I can't explain why but I was never able to enjoy new horizons the way I enjoyed new leaf. I used to play new leaf for hours a day and 1 am was always the hour I used to wrap things up. I don't get what I was doing at night because no one is awake anyway, yet I did this for at least a year. All these years later I decided to learn to play piano and one of the first songs I learnt was the 1 am tune from new leaf. I still play it every now and then at night, the nostalgia always hits me.
@@eglantinedesablin2967same! The music in new leaf has a special place in my heart. I don’t know what the hell they did with the new horizons music but it doesn’t hit the same.
New Leaf will forever have a special place in my heart: since I couldn't afford to get a switch back when pandemic was happening I decided to get New Leaf instead and play it on 3DS - everyone was talking about New Horizons as I remember Marshal was one of the more "famous" villagers at that time and he just so happened to be on my island as soon as I started the game - I will forever cherish those days spent with him, Beau and Fang!
@lucifur86O F, you won't go through a lot without visiting people. Most public work projects and some other features sometime require visiting people at least 1 to 100 times. These days it'll be hard, so I sometimes had to use cheats to get what I want.
This game has a magic New Horizons never had imo, and personally, I think New Horizons gives the player far too much power. New Leaf gives the player power but a substantially lower amount, and that's a good thing. I'll always love New Leaf far more.
Exactly! I feel that giving players too much power makes the game both overwhelming and boring. I like how in New Leaf you can enact public works projects but you can only have a specific amount around the town. You also aren’t able to choose where your neighbours place their homes, because… why would you be able to do that 😂 Because life isn’t like that! New Horizons doesn’t feel like a life sim to me, but New Leaf does.
yeah i hate terraforming and being able to put every single furniture item outside. it seems a little overboard. like do we really need that? i also hate crafting
@@luketj I love both games for completely different reasons. I play New Horizons for the creativity. I enjoy designing my island and decorating it and hunting for the ultimate villager line up to live in my town. Whereas I love New Leaf for simulator aspect. Upgrading my town, doing all the errands, talking to the villagers, making lots of bells. The ultimate animal crossing game would be have the perfect balance of both.
New Leaf feels like a world, while New Horizons feels like a game. After a year of not playing, I showed off my NH island to my aunt, knowing EVERYTHING was where I left it. I'm terrified to turn on New Leaf tho, cause I just KNOW my favorite villager has moved away. It's been a month since I played.
There's Animal Crossing the life sim and then there's Animal Crossing the design sim. I miss the life sim aspect. Just some person striking out on their own to live life in a new place.
the limits and inconveniences in acnl were annoying and i always said i wish i didnt have to go through all that, but now that most things are so streamlined in acnh it doesnt really feel like the animal crossing experience anymore. you dont have to communicate with npcs as much but thats kinda what made me play the game more because it really did feel like seperate world. i could talk about animal crossing forever 😭
@@loadishstone because it's easier to notice what they didn't add compared to what they did add. The massively expanded upon designing the town would've been amazing had there actually been anything to fill it up with, but there were like 2 shops at the beginning of the game and no good dialogues from the villagers to be seen. You can put the shops basically wherever you want, but you don't actually GET that animal crossing feeling from the shops in this game, it's like a bunch of half-baked versions of each shop, and half the characters who owned shops don't even show up on the island. They took the island getaway vibes they were going for a bit too seriously because it looks like a complete trainwreck when you first get there. The shops are a mess in New Leaf at the beginning too, but then you actually see a bunch of new stuff pop up as you go. Brewster took forever to show up in acnh, I never saw him bc I stopped playing by the time they added him to the game. Do you know how satisfying it was in New Leaf to get Gracie to show up in the TNT emporium? if there were that many upgrades to the shop in this game, I definitely would have at least 50 hours more of acnh just from that alone because upgrading an island from the ground up sounds extremely satisfying. As I was saying in the previous point, starting from the ground up is fun, but it felt like I was forced for months to build a house myself while I waited to get shipped the materials, while New Leaf was more... getting the foundation of a home from the start and then working on it to make it into a mansion. I don't think it would've been as detrimental to the quality of the game if we got all of the materials from the start (or at least been able to work towards GETTING the materials), but having to wait for months for the opportunity to even create the bare minimum of a proper town is a no from me. I think this is partially why so many new players loved the game while older players were like: "Where the hell IS everything?" because the Island designing concept for a new animal crossing game would've been amazing if we actually got the chance to get everything we expected from it. When I started I was so excited to upgrade the shop, but then I was thinking "What the fuck do I need to do to upgrade the nooks cranny again?" i spent 100k and 15 google searches later to find out that there literally wasn't any other upgrades. One of the other things I loved about new leaf was perfect fruit, and I was so disappointed to find out we couldn't plant a bunch of trees and then go off to someone else's island to sell them all because it felt so much more interactive than buying turnips. It's so much easier to get money in acnh, yet there isn't even anything to spend it on. (Loved blowing all my money at gracie's stores, that shit was so overpriced yet I ate it up every single time, it's what I would do irl if I wanted to go homeless. Is that what being rich feels like? bc it's amazing.) Finding out there was no Brewster or Gracie, I was DONE. (jk i still played 65 hours or so, but still) Like I kind of love the Brewster inside the museum vibe too, so I'm sad it took so long for him to show up. Long story short, acnh is a great game, but not a great animal crossing game.
@@peyton1768 "acnh is a great game, but not a great animal crossing game" Ehhhh pushing it abit there, I'd just say it lost some of the charm. Its still AC, just not as fun.
When my wife and I first married, she bought her first 3ds, and we played this game a lot. In many ways, this game is better than New Horizons. One thing severely lacking in New Horizons that I love about this game is the sheer amount of music, ambiance, and dialogue with the NPCs. My favorite, Henry, just doesn't feel the same in the new game. I feel nostalgic when I turn on new leaf every once in a while. Great review, and thanks for sharing your story.
Animal crossing new leaf definitely feels more alive than new horizons. In new horizons the music isn't relaxing and the villagers are alot more robotic in my opinion. I haven't played new horizons in months but I can always go back to new leaf and enjoy going to the island with my family:) I really do miss when everyone played acnl and so many people would be using club tortimer though
Hearing you talk about you and your sister was so lovely. My brother got me New Leaf for my twelfth birthday. I actually received two copies with a note saying 'i hope you give me one'. He'd persuaded my mum he also needed a copy so we could play together. Flash forward to my 18th birthday and its just me and him at home during the day. He was 16 and in that time where he hid in his room all day. But he got out our DS's and we played new leaf and watched bad daytime tv. I just remember being so happy when i thought it was going to be a bit of a rubbish day.
I loved the music a lot better in new leaf vs new horizons. And my new leaf save file I’m loaded to the max. I got loads of bells on all my characters, and got tons of rare items. I have had the same town for almost 9 years.
Totally agreed, would also completely get rid of crafting and just buy stuff. Crafting, esp without bulk crafting, was a huge disappointment. You’re also right that new leaf had a lot more furniture. New horizons was too focused on the realism, and changed the furniture to look simpler so that it is believable that the player could’ve possibly crafted it. Getting rid of the furniture series sets was and still is infuriating to me. I want to see beautiful new versions of the furniture sets we’ve had in every past animal crossing game, not ugly simpler versions of a few sets and completely getting rid of the majority of the furniture series! There’s no late game in ACNH, no Gracie furniture to collect…. just so much disappointment, even though there were many enjoyable things about the game. Acnl is still #1.
i realise it's a big aspect and point of the game, so it might just be me, but crafting is such a laborious chore imo and i could do without it and i super agree with your comment about the furniture sets
I started playing New Leaf 3 days ago, coincidentally you uploaded this 3 days ago? But I've been loving it! I played Wild World to completion as a kid. This is a great step up. New Horizons looks too different, New Leaf is familiar!
