@@darklinggaymer3032 well Splatoon is a pretty good game and they have to work on it and add new content so that it isn’t lackluster and fans won’t get disappointed ig
I’m just amazed that there is a dock on all of our islands that clearly looks like the spot where kappn would park the boat, and it just doesn’t do anything
@@nxbula7540 oh they will at some point, they said they would be supporting the game for up to at least 3 years which means more updates in the future, they wouldn't have something in the game if they aren't planning something for it in the future, as it is someone asked them if they are planning to add brewster at some point in the future and their reply was we don't know, and the interesting thing is they put a winking emoji after saying that, so i'm thinking he might be planned to make a return, and with the currently unused dock, i think Kapp'n is planned to make a return as well, i have been playing animal crossing since the very start and i know that if they decide something in the game is not gonna be used they remove it, they haven't removed the dock yet
The game seems way more focused on building and decorating your island than it does actually living on it. Even the villagers feel like glorified setpieces.
tbh this entire game feels like a shell, like hollow- There’s no personality in the villagers or what you can do- It feels like they tried to make the game “perfect” and it feels over-produced. and in the end it’s just dead
Exactly. Kinda why I stopped playing, because I got sad I couldn’t do as well as other people, when the whole game is supposed to be about having fun and chilling
That's how I feel. It is a real shame... Especially since it sold bucketloads. I wish there was some form of real progression and real evolving personalities of the Villagers. I want more events and more real changes in the town. More stores would be greatly needed as well. It just feels bare. I would love to have custom shops and you can assign any villager to work at said shop and watch your villagers have real routines. I want their houses to grow or have them request to move. I want them to form friendships and relationships with other villagers. Cooking would have been a great addition to this game as well. It is just all A E S T H E T I C S...
I swear this is how they are going to get us next. All they've been doing is emulating old games but it's damn near impossible to emulate 3DS games. They gave up on the Wii u too soon and now they're quietly removing the OG Wii U games as they replace them and charge 3 times as much. Pikman 3 was $10 on Wii U and how much did they charge for it on switch?
@@nxbula7540 Because mainstream is the norm, they focus on the money-making over the content. Switch is an example because of its library of mainstream game. I always think games are exploiting the console potential. So, they are taking advantage of the game success by selling empty products. It's sad how good games ends up that way. A lot of cartoon has this fate.Where the world is going?
@@Hecalledmedaughter Same, I feel like we all played it so much before just because of the hype for new updates. So now that Nintendo has most likely gave up on the game, a lot of people are either quitting it or going back to New Leaf like I did...
I still play it, I think that new leaf and new horizons are very different games and yes, new horizons has a HUGE lack of updates. But, think about it before shaming the game and giving up on it. It has the feel of animal crossing, has the holidays, the villagers, fishing, bug catching, decorating, new npcs and more. If you want brewster, don’t look at nh for it, just go play new leaf if you want him :)
I know it's a long way off, but I hope the next entry in the series has the customization of New Horizons, but brings back the music, personality and charm of New Leaf and the older games. That and quality of life improvements would probably make the next game my favorite of the series... but all we can do for now is hope.
At this point, I have little hope in this series. New Horizons sold so well, that I wouldn't be surprised if this is the permanent course for things.. and that they'll continue to alienate one side of the fanbase in order to keep chasing that mainstream attention, in which New Leaf received.
I thought I was the only one who is not a fan of the new animal crossing music. Honestly when it rained in wild world it felt cozy, now in New Horizons it’s just the same music during the day but with xylophone added on top of it. It doesn’t feel comforting. I used to play Animal Crossing as an escape because when I was a kid I needed that. I need it now more than ever. But I agree with this video the changes we want may never be fulfilled in this game sadly..
@@imthesadguyduh My main issue with the music is moreso how each piece reuses the main theme in some way.. making it all blend together. Not to mention how a lot of the songs don't even really fit the hour they should be playing. The only two songs that fit the time they play in are probably 6 p.m. and 3 a.m. All the other hourly osts fit the hour they played in, and were all unique in one way or another.
I literally made a post on reddit about how acnh doesn’t really feel like animal crossing anymore. People literally commented “I mean it’s about decorating, Nintendo already has your money” so yeah acnh is literally just a decorating simulator at this point, at leasts that’s what new players see it as :/
@@andri7037 Don’t get me wrong, collecting bugs, fish and fossils is a big part of AC, but after doing that for what, 3-4 ACs, and it’s just the same thing in NH with nothing new about it? No. Just no.
I played 3 days and left the game, I thought it was gonna be similar to Harvest moon, when I found you cant even interact with objects and that there's no character development or storyline i got really sad.
The thing is it’s a decorating simulator now, for anyone who doesn’t want to island trade to get furniture you probably will have a very long road getting the stuff you want even if decorating is your goal. I used to like talking to the shop keepers and doing tasks for villagers, learning the gossip, the lore, etc. I had hoped that it would be combination of making a beautiful environment and all of that but they took out gyroids, Brewster, the mail pelicans, the conversations repeats constantly with villagers :/ idk they at least could have copied the old dialogue into the game at some point.
and the house storage is so tiny i can't fit anything so i leave stuff over my island trying to dive for money. its so tedious so i also gave up on the game
I'm honestly so baffled that New Horizons doesn't have Tortimer Island, it's the game that is themed around islands so it would be a perfect fit. I feel like New Leaf is still the superior game as I still find myself coming back to it 8 years later, less than a year into New Horizons and I'm already bored. Hopefully we get some substantial updates to change my mind, but in the meantime I have generally found it to be pretty underwhelming.
My biggest issue is that I felt overwhelmed with the terraforming and decorating. I got burnt out trying to make my island pretty, when the reality was turning out to be less than stellar.
I definitely felt that. I see all these gorgeous islands on social media and try to make an island as aesthetically pleasing as other people's and it just makes me feel really disheartened and frustrated when it doesnt work out
I feel like its gonna be a boy who cried wolf type of situation, if this makes sense. Like, theyll eventually announce a huge update like theyve been alluding to for months now, but itll be too late and weve all stopped caring, or will have doubt about the quality of said update even if theres a solid trailer
I thought that, too. By the time a major update comes, it’ll have to be something big. And I mean, really BIG. Because just bringing back content from older titles isn’t enough. It’ll have to be something entirely new to THIS installment (outside of terraforming). Because if not, it won’t bring back the same hype and excitement as it had in his first year.
Not to mention the trailers are often missleading. Everyone is freaking out about the trees now being plantable more near to each other, but it wouldn't be the first time they played with a game-dev-version of the game which doesn't have certain limits--for the mere purpose of showing off in the trailer, while those featured aren't actually in the game :c
The villagers are the biggest disappointment of this game. They lost their charm and their individuality and it gets tiring reading them say the same 20 lines over and over again
The main problem of new horizons is that building your island is fun but living in it isn’t, I could honestly go on an entire rant to why that is and how it’s a good game but a bad animal crossing game and that’s mainly due to the lack of charm. In older AC games there was A LOT of charm and small details like seeing Gulliver while scaling with kappin or booker slowly falling asleep when you’re hiding away and so on, it also had a lot of wacky furniture and items like the guyroids alongside some super cartoony and lovable characters who have surprisingly deep stories (able sisters and Tom nook for example) to wrap it all up the older games had a superb cartoony and cute art style and some amazing dialogue with a good sense of humor Fast forward to new horizons and all of that is gone, the furniture selection is now small with most of the furniture just looking... normal, small details in previous AC games is basically nonexistent, there’s nothing to see beneath the surface level of every character, guyroids aren’t even in the game, 80% of AC characters aren’t in new horizons either, the game also has generic dialogue that’s very short and repeats A LOT and finally the art style of this game is more subtle, rather than having buildings pop out and the grass patterns being clear as day it all looks too subdued, like seriously compare the pine tree from older games to new horizons Basically it became a BUILDER simulator and not a LIFE simulator and that’s really sad. Decorating used to be a small part of AC games only existing in your house and but in your town but now? It became a focal point
Lmfao this made me realize that Nintendo is lazy and just told us to develop the game- 💀✋🏾 They gave us a flat island with a bunch of trees and told us to do the rest-
@@sometf2player752 there’s cliffs, but all there is on top is trees? 💀✋🏾 My point is there should’ve been some pre-made elements to the island already so people who don’t want to design don’t have too
Well, decorating outside areas existed in New Leaf (Public Works Projects), but it was way better, you couldn’t just place anything outside, and even with them, your town still looked natural. I always find myself returning to New Leaf even with a New Horizons island for this reason and more.
It’s just got no progression at all. Even the whole dreaming thing, just pop down in any bed? What about working for that and getting a dream suite- oh wait no space for it, right
Also relating to that, it’s really annoying how you can’t lay down in your bed anymore without that message popping up. I used to do it in NL at the end of a play session; or I would just roll around in the bed for fun when looking at my house.
@@FrenOfAllRodents same, get a double bed, a friend, and start bumping into each other. The look of pure horror and confusion on the characters faces lmao. God I wish more furniture was..useable
^^ You two new/haven’t finished your island? It’s fun at first, but once you “finish” the game or get your island to a 5 star rating, there’s nothing to do ngl
@@johnross5098 This too. If they have the idea to move out, why they need an external opnion? They have will like an individual. People come, people go.
I got new leaf at the start of this month, and I must say that it's much better than new horizons. The villagers are more full of life, and there's more to do. As it says on the back of the box: "Nonstop fun...every single day!"
Well, New Horizons never said “Nonstop fun….every single day!” So technically…it didn’t do false advertisement. 😂 I think it called itself “the game that keeps on playing” which just hints to the fact that even if you abandon the game for an entire year, everything on your island remains the same except cockroaches in your house and weeds everywhere. 😒😂
i literally want to buy a new nintendo 3ds just to play more 3DS games, i have a normal XL but i want the animal crossing version, and the bluetooth thing so i can just get games for free, but literally 3DS has brought me much more hours of games than the switch has did, its just kind of sad
I'm really really hoping that for the next animal crossing game they dont do these continous updates because id much rather play a game where i am guaranteed to get everything i paid for and not to just hope that it may come eventually within the next 2 years. i would have much preferred they did something like welcome amiibo several years into the game rather than drip feed us these miniscule updates
YES TO THIS.i never got why they chose to do these empty boring updates with events that were previously already in the base ac games. i wouldve rather seen them delay the release by a year or more to get a full game instead of promising "2-3" years of "free updates", that ended up being short 1 day events and a few extra items
The game industry has vastly changed ever since New Leaf came out. You barely get games nowadays that don't offer live services; those who are will be the rare exceptions, but also not guaranteed to be the best gaming experience ever. I feel like a lot of people who play AC have no clue how the gaming scene looks like. The golden age of gaming is probably over, my dudes. Thank God we didn't get microtransactions.
@@D0MiN0ChAn i guess that's true but it doesn't make sense why they could have done that with brand new features instead of features that already existed in literally every previous game
Dude, same. Before the release, as soon as I saw they were doing the drip-fed update system, my heart sunk within my chest. Still had high hopes for the game upon release -- was really holding out for an early Tortimer Island update and something akin to Main Street/other series staples -- but man was I disappointed. I hope this gradual update system just dies. I've bought too many unfinished games at this point and it sucks that my absolute favorite series received its worst entry as a direct result of that system
Now that they've pulled the plug on this game I feel like this comment is more relevant than ever. Starting to get worried about the next game if I'm being honest.
I mean, it's devoid of content, and lacks a proper progression system. After you basically finish the tutorial, the only things you really have to do are upgrading your house and decorating the island. If you're not too big into the decoration aspect, then upgrading your house is the only thing you pretty much have left, and there's not as many upgrades as previous games. You can finish the museum, but it's not as fun as previous games, and it's not like you get much out of doing it. I just wish we'd get a game that had a better progression system, and that makes you work for everything you have. You shouldn't just be able to purchase a wet suit the moment the game starts, just because of an update. They should also give us more things to do with bells.. like in New Leaf.
@@voidoflight2420 more shop upgrades, having a big tree type thing, and having mini game islands to unlock would help a BUNCH. anyway I quit the game so too late lol
@@JakeFactual More shop upgrades, more things to put money and resources towards, and actually making it to where villagers will give you quests sooner would be great.
It honestly kinda sucks that this is so many people's first experience with Animal Crossing. It's great that they enjoy it, but I really hope Nintendo doesn't take this game's success as an opportunity to simplify the series even further.
