdown. I have several villagers pictures but they don’t interact with me any differently than when I first met them!
We need objectives. Things to achieve. Like when we first started and we had to gather wood and iron for the twins and gather critters to open a museum. If we had plenty of objectives and activities then we wouldn't be bored
what is so annoying is that since this game is targeted mostly towards minors it’s requires a subscription that most minors will most likely not have access to, you lose SO MUCH of the game without it it’s really hard
Please just say "kids", minors is such a weird legal term.
@@Frenchaboo Teenagers aren't exactly kids.
@@JulianaLimeMoon Yes they are. You are still a kid unless you are 18.
@@wolfzmusic9706 Oh, O.K., thanks. Why is it so weird for you if someone else uses the word "minor" instead, though?
Blame microsoft and their consumers for that stupid feature to begin with
Damn right, this game was unfinished and remains unfinished. A letdown in every department past decoration. YES!
I am holding out hope for a hefty update at some point. New Leaf got a pretty substantial update quite late in its life so it’s not impossible.
"In every department _past_ decoration"? There's almost nothing to decorate with! It's a letdown in _every_ department!
@@JulianaLimeMoon You literally get to decorate the ENTIRE island. You NEVER got to do that in previous games! But I do agree that there isn't as much furniture as there was in older games. Like, I want them to bring back the sweets collection and Gracie items! In fact, I want Gracie's shop back and also would love to have even more storage space, because even though I am maxed out in storage, it's still not enough. I wanna collect every single item in every colourway. :'( I like DIY, but I still have a lot of stuff missing, like the cherry blossom items and a lot of balloons didn't really have recipes and it's even like that without having events.
@@ReptilianTeaDrinker you can decorate your whole island but theres like nothing to decorate with lol. Miss the old games!
but in every way you slice it its not "unfinished"? sure it doesnt have the passed features but that doesnt mean its bad or unfinished. i mean your allowed to not like it, but unfinished is a little harsh, an unfinished game means theres bugs in every turn, it crashes a lot (a lot meaning more than zero) and ive never even ran into a single bug in the game at all.
I completed the fossils section of the museum and now everytime I give Socrates fossils he just keep saying that none of the fossils are new and that he wishes to buy them for his collection. I wished this was changed because I'm always like, oh if you want them so much why don't I have the option to give them to you. The script he repeats all the time really makes me feel like I haven't completed the section of the museum.
Something similar happens with Gulliver, he repeats the same everytime, the first times you read the text, but after a while you just smash the a button hoppin the text just ends
I feel like nintendo thinks
More stuff/recipes = fun
But we actually want more action and mini games.
It’s definitely hard to please everyone.
New leaf felt like a full game that I could and did play for years
New Horizons feels like a plastic marketing necessity
I used to spend hours streaming New Leaf on Twitch. Those were the days. It helped that I had multiple towns.
New Leaf was a full game. It wasn't missing any features. New Horizons was missing Art and Diving for example.
The final nail in the coffin, v1.0 of ACNH doesn't have a single Holiday except New Years Eve. And has 0 Nook's Cranny expansions. It's 100% an incomplete game.
@@TraceguyRune precisely, so so SO sick of developers releasing incomplete games just so they can update features later. No thanks I'm already bored while waiting for the actual game.
@@MizuFujimori They just want to make a quick buck. If you do not like it, then do not buy it. Boycott. I blame the people who keep buying these incomplete games because then you are showing that you like buying incomplete games. So stupid. Stop enabling the devs. I am buying few games that I know are complete.
I just miss all the furniture :( I LOVED happy home designer and I was so excited to play the new ac and see all the old furniture and more
I hope they do a Happy Home Digest where we can order more furniture!
With all the mystery islands, I hope they update and make them into fun mini game islands. Or bring back Tortimer island, Brewster, or anything that would encourage fun activities. I feel that with all the terraforming options, the game has become a competition on "who can make the best island" or something
I often feel that way when I see all the amazing builds on TH-cam and Instagram but I also really admire the dedication. And visiting them is always fun!
Exactly.
I too feel pressure to have the prettiest island
I like being able to design my island and I don't feel like it's a competition personally, because I'll make my island however the hell I want it without worrying about other people. lol But, I do feel you. I like getting to make my island how I want it, because I didn't get to do that in previous games and it was something I always wished for. Unfortunately, I feel like they cut so much out from previous games, like characters actually having personalities, some amazing NPCs (Brewster, Gracie, Pelly, just to name a few) and I wish we could still buy the Sweets collection furniture and Gracie Furniture, because those were sickening and iconic and I need them back asap! Plus, the music in NH isn't as good as previous titles. I liked WW and NL hourly music much more. I mean, 5am, 2pm and 5pm are pretty great in NH, but that's really about it.
While self expression has always been a part of animal crossing since the first game, it should never prioritize the life sim aspect of the game. New horizons is what happens when self expression prioritizes life sim.
Great TL;DR
Well, this video might age quickly bc of the new update coming. Literally the things that were missing in ACNH are coming in less than a month.
