I Hope The Next Animal Crossing Game Improves On New Horizons In These Key Areas

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a great game. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Our reviewer even gave it a perfect 5ꦚ/5 sco𒐪re back when it launched, but personally, I think it still has🍨 room for improvement. Five years on, with the Nintendo Switch 2 firmly in our hands, we’re now anticipating the announcement of the next Animal Crossing game, and I hope it learns some lessons from New Horizons.

Split images of a player on a beach path in Hello Kitty Island Adventure, a player standing in front of their house in Animal Crossing New Horizons, and a player posing happily in Hello Kitty Island Adventure.

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Don’t get me wrong, I had a lot of fun with New Horizons - I didn’t spend all of 900 hours (yes, that’s really how long my Switch says I spent playing…) with a 🧸frown on my face. But New Horizons isn’t the pꦏinnacle of what Animal Crossing can be, so here’s where the series can make some changes to be even better.

9 💛 If You’re Going All-In On De🍎corating, Give Us More Furniture

Do You Know How Many Islands Use The Exact Same Items?

More than any other Animal Crossing game, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:New Horizons is all about decorating. Your goal is to decorate your island to a high enough standard that your villagers love it and K.K. Slider comes to play a show. To do that, you need furniture. You know what New Horizons didn’t have at launch? A lotꦏ of furniture.

I know subsequent updates added more furniture, but by that time, my island was already fully decorated! I wasn’t about to take 🅺it down after all the time I spent on it. If you were playing at the game’s peak, right around when it launched, you know that everyone was using pr🐻etty much the same furniture items. Those white panels were the MVP. The next game needs to have all that furniture added in updates from the get-go, otherwise most players just aren’t going to use it.

8 𝓡 The Villagers Need To Talk Aꦛbout More Than Just Bugs

And How Much They Want To Be A Popstar

One of New Horizons’ biggest problems was the lack of variety in villager dialogue. Yes, I know Lazy villagers have bugs in their walls and want t꧅o eat snacks 24/7. I know Peppy villagers want to be popstars. I know Normal villagers want to read books and drink tea.

As soon as you’d spoken to your villagers a few times, you’d pretty much exhausted all the dialogue they’d ever have (until subsequent updates, but come on, that should have been there from the start). I don’t remember this being a problem in New Leaf, and I played tha🎶t game almost every day for at least a year or two.

The villagers all have hobbies that aren’t just tied to their personality type (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:two Cranky villagers can have different hobbies, for example), so why isn’t that used in the dialogue? I even remember villagers in past games talking about their family members, which doesn’t happen in New Horizons. The next game needs more dialogue from the vil💛lagers; otherwise, they just feel like walking decorations.

7 Give Us A Cꦉreative Mode, Please ꦬ

Making Changes Shouldn’t Be So Permanent

Examples of Island Entrance with Waterfalls in Animal Crossing New Horizons. — The left-hand example is from u/kelsey_anne123 on Reddit. The right-hand example is from @FindingsGaloreInc on Pinterest.

Terraforming was a new feature for New Hor♓izons, and it gives you a lot of freedom to decorate and change your island however you like. I made a giant heart lake in the middle of my island that I’m pretty proud of. However, when you terraform, you really have to commit to that idea.

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There’s no going back once you’ve terraformed something, and if you do want to go back? You’ll have to do that manually. The game needed a creative mode where you can undo or revert to a previous island state, just i൩n case you change your mind. If terraforming comes back in the next installment, I’m praying the developers have considered this option.

6 Creative Paths Should Be An In-Game Feature, Not Just Made By Playe💯rs

So I Don’t Keep Wiping Them Off By Accident!

A construction zone near the airport in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. — via @matheusfoxfi on Pinterest.

One way you can really make your island feel like it’s lived in and no longer a deserted island is by adding paths. New Horizons has some nice default paths, but they’re all a bit plain. Players stepped in and started designing their own - paths with flowers, mushrooms, and all sorts of other decoratioඣns were made and shared online for the community to use.

I don’t think it should fall to the players to have to make these themselves, though. The next game should include a few of these for you to use as default. We’ll no doubt see the community create their own again, but it would be nice to have more than just 𒐪a few basic path options.

5 🤡 We Need More Things To Do In Multiplayer ꧙

Where Were The Minigames?

More people were playing Animal Crossing than ever when New Horizons launched. We all could visit each other’s islands and… um. Walk around? People started making up their own minigames because there was nothing else to do. That’s pretty shame𓆉ful, really.

It doesn’t make any sense, either, as Newꦕ Leaf had a lot of great min🉐igames. I have lots of fond memories doing the different tours on Tortimer’s Island and earning medals to buy exclusive prizes. New Horizons could have easily done something like this on an even bigger scale. Hopefully the next game doesn’t miss this opportunity again.

4 🐬 Fan-Favourite NPCs Shouldn’t Take Years To Arrive

Brewster Must Have Missed His Flight. Multiple Times

Animal Crossing has been a series for a long time, and as a result✃, fans have grown attached to the special NPCs who lꦜive in their town. At launch, everyone had the same thought: ‘Where the heck is Brewster?’

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Brewster did eventually make his way to the game, but far, far later than he should. It seemed like the developers didn’t think to add him in the first time, then saw how much fans were clamoring for him, and add🐽ed him in as a consolation prize. He didn’t even get a cafe building of his own like in New Leaf - The Roost was back in t🎶he museum. What a step back for our king.

Like many others, I even made m൲y o𓂃wn make-shift The Roost outside the museum because he wasn’t there. A little awkward when he did arrive… I’m just a big fan, Brewster.

3 Give Us More Places To Expl🐎ore A La City Folk

There Has To Be More Than Just Some Uninhabited Islands

Animal Crossing New Horizons Player Returning Home With Kappn Singing At Night.

Once I was done decorating my island, I admired my work, and then thought to myself… What do I do now? That’s one of the core issues with New Horizons. When you’ve terraformed to your heart’s content and put every piece of furniture in place, that’s pretty m🦂u💯ch it.

I would have liked t💝o explore more islands or even somewhere that wasn’t… completely deserted. The island with Harv ♏and other merchants added in a later update was great - the game just needed more of that to keep you going once you were finished with the designing.

2 Bring Back Different Resident Services/Town Hall Designs 🧜

The Default Just Doesn’t Match My Aesthetic

A villager dancing in front of resident services with vending machines, a popcorn, and cotton candy maker in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Resident Services is the main hub of your island. It’s where you go to speak with Tom Nook and Isabelle about developing your island, villagers naturally congregate there throughout the day, and K.K. Slider performs his weekly show on the plaza. So why do we just have to stick with the default design of the building🍬?

In New Leaf, you could use your bells to chan♔ge the design of the exterior to help it match the vibe of your town more. With New Horizons’ heavy focus on decoration and design, this would have been a natural decision, but it’s just missing for some reason. The next game will likely have a similar building, so let’s not forget about the different designs next time, please.

1 You Don’t Need Reams And Reams Of Dialogue Just To Visit Another Pla💞yer 💫

One Wrong Button Press, And You Have To Do It All Again

Selecting dialogue when talking to Orville in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Anyone who’s tried visiting another player’s i✤sland knows about this one. To leave your island and visit your friend, you need to get through Dodo Airlines’ riddles first. Why does Orville ask so many questions? Why does he say them in such a long-winded manner? Why does one wrong button press mean I have to start the whole damn process again?

And why does Orville need to disconnect from or connect to the internet every single time? Seriou𒆙sly?

Please, let’s just keep this kind of dialogue simple. He can still h𓃲ave personality. But it doesn’t need to be an annoying one.