As someone who’s put so many hours into new horizons, I absolutely agree. I think the reason why I have so many hours, is because this game came out at a perfect time. But another reason why I have so many hours…is because there’s not a lot to do. That sounds stupid, but hear me out. Within the first month I was playing this game, I had played a ton, but I starting to run out of things to do, so most of my time was kicking out villagers I didn’t want, and messing around on my island. Of coarse, I was bored during quarantine, and this basically was all I had to do. With previous animal crossing games, there was so much more to do, than just designing your island as you probably know. Unfortunately, new horizons either doesn’t have purposes for specific characters due to convenience (cop dogs, Harriet, Wendell, Resetti, Shrunk.) (Nintendo thinks it’s convenient, but it takes the soul out of what animal crossing is.) Same thing with Kappn, basically because it takes place on an island, and going to another island wouldn’t feel as special as going to one in new leaf. I think Nintendo’s best approach would be to create new npcs that fit the island theme, and if they were to make a new game in the future, you can bring back those classic characters that were absent in NH. Don’t get me wrong, I would be thrilled if Kappn, and others returned, but maybe that could be a better approach for the type of game this is
This is exactly why I hate the ‘more hours played = better quality the game’ attitude. Like you said the reason so many people have so many hours in it is because it came out at one of the peak times in the pandemic. There’s also the factor that the game forces you to waste time with its tedious, drawn out mechanics like having to go in and out and in and out of the changing room in able sisters because you can only purchase one colour of the same type of clothing at a time, and the tools having awful durability.
@@anna-wy8mq yeah i think half of my time played is just very long dialogue you can’t skip, making bait, buying clothes @ the changing rooms, breaking and placing the same cliff/pond over and over again bc terraforming fucking sucks
@Mynameisirrelevant Tbh the musich in NH feels more produced if that makes sense? Like it sounds like it was recorded in a studio by like 10 people, whereas AC music just feels like someone playing in their bedroom-
I tried linking a video twice to you but both comments got deleted automatically for some reason :/ But anyway what I was saying was that the channel The Salt Factory did a really good critical review on the game if you’re interested
@@anna-wy8mq There are many rants on ACNH and they are overlooked. They prefers focusing on positive than the bad implication. It shows how the fanbase will jump on everything without back thought.
@JunTao Aya Kyougoku says that she supports diversity. That why she allowed player the dress the character with anything. No surprise, she hired a team of half-female. That the reason of AC downfall: they don't understand the philosophy.
I liked acnh for about a month. I did some stalk market trading to pay my debts off a bit faster because for me, I don’t like feeling like my next objective will take weeks and weeks of my time. As soon as K. K. Slider came to sing I thought “What now?” The answer was... Nothing. I tried to get into decorating my island but... All the slow animations, the having to wait a real day to see or get new furniture or having to quit the game, go to my settings, setting my clock ahead, opening up the game again, waiting for it to load, only to not see anything I wanted? It was disheartening. Acnh felt like a constant struggle. I always did my objective with the idea of getting to the fun part, but I never felt like I was having fun past month 2. I came back and played for a few of the newer updates, but not for too long. The constant, slow grind felt like all the game had to offer, and the charm of the world feeling alive wasn’t present with the template npcs. I’m sad to say the acnh was a 4/10 for me, because of the lack of things to do and the incredibly slow pace.
Oh, and fuck off nintendo with the one island per account thing. My brother and I share a switch, and we both heavily disliked it. At least give us a choice; I’m not about to buy another switch and another copy of the game to have my own island.
I usually play these games with the real time clock, and I never time travel, but I also ran out of things to do after 2 months. I have about 100 hours in the game, which is nothing compared to my New Leaf save.. and I just don't find the game to be that fun. There's nothing really to work towards after the tutorial ends, and the game just lacks progression as well as things to do with bells. I remember when I first got New Leaf, I would wake up every day for a couple of months at most, and would continuously play. There were so many new things happening each and every day. New Villagers moving in, new NPC's wanting to set up shop, shop upgrades, villagers moving out, etc. It was wonderful, and I wished New Horizons was the same. The concept of building a town from scratch was a cool idea, and it could've added tons of hours to the playtime.. but the whole thing lasted about a week, and you didn't have to really work for anything.. you just waited around. There weren't any real requirements for bells, or many buildings to build. You don't even have to provide materials to upgrade the buildings either. Couple that with updates that add barely any content, and sometimes bring back old features.. and you have one of the slowest games in the series, with the least amount of content..
Absolutely! The game starting feeling like “work” to me and with the boring villagers I stopped playing about a year ago. Also, being a solo player and trying to get furniture and such is really hard. My shop sells the same crap constantly and the balloons are useless.
@@MarlanaPolis It also feels like a bunch of the events were meant to only be enjoyed in multiplayer, which is a shame. Past games usually prioritized single player over the multiplayer aspect, so you could still enjoy the Fishing Tourney and get the gold trophy in one day. In New Horizons, it's impossible unless you either play all day long, or have friends to play with.
I think that the game's main thing isn't "I'll let you do whatever you want" but more like "I don't have anything for you to do". Players should have the freedom to choose what to do, but there's a fundamental lack of content that you simply don't have anything interesting to do besides creating your own imagination of interesting things, everything is lackluster. I'm starting to see parallels with The sims 4, where people basically have to come up with their own stories but get bored really easily cause the game's core is essentially flawed and lacks so much gameplay stuff. EA knows they don't need to do better cause people will still spend money on it, and Nintendo knows too. For the numerous people who complain, there are just as much who blindly defend this game and people who buy it nonetheless.
@@imbatman1917 Me too... I loved the other AC titles and was waiting for NH to really be building on the past elements. With finally being on a more powerful console and with what they already had from the previous games this could have been a masterpiece.
I still really like New Horizons, but I can totally see where you're coming from. New Leaf just had this sense of magic that isn't there anymore, and more updates probably won't fix that. I think it's healthy to recognize you don't super love the game, and then move on to thinking about other things that make you happy (like Metroid Dread holy crap I'm so excited for that game)
The update model itself is a prime factor for why a couple of people probably stopped playing. I know it's the main factor contributing to why I dropped it. It just felt like Nintendo handed you content without making you work for it in previous entries, and then handed you small amounts of that content, while you slowly get bored of the game, moving onto other titles. I can see how some people say it keeps the game alive, since there's something to constantly do, but I just wish they would've made brand new content, instead of repackaging New Leaf's content, or series staples, taking them out of the game entirely until they give you them in small, infrequent updates.
@@rainxvic The thing is, Graphics aren't everything. Graphics aren't what makes a game good. Something could be visually appealing, yet have terrible gameplay, meanwhile something could have good gameplay, but have uglier graphics. For example, most people would take Gen 4 and 5 of Pokemon as "Ugly" in today's standards, as it's 2D pixel art, and not in full 3D, yet the gameplay loop is good, and there's tons of content compared to previous entries in the series. It's just the games were made years ago, and while the graphics were cutting edge for the time, they no longer are. Please don't judge a game by it's graphics, but judge it rather based on it's content.
what has really hurt for me was that i just joined the AC series with new leaf, which seems to be the meatiest game of the series while also nailing down the atmosphere and progression aspects. so to go from that game to New Horizons is such a huge change and really disappointing considering it’s my second mainline game. and i feel stupid about the way i put countless hours into the game trying to get hooked again. i wild try to occupy myself with absolutely anything in an effort to somehow love the game the way i loved new leaf. but i’m with ya now… i’ve kind of come to accept this game simply isn’t like new leaf (or past games) almost at all. it’s so structurally different (and flawed) it never will be and even if they do finally bring substantial updates, they probably couldn’t change the games core identity back to just a life sim.
I totally agree, my first big animal crossing game was New Leaf too (besides city folk when I was too young to understand what I was doing lol). I remember staying up until way past midnight playing New Leaf with the music cranked up, catching sharks on Tortimer island. I also vividly remember when one of my villagers would ask to move away, I would get choked up as I actually held bonds with them. I spent thousands of hours making memories, collecting shops, decorating my island, and completing my museum. I got through a tough period of my life with New Leaf, and I could always rely on that game to keep my mind busy. Now, with this newer game, I find myself scratching my head for something to keep me occupied, and having to turn my switch volume off because I cannot STAND the New Horizons hourly music. Everything that made New Leaf so memorable was stripped away for the sake of simplicity. Even Pocket Camp kept me entertained for longer, and that game was free! Even though New Leaf was less customizable, it made up for that fact with charm and consistent things to keep me busy. They had every opportunity to make this game great, but decided to hide our content behind the guise of "updates" that don't add more than cosmetic items. New Horizons focused WAY too much on customization and not enough on what makes Animal Crossing great. I guess I'll have to start playing New Leaf again...
I actually kinda agree with you. I think the problem lies when New Leaf became Tumblr popular a few years ago with the aesthetic decorating side, where people valued how their town looked vs how people played older games (focusing on interactions, catching bugs/fish). Fast Forward to today where New Horizons feels like its only purpose is an island decorating game. So many people who play really only go on to decorate and make money to decorate. Things like Nookazon were created to trade furniture to complete your island's aesthetic. I think the developers of NH focused a lot on the decorating aspect and forgot what made the game so magical. Don't get me wrong, I'm not hating on the people who only who love and play to decorate, but they should have built on the other features from past games to make this game a favorite for past and new players.
I know there is going to people out there trying so hard to defend this game, but lets just face it, this game had its chance to be shown at E3 but Nintendo decided not to do it. For reasons that are unknown and they are just doing things that they think work best for them. They really failed to listen to the community and failed to be transparent. Yes I know what Doug Bowser said that there is more coming, but again he was very vague about it so we have no idea "when" its going to come for all we know it could be months or even a year for an update to be out, but when it does come it will be too little too late because people have already given up on the game. Its a shame that this game had so much potential and it was wasted.
@@Shadamyfan-rs8xc They have made announcements in past E3’s for dlc and game updates though so its not entirely off brand for nintendo. They couldve even added it to direct but nah they didnt
It's like Nintendo is forced to make this game. The sequel gap and lazy title says this. Nintendo doesn't care about this series. They don't even care about Katsuya Eguchi. Why he lets that happened?
the thing i enjoyed most about animal crossing was talking to villagers with personalities instead of these robots. Decorating my house just living the town i was given not making a paradise, i liked making my villagers mad with pitfalls but its not the same anymore and the music is not memorable at all i also feel like there is very little to do :(
The biggest concern I have now is that because this game sold so well, you can be sure that the next AC entry will double down on the decisions they made with New Horizons.
this ^ I feel like Wild World was so good because developers couldn’t really rely on JUST good graphics to make a good game like developers nowadays can- Devs nowadays kinda compensate the lack of content in games with HD graphics sometimes, and I feel like this is basically what happened to ACNH-
I personally got into animal crossing because of the relationships with the villagers and the actual bonds the player could make with them, its sad to see that Nintendo just threw that away for interactions that are repetitive and annoying,. No, I don't want to buy your sleeves parka, Bob.
I joined with ACNH and... I wanna get the old games now because I want to see my villagers with these personalities. I want to see my teapot elephant say something funny!
I wish I joined the era with the "mean villager" but I started a new leaf so even though I started a new leaf what if my favorite things was when Butch said that all humans kind of look alike and I thought that was super rude haha
Funnily enough, I just restarted my New Horizons town, and I'm kinda enjoying it. Progression is quite literally the most important aspect of a videogame for me, if a game doesn't have a good progression system, it's not for me. With New Leaf, progression is everything. With New Horizons, you have to create your own progression, meaning all of my enjoyment of the game comes from me setting my own goals, which can lead to either intense fun, or extreme boredom, all based on my level of creativity that day
When I come back to the game, it always feels like a job and I get overwhelmed with all the empty spots on my island. When i go back to new leaf, I dont even care how it looks really, and i feel happy but worried ab which villager might have left. Excited to talk to them again and make some bells. I wish I had that feeling with New Horizons. Unlike NH the only reason I stop playing NL is just bc I forget ab it, then I get worried ab who might have left. NH it's just pure boredom at this point, walking around aimlessly, then shutting off the game.
New Horizons is just Happy Home Designer but on a grander scale. I played it religiously when it came out, but seeing my villagers reduced to walking cardboard, I have not gone back in months. Island designing is also REALLY tedious and time consuming, and it feels so not worth it. I don't care about having my uwu cottagecore soft aesthetic island. I want to make friends with little animals who tell me I dress ugly, and do weird events and tasks.
I was saying the same thing for a long time, but kept being told that I am too negative, or being told "The game is not finished yet, they keep giving us free updates!!". I had a glimmer of hope that they will bring in features from old games but that hope has finally died. New Leaf still is the best AC game in my eyes.