This video is almost five months old 😂
Every single time I get into a franchise, the game I start with is always the one that the fandom criticizes the most, saying it used to be better 😭 it's the case for Animal Crossing but not only, same goes for Pokémon for example
Hopefully you can go back and enjoy some of the oldies but goodies
Just enjoy the game... if you can't see those flaws just keep playing and enjoying and don't mind too much about what the fandom says.
@@TORMENTUMM "if you're homeless, just buy a house"
@@sandraswan9008 she got into the franchise on one of the worst rated games by the community and liked. SO she may not even realized about those flaws and she may don't even care about these. So what's wrong with suggesting to keep enjoying the game?
That only means, my friend, that the best is yet to come!
The biggest thing for me is that after so much time it feels so mundane without any daily activities/discovery aspects or any real need to interact with my villagers. My favourite part of WW was the villager interactions.
Talking to my villagers feels like a chore and I think Nintendo knows that because they literally made it a chore through the nook phone. Talk to three villagers to get those nook miles.
I feel like they made it clear when they didn't announce anything AC related for E3 or since that they no longer care about putting out new content for the game and I'm tired of waiting for updates that are possibly never coming. ACNH is an unfinished game without any soul like previous titles.. Sadly it took me over a year to finally realize that's all it'll ever be.
I really just want to play this game for years to come
i feel like the direct answered a lot of what im reading in the comments here
I am very much looking forward to seeing how this all plays out and will definitely be doing an updated video
Redd’s release is what broke me. When he came out I was near 75% complete for the museum. Which was great because I was getting to the point where the museum being completed was my final goal.
Although here comes along Redd. I loved the idea of art. But here comes my issue as well. I wanted to complete the art catalogue and fake art because it was funny to have the fakes and real ones.
But here was my breaking point. I got Redd twice. The first forced encounter, and once two weeks after. The whole system of random weekly encounters being restricted to two a week. While having nearly 6 I think at the time to pick from. I never got Redd. This began to crush my inner drive to play.
I began loosing hope of ever completing the museum. I became less involved in the game because at this point I would only check if Redd had appeared on the island. But he never did. For a whole two month. This was the breaking point for me because I had nothing else to do. This was also when I eventually just bought New Leaf. But the shock that came to me from the change of pace really hit hard. I needed to step away from Animal Crossing for a while from burn out.
I’m planning on buying Wild World soon and just coming in to it with no crazy expectations.
Also loved your video.
I don’t know if it’s true but I have heard that you can’t even get all the art from Redd but have to trade for some like the other furniture items? If so that’s a huge bummer
@@SimpleBean Either way I felt like they should have done a weekly thing for each visitor NPC like Flick and CJ every two weeks, Celeste once a week, and Gulliver as well. I just remembered hearing people get Redd almost weekly and then it made me sad I could complete everything. But hey I have a Wii U now and I’m planning on getting Wild World on it,
@@toad8848 I just saw that it definitely gets me excited to possibly play again. I just hope I don’t have burnout. At least now I can buy the items from Nookazon too.
This game burnt me tf out ngl
I recommend Pokemon Snap as a good breather game
I really wish Nintendo would add every DIY you collect in the store, that way every time you go on the beach you’ll always get a new DIY instead of repeating ones.
There’s so much yet I feel like there were so many easy fixes n additions.
I agree that there are number of seemingly "easy" fixes they could implement. Hopefully in the future!
Nintendo watching this video after the direct
“And I took that personally”
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I am definitely gonna make an updated video once I have some hands on experience with the update. I’m not ready to make a judgment just based off the Direct but a lot of this stuff looks very promising!
Everything changed when the direct of October 15th attacked
Lololol
Like the wise man said before "Good things must come to an end". Luckly I didn't purchased this game yet, I'm still waiting till it gets better ( I hope). I'm staying in New Leaf 🌿.
Hopefully we’ll see some good news at E3
Smart choice. If folks knew that the game gets fully released a few years after launch, I bet they would’ve waited for a completed game. Nah. Nintendo did their fans dirty with this game.
@@shaylane5013 Yeah, and it might _never_ become as good as past games (let alone better!), so he'll never waste money on it.
I remember first playing and wanting to get Rosie so bad because in Wild World she became like my bff and I wanted to show my boyfriend. Well, we found her, and she was immediately my bff with no effort at all. It’s just kinda lame and boring now, there isn’t anything to do.
Yeah villagers don’t hit the way they used to
same thing happened to me with Whitney. she feels soulless in new horizons.
Same. I got Poncho back and I used to love him in Wild World. Now he's just constantly wearing ugly sunglasses and talking repetitive bullshit. In WW he always carried a shovel and talked about fossils non stop. Now he's just a full on jock and all attempt to get attached to him just failed. I'm seriously thinking of getting rid of him again.
I loved that in the old games, villagers asked you to do tasks very frequently and they always gave you these little questionnaires or quizes or asked you about your opinion every now and then (anwering with a slider). Now even when one asks me to deliver something, I often just deny it to them because it feels pointless.
100000% agree with everything. I felt bored of the game so quickly as well after being obsessed at first, and couldn't put my finger on why that was -- why I had remembered loving Wild World and New Leaf so much more. Thanks for this video - I hope you talk about some of these things more in depth in a future video!!
