things you plan on doing differently on the switch

[pocky]

I love New Leaf, but I think I was too big of a perfectionist with it at the beginning and there were times when I definitely wasn't enjoying myself (while plot resetting, for example.)

I'm hoping to adopt a more laid back attitude with the new game, though I'm also kind of a control freak and don't know if I'll manage it or not.


What are some things that you plan on doing differently?

 

[drowningfairies]

I always went with the same town design, with a bunch of paths.
I put in a lot of work on the towns, and they all pretty much looked the same.

I really want to do a nature town this time with no paths, and mixed flowers everywhere. My issue was decorating my town, then not wanting to move around due to "messing it up"

This time around, I want to be more carefree about my town. ~

 

[michealsmells]

I actually want to do the opposite! I want to learn how to do different things like plot resetting. I want to be more serious and uptight wit my town. However that's what I got a second town of NL for so I'll probably be relaxed.

 

[MapleSilver]

I definitely want to continue being laid back, however I also wish to plan my town more than I originally did in New Leaf. In my old town I kind of just slapped everything together with no real plan and it ended up a mess. Eventually I had to reset it because it was better to start over than try to fix it. I also want to make sure I get a good map and not just pick the first one that appears. I'm probably going to play in this town for years. I want to be satisfied with its layout.

 

[Sweetley]

Putting more details into my town, like working on a town theme and try to realize it. I mostly
choosed a forest theme in New Leaf, maybe I will try out a more "difficult" theme, something
that needs some creativity to realize it, like a little challenge I would make for myself.

Other then that, depending what new items and character looks the game has to offer, I
may use a different look for my character and also design my house different compare of
how I designed it in New Leaf.

 

[nintendofan85]

The whole point of the Animal Crossing franchise is to be laid back, obviously. If it wasn't, I wouldn't have gotten into playing the games all the way back in 2009 when I started with City Folk (hard to believe that's nearly ten whole years ago, it will be ten years for me in April).
However, I would like to say, after New Leaf had its American release and I got the game in 2013, I felt like I was playing the game almost too slowly. For example, in the months following the release in June that year, it seemed like I was getting various features (such as being able to work in Brewster's coffee shop) at a slower pace than most other players.
Granted, I know that with any video game (especially Animal Crossing), you should be able to play it at the pace you'd like, but I hope you understand that I didn't really like seeing people get features much further in advance than I was without time traveling. Then again, when New Leaf did have its American release, I was still in middle school and on top of that, was off for the summer, meaning I had more time to play video games. Now I'm a college student who's busy all the time and barely has time to play video games at all, so...

 

[xSuperMario64x]

I approach each game with a different attitude, and chances are I'll do something totally new with this town. Although, I've become obsessed with growing flowers and hybrids in New Leaf, and I'm sure that feature will be even more prominent in the new game, so I don't think anything will change there.

 

[Awful]

I cared too much about little details in NL. Previous games not so much because I was younger.

More effort will be put into just chilling lol. Sounds contradictory but I think I'll feel freer. I also really want to get into making pro designs, but that doesn't have to be until the switch version comes out! I really hope there will be more artistic things to do in the new version of the game.

 

[Kiaren]

In my main town, i want to not time travel at all in the switch game. with new leaf, i played basically two whole years of the game in the space of a few months and completely burned myself out, while i was at home sick for half a years. i don't regret doing it, it made my time spend largly in bed, feeling sicky barable, but in the switch game, i want to play the way it was intended - in real time. I also want to be slow with upgrading my house, probably not expanding every room to max size. i've just found i find it more cozy like that. I'll reset my game in the beginning to get pears, though, because the are my favourite fruit.

 

[LambdaDelta]

not as a permanent thing, but I was thinking for a change of pace to have the first 3 months or so be where I never purchase anything for myself other than tools, and just have my entire house be decorated based solely on what the villagers and special npcs give me

 

[KeatAlex]

No time travel, none! That really made NL fall for me. It was my own fault and even buying a new cartridge and starting over just blew my joy of it. I swear to not time travel or cheat one bit in this new game.

 

[honeytea]

I didn't use multiplayer at ALL in New Leaf, I think because I was still kind of emotionally traumatized from that time someone seeded my town in Wild World when I was 11. But I want to try using multiplayer this time! Trading with people online seems like fun.

I'm also with those of you who said they aren't going to TT. I had the same resolution when New Leaf came out, too, but I gave in pretty quickly. Hopefully I will be more patient and resist the urge this time, because AC always feels so much more enjoyable to me when playing the game how it's meant to be played.

 

[AlyssaAC]

Lots of things. I always keep seeing sooo many people be picky about their towns, doing themes and getting everything exactly the way they want. To be frankly honest, I couldn't play New Leaf because I either time traveled too much because I was impatient, or I kept constantly starting over. Well, no more. I'm not going to be like everyone else and be so overly picky. I just want to pick the game up on release date and get right into it. Gonna choose one of the first few maps I get and just start playing and hopefully be patient and play at a slow pace. Not gonna time travel even a single minute and just let whoever move in and out. Just gonna relax and be happy with anything.

 

[90s_tripverse]

i think i'll try my hand at playing the game in real time. i time skip a lot cause i'm impatient, so i might try to play the game day by day to see how it goes. i might also buy another copy to time skip if i decide to do this

 

[carackobama]

When I started playing New Leaf I had no idea about creating themed towns/dream addresses and that whole side of playing, therefore there are elements of my town that kind of bug me as I go about theming it now as I wish I would?ve placed them differently initially. I think going into AC: Switch I want to plan my town more from the get go so I don?t face these issues later on in the game.

 

[mimituesday]

i will try not to have more than two people. having three people is too much. baby was an impulse and i love him so i can't stop him but with danny now, who i want and have plans for, i don't play as baby even more.

i think i will also do good with resetting in the beginning and being careful like i do now in tuesday. once i have people i like in places i like, then i can do a lot of laid back planning.

 

[lars708]

I don't really have any concrete plans, I tend to just go with whatever comes up in me while playing.

But I am looking forward to seeing how my new town will develop. There will definitely be a huge difference because my New Leaf town is still the same one I made when the game released (I never resetted). Back then I was like 12! Now I'm 18 and I'm sure that I'll handle things differently this time around.

 

[auroral]

I think I might want to plan out where I'll put pwps a lot sooner than i did in my first nl town. In nl, when I unlocked something I liked, i'd just. dump it wherever there was a free spot and try to build my town around it, and tbh most of those original pwps I placed I ended up tearing down later.

 

[Stevey Queen]

I could never stick with a town. I would always reset so I never got really far. My longest town was 2 months old. I want to commit to one town and keep it.

Plot resetting stressed me out and really killed the game for me. I just very recently learned that in the Welcome Amiibo update, villagers won't move on pathways. If I would have known that, I could have committed to a new town and not get stressed out about house placement.

I hope AC switch has a feature in the game to control where villagers move that's not so exploitable like plot resetting.

 

[Khaelis]

Bit of a mix of being less anal about small details and being a little bit less of a perfectionist with my town. I'm also going to stick with a town for more than 3 months, for once..