I've been playing AC since I was 6 and I can't put into words how much I love this game series. New Horizons was my 4th mainline game and it was such a terrible let down in my opinion. I genuinely can't describe how upset I was when Nintendo released the ACNH trailer in 2019 and I found out it was on AN ISLAND. WHY. I knew from the beginning it wasn't gonna be the same and it makes me so upset that they wasted such a great opportunity for this game. ALSO I would like to point out that I really hope they make another mainline game after NH but I feel like the chances of them going back to the old format aren't great. We gotta band together and start a petition or something to let them know we don't want the next game to be like this because I know I probably wouldn't even bother buying it. They're just losing the magic of the game
@@dabadidabadax5 IM SO HAPPY TO KNOW I WAS NOT THE ONLY ONE PISSED WHEN I FOUND OUT THE GAME WAS ISLAND BASED 💀✋🏾 like we already had an island in AC (tortimer’s) so like the entire idea isn’t new- I honestly expected someonething we’ve never seen before like skyscrapers, customizable apartments, you could buy and drive cars around the city- like NH to me was just kind of a cash-grab atp- I feel like I kinda got scammed
I can't help but agree. I have no clue as to why I keep playing it. And re-starting it when it gets too boring (as it always does), hoping that my NEXT island will be better (but it never is).
I did this for a while, honestly because I was depressed and had nothing else to do. There are so many other genuinely great games available to play out there though that are actually deserving of your time, if you’re not enjoying new horizons.
@@nxbula7540 Getting KK Slider to come is hell by itself. I went through that a few times so everytime I think about restarting, I remember that hell and decide against it.
It didn't die after a month. Anyone who got through it in a month had to have taken all the shortcuts available rather than actually playing it as it was intended to be played, which is like downloading a movie, fast-forwarding to the end then complaining that the movie was too short.
i played each game of animal crossing! i wish someone would bring up pocket camp and happy home. those two i feel were the "what we can really do" games. seeing as they had the campers be more playful with the items in your camp. and you could dress up along with them and do more fun activities for crafts and special items. i loved the garden events too as you also go rarities! happy hope had not only the NPCs were interactive with items, you could be too! and the ideas of schools, malls and more stores built by you was amazing that i feel could have been put in new horizons. the idea that you could play with the items you put down, cooking, about to eat, read, drink, smell the flowers. all that , gone.
Yay I was waiting for you to upload a video on Animal Crossing post E3. I have 1600 hours on New Horizons and I can agree with everyone else, the game feels very boring at times. I only have that many hours due to me constantly working on and changing my island's appearance. New Horizons is more of a "Island Decorating" than an actual Animal Crossing game. So many features are missing that I doubt Nintendo will replace or make better, so many characters are gone with no sign of returning and there's no where to go to escape feeling trapped on your island, (unless you count visiting someone else or Harv's Island). I want to be able to go to a city or shopping plaza like in City Folk and visit Harriet, Kicks, Gracie, and Leif. I want to go to Kapp'n's island and find rare bugs and play minigames like in New Leaf. I want to be able to enjoy mini things like making food with the fruits or fish. I want a farming aspect to the game like harvesting vegetables and proper gardening. I want to be able to make juice from the fruits on the island. Speaking of fruits, I wish we had more fruit variety like lemons, permissions, bananas and lychees. The game feels so bare and lacking so much and its very disappointing that Nintendo has seemingly shown that they've got their money and no longer care for a huge portion of their gaming community.
Exactly! In New Horizons, I only find myself decorating my island. I feel there is also pressure to have a "beautiful" island, so I focus my playing time on that. There also isn't a whole lot else to do in the game. If there is a quality of life update, I hope they add more bugs and fish to catch, more fruits, and just more things to do on the island like past games
I was so excited for New Horizons when it was first revealed, I was so excited for it when I first started playing too. But damn, the excitement quickly burnt out. The lack of upgrades, the bland villager personalities, the removal a multilayer island (which seems like it would've been a perfect fit for a game based around islands). What can I say, New Horizons doesn't have the same Animal Crossing charm that the other games have. They've stripped that charm away. Its pretty much just an island design game.
It honestly hurt to see that a game that has been out for a year now still doesn't Match or even catch up with the last game. Like ACNL is high key so much better
For the longest time, I've been praying for gyroids to come back. But after remembering how poorly implemented they were in New Leaf, I now ask myself, "Do I *really* want them back?"
new horizons lost all the charm animal crossing has. the animal part in animal crossing has been left in the dust. i like building the aspect but its just… so disappointing it reminds me of the sims 4 its more of a building sim rather than what the property has established it is as being in the past.
honestly, the ac online community is what made me keep going with this game... Otherwise it's just a decorating simulator, but not even a very good one (so tedious...). I miss flea markets, yard sales, recycling, hangout dates, the other shops, ressetti, tortimer etc it just makes me sad now
All I need is tomodachi life. I mean, it’s the best game ever! And I don’t like acnh anymore cause it’s only about decorating your island and paying debt and designing clothes- I only play the demo version of miitopia! :D
i gave up on acnh after getting bored of talking to broken records and got tomodachi life a little while ago and now i can see why a switch port is so wanted lol
I put in like 250+ hours in 6 months (this is a lot for me) and I feel like the whole goal of getting a 5 star island, and all the themed islands posted online, really ruined it for me. All I did was grind to get terraforming, only to hate it when I finally made changes, and then redo it again. It became more stressful than fun and I honestly felt anxious thinking about all the work that was ahead of me instead of just enjoying the game. This was such an anticipated game for me (honestly was one of the reasons I got a switch) and I remember seeing the first sneak peak and e3 in 2019 and being SOO excited. I feel like its a mixture of lack of charm and content, as well as the online community, that ruined the fun. Its really upsetting, I think I might restart new leaf to rekindle my love for ac.
This isn't the only game suffering from Nintendo's bare bones at launch "but there's updates later!" problem. It seems like a majority of their major releases now have this issue, where they release these games that are alright, but lacking significant content, and then promise to add it in later... In some cases they add some of it back, in most the game gets a few small things and then fizzle out. Nintendo has learned that they don't have to finish a game to get the money, and ACNL's massive sales have only encouraged this.
I'd be over the moon if they actually gave villigars personalities and unique dialog again, along with having different responses to pick from so it feels more like actually interacting with them, and last but not least bring back having villigars ask to see your house. That was one of my favorite parts of new leaf.
I got City Folk recently and I've had a much better time with it. If you've played New Leaf and loved it, but didn't like New Horizons much, I'd definitely grab a copy of City Folk if you can.
just don't run whatever you do. the dreaded grass rot plague is real and you will end up with a desert for a town if you're not careful. that alone kills City Folk for me
@@AmyTabbyCat I used to watch a lot of Animal Crossing videos when I first got into New Leaf way back when. I saw a lot of videos stating that City Folk's animal tracks were genuinely awful, and I still remember the pictures of towns I had seen that were complete wastelands. So yeah, I've been keeping it in mind. Haven't ran a bit. (Other than bees.)
@@AmyTabbyCat After playing City Folk for around 4 years, the grass degeneration broke me. I checked my town a couple of days ago and couldn't even bear it. Sucks because I only had like 5 more bugs to collect and I would be "finished" with the game.
In what way is City Folk better than New Horizons? Those two are the only two games I played and I can't really think of anything substantial you can do in City Folk that you can't do in New Horizons, the villager dialogue is more interesting I'll give you that.
Whilst I’m still yet to give up on the game, I have absolutely nothing against those who have or their reasoning for doing so. Everyone has their own individual view/experience on/with the series, and they’re all equally as valid.
I agree with you so much. I was so hyped for this one but after dropping it I can't seem to find a reason to pick it up again. New Leaf had me starting over at least 8 times over the years because it gave me so much to do! But new horizons is a collectathon designer game at its core, I have nothing to work towards besides collecting items and designing my island. Thank you for voicing your opinion
For me, new leaf was my childhood. I didn’t have many friends so the quirky interactions with each villager and the fun events made me feel like I was a part of something. When New Horizons came out I was so stoked and wanted to get all the tutorial stuff out of the way so that I could get into the lore and make friends with the villagers but…Past the tutorial stage there really wasn’t much to look forward to. Once you’ve unlocked everything it becomes very repetitive and the villager dialogue feels bland and forced, like they’re all puppets or part of the decorations. I played for 3 months sorry kid then refused to pick it back up due to burn out. I was hoping for a more developed, interactive version of new leaf but horizons feels like a completely different game.
i just want one thing at this point, pls let us change the soundtrack to the old animal crossing ones.. this doesn’t sound complicated and it would change sm
At this point, I'm literally waiting for Nintendo to officially abandon/stop updating/stop monitoring New Horizons, and then I'm going to start looking for mods. Like that one that adds that pink Tomagachi cat, for example. She seems fun! After that, I'm hoping for one that adds villager personalities back in.
100% percent agree with every single world spoken in this vid. I remember watching your videos back when you were Professor Pro. You made like things you want in ACNH vids and I absolutely loved them. You were part of the reason I got so insanely hyped for the game. I played it for a good while, but it just lacks so much which sucks because I was so hyped for it, and was really hoping for a cozy atmosphere.
you're not alone!! i am also losing my interest in acnh, and now it feels more like a chore having to design your island, even tho I have difficulties with my creativity. Nintendo made acnh dirty, and doesn't even wants to hear constructive criticism. shame on nintendo for not accepting criticism and doing nothing for money
Even Japanese reviews has the same feeling. In previous games, you renew your experience and that's how you keep playing. On ACNH, it's the opposite, once you are finish, there is nothing else to do, like what a classic game do. AC is mean to be an anti-game. Even if you fail a chore, it's okay, you did your best and that's part of life.
I’ve been done with it for a long while now. They obviously don’t care about it anymore. I remember talking to my friend. Everyday saying *insert date here* left til animal crossing releases… I was so hyped… but by the time I played for a while, and was done. I played New Leaf for 4 years. I played New Horizons for 2 months. I am done. I cant imagine what will happen next for the series… I’m kind of afraid. But more than anything… I’m just sad…
Is it really that bad jeezus ur either just a boring person or because of COVID it gets u on it too much to the point u get bored or when u where younger u had more imagination
@@P.a.n.e.m.Studios god you’re condescending. If you like the game good for you. But just because you’re happy with scraps doesn’t mean everyone else has to be.
@@P.a.n.e.m.Studios FOH. You New Horizons stans are hella annoying! Y’all act like y’all made the damn game and defend it like it’s your goddamn mother. Sheesh! You like it, FINE! But others don’t have to and their opinions are just as valid. Now shut up and go play your half baked game.
there's nothing wrong with having your opinion, I do have to agree the game has gotten boring for me as well. I am more excited looking at the new future games like pokemon for example.
Finally someone that gets it. I think so many new players praise this game because they haven't played the pervious ones. I really hope Nintendo doesn't take the sale numbers as a sign to continue to make unfinished games with lack luster DLCs. So disappointed with New Horizons, a shame we have to wait so long for it since New Leaf and this is what we got.
Waited so long for nothing. Nintendo doesn't care shit about AC and Katsuya Eguchi's legacy. A true disrespected of what AC is all about. Just slap the title on the cover and BOOM! big sell. I wanted AC series to die.
After putting both games down for a few months and picking them back up at the same time, I found that booting up New Leaf felt like coming home to my town and I was happy to see all my old friends and catch up with things. Booting up New Horizons, however, felt like being dropped back into a lonely and empty space I withdrew to during a pandemic. I put New Horizons back down again 20 minutes later.
While it sucks this game dropped the ball so hard, I'm glad the fanbase is finally waking up to how lazily it was handled and are done excusing it. Took them long enough.
To be fair, the game was good last year... because it came out last year. That's why no one talked badly about it. There were bugs to catch, fish to catch, holidays to experience. Seeing everything being repeated this year (same holidays/prizes) made everyone upset. Not to mention the lack of updates in general
I've given up on this game months ago. Its really a shame that this game got ruined by this "finish it later" crap, because I initially liked it and played the the heck out of it at launch before I realized that they stripped away almost everything that made the previous games great. If I would have known they were going to pull this crap, I wouldn't have even bought this incredibly mediocre game. Seeing how well this game sold, I'm really worried for the future of not only the Animal Crossing franchise, but the rest of Nintendo's franchises as well, because this just encourages Nintendo to keep pumping out half-baked games. This "finish it later" plague already affected Mario Tennis Aces, Kirby Star Allies, Mario Golf Super Rush(ed), and other examples that I'm missing. If this is the future of Nintendo games from here on out, I gonna have to be VERY wary about buying another game from Nintendo.
Worst is that AC is using real-time hours. ACNH is borrowing you time instead of spending well. Not even the villager hunts doesn't help it. The customization was mean to be minor so you wouldn't waste so much time and it was limited to your house.
This is why I’m trying to find another 3DS to play an actual good animal crossing. Possibly getting a second or third copy of said good game just so I can relive it and not delete my original town. And maybe so I can play with family. New horizons has kinda lost me and I still play everyday and it’s just making me miss everything more.