I definitely want to do more videos on ACNH in the future
This was my first Animal Crossing game and I did get bored pretty quick. The more I hear about the older ones though, the more I think that might be my thing. I think I’m also the type who wants to live in and explore a village rather than build one myself
I really enjoy New Horizons' focus on self expression and island design. Outdoor furniture and terraforming is a vast improvement to the public works project system from New Leaf and I've been able to sink in over 1000 hours of gameplay just from the game's first year alone. Although I do miss unlocking new public works projects. I want a reason to collect nook miles and talk with my villagers each day because I feel like I've obtained everything already.
I'm also curious to know what you think about Nintendo's decision to make Nook's Cranny sell you only one color variant of each item? Initially, I didn't like it, but then I felt a sense of joy each time I popped a balloon to find an item color variant that I was missing. And I love that the game introduced dodo codes which has made trading with specific players that much easier (and this has paved the way for things such as Nookazon)
I definitely have mixed feelings on NINTENDO only giving out one color variant. On the one hand it does allow for participating in the community at large BUT you also have to have purchased a Nintendo Online Subscription in order to do so (if I understand correctly) I also wish we got some rotation of items available for “purchase” with the Nook Miles as I think this would be the perfect place to put larger public works-esque items
Personally I dislike that change they made, I know you can get the other colors via redd and the balloons, but for a game with such an emphasis on decorating I feel like it makes it overly hard to get the right colors of items to be able to decorate how you would want to. Plus, since it's so frustrating it just leads to people using trading instead which creates an imbalance where people who don't have online are left out in another way.
Isabelle wont stop talking about her favorite TV show that's why
I am so excited for the new upcoming update on November 5, they are finally adding what makes animal crossing animal crossing (:
I’m hoping so! I will definitely do an updated video!
When you first start NH you have just a tent and Tom Nook is the Boss as he should be and you are beholden to him.
Once you 'complete' the game, you then have the ability to reform the entire island, neutering Tom Nook in the process and i believe that is the point at which NH loses its way.
With total freedom to do what you want to the island comes a loss of focus.
I found that the beginning of the game had that drive to keep me coming back each day, because I was limited with my resources. If I didn't have enough stone, I would have to wait until the next day to get more. Once I finished everything and got all my villagers, there wasn't a drive to do anything, as I didn't like crafting and I left like I had "finished"
The beginning of the game was my favorite and I am seriously thinking about restarting my island!!!
I wonder, how was it that Animal Crossing: New Leaf that had only one update was played on longer than Animal Crossing: New Horizons with like 1-10 updates.
See but this is why I have hope that we’ll still get a chunky update at some point in the future
Totally agree with everything you said! I also played the original animal crossing and although I really enjoyed wild world their aspects of it that I didn't like. City folk felt like the first game where things started to get a little mucky so I didn't get into New Leaf until much later. But I still enjoyed it and played it like crazy.
Recently got back into New horizons because my friend's younger sister got it so I've been playing it a little more with her and helping to build up her sister's island. But I find that once again I've gotten bored very quickly there's just nothing to accomplish. Especially with the lack of store upgrades and honestly the island feels a little small for what it is
Honestly, the only thing I want is the villager system from Gamecube: I want them to offer me tasks and get annoyed with me if I pester them. I want their personalities to shine. You could have 2 villagers with the same personality but seem completely different because you just genuinely are mean to a villager and they, in turn, will roast you. I miss that.
Dolphin + the HD texture pack = a superior HD Animal Crossing experience.
If we ever get a port I am going to play the heck out of it
now i feel that new horizons just came out so they could hold us over for a bit more maybe in a couple years they'll have a new leaf that looks like new horizons with lots of new npcs new buildings and new feautures... hopefully one day!
The game is certainly still young which is why I do still have a sliver of hope that we’ll see the game come into its own
I dreamt one night that new leaf would get into Switch but I'm highly doubting that thought because why would a 3ds game get to switch at this point.
@@sophiagonzales8974 Miitopia was originally a 3ds release, so it's possible. It was released about three years after ACNL though.
I really hate it, that you basically HAVE TO play online with friends or strangers… to get the items you like/need. :/ I don’t have a lot friends that play AC nor do I want to use Nookazon to get the items (in the color) that I want… I like playing by myself. And I also feel like there are not enough items in general. I don’t know how I’m supposed to fill my island? With the same furniture over and over again? In the most island tour videos you see the same stuff in a very similar setup (with exceptions of course) every time. I’m playing New Leaf atm and I love it. Why did they remove all the cool buildings? And there are also so many delicious-looking food items in NL. I don’t know where to put all the cool items and I can only place them in my house. 😂 And yeah, the villagers in NL also feel way more alive and unique.
There is so much stuff, that is better in NL. I kinda wish they just would have updated the graphics of NL and put all the new features of NH into it. Then it would have been the perfect Animal crossing in my option. 😕
I feel like I need to dedicate a whole video to what it’s like to play without online
The item color system is disgusting lol ):