I genuinely like new leaf and I like how easy it has been for me to go back to my current save. New horizons for me feels really overwhelming the villagers are boring and it’s hard for me to continue playing it. I want to fully complete new leaf and so far I’ve been making really good progress. I wish I had found new leaf when I was younger because I would’ve enjoyed it so much I had bought new leaf when people were starting to preorder new horizons because I didn’t have a switch at the time and I’m glad I made that choice even now
Homebrewed my 2DS this year and oh man am I jealous of the people who had this hard installed on their system. You can just pop in and out so quickly and it excellently suits the handheld nature of the console (sure Wild World is the same but the performance is icky). I'd also argue that having the freedom of New Horizons stripped from me once again reminds me of how humble and enjoyable getting the public works projects done to spruce up the village is. Glad I've found at least someone else going back to this around the same time.
You should get the hshop mod to replace the eshop because they shut it down and you can get any 3ds game for free. Not piracy because there's no way to buy the games anymore.
@@T_Bagz193 Eh, still is. Realistically, I won't get arrested, I've already homebrewed the system, but I do have the means to buy the games legit somehow. Hshop is something I'm definitely looking into though, especially if games get unfairly expensive (cough cough, fire emblem, something I'll probably never touch but still exercise the need to complain about).
Animal crossing is that series I always wish I could get into but it never stuck with me but every one I knew growing up loved playing it. Really glad you have good memories of this franchise.
Same here. My wife has thousands of hours invested into it and I just can’t. It’s so tedious and boring. Half the game is pick up sticks, dig a hole, and go fishing. It was just too boring for me
That’s how I feel about New horizon and was disappointed because everyone loved the previous games. So now I want to try New Leaf. Do you guys find New Horizon boring or all Animal Crossing.
@@sillyhermylisten all I’m going to say is this. I have played both NH and NL and I’m just going to say that I found NH to be one of the most boring games of this Nintendo console generation. It completely lacks the “homie” feeling that animal crossing is known to have. Again like the video said, it feels stagnant and sterile. If you were to play NL I truly believe that you’d LOVE it. There is no gaming experience like NL. It is what every animal crossing game should strive to be.
Nothing will beat the magic of New Leaf. Despite not being on a home console, they nailed everything. You just don’t feel the same level of love in New Horizons.
I really want to love new horizons, it’s a good game graphics/customization-wise. New Leaf will always be my favorite though, it’s humble and there’s no pressure to make a “perfect island” like there is in NH. It was humble. I’m still trying to find my old 3ds and crack open my old save file, zero clue where it is but I really, really hope I can find it soon
I do think a part of it is internet culture though. It's social media that creates the pressure to create the perfect island moreso than the game itself.
@@1bwashTotally, I remember that happening towards the end of new leaf too! People posting their aesthetic rooms and stuff and laying tiles with all different looks, and feeling like I couldn't share my town because it wasn't fancy enough
@@manimanistatue True, however that was a Virtual Console release, not a remaster or anything. It just ported the original DS one into the Wii Us system with upgraded controls and more lack of features.
Man, I just discovered your channel a few days ago and it’s crazy how similar we are in our relationship with Nintendo games + consoles. I’d love to learn about how nostalgia keeps you coming back to older titles - and if you think that will always be so. Also, it would be interesting to hear about your thoughts on game preservation when Nintendo doesn’t seem to care much about it. I think about it a lot. Anyways, awesome video!
Thanks for the nice nostalgia trip! I think in general, New Horizons is the better game but New Leaf (and the 3DS in totality) is a big nostalgia machine for me. 3DS was such a personal gaming device that was so easy to bring with you and pull out anytime, anywhere.
New Leaf is prob always going to be the most delightful game of the AC franchise, the soundtrack, the activities, the nostalgia, i would say its a nearly perfect game. New Horizons was supposed to beat that, but for me, it didn't.
I only just started playing this game. I’m enjoying it for the most part - it’s a lot more restricted than New Horizons but, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
I have fond memories of wild world, growing up (im a 1993 baby) i had the gba sp in later primary school and before that i had my ps1, i used to play dmgs and colors that my friends owned as well, but the sp was my first true handheld. I got the ps2 sometime during primary also and soon as highschool hit i lost interest in games and was more interested in girls. As highschool went on i found myself playing a lot of ipod games like fruit ninja, clash of clans and doodle jump etc. I also got the ps3 and was constantly playing call of duty with my school friends. However my little sister who was 5 years behind me got the ds then the dsi and then the 3ds etc etc. I used to sit and play the layton games with her when she got stuck on the puzzles (i finally revisited the curious village and completed it). Anyway im getting off topic here, one of the things i loved most was playing animal crossing with her, fishing, catching bugs and digging up treasures. I really love my hacked 3ds, as far as nintendo goes, the 3ds is by far my favourite over the switch and gameboy. Just an amazing and gorgeous console and all the games hold up! As far as home consoles go i prefer the ps5. Good combo in my eyes 😊
New Leaf has better daillogues than NH for villagers and also had the multiplayer minigames. It gives you freedom but not too much. The only thing that I dislike for NL is villagers putting their house on ANY spot of the village ruining your trees and gardens if you made ones. If you can find ACNL second hand cheap I recomment to try it. Sadly servers were about to close down on this March I think (damn, gotta farm that whirlpool bath).
Really good and charming video! I originally bought the 3DS because of the Animal Crossing New Leaf! I still actively play it, and to be honest I prefer it a lot more than the New Horizons, which I abandoned after 140 hours.
Every game, even City Folk, has some value in replaying GC-Early but humble beginnings, gameboy advance, and memory card connectivity WW-Comes into its own, but still has traces of GC to keep it distinct from later entries CF-...it's a more pretty WW with a bit less to do? NL-City management and working with residents, the definitive Animal Crossing experience NH-...UHHHHHHHHHH
I kind of remember getting New Leaf alongside my brothers when the game initially came out. over here in the UK, i think they might have been doing some Nintendo VIP-type (slightly like america's Club Nintendo) thing where if you registered 3 or so specific 3DS games (out of 8?) that you could get one digitally for free. coincidentally, a bit later, i think Capcom had a thing where people registered Monster Hunter Ultimate 3, then they'd get a digital code you'd hand to a friend, granted that they only recently registered their 3DS. i'm not even sure if the Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate thing resulted in perpetually-reproducable copies or what, but the game itself was one of those 8 games you could've used. I would assume that Nintendo would distinguish between people either getting the game either Physically or Digitally (since they'd have VIP codes). then you give the recconmendation code to the person who'd get a code to redeem it digitally. was kind of full of evergreen titles like Animal Crossing, Fire Emblem Awakening, Mario 3D Land, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity, Lego City Undercover, Luigi's Mansion, Monster Hunter and Castlevania: Mirror of Fate...? the physical sales for Mario, ACNL, FE and MH3U that i could honestly see everyone having to pick 1 game they begrudgingly obtained. could've sworn Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D was one of them.