Check to see if your Walmart or target has any still! it might just be on clearance cause they wanna get rid of all the 3ds stuff they have! If not then your best place to get a 3ds is the Nintendo online store they sell them refurbished but I ordered 2 from them before and they are literally like new conditions
@@joserachi96 thank you for the tip. I don't think my target has anything 3DS related. I checked the Nintendo online store like you mentioned and it doesn't seem they have anything other than replacement stylus's and a handful of games ranging from great to meh. I've been checking Facebook market place and it is booming there with listings. Only problem being you're never sure if something works or not.
@@MarcusTalks1 Yeah, Facebook marketplace isn't always reliable But they do sometimes add more they get in stock on the Nintendo online shop, they just probably sell out since people seem to want a 3ds again now and days. I recommend looking up a in-stock alart notifications website that alerts you when things become available which is how I found out they had refurbished systems and when they go up in stock :)
I remember when I reset my acnl town, Something about Tom nook made me change the time by a few hours and a day because it was night. Luckily, the able sisters had the golden crown and I bought it.
Your opinion is totally valid and you're right, a lot of the updates won't just fix the game. Personally, it fits my style for the most part so I find the most fun in it. Mostly because it's the least stressful to play especially for all my issues. Even talking with villagers in the past was stressful especially earning photos in New Leaf (this point is talking about NL, WW was fine.) I do believe there's stuff that I DEFINITELY want. The Roost is probably my favorite experience in the whole game, getting to work there is something I do practically every day. But NH DOES have some flaws. And I never take any issues with people who share their opinions like yours. And I can fully agree. My biggest issue with people commenting on this issue is people get TOO negative, don't give credit where it's due, and act like it's an objectively bad game (when it actually isn't, it's a mediocre experience at best.) I also do believe it depends on playstyles and personality and even neurodivergency. My friends and I all have ADHD and we never get bored of it. My friends never enjoyed New Leaf as much as New Horizons. I'm also autistic and I find that the routine and repetition helps me a lot. For my mental health and overall personality, NH helps me the best. I've had actual meltdowns and cried over stuff in New Leaf and Wild World. Cause of sensory overload due to the music in New Leaf as well as having to deal with Isabelle being the worst when it comes to placing projects and then my flowers dying and villagers moving out. Does it make those games bad because they aren't my favorites? No. Overall, I still very much so enjoy the games :) they really are amazing games, they just don't always do it for me like New Horizons. I do enjoy the personality that is there in the villagers. Them playing, working out, hanging out. I mean, Katt and Chevre are dating on my island and they are ALWAYS around each other and going on walks and sitting together. I miss that a lot when I play New Leaf. Personally I'm an actions speak louder than words person so it works for me, but don't misunderstand me, I DO want improved dialogue and have been happy with the bits of dialogue we've been getting. Though I still have a hard time understanding sometimes how people say they're so different (I don't see many differences in New Leaf and only some differences in Wild World, but maybe I'm not paying attention, again I'm autistic so I can totally see me just not understanding it :)), but I can agree it gets repetitive. I have 3 normal villagers. I love em to death, but dear god, it drives me insane sometimes. Overall, the game is good and decent, but it does cater to a particular set of people. And people thinking updates will make them love the game again, I don't think so. Because once those people (not everyone who might be reading this btw) get the updates they want, they'll burn out again. I also feel it does have to do with time travel in a way too. A lot of people time travelled a lot (nothing wrong with that, my friend does it too) and it can lead to burnout. Even as Illymations said in her AC video, she completed everything in previous games so fast that it burnt her out and she reset. Not everyone does this though and I'm just trying to say: there's a lot of reasons people are getting burned out. But I do agree, updates probably won't fix everything. I do wish there were more upgrades for nook's cranny, I wish other people like Kicks and Leif could return. I wish we had more dialogue in the villagers and such, I wish some things would be made easier, I want Zelda items back and the mannequins and so much more. I definitely agree with a lot of the criticism against NH. I don't even know what I'm tryna say anymore so guess I'll finish it off. I really agree with you. I'm someone who this game works perfectly for, but it doesn't mean I don't see the same flaws as you. I can look past em and not get bored personally, but I do find myself longing for some old features too. "I mean, you can actually SEE Resetti in this one. What more could you want?" Simple, to not see him so I may have a good experience :) /j
At first I thought it was the game I wanted to play for years when I first got it (it was my first Animal Crossing game) but then when older players started showing how the older games had more content, I felt disappointed and gave up playing after getting 5stars
New Horizons was my first animal crossing game. I really liked it at first, and was really interested in the updates since I've never played any previous titles. But now that I've dug deep into the past games, I realise New Horizons falls short in terms of a sequel. It just... got boring. Villagers say the same thing over and over, there's nothing to do.. and I just can't find the same motivation that I had in the beginning, even after resetting. It's a nice game, for a while. Then it gets repetitive, and soon you get burned out. And even if you finally get the perfect island for yourself, you have nothing to do anymore. You've accomplished all your goals. You've finished everything. It's time to move on.
I’ve played every animal crossing game except the first one. When new leaf came out, I played it for about a year straight. As I grew older I played off and on, with each period lasting about three months (off and on). I restarted my town many times and I don’t think I ever got truly bored, the characters, the items and the music all make it so good. It’s not just nostalgia that makes me go back to the game, either. New horizons really capitalised on the decoration craze we have right now, irl and games. It’s not a bad thing but they left the most important part out of it.
I totally agree. And sadly I got the feeling, that Nintendo is taking a similar direction with many games, naming Pokemon as example. Less focus on the story and the possibility to play a game for over 300 hours and still explore new stuff or at least have the world feel self-contained and sort of real.
Thank you for saying what I've been mulling over since Nintendo did nothing for the AC anniversary. ACNH is a bare bones game. People still like it and that's fine. But i know what i wanted and expected. I'm afraid this will give Nintendo the impression that bare minimum gameplay is what we wanted. But then again I can't keep thinking Nintendo is this tiny Indie studio that listens to fan feedback. They make tons of money regardless of what fans want and will keep doing what makes them the most money and what people will fall for. Rehashed old titles with bare bones gameplay are just the easiest money maker for them now and it's upsetting bc of how much I loved New Leaf and all of its content. I haven't even bought aminos because of how disappointing ACNH has been. Edit: And on some level i forgive my past self for holding out hope that ACNH would get better with time /because/ Nintendo said they planned 3 years of updates for the game but thus far have added nothing but scraps and tidbits from older games but never the gameplay/characters/items that we as a community missed/wanted. And the fact that they didn't do a major update or tease at future events/add ons on the AC Anniversary really made me sad. But now I just settle for the fact that they never intended for New Horizons to be anything more than a hollowed out version of Animal Crossing with a couple of design features. Now pocket camp is where they're making their real money. They have such cute and stylish items there yet none of that was ported into ACNH as a lot of people wanted/expected. It's just upsetting for old fans to see 😞
No interest in playing these days. These events are not enough. Ive had my fill and have moved on to other games. The unwillingness of Nintendo to add QOL additions and improvements and new features to make the overall game better is sad. But they dont care. Fans and the community have been asking for this for months but Nintendo dont give a crap. The game is breaking all kinds of records in sales and that means they really dont have to add anymore content (NONE event related). 3 new items and temporary events are just that. TEMPORARY. We needed new buildings or shops and cool new features added to extend the life of the game. Releasing "content" updates in form of events, and calling it new content dont count. Past games in the series had all these "events" in the full game already. This is lazy is half assed. Sorry not sorry.
Honestly, I preferred the old games too, for me it was just painstaking and frustrating to design my island, the whole new ‘feature’ of how far you can customise your island just sucked the enjoyment out of the game. I preferred new leaf where what you could do was limited and you didn’t have to worry so much about layout and design and could instead focus on the other elements of the game.
I completely agree, I hope Nintendo doesn't take advantage of this games success and make the next game even more like nh and less like everything before
The dialogue in the game was so bland and boring, they just said they same thing over and again and gave you an ugly pair of glasses
I have enjoyed pocket camp more than this game.
For real 😞 It’s especially excruciating when multiple of the same personality types are on the island, their dialogue cycles through v noticeably :(
@Jolene Fu
Pocket camp is free lol
@Jolene Fu
It’s genuinely funny how a free mobile game is better than a $60 game you have to pay a console for. I’m just done rn lmfao
That’s why I like Resetti so much because he actually had entertaining dialogue, but now he’s pretty much non existent in the game
I’m really sad that Nintendo just left this game in the dark
When you have the same staff working on Splatoon 3, it kinda makes sense.
@@Benjamillion right
@@Benjamillion Well then I guess we can blame Splatoon.
With the sequel gap, I don't think Nintendo cares about this series.
@@darklinggaymer3032 well Splatoon is a pretty good game and they have to work on it and add new content so that it isn’t lackluster and fans won’t get disappointed ig
I’m just amazed that there is a dock on all of our islands that clearly looks like the spot where kappn would park the boat, and it just doesn’t do anything
@@nxbula7540 oh they will at some point, they said they would be supporting the game for up to at least 3 years which means more updates in the future, they wouldn't have something in the game if they aren't planning something for it in the future, as it is someone asked them if they are planning to add brewster at some point in the future and their reply was we don't know, and the interesting thing is they put a winking emoji after saying that, so i'm thinking he might be planned to make a return, and with the currently unused dock, i think Kapp'n is planned to make a return as well, i have been playing animal crossing since the very start and i know that if they decide something in the game is not gonna be used they remove it, they haven't removed the dock yet
Ur pfp is my opinion on nh😃
bUt YoU cAn PuT fIsHiNg PoLe
but tbh ya, honestly i got addicted to the game for like two months and got bored and havent touched it
I mean we have the plane so a boat wouldn’t make a lot of sence.
@@bubbles_plays oh it would, kapp'n would use the boat to take us to his island and maybe some other special islands where the plane doesn't go
The game seems way more focused on building and decorating your island than it does actually living on it. Even the villagers feel like glorified setpieces.
tbh this entire game feels like a shell, like hollow- There’s no personality in the villagers or what you can do- It feels like they tried to make the game “perfect” and it feels over-produced. and in the end it’s just dead
Well… the alternative is playing the GameCube version
Exactly. Kinda why I stopped playing, because I got sad I couldn’t do as well as other people, when the whole game is supposed to be about having fun and chilling
I wouldn't be surprised if the next AC entry is Happy Island Designer
That's how I feel. It is a real shame... Especially since it sold bucketloads. I wish there was some form of real progression and real evolving personalities of the Villagers. I want more events and more real changes in the town. More stores would be greatly needed as well. It just feels bare. I would love to have custom shops and you can assign any villager to work at said shop and watch your villagers have real routines. I want their houses to grow or have them request to move. I want them to form friendships and relationships with other villagers. Cooking would have been a great addition to this game as well. It is just all A E S T H E T I C S...
I would genuinely prefer New Leaf HD with New Horizons' visuals just so I can replay it for 4+ years again.
Ngl, I want New Leaf on the switch
I swear this is how they are going to get us next. All they've been doing is emulating old games but it's damn near impossible to emulate 3DS games. They gave up on the Wii u too soon and now they're quietly removing the OG Wii U games as they replace them and charge 3 times as much. Pikman 3 was $10 on Wii U and how much did they charge for it on switch?
@@MakerOfChase how'd you get Pikman 3 for $10?
@@Texas-girll they pulled it from the Wii u store when they starting selling the switch version
Same!
It’s like Nintendo didn’t realize what made AC such a treasure
More like Aya Kyogoku didn't realize what made AC such a treasure.
@@zigaudrey
There's more than one people to blame.
@@nxbula7540 Mainstream media!
@@zigaudrey
Mind going into deeper detail about what you mean?
@@nxbula7540 Because mainstream is the norm, they focus on the money-making over the content. Switch is an example because of its library of mainstream game. I always think games are exploiting the console potential. So, they are taking advantage of the game success by selling empty products.
It's sad how good games ends up that way. A lot of cartoon has this fate.Where the world is going?
The game feels like an island manager more than actual Animal Crossing. Kinda lost AC's magic imo
maybe next ac game will be better
@@rider2die118
At this rate, I doubt it.
But a new game ain’t coming for 5-10 years.
@@Hecalledmedaughter Same, I feel like we all played it so much before just because of the hype for new updates. So now that Nintendo has most likely gave up on the game, a lot of people are either quitting it or going back to New Leaf like I did...
I still play it, I think that new leaf and new horizons are very different games and yes, new horizons has a HUGE lack of updates. But, think about it before shaming the game and giving up on it. It has the feel of animal crossing, has the holidays, the villagers, fishing, bug catching, decorating, new npcs and more. If you want brewster, don’t look at nh for it, just go play new leaf if you want him :)
The only use i can see in buying the game is just designing an island of your dreams
I know it's a long way off, but I hope the next entry in the series has the customization of New Horizons, but brings back the music, personality and charm of New Leaf and the older games. That and quality of life improvements would probably make the next game my favorite of the series... but all we can do for now is hope.
