My Thoughts on the Toy Day Event (SPOLIER WARNING)

[UglyMonsterFace]

While I'm disappointed ted by how short and simplified the event is, I'm more upset that the rewards are so few.. 2 DIYs (and 1 is just wrapping paper...) and a sleigh... then Jingle's photo.. I thought we would have gotten way more

 

[Skyfall]

I haven’t done the event yet but I have a thought Nintendo... instead is random toys back, why don’t you have diy festive recipes? I’m tired of chasing balloons only to get clay and shirts. Please!!!

 

[ams]

I agree that the Jingle part of the event felt rushed and unfinished, but I really liked the gift exchange. It was nice to be able to pick my villagers’ presents as opposed to them getting random furniture in NL. It would have felt more special to me if the toy items were exclusive to the gift exchange instead of also being sold at Nook’s with no purpose. I would rather have had more decorations sold instead.

 

[Lanstar]

I did the event in 2 parts: One was the Jingle giving I did this afternoon, and I did the Villager Gifting just now.

I must say: I liked to part of giving my own gifts to the villagers a lot more. The dialogue is actually really fun to read: Giving them Toys will make them connect their gift with the event, but gifting them expensive presents is something different entirely! The after gifting dialogue is also fun, too.

The only thing that kind of messes that part up is the lack of worthy reward: You just get different color variants of toys not native to your town. If the reward was something unique to the event - Or if it was just semi-expencive ordinary furniture varients you didn't have - That part of the event would have been a lot more fulfilling to do.

 

[Kuroh]

Easter and Wedding season were also unlocked on the day itself only, it wasn’t just Turkey Day and Toy Day. Well I get that Toy Day is a huge thing for people because it’s the Christmas season but saying that it was the first events to be time locked is just simply not factual and thats spreading misinformation.

You couldn't access Easter or Wedding until the update was released. This is different than patching time traveling after an update has been released, there is a difference.

Thus, Turkey/Toy Day was the first event that had time traveling patched. So actually, it is not misinformation.

 

[jiny]

the jingle part of the event only took me about 15 minutes to finish
i didnt have any presents prepared for my villagers either and i felt so bad

 

[Junalt]

You couldn't access Easter or Wedding until the update was released. This is different than patching time traveling after an update has been released, there is a difference.

Thus, Turkey/Toy Day was the first event that had time traveling patched. So actually, it is not misinformation.

You couldn’t access Easter or Wedding until the actual date. Please do your research. Time travel was never ‘patched’, they run a update on the actual date which unlocks the event which has been true since Easter.

You Can't Access Seasonal Events In Animal Crossing: New Horizons By Time Travelling

Which means no spoilers

www.nintendolife.com

 

[Fye]

It only took me a few minutes as well, since you pretty much just have to craft one thing and then talk to each villager once. I'm happy that it wasn't as tedious as turkey day and didn't take as long, but it really didn't feel festive at all. Poor jingle didn't get as much screen time as he deserves

 

[Ossiran]

I don't mind holidays that are short and not tedious, but the NH wasn't as fun. I think getting net getting a unique Christmas set from the event is part of it. I do miss the scavenger hunt from the Gamecube game where you had to keep finding him over and over again, including sneaking into houses (thought I don't miss the questions and getting dupes).

 

[Xara]

a little late to the party but i’m gonna chime in, anyways - i actually really liked how everything went! toy day / christmas is my absolute favourite holiday but i was prepared to be disappointed with how it was executed this time around. however, while i definitely agree that the event was short and a bit lacklustre, i still thought it was cute and am honestly grateful that it didn’t take too much time to complete.

i think my only main complaint is about the rewards; don’t get me wrong, the sleigh, stockings, diys and jingle’s photo are super nice (i’m especially happy about the photo!), i do wish that it offered a bit more. granted, i know that we already have a few winter and christmas items with the frozen and festive diys but still,, something more exciting would’ve been nice aha.

overall, it definitely could’ve been better but i don’t think that i’m disappointed with it. i liked getting to exchange gifts with my villagers (even though i already have all of the toy variants cataloged, i haven’t gotten around to ordering them, yet, so this helped a bit lol) and also really like the fact that jingle’s photo appears in the stockings - i think that was a really cute touch! i’m also really happy that i got to see jingle again and lowkey like how i look in the santa’s beard more than i probably should. ;p

 

[Noel_in_Sunrise]

I nearly missed it because I thought it was Christmas day. I played it with my mom. We spent most of the time gathering ornaments so I could make decorations for her (since I had most of the recipes). We were so disappointed to discover that we needed red wrapping paper for the pile of presents, since neither of us had it.