I got introduced to animal crossing just last year when I bought my first switch. I had a 3ds but I just never new about the game for whatever reason. Now I wish I had because it looks so fun and I wanna play new leaf😅 I do agree that new horizons doesn’t have many options for buying items. I find it so difficult to unlock new items and I just can’t make new builds because I don’t have enought items for it. I just gotta shake trees and hope something good comes out of it :/
One of the reasons I adore New Leaf much much more than New Horizons is the music. New Leaf’s soundtrack is calming and happy, with a lot of piano and guitar. New Horizons’ music meanwhile is way too busy and loud. It’s not relaxing booting up NH after a long day, the title screen music sounds like something that should be in a crazy, late-night island party or something.
I remember really wanting to play Sim City back when that released back in 2013. I didn't have a powerful PC, but I did have a 3DS, so while browsing in a GameStop, reading the back of the boxes, I bought the first game that sounded like Sim City. Animal Crossing New Leaf. That was June 21st 2013. I was upset at first because it wasn't what I thought it was, but I soon learned to adore this game and I've been a diehard fan ever since
I sometimes just turn on the 7pm new leaf music while I’m cooking or reading, it’s just so peaceful and relaxing! New leaf to me just feels like home, I usually play new horizons when I’m feeling more creative rather than in need of some coziness 🙈☺️
I'll never forget the day I was introduced to Animal Crossing. I was 8 in 2002 and I went to the living room to watch Saturday morning cartoons and I saw my eldest brother hooking up my GameCube to the TV and he had just gotten the game. And was telling me about it and at first I didn't care for it but I started playing it and I was hooked and so was my sister. I still have the copy he got all those years ago in my game collection but the disc is broken but the memory card still has the saved states on it. I wanna get the disc but it's kinda pricey online idk I'll get it one day. I have Wild World and New Leaf and I was playing it again a few days ago. It holds a special place in my heart I just love animal crossing.
I liked my house that I designed in New Leaf better than my New Horizons home. And yes, Tortimer's island was the BEST! Sharks and beetles in the evening. new Leaf also had the best music all around. You could also upgrade main street.
I feel like there is a huge difference between the feeling of "moving into an existing town" like in all the other AC games and just building up everything from zero like in New Horizons. I think that this is a big chunk of why New Leaf just feels better than New Horizons, in my opinion. Great video!
As much as I love new horizons, new leaf just has so much nostalgia! I recently found my old 3ds and I’ve been obsessed with new leaf again for the past few days 🥹
my brother’s and i also bonded so much over acnl!! one day we lost the cartridge & we went crazy over it. when we moved to another place months later& we made it a mission to look for it, thinking it had to pop up but never found it :0 a decade later i have a new & personally modded 3ds & i enjoy the game as much or even more than i did then. i love this video so much it hit home
New Leaf with New Horizons graphics including animation would be perfect. NL just looks a bit stiff animation-wise. Also don't like the restricted slots inside the bag. Touch screen is also a nuisance. I really enjoyed NH much more than NL. After watching videos like yours maybe I should give NL another try.
New leaf was so fun I loved the multiplayer and games we all could play, in new horizons there was no mini games for our friends to play while we were all on the same island
I actually just ordered Animal Crossing Wild World for DS. I started my AC journey with ACNL so never played the ones before it, so I’m really excited to play. I do have the Game Cube Ac I got after I got NL but didn’t play it much.
There's tons of crafting recipes, furniture, clothes items ect in New Horizons. It's just a matter of getting ahold of it. Thungs are very randomly available. What will be in the shop, given as a gift or from a balloon popped out of the sky.
so new leaf is the one animal crossing i havent played because i never had a 3ds, i was in highschool at this point and was all about pc gaming by then, really feel like i missed out the more vids i watch XD now i have a modded 3ds and am LOVING the games on it, so many i just completely missed out on. when you said the thing about the fact that you can just buy what other people have furniture wise in their house is soooo cool, the more stuff i see about the 3ds makes me REALLY sad i missed it and even more sad that none of it exists on the switch.... its kind of mind blowing how restricted it is compared to a console that was released BEFORE by decent amount of time, a real shame. the streetpass is one thing im really bummed i missed out on, i got the dlc for mii plaza from hshop just in case but i doubt ill ever actually get a streetpass from it lol, but i guess you never know!
I’m sad I missed out on playing this when I was younger. I played new horizons on release date and as my first animal crossing experience it was a good time, but after seeing this I can’t help but want to pick up new leaf. It will also give me an excuse to bring out my 2ds again.
I know this comment is over 4 months old but as someone who also missed out as a kid and played new horizons on release, do it. I bought a 3ds recently after borrowing one to play new leaf on, and ive been having the time of my life. The game is 1000x better than NH in every way, theres always something to do and dialogue for characters is never dry. i recommend estarland to buy a ds + ac from. Spent roughly 218 on my ds! [3DS XL] and NF goes for 30 new but preowned is 16-12!
I played ACNL in high school on the original 3DS I got for my birthday. I enjoyed New Horizons very much, but New Leaf is my favorite by far. The NPCs have so much more life to them. I've purchased a New 3DS XL for modding, and this is the game I'm most looking forward to playing. Some summer days were spent counting down the hours until the beetles would start spawning on the island. At school, when there was nothing to do, my friends and I would visit each other's towns. It was wonderful. I also discovered the spot pass houses while I was at a convention one summer. (RTX, if there are any Rooster Teeth fans in this comments section.) People made their own QR codes and rooms based off the content creators we were all seeing. Many many people took their DSs with them, and I played a round of Mario Kart with like 8 other people. While waiting for a panel to start I had the ultimate shopping spree in the housing area with Digby. I also love Halloween dearly and remember trick or treating in game with my cousin once I was too old to not get a glare or two in real life. Good memories and good gameplay. It's a great combo.
The GameCube version of Animal crossing(and lack of explanation from my now ex) pretty much put me off of it until New Horizons when he begged me again to try it. I absolutely fell in love with it and also going back playing New Leaf too.
There's a lot of little things that new leaf got right that just weren’t in new horizons which made it the better game imo. I didn’t really gel with the desert island setting, the music was weird and synthesized, the holidays felt lacking and there were overall fewer of them, just smaller details that combined to make an overall less pleasant experience. And that's not even mentioning the bigger problems like tool durability and an overemphasis on crafting/foraging that I just feel negatively impacted the game as a whole. Also...why did the nooklings' store only upgrade once? And even then, why did the upgrade only barely outclass its predecessor?
it's 10 august 2023, I have a hacked 3ds and I heard new leaf was a great game, I played new horizons but now I'm going to experience new leaf for the first time. Wish me luck!
Ive been playing animal crossing new leaf since i was 9. I got it for my birthday in 2014 and i still play it!! Its such an amszing game. I think even when your island is "done" theres still so much to do. Ive played Animal crossing new horizons as well and i dont know, it just didnt apeal to me 😅 i completed my 5 star island but just found it a chore and extremly boring. The music also doesnt feel the same.
It's really weird seemingly being the only person who's played new horizons before new leaf. I bought New leaf and played it for like a month but put it down after not being able to put furniture outside and having what seemed like limited amount of storage inside. Some things were great, like Tortimers Island and a bit more varied conversation from villagers but I guess I was looking for more of the decoration and customization side from it.
I have that exact 3ds xl!! (I have a pink case on it) I remember when I got New Leaf (back in 2012) that I thought it was just the coolest game ever lol. I had never played an Animal Crossing game before so New Leaf was my first experience with it. 💖
I preferred New Horizons over New Leaf, but Wild World is my personal favorite. I remember buying Nintendo WiFi connector just to hang out with forum people.
