I miss villagers gossiping and arguing with each other. Back in Wild World I'd always rush over to hear the latest gossip or some big dumb argument they'd get into, and they'd have really extreme reactions which would last for several minutes. Now when they do talk it's really civil and basically just exchanging catch phrases.
one time my mom heard muffy and tia gossiping about her vaulting pole, and she still hates muffy to this day that's the only gossip we'll get on acnh 😔
I also hate that the villagers don’t interact with the furniture like they do in pocket camp. I was so disappointed when I put a spinning cup ride and found out the villagers only turn it on and off and just look at it. There is so much cute furniture in pocket camp that I wish they would transfer into new horizons.
@@nanthenoob In ACPC there are SO MANY interactive items that the villagers get to experience...it's absolutely adorable! I thought it was such a huge missed opportunity when they made all those cool rides in ACNH *smh There's nothing like watching the lil animals having fun on rides & hanging from balloons🎈
I miss the town feeling of the original game's towns. Like with a post office and train station. I know they're outdated but hey i like old vintage feels of a cozy town. Modernity feels cold and too flashy.
@@pip4773 I thought the same but then realized i can choose the right furniture and plants to get that feeling back. I thought if i had another switch i could make my own version of isle Delphino since it is an island game but then realized the cliffs don't come with white options like the Mediterranean has. I mainly miss the steam train and it's whistle sound, the monkeys who greeted me at the station, the police dogs at their post, the cute poste office. It just felt so homey and like a tiny old town. I can get close with decorations but i can never recreate the post office, train station, and police station and get the same feeling i got from the original games. And i wish they had a dock at one of the river areas with lily pads.
One thing that bothers me the most, no gates to add to our fence. Building a fence around a villager house, but stopping short of the path they could exit, looks weak. It doesn't even have to be an interactible gate. Just one that swings open as you run through it. Really seems like an easy addition. And no, arches don't work since the fences do not connect to them, making arches pointless as well. Also I wanted a Triforce, or a pet Metroid...
I honestly hate decorating my island. However, decorating in Happy Home Paradise is amazing because you can go in build mode. I really wish they would add a build mode to your island because that’s he one thing that’s stopping me from playing Animal Crossing right now, it’s just too much work.
I absolutely hate everything about the airport. The fact that you can’t put a dodo code in again if you mess up and you have to go through the WHOLE AIRPORT MENU AGAIN. And the fact you can’t go from NMT island to NMT island and have to go back to the airport every single time
I don't villager hunt anymore but when i did i thought it was stupid how we'd have to fly back to our island every time to hop back on the plane to go to another mystery island. How does that make any sense?.... Allot of the people who make excuses for the way they setup the game like to say "it's meant to be realistic" for allot of the things like waiting another day for construction and mail orders to come in, but certain things in the game make it feel like they made the game to waste your time for no good reason like the airport system with mystery islands.
@@citrusbutter7718 Yep, and I've been working on my own game that's like Story of Seasons mixed with Animal Crossing but it'll embrace quality-of-life stuff. For instance, crops don't spoil when the season changes and you don't have to water crops. The field is also already tilled.
@DAIZIEDAIZ omg yes. They have the "arriving screen" instead of a loading screen, but there's so many games on other consoles with online options that don't take half the time to load
New horizons was my first animal crossing game, but I always heard about how entertaining the old games were-- more specifically, the villager dialogue. So I went and bought new leaf and wild world. Some of the stuff i had said to me, especially in wild world, was absolutely hilarious; I want to actually be entertained more often with what my villagers have to say to me in NH darn it
@Amaii Yeah, Nintendo forgot that villagers are supposed to be like real people. Not everyone is all peppy and cheery all the time and even the happiest people can get annoyed. It's rare for that stuff to happen in New Horizons but the older games did some really interesting things.
I agree with all of these. Also, I want to be able to store flowers, either in storage or a greenhouse. It's frustrating having flowers and bushes taking up room on my beaches or inventory while I'm creating new areas
A greenhouse would be amazing. I often wanted to store my flowers but I never came up with the creator solution to do so. So I always put them on my beaches, but a greenhouse would be great
For batch crafting they dont even have to make it so we can choose a quantity when making stuff. If they just added a separate recipe that was a stack of 10 of a particular item it would speed things up.
