Boidoh
Senior Member
I bought Animal Crossing: New Horizons on launch day. I was a New Leaf player on 3DS since a month after it's US launch, and played for several years. I was exhausted from New Leaf and was hoping that the next iteration in the series would give me even more content. In NL, the tiny things fascinated me. All the different stores (and the buildable ones like the Police Station), hidden areas (like Resetti's home), extra content (like the monthly free DLC), fortune cookies, exotic fruit, fancy items (like the 7/11 content, ABDs and such), and more. New Leaf felt fleshed out and brimming with content at every corner....
and New Horizons doesn't fill this for me....
At launch, the mere fact of waiting a week or so for the hourly music to arrive was agonizing hell. There was no diving at launch, nor bushes. I believe that art wasn't added in until later as well.
But besides just that, New Horizons skimps out on a lot of the things New Leaf had. No longer are there decoratable museum rooms and a gift shop. There is not even the Roost (though I think data mines said this would come eventually). K.K. Slider just shows up outside of the Town Hall! Shampoodle is no more - replaced by a menu! The only buildings are.... 2 expansions of Nook's Cranny (NL had several more...) and the Able Sisters.... And items are selected via a menu (while yes, some can be hand-picked). Some purchases in Nook's Cranny don't disappear after buying them - they can be bought indefinitely.
On that note, one GOOD thing they did was value the items more accurately. I like that more typically expensive items match that equivalent price.
Resetti is gone completely... Except for a "cameo" in the NookPhone. Fruits... exotic fruits are gone! Not even the banana remained. No persimmons. Yeah, there are pumpkins now - and the prospect of that DID excite me. It was one of the few things not in New Leaf (crafting is lame) that they added. I like it, but it's not all that interesting or captivating in a vacuum, especially when so much other things were cut. This is a tropical island for goodness sake! Where are the exotic fruit?
Fortune cookies... gone. Those were fun. They didn't even need to be Nintendo items. I just liked the variety. Correct me if I'm wrong (because I've been out of the loop from the online scene) but I don't think there are any cool items like the 7/11 set from New Leaf.
Oh, and the other islands in NH are lame. I'd take NL's tropical island any day.
I'm sure I'm missing some things, but, all in all, New Horizons feels like an HD trimmed down version of New Leaf. In some ways, it feels like a "Wild World" to the original GCN game. So many good things are gone....
and New Horizons doesn't fill this for me....
At launch, the mere fact of waiting a week or so for the hourly music to arrive was agonizing hell. There was no diving at launch, nor bushes. I believe that art wasn't added in until later as well.
But besides just that, New Horizons skimps out on a lot of the things New Leaf had. No longer are there decoratable museum rooms and a gift shop. There is not even the Roost (though I think data mines said this would come eventually). K.K. Slider just shows up outside of the Town Hall! Shampoodle is no more - replaced by a menu! The only buildings are.... 2 expansions of Nook's Cranny (NL had several more...) and the Able Sisters.... And items are selected via a menu (while yes, some can be hand-picked). Some purchases in Nook's Cranny don't disappear after buying them - they can be bought indefinitely.
On that note, one GOOD thing they did was value the items more accurately. I like that more typically expensive items match that equivalent price.
Resetti is gone completely... Except for a "cameo" in the NookPhone. Fruits... exotic fruits are gone! Not even the banana remained. No persimmons. Yeah, there are pumpkins now - and the prospect of that DID excite me. It was one of the few things not in New Leaf (crafting is lame) that they added. I like it, but it's not all that interesting or captivating in a vacuum, especially when so much other things were cut. This is a tropical island for goodness sake! Where are the exotic fruit?
Fortune cookies... gone. Those were fun. They didn't even need to be Nintendo items. I just liked the variety. Correct me if I'm wrong (because I've been out of the loop from the online scene) but I don't think there are any cool items like the 7/11 set from New Leaf.
Oh, and the other islands in NH are lame. I'd take NL's tropical island any day.
I'm sure I'm missing some things, but, all in all, New Horizons feels like an HD trimmed down version of New Leaf. In some ways, it feels like a "Wild World" to the original GCN game. So many good things are gone....