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[Jas]

i give it a 7! i truly forgot that this event was today, and didn't remember until i came on here and saw this thread. i am so burnt out of this game LOL.

i think it was so cute to see the villagers dancing and running up to throw confetti, and i love the items! it was a lot easier than it was in new leaf, which i was thankful for - i do like difficult events, but i also enjoy that you can play through events in new horizons without needing to invest a lot of time into it. the items and little pave interactions were so cute! i love the float.

 

[Violet Witch]

This was my first themed day and at first I wasn't interested in it but after a while I decided to get in to the spirit of Festivale by dressing up and catching feathers. I'm not going to lie I ended up enjoying it and got some great Festivale furniture from Pave. However because I started playing late evening I couldn't complete everything because I needed to wind down before bed. I'd have preferred it if Festivale went on for a few more days so I could've collected more furniture and enjoyed the confetti falling all over my island which did look really pretty against the winter backdrop.

Overall though I'd give Festivale a nice 7/10.

 

[Xara]

just finished the event a bit ago and i’m honestly surprised at how much i enjoyed it! back in new leaf, i didn’t care much for pavé or festivale but even though the mechanics are pretty much the same, i had more fun this time around aha. i really liked the furniture and the fact that there’s a rainbow variant! the music was super neat, too, and páve looked gorgeous as always!

overall, despite my disappointment with the trailer, the event was pretty fun and i’d give it either a 7/10 or an 8/10.

 

[watercolorwish]

a solid 6 from me. the adorable costumes and villagers dancing is whats carrying it. I just think more could’ve been done to get us excited about the event. I do think its the best Festivalé we’ve had yet, tho

 

[justina]

I really enjoyed this event!! I didn’t try to get all of the color variations except rainbow. I had the purple furniture set in my shop and was pretty happy with that. Pave is one of my favorite characters. I loved seeing my villagers all dressed up and dancing with them even!

 

[Mu~]

I didn't like it tbh. Pavé asked me all the time for 3x rainbow feathers and I ended up with a lot of floats. Wish he just gave me diy's for every 3x feathers I gave him instead, so I'd have the quantity I want for each item.

 

[JessieOfSeacowBay]

It was boring and repetitive. Pavé is very pretty and like his rainbow feathers, but that was about it for me.

 

[Shellzilla_515]

I think this event deserves a 7. The fact that the villagers sometimes walk up to you, dance, and throw confetti is both funny and cute. I'm not much of an item collecting maniac but I do understand why others feel frustrated with being limited to getting certain colours and at the mercy of RNG. The dialogue with Pave gets repetitive after a while but face it, this happens to other events too.

 

[Sharksheep]

I played the event a bit more today.

There is too much dialog with Pave and while the dance is amusing the first few times, it's really tiring when you watch it for the 50th time. I wish that after you get the first float that you can select more than one stack of feathers to give him

Rainbow feathers are really rare for me. I had to craft mine.

 

[Peach_Jam]

Catching feathers was alright, though trying to catch them anywhere near my villagers was annoying bc they keep trying to run in front of me and throw confetti or dance it was cute at first but after a while I'm like pls...I just want to catch these feathers homie. also pave talks way too much..

 

[VexTheHex]

I'm going to give it a solid 10. To be fair, I live in Texas and we're currently undergoing quite a remarkable freeze and snow that us Texans are not prepared or made for. (everything is pretty much shut down, even gas stations... and even... WALMART) I had no power for all of Monday. I played the Festival on my switch pretty much all I could till it eventually died and would of played it more if I could cause once darkness hit... there wasn't much for me to do in the dark and cold. Something I should of thought about more so earlier so I would of played it less in the afternoon, whoops! So it was quite a escape from my alien atmosphere and the stresses coming from it.

Pave is awesome, quite a memorable NPC unlike Jingles who I have practically forgotten his general personality. He even had more flair to him than Jack, who mostly just had some good dialogue but very little actual presence himself.

The atmosphere was probably tied for best alongside Halloween. The confetti, the music, the villagers, the town center, the sales npcs, the feathers, Pave, Pave's stage, and just everything screamed there was a special event and it was welcomed. Some are complaining about the villagers running up to you and doing emotes, but I honestly think this is one of the few times the villagers actually felt lively and like a community. I know to some they are more collectibles that get shelved and collect dust, but it's nice to see some love go into the villager actions especially since you could just ignore them and didn't have to interact with them.

