Happy Home Designer Review

[addictedgamerguy]

I bought this game yesterday. I played for about 1 day and unlocked all the Public Work Projects, designed them and pretty much unlocked all the emotions and most of the furniture. I was anticipating this game since it was announced and to be so disappointed on how repetitive it is and how boring it got so quickly. It sucks because I've never had this feeling about a game before. If this was a FULL animal crossing game where you get your own house and work at Happy Homes to pay off Nook, I would've loved it. Feel free to disagree. But Other than that. I give this game a 5.5/10. Sorry Nintendo. I wish you did better on this. Though I will be collecting amiibo cards, considering I still love Animal Crossing. As I said before feel free to disagree. Thanks for reading

 

[fink]

I bought this game yesterday. I played for about 1 day and unlocked all the Public Work Projects, designed them and pretty much unlocked all the emotions and most of the furniture. I was anticipating this game since it was announced and to be so disappointed on how repetitive it is and how boring it got so quickly. It sucks because I've never had this feeling about a game before. If this was a FULL animal crossing game where you get your own house and work at Happy Homes to pay off Nook, I would've loved it. Feel free to disagree. But Other than that. I give this game a 5.5/10. Sorry Nintendo. I wish you did better on this. Though I will be collecting amiibo cards, considering I still love Animal Crossing. As I said before feel free to disagree. Thanks for reading

You can't really blame the game for being what it is. It's a spin off, it was never meant to be more than designing homes. Considering its a game about designing homes and you get lots of items and villagers to do this to your hearts content, i feel like Nintendo did a great job on this. Is it a fully rounded game? no. Is it good at what it was intended to be? Yes.

 

[addictedgamerguy]

I'm not bashing on it for being a bad game. It was done well, but it's also an extremely dull and boring game that gets old after awhile.

 

[Dozer]

No offense but if you were able to unlock most of the furniture in a day then I find it hard to believe you put much effort into designing your rooms. That's where the real meat and replayability of the game comes from, making really intricate and unique room/yard designs.

 

[fink]

I'm not bashing on it for being a bad game. It was done well, but it's also an extremely dull and boring game that gets old after awhile.

Well if you arn't interested in designing, i can see how it would be a poor purchase.

 

[addictedgamerguy]

I put a lot of effort into this game. I thought it was great at first. Just it got boring and repetitive.

 

[Dozer]

I put a lot of effort into this game. I thought it was great at first. Just it got boring and repetitive.

How many houses have you designed so far?

 

[addictedgamerguy]

I was into the whole designing houses and buildings, I thought it was gonna be great. But after a while like I said before many times. IT GETS BORING AND REPETITIVE! Jeez. It's the same thing over and over again, same thing, different colors. If you wanna waste your time building the same thing over and over again, be my guest. Me on the other will be returning this to Gamestop tomorrow for my $30 and buying something that won't be boring or repetitive. Maybe I'll even buy an amiibo. Who knows?

- - - Post Merge - - -

I've designed 60 houses or so.

- - - Post Merge - - -

plus all the PWP

 

[fink]

If you wanna waste your time building the same thing over and over again, be my guest.

It's a matter of opinion if it's a waste of time. I feel like minimal research can quickly answer anyone's question on whether this is a game for them or not.

 

[addictedgamerguy]

You're right it is a matter of opinion. I did my research and I was excited, too bad it ended up how it did.

 

[fink]

You're right it is a matter of opinion. I did my research and I was excited, too bad it ended up how it did.

Sorry that last part was more towards anyone looking to buy the game in the future. You can't help you didnt enjoy the game so it makes sense to return it. Hopefully Nintendo will announce another classic style AC game this holiday that everyone can enjoy. Although its not likely with amiibo festival releasing and them working towards the new console generation.

 

[ChaosKitten]

You played the game for one day and designed 60 houses and unlocked all the facilities? That's just...wow. You really have nobody but yourself to blame for finding the game repetitive and boring. We all knew it was a spin-off about designing houses. Saying the game is bad because it's not a brand new "full" game is asinine.

 

[Ichigo.]

How did you even design 60 houses and all the facilities in one day? I take AT LEAST 20 minutes per house, and even longer for the facilities. I would've gotten bored of it too if I did that much in a day. I think that's why most people are taking it slow. Anyway, I personally don't think it's a bad game considering it's a spinoff. Overpriced, yeah, but it literally delivered what it promised to deliver: home designing.

 

[KaydeeKrunk]

I actually liked this game far more than I thought I would. Initially I thought it was going to be very heavily amiibo based, like you would NEED the cards to play and I thought you'd have a much more limited item selection then there turned out to be. Designing houses was my favorite aspect of ACNL, and I would quickly unlock all of my homes and plan the floors out carefully. This is also why the Sims have always been some of my favorite games, yeah the controlling the person to do things was fun but the homes were my favorite part. I actually adore the repetitiveness and I try to uphold the themes I am given even though they aren't actually mandatory to follow.My only gripe are the ones that are so similar in theme, for instance one morning I went out to find two people who wanted music rooms, one was Fauna asking for a music hall or something, and the other asking for a place to learn to play piano? So that's kind of a bummer, but I actually really enjoy it. I do play a lot slower though, I got it on the 25th and have just today finished all the stores/public buildings. Though I do intend to go back and fix them up with more items when I get more. I still have that new game hype and am super stoked about working on more houses and finding more villagers I love!

 

[MelonHead]

I liked the game less than I thought I would, but it was/is still enjoyable.
I do agree with you that it is repetitive, and that it would be better if it was a full game WITH this home designing functionality built in. But, it is not meant to be that, so I understand.
The game is fun, but it is overpriced. I plan to use it to scope out designs for my ACNL house, and for when I am stressed and need some way to zone out and relax.

 

[sdw4527]

I don't mean to be rude here, but I'm having a hard time believing you designed 60 houses AND completed all facilities in a single day. Assuming you spent a good amount of time on each house (I say 15-20 min at the minimum), that would come out to 15 hours AT LEAST for just the 60 houses...

Anyways, if you really pulled an all nighter, that's also why you might've found this game repetitive. Imo, this game is meant to be played in short bursts. Playing too much at one time is going to get repetitive. Just my thoughts.