Festivale Update!

[Bk1234]

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sorry, just my personal opinion

really had high expectations and now I need to have low expectations for future updates like @coldpotato mentioned

Thank goodness they made that turn (though I don’t know how you could say whether the update is bad or not without having your hands on it. ) Also, bring back the café, not Brewster!

 

[Slothicans]

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[Cosmic-chan]

Thank goodness they made that turn (though I don’t know how you could say whether the update is bad or not without having your hands on it. ) Also, bring back the café, not Brewster!

Please leave that weird ass looking bird out of the game. Pigeon milk in my coffee? No thank you. The cafe with a more tropical theme would be better lol

 

[Cadbberry]

Honestly, I think this is the worse update yet, most updates covered a period of time, like the summer update, the Halloween update etc. This just feels like the Pave update. Dont get me wrong, I am very excited feathers are back but it just feels like no effort was put into making this a long lasting or impactful update.

 

[DrewAC]

Very excited for this update! The furniture looks very fun and can’t wait to use those umbrellas on my beach.

I think some are overhyping the cafe too much. I loved the cafe in New Leaf, and the little coffee dialogue game, but that’s not going to reinvigorate the game as much as one might think. I would love it if they brought it back, and perhaps made the coffee barista job into an actual mini game, where there is more interactivity with preparing/serving coffee instead of looking up a guide on Google for the right dialogue option. Imagine a Diner Dash-like mini-game in New Horizons for the cafe?

 

[coldpotato]

So what if Brewster is boring though? Most of our villagers are boring and say the same few things when we talk to them but we still like them anyway. He's just meant to be a chill character, and I like that.

 

[Feraligator]

So what if Brewster is boring though? Most of our villagers are boring and say the same few things when we talk to them but we still like them anyway. He's just meant to be a chill character, and I like that.

lol right? The villagers are so watered down in NH that there's no difference anyways. He's just another Sable and I like that. He's been mentioned by villagers ingame before (with a coloured name) so I somehow doubt he's being replaced

 

[coldpotato]

lol right? The villagers are so watered down in NH that there's no difference anyways. He's just another Sable and I like that. He's been mentioned by villagers ingame before (with a coloured name) so I somehow doubt he's being replaced

Yes! I really like Sable as well. I think I missed him being mentioned by villagers. I wonder if anyone has a screenshot of that somewhere? I'm very curious!

 

[Feraligator]

Yes! I really like Sable as well. I think I missed him being mentioned by villagers. I wonder if anyone has a screenshot of that somewhere? I'm very curious!

This was found in April before the Art gallery was added to the museum (when villagers also mentioned art before the gallery was added). I think this dialogue has been removed since because there's been no mention of it

Robusto is Brewster in French
Perchoir is "The Roost"

 

[McRibbie]

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This was found in April before the Art gallery was added to the museum (when villagers also mentioned art before the gallery was added). I think this dialogue has been removed since because there's been no mention of it

Yeah, it's been removed.

 

[coldpotato]

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This was found in April before the Art gallery was added to the museum (when villagers also mentioned art before the gallery was added). I think this dialogue has been removed since because there's been no mention of it

Robusto is Brewster in French
Perchoir is "The Roost"

Thank you for that! That's very interesting. I'm guessing they were planning to add him earlier in the game but maybe something went wrong in the process. I'm hoping they're still working on him.

 

[Feraligator]

Thank you for that! That's very interesting. I'm guessing they were planning to add him earlier in the game but maybe something went wrong in the process. I'm hoping they're still working on him.

Np, and yeah I think someone mentioned that they could've withheld him to work on having him in a separate building OR the museum...I'm not sure if that's likely to have an option for both but if that's true, that would make literally everyone happy

 

[Ganucci]

To the people who have played past AC games and were disappointed with this update because it doesn't have enough to keep them playing for long: What did you do during this time of year in past AC games? I don't think it's a very good excuse to say "past games were boring after the holidays so this one can be too", but I feel like a lot of the upset leads back to how people say NH feels incomplete.

For me personally, I always found this time right after the holidays to be pretty barren and would often put down the game for a while for a lack of things to do. I haven't done this with NH because after the holidays I found there is still soooo much to do.

In the end, I think Nintendo should have done a better job in general of keeping things interesting this time of year (and throughout any "slower" part of the year), but they did make some progress with seasonal DIYs to collect and craft.