Got bored. Sold my switch and went back to playing wild world on my Nintendo DS. The older versions were just more entertaining to me. A feature I wished and hoped they would add is one that allows you to ride the bikes. It never happened. Why shouldn’t we be able to interact with items more? Plus there’s the missing characters, you cannot make resetti blow his top and I miss the pelicans love triangle. New Horizons lacks depth.
I thought of the pelican's relationship as more of a polycule. Anyway, yeah. You can't even sit on rocks in New Horizons. You can't play soccer like in Population Growing. There's no red turnips. There's no mini games. It's just... lonely. Even with a full island, there's nothing.
What I'm really wanting is a shopping cart at the Able Sisters. Why do we have to go in the fitting room six times if we want more than one color variation? I'm also starting to think they're saving a lot of these features for another paid DLC, since Nintendo only specified there wouldn't be any more *free* major updates. Gotta squeeze more money out of players somehow...
I hate that the flowers behave like weeds and the weeds behave like flowers..... Why do i have to work harder to make weeds thick and bushy yet flowers grow wild to the point of being annoying.
You can kind of fix this by putting down an invisible square around the flower garden. The only thing I hate about custom pathing is that you lose the nice sounds of the grass/brick/wood. SPEAKING OF SOUNDS why the hell can't we turn off the music? I play the game on mute now cuz I can't stand the NH songs.
I agree with everything you listed, Kora. Everything. The lack of QoL updates was very disappointing and long-time staples of Animal Crossing such as the bigger stores and Gracie Grace being excluded in New Horizons was confusing to me. All of that being said, I love what was added to New Horizons that wasn't in past games! Villagers don't randomly move away anymore. We can add furniture to every square inch of our island, we can terraform... Heck, Happy Home Designer was a *separate* game in the 3DS days. Now it's literally attached to the main island. SO COOL! By far this is the best Animal Crossing game IMO. It's just a shame that it could have been *so* much better.
I remember when I started playing New Horizons, and I was mesmerised by everything just being so beautiful! And detailed! The museum still takes my breath away. I love how the sound of your feet changes according to the weather and the type of ground you're walking on. How the villagers read books or magazines with pictures in them. And as you say, there's plenty of stuff that was added we never had before (I dabbled in City Folk, but the last game I really played a lot was Wild World - and that's a huge difference). But there was also stuff missing or not fully thought through that had lots of potential. And I understand why some are upset by that. Also, to be honest, I wasn't exactly thrilled by getting the regular content updates. Like, I loved the content, but getting it slowly added in simply doesn't fit my play style.
I'm so glad that the characters in NH will ask you before moving away.... in NL I always saved and sorted all the mail I got from my villagers because you never know when you're gonna log on after a few days of not playing only to open up your mail and see your favourite villager moved away without letting you say goodbye.
@@syd1541 oh yea i’ve hearda that, cant even imagine wut that’d be like. not to mention villagers used to just place their house wherever by themselves
It began in 2021 when this game began to stop on me, then it went silent when miitopia released. After waiting for an update, it was finally announced on a Nintendo direct. I then hop on the game and played for hours until the feeling of boreness began, then began silent when pokemon legend arceus released, this time…. Permanently.
@mello~ NH has better graphics, a new storyline, plenty of new features and new villagers. Adding things we missed from the old games would by no means make it identical to them.
IMAGINE how Garcies furniture and clothing would look like in NH with the incredible graphig features! It would look so stunning. And does anyone think the Nooks looks kinda ugly. I am pretty unsatisfyed with how the shop looks
Totally agree about the villagers' personalities! My villager hunts used to be about the villager, now it's whether or not their house will suit my neighborhood. And I only talk to them now to get their photos, once they give me their photos - I'm happy to let them go (with very few exceptions). I also hate the villagers dropping in unannounced at your place. Why did they add this?? It's not charming, it's annoying when I'm busy! Why can't this feature be something YOU initiate?
when i’m in the middle of redecorating and a villager shows up at my house then the game tells me it’s rude to redecorate when a guest is over,,, i hate it so much
@@winnielou8206 The old games also had a bigger range of personalities and drama. If they can change that for the worse, and add so many other customized options - they could've made the 'dropping in' thing optional.
I usually describe my disappointment with this game by saying, “This Animal Crossing feels more like a design game than a life sim game.” Some people are going to love that about the game; I just grew up with Wild World, so I really miss the life sim vibe.