At this point, I have little hope in this series. New Horizons sold so well, that I wouldn't be surprised if this is the permanent course for things.. and that they'll continue to alienate one side of the fanbase in order to keep chasing that mainstream attention, in which New Leaf received.
They could just update this game like they promised and bring it back 😒
I just want sound settings to tune the music down a bit, I do like them but they can get annoyingly loud.
I thought I was the only one who is not a fan of the new animal crossing music. Honestly when it rained in wild world it felt cozy, now in New Horizons it’s just the same music during the day but with xylophone added on top of it. It doesn’t feel comforting. I used to play Animal Crossing as an escape because when I was a kid I needed that. I need it now more than ever. But I agree with this video the changes we want may never be fulfilled in this game sadly..
@@imthesadguyduh My main issue with the music is moreso how each piece reuses the main theme in some way.. making it all blend together. Not to mention how a lot of the songs don't even really fit the hour they should be playing.
The only two songs that fit the time they play in are probably 6 p.m. and 3 a.m.
All the other hourly osts fit the hour they played in, and were all unique in one way or another.
I literally made a post on reddit about how acnh doesn’t really feel like animal crossing anymore. People literally commented “I mean it’s about decorating, Nintendo already has your money” so yeah acnh is literally just a decorating simulator at this point, at leasts that’s what new players see it as :/
I was new I played the old game didn’t enjoy it tbh this in my opinion was way better but I find it more of a play with friends and relax sort of game
@@P.a.n.e.m.Studios
But $60 to relax w/ friends?
I mean, if you like it, then who am I to change your opinion? Have a good day!
It's pretty much a collecting/hoarding simulator. Previous AC's were so much more than that
@@andri7037 Don’t get me wrong, collecting bugs, fish and fossils is a big part of AC, but after doing that for what, 3-4 ACs, and it’s just the same thing in NH with nothing new about it? No. Just no.
I played 3 days and left the game, I thought it was gonna be similar to Harvest moon, when I found you cant even interact with objects and that there's no character development or storyline i got really sad.
The thing is it’s a decorating simulator now, for anyone who doesn’t want to island trade to get furniture you probably will have a very long road getting the stuff you want even if decorating is your goal. I used to like talking to the shop keepers and doing tasks for villagers, learning the gossip, the lore, etc. I had hoped that it would be combination of making a beautiful environment and all of that but they took out gyroids, Brewster, the mail pelicans, the conversations repeats constantly with villagers :/ idk they at least could have copied the old dialogue into the game at some point.
and the house storage is so tiny i can't fit anything so i leave stuff over my island trying to dive for money. its so tedious so i also gave up on the game
The furniture and home items are so bland and uncreative compared to pocket camp and previous installments
@@sashacupcakelady6695 Sounds like a You problem because the previous games had lesser storage.
@@calipo5110 yeah but the older games wasn't all money you need money build the bridge furnish the island get 5 stars
@@sashacupcakelady6695 In the older games, you constantly had to pay of Tom Nook.
I'm honestly so baffled that New Horizons doesn't have Tortimer Island, it's the game that is themed around islands so it would be a perfect fit. I feel like New Leaf is still the superior game as I still find myself coming back to it 8 years later, less than a year into New Horizons and I'm already bored. Hopefully we get some substantial updates to change my mind, but in the meantime I have generally found it to be pretty underwhelming.
I got a dsi recently and I like wild world better than new horizons
@@Danblak08 do you have any enemy on your wirld world town? That was the best thing honestly, drama is non-existent in acnh
Good point, PeterGargan...
i got scammed by a frog in wide world(tried it while waiting for my switch) so stressful😂😂 i like acnh more
Same! I got the Nintendo & New Horizons during Xmas 2020, so I’m barely halfway through the year and I’m already bored.
My biggest issue is that I felt overwhelmed with the terraforming and decorating. I got burnt out trying to make my island pretty, when the reality was turning out to be less than stellar.
I definitely felt that. I see all these gorgeous islands on social media and try to make an island as aesthetically pleasing as other people's and it just makes me feel really disheartened and frustrated when it doesnt work out
I feel like its gonna be a boy who cried wolf type of situation, if this makes sense. Like, theyll eventually announce a huge update like theyve been alluding to for months now, but itll be too late and weve all stopped caring, or will have doubt about the quality of said update even if theres a solid trailer
I thought that, too. By the time a major update comes, it’ll have to be something big. And I mean, really BIG. Because just bringing back content from older titles isn’t enough. It’ll have to be something entirely new to THIS installment (outside of terraforming). Because if not, it won’t bring back the same hype and excitement as it had in his first year.
Then the update gets announced and ...
💫💫💫 it's balance changes 💫💫💫💫
Not to mention the trailers are often missleading. Everyone is freaking out about the trees now being plantable more near to each other, but it wouldn't be the first time they played with a game-dev-version of the game which doesn't have certain limits--for the mere purpose of showing off in the trailer, while those featured aren't actually in the game :c
Good point, andromedatants...
@@applesgonemad5109 I'm still upset about the peacock butterfly
The villagers are the biggest disappointment of this game. They lost their charm and their individuality and it gets tiring reading them say the same 20 lines over and over again
The main problem of new horizons is that building your island is fun but living in it isn’t, I could honestly go on an entire rant to why that is and how it’s a good game but a bad animal crossing game and that’s mainly due to the lack of charm.
In older AC games there was A LOT of charm and small details like seeing Gulliver while scaling with kappin or booker slowly falling asleep when you’re hiding away and so on, it also had a lot of wacky furniture and items like the guyroids alongside some super cartoony and lovable characters who have surprisingly deep stories (able sisters and Tom nook for example) to wrap it all up the older games had a superb cartoony and cute art style and some amazing dialogue with a good sense of humor
Fast forward to new horizons and all of that is gone, the furniture selection is now small with most of the furniture just looking... normal, small details in previous AC games is basically nonexistent, there’s nothing to see beneath the surface level of every character, guyroids aren’t even in the game, 80% of AC characters aren’t in new horizons either, the game also has generic dialogue that’s very short and repeats A LOT and finally the art style of this game is more subtle, rather than having buildings pop out and the grass patterns being clear as day it all looks too subdued, like seriously compare the pine tree from older games to new horizons
Basically it became a BUILDER simulator and not a LIFE simulator and that’s really sad. Decorating used to be a small part of AC games only existing in your house and but in your town but now? It became a focal point
Lmfao this made me realize that Nintendo is lazy and just told us to develop the game- 💀✋🏾 They gave us a flat island with a bunch of trees and told us to do the rest-
@@Raven-bz8kl the island isn’t really flat per say but ok
@@sometf2player752 there’s cliffs, but all there is on top is trees? 💀✋🏾 My point is there should’ve been some pre-made elements to the island already so people who don’t want to design don’t have too
Well, decorating outside areas existed in New Leaf (Public Works Projects), but it was way better, you couldn’t just place anything outside, and even with them, your town still looked natural. I always find myself returning to New Leaf even with a New Horizons island for this reason and more.
@@Raven-bz8kl
I mean the whole point is that you build your island up
It’s just got no progression at all. Even the whole dreaming thing, just pop down in any bed? What about working for that and getting a dream suite- oh wait no space for it, right
Also relating to that, it’s really annoying how you can’t lay down in your bed anymore without that message popping up.
I used to do it in NL at the end of a play session; or I would just roll around in the bed for fun when looking at my house.
@@FrenOfAllRodents same, get a double bed, a friend, and start bumping into each other. The look of pure horror and confusion on the characters faces lmao. God I wish more furniture was..useable
@@FrenOfAllRodents If you open the camera app, and get into your bed then close the camera, the pop up wont be there
@@Mochi_Kiti Thanks! It's cool to know that, although I don't play NH nowadays.
Nintendo just makes a lot of odd decisions when it comes to this game.
@JunTao good job replying to a lesbian with…that lmfao.
We all have by now, don't worry.
I havent
Not be I love the game. It’s different yes but still enjoyable
^^
You two new/haven’t finished your island? It’s fun at first, but once you “finish” the game or get your island to a 5 star rating, there’s nothing to do ngl
@@nxbula7540 yep, happy island designer, not animal crossing :( Tbf I didn’t even finish my island. I paid off my debt In like a month and stopped
Talk about yourself , don’t generalize:)
The red flag was them only adding 8 new villagers.
The other red flag is the negligence of villager's dialogue. It is the core element of the AC series.
@@zigaudrey and the ability for them to move out against your will, and other features
@@johnross5098 This too. If they have the idea to move out, why they need an external opnion? They have will like an individual. People come, people go.
i just want a game with this visual fidelity and attention to detail with old school atmosphere and design :(
acnl + new horizons' visuals = perfect game
Animal Crossing: New Leaf HD would a dream come true. (Maybe Newer Leaf, New Leaf Switch, or New leaf Remastered idk what it would be called)
I got new leaf at the start of this month, and I must say that it's much better than new horizons. The villagers are more full of life, and there's more to do. As it says on the back of the box: "Nonstop fun...every single day!"
There's waaayyyyy more to do and see in NL than NH. Glad you're finally enjoying the proper AC experience :)
Well, New Horizons never said “Nonstop fun….every single day!” So technically…it didn’t do false advertisement. 😂 I think it called itself “the game that keeps on playing” which just hints to the fact that even if you abandon the game for an entire year, everything on your island remains the same except cockroaches in your house and weeds everywhere. 😒😂
i literally want to buy a new nintendo 3ds just to play more 3DS games, i have a normal XL but i want the animal crossing version, and the bluetooth thing so i can just get games for free, but literally 3DS has brought me much more hours of games than the switch has did, its just kind of sad
@@LUN4RA The Animal Crossing themed 3DS XL was pretty hard to get back in the day, (I know, I tried) so they'e probably SUPER rare at this point!
If you liked the villagers in NL try WW, they had so much more personality and I legit miss them like I’d miss a friend :(
I'm really really hoping that for the next animal crossing game they dont do these continous updates because id much rather play a game where i am guaranteed to get everything i paid for and not to just hope that it may come eventually within the next 2 years. i would have much preferred they did something like welcome amiibo several years into the game rather than drip feed us these miniscule updates
YES TO THIS.i never got why they chose to do these empty boring updates with events that were previously already in the base ac games. i wouldve rather seen them delay the release by a year or more to get a full game instead of promising "2-3" years of "free updates", that ended up being short 1 day events and a few extra items
The game industry has vastly changed ever since New Leaf came out. You barely get games nowadays that don't offer live services; those who are will be the rare exceptions, but also not guaranteed to be the best gaming experience ever. I feel like a lot of people who play AC have no clue how the gaming scene looks like. The golden age of gaming is probably over, my dudes. Thank God we didn't get microtransactions.
@@D0MiN0ChAn i guess that's true but it doesn't make sense why they could have done that with brand new features instead of features that already existed in literally every previous game
Dude, same. Before the release, as soon as I saw they were doing the drip-fed update system, my heart sunk within my chest. Still had high hopes for the game upon release -- was really holding out for an early Tortimer Island update and something akin to Main Street/other series staples -- but man was I disappointed. I hope this gradual update system just dies. I've bought too many unfinished games at this point and it sucks that my absolute favorite series received its worst entry as a direct result of that system
Now that they've pulled the plug on this game I feel like this comment is more relevant than ever. Starting to get worried about the next game if I'm being honest.
this game has always gave me an empty feeling ever since i first had kk slider
I mean, it's devoid of content, and lacks a proper progression system. After you basically finish the tutorial, the only things you really have to do are upgrading your house and decorating the island. If you're not too big into the decoration aspect, then upgrading your house is the only thing you pretty much have left, and there's not as many upgrades as previous games. You can finish the museum, but it's not as fun as previous games, and it's not like you get much out of doing it.
I just wish we'd get a game that had a better progression system, and that makes you work for everything you have. You shouldn't just be able to purchase a wet suit the moment the game starts, just because of an update. They should also give us more things to do with bells.. like in New Leaf.
@@voidoflight2420 more shop upgrades, having a big tree type thing, and having mini game islands to unlock would help a BUNCH. anyway I quit the game so too late lol
@@JakeFactual More shop upgrades, more things to put money and resources towards, and actually making it to where villagers will give you quests sooner would be great.
I wish they just brought back club lol. That would have at least gave us a bit more to do at night.
@@animefan1047 I wish we'd get the island back, so we would have multiplayer content.
new horizons feels more like a modern-day version of happy home designer from the 3ds
If you ask me, which you didn't but if you did, HHD is lowkey better
@@nxbula7540 It really is, happy home designer still had the same type of feeling nl gave me. I think the DS has a certain homely charm
It honestly kinda sucks that this is so many people's first experience with Animal Crossing. It's great that they enjoy it, but I really hope Nintendo doesn't take this game's success as an opportunity to simplify the series even further.