The furniture is awesome which seems to be a popular opinion. Most of the holiday furniture is honestly easy to shelve after he Holiday cause Santa's Sleigh or Jack O Lanterns really look out of place in the Spring or Summer. The feather and tiki like themes going on with this set was amazing in terms of being useable for a much longer or even year round (like us blue in winter) which I don't think any of the other sets (Wedding is one I haven't done, but I look forward to it cause of similar reasons) really hold a candle to.

The process was alright, I did enjoy catching the feathers and hunting them down. Trading with villagers for other colors also helped with the RNG like at one point I ran out of Reds and couldn't find more for awhile... thankfully villagers helped me out there. I know the common gripes are having to talk to Pave multiple times or the feathers not stacking more, but I feel the former is a New Horizons problem overall... I mean just consider mystery island hopping, buying nook miles items in mass, or clothing shopping as examples. Jack was a lot of dialogue himself as well for every candy. The feather stacking was cause of the trading system. They wanted to let you trade up to 3 feathers at a time, so that's why it was set up that way. I typically was just throwing down my prizes as I got them, so I didn't have much inventory issues!

I loved it. This one and Halloween were great. Thanksgiving, Toy Day, New Year's, Random Firework weekends, and etc. were all pretty bare bones to me. I have not experienced the Egg apocalypse or the Wedding event though.

Also there were several moments that I enjoyed like these...

They were matching eachother's fur color and dancing together at the start, these two started it off in cuteness overload.

Red Team Assemble!

Love her evil little face plotting getting my feather.

And some actual cute dialogue all around instead of the usual "I sit here." or "Hey, I saw you did a thing yesterday."

 

[Rajescrossing]

It was a fifty fifty for me. I love the blue colour set and got it from my nooks already so no point to getting it in any other colour. I just played for rainbow set. I also got two floats as well , not sure what to do with it. It’s so big and
I don’t have place to display it on my island

 

[LittleMissPanda]

I gave it a solid 9. It was colorful, lively, and watching my villagers dance around, throwing confetti and just having fun was very endearing. I really didn't mind that feathers don't stack up to more than 3, that way I don't have to mash the A button for a really long time in order to craft Rainbow Feathers. 3 times and I'm done. And imagine if Rainbow Feathers did stack, you would accidentally exchange them all to Pave only to earn ONE furniture item from him. You would have to grab one and separate it from the rest each time. I think feathers stack to 3 because of the fact we can swap them for other colors from villagers, giving us kind of an edge when it comes to collecting specific colors therefore making the event a bit too easy. You gotta EARN those feathers! (the green ones barely spawned for me, so finding them was actually pretty exciting) which brings me to feather hunting: I had a lot of fun tracking them all down, in my opinion. Seeing the occasional lucky Rainbow Feather flutter by was actually kind of a magical feeling, amongst all the confetti~

Now I talk about Pave. I love, love, LOVE Pave I love how full of life he is, how vibrant and excitable he is (oh boy I'm starting to sound like him lol) I'm so glad Nintendo didn't butcher his personality like they did with Franklin (I miss how cowardly he used to be...) Watching him dance every time I presented him with a Rainbow Feather put a smile on my face (it reminded me of the Ludicolo Dance back in PMD Explorers of Sky, a game a love to bits and pieces) and his voice...wow his voice, you can just FEEL the energy!

Our whole island was alive with music and dance and my villagers and I all had a great time. By far Festivale is the best event we have had~

 

[angelcat621]

I gave it a 7. I enjoyed the event and chased those feathers until I had a complete set of every color. A little tedious but weirdly relaxing. At least I got to travel around my island a bunch of times. It was cute to have my villagers chase me down and throw confetti. But I broke about 5 nets that day. And now I have more floats than I know what to do with.

 

[Manon_Despoina]

I'm going to give it a solid 10. To be fair, I live in Texas and we're currently undergoing quite a remarkable freeze and snow that us Texans are not prepared or made for. (everything is pretty much shut down, even gas stations... and even... WALMART) I had no power for all of Monday. I played the Festival on my switch pretty much all I could till it eventually died and would of played it more if I could cause once darkness hit... there wasn't much for me to do in the dark and cold. Something I should of thought about more so earlier so I would of played it less in the afternoon, whoops! So it was quite a escape from my alien atmosphere and the stresses coming from it.