I originally got into Animal Crossing with New Leaf thanks to ZackScottGames’ original playthrough of it. I still have my physical copy of the game all the way from 2014. One of the best games ever made
Just because of the OST it is! of course the rest of the features are amazing and yes the customisation is not as deep as with new Horizons, but the feeling of this game is something no other can achieve
I feel the same exact way! As much as I enjoy both games, New Leaf just has this special vibe about it. But who knows, maybe I’ll be making a nostalgic video about New Horizons in 10 years! Also thanks for watching! I tried a new format for this video where I just turned on the mic and spoke without a script. I’m a little nervous that people won’t like it, but I had a lot of fun making a video this way!
i just got a 3ds recently. and i want to get new leaf. i played animal crossing on the gamecube and i loved it so much! i played new horizons but i just couldn’t get attached to it like i did the gamecube version. hope i like new leaf!
If my 3ds isn't broken, I would've played this again. I missed this game. I own a switch and am playing New horizons but there is just something endearing in New Leaf that I miss.
I love the comparison bro. IMO, new leaf will always win. Lemme know if anyone wants to play new leaf. I’m looking for friends. Since OP can make a video then ignore everyone else.
new horizons was a first animal crossing game for me. i liked the concept of the game but is was so bored with the villagers, and then i've heard somewhere that in the previous AC games the villagers were not shy say some nasty things that got me in immediately. i found an old 3ds in tokyo and bought wild world and new leaf and i enjoy it playing in 2024 so much. amazing game
Omg when they said New Horizons was gonna have crafting I groaned so hard! I never wanted that shoehorned into Animal Crossing, it didn't add anything to the gameplay but frustration at not having the right materials. And I miss furniture sets so much 😭
New leaf was fun I played it alot when I got it I went on every day did the usual money rock and fake rock stuff collecting fossils for blathers and checking the what the shops had in stock and the most challenging task was paying the bills for your house making it bigger was fun new leaf was also the animal crossing game that got me into animal crossing aswell one of my favourite 3ds games aswell that got released I still enjoy coming back to the game overall probably the most fun animal crossing game out there
I love New Horizons but it feels like a “corporate” game specifically made to target the market and make as much money as possible but new leaf feels like a game made made as risk that in hope it would catch their already existing audience and get some new fans.
Absolutely love Animal Crossing New Leaf, but as someone who does not own New horizons, it does hurt dealing with all of the limits in the form of PWPs and custom designs. So many things I want to do that are locked away. Once I complete ACNL again, I will see about getting a switch and ACNH, hopefully for reasonable price.
I think New Horizon's could have and should have easily implemented more paths for players. The standard is the player basically chooses where everything goes, but they could have added another option where the game can preset where the buildings get placed (like a mainstreet is automatically created for you). And the same thing with things like changing your appearance, they should have let you have the mirrors and stuff but then also have it be an add-on to an existing shop where you can go to a salon. But maybe that's the whole point of New Horizons, they want it to always be an under developed island.
The update was either in 2017 or 2018. I first got into Animal Crossing in 2015 and New Leaf was my first game. The update wasn't around that year. I loved the new update. It was so cool to be able to get a little 3DS from the fortune cookie and be able to play a new game on it. Same with another fortune cookie that has another system to be able to play another game. Plus getting Meow coupons and being able to get new items with the Meow coupons was fun.
I think one of my least favourite parts is one of the biggest features of New Horizons: the crafting. It's clear the developers put a lot of time into the system but I feel severely underwhelmed by how it works. Crafting tools is fun until you get the golden tools and realise that those break too. And having to find individual recipes was really annoying because the game didn't care about giving you duplicates. I'd much rather just find the items themselves. But some of the funnest memories included my brother and I going to the club at night and pretending like we were going out. And even alone I would be able to enjoy the game for hours a day because I just felt like another villager and not some super special entity that has full rein of whatever I wanted to do. It was a great game but Nintendo really set us up for disappointment by guaranteeing updates that just added pre-existing features. I'd have preferred having those older features in day one and them adding actually new content or things like more store upgrades rather than crafting and terraforming.
Id say like 50% of clothes, furnature, and lack of outer house customization makes the new horizons feel incomplete also villagers are Robots with only Happy emotions and no other emotions besides happy lol their just statues you can visit then feel like you live with
New leaf is worth all the money in 2024! After playing New horizons i became interested in the older AC games. I got Wild World this year for my birthday. Ne my mum and ny sisters went shopping and i found a game store I ended up buying Animal Crossing new leaf a 3DS and Nintendogs for my DS. I REALLY enjoyed New leaf! Im getting the DLC for Christmas!!! I literally can't wait!!!!
I can't explain why but I was never able to enjoy new horizons the way I enjoyed new leaf. I used to play new leaf for hours a day and 1 am was always the hour I used to wrap things up. I don't get what I was doing at night because no one is awake anyway, yet I did this for at least a year. All these years later I decided to learn to play piano and one of the first songs I learnt was the 1 am tune from new leaf. I still play it every now and then at night, the nostalgia always hits me.
same exact thing for me but i learned it on my guitar haha
@@eglantinedesablin2967same! The music in new leaf has a special place in my heart. I don’t know what the hell they did with the new horizons music but it doesn’t hit the same.
I was always disappointed in new horizons for not having the furniture sets from the past games
Nice story 👍
omg i thought that was my comment like i litteraly have a passion for 1 am
New Leaf will forever have a special place in my heart: since I couldn't afford to get a switch back when pandemic was happening I decided to get New Leaf instead and play it on 3DS - everyone was talking about New Horizons as I remember Marshal was one of the more "famous" villagers at that time and he just so happened to be on my island as soon as I started the game - I will forever cherish those days spent with him, Beau and Fang!
Did you manage to get all the fruit without visiting people? I’m still trying to figure it out 😂
@@lucifur86 The mini games on the island help sooooo much with that x
@lucifur86O F, you won't go through a lot without visiting people. Most public work projects and some other features sometime require visiting people at least 1 to 100 times.
These days it'll be hard, so I sometimes had to use cheats to get what I want.
@@Rose-rc7eknot only that but you could also go to the mini game island and gather all the fruits like that
Same! I New Leaf kept my miond occupied throughout the pandemic.
This game has a magic New Horizons never had imo, and personally, I think New Horizons gives the player far too much power. New Leaf gives the player power but a substantially lower amount, and that's a good thing. I'll always love New Leaf far more.
Exactly! I feel that giving players too much power makes the game both overwhelming and boring. I like how in New Leaf you can enact public works projects but you can only have a specific amount around the town. You also aren’t able to choose where your neighbours place their homes, because… why would you be able to do that 😂 Because life isn’t like that! New Horizons doesn’t feel like a life sim to me, but New Leaf does.
yeah i hate terraforming and being able to put every single furniture item outside. it seems a little overboard. like do we really need that? i also hate crafting
@@luketj I love both games for completely different reasons. I play New Horizons for the creativity. I enjoy designing my island and decorating it and hunting for the ultimate villager line up to live in my town. Whereas I love New Leaf for simulator aspect. Upgrading my town, doing all the errands, talking to the villagers, making lots of bells. The ultimate animal crossing game would be have the perfect balance of both.
New Leaf feels like a world, while New Horizons feels like a game.
After a year of not playing, I showed off my NH island to my aunt, knowing EVERYTHING was where I left it.
