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On a scale of 1 to 10 what would you Rate the Festivale Event?

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Hm... well, it definitely wasn't the worst. Personally, I gave it a 6/10. I loved the confetti and the funky new dance reactions. The new items are pretty versatile & I'm looking forward to incorporating them with my island decor.

It was great how the feathers were not hard to find and I had a super easy time getting the float. I was kind of scared, since if I recall correctly, Pave would ask for specific colored feathers in New Leaf, and that was pretty time consuming. I liked the freedom we got this time around, lol. Despite everything though, this holiday was nothing more than a gathering event, but I don't think it needed to be much more. The dancing villagers are really adorable and it's kinda fun to just run around and see everyone being happy. I liked the good vibes haha.

Overall, it's not my favorite holiday, but it's far from the worst!
 
So having enjoyed and reflected on the event, here are my thoughts:

As many have mentioned - it is a bit much having to catch all the feathers we might want/ need during the event and not having them be available before or after. Or having the ability to craft the fesitvale items. And I really wasn’t interested in getting multiples of the float even though it is amazing

(sort of an upside for the enterprising players - i imagine there will be a booming market on this forum for feathers and festivale items)

However, for me there was a lot I liked, so I rated it an 8 overall.

1. I love love love Pave - his dialogue is funny and I love his dancing.

2. I like events where you can vary your participate depending how much time you have/ how much you enjoy the items.

3. I think these are my favorite event items so far. I love bright colors and every single color version is just really great.

4. the villagers dancing and confetti throwing is adorable. I love having them chase after me to throw confetti at me. That’s real friendship

5. I liked the option of trading feathers with my villagers, but also not being required to do it.

6. I liked catching feathers. It was work but not too much work. I have to play at least a little distracted most of the time so it is nice to have something I can jump in an out of

so overall this was one of, if not my favorite event(s), partly just because I like a lot of the items so much - and feel like I can use the year round. And pave is probably my favorite special event character.
 
I'm always fairly outspoken on how I think ACNH gets a bit of a bad rap in terms of being compared to ACNL. I usually defend ACNH because I DO love it, but... yeah. This event was a bit of a let down to me. A bunch of fetch quests to what? Get items in colors I already had? What was the point of even putting them up for sale in your shop? I don't know, feels like a bell/time sink. It wasn't fun, really. You're just catching stuff with a net. Would have loved to see something else done to make it a little more engaging. The only thing I liked about it was the villagers running around dancing and what not and x.x meh. After turning in about 5 stacks of feathers, I'm over Pave and his dancing lol
 
I honestly thought it would be just another event I didn’t really care for, but it really wasn’t that bad.

First off, it wasn’t nearly as hard as New Lead, which I liked. They could have made it a bit harder, but it was still fun.

It was nice to have the option between crafting a rainbow feather or forking over 3 of a color.

I would have liked a larger reward than the float. Now, don’t get me wrong, the float is cool and all, I just don’t see how often I’ll be able to use it, and now that I have it, I don’t have a big reason to complete Festivale next year other than for the fun.

It was fun to have villagers running up and throwing confetti in my face, and the event was still fun in general.

In conclusion, the event was really fun. However, Nintendo could have worked on making it a bit more challenging and updating the rewards.

My final verdict is 7/10.
 
I don't know if it's 'cause I saw spoilers before experiencing the event myself, but I'm not that crazy about it? Yeah, I liked the outfits and furniture when I first bought them on the days leading up to Festivale. But for some reason, it just feels anticlimactic on the actual day :/ Going around catching and trading feathers is tedious and time-consuming. I have neither the storage space nor interest to collect every single color of every single furniture item from the set. (Same reason why I preferred to just catalog the clothing instead of buying them all, except for just the outfit I wanted to wear on the day of the event.) That's why, I wish we just got DIYs for them so that we could collect their corresponding feathers and craft as many of the items we want whenever we want, just like seasonal DIYs and materials. So, I'm not quite sure what to rate this event... Probably a 3, at most.

Edit: I ended up voting 0 on the poll.
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I'm always fairly outspoken on how I think ACNH gets a bit of a bad rap in terms of being compared to ACNL. I usually defend ACNH because I DO love it, but... yeah. This event was a bit of a let down to me. A bunch of fetch quests to what? Get items in colors I already had? What was the point of even putting them up for sale in your shop? I don't know, feels like a bell/time sink. It wasn't fun, really. You're just catching stuff with a net. Would have loved to see something else done to make it a little more engaging. The only thing I liked about it was the villagers running around dancing and what not and x.x meh. After turning in about 5 stacks of feathers, I'm over Pave and his dancing lol
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This Festivale event was on par with prior games. I have no complaints. 10/10. My only complaint is I wish the feathers appeared a couple days before the event started so I had more time to hoard the feathers. But no complaints otherwise. It was a lot of fun. I love events that have the villagers doing cute stuff and this one had that in droves. Got a lot of great pictures today.
 
