Anyone else worried the game is much shorter and watered down than New Leaf?

[sunnibunniva]

Hopefully! I've seen some people say, I believe on twitter, that everything can seemingly be unlocked in like 4 weeks?! I refuse to believe that because honestly that's extremely bizzarre.

I think the "basics" (nooks cranny, able sisters, maybe the upgraded resident services?, and the museum if you focus on donating enough) may be unlocked in about that time, but there's no ways that's all the game has to offer (for example: it's pretty much confirmed the nooklings shop will upgrade, but no one is allowed to show it yet, bc it doesn't happen in the time frame the reviewers can show)

 

[X0XGabbyX0X]

Online multiplayer isn't even ready. That's my biggest issue right now. I watched a few reviewer videos and one mentioned that.

Nintendo has never been the best with online so I assume the whole online features will come later on, sadly.

 

[Blue Triangles]

Worried it's too short? LMAO. Do people have nothing else to discuss.

 

[SheepMareep]

I think the "basics" (nooks cranny, able sisters, maybe the upgraded resident services?, and the museum if you focus on donating enough) may be unlocked in about that time, but there's no ways that's all the game has to offer (for example: it's pretty much confirmed the nooklings shop will upgrade, but no one is allowed to show it yet, bc it doesn't happen in the time frame the reviewers can show)

Which is significantly slower than in every other game where these are automatically in the town
If it takes 4weeks JUST to get to the bare minimum of every other game imagine how long itll take to upgrade them and unlock everything else.

 

[Khaelis]

Definitely not, pretty much every review said there's so much to do. Some have even hinted at things we've yet to even see but can't talk about!

 

[X0XGabbyX0X]

I think the "basics" (nooks cranny, able sisters, maybe the upgraded resident services?, and the museum if you focus on donating enough) may be unlocked in about that time, but there's no ways that's all the game has to offer (for example: it's pretty much confirmed the nooklings shop will upgrade, but no one is allowed to show it yet, bc it doesn't happen in the time frame the reviewers can show)

I'm hoping that's what they're reffering to.

Also; has anyone seen any mention of Re-Tail? I saw a snippet of some pink building in a video, unfortunately don't remember which one. Seemed larger than a villager house. My apologies if this building was already explained, I haven't done much investigating into the shops!

 

[sunnibunniva]

They have to be. Out of every video I've watched I think nintendo life has made me the most curious as to what is going on. He is just SO excited and visibly trying not to say some interesting things; cant wait to see what it's all about o:

Same, I think Nintendo Life has made the best videos about AC that I've seen to date, it really feels like they're a part of the community for this game, but they have so much more insider knowledge than us lol

 

[Scuro]

Nintendo has never been the best with online so I assume the whole online features will come later on, sadly.

I know right? I guess I need to rewatch it. It sounded like it wasn't ready, not that the reviewers weren't allowed to use online multiplayer in the first place. Instead, it would be ready by launch date as a patch.

 

[sunnibunniva]

Nintendo has never been the best with online so I assume the whole online features will come later on, sadly.

iirc its confirmed to be ready for release day, if they fix the nso server overload that is...

 

[X0XGabbyX0X]

Definitely not, pretty much every review said there's so much to do. Some have even hinted at things we've yet to even see but can't talk about!

I feel the multi-player is lacking from what we've seen but I believe reviewers weren't able to access multi-player yet? Not sure, but I'm most excited about any new night activities! c:

 

[sunnibunniva]

Which is significantly slower than in every other game where these are automatically in the town
If it takes 4weeks JUST to get to the bare minimum of every other game imagine how long itll take to upgrade them and unlock everything else.

not to mention how much longer we'll all be spending on decorating since we can place furniture basically everywhere (I've heard we're even tasked with decorating some of our new residents homes and yards HHD style!!)

 

[X0XGabbyX0X]

not to mention how much longer we'll all be spending on decorating since we can place furniture basically everywhere (I've heard we're even tasked with decorating some of our new residents homes and yards HHD style!!)

Really?! Do you happen to remember the source? I've been wishing for that feature for AGES!

 

[JKDOS]

Really?! Do you happen to remember the source? I've been wishing for that feature for AGES!

Placing furniture outside?
Ummm....Aside from literally every single video in existence for New Horizon...It was mentioned in GameXplains Q&A

Unless you refer to designing homes, that was in the reviews, and also leaked by the French player.

 

[Romaki]

I guess, but I've never been a fan of unlocking stuff to unlock stuff in two weeks to unlock something different in two weeks. I rather just unlock stuff by playing and doing things, like maybe doing 300 requests or something like that.

And honestly I'm not too worried about reviews, I think they're hiding (and continue working on) features to release them on a later date through free updates. Like the Bunny Day update could include a dream suite unlock after a month or something like that.

It's just important that people stay vocal about what's missing so we're going to have an even better game in a year. I really don't think the updates are just for the seasonal events, I think the Animal Crossing team wants everyone to have the same pace.

 

[X0XGabbyX0X]

Placing furniture outside?
Ummm....Aside from literally every single video in existence for New Horizon...It was mentioned in GameXplains Q&A

Unless you refer to designing homes, that was in the reviews, and also leaked by the French player.

I mean the decorating requests for villager homes. I haven't heard that being discussed yet.

- - - Post Merge - - -

I guess, but I've never been a fan of unlocking stuff to unlock stuff in two weeks to unlock something different in two weeks. I rather just unlock stuff by playing and doing things, like maybe doing 300 requests or something like that.

And honestly I'm not too worried about reviews, I think they're hiding (and continue working on) features to release them on a later date through free updates. Like the Bunny Day update could include a dream suite unlock after a month or something like that.

It's just important that people stay vocal about what's missing so we're going to have an even better game in a year. I really don't think the updates are just for the seasonal events, I think the Animal Crossing team wants everyone to have the same pace.

Agreed. I'm hoping the updates are more of a "hey look at this add-on!" than "hey here are features that were included in every other game but we decided to release them 3 months later!" haha

 

[BlueFlameAngel]

Is everyone expecting every little detail to be revealed and spoon fed to them before launch? Chillll guys, I'll be surprised if perfect fruit, the roost, gyroids and other such things don't show up at some stage. We'll find out soon!! Imo it already looks way more fun than ACNL. For whatever reason, I found ACNL the least enjoyable out of the series. I'm just praying actually sassy/mean characters are back, that's all I want in life. </3

 

[X0XGabbyX0X]

Is everyone expecting every little detail to be revealed and spoon fed to them before launch? Chillll guys, I'll be surprised if perfect fruit, the roost, gyroids and other such things don't show up at some stage. We'll find out soon!! Imo it already looks way more fun than ACNL. For whatever reason, I found ACNL the least enjoyable out of the series. I'm just praying actually sassy/mean characters are back, that's all I want in life. </3

All I'm asking for is more holiday activities and for my villagers to call me names when I even dare to breathe near them xD

 

[mae.]

absolutely not. there's so much more to the game that even people with early copies haven't even seen.

 

[Sloom Lagoon]

I'm slightly concerned about that too. One reviewed said he felt like the game was trying to get him out of the tent as soon as possible! I really wanted to take ti slow with this game, so that would be frustrating, especially as the devs said they wanted the game to last longer than NL so we'll see.

 

[mohn]

Nintendo has never been the best with online so I assume the whole online features will come later on, sadly.

For Christ's sake, people, online wasn't available for the reviewers, because the game isn't out yet. It's always like that with game reviews. Online services become available at release.