Name Of Animal Crossing Switch?
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lars708
Dutch PPCS Regional no. 1
Whatever you want to call it, it's there and naming a new game in the series ''Animal Crossing: Population Growing'' would only make it more confusing. And I don't really get how that would be a good thing.
McRibbie
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It's partially frustration with appending what was intended as the tagline on it as its official subtitle, given that it's... not actually its name? It's like appending completely unnecessary 1s onto the first films of franchises in order to differentiate, when you could just say "the original" instead. It's also a pretty crappy subtitle, let's be honest.
It's also kind of a joke at that, based off the fact that Microsoft called the new Xbox the Xbox One.
smonikkims
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Does your username perchance reveal some nice initials...? XD
In the other thread he said "fresh start" so thats what I'm guessing ACFS is
Paperboy012305
Maining Male Villager since 2015
Also, not to forget the rumors of you being a Town Founder. So Frest Start might seem like a good name for such a gimmick.
smonikkims
Senior Member
^That's what made me iffy on it, and also I don't really like the sound of it said aloud either. It really doesn't matter to me too much if that's what we get though. I'd prefer it to be something more generic like that than something focused like City Folk's title - wouldn't be too indicative of gimmicks. 
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Zelda5820
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I mean that's what it's literally called. All that would do is cause confusion.
Town Founder could always be a placeholder name if anything.... I mean it's not unheard of the NA/EU audience to think something is absolutely going to be called one thing, only for the names to change later. Town Founder may be a direct translation of the japanese name currently, and the 1:1 translations never sound right. It would be nice if the game focused on building up the town, but I hope they don't put it to print with this name.
smonikkims
Senior Member
I've given some more thought to the name Fresh Start and I've decided I do actually dislike it. I think I would honestly prefer Town Founder to be the final name. xD Something about Fresh Start just doesn't sound like a title to me. It sounds itself like a placeholder while they think of a better phrase that rolls off the tongue better, same with Town Founder. But then, FS and TF are at least initials that are unmistakable for anything else in the series.
MayorRibbon
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Wasn't New Leaf supposed to be called Jump Out at first? I mean when it was released in Japan only and when did not have an official name yet?
But anyway, I do not care at all about the name. As long as the game is awesome and great and marvellous, I'll be satisfied.
Yeah, 'Jump out' was the the english interpretation of the japanese title '飛び出せ' Which doesn't really have the tone of the phrase 'jump out' in english exactly, but could be translated that way. Basically the '飛び出せ' name is more like.... suddenly appear on the scene - just like your mayor in the game. Fly out of hiding honestly is kind of the kanji readings at least haha. It sounds funny in english right? But New leaf as a name captured the spirit of '飛び出せ' way better than 'Jump out' because jumping out in english just kindof sounds ... like well nonsense if you think to hard about it.
I feel like town founder is likely the same story. Now I don't know what the japanese phrase they would be working off of is... in fact the name could even be more similar to 'town raiser' if you know what I mean. Either way I'm sure the translation team will figure it out, they always did well enough in the past. Something like a "town founder" or "town raiser" gives the aura of someone who is really good at establishing towns and doing a lot of work right? I feel like with that kind of title the game must build a lot on the role of mayor.
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