Overrated Villager

[Stikki]

I see why you might think she looks like a cookie. I think her name in English was changed to maybe sound like coconut?

but her original name, in Japanese, is Yayoi - which is the historical period associated with haniwa, a type of Japanese funerary sculpture which both Coco and the gyroids are based on (in Japanese I think the gyroids are also just called haniwa)

i don’t want you to sound like I am trying to make you feel bad for your alternate theory, or ruin it or anything. I am just a nerd and I think the Japanese cultural elements in the game are really fun. Clay is actually also based on ancient Japanese statuary, the doguu, which is from the Jomon period.

as for overrated villagers, I think pretty much all the very popular villagers could be considered overrated from an objective standpoint - popularity is a fickle and flimsy thing, there are literally hundreds of great villagers, and none of them are rare or objectively ‘better ‘ than any others (even if, of course, personally I feel differently)

But there’s nothing wrong with liking any villager, underrated or overrated or anything in between though. If you like them you like them!

Haha it's ok, I don't feel bad! Thanks for letting me know! Now I find her even worse, cos she's just creepy without being tasty.

 

[VexTheHex]

I still think Merry is the poster child of it. She wasn't very popular with the community. Some influencer loved her and riled up their fans to mass vote her in some popularity poll/tier popularity thing resulting in her being at the top. Suddenly she became super popular and became the center of many dreamy hunts and everyone suddenly always loved her despite her not being that talked about before the poll.

Of course part of the new villagers were super hyped up as well, but that's to be expected with new villagers.

Like who you like, but you can't ignore the existence of the herd mentality that creates bias for or against villagers simply cause of the influence of popularity.

 

[Stalfie]

ALL OF THE DOGS