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[Tiffany]

i give the event a very generous 3. the event itself is ok but pave sucks any fun out if it. he's a conceited, demanding jerk who never shuts up. there is no reason for it to take so long to turn in each set of feathers. why does nintendo think we want to watch his stupid dances and listen to his ridiculous rhymes over and over? one time is fine thats it. also after every 9 items he forces u to give him rainbow feathers for another float. how about letting us decide if/when we want more floats? i wanted all the color variants so being forced to stop working on that to give him rainbow feathers for an item i already have is aggravating and a waste of time. Never mind that i could hardly find rainbow feathers and had to waste other feathers to make them, feathers i needed to get the item variations. Amd the items this time around are really ugly, the only one thats decent looking is the float. festivale was my least favorite event in nl and still is in nh. and pave is still the worst character in the game.

 

[Sharksheep]

I gave the event a 6

Plus
The villagers in the Festivale outfits and dancing are adorable. I don't mind the chasing or confetti throwing.
I like the furniture, I'll be using some of them all year round
There's a way you can get more furniture in different colors without customizing and now furniture in general without tt
The feather exchange with villagers when you have too much of a single color

Minus
I don't like how much dialogue Pave has when you give him feathers
The feathers don't stack more than 3
That there are snowflakes flying around

 

[Sgt.Groove]

Pave's hips may sway like the wind but I will not join him this time. I miss the feather colors too much man. Also all the furniture could be obtained before the event. Like... why have an event at all at that point? o-o

But I do like the confetti, event 3/10 confetti 10/10

 

[bebebese]

I like the actual event part of this event, it's quite cute, but I do have to agree that it's let down by how its furniture was handled. I would have preferred DIYs to having to store one of each item, and grinding for enough rainbow feathers to convert the whole set to rainbow (plus one extra of each feather, for me ) started to wear me out a little. I can't imagine going for the set in all 5 variations

 

[mayor.lauren]

I gave this one a 6! Yeah, it’s a pretty basic fetch quest that gets tedious after a while, but the mechanics of color-variant collecting were fantastic. I LOVED how you could craft the rainbow feather so it wasn’t too difficult to get the rainbow stuff or customize the items we had! Plus, I’m a sucker for Pavé! The event would have gotten more points from me if there were more color variants.

 

[sleepydreepy]

I thought it was fine, I gave it a 7/10 Collecting all the feathers took me a while so I am glad that I didn't finish the event in 10 mins (like the Halloween event). If I remember correctly the event itself was the same as NL, but with way better furniture imo

 

[JKDOS]

I think it's really cute how all the villagers are running around all excitedly with confetti and their headdresses.

 

[Licorice]

Is it just me or does Pave sound just like Jimmy from Ed, Edd, n Eddy?

 

[daringred_]

i think i would rate it a 4. i'm sure someone's going to take issue with me saying this, but i preferred it in NL. if they had just copied that event over exactly with a few QOL changes (stackable feathers, completing the furniture set before being given dupes, streamlining pave's dialogue) it would've been almost perfect imo. anyway, a few notes:

• if you've collected the entire furniture set through nook's and don't want/need duplicates, almost the entire event is effectively useless;
• i still prefer the NL set to the NH one, which i'll never use -- at least the former could easily be used year-round, so not getting it until the day of the event didn't really matter, whereas that isn't really the case with NH unless you're going for a carnival-themed island year-round;
• definitely an unpopular opinion, and a very minor issue, but i mourn the loss of the yellow, pink and white feathers;
• feathers not stacking above three, and rainbow feathers not stacking at all, is obnoxious even if it is a slight improvement from NL;
• i personally preferred NL's festivale dress and music;
• villagers chasing you to throw confetti in the air got really annoying really fast;
• not having the furniture be available as DIY recipes was a mistake, frankly, especially since they made it all unorderable;
• requiring feathers to customize the furniture is just obtuse given that they don't stack above 3 and are only available on this day. at least pumpkins can be grown year round, but that's not the case here -- either you have five(?) whole sets of furniture in your storage or one whole set and twelve rows of feathers. neither is intuitive.

it gets a 4 largely because of atmosphere and personal bias. festivale, bunny day and april fool's were always my favorite events in NL, and festivale carried over semi-well. (i liked bunny day but it should not have been a week-long or that ill-prepared, and we don't even know if april fool's is happening.) the villagers dressing up and dancing was cute, and i've always loved the feather catching mechanic. (egg collecting too, which is probably why this and bunny day were my favorite events.) i've always liked pave as an event NPC, and the confetti in the air was also nice albeit a little sparse? overall, i was disappointed but not surprised.

 

[andy31413]

For me, I am unable to play the event because I'm on version 1.7.0 and not 1.7.0a. I've been trying to figure this out but nothing Ive tried worked so far. You guys got any ideas?