I'm terrified to turn on New Leaf tho, cause I just KNOW my favorite villager has moved away. It's been a month since I played.
There's Animal Crossing the life sim and then there's Animal Crossing the design sim. I miss the life sim aspect. Just some person striking out on their own to live life in a new place.
the limits and inconveniences in acnl were annoying and i always said i wish i didnt have to go through all that, but now that most things are so streamlined in acnh it doesnt really feel like the animal crossing experience anymore. you dont have to communicate with npcs as much but thats kinda what made me play the game more because it really did feel like seperate world.
i could talk about animal crossing forever 😭
@@loadishstone because it's easier to notice what they didn't add compared to what they did add. The massively expanded upon designing the town would've been amazing had there actually been anything to fill it up with, but there were like 2 shops at the beginning of the game and no good dialogues from the villagers to be seen.
You can put the shops basically wherever you want, but you don't actually GET that animal crossing feeling from the shops in this game, it's like a bunch of half-baked versions of each shop, and half the characters who owned shops don't even show up on the island. They took the island getaway vibes they were going for a bit too seriously because it looks like a complete trainwreck when you first get there. The shops are a mess in New Leaf at the beginning too, but then you actually see a bunch of new stuff pop up as you go. Brewster took forever to show up in acnh, I never saw him bc I stopped playing by the time they added him to the game. Do you know how satisfying it was in New Leaf to get Gracie to show up in the TNT emporium? if there were that many upgrades to the shop in this game, I definitely would have at least 50 hours more of acnh just from that alone because upgrading an island from the ground up sounds extremely satisfying.
As I was saying in the previous point, starting from the ground up is fun, but it felt like I was forced for months to build a house myself while I waited to get shipped the materials, while New Leaf was more... getting the foundation of a home from the start and then working on it to make it into a mansion. I don't think it would've been as detrimental to the quality of the game if we got all of the materials from the start (or at least been able to work towards GETTING the materials), but having to wait for months for the opportunity to even create the bare minimum of a proper town is a no from me. I think this is partially why so many new players loved the game while older players were like: "Where the hell IS everything?" because the Island designing concept for a new animal crossing game would've been amazing if we actually got the chance to get everything we expected from it.
When I started I was so excited to upgrade the shop, but then I was thinking "What the fuck do I need to do to upgrade the nooks cranny again?" i spent 100k and 15 google searches later to find out that there literally wasn't any other upgrades. One of the other things I loved about new leaf was perfect fruit, and I was so disappointed to find out we couldn't plant a bunch of trees and then go off to someone else's island to sell them all because it felt so much more interactive than buying turnips. It's so much easier to get money in acnh, yet there isn't even anything to spend it on. (Loved blowing all my money at gracie's stores, that shit was so overpriced yet I ate it up every single time, it's what I would do irl if I wanted to go homeless. Is that what being rich feels like? bc it's amazing.)
Finding out there was no Brewster or Gracie, I was DONE. (jk i still played 65 hours or so, but still) Like I kind of love the Brewster inside the museum vibe too, so I'm sad it took so long for him to show up.
Long story short, acnh is a great game, but not a great animal crossing game.
@@peyton1768 "acnh is a great game, but not a great animal crossing game" Ehhhh pushing it abit there, I'd just say it lost some of the charm.
Its still AC, just not as fun.
When my wife and I first married, she bought her first 3ds, and we played this game a lot. In many ways, this game is better than New Horizons. One thing severely lacking in New Horizons that I love about this game is the sheer amount of music, ambiance, and dialogue with the NPCs. My favorite, Henry, just doesn't feel the same in the new game. I feel nostalgic when I turn on new leaf every once in a while.
Great review, and thanks for sharing your story.
LMAO HENRY WAS MY ENEMY CUS HE MOVED IN THE WRONG PLACE
Animal crossing new leaf definitely feels more alive than new horizons. In new horizons the music isn't relaxing and the villagers are alot more robotic in my opinion. I haven't played new horizons in months but I can always go back to new leaf and enjoy going to the island with my family:) I really do miss when everyone played acnl and so many people would be using club tortimer though
Now the servers are shutting down and Club Tortimer will be gone forever :(
Hearing you talk about you and your sister was so lovely.
My brother got me New Leaf for my twelfth birthday. I actually received two copies with a note saying 'i hope you give me one'. He'd persuaded my mum he also needed a copy so we could play together.
Flash forward to my 18th birthday and its just me and him at home during the day. He was 16 and in that time where he hid in his room all day. But he got out our DS's and we played new leaf and watched bad daytime tv. I just remember being so happy when i thought it was going to be a bit of a rubbish day.
I loved the music a lot better in new leaf vs new horizons. And my new leaf save file I’m loaded to the max. I got loads of bells on all my characters, and got tons of rare items. I have had the same town for almost 9 years.
I still have the memory card from my GameCube Animal Crossing town that I've had since 2001, but I need a new gamecube lol
@@melaniemitchell9419get a backwards comaptible wii. Much cheaper 😊
Totally agreed, would also completely get rid of crafting and just buy stuff. Crafting, esp without bulk crafting, was a huge disappointment. You’re also right that new leaf had a lot more furniture. New horizons was too focused on the realism, and changed the furniture to look simpler so that it is believable that the player could’ve possibly crafted it. Getting rid of the furniture series sets was and still is infuriating to me. I want to see beautiful new versions of the furniture sets we’ve had in every past animal crossing game, not ugly simpler versions of a few sets and completely getting rid of the majority of the furniture series! There’s no late game in ACNH, no Gracie furniture to collect…. just so much disappointment, even though there were many enjoyable things about the game. Acnl is still #1.
i realise it's a big aspect and point of the game, so it might just be me, but crafting is such a laborious chore imo and i could do without it
and i super agree with your comment about the furniture sets
crafting felt shoehorned in to follow trends, it was really out ofcharacter for ac imo
I started playing New Leaf 3 days ago, coincidentally you uploaded this 3 days ago? But I've been loving it! I played Wild World to completion as a kid. This is a great step up. New Horizons looks too different, New Leaf is familiar!
NH isn't that different. It just takes a different direction with people with creative and designing minds.
@@Lironf I got mine from an eBay auction a few years ago. Pretty good place for Nintendo stuff!
From 2013-2015 I had 3000 hours in new leaf, I don’t have a 3ds anymore, but the memories will forever stay with me
I genuinely like new leaf and I like how easy it has been for me to go back to my current save. New horizons for me feels really overwhelming the villagers are boring and it’s hard for me to continue playing it. I want to fully complete new leaf and so far I’ve been making really good progress. I wish I had found new leaf when I was younger because I would’ve enjoyed it so much I had bought new leaf when people were starting to preorder new horizons because I didn’t have a switch at the time and I’m glad I made that choice even now
New Horizons is definitely fun but the villagers are boring and rn I have way to much to do with my island so I definitely agree
Homebrewed my 2DS this year and oh man am I jealous of the people who had this hard installed on their system.
You can just pop in and out so quickly and it excellently suits the handheld nature of the console (sure Wild World is the same but the performance is icky).
I'd also argue that having the freedom of New Horizons stripped from me once again reminds me of how humble and enjoyable getting the public works projects done to spruce up the village is. Glad I've found at least someone else going back to this around the same time.
You should get the hshop mod to replace the eshop because they shut it down and you can get any 3ds game for free. Not piracy because there's no way to buy the games anymore.