Pave is awesome, quite a memorable NPC unlike Jingles who I have practically forgotten his general personality. He even had more flair to him than Jack, who mostly just had some good dialogue but very little actual presence himself.

The atmosphere was probably tied for best alongside Halloween. The confetti, the music, the villagers, the town center, the sales npcs, the feathers, Pave, Pave's stage, and just everything screamed there was a special event and it was welcomed. Some are complaining about the villagers running up to you and doing emotes, but I honestly think this is one of the few times the villagers actually felt lively and like a community. I know to some they are more collectibles that get shelved and collect dust, but it's nice to see some love go into the villager actions especially since you could just ignore them and didn't have to interact with them.

The furniture is awesome which seems to be a popular opinion. Most of the holiday furniture is honestly easy to shelve after he Holiday cause Santa's Sleigh or Jack O Lanterns really look out of place in the Spring or Summer. The feather and tiki like themes going on with this set was amazing in terms of being useable for a much longer or even year round (like us blue in winter) which I don't think any of the other sets (Wedding is one I haven't done, but I look forward to it cause of similar reasons) really hold a candle to.

The process was alright, I did enjoy catching the feathers and hunting them down. Trading with villagers for other colors also helped with the RNG like at one point I ran out of Reds and couldn't find more for awhile... thankfully villagers helped me out there. I know the common gripes are having to talk to Pave multiple times or the feathers not stacking more, but I feel the former is a New Horizons problem overall... I mean just consider mystery island hopping, buying nook miles items in mass, or clothing shopping as examples. Jack was a lot of dialogue himself as well for every candy. The feather stacking was cause of the trading system. They wanted to let you trade up to 3 feathers at a time, so that's why it was set up that way. I typically was just throwing down my prizes as I got them, so I didn't have much inventory issues!

I loved it. This one and Halloween were great. Thanksgiving, Toy Day, New Year's, Random Firework weekends, and etc. were all pretty bare bones to me. I have not experienced the Egg apocalypse or the Wedding event though.

Also there were several moments that I enjoyed like these...
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They were matching eachother's fur color and dancing together at the start, these two started it off in cuteness overload.
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Red Team Assemble!
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Love her evil little face plotting getting my feather.
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And some actual cute dialogue all around instead of the usual "I sit here." or "Hey, I saw you did a thing yesterday."

I love how much you loved the event (breath of fresh air after so much negativity - though I understand the negativity as well).

I enjoyed the event, too! I have it a solid 8... I loved how lively the villagers seemed.. they were really cute! Especially my Peanut and Sally, they really seemed to seek eachother out to dance. I liked Pave, though I thought it was a shame that the spawn rate of the feathers on my island kind of sucked.. I could run around the whole of my island and only encounter one feather, so I didn't get all of the sets (though after two hours I finally got over float ).

 

[Minou]

I rated it a 7 because of its simplicity and how it got tedious towards the end when I had to collect more feathers to get the float. I didn't score it lower because I had a pleasant time dancing with my villagers. It was something I didn't plan for and it felt special !

 

[LambdaDelta]

well, coming back to this as someone that got 6x full rainbow sets, 2x of all the others (though I only had to trade for green once, due to it having been my shop color), and 5x floats...

my review: pavé needs to dance less. and also stop talking like a kawaii uguu anime little girl

 

[Bobbo]

If I had to complain about something, it would be when you’re trying to collect a full set of a certain color, you were shut down while Pave wanted the rainbow feathers for the float. In my quest to get a certain color set, I ended up with 4 floats. And I still didn’t get the complete set I wanted.

 

[Kaiaa]

I was a little disappointed admittedly. I thought maybe Pavé would have given more unique items, not just recolored versions of items I already bought at Nooks. I did love the float and the feathers are cute. I also liked seeing everyone dressed up and dancing. I enjoy the new emotes as well but overall, I guess I was hoping for more (different, not just new colors) furniture.

 

[blossom123]

I was really sad I didn't get to join in on the festival just because I didn't have my residence services upgraded yet. Which i have it upgrading today so I just missed it. Just wish i knew you had to have that all done to join in on festivities like that.