As someone who’s put so many hours into new horizons, I absolutely agree. I think the reason why I have so many hours, is because this game came out at a perfect time. But another reason why I have so many hours…is because there’s not a lot to do. That sounds stupid, but hear me out. Within the first month I was playing this game, I had played a ton, but I starting to run out of things to do, so most of my time was kicking out villagers I didn’t want, and messing around on my island. Of coarse, I was bored during quarantine, and this basically was all I had to do. With previous animal crossing games, there was so much more to do, than just designing your island as you probably know. Unfortunately, new horizons either doesn’t have purposes for specific characters due to convenience (cop dogs, Harriet, Wendell, Resetti, Shrunk.) (Nintendo thinks it’s convenient, but it takes the soul out of what animal crossing is.) Same thing with Kappn, basically because it takes place on an island, and going to another island wouldn’t feel as special as going to one in new leaf. I think Nintendo’s best approach would be to create new npcs that fit the island theme, and if they were to make a new game in the future, you can bring back those classic characters that were absent in NH. Don’t get me wrong, I would be thrilled if Kappn, and others returned, but maybe that could be a better approach for the type of game this is
This is exactly why I hate the ‘more hours played = better quality the game’ attitude. Like you said the reason so many people have so many hours in it is because it came out at one of the peak times in the pandemic. There’s also the factor that the game forces you to waste time with its tedious, drawn out mechanics like having to go in and out and in and out of the changing room in able sisters because you can only purchase one colour of the same type of clothing at a time, and the tools having awful durability.
@@anna-wy8mq yeah i think half of my time played is just very long dialogue you can’t skip, making bait, buying clothes @ the changing rooms, breaking and placing the same cliff/pond over and over again bc terraforming fucking sucks
@Mynameisirrelevant Tbh the musich in NH feels more produced if that makes sense? Like it sounds like it was recorded in a studio by like 10 people, whereas AC music just feels like someone playing in their bedroom-
Also ACNH is addictive but in like a….. bad way? You just keep playing and ur barely even having fun but then you look up and it’s been 5 hours
I think the reason why I like your channel so much is that you seem to be the only person I can find who isn't constantly praising the game.
I tried linking a video twice to you but both comments got deleted automatically for some reason :/ But anyway what I was saying was that the channel The Salt Factory did a really good critical review on the game if you’re interested
@@anna-wy8mq There are many rants on ACNH and they are overlooked. They prefers focusing on positive than the bad implication. It shows how the fanbase will jump on everything without back thought.
@JunTao Aya Kyougoku says that she supports diversity. That why she
allowed player the dress the character with anything. No surprise, she hired a team of half-female. That the reason of AC downfall: they don't understand the philosophy.
I liked acnh for about a month. I did some stalk market trading to pay my debts off a bit faster because for me, I don’t like feeling like my next objective will take weeks and weeks of my time. As soon as K. K. Slider came to sing I thought “What now?” The answer was... Nothing. I tried to get into decorating my island but... All the slow animations, the having to wait a real day to see or get new furniture or having to quit the game, go to my settings, setting my clock ahead, opening up the game again, waiting for it to load, only to not see anything I wanted? It was disheartening. Acnh felt like a constant struggle. I always did my objective with the idea of getting to the fun part, but I never felt like I was having fun past month 2. I came back and played for a few of the newer updates, but not for too long. The constant, slow grind felt like all the game had to offer, and the charm of the world feeling alive wasn’t present with the template npcs. I’m sad to say the acnh was a 4/10 for me, because of the lack of things to do and the incredibly slow pace.
Oh, and fuck off nintendo with the one island per account thing. My brother and I share a switch, and we both heavily disliked it. At least give us a choice; I’m not about to buy another switch and another copy of the game to have my own island.
I usually play these games with the real time clock, and I never time travel, but I also ran out of things to do after 2 months. I have about 100 hours in the game, which is nothing compared to my New Leaf save.. and I just don't find the game to be that fun. There's nothing really to work towards after the tutorial ends, and the game just lacks progression as well as things to do with bells.
I remember when I first got New Leaf, I would wake up every day for a couple of months at most, and would continuously play. There were so many new things happening each and every day. New Villagers moving in, new NPC's wanting to set up shop, shop upgrades, villagers moving out, etc. It was wonderful, and I wished New Horizons was the same. The concept of building a town from scratch was a cool idea, and it could've added tons of hours to the playtime.. but the whole thing lasted about a week, and you didn't have to really work for anything.. you just waited around. There weren't any real requirements for bells, or many buildings to build. You don't even have to provide materials to upgrade the buildings either.
Couple that with updates that add barely any content, and sometimes bring back old features.. and you have one of the slowest games in the series, with the least amount of content..
I also gave it a 4/10! Glad I’m not the only one. I swore that a 6/10 was being waaay too nice on the game.
Absolutely! The game starting feeling like “work” to me and with the boring villagers I stopped playing about a year ago. Also, being a solo player and trying to get furniture and such is really hard. My shop sells the same crap constantly and the balloons are useless.
@@MarlanaPolis It also feels like a bunch of the events were meant to only be enjoyed in multiplayer, which is a shame. Past games usually prioritized single player over the multiplayer aspect, so you could still enjoy the Fishing Tourney and get the gold trophy in one day. In New Horizons, it's impossible unless you either play all day long, or have friends to play with.
I think that the game's main thing isn't "I'll let you do whatever you want" but more like "I don't have anything for you to do". Players should have the freedom to choose what to do, but there's a fundamental lack of content that you simply don't have anything interesting to do besides creating your own imagination of interesting things, everything is lackluster.
I'm starting to see parallels with The sims 4, where people basically have to come up with their own stories but get bored really easily cause the game's core is essentially flawed and lacks so much gameplay stuff. EA knows they don't need to do better cause people will still spend money on it, and Nintendo knows too. For the numerous people who complain, there are just as much who blindly defend this game and people who buy it nonetheless.
yes, ive been saying for a while now that acnh is the sims 4 of the ac franchise
its sad cause i enjoyed new leaf and city folk so much more and i was so excited for new horizons too
@@imbatman1917 Me too... I loved the other AC titles and was waiting for NH to really be building on the past elements. With finally being on a more powerful console and with what they already had from the previous games this could have been a masterpiece.
exactly i was looking for someone to say this. its like sims 4 all over again
I still really like New Horizons, but I can totally see where you're coming from. New Leaf just had this sense of magic that isn't there anymore, and more updates probably won't fix that. I think it's healthy to recognize you don't super love the game, and then move on to thinking about other things that make you happy (like Metroid Dread holy crap I'm so excited for that game)
The update model itself is a prime factor for why a couple of people probably stopped playing. I know it's the main factor contributing to why I dropped it. It just felt like Nintendo handed you content without making you work for it in previous entries, and then handed you small amounts of that content, while you slowly get bored of the game, moving onto other titles.
I can see how some people say it keeps the game alive, since there's something to constantly do, but I just wish they would've made brand new content, instead of repackaging New Leaf's content, or series staples, taking them out of the game entirely until they give you them in small, infrequent updates.
SAME,I love the game and I'm really not leaving it anytime soon
New leaf has horrible graphics
@@rainxvic The thing is, Graphics aren't everything. Graphics aren't what makes a game good. Something could be visually appealing, yet have terrible gameplay, meanwhile something could have good gameplay, but have uglier graphics.
For example, most people would take Gen 4 and 5 of Pokemon as "Ugly" in today's standards, as it's 2D pixel art, and not in full 3D, yet the gameplay loop is good, and there's tons of content compared to previous entries in the series. It's just the games were made years ago, and while the graphics were cutting edge for the time, they no longer are.
Please don't judge a game by it's graphics, but judge it rather based on it's content.
@@rainxvic it was released on the 3ds in 2012 so yeah no shit it’s not gonna have the same graphical quality as a switch game
what has really hurt for me was that i just joined the AC series with new leaf, which seems to be the meatiest game of the series while also nailing down the atmosphere and progression aspects. so to go from that game to New Horizons is such a huge change and really disappointing considering it’s my second mainline game.
and i feel stupid about the way i put countless hours into the game trying to get hooked again. i wild try to occupy myself with absolutely anything in an effort to somehow love the game the way i loved new leaf. but i’m with ya now… i’ve kind of come to accept this game simply isn’t like new leaf (or past games) almost at all. it’s so structurally different (and flawed) it never will be and even if they do finally bring substantial updates, they probably couldn’t change the games core identity back to just a life sim.
I totally agree, my first big animal crossing game was New Leaf too (besides city folk when I was too young to understand what I was doing lol). I remember staying up until way past midnight playing New Leaf with the music cranked up, catching sharks on Tortimer island. I also vividly remember when one of my villagers would ask to move away, I would get choked up as I actually held bonds with them. I spent thousands of hours making memories, collecting shops, decorating my island, and completing my museum. I got through a tough period of my life with New Leaf, and I could always rely on that game to keep my mind busy.
Now, with this newer game, I find myself scratching my head for something to keep me occupied, and having to turn my switch volume off because I cannot STAND the New Horizons hourly music. Everything that made New Leaf so memorable was stripped away for the sake of simplicity. Even Pocket Camp kept me entertained for longer, and that game was free! Even though New Leaf was less customizable, it made up for that fact with charm and consistent things to keep me busy. They had every opportunity to make this game great, but decided to hide our content behind the guise of "updates" that don't add more than cosmetic items. New Horizons focused WAY too much on customization and not enough on what makes Animal Crossing great. I guess I'll have to start playing New Leaf again...
I actually kinda agree with you. I think the problem lies when New Leaf became Tumblr popular a few years ago with the aesthetic decorating side, where people valued how their town looked vs how people played older games (focusing on interactions, catching bugs/fish). Fast Forward to today where New Horizons feels like its only purpose is an island decorating game. So many people who play really only go on to decorate and make money to decorate. Things like Nookazon were created to trade furniture to complete your island's aesthetic. I think the developers of NH focused a lot on the decorating aspect and forgot what made the game so magical. Don't get me wrong, I'm not hating on the people who only who love and play to decorate, but they should have built on the other features from past games to make this game a favorite for past and new players.
I know there is going to people out there trying so hard to defend this game, but lets just face it, this game had its chance to be shown at E3 but Nintendo decided not to do it. For reasons that are unknown and they are just doing things that they think work best for them. They really failed to listen to the community and failed to be transparent. Yes I know what Doug Bowser said that there is more coming, but again he was very vague about it so we have no idea "when" its going to come for all we know it could be months or even a year for an update to be out, but when it does come it will be too little too late because people have already given up on the game. Its a shame that this game had so much potential and it was wasted.
😔 this
True.
E3 is for new and upcoming games, it makes no sense to discuss updates for a game thats already been out for a year
@@Shadamyfan-rs8xc They have made announcements in past E3’s for dlc and game updates though so its not entirely off brand for nintendo. They couldve even added it to direct but nah they didnt
It's like Nintendo is forced to make this game. The sequel gap and lazy title says this.
Nintendo doesn't care about this series. They don't even care about Katsuya Eguchi. Why he lets that happened?
Protendo: I Give Up on Animal Crossing New Horizons
Me: Same
Nintendo: Same
I havent gave up
@@dylantheanimator8404
Why?
Me too
the thing i enjoyed most about animal crossing was talking to villagers with personalities instead of these robots. Decorating my house just living the town i was given not making a paradise, i liked making my villagers mad with pitfalls but its not the same anymore and the music is not memorable at all i also feel like there is very little to do :(
The biggest concern I have now is that because this game sold so well, you can be sure that the next AC entry will double down on the decisions they made with New Horizons.
I went back and played the first AC game on the Gamecube, and damn you can just see how this series lost its way.
this ^ I feel like Wild World was so good because developers couldn’t really rely on JUST good graphics to make a good game like developers nowadays can- Devs nowadays kinda compensate the lack of content in games with HD graphics sometimes, and I feel like this is basically what happened to ACNH-
I personally got into animal crossing because of the relationships with the villagers and the actual bonds the player could make with them, its sad to see that Nintendo just threw that away for interactions that are repetitive and annoying,. No, I don't want to buy your sleeves parka, Bob.
I joined with ACNH and... I wanna get the old games now because I want to see my villagers with these personalities. I want to see my teapot elephant say something funny!
I wish I joined the era with the "mean villager" but I started a new leaf so even though I started a new leaf what if my favorite things was when Butch said that all humans kind of look alike and I thought that was super rude haha
Funnily enough, I just restarted my New Horizons town, and I'm kinda enjoying it.