@@T_Bagz193 Eh, still is. Realistically, I won't get arrested, I've already homebrewed the system, but I do have the means to buy the games legit somehow. Hshop is something I'm definitely looking into though, especially if games get unfairly expensive (cough cough, fire emblem, something I'll probably never touch but still exercise the need to complain about).
Animal crossing is that series I always wish I could get into but it never stuck with me but every one I knew growing up loved playing it. Really glad you have good memories of this franchise.
Same here. My wife has thousands of hours invested into it and I just can’t. It’s so tedious and boring. Half the game is pick up sticks, dig a hole, and go fishing. It was just too boring for me
@tristenmaguire5707 and that's okay! nothing can be for everybody :)
That’s how I feel about New horizon and was disappointed because everyone loved the previous games. So now I want to try New Leaf. Do you guys find New Horizon boring or all Animal Crossing.
@@sillyhermylisten all I’m going to say is this. I have played both NH and NL and I’m just going to say that I found NH to be one of the most boring games of this Nintendo console generation. It completely lacks the “homie” feeling that animal crossing is known to have. Again like the video said, it feels stagnant and sterile. If you were to play NL I truly believe that you’d LOVE it. There is no gaming experience like NL. It is what every animal crossing game should strive to be.
Nothing will beat the magic of New Leaf. Despite not being on a home console, they nailed everything. You just don’t feel the same level of love in New Horizons.
I really want to love new horizons, it’s a good game graphics/customization-wise. New Leaf will always be my favorite though, it’s humble and there’s no pressure to make a “perfect island” like there is in NH. It was humble. I’m still trying to find my old 3ds and crack open my old save file, zero clue where it is but I really, really hope I can find it soon
I do think a part of it is internet culture though. It's social media that creates the pressure to create the perfect island moreso than the game itself.
@@1bwashTotally, I remember that happening towards the end of new leaf too! People posting their aesthetic rooms and stuff and laying tiles with all different looks, and feeling like I couldn't share my town because it wasn't fancy enough
Insanely well said, really makes me wish new horizons was just new leaf HD + a bunch of the QOL features they added.
Yup, but whatever Animal Crossing game is made on a specific console stays on there. Fun to think about it tho
@@Khentendo1337well Wild World got a Wii U release but that’s it
@@manimanistatue True, however that was a Virtual Console release, not a remaster or anything. It just ported the original DS one into the Wii Us system with upgraded controls and more lack of features.
I like the way you can customize your island more on new horizons, but I think i like the livelihood of new leaf more than new horizons
Oh man , new leaf when it dropped gave off such an amazing vibe. I miss the good ole days
Man, I just discovered your channel a few days ago and it’s crazy how similar we are in our relationship with Nintendo games + consoles.
I’d love to learn about how nostalgia keeps you coming back to older titles - and if you think that will always be so. Also, it would be interesting to hear about your thoughts on game preservation when Nintendo doesn’t seem to care much about it. I think about it a lot.
Anyways, awesome video!
Thanks for the nice nostalgia trip! I think in general, New Horizons is the better game but New Leaf (and the 3DS in totality) is a big nostalgia machine for me. 3DS was such a personal gaming device that was so easy to bring with you and pull out anytime, anywhere.
New Leaf is prob always going to be the most delightful game of the AC franchise, the soundtrack, the activities, the nostalgia, i would say its a nearly perfect game. New Horizons was supposed to beat that, but for me, it didn't.
I only just started playing this game. I’m enjoying it for the most part - it’s a lot more restricted than New Horizons but, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
I wish NH had villagers with a shred of a personality holy
5:50 WILD WORLD INTRO STILL GIVES ME GOOSEBUMPS I LOVED THAT GAME
YES. Animal crossing lends itself perfectly to the DS systems. Really feels like your own little world you can carry around in your pocket.
I love all your personal stories! You've captured the nostalgia of this game with your experiences!
it made me soo happy to see the same exact 3ds as mine and hear the animal crossing sound effect in the home menu. its been a while :)
ACNL is a part of my childhood… it’s so sad and makes me happy everytime I see this. Cause there are so much memories :)
New leaf has got to be my favorite game I’ve ever played
The 3ds had a lot of good games I wish they would port some of them to switch my favourite thing about ACNL was connecting HHD
I have fond memories of wild world, growing up (im a 1993 baby) i had the gba sp in later primary school and before that i had my ps1, i used to play dmgs and colors that my friends owned as well, but the sp was my first true handheld. I got the ps2 sometime during primary also and soon as highschool hit i lost interest in games and was more interested in girls. As highschool went on i found myself playing a lot of ipod games like fruit ninja, clash of clans and doodle jump etc. I also got the ps3 and was constantly playing call of duty with my school friends. However my little sister who was 5 years behind me got the ds then the dsi and then the 3ds etc etc. I used to sit and play the layton games with her when she got stuck on the puzzles (i finally revisited the curious village and completed it). Anyway im getting off topic here, one of the things i loved most was playing animal crossing with her, fishing, catching bugs and digging up treasures. I really love my hacked 3ds, as far as nintendo goes, the 3ds is by far my favourite over the switch and gameboy. Just an amazing and gorgeous console and all the games hold up! As far as home consoles go i prefer the ps5. Good combo in my eyes 😊
Just got my 3ds and this game out for the first time in probably 6 or 7 years. Started a new town, and i'm loving it! :)
New Leaf has better daillogues than NH for villagers and also had the multiplayer minigames. It gives you freedom but not too much. The only thing that I dislike for NL is villagers putting their house on ANY spot of the village ruining your trees and gardens if you made ones. If you can find ACNL second hand cheap I recomment to try it. Sadly servers were about to close down on this March I think (damn, gotta farm that whirlpool bath).
It's a shame online services are shutting down. All those dream address towns lost. At least Pretendo will let us play with people still.
Iirc, the Pretendo folks actually did salvage around 200k dream towns.
Really good and charming video!
I originally bought the 3DS because of the Animal Crossing New Leaf!
I still actively play it, and to be honest I prefer it a lot more than the New Horizons, which I abandoned after 140 hours.
Every game, even City Folk, has some value in replaying
GC-Early but humble beginnings, gameboy advance, and memory card connectivity
WW-Comes into its own, but still has traces of GC to keep it distinct from later entries
CF-...it's a more pretty WW with a bit less to do?
NL-City management and working with residents, the definitive Animal Crossing experience
NH-...UHHHHHHHHHH
I kind of remember getting New Leaf alongside my brothers when the game initially came out. over here in the UK, i think they might have been doing some Nintendo VIP-type (slightly like america's Club Nintendo) thing where if you registered 3 or so specific 3DS games (out of 8?) that you could get one digitally for free. coincidentally, a bit later, i think Capcom had a thing where people registered Monster Hunter Ultimate 3, then they'd get a digital code you'd hand to a friend, granted that they only recently registered their 3DS. i'm not even sure if the Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate thing resulted in perpetually-reproducable copies or what, but the game itself was one of those 8 games you could've used.
I would assume that Nintendo would distinguish between people either getting the game either Physically or Digitally (since they'd have VIP codes). then you give the recconmendation code to the person who'd get a code to redeem it digitally.
was kind of full of evergreen titles like Animal Crossing, Fire Emblem Awakening, Mario 3D Land, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity, Lego City Undercover, Luigi's Mansion, Monster Hunter and Castlevania: Mirror of Fate...? the physical sales for Mario, ACNL, FE and MH3U that i could honestly see everyone having to pick 1 game they begrudgingly obtained. could've sworn Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D was one of them.