I just found out with my other Switch that you can complete the event at another player's town. Everything is functional including trading the villagers for other colors.

I thought that was pretty cool. Has any other event been like this?
 
I had a chance to complete the event twice.

The first time I did it at about 4:30pm. The snow was a little bright and gave me a headache. I really had to force myself to finish as I just wasn't feeling good. The snow usually hasn't bothered me like this, but I am in the process of redoing my town , so I don't have the fences and pathing I use to. It's a lot more open now.

The second time I did the event was at 7:00pm.The sun was down so the snow was no longer an issue. I was visitng my town with my second Switch to collect some Fossils when I discovered the event was totally doable online. I actually prefered the event more at night because the lights and Festivale items just look so much better.

Having to get 9 items and then the float is very tedious though. I can't imagine how much more it would be if I continued trying to get every possible color. It is a big help that villagers will trade you colors.

I played enough collectively to get the full Red, Purple, and Rainbow set from Pave. That was enough for me.

I would collect 9x 3-stacks of the feathers first before talking to Pave. So having to sit through the dialogue and dancing for 9 straight times was too much.

I want to note, although Pave will dis your outfit if you're not wearing the Festivale outfit, you can still do the event regardless of what you're wearing. So I appreciate that.

I really wish they would have saved the event for when the snow melts, like Feb 25th or something. It looks odd to have everyone partying out in the snow....and just feels out of place.

Overall, I personally don't think the event was any fun. It was just a grindy collection quest to get the float. I did enjoy the villagers running up to me the throwing confetti, and I loved that they were whistling the town tune. It's nice for those without the ability to trade as they can get the other colors. Though I still think it could have been a bit easier/better than currently. If we got DIYs and crafted them with feathers, I think that would be cool.

I am a bit disappointed that I was unable to gift my villagers or talk to them normally.
 
I really, really liked Festivale. I'll share my thoughts behind a spoiler tag because I always type a lot:

Atmosphere
The best one so far. Lots of new dialogue, islanders had many lines depending if they were outside, inside, and I have started to see some lines related to nighttime so yeah. Many of them had funny things to say involving Pavé so that's a plus. I will also personally throw hands with all people that say that the islanders running to you is annoying. It's adorable. They want to interact with you so hard, they just want to throw confetti and show your their moves and I'm dying. Oh, and the way they made a dancing line (and they ran to make it!) on the plaza was superb. The confetti flying everywhere, the feathers "whooshing" on the wind, the two different music tracks (the Festivale one and the Pavé one), the way the standard NPC wore feathers... It all felt so cheery, so Viva Festivale.

Special NPC
Pavé is the best. Like, I expected him to be fabulous, but he was that and so much more. I loved how he roasted my clothes before changing into a Festivale outfit (and praised me after using them), how he does the ANGRY SPIN when you don't give him feathers and he also cries because you are denying him his precious feathers. Pavé is out there, outdancing everyone on my island, gives me a side-eye when I dance by his side (is he jealous of my dance moves? is he disappointed?) He's sassy, he's lively, he's perfect.

Prizes/Furniture
When I posted my predictions of the event, I said I wanted something extravagant and big, like an statue of Pavé's tail. And the Festival Float appeared and I'm amazed, it's gorgeous. I love the whole set, it's so versatile, so good, so everything. The feathers are a sub-reward exclusive to this day, since they can be worn as hats and well, they are cute.

Mechanic/Gameplay
I love catching feathers, it's so relaxing. You only have like 30 days a year where you do the same activity (maple leaf/snowflake/cherry petals) so I liked having to do it for so long. Trading with islanders is great and easy, helps with the grinding. The way you can choose which color you'll get, and how the loop guarantees you'll be able to get all of them in one go is very good.

Random thoughts
The rewards loop could have been improved if we had 2 or 3 big rewards. I understand that intention of letting you get dupes of one of the biggest and more complicated items on the game, but throwing a Pavé Rug or something would help with the feeling of repetition. I also understand that this game can be played by many people on the same island and therefore, not all of them would be buying the Pavé set from Nook's so the event is needed to give everyone a chance (also you could have missed some days). For single players, it also helps by giving you the color variations which depend on a very limited resource. I get that many players don't understand that, but the devs would also get criticized if nothing was available before the event because many people feel they can only decorate one or two days.

Overall, I'm very satisfied. I had fun (well, I'm still having fun 'cause I'm still playing to get some dupes haha) and I loved the feeling on the air. Viva Festivale.
 
I gave the event an 8 because I quite liked it!