Progression is quite literally the most important aspect of a videogame for me, if a game doesn't have a good progression system, it's not for me. With New Leaf, progression is everything. With New Horizons, you have to create your own progression, meaning all of my enjoyment of the game comes from me setting my own goals, which can lead to either intense fun, or extreme boredom, all based on my level of creativity that day
When I come back to the game, it always feels like a job and I get overwhelmed with all the empty spots on my island. When i go back to new leaf, I dont even care how it looks really, and i feel happy but worried ab which villager might have left. Excited to talk to them again and make some bells. I wish I had that feeling with New Horizons. Unlike NH the only reason I stop playing NL is just bc I forget ab it, then I get worried ab who might have left. NH it's just pure boredom at this point, walking around aimlessly, then shutting off the game.
New Horizons is just Happy Home Designer but on a grander scale. I played it religiously when it came out, but seeing my villagers reduced to walking cardboard, I have not gone back in months. Island designing is also REALLY tedious and time consuming, and it feels so not worth it. I don't care about having my uwu cottagecore soft aesthetic island. I want to make friends with little animals who tell me I dress ugly, and do weird events and tasks.
I was saying the same thing for a long time, but kept being told that I am too negative, or being told "The game is not finished yet, they keep giving us free updates!!". I had a glimmer of hope that they will bring in features from old games but that hope has finally died. New Leaf still is the best AC game in my eyes.
I wanted the next Animal Crossing...not a Sims game with an Animal Crossing skin.
I've been playing AC since I was 6 and I can't put into words how much I love this game series. New Horizons was my 4th mainline game and it was such a terrible let down in my opinion. I genuinely can't describe how upset I was when Nintendo released the ACNH trailer in 2019 and I found out it was on AN ISLAND. WHY. I knew from the beginning it wasn't gonna be the same and it makes me so upset that they wasted such a great opportunity for this game.
ALSO I would like to point out that I really hope they make another mainline game after NH but I feel like the chances of them going back to the old format aren't great. We gotta band together and start a petition or something to let them know we don't want the next game to be like this because I know I probably wouldn't even bother buying it. They're just losing the magic of the game
No game studios give a shit about petitions, Nintendo are at the very top of that list
I can't be the only one who expected a combination of ac hapoy home designer and new leaf, where you build a CITY
@@dabadidabadax5 IM SO HAPPY TO KNOW I WAS NOT THE ONLY ONE PISSED WHEN I FOUND OUT THE GAME WAS ISLAND BASED 💀✋🏾 like we already had an island in AC (tortimer’s) so like the entire idea isn’t new- I honestly expected someonething we’ve never seen before like skyscrapers, customizable apartments, you could buy and drive cars around the city- like NH to me was just kind of a cash-grab atp- I feel like I kinda got scammed
Don’t almost all of the games take place on an island? Or M I wrong here?
@@foxlyticalxd2562 technically yes, but all previous games took place in pre-existing towns on those islands
I can't help but agree. I have no clue as to why I keep playing it. And re-starting it when it gets too boring (as it always does), hoping that my NEXT island will be better (but it never is).
I did this for a while, honestly because I was depressed and had nothing else to do. There are so many other genuinely great games available to play out there though that are actually deserving of your time, if you’re not enjoying new horizons.
Started considering restarting my island cause I was that bored, but I didn’t wanna be reminded about the repeated dialogue
@@nxbula7540 Getting KK Slider to come is hell by itself. I went through that a few times so everytime I think about restarting, I remember that hell and decide against it.
it’s sad that this game died after a month.
It didn't die after a month. Anyone who got through it in a month had to have taken all the shortcuts available rather than actually playing it as it was intended to be played, which is like downloading a movie, fast-forwarding to the end then complaining that the movie was too short.
i played each game of animal crossing!
i wish someone would bring up pocket camp and happy home.
those two i feel were the "what we can really do" games.
seeing as they had the campers be more playful with the items
in your camp. and you could dress up along with them and do more
fun activities for crafts and special items.
i loved the garden events too as you also go rarities!
happy hope had not only the NPCs were interactive with items,
you could be too! and the ideas of schools, malls and more
stores built by you was amazing that i feel could have been put in
new horizons.
the idea that you could play with the items you put down,
cooking, about to eat, read, drink, smell the flowers.
all that , gone.
i completely adore happy home designer, and pocket camp is cool with items! (im just, personally, very susceptible to lootboxes and thus cant play)
I don't like pocket camp, but man the interactions villagers have with the environment and the types of item they have are next level in that game
I loved happy home designer! It’s so fun, I still have it and play regularly.
everyone point and laugh... hehehehe
Yay I was waiting for you to upload a video on Animal Crossing post E3. I have 1600 hours on New Horizons and I can agree with everyone else, the game feels very boring at times. I only have that many hours due to me constantly working on and changing my island's appearance. New Horizons is more of a "Island Decorating" than an actual Animal Crossing game. So many features are missing that I doubt Nintendo will replace or make better, so many characters are gone with no sign of returning and there's no where to go to escape feeling trapped on your island, (unless you count visiting someone else or Harv's Island). I want to be able to go to a city or shopping plaza like in City Folk and visit Harriet, Kicks, Gracie, and Leif. I want to go to Kapp'n's island and find rare bugs and play minigames like in New Leaf. I want to be able to enjoy mini things like making food with the fruits or fish. I want a farming aspect to the game like harvesting vegetables and proper gardening. I want to be able to make juice from the fruits on the island. Speaking of fruits, I wish we had more fruit variety like lemons, permissions, bananas and lychees. The game feels so bare and lacking so much and its very disappointing that Nintendo has seemingly shown that they've got their money and no longer care for a huge portion of their gaming community.
Exactly! In New Horizons, I only find myself decorating my island. I feel there is also pressure to have a "beautiful" island, so I focus my playing time on that. There also isn't a whole lot else to do in the game. If there is a quality of life update, I hope they add more bugs and fish to catch, more fruits, and just more things to do on the island like past games
1600 hours? I don't know about you but if i put that much time in any game I'd probably get physically sick just thinking about playing it more lmao.
I was so excited for New Horizons when it was first revealed, I was so excited for it when I first started playing too. But damn, the excitement quickly burnt out.
The lack of upgrades, the bland villager personalities, the removal a multilayer island (which seems like it would've been a perfect fit for a game based around islands). What can I say, New Horizons doesn't have the same Animal Crossing charm that the other games have. They've stripped that charm away. Its pretty much just an island design game.
It honestly hurt to see that a game that has been out for a year now still doesn't Match or even catch up with the last game. Like ACNL is high key so much better
For the longest time, I've been praying for gyroids to come back. But after remembering how poorly implemented they were in New Leaf, I now ask myself, "Do I *really* want them back?"
This.
I know I do. I want to decorate my house and make the worst songs ever with all of my dingloids.
Where did you get your amazing profile picture?
I agree
They lost sight of what makes a good animal crossing game
new horizons lost all the charm animal crossing has. the animal part in animal crossing has been left in the dust. i like building the aspect but its just… so disappointing it reminds me of the sims 4 its more of a building sim rather than what the property has established it is as being in the past.
The game doesn't feel like a full game
honestly, the ac online community is what made me keep going with this game... Otherwise it's just a decorating simulator, but not even a very good one (so tedious...). I miss flea markets, yard sales, recycling, hangout dates, the other shops, ressetti, tortimer etc it just makes me sad now
imagine if nintendo gave up on new horizon and released the third entry in the tomodachi life series
That’s a good idea
@@andrescube64 tbh I think the Animal crossing fans would go on a crusade or something
I remember a month in, I was disappointed an voiced my concerns, the community crucified me. A year later, everyone agrees.
All I need is tomodachi life. I mean, it’s the best game ever! And I don’t like acnh anymore cause it’s only about decorating your island and paying debt and designing clothes- I only play the demo version of miitopia! :D
Me too I want a sequel or a port but a sequel
@@jaysuuk1458 I don’t add people srry:
@@andrescube64 :))
i gave up on acnh after getting bored of talking to broken records and got tomodachi life a little while ago and now i can see why a switch port is so wanted lol
@@shoe40 xd
Low-key I don't want an animal crossing game with this level of customization again :/
I put in like 250+ hours in 6 months (this is a lot for me) and I feel like the whole goal of getting a 5 star island, and all the themed islands posted online, really ruined it for me. All I did was grind to get terraforming, only to hate it when I finally made changes, and then redo it again. It became more stressful than fun and I honestly felt anxious thinking about all the work that was ahead of me instead of just enjoying the game. This was such an anticipated game for me (honestly was one of the reasons I got a switch) and I remember seeing the first sneak peak and e3 in 2019 and being SOO excited. I feel like its a mixture of lack of charm and content, as well as the online community, that ruined the fun. Its really upsetting, I think I might restart new leaf to rekindle my love for ac.
This isn't the only game suffering from Nintendo's bare bones at launch "but there's updates later!" problem. It seems like a majority of their major releases now have this issue, where they release these games that are alright, but lacking significant content, and then promise to add it in later... In some cases they add some of it back, in most the game gets a few small things and then fizzle out.
Nintendo has learned that they don't have to finish a game to get the money, and ACNL's massive sales have only encouraged this.
I'd be over the moon if they actually gave villigars personalities and unique dialog again, along with having different responses to pick from so it feels more like actually interacting with them, and last but not least bring back having villigars ask to see your house. That was one of my favorite parts of new leaf.
I know there's personalities in the game, but it just seems like everyone's the same.
_Too nice._
And telling you shut up and call you name. Response should have a consequence in humorous way.
I got City Folk recently and I've had a much better time with it. If you've played New Leaf and loved it, but didn't like New Horizons much, I'd definitely grab a copy of City Folk if you can.
just don't run whatever you do. the dreaded grass rot plague is real and you will end up with a desert for a town if you're not careful. that alone kills City Folk for me
@@AmyTabbyCat I used to watch a lot of Animal Crossing videos when I first got into New Leaf way back when. I saw a lot of videos stating that City Folk's animal tracks were genuinely awful, and I still remember the pictures of towns I had seen that were complete wastelands. So yeah, I've been keeping it in mind. Haven't ran a bit. (Other than bees.)
@@AmyTabbyCat After playing City Folk for around 4 years, the grass degeneration broke me. I checked my town a couple of days ago and couldn't even bear it. Sucks because I only had like 5 more bugs to collect and I would be "finished" with the game.
In what way is City Folk better than New Horizons? Those two are the only two games I played and I can't really think of anything substantial you can do in City Folk that you can't do in New Horizons, the villager dialogue is more interesting I'll give you that.
@@lukaabramovic3227 You can actually do interesting shit in City Folk
Whilst I’m still yet to give up on the game, I have absolutely nothing against those who have or their reasoning for doing so.
Everyone has their own individual view/experience on/with the series, and they’re all equally as valid.
I agree with you so much. I was so hyped for this one but after dropping it I can't seem to find a reason to pick it up again. New Leaf had me starting over at least 8 times over the years because it gave me so much to do! But new horizons is a collectathon designer game at its core, I have nothing to work towards besides collecting items and designing my island. Thank you for voicing your opinion
For me, new leaf was my childhood. I didn’t have many friends so the quirky interactions with each villager and the fun events made me feel like I was a part of something. When New Horizons came out I was so stoked and wanted to get all the tutorial stuff out of the way so that I could get into the lore and make friends with the villagers but…Past the tutorial stage there really wasn’t much to look forward to.
Once you’ve unlocked everything it becomes very repetitive and the villager dialogue feels bland and forced, like they’re all puppets or part of the decorations. I played for 3 months sorry kid then refused to pick it back up due to burn out. I was hoping for a more developed, interactive version of new leaf but horizons feels like a completely different game.
i just want one thing at this point, pls let us change the soundtrack to the old animal crossing ones.. this doesn’t sound complicated and it would change sm
At this point, I'm literally waiting for Nintendo to officially abandon/stop updating/stop monitoring New Horizons, and then I'm going to start looking for mods. Like that one that adds that pink Tomagachi cat, for example. She seems fun! After that, I'm hoping for one that adds villager personalities back in.
100% percent agree with every single world spoken in this vid. I remember watching your videos back when you were Professor Pro. You made like things you want in ACNH vids and I absolutely loved them. You were part of the reason I got so insanely hyped for the game. I played it for a good while, but it just lacks so much which sucks because I was so hyped for it, and was really hoping for a cozy atmosphere.
you're not alone!! i am also losing my interest in acnh, and now it feels more like a chore having to design your island, even tho I have difficulties with my creativity. Nintendo made acnh dirty, and doesn't even wants to hear constructive criticism. shame on nintendo for not accepting criticism and doing nothing for money
Even Japanese reviews has the same feeling. In previous games, you renew your experience and that's how you keep playing. On ACNH, it's the opposite, once you are finish, there is nothing else to do, like what a classic game do.
AC is mean to be an anti-game. Even if you fail a chore, it's okay, you did your best and that's part of life.
