Would you like if AC incorporated relationships and romance in the game?

[shendere]

definitely not with the player, the interactions already w/ the player, I always feel like they're your babies and kids, especially with how they act LOL. But it would be cute to see them interact in dialogue with each other like cute kiddy crushes or something, but that's it, just those childish things "I think so and so has a crush on Marina!!" But that's as far as it goes.

 

[sarosephie]

I feel like this is definitely not something that would be incorporated. Only because animal Crossing generally has a g rating

 

[Croconaw]

definitely not with the player, the interactions already w/ the player, I always feel like they're your babies and kids, especially with how they act LOL. But it would be cute to see them interact in dialogue with each other like cute kiddy crushes or something, but that's it, just those childish things "I think so and so has a crush on Marina!!" But that's as far as it goes.

No, definitely not with the player. I mean the villagers with crushes on each other. I don’t think it would ever be implemented. Otherwise, Animal Crossing would slowly turn into Sims. The childish crushes would be cute!

 

[droqen]

I was thinking about how what makes the Animal Crossing animal dialogue tick is that every bit of dialogue is noncommittal - nobody says anything that they'll HAVE TO talk about again later to maintain continuity, it's all about silly sort of whimsical stuff that happened in the past, or stuff which can easily be forgotten/forgiven in the future. So the only thing they could really talk about without a total overhaul of the way all the dialogue in the game is written would be if everyone just has casual dates and breakups all the time. (Or as mentioned childish crushes.)

AndOr everyone is poly... which is very obviously never happening lol.

one of the positives about the villagers is that their personalities are open/ simple enough that we can all imagine our own versions of them.

I love this, btw, and totally agree.

 

[Lyrica]

I really love cyrus and Reese’s dynamics! They are cute and fun and I’d love to see more couples.

 

[Brumbo]

I'm thinking it would be something like Magicians Quest, which does dating and marriage extremely cute-ly honestly though I just don't think villagers have nice enough dialogue to do it, they're do boring and wayyyyyyyyyy too nice. I just don't think they would be able to.

 

[Sweetley]

Nah, don't need any relationship drama and romantic trash. This is a video game after all and not a soap opera. My character prefers to stay single and I'm not interested listening about my villager's love life tbh.

 

[ughrora]

I'm personally not for romantic relationships in the game.

What I'd personally rather have is another level to best friends in the game that has more features, like where you can be roommates and actually do things with them, like cooking, fishing, swimming, etc.

 

[ChocoPie22]

Like many people here I wouldn't want to date the villagers, but they could create relationships with each other. Like friendships and romantic relationships. I think it would be really weird if the villagers were falling in love with my human character. There should be a kid-friendly setting in case you don't want your villagers dating each other where they only become friends.

 

[Stikki]

Does anyone else find that in the VIP room in the restaurant on HHP there are sometimes villagers in there that talk as if they're on a date? I might be deliberately interpreting it that way of course haha. But especially when it's two roommates, sometimes I'm like "Aw they're on a date" haha

 

[rubyrubert]

I personally don't think this is what ACNH is about. I know I made a few headcanons about villagers being gay, but the more I play, the more I really don't see them that way (as in having romantic tendencies). I don't see them as children either, I just see them as comfy friends.

I mean, I'm sure furries would love it?

 

[Corrie]

I personally wouldn't like it since they're animals and they also look young. I know some people would be into it but I am not one of them.

 

[dawny]

A crush on the human character weirds me out. Something strange there. But I do ship my villagers, and when I see them together it's always funny. Maybe more cute flirting between the characters, or at least some kind of friendship system so we can see who is closer?

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

Not really, that'd be kinda strange. I guess I wouldn't mind if villagers could be romantically interested in other villagers and go on dates with them, but I don't think it'd be appropriate for the player to romance the villagers.

 

[Introspective Onlooker]

A bit mix on this. Humans are animals, in the same way that these villagers are also anthropomorphized characters, but I still feel it'd be uncomfortable for villagers to have romantic feelings towards the player. I think romance between villagers should be relegated to villagers of the same/similar species, because that would otherwise just be the same thing as player/villager romance.

 

[ZeldaCrossing64]

Well it's a cute idea, but it's not something that would really fit in an Animal Crossing game. And a villager having a crush on the player (or vise-versa perhaps?) seems a bit weird due to... Legal reasons. A villager-villager crush/relationship might be fine, but how would that work? Would it be randomized, or will there be certain factors thrown into it? For example, would a cranky villager crush on any of the eight personalities or just certain ones, like snooty or cranky? (Well I don't think Nintendo would implement any same-sex relationships, so I guess in this case it would be snooty... Unrelated but I like to think that Fang and Apollo are dating on my island-) Same goes for species, would it be same-species or randomized?