Estoy totalmente de acuerdo contigo. Y es algo que odio, todo el juego parece girar en torno a la personalización, pero es aburrido. También vengo de Wild World, y me encantan sus diálogos, pero mi preferido es New Leaf
Your description is 100% on point with what I think about New Horizons. The best thing about this series was the villagers and their interactions. I have no idea why the devs decided to focus on the decorating instead of polishing and improving the villagers more. They just feel more like trophies than characters now, and that makes me sad since I’ve felt genuine connections to my villagers in Wild World and City Folk. Also what bums me out is that sometimes when I’m roaming in the Internet I will see people that will describe Animal Crossing to those who never played the game as a game where you can decorate your island…and there is no mention of building friendships with your villagers alongside of developing your island. That made me “click” in my brain that New Horizons isn’t really (seen as) a life sim game; In reality it’s like what you said: A design game, and I didn’t buy the game for that. I actually just started playing the first game recently (this was the only Animal Crossing game that I never got a chance to play up until now), and man…I’m so glad I don’t have to worry about decorating lmao. The Cranky and Snooty villagers are actually in character and are sarcastic, snarky, or lowkey throw shade at you the first couple of times you speak to them. I actually felt reactions when the GC villagers spoke to me compared to me having little to no kind of any emotional reaction from my New Horizons villagers speaking to me. I’m hoping that for the next distant Animal Crossing entry the devs will try to re-improve on the villagers, but I’m pretty pessimistic about it, to be honest.
All great points. Still very mad about the fact that you can only have one island per switch. We have a family Switch and I bought animal crossing so I got my island but my siblings would love it and I just can’t bring myself to share the island. I just wish they would have done that because the switch was meant to be a shared console ( except for switch lite)
I also miss Porter and Copper Porter used to traveling to other towns by coordinating transportation between towns and Copper used to warn us to be careful at night. I’m saying is I miss the old villagers being sassy and I miss the mini games and I was new players were there to experience it
The main thing for me is that this game is too easy. I hated when my villagers left and I couldn’t stop them in Wild World, but it made me work hard to keep them! And sometimes I couldn’t, which taught me that life is about change and a friend leaving makes space for a new one. I miss those timessss
I wish we could build empty buildings to make our own cafes etc inside, and I wish we could craft windows to add inside our rooms, if you want to use a pattern on your walls you have no windows!
MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY!!! I’d also say some other issues are… - No sound/music adjustment app - No top down pov but there is a completely horizontal pov. A top down pov would be super convenient for terraforming. - No option to use nook tickets when already on a mystery island - Can’t build on fourth level
My biggest frustration is the removal of the tropical island where no matter what season it was you could go and catch really expensive interesting bugs and catch sharks. But weirdly I haven’t seen anyone else complaining about this? I know you can get a tropical esc island from kappn though I haven’t got that myself. My personally I would easily get rid of the lottery of which island you might get, and put back the tropical island where it felt like there was more to do. It was enjoyable to be around. It was never disappointing and it was a great money maker. And also the chest to store more stuff in to transport home! I would do anything for that back. Maybe a bit of a niche complaint but I’m just glad to get to say it!
I miss being able to have my own house on a tropical island like in GameCube. I also miss just being able to go to the island and it's always warm, which meant better fish, like sharks.
As much as I love the terraforming and everything, I dislike that this game encourages you to make your island not look like an Animal Crossing village anymore. Why is it that my star rating only improves the further I get from an experience that looks and feels like the earlier installments in the series?? I'm here because of how much I loved those games!
I just hate that you can't turn off the music. I know it's Nintendo's motto for not allowing this option but it hurts a lot more here because of how incredible the sound design is. I occasionally play the game muted unless I fish just because of how tiring it is for me to listen to the same songs over what would otherwise be a cozy vibe.
yeah… a personal opinion but- it sucks more because i don’t really like the hourly music that much here. compared to previous installments… acnl 7pm song when it’s raining is just… 🥰
@@Poedoco I definitely agree! I think the music is great (just not to my personal taste) and it fits the island theme very well, but that's part of the problem - I feel like previous games' music was much more neutral, in a sense?
I was really hoping they would add in an option to play with the past games soundtracks - at least for the hourly music. I can’t stand the new songs but love the ones from the past games, particularly wild world
Agree 1000% with all of this. Also why can't we adjust SFX independently??? Sometimes I want to turn off the music, especially if I have a headache that day, or if I want to listen to a podcast at the same time. Sometimes I'm fishing for a particular fish and just want to hear the audio cues without also blasting the music throughout the house at 2 am. Like, seriously, what's up with that???