I was super lucky to have someone to play it with. I can see how there wouldn't be much to do normally. I really enjoyed getting to make decorations for her.

 

[Monokuma73]

As I said before, I can't comprehend the fact many of players justifying poor quality of events saying "it was not enough time in the particular days to play a game". AC game(s) are always time demanding and whoever is playing AC longer than one day must realize it's not a game you can play 5 minutes and "save it for later".
My opinion was and still stands: "quality of events updates being decreased with every single update".
Many of players still believes we got something extra, many expected Brewster, extra buildings or upgrade for existing ones... but what we got, comparing to other games is terraforming, and placing items on the island. Everything else is just literally "step backs".
I do believe a game was prepared previously, as a whole, but was truncated just to say for players: "we will give a FREE updates" and many players believed and "hype train was started", what was a good decision from Nintendo business perspective, but for us, players it gives a something prepared quick, without emotions, just to do something with minimal effort.
I still enjoy the game, as it's core - but whatever Nintendo is releasing as "extra-free" is a pure bad joke.

 

[J087]

Was anyone able to keep Jingles bag?
Like, not competing the event on a secondary character?

 

[Sheep Villager]

Was anyone able to keep Jingles bag?
Like, not competing the event on a secondary character?

I would assume no given Jingle says the bag disappears at 5 AM.
Completing or not completing the event shouldn't have anything to do with keeping the bag.​

 

[niko@kamogawa]

This event was short and sweet for me.

I was busy on the 24th and didn't have the time to play the game. I feel sorry to those who expected more.

 

[azurill]

I liked the event more then I thought I would. I was worried at first about the gifts and not being able to give them actual toys as gifts. It was nice being able to choose what gifts you gave them. My only complaint would be the lack of the jingle set.

 

[HappyTails]

I didn't really like it all that much. The events in New Horizons are severely lacking, especially compared to New Leaf where we got hints throughout the month on what the villagers want and then Jingle gives us the magic bag and we had to give the villagers what they asked for based on the hints.

Was just too simple and not really fun at all. I'm not a fan of the events in this game. Not just the Toy Day event, but the Halloween one as well.

 

[Zadakine]

I don't like how we get items we want to display with so little time to be time relevant when we display them and then they require ingrediants we may or may not have to craft items you want now.

I also read people saying villagers give you red wrapping paper, but I've even gone back and talked to them all again and got nothing. So now I can't craft the gift pile without trading.

Overall this game is awesome, but it would have been even better if Nintendo had kept the little difficulty in areas like in NL vs turning into more of a smartphone app.

I think people got the red wrapping paper when they don’t have any other wrapping in their pockets. I canceled the dialog because I hadn’t any present worthy items in my pocket. Then my neighbor gave me red wrapping paper

 

[Kuroh]

You couldn’t access Easter or Wedding until the actual date. Please do your research. Time travel was never ‘patched’, they run a update on the actual date which unlocks the event which has been true since Easter.

You Can't Access Seasonal Events In Animal Crossing: New Horizons By Time Travelling

Which means no spoilers

www.nintendolife.com

That's literally what I just said... That they run an update on the actual date.

The article says you cannot time travel because you need the update first. Entirely different than patching time travel AFTER an update, which is what I was referring to for Turkey/Toy Day if you go back and read my posts.

What I am trying to explain:
The method that they did for Turkey/Toy Day is different than previous events and that is a fact. If you say it is the same exact thing as for Egg Day, that is misinformation.

Conclusively, that means time travel was not even an option for events that required updates on the same day of the event, because the content was not even there prior to the update. However, it became "patched" for Turkey/Toy Day. This is because after downloading the update (which means the content is now in the game) you could not time travel to it.

 

[Peach_Jam]

I found the event to be alright, but I would have liked it to have more substance. As a few others have pointed out, some of these events have felt very shallow. That said, I think my favorite event so far was the wedding event.