Topic: Nintendo Switch --OT--

@kyleforrester87 It is a bit slower to fully open up but I'd say the pacing is in some respects a little snappier compared to previous Animal Crossing games. Perhaps it's down to the added structure and I'm finding it's quicker to rack up bells (and thus expand my home) too. Being able to make furniture and other items is a really neat feature.

@nessisonett The new tracks are great! I was playing quite late at night a few days ago and have to say the 2am or 3am theme is rather funky. I could barely keep my eyes open at that point yet my head instinctively bobbed along.

@mookysam so you couldn’t craft furniture before? That’s a bummer.

What was scuba diving like in past instalments?

Finally got an atlas moth, those things creep me out!

Played for an hour before I realized I wasn't getting any balloons (not even Bunny Day ones), and I was running up & down the beach they were spawning at fishing, so I know I can't have just happened to miss an entire hour's worth of them. I haven't hit 300, and I'm on the latest update, so hopefully it's just a fluke & they'll be back next time I fire it up.

Before they disappeared I managed to get 4 seasonal recipes though. A Cherry Blossom Picnic Set (though I got this from Isabelle), Cherry Blossom Umbrella, Bamboo Wand, and Bamboo Slide. Now I'm up to 8 Cherry Blossom recipes & 4 Young Spring Bamboo recipes.

@kyleforrester87 Yeah, that "I can't stop coming back to this" feature of the games is why people end up racking up hundreds or thousands of hours playing them. And, honestly, that's how it's designed to be played, which is why seasonal events and festivities are hosted throughout the year. And why I would only ever go digital with it. If there's one game you want to be able to drop in and out of quickly, it's this.

And yeah, crafting is a new aspect of the series. There was none of this item, furniture, or tool crafting in the past. Non-fruit bearing trees didn't supply you with wood. In New Leaf, you couldn't just choose your hair style: you had to answer cryptic questions and then hope the hair stylist didn't mess it up, because you could only get one hair cut per day.

The most interesting aspect of New Horizons is how much it abandons the whole "do whatever you feel like" conceit of previous games, insofar as this title explicitly incentivizes you to play in certain ways. Not that I mind this at all. I always felt like all New Leaf was missing besides outdoor customization was having some sort of reward system in place other than home inspections, Gracie opening up a store in your town, and being able to pay your loans.

@kyleforrester87 Your Final Fantasy Legend status will be revoked if that happens.

@Ralizah That's a bit of an eye opener then, didn't realise this one took such significant steps. What about scuba diving in the older installments? Did it serve a purpose, more stuff to collect or something? I'm expecting the piers to be used for something eventually...

It's pretty exciting to think about what DLC and events could come to this game over the next few years.

@JohnnyShoulder I've come to realise, despite my love for the FF franchise, I don't even scratch the surface when it comes to some other people!

@kyleforrester87 There's scuba diving in this game?

@Octane no but I heard there was in the other game’s? So it might be coming over?

Finally got those iron nuggets, that was longer than I expected it to be. Just need to wait for the shop to build now!

@kyleforrester87 In New Leaf you could dive when hovering over these dark blobs in the ocean which would indicate the presence of a deep sea creature. You couldn't actually control the villager under the sea, rather they would automatically grab whatever was lurking beneath the waves then resurface.

@mookysam ah right! Wouldn’t mind something like that though. Seems a shame having all this nice water that you can’t get into.

@kyleforrester87 Oh yeah, and even New Leaf was a big step forward from previous entries. In the older games, you worked for Tom Nook (you had a uniform and everything, lol) to pay off your home loan, sold fruit, but you didn't really have control over your environment. You were just one person in a town full of people. Just a villager. New Leaf made you the mayor and gave you some control over the direction of the town's development. New Horizons is the logical endpoint of that growth pattern, and gives you total control over your entire island, down to the physical shape of the environment.

I notice they've made interactions with villagers less... er... scheduled as well. Nobody has invited me to come visit their homes at specific times, or anything like that. I do hope we still celebrate birthdays for the villagers, though.

The seasonal events are usually fun (Bunny Day has been a bit mixed for me, though), so that should keep you coming back throughout the year.

Don't have the time to try it out myself yet, but apparently there's a way to force the game to spawn a balloon (a normal one) every 5 minutes.

https://www.polygon.com/animal-crossing-new-horizons-switch-a...

If it works, it could be useful in getting all the Cherry Blossom recipes.

Lol

Well, the final day of the Cherry Blossom event has come & gone, and I wasn't able to get a single new recipe today (I actually popped 15-20 regular balloons today, and not one dropped a DIY recipe, Cherry Blossom or otherwise). Still, I managed to get 10 of the 14 recipes, so not too bad.

Anyhow, my town is starting to come along nicely. Paid off an incline & am going to have the campsite moved into the cliffs, that way I can expand the public park I'm making that shares space with it (that, and now the campsite will now be in a bit of a more remote location, setting the mood).

I only have two plots of land left without any villagers in them (and someone is moving in tomorrow), so I should soon be able to get the K.K.Slider performance (which I hear is the sort of endgame, in terms of scripted objectives).

@RR529 I’m annoyed, I only got about 6 of the cherry blossom recipes and none of them were the flooring or wallpaper, which I wanted. I managed to get the useless recipes like the wand and the pile of cherry blossoms.

I've never played animal crossing I didn't even realise it was this big of a deal. Everything I hear about this game just sounds totally bizzare. My mate was telling me he improved a raccoons shop they were apparently open for business working from a tent if I remember right. My mate was complaining that he helped them improve their shop and now they only open at set times. Safe to say he wasn't impressed that he was now limited as to when he could do business with them despite helping them.

I recently rebrought a switch after selling my first one prematurely. What's the next big release for switch?

@NickWba20 Xenoblade Chronicles - Definitive Edition.

Not a lot has been revealed for the system this year (not a lot that's exclusive, anyway; quite a few ports). Normally, I'd say there'll be a blow out of information throughout the year for a variety of Q3/Q4 releases, as is typical with them, but this year, I honestly don't know who will be revealing what and when. I'm going to be quite shocked if Sony's upcoming releases aren't all delayed as well.

Out of curiosity: why sell your console at all? I never understood this unless you just genuinely have no desire to ever touch the thing again.