At least they added them and gave them all a fresh coat of paint. They added Brewster too. It's just disappointing that they didn't give us everything on launch. You know how many updates New Leaf got? Just one.
The entire reason I loved Animal Crossing is because of the villagers. I never got to play new leaf, but I played the GameCube version and all I ever wanted was to meet them and talk to them. Unfortunately I've heard many people complain that the villagers in Animal Crossing lack depth. So sad to see the game missed the mark on it, it's the reason I never bought it
Nintendo is always keen to not include too much value. That's why it took 15 years to get the quality of life features we have now. And they rushed out the DLC, I'm guessing they combined 2, Harv's Island and HHA Island. And the game is selling too well to justify sweetening the deal with more DLC.
New leaf will always be my favorite. It was the only one I really played (besides city folk which I remember nothing from since that was years ago) so I feel really connected to it. I have a perfect island, some great villagers, all the shops unlocked, and I’m just overall very satisfied with my progress. New horizons stresses me out sooo much. I love the ability to customize my island a lot more, but it also makes me feel so much more stressed since I want everything to be perfect now and I know it won’t be. Now that I’ve finally made more progress, I’ve realized I want to change some things to make it better. But it costs 10,000 bells just to move a building or demolish an incline which costs 98,000+ to rebuild. I also hate that the online aspect is a paid subscription thing. I wish I could use other people’s designs for clothes or decorations but I’m not gonna pay real money for that
Graphics = better Gameplay = worse In New Leaf, your tools will never break. In City Folk, there's a big city. In Wild World, there's red turnips. In Population Growing, there's balls you can actually play with.
Also Please give me the oppurtinity to order more then 5 items a day, maybe even with same day express delivery for extra bells. The Mailcase isnt even limited anymore like it was in nl
I hardly agree with the villager one. It might sound weird but I really enjoyed it that some of the villagers were straight up rude in the past games. That’s what made me love the snooty villagers so much. In new horizons even our worst enemies became our friends and they lost there personality. Now they are just boring and dry lifeless creature’s.
I mean to be honest, I really don’t miss Ressetti always lecturing me whenever I didn’t save… but I do miss saving manually, there’s something… reassuring about it
The biggest flaw I absolutely CAN’T stand about this game that stops me from playing it is being restricted to one island per console. Let’s say you want to have a second island where the layout and theme is completely different, you’d have to buy a separate console just to make the island, since that data is stored into the console instead of the game card. It’s even worse when you have siblings that also play this game, and I feel as if it’s just a total cash grab.
Especially if Nintendo really cares about the family playing aspect. No kid wants to have to play on an island their sibling controls… especially because the whole experience for a second player is incredibly diminished. They would have made more money and had a happier user base if they just charged a fee for an additional island slot to be added to an account.
I actually get enjoyment out of the villagers in a aww this is adorable kind of way and I also headcanon a lot but ofc that shouldn’t be mandatory… as for the rest? Agreed. I love and adore ACNH, I still play daily, I have three islands. But so many baffling choices. I still hope the Zelda items will be back as cross promotion bc why did they remove something that was in the game since the original?! Their own IP?! It’s so baffling. Same goes for the Cranny and while we’re at it why can’t we customize it then at least or Resident Services?! Argh 🙈
i found animal crossing from the sims community just before acnh came out and i fell in love with the franchise immediately. i've been a nintendo fan my whole life but i didn't have a switch so i bought one to be play animal crossing. i have to say acnh felt amazing and it still is an awesome game but i wish there was more to it since these features exist, there were so many missed oppoturnities and they could've made the game even better. honestly i've thought about buying a 3ds to try new leaf especially bc i've heard many good things about it
I hate the fact that I cannot just SIT and RELAX inside The Roost. If I order a cup of coffee, i drink it fast and immediately get up. If I try to sit at a booth, Brewster tells me it's reserved. That's BS! what kind of coffee shop doesn't let you sit down and rest for a few minutes, FFS!?