 

[daringred_]

To the people who have played past AC games and were disappointed with this update because it doesn't have enough to keep them playing for long: What did you do during this time of year in past AC games?

can't remember what i did in WW or CF since that was so long ago, and can't really remember NL specifically either since it was 7 years ago, but since it took me a good 2 years to be ""bored"" enough to even buy another copy of the game, there was clearly something. my best guess is probably any combination of: farming bells to reach the post office goals and get the rewards from hitting milestones (missing in NH), visiting the island to play mini-games either alone or with strangers and see what the gift shop had (missing from NH), talking to my villagers since you could get half a dozen+ requests a day (largely missing from NH), trying to make badge progress (hit or miss in NH, since grinding island medals was decidedly more fun than crafting tools over and over and over and-).

in part, it was also to do with the charm. i haven't written a single letter to a villager in NH, for example, because the whole process of going to a card stand, and everything automatically just being there, feels too artificial. i preferred having to buy and stock-up on stationary, and being able to write the letter anywhere before going to pelly (who just has more personality as a mail worker than orville anyway) to send it. as such, letter-writing kept me somewhat busy in NL when it doesn't in NH.

 

[John Wick]

To the people who have played past AC games and were disappointed with this update because it doesn't have enough to keep them playing for long: What did you do during this time of year in past AC games? I don't think it's a very good excuse to say "past games were boring after the holidays so this one can be too", but I feel like a lot of the upset leads back to how people say NH feels incomplete.

What did we do?

Let's see.

In NL, we had Tortimer island, where it was always summer, and only cost $1000 bells a trip to get there via Kapp'n's boat, and it had an amazing beetle spawn rate (and a drop box that held quite a few beetles and sharks etc, you could pick up at the drop box back in your town), and a shop with exclusive items including the silver axe that allowed us to make stumps with awesome patterns, as well as the tour games that were awesome and won you medals to spend in the island store, plus you could gather fruit (mango, banana, lemon, lychee, durian), flora and fauna that wasn't available in your town.

Then we had Main Street, or Nookingtons in Wild World, but Main Street had the Emporium, that housed Leif, and Gracie as well as the many items, including fortune cookies with nintendo items, that could keep you collecting for YEARS, and they were unique, as were the MANY furniture sets, that could be customized at Re-Tail - another awesome feature.

I really miss the rococo set.

Gracie had her unique furniture as well, like sweets and gorgeous sets.

We had Katrina that could let you know if you were going to have a lucky day.

We had Club LOL and Dr Shrunk with his joke book, instead of this impersonal reactions UI.

There was the museum shop, and the four rooms you could rent to do what you wanted with.

There was Harvey's Campground that had NPC's arrive each day in their RV's with unique items to buy with meow coupons you got from completing Isabelle's daily tasks, or by beating levels of Desert Island Escape and the other mini game you could play on the in game DS item.

There were over 70 amiibo cards and figures you could scan with Wisp each day, to get even MORE unique items including so many food items, from each of the amiibo's respective RV's.

You could also feed the birds with Harvey.

We had house styles such as modern, and zen castle, and so many awesome exteriors and mail boxes as well.

We had a full sized mansion, and with a plethora of items that could literally take years to get, we had no trouble filling or theming it.

We had perfect fruit that could give us dead trees.

We had some great PWP's like the windmill, statue fountain, wisteria trellis, flower arch, topiaries, zen bell etc.

There was a ton of awesome DLC, and the holidays had furniture sets.

We had Brewster who you could work for to get special cafe items and gyroids from.

We had the post office, with Pete, Pelly and Phyllis, not an impersonal card stand.

We had the HHD giant furniture too, and the mini dinosaurs Cyrus could make.

We had Phineas and the badges.

We had a more meaningful relationship with villagers.

There is a heap more, this was just off the top of my head!

Most importantly - we had FUN.

 

[Ganucci]

What did we do?

Let's see.

In NL, we had Tortimer island, where it was always summer, and only cost $1000 bells a trip to get there via Kapp'n's boat, and it had an amazing beetle spawn rate (and a drop box that held quite a few beetles and sharks etc, you could pick up at the drop box back in your town), and a shop with exclusive items including the silver axe that allowed us to make stumps with awesome patterns, as well as the tour games that were awesome and won you medals to spend in the island store, plus you could gather fruit, flora and fauna that wasn't available in your town.

Then we had Main Street, or Nookingtons in Wild World, but Main Street had the Emporium, that housed Leif, and Gracie as well as the many items, including fortune cookies with nintendo items, that could keep you collecting for YEARS, and they were unique, as were the MANY furniture sets, that could be customized at Re-Tail - another awesome feature.

I really miss the rococo set.

Gracie had her unique furniture as well, like sweets and gorgeous sets.

We had Katrina that could let you know if you were going to have a lucky day.

We had Club LOL and Dr Shrunk with his joke book, instead of this impersonal reactions UI.

There was the museum shop, and the four rooms you could rent to what you wanted with.

There was Harvey's Campground that had NPC's arrive each day in their RV's with unique items to buy with meow coupons you got from completing Isabelle's daily tasks, or by beating levels of Desert Island Escape and the other mini game you could play on the in game DS item.

