Reading through these responses there are a lot of things I'd forgotten, as well as plenty of items I miss as well!! The rococo set, minimalist set, pillars and food items! I was overwhelmed with food items in NL and now it's all I can do to decorate a kitchen and eating areas with more than like 3 different tea sets, lol. All of the old Nintendo items like the master sword are sorely missed, as well. ☹
After seeing Nintendo provide updates from time to time, I am quite optimistic that this game will still continue to get better.
I do understand why some players would prefer to get the "full version" on day one. However, they are aiming to make this game fresh as time goes by.
The same goes with our current furniture selections. Let's give it some time.
I don't disagree, but at the same time I feel like the could have at least started us out with basics and staples previous games provided us with. They didn't need to give us absolutely everything day one, just at least as much as previous games. I'm not one to complain about games giving us things via updates, but I feel like when the game is released there's kind of a certain standard they need to launch with. Like, a baseline of items.
Yes, it's nice that the updates keep things fresh for a while, but updates are somewhat few and far between in giving us the variety we desire and it's frustrating to have the game for almost 6 months and to have such limited item choices for decorating in different themes!
It's not like I feel like we should have had every previous furniture set and item on launch, but to give us this much less (yes, with some new items) and not be giving us more than 1 or 2 new sets per update is subpar, imo.
Minimalist, not wooden, modern and sleek furniture. In sets. With tables.
But also all these items that had you scratching your head thinking how the hell you're supposed to put these in your bedroom... just being completely and utterly absent from the game where you literally can finally decorate outside. I'm thinking things along the lines of the rainbow and aurora screens, the items you'd get in just about every Pocket Camp cookie (considering outdoors is what you largely decorate in that game) like little stepping stones and puddles and fairy lights... just stuff like that. We don't have a lot of options to NOT make our house a log cabin, yet people are putting whole bookshelves outside because they ran out of ideas of what to possibly put on their island... Hm.
Outside decoration was something I couldn't wait for in NH and it just ended up being so underwhelming just because of the lack of items. People are definitely still able to be creative with what we're given, but it's weird going backwards from previous games (including an APP game) in terms of variety with items. With a more powerful system, you have more capabilities and should be giving your players more or at least just as much!
i miss the sanrio sets from NL and PC (and the villagers). also all the wall items we had. like i played HHD and i loved the rugs being able to go outside. also the lack of tables and seating in NH is crazy... like you want me to make a kitchen but the room is tiny and we get maybe 3 proper counters to place other than that you gotta use desks craftily and try to match the color and wood grain.
The lack of being able to place rugs outside is so upsetting! I'm not even sure what reason they have for not giving us that feature again. Especially because it was in HHD and PC!
Also, going through everything everyone's saying I'm realizing why so many villager's original interior designs were changed -- they didn't bring back the items! Or with some (like Keaton for example) they brought items back (surfboards for the summer, in his case) at a later date so they couldn't be included in the houses. Maybe I'm a little late to the party realizing this, but it makes the lack of items even worse to me, I miss so many of their original house interiors and was bothered by so many having been changed!