I got introduced to animal crossing just last year when I bought my first switch. I had a 3ds but I just never new about the game for whatever reason. Now I wish I had because it looks so fun and I wanna play new leaf😅 I do agree that new horizons doesn’t have many options for buying items. I find it so difficult to unlock new items and I just can’t make new builds because I don’t have enought items for it. I just gotta shake trees and hope something good comes out of it :/
New Leaf is my childhood
My brother and I also bonded over AC😊 Aside from the N64 and OoT and Majora's Mask, the AC game is what introduced me to the world of gaming.
One of the reasons I adore New Leaf much much more than New Horizons is the music. New Leaf’s soundtrack is calming and happy, with a lot of piano and guitar. New Horizons’ music meanwhile is way too busy and loud. It’s not relaxing booting up NH after a long day, the title screen music sounds like something that should be in a crazy, late-night island party or something.
I remember really wanting to play Sim City back when that released back in 2013. I didn't have a powerful PC, but I did have a 3DS, so while browsing in a GameStop, reading the back of the boxes, I bought the first game that sounded like Sim City. Animal Crossing New Leaf. That was June 21st 2013. I was upset at first because it wasn't what I thought it was, but I soon learned to adore this game and I've been a diehard fan ever since
I sometimes just turn on the 7pm new leaf music while I’m cooking or reading, it’s just so peaceful and relaxing! New leaf to me just feels like home, I usually play new horizons when I’m feeling more creative rather than in need of some coziness 🙈☺️
I'll never forget the day I was introduced to Animal Crossing. I was 8 in 2002 and I went to the living room to watch Saturday morning cartoons and I saw my eldest brother hooking up my GameCube to the TV and he had just gotten the game. And was telling me about it and at first I didn't care for it but I started playing it and I was hooked and so was my sister. I still have the copy he got all those years ago in my game collection but the disc is broken but the memory card still has the saved states on it. I wanna get the disc but it's kinda pricey online idk I'll get it one day. I have Wild World and New Leaf and I was playing it again a few days ago. It holds a special place in my heart I just love animal crossing.
I liked my house that I designed in New Leaf better than my New Horizons home. And yes, Tortimer's island was the BEST! Sharks and beetles in the evening.
new Leaf also had the best music all around. You could also upgrade main street.
I feel like there is a huge difference between the feeling of "moving into an existing town" like in all the other AC games and just building up everything from zero like in New Horizons. I think that this is a big chunk of why New Leaf just feels better than New Horizons, in my opinion. Great video!
As much as I love new horizons, new leaf just has so much nostalgia! I recently found my old 3ds and I’ve been obsessed with new leaf again for the past few days 🥹
my brother’s and i also bonded so much over acnl!! one day we lost the cartridge & we went crazy over it. when we moved to another place months later& we made it a mission to look for it, thinking it had to pop up but never found it :0 a decade later i have a new & personally modded 3ds & i enjoy the game as much or even more than i did then. i love this video so much it hit home
New Leaf with New Horizons graphics including animation would be perfect. NL just looks a bit stiff animation-wise. Also don't like the restricted slots inside the bag. Touch screen is also a nuisance. I really enjoyed NH much more than NL. After watching videos like yours maybe I should give NL another try.
New leaf was so fun I loved the multiplayer and games we all could play, in new horizons there was no mini games for our friends to play while we were all on the same island
New Horizons was my first ever Animal Crossing game, and I recently bought a 3DS so I'm really keen to try this out!
I actually just ordered Animal Crossing Wild World for DS. I started my AC journey with ACNL so never played the ones before it, so I’m really excited to play. I do have the Game Cube Ac I got after I got NL but didn’t play it much.
playing it first time, in 2024 and enjoying it alot more than nh. It feels like a timeless masterpiece
I quited playing new horizons 1 month after release. Came back to new leaf and been playing since then
There's tons of crafting recipes, furniture, clothes items ect in New Horizons. It's just a matter of getting ahold of it. Thungs are very randomly available. What will be in the shop, given as a gift or from a balloon popped out of the sky.
I'm literally playing it right now and I'm having a blast. Having put new leaf down since launch. Been on it since 2014 and I have 5000 hours in it
so new leaf is the one animal crossing i havent played because i never had a 3ds, i was in highschool at this point and was all about pc gaming by then, really feel like i missed out the more vids i watch XD now i have a modded 3ds and am LOVING the games on it, so many i just completely missed out on. when you said the thing about the fact that you can just buy what other people have furniture wise in their house is soooo cool, the more stuff i see about the 3ds makes me REALLY sad i missed it and even more sad that none of it exists on the switch.... its kind of mind blowing how restricted it is compared to a console that was released BEFORE by decent amount of time, a real shame. the streetpass is one thing im really bummed i missed out on, i got the dlc for mii plaza from hshop just in case but i doubt ill ever actually get a streetpass from it lol, but i guess you never know!
I’m sad I missed out on playing this when I was younger. I played new horizons on release date and as my first animal crossing experience it was a good time, but after seeing this I can’t help but want to pick up new leaf. It will also give me an excuse to bring out my 2ds again.
You can't buy it anymore. You have to buy a second hand one.
@@T_Bagz193r homebrew your ds
@@fishthiccgamez I already have. I'm saying you can't buy one first hand anymore.
I know this comment is over 4 months old but as someone who also missed out as a kid and played new horizons on release, do it. I bought a 3ds recently after borrowing one to play new leaf on, and ive been having the time of my life. The game is 1000x better than NH in every way, theres always something to do and dialogue for characters is never dry. i recommend estarland to buy a ds + ac from. Spent roughly 218 on my ds! [3DS XL] and NF goes for 30 new but preowned is 16-12!
I recently started a save file on New Leaf. This is my first ever animal crossing game, and its really fun so far!
I played ACNL in high school on the original 3DS I got for my birthday. I enjoyed New Horizons very much, but New Leaf is my favorite by far. The NPCs have so much more life to them. I've purchased a New 3DS XL for modding, and this is the game I'm most looking forward to playing.
Some summer days were spent counting down the hours until the beetles would start spawning on the island. At school, when there was nothing to do, my friends and I would visit each other's towns. It was wonderful.
I also discovered the spot pass houses while I was at a convention one summer. (RTX, if there are any Rooster Teeth fans in this comments section.) People made their own QR codes and rooms based off the content creators we were all seeing. Many many people took their DSs with them, and I played a round of Mario Kart with like 8 other people. While waiting for a panel to start I had the ultimate shopping spree in the housing area with Digby.
I also love Halloween dearly and remember trick or treating in game with my cousin once I was too old to not get a glare or two in real life.
Good memories and good gameplay. It's a great combo.
Can we streetpass each other?
The GameCube version of Animal crossing(and lack of explanation from my now ex) pretty much put me off of it until New Horizons when he begged me again to try it. I absolutely fell in love with it and also going back playing New Leaf too.
i’ve been playing new leaf the past couple months instead of going back to new horizons! it’s so much fun
i remember when the new leaf trailer dropped people were freaking out/arguing over the fact that your villager now had legs lol
There's a lot of little things that new leaf got right that just weren’t in new horizons which made it the better game imo.
I didn’t really gel with the desert island setting, the music was weird and synthesized, the holidays felt lacking and there were overall fewer of them, just smaller details that combined to make an overall less pleasant experience.