There were over 70 amiibo cards and figures you could scan with Wisp each day, to get even MORE unique items including so many food items, from each of the amiibo's respective RV's.

You could also feed the birds with Harvey.

We had house styles such as modern, and zen castle, and so many awesome exteriors and mail boxes as well.

We had a full sized mansion, and with a plethora of items that could literally take years to get, we had no trouble filling or theming it.

We had special fruit that could give us dead trees.

We had some great PWP's like the windmill, statue fountain, zen bell etc.

There was a ton of awesome DLC, and the holidays had furniture sets.

We had Brewster who you could work for to get special cafe items and gyroids from.

We had the post office, with Pete, Pelly and Phyllis, not an impersonal card stand.

We had the HHD giant furniture too, and the mini dinosaurs Cyrus could make.

We had Phineas and the badges.

We had a more meaningful relationship with villagers.

There is a heap more, this was just off the top of my head!

Most importantly - we had FUN.

I guess I should remember that people's own experiences with the game is always to be considered when it comes to what they did. I personally did not like Tortimer's Island because for me, an always summer island kinda made summer time in your villager feel less special and also because I wasn't a huge fan of the mini games. This goes for the NPCs in RVs because I felt like seeing these NPCs outside of when you normally saw them, again, made them feel less special.

Either way, you're right, there were a ton of things to do every day and most of which I would love in NH. When you list them all like that, I do wonder how I got bored of NL. I guess the NL "vibe" just didn't captivate me like NH's "vibe" does which of course is a completely subjective thing.

To me NL was fun for a while while NH has never stopped being fun.

 

[Cosmic-chan]

While I will say NL did have more things to do the difference between NL and NH is that NL had already everything put in but for me after awhile NL got boring since I did everything yeah I did go to Torminters island but that's just to get FCs the games were fun at the time but idk if I'd want them back again. I hate to see creepy Kapp'n singing his lame and annoying see shanties. Brewster's game was okay but idk the cafe feels like a wasted building. The cafe doesn't do anything worth having on my island aside from pleasing the aesthetic I guess. I've thought Brewster looked weird and I never liked his design. I just think people are stuck on a game that was made in 2013 with everything put it. That's in the past games now get content based on updates. That's how NH is now. It's almost better this way so we have less TTers spoiling things for people who don't TT for the most part most of us will experience the holidays at the same time.

 

[JasonBurrows]

I cant wait for katrina to come, been thinking of her since day one and how she was will come to acnh

I do hope that Katrina will return. Tripping, part of bad luck in previous games did make its return ages ago.

 

[-Blue-]

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This was found in April before the Art gallery was added to the museum (when villagers also mentioned art before the gallery was added). I think this dialogue has been removed since because there's been no mention of it

Robusto is Brewster in French
Perchoir is "The Roost"

They probably removed it because they realized they jumped the gun too soon. I never saw this dialogue.

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To the people who have played past AC games and were disappointed with this update because it doesn't have enough to keep them playing for long: What did you do during this time of year in past AC games? I don't think it's a very good excuse to say "past games were boring after the holidays so this one can be too", but I feel like a lot of the upset leads back to how people say NH feels incomplete.

For me personally, I always found this time right after the holidays to be pretty barren and would often put down the game for a while for a lack of things to do. I haven't done this with NH because after the holidays I found there is still soooo much to do.

In the end, I think Nintendo should have done a better job in general of keeping things interesting this time of year (and throughout any "slower" part of the year), but they did make some progress with seasonal DIYs to collect and craft.

I don't remember past games all that well. I do remember getting New Leaf for Christmas of 2014. I played a lot during the winter holiday going into April. Not saying I stopped, but I remember that time the most because it was when I first got it.

I remember doing different things at the time. The villager dialogue, albeit not as good as the previous games was better then NH's. I made a lot of different snow people because there were different types. You had the man, mom, tyke, and boy. I never did the tyke one because you had to have his whole family together. And in the same spot. So you always had one of them already melting and would have to get it just right again the next day. I collected the snowflakes for the mam and did the bingo for the man.

I did things like paying off the loan and getting mayor approval. All things you do in the other games and in NH. I also did a lot of different things/favors with the villagers and played hide and seek with them. But I also went to the island where I bought the diving suit and then started diving, fishing, bugging on the island and then hopped over to my town to dive.

Redd was there and so was Leif. The Nook shop upgraded pretty fast. I got Kicks to come over, Club LOL/KK slider, Shampoodle, the Dream suite, Brewster, ect. I just got to experience the whole game in a few months opposed to it being stretched out for a year or more. I'm already at the point in the game where the freshness has worn off. This happens with any game and Animal Crossing is not any different. I just wish I could expereince all the stuff (and basic stuff that they're locking behind dates) before the new game high died off.

If someone new joins the NH crew, they have the updates that we were waiting on as soon as they boot the game up.

 

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