I would like to add rugs outside and a shopping cart in Able Sisters to the list to of things we are salty about. As long as it's clear that I will still love and play this game. LOL
I agree with everything you said, except I really hate terraforming one square at a time. While the DLC is great, it dangles the carrot. Clearly it's not an issue of not having the mechanics in place, they just deliberately want to make it slow and painful. 😂 A couple other pet peeves of mine... Only being able to buy one type of item at a time in the dressing room at Able Sisters; Only being able to buy one item at a time from vendors (Kicks, Sahara, etc); Button mashing your way through the same overly chatty dialogue constantly; Paths not connecting together if they're different; The dreaded cut scene you have to sit through every single time someone arrives or departs an island; Reconnecting to the internet and starting over if you mess up a Dodo code. It also would be nice if it shows what you already have in your storage/inventory when you buy things. If not for all the things you listed and the few things I added, I would play more regularly. But the tediousness of these things and the constant grinding sometimes burns me out. 😥
There could be a simple fix for a lot of these problems as well. Have a visiting cruise ship. We could go on board, visit Gracie’s on board designs, rotating characters that are missing could invite us to play on board games and win prizes, and have special cruise events for holidays. Additional pet peeves of mine is not being able to fully expand every room in my house, and not having a castle as a home choice. I also miss all the flowering bonsais.
idk that seems like a big update to me, which they promised ain’t happening anymore. not really as simple when you have to think about it from a game developer’s perspective... i love the idea though. idk about the rooms… unpopular opinion but- i really didn’t like how huge the side rooms got in NL. Like… how do you even style them?
Question: Does anyone kind of... Hate CJ, Flick and Daisy Mae? I LOVED Nat, Chip and Joan. I know it's the whole "New generation" but come on! If Tom and Isabelle are here so the others should be too! Also: I MISS PHINEAS THE BADGE MAN!
My main pet peeve with the game is the paths. If we place custom designs via the construction tool, they should register as actual paths!!! I love the look of custom paths, but I've stuck to default ones because I want my villagers to actually follow them.
I honestly dont like the villagers randomly walking in, I'd love it if they had personality added in, but since theyre so bland it just feels inconvenient and interrupts my island decorating lol
I just started playing acnh last month and while I love it a lot I always felt it was lacking so many features… Bulk crafting, hhp terraforming, and more villagers interaction, etc. The game loves to waste an unnecessary amount of your time and the villagers are so bland. I have four peppy villagers, if I hear about the maglevs more than once in a day, I’ll just shut off and come back to playing later.
Ugh agree so much with the square thing and Street Pass. I miss Street Pass so much but I also get so frustrated when I'm trying to customize my island. Honestly, I didn't pick up a switch or New Horizons until the 2.0 update came because there were so many things to do in New Leaf. This makes me want to go back to playing New Leaf again. Ah Nostalgia .....
a sort of minor thing i wish would be added is being able to plan your island before doing things. by this i mean it like how some websites allow you to use the map and decide how you want your island to look. why should we have to use a whole other device to try and get something to plan our island with ? it would help so much with deciding how you want things to go , even if you couldn’t walk around or use the imagine feature like you use for buildings.
I kinda miss villagers moving away... it also would've been good karma for people who spend bells on villagers and see them as aesthetics lolll but they also see them like that partially because of lack of quality of life updates. I love everything new horizons added but it's become more of a decorating game...
@@fallon3340 Haha yeah karma. I mean it more as a tease/joke. I just wish people experienced certain animal crossing aspects that were taken out. I don't care as much as u think I do, considering u went out of ur way to say they're pixels. But I care enough to mention was I said before. It's just something I would've preferred and would've made for good memes and brought the community closer.
I think the thing I hate most about New Horizons right now is that villagers can just barge into your house whenever they want, and SUPER frequently I might add. It makes me not want to customize this house that I spent SO SO SO much time and effort upgrading. I wish you could just put a Do Not Disturb sign on your door or something. I also miss Gracie, Pelly, Phyllis, and Pete. Especially Phyllis' snarky attitude and under her breath roasting. I feel like the villagers are just so cuddly and soft now, like I miss the shade that villagers could throw your way. I feel like the graphics and customization are the only things that are better in this game than in past games. There was so much more to do in New Leaf! Anyway, thanks for listening to me rant. Great video!
