Landscape Editor and Traditional Mode

[Alolan_Apples]

New Horizons may have given us more creative freedom. However, it may also be tedious for those who want to play normally. While we should have the option where you can make your own landscape while you’re having your own town, there should also be an option where you can play traditionally. That means, you can’t change the map, the terrain, the building layout, or even the scenery layout. But at the same time, you can design a landscape that you can settle your town on before creating a new town.

The landscape editor is basically a feature where you can design your own town’s landscape before you start a new town. You can place cliffs, rivers, paths, and buildings (including villager plots) while changing the terrain texture. This also includes placing scenery (such as benches, lamps, a lighthouse, and a gazebo). That way, you can have everything ready before you start a new town and do stuff like catch fish and remodel your houses.

How do you like this idea?

 

[Introspective Onlooker]

New Horizons may have given us more creative freedom. However, it may also be tedious for those who want to play normally.

This person right here finds it as such. They are ways to remedy this tedium. For example, the coffee you buy at the Roost could be used as a boost to speed up the process of tending to your island. This is a bit of tangential, but why does hardly anyone here on a website all about Animal Crossing think about these things? Let's make consumables more useful to gameplay, please.

While we should have the option where you can make your own landscape while you’re having your own town, there should also be an option where you can play traditionally. That means, you can’t change the map, the terrain, the building layout, or even the scenery layout. But at the same time, you can design a landscape that you can settle your town on before creating a new town.

I wouldn't reject this, but would this be a permanent option? Because that wouldn't sit well with me. And of course, for the last sentence, I assume players could still create an environment for their theoretical "town" (also assuming we're going back to towns and not islands again, or something different from either one) while still having the ability to change the layouts, correct?

The landscape editor is basically a feature where you can design your own town’s landscape before you start a new town. You can place cliffs, rivers, paths, and buildings (including villager plots) while changing the terrain texture. This also includes placing scenery (such as benches, lamps, a lighthouse, and a gazebo). That way, you can have everything ready before you start a new town and do stuff like catch fish and remodel your houses.

How do you like this idea?

This would be similar to villagers moving to a settlement that's already well-developed and tended to. Some may object to this, as if it goes against the concept of making the most of your living space which is often attributed to Animal Crossing, but if this is an option, people can choose the traditional route of playing this speculated new entry of AC similar to the older games.

As long as it's optional, I don't have much to critique here.

 

[Alolan_Apples]

If you already designed a map beforehand, but don’t choose traditional mode, you will live in the pre-made map, but at least you can change it any time. But if you have chosen modern mode or traditional mode, you’ll be stuck to either mode. That being said, you won’t be able to choose traditional mode on an empty map or the game’s default maps. You’ll have to do modern mode on these maps regardless, while you’ll have a choice on the maps you designed.

 

[Introspective Onlooker]

If you already designed a map beforehand, but don’t choose traditional mode, you will live in the pre-made map, but at least you can change it any time. But if you have chosen modern mode or traditional mode, you’ll be stuck to either mode. That being said, you won’t be able to choose traditional mode on an empty map or the game’s default maps. You’ll have to do modern mode on these maps regardless, while you’ll have a choice on the maps you designed.

I see. Thanks for the clarification. That seems fair enough. It's a shame Nintendo most probably won't even consider anything such as this, though.