I’ve been done with it for a long while now. They obviously don’t care about it anymore. I remember talking to my friend. Everyday saying *insert date here* left til animal crossing releases… I was so hyped… but by the time I played for a while, and was done. I played New Leaf for 4 years. I played New Horizons for 2 months. I am done. I cant imagine what will happen next for the series… I’m kind of afraid. But more than anything… I’m just sad…
Is it really that bad jeezus ur either just a boring person or because of COVID it gets u on it too much to the point u get bored or when u where younger u had more imagination
@@P.a.n.e.m.Studios god you’re condescending. If you like the game good for you. But just because you’re happy with scraps doesn’t mean everyone else has to be.
@@P.a.n.e.m.Studios imagine being condescending about a game that gave you infrequent scraps💀
@@P.a.n.e.m.Studios FOH. You New Horizons stans are hella annoying! Y’all act like y’all made the damn game and defend it like it’s your goddamn mother. Sheesh! You like it, FINE! But others don’t have to and their opinions are just as valid. Now shut up and go play your half baked game.
there's nothing wrong with having your opinion, I do have to agree the game has gotten boring for me as well. I am more excited looking at the new future games like pokemon for example.
Finally someone that gets it. I think so many new players praise this game because they haven't played the pervious ones. I really hope Nintendo doesn't take the sale numbers as a sign to continue to make unfinished games with lack luster DLCs. So disappointed with New Horizons, a shame we have to wait so long for it since New Leaf and this is what we got.
Waited so long for nothing. Nintendo doesn't care shit about AC and Katsuya Eguchi's legacy. A true disrespected of what AC is all about. Just slap the title on the cover and BOOM! big sell.
I wanted AC series to die.
One of Nintendo’s best selling switch games continues to be neglected… sigh
Nintendo doesn't a give a shit about the series anyway. Notice the sequel gap?
After putting both games down for a few months and picking them back up at the same time, I found that booting up New Leaf felt like coming home to my town and I was happy to see all my old friends and catch up with things. Booting up New Horizons, however, felt like being dropped back into a lonely and empty space I withdrew to during a pandemic. I put New Horizons back down again 20 minutes later.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that sees how unfinished and bland New Horizons is.
3:45 i just thought to myself "super paper mario would be a good example.."
This game was designed to be just a one-time trend. It’s longevity is absolutely terrible
Animal Crossing is my emotional comfort game since Wild World. Having said that I haven't touched the game for almost a year...
While it sucks this game dropped the ball so hard, I'm glad the fanbase is finally waking up to how lazily it was handled and are done excusing it. Took them long enough.
To be fair, the game was good last year... because it came out last year. That's why no one talked badly about it.
There were bugs to catch, fish to catch, holidays to experience.
Seeing everything being repeated this year (same holidays/prizes) made everyone upset.
Not to mention the lack of updates in general
It’s July now, Nintendo, seriously
I've given up on this game months ago. Its really a shame that this game got ruined by this "finish it later" crap, because I initially liked it and played the the heck out of it at launch before I realized that they stripped away almost everything that made the previous games great. If I would have known they were going to pull this crap, I wouldn't have even bought this incredibly mediocre game.
Seeing how well this game sold, I'm really worried for the future of not only the Animal Crossing franchise, but the rest of Nintendo's franchises as well, because this just encourages Nintendo to keep pumping out half-baked games. This "finish it later" plague already affected Mario Tennis Aces, Kirby Star Allies, Mario Golf Super Rush(ed), and other examples that I'm missing. If this is the future of Nintendo games from here on out, I gonna have to be VERY wary about buying another game from Nintendo.
Worst is that AC is using real-time hours. ACNH is borrowing you time instead of spending well. Not even the villager hunts doesn't help it. The customization was mean to be minor so you wouldn't waste so much time and it was limited to your house.
*Brewster gonna be in new horizons*
Brewster: aight imma head out of the thumbnail-
This is why I’m trying to find another 3DS to play an actual good animal crossing. Possibly getting a second or third copy of said good game just so I can relive it and not delete my original town. And maybe so I can play with family. New horizons has kinda lost me and I still play everyday and it’s just making me miss everything more.
@lily or something oh I know that but thanks
@lily or something another because my old one broke many years ago
Check to see if your Walmart or target has any still! it might just be on clearance cause they wanna get rid of all the 3ds stuff they have!
If not then your best place to get a 3ds is the Nintendo online store they sell them refurbished but I ordered 2 from them before and they are literally like new conditions
@@joserachi96 thank you for the tip. I don't think my target has anything 3DS related. I checked the Nintendo online store like you mentioned and it doesn't seem they have anything other than replacement stylus's and a handful of games ranging from great to meh. I've been checking Facebook market place and it is booming there with listings. Only problem being you're never sure if something works or not.
@@MarcusTalks1 Yeah, Facebook marketplace isn't always reliable
But they do sometimes add more they get in stock on the Nintendo online shop, they just probably sell out since people seem to want a 3ds again now and days.
I recommend looking up a in-stock alart notifications website that alerts you when things become available which is how I found out they had refurbished systems and when they go up in stock :)
All I want is to visit my town and have a fun, exciting conversation with my villagers. Instead, all they say is "I haven't eaten lunch today"
Glad I’m not the only one still playing New Leaf
I lost mine a while ago might buy a new one for Christmas 😳
@@redacted1319 definitely should. I would probably say Wild World and New Leaf are the two best games in the series.
froggy chair is back 😌 its gonna be okay 🌸💕💖
I picked new leaf back up in April. This is the first time I went backwards and not play the newest release again.
I remember when I reset my acnl town, Something about Tom nook made me change the time by a few hours and a day because it was night. Luckily, the able sisters had the golden crown and I bought it.
Your opinion is totally valid and you're right, a lot of the updates won't just fix the game. Personally, it fits my style for the most part so I find the most fun in it. Mostly because it's the least stressful to play especially for all my issues. Even talking with villagers in the past was stressful especially earning photos in New Leaf (this point is talking about NL, WW was fine.) I do believe there's stuff that I DEFINITELY want. The Roost is probably my favorite experience in the whole game, getting to work there is something I do practically every day.
But NH DOES have some flaws. And I never take any issues with people who share their opinions like yours. And I can fully agree. My biggest issue with people commenting on this issue is people get TOO negative, don't give credit where it's due, and act like it's an objectively bad game (when it actually isn't, it's a mediocre experience at best.)
I also do believe it depends on playstyles and personality and even neurodivergency. My friends and I all have ADHD and we never get bored of it. My friends never enjoyed New Leaf as much as New Horizons. I'm also autistic and I find that the routine and repetition helps me a lot. For my mental health and overall personality, NH helps me the best. I've had actual meltdowns and cried over stuff in New Leaf and Wild World. Cause of sensory overload due to the music in New Leaf as well as having to deal with Isabelle being the worst when it comes to placing projects and then my flowers dying and villagers moving out. Does it make those games bad because they aren't my favorites? No. Overall, I still very much so enjoy the games :) they really are amazing games, they just don't always do it for me like New Horizons. I do enjoy the personality that is there in the villagers. Them playing, working out, hanging out. I mean, Katt and Chevre are dating on my island and they are ALWAYS around each other and going on walks and sitting together. I miss that a lot when I play New Leaf. Personally I'm an actions speak louder than words person so it works for me, but don't misunderstand me, I DO want improved dialogue and have been happy with the bits of dialogue we've been getting. Though I still have a hard time understanding sometimes how people say they're so different (I don't see many differences in New Leaf and only some differences in Wild World, but maybe I'm not paying attention, again I'm autistic so I can totally see me just not understanding it :)), but I can agree it gets repetitive. I have 3 normal villagers. I love em to death, but dear god, it drives me insane sometimes.
Overall, the game is good and decent, but it does cater to a particular set of people. And people thinking updates will make them love the game again, I don't think so. Because once those people (not everyone who might be reading this btw) get the updates they want, they'll burn out again. I also feel it does have to do with time travel in a way too. A lot of people time travelled a lot (nothing wrong with that, my friend does it too) and it can lead to burnout. Even as Illymations said in her AC video, she completed everything in previous games so fast that it burnt her out and she reset. Not everyone does this though and I'm just trying to say: there's a lot of reasons people are getting burned out. But I do agree, updates probably won't fix everything. I do wish there were more upgrades for nook's cranny, I wish other people like Kicks and Leif could return. I wish we had more dialogue in the villagers and such, I wish some things would be made easier, I want Zelda items back and the mannequins and so much more. I definitely agree with a lot of the criticism against NH.
I don't even know what I'm tryna say anymore so guess I'll finish it off. I really agree with you. I'm someone who this game works perfectly for, but it doesn't mean I don't see the same flaws as you. I can look past em and not get bored personally, but I do find myself longing for some old features too.
"I mean, you can actually SEE Resetti in this one. What more could you want?"
Simple, to not see him so I may have a good experience :) /j
At first I thought it was the game I wanted to play for years when I first got it (it was my first Animal Crossing game) but then when older players started showing how the older games had more content, I felt disappointed and gave up playing after getting 5stars
New Horizons was my first animal crossing game. I really liked it at first, and was really interested in the updates since I've never played any previous titles.
But now that I've dug deep into the past games, I realise New Horizons falls short in terms of a sequel. It just... got boring. Villagers say the same thing over and over, there's nothing to do.. and I just can't find the same motivation that I had in the beginning, even after resetting.
It's a nice game, for a while. Then it gets repetitive, and soon you get burned out. And even if you finally get the perfect island for yourself, you have nothing to do anymore. You've accomplished all your goals. You've finished everything.
It's time to move on.
Couldn't have said that better!
I don’t even speak to my villagers. No point. I don’t want to hear their pointless talk. I just design and walk around them.
I’ve played every animal crossing game except the first one. When new leaf came out, I played it for about a year straight. As I grew older I played off and on, with each period lasting about three months (off and on). I restarted my town many times and I don’t think I ever got truly bored, the characters, the items and the music all make it so good. It’s not just nostalgia that makes me go back to the game, either.
New horizons really capitalised on the decoration craze we have right now, irl and games. It’s not a bad thing but they left the most important part out of it.
I totally agree. And sadly I got the feeling, that Nintendo is taking a similar direction with many games, naming Pokemon as example. Less focus on the story and the possibility to play a game for over 300 hours and still explore new stuff or at least have the world feel self-contained and sort of real.
Thank you for saying what I've been mulling over since Nintendo did nothing for the AC anniversary. ACNH is a bare bones game. People still like it and that's fine. But i know what i wanted and expected. I'm afraid this will give Nintendo the impression that bare minimum gameplay is what we wanted. But then again I can't keep thinking Nintendo is this tiny Indie studio that listens to fan feedback. They make tons of money regardless of what fans want and will keep doing what makes them the most money and what people will fall for. Rehashed old titles with bare bones gameplay are just the easiest money maker for them now and it's upsetting bc of how much I loved New Leaf and all of its content. I haven't even bought aminos because of how disappointing ACNH has been.
Edit: And on some level i forgive my past self for holding out hope that ACNH would get better with time /because/ Nintendo said they planned 3 years of updates for the game but thus far have added nothing but scraps and tidbits from older games but never the gameplay/characters/items that we as a community missed/wanted. And the fact that they didn't do a major update or tease at future events/add ons on the AC Anniversary really made me sad. But now I just settle for the fact that they never intended for New Horizons to be anything more than a hollowed out version of Animal Crossing with a couple of design features.
Now pocket camp is where they're making their real money. They have such cute and stylish items there yet none of that was ported into ACNH as a lot of people wanted/expected. It's just upsetting for old fans to see 😞
No interest in playing these days. These events are not enough. Ive had my fill and have moved on to other games. The unwillingness of Nintendo to add QOL additions and improvements and new features to make the overall game better is sad. But they dont care. Fans and the community have been asking for this for months but Nintendo dont give a crap. The game is breaking all kinds of records in sales and that means they really dont have to add anymore content (NONE event related). 3 new items and temporary events are just that. TEMPORARY. We needed new buildings or shops and cool new features added to extend the life of the game. Releasing "content" updates in form of events, and calling it new content dont count. Past games in the series had all these "events" in the full game already. This is lazy is half assed. Sorry not sorry.
Yeah, same…😔 the promised support is just nonexistent. We’ve gone without any actual substance added for months.
At this point, I would LOVE an update to even fix bugs.
Just. Anything.
Im so desperate.
Honestly, I preferred the old games too, for me it was just painstaking and frustrating to design my island, the whole new ‘feature’ of how far you can customise your island just sucked the enjoyment out of the game. I preferred new leaf where what you could do was limited and you didn’t have to worry so much about layout and design and could instead focus on the other elements of the game.
I have got into wild world, it is actually fun compared to animal crossing new horizons
I did about a year ago
I completely agree, I hope Nintendo doesn't take advantage of this games success and make the next game even more like nh and less like everything before