And that's not even mentioning the bigger problems like tool durability and an overemphasis on crafting/foraging that I just feel negatively impacted the game as a whole.
Also...why did the nooklings' store only upgrade once? And even then, why did the upgrade only barely outclass its predecessor?
it's 10 august 2023, I have a hacked 3ds and I heard new leaf was a great game, I played new horizons but now I'm going to experience new leaf for the first time. Wish me luck!
What’d u think ?
I'm literally still playing this in 2024 it stands up. I prefer it to new horizons usually.
Ive been playing animal crossing new leaf since i was 9. I got it for my birthday in 2014 and i still play it!! Its such an amszing game. I think even when your island is "done" theres still so much to do.
Ive played Animal crossing new horizons as well and i dont know, it just didnt apeal to me 😅 i completed my 5 star island but just found it a chore and extremly boring. The music also doesnt feel the same.
I love New Leaf 🍃🌿, it's my favourite one of the franchise ❤
I preferred new leaf to new horizons easily, and I only started playing NL in 2020
It's really weird seemingly being the only person who's played new horizons before new leaf. I bought New leaf and played it for like a month but put it down after not being able to put furniture outside and having what seemed like limited amount of storage inside. Some things were great, like Tortimers Island and a bit more varied conversation from villagers but I guess I was looking for more of the decoration and customization side from it.
I have that exact 3ds xl!! (I have a pink case on it) I remember when I got New Leaf (back in 2012) that I thought it was just the coolest game ever lol. I had never played an Animal Crossing game before so New Leaf was my first experience with it. 💖
I preferred New Horizons over New Leaf, but Wild World is my personal favorite. I remember buying Nintendo WiFi connector just to hang out with forum people.
I originally got into Animal Crossing with New Leaf thanks to ZackScottGames’ original playthrough of it. I still have my physical copy of the game all the way from 2014. One of the best games ever made
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I love hearing petioles stories about how they found a game they love 🎉
Just because of the OST it is!
of course the rest of the features are amazing and yes the customisation is not as deep as with new Horizons, but the feeling of this game is something no other can achieve
wow! im so early. only 13 views...
anyway, i love acnl, its always held my attention way more that nh ever did. always a joy to see you upload :)
I feel the same exact way! As much as I enjoy both games, New Leaf just has this special vibe about it. But who knows, maybe I’ll be making a nostalgic video about New Horizons in 10 years!
Also thanks for watching! I tried a new format for this video where I just turned on the mic and spoke without a script. I’m a little nervous that people won’t like it, but I had a lot of fun making a video this way!
i just got a 3ds recently. and i want to get new leaf. i played animal crossing on the gamecube and i loved it so much! i played new horizons but i just couldn’t get attached to it like i did the gamecube version. hope i like new leaf!
If my 3ds isn't broken, I would've played this again. I missed this game. I own a switch and am playing New horizons but there is just something endearing in New Leaf that I miss.
It would be really cool if they ported the older games over to switch or switch 2 one day. They did it on the Wii U so it could happen again!
I love the comparison bro. IMO, new leaf will always win. Lemme know if anyone wants to play new leaf. I’m looking for friends. Since OP can make a video then ignore everyone else.
new horizons was a first animal crossing game for me. i liked the concept of the game but is was so bored with the villagers, and then i've heard somewhere that in the previous AC games the villagers were not shy say some nasty things that got me in immediately. i found an old 3ds in tokyo and bought wild world and new leaf and i enjoy it playing in 2024 so much. amazing game
Omg when they said New Horizons was gonna have crafting I groaned so hard! I never wanted that shoehorned into Animal Crossing, it didn't add anything to the gameplay but frustration at not having the right materials. And I miss furniture sets so much 😭
New leaf was fun I played it alot when I got it I went on every day did the usual money rock and fake rock stuff collecting fossils for blathers and checking the what the shops had in stock and the most challenging task was paying the bills for your house making it bigger was fun new leaf was also the animal crossing game that got me into animal crossing aswell one of my favourite 3ds games aswell that got released I still enjoy coming back to the game overall probably the most fun animal crossing game out there
animal crossing is such a game of my childhood its in my top 3 fav games i swear on everything that i can tell aboit that game for 1day
I agree, I miss Main Street the most. Although be able to place items outside is a real plus. New Leaf is still my favorite AC game.
My Main street is weird! But yeah main street will be missed
i spent almost four hours on this game the other day. it's so good. i love collecting and time skipping to the next day n collect more things
I love New Horizons but it feels like a “corporate” game specifically made to target the market and make as much money as possible but new leaf feels like a game made made as risk that in hope it would catch their already existing audience and get some new fans.
Absolutely love Animal Crossing New Leaf, but as someone who does not own New horizons, it does hurt dealing with all of the limits in the form of PWPs and custom designs. So many things I want to do that are locked away. Once I complete ACNL again, I will see about getting a switch and ACNH, hopefully for reasonable price.
I think New Horizon's could have and should have easily implemented more paths for players. The standard is the player basically chooses where everything goes, but they could have added another option where the game can preset where the buildings get placed (like a mainstreet is automatically created for you). And the same thing with things like changing your appearance, they should have let you have the mirrors and stuff but then also have it be an add-on to an existing shop where you can go to a salon. But maybe that's the whole point of New Horizons, they want it to always be an under developed island.
Subbed! Looking forward to the home tour of your original ACNL! 💚🍃
Do you guys think i would still enjoy this game without having to play it online with people?
You can enjoy it without having online play with others, it's a great game
Of course, I used to play local with my brother
The update was either in 2017 or 2018. I first got into Animal Crossing in 2015
and New Leaf was my first game. The update wasn't around that year. I loved the new update.
It was so cool to be able to get a little 3DS from the fortune cookie and be able to play a new game on it.
Same with another fortune cookie that has another system to be able to play another game. Plus getting
Meow coupons and being able to get new items with the Meow coupons was fun.
It was actually late 2016
Still playing ACNL and love it ❤️
I think one of my least favourite parts is one of the biggest features of New Horizons: the crafting. It's clear the developers put a lot of time into the system but I feel severely underwhelmed by how it works. Crafting tools is fun until you get the golden tools and realise that those break too. And having to find individual recipes was really annoying because the game didn't care about giving you duplicates. I'd much rather just find the items themselves. But some of the funnest memories included my brother and I going to the club at night and pretending like we were going out. And even alone I would be able to enjoy the game for hours a day because I just felt like another villager and not some super special entity that has full rein of whatever I wanted to do. It was a great game but Nintendo really set us up for disappointment by guaranteeing updates that just added pre-existing features. I'd have preferred having those older features in day one and them adding actually new content or things like more store upgrades rather than crafting and terraforming.
I've played the original animal crossing for the GameCube man I loved it
Ugh I wish I can play this game again but I can’t because I broke my 2ds and it’s now expensive to get a new one
If you have an acceptable pc you can emulate using citra
Id say like 50% of clothes, furnature, and lack of outer house customization makes the new horizons feel incomplete also villagers are Robots with only Happy emotions and no other emotions besides happy lol their just statues you can visit then feel like you live with
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New leaf is worth all the money in 2024! After playing New horizons i became interested in the older AC games. I got Wild World this year for my birthday. Ne my mum and ny sisters went shopping and i found a game store I ended up buying Animal Crossing new leaf a 3DS and Nintendogs for my DS. I REALLY enjoyed New leaf! Im getting the DLC for Christmas!!! I literally can't wait!!!!