The new reactions are so cute, and I loved watching my villagers dance around the island (not just the resident services plaza!) and throw confetti at each other (and sometimes at my character too). The outfits were cute though I was a little surprised that the game actually made us change into it since I already had another outfit ready for the event. And Pave himself was really fun and so pretty.

Catching feathers was a little bit tedious but definitely easier than the previous event stuff like catching specific fish and sea creatures for turkey day. I kind of wish we had more than a day to catch them, something like cherry blossom season that would last for a week before the event itself so we have enough time to get lots of rainbow feathers. But the fact that we could buy nearly all the furniture from nooks beforehand makes up for it.

My only real complaint is that even after we've given Pave enough sets of feathers for him to ask for 3 rainbow feathers in exchange for the float, he continues to give us random furniture in exchange for sets of feathers. I would have loved if we could give him a set of feathers and he'd ask us which festivale item we wanted. I was collecting the lamps and parasols and didn't have much use for most of the other items so I ended up trading for them to save time but it would have been nice to have the option to get them directly from Pave without having to cycle though all the items.

Overall I think it was a really cute and not too tedious event and both the festivale items and the feathers themselves were gorgeous and those alone make this one of my favorite events in the game!
 
On the event itself:
I really really liked Pave! I'm so glad they didn't tone him down at all! I might even say his personality got stepped up since New Leaf! I loved the colors and the atmosphere. My island is already colorful and bright, so the festival confetti really just made my island pop, especially in the daytime! Even though I would have liked to engage the villagers through minigames like in the past, I'm still glad they were participating in the event somehow, instead of just being stage figures like they usually are.
As for stuff I didn't like, I really wish we would have gotten DIYs instead of straight items. I'd prefer to just keep the feather materials and make the items if I need them instead of having to hang on to EVERYTHING. Also, the net limit should have been changed for this event. It sucked that my tools kept breaking. I had to keep extras all over my island so I didn't potentially lose feathers just in case one tool spontaneously broke. Better yet, we should have unbreakable tools overall. But the net breaking during the event really left a sour taste for me. Overall, I rate it 8/10. Very good, but could have been a little bit better if QoL improvements were made.
 
8/10 on Pave alone, he is so fabulous. I mean it's the same as New Leaf, so i didn't expect anything different. Larger stacks would have been better, but the feathers didn't stack at all in New Leaf. The furniture is better in New Horizons as well and Orville wears one on of the festivale head accessories in the airport and that's cute as heck.
 
8/10.
With 2 islands I was happy it didn't take forever to complete. ACNL the feathers were hard to see and collect. I loved ACNL furniture but it took forever to complete. 3 repeats in a row before completing a set wasn't fun.

2nd Island took about 90 minutes to complete green, purple and blue set with extra regular and rainbow feathers. Main player collected feathers and got the green set/float. Player 2 and 3 picked up their feathers and got their set. For those you can skip the float.

Main Island main player had a blast dancing and trading feathers with the villagers. Collected enough feathers to complete a green set and left enough feathers for a rainbow/blue set for player 2. Main island had very good luck with rainbow feathers. Ended the night with 44 extra rainbow feathers and double sets of most colors.
DIY recipes for sale at Nook Cranny the next day would have been nice. Next year I'll just trade with feather with the villagers.
 
I...loved it. Not gonna lie, initially i thought the whole thing including Pave wouldn't interest me (i've never played previous ACs). But i hadn't seen how the rainbow items looked previously (purposely didn't look at spoilers or TT), so i was blown away (i thought the items you bought in the shop were cute but that's it). I love anything rainbow themed! I liked how it was pretty straight forward; just collecting feathers and trading them in for items. I became obsessed with collecting feathers, and also obsessed with collecting multiples of all the items, especially the float, which is incredible. And luckily for me, about a month ago i made a large disco/nightclub on the beach, so this stuff fits perfectly! I also made sure to collect/make a ton of rainbow feathers if i choose to customize the items later on. I loved seeing my villagers dancing/throwing confetti/chasing me, i loved seeing confetti falling all over the island, and i just loved how colorful everything was. This event really surprised me :cool:
 
I didn’t even finish the event. I was busy so I didn’t even play till the evening. I found Pavé super annoying. I can’t stand it when people talk in third person. It drives me nuts( one reason I never cared for Elmo on sesame street). Also he said my outfit was dumb when I was wearing the festivale dress. The feathers didn’t spawn super abundantly and the furniture is stuff I’ll never use. The only thing I even wanted was the stall which I got in green. After that I stopped. 4/10
 
Ideally for me, this event would have lasted a week so you could leisurely catch feathers and make items. The items would be craftable (3 feathers of any color to make an item of that color, 1 feather to customize). The garland would be a fence so that you could stack them in your inventory and store them without them taking up a lot of room.

I couldn't decorate the way I wanted to without a lot of garlands and they were too time consuming to acquire and would take up too much storage space if I did acquire them.
 
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