 

[Acies]

Festivale might have been my favorite event so far. Compared to Turkey Day, I am thankful for the reduction of grinding, and since the Festivale items fit my theme nicely, it was convenient to get some more, even in different colors.
However, I would have liked some more DIYs during the whole of the event, and some more funriture that hadn't been available beforehand. Apart from that, it's the same as always, if I remember correctly, which could be a point of critique, but at least Festivale hasn't been stripped of its essentials.
But the music has seriously degraded in comparison to previous entries; it's too slow, it just doesn't sound right anymore. At least to me.

 

[Corrie]

I wasn't really interested in the Festivale items so I lost interest quick. It's basically similar to Halloween and Easter where you collect materials to get the holiday items so to me, there was nothing really too new about it.

The reactions are cute though!

 

[arikins]

i barely got acnh last christmas, so this is really the first event that im playing. i really loved it. especially the way the villagers interacted with the event. when they run up to you and throw confetti, if theres a festivale stage around they run to it and dance, they throw confetti at each other, line up at res services and perform. they just looked so happy. i was done w it pretty quickly, thats the only reason its not a 10/10 for me. and also that u just get different variants of the same items youve been buying aside from the float. another thing i loved was the confetti and the change of music. it gives today a whole new feel than any other day in animal crossing. i also love that orville decided to spice his look up with some feathers lol

 

[Pintuition]

I said 7. It wasn't the worst event of all time, but it wasn't my favorite either. I wish it was easier to collect all of the items in the color(s) you want. Having to use multiple rainbow feathers to change them after the fact makes you have to grind too hard. I played for hours on both islands today and I don't think I even have anything close to the amount of items I thought I'd have. That said, the items themselves look really nice and I appreciated the "ultimate" Pave prize he gives you at the end. Don't ask me what I'm doing with it, though!! Haha! I really disliked how long Pave talked each time you gave him feathers, the dance and dialog got old after the 4th or 5th time. Still, it was fun to see the villagers (and some of the NPCs!) all dressed up for the occasion. A solid 7/10, with some improvements it could have been way better. At least it wasn't balloons this time!

 

[Matt0106]

I gave the event an 8! I know some players love events that take a long time or take more time in advance to prepare, but as someone with a busy schedule schedule, I'm happy with events that don't require too much time investment, and I had fun looking for all the feathers and getting the cool float (not sure what on Earth I'll use that for but I'm sure it would make a good prop for something).

Also, the villagers? Throwing confetti? In little costumes? Adorable

 

[wolfie1]

I'm giving it a 7. I absolutely love the furniture items and I've already filled the last spot I had empty, so now I don't have space for anything else. I spent literally 5 hours (hadn't done this in months) trying to get duplicates of the Festivale flag and the Festivale confetti cannon and they were the last thing that bird gave me. That's why it's not getting a higher score. I would've liked to finish earlier, but getting blue feathers was mission impossible and getting Pavé to give me what I wanted was a pain in the ass too. I wish they'd made it like Turkey Day and we could've gotten DIYs for everything.

 

[Danielle13]

I'm quite new to NH but I have to agree this event was lacking in many ways and in my opinion my villagers only slowed me down and made getting the feathers I needed harder, by approaching me and asking about feather swapping and/or wanting to dance with me, taking the entire thing longer than I had hoped it would to begin with. 2/10 for me only because seeing my villagers happy and dancing does make me happy!

 

[LuchaSloth]

I give it somewhere in the 5-6 range. It's an okay event. But, the "catch things with the net" format is getting old.

Pavé is a fine character. I hate the shoes he wears, though. Not even sure why...I just wish he had normal bird feet. Lol. I do like the echo of his voice, and the music, and the dancing. The items are fine. More of the same...but the float is nice. Watching the villagers dancing and enjoying themselves is pretty amusing as well. Not an amazing event...but a fun little distraction from the real world. It was the most time I spent playing in a number of weeks. So...it did its job.

 

[Bluelady]

I gave it a 7. I like that the event actually had us moving all over town, but wasn’t as difficult as the Turkey Day event. I also found it cute with the villagers dancing and chasing you down to throw confetti at you.

What I disliked is the fact that you need so many feathers to customize the furniture. Also, it suffers from the same problem that I disliked from the New Leaf version. The furniture pieces that you get from Pave are random.
For example, I’m looking for enough garlands to make a fence; but in order to get them I could either TT back and forth and/or play this event for hours.

 

[KateyLC]

This was my first event.

I loved seeing everyone dressed up. I love the confetti. I love the atmosphere.

I quite like catching feathers and liked Pave too.

What I HATE is being forced to give three rainbow feathers over for a float every nine items. One float is fine ... please let me choose my items after the float though! I have enough drums to lead a huge marching band...