I miss getting balloons from Phineas in the City.

[Holla]

Anyone else miss visiting the city and being excited about what balloon they are gonna get from Phineas?

 

[Mr_Keroppi]

Phineas has always been iconic and I loved seeing him in the city with his lil balloons and pinwheels! Atleast you can still obtain them in New Leaf with streetpass but… its not the same xD

Phineas with badges though as the scoutmaster? EXCITEMENT. THE BADGES WERE THE BEST PART OF NEW LEAF ISJSJSIIISOAOALALLAX

 

[Sarah3]

I miss this too and hope they bring the feature back in future games!

 

[Nuguns]

Ive never played city folk yet but I got some balloons in ACPG

 

[Sheando]

I really wish the NPCs in general felt more alive in NH. A lot of their interactions feel especially canned. Phineas with his badges or balloons provided the sort of delightful surprise that kept the game feeling like an actual tiny community that contained entities outside the player.

 

[Nuguns]

I really wish the NPCs in general felt more alive in NH. A lot of their interactions feel especially canned. Phineas with his badges or balloons provided the sort of delightful surprise that kept the game feeling like an actual tiny community that contained entities outside the player.

ive got my fingers crossed for city folk

 

[Doo]

Omg yes!! I think this might’ve been my favourite part of city folk (apart from meeting Drift ) I’m not sure why I even liked it so much

 

[Animecafe102]

Omg yes, honestly I miss the city in general, I loved going to the city, I didn't play city folk as much as the other games but it had a lot of iconic things about it that I really miss!

 

[kakapo]

The bunny balloons were the best

 

[Samwich]

I got a Wii again for Christmas this year, just so I could revisit City Folk. OH MY EXCITEMENT the first time Phineas was in the city again, I've carried my new Bunny Balloon ever since.

 

[McRibbie]

tbh I much preferred Phineas as the balloon guy in the city, it's easily one of my favourite parts of LGTTC. The city's easily my favourite Slightly External To Your Village Shopping Plaza in the series, and having him appear on random days to give me a balloon or a pinwheel makes it just that little bit better. Him being The Achievements Guy in NL didn't quite do it for me, and generally falls in to the category of "NPCs that were designed for one specific purpose in one game, that feel slightly awkward doing something slightly different", a problem that has plagued the series for years now in varying degrees of severity.

Don't get me wrong, there could be worse character choices to do this, and I think making the stuff he gave you into items you get from people in the Streetpass plaza incentivises you to use Streetpass... but he didn't really need to come back in NL (given Serena and Frillard didn't), and the fact he's there to give you achievement badges in particular feels slightly redundant given Animal Crossing doesn't really need achievements (I like doing the achievements, but I saw someone say that they make you play in a certain way and I can't say I disagree with them there either)

However, as I'm a "started with WW but also saw people talking about the GameCube game online" kind of guy, I really like that NL brought back Redd as a vendor at the fireworks show, and NH took it further and made it so you get balloons from him again (although they started turning up in the cabinet at Nook's Cranny afterwards, which I'm less of a fan of), and despite the fact I loved Phineas doing it in LGTTC, I much prefer Redd doing it at fireworks shows in the summer. It's his (slightly more) legit side! Despite the fact that his wares are also probably stuff that's "fallen off the back of a lorry" like all of his other dodgy goods, and he's invariably going to get you to pay 500 bells for a 190 bell soft drink, I just feel like balloons, pinwheels and fans rightly belong in the summer! Maybe during sales at the Nook shop, too... but this is a summer thing!

 

[Samwich]

[...] having him appear on random days to give me a balloon or a pinwheel makes it just that little bit better. Him being The Achievements Guy in NL didn't quite do it for me, and generally falls in to the category of "NPCs that were designed for one specific purpose in one game, that feel slightly awkward doing something slightly different", a problem that has plagued the series for years now in varying degrees of severity.

Completely agreed - I always thought I was alone in that bothering me, but I'm glad to read you saying the same.

 

[Mr_Keroppi]

Him being The Achievements Guy in NL didn't quite do it for me, and generally falls in to the category of "NPCs that were designed for one specific purpose in one game, that feel slightly awkward doing something slightly different", a problem that has plagued the series for years now in varying degrees of severity.

Don't get me wrong, there could be worse character choices to do this, and I think making the stuff he gave you into items you get from people in the Streetpass plaza incentivises you to use Streetpass... but he didn't really need to come back in NL (given Serena and Frillard didn't), and the fact he's there to give you achievement badges in particular feels slightly redundant given Animal Crossing doesn't really need achievements (I like doing the achievements, but I saw someone say that they make you play in a certain way and I can't say I disagree with them there either)

My opinion is so different, likely because I started with New Leaf but I feel the badges are so incredibly charming. If there were ever supposed to be “achievements” I feel like the badges suited that purpose perfectly and it still felt very “Animal Crossing.” While Phineas in his original form would have been great in New Leaf nonetheless, just moving him to Main Street, I find Streetpass adding another level of collectable / community excitement and his new job just as cool! He is still the loving old man who wants to bring joy to people, just through badges now!