poll: hybrid islands

[g u a v a]

so if you were playing from launch you might have come across a hybrid island when using nook mile tickets. unfortunately, these were removed pretty soon after (never really knew why personally).

the hybrid collectible event got me thinking of these islands again and i wondered how many of us got to visit one before they were removed?

i searched for a similar thread and didn’t find one so hopefully this isn’t a dupe!

 

[Firesquids]

I'm pretty sure I ran into like two or three hybrid islands. I remember one of them being covered in peacock butterflies and emperor butterflies (this was also before bugs spawns got nerfed too) they were so beautiful. No idea why they removed them from the game. Such a shame, they really should have been adding more Island options not taking away the coolest ones. :/

 

[sleepey]

i can’t believe they had the NERVE to patch that out they already took away the fun + minigames of tortimer’s island, and they had to patch out something novel and cool like a hybrid flowers island??

i have gotten a star fragment island tho, which was nice :>

 

[rrenaa]

I'm pretty sure I only came across a hybrid island once. It was really cool to find, so I don't get why they removed them… pretty disappointing on Nintendo's part.

 

[himekirako]

i want to say that i managed to visit it once?? really disappointed that they patched it out though, it didn't make sense !!!!!!

 

[AccfSally]

I came across it once or twice. Including the island that had sharks and hybrids on it, which was also removed.
It's a shame that they were removed.

 

[Mairmalade]

I also came across one for windflowers once while looking for villagers! Memories.

 

[g u a v a]

i looked through my archive of switch screenshots and found a picture of my only hybrids island!

 

[Paperboy012305]

I remember coming across these Hybrid Islands, they felt so rewarding when I visited them.
As to how many I found, probably about 4-5 before they got patched out.

Oh how I miss those, the Islands are actually quite nostalgic funnily enough. Can you believe it's been 5 years since this game came out? Wow we're old.

 

[Azzy]

I had one with my island flower and one with tulips. They were my first hybrids.

Pink and purple mums, that I'm trying to find a new spot for instead of next to my playground.

Pink and orange tulips, that are still in a lot of places...

 

[Pyoopi]

Yeah, I came across at least 2-3 and that's how I got all my green mums on my island. That was really fun to stuff as many purple mums in my inventory as possible, lol.

 

[Moonfish]

I vaguely remember visiting at least one. I didn't even realize they were patched out it's been so long since I played.

 

[mermaidshelf]

wait why did they patch them out?!?! that sucks! god forbid they make anything slightly easier for the players.... i didn't start going on mystery tour islands until later and by that point i guess they were patched out : (

 

[azurill]

Yea I was lucky enough to find 3 hybrid islands. I wish I had kept pictures of them. They were so pretty it was so sad when they decided to remove them.

This reminds me of nature day and how they removed it as well. So sad they removed an event when we don’t have that many to begin with.

 

[MrBox]

What?!?!?!!?!? They got rid of the islands?!?!?!?!
That is so SO SAD!!! I think I visited a handful when I was more actively playing ACNH...

 

[Jacob]

One of the first islands I ever made it to was a hybrid island! I thought they were all like that lol but it was a cool moment. I stocked up

 

[Clock]

Once, I regret getting all of the flowers since I had way too many in the end and I had to dig up everything which was painful.

 

[Zerous]

I think I went to two- I really don’t get why they patched them out. The islands already get repetitive quickly, and getting a couple extra hybrids doesn’t seem that game-breaking, especially considering how rare they were at least to me ig?
It was so exciting to go to an island and see one!

 

[airpeaches]

I also came across the hybrid islands a couple of times! Mine were pink and blue windflowers if I'm remembering correctly. It was such a cool idea, I loved the variety of the Nook Miles islands at first, especially with the increased insect spawn rates.. I agree with the other comments, I'm not sure why Nintendo patched hybrid islands out. It's easy enough to grow your own hybrids in New Horizons, it didn't really give an unfair advantage or give any less reason to still grow your own.. If anything, I really wish they would have added more variety to the islands through patching (more than just the additions they made with Kapp'n's islands), since we were already missing functionality from them between New Leaf and New Horizons (i.e. Tortimer islan's minigames). So many missed opportunities to do so much with New Horizons.

 

[~Kilza~]

It was 5 years ago (which, how), so I honestly can't remember for certain, but I feel like I did end up stumbling upon it once during one of my many excursions to the Nook Miles islands. No idea on what the hybrids were anymore.