Only complaints I have about the game are the blend effect in design editor and the soundtrack. I do all my own original designs and all of the work should be about color choices, outlines, composition, that sort of thing. What happens instead is 80% of the work becomes all the trial and error you have to do to figure out what bleeds into other colors and what doesn't, with seemingly no rhyme or reason, tweeking all 15 colors until they each blend the exact way you want them to. I couldn't just go in and change one color -1 darkness, for example, without throwing off the entire design. Your brain automatically blends an image composed of sharp pixels anyway, so remove the smoothing! 2nd is the hourly music. I've never had a video game OST so bad I had to play the game on mute, because every other game in existence will at least allow you to turn the music off. The game's SFX are fine!
They give us a marker for when we're placing down buildings so I don't see why we can't just have a smaller version of that for when we're terraforming or shoveling. Or even to show where our fishing line will be cast. Maybe it's just me but I almost always have to cast my line 2-3 times before I can land it in front of the shadow.
Even if I haven’t played Animal Crossing New Leaf for like 3 months, I’ll still kind of want to go back but sometimes New Horizons can feel a bit like you have to go back so your villages don’t guilt trip you (there more guilt-trippy in ACNL but in ACNH you feel as if you have to make an effort to unlock certain features). For example, just by going on New Leaf, after a couple of days, you can unlock the island and Kapp’n (who is a bit creepy but that’s besides the point). To be honest, I’ve had New Leaf for longer so maybe that’s why I like it more but I’ve had New Horizons for over a year and I still haven’t unlocked terraforming (I’ve just looked up how to do it so I guess I’ll do it soon). Although some characters are annoying, I think I’ve realised what I like about New Leaf; there’s more interactions, whether that’s getting your hair done or working at the coffee shops, there’s always people to see. 🤣
@1:30 awww villager kora had to crane her neck to look up at gracie lol. i know it's not something to "miss" but how come there isn't a long, straight hairstyle with no bangs? seems so obvious yet its not there...
Why is nobody talking about these two things: 1. PORTER!!! He was so adorable, we need more of him and his train station! 2. How our stuff in our storage would also be able to be accessed through other islands
Oh boy, I want Metroid crossover stuff xD Bring me Samus' armor, gimme that baby Metroid, I'd love a Raven Beak villager Bulk crafting & Nook's Cranny updates are probably my most wanted things. I wouldn't mind Able Sister update too- Put Label there with Gracie's designs or such placed on posters or display and you can order them, Label just calls Gracie and you'll get the stuff tomorrow or something I also of course still got my impossible wishes, a full 360 camera and stuff so you can enjoy things to the fullest & being able to play as an animal character
I miss mean/sassy villagers so much. They added so much more personality and variety. ACNH feels too... sanitized. Every villager is nice and loves you. I truly miss when they'd insult you or act petty.
I hate how they make you wait a day for no reason, like in quests. It's like they're trying to give the illusion that the game has more content than there actually is.
If I'm going to dream, I want more refined control over the audio in the game. It has improved but still doesn't properly separate the diegetic music from the hourly themes, and I keep having situations where a speaker and the hourly theme are fighting each other to horrible results. It's even worse when KK is around. I often just wish I could turn off the hourly music, especially when many of the songs just aren't as pretty as they were in New Leaf, and even moreso after hearing them for hundreds of hours each.
Well, since you asked . . . the big, huge thing I miss from an older game (apart from everything you mentioned already) is drawing constellations, from "Wild World". "New Horizons" gave us an adjustable camera where you can pan up to look at the sky, and there are clearly a lot of stars out at night. They could have made it so we could get Celeste's observatory put back in the museum so we could draw constellations again. Come to think of it, why didn't they bring back the customized museum exhibit rooms from New Leaf? I loved that feature. It was fun putting together additional rooms with different types of furniture that didn't fit the theme of any of the rooms in my house.
i actually had resetti appear once cause i dropped my switch and the battery disconnected (luckily no permanent damage), but i did get to hear resetti be angry (disappointed) at me for suddenly turning off the console while the game was saving
Would be nice if you could ask villagers to leave your island. Maybe you could even help them pack up. Or something so it's not just giving them the boot. Would be nice instead of the waiting game to see if one does want to leave or the right one to leave.
Imo the biggest flaw is definitely no mini games and other objectives like shop upgrades from other games. Once you get bored with decorating you have basically NOTHING to do, there isn't really anything to work towards after the 'tutorial' stage,nook mile stuff is basically just the same boring repetitive stuff and the villagers and NPC's don't have much of an entertaining dialogue either. I've decorated. And decorated. And decorated. Over and over again. Flattened, restarted, the whole nine yards. It's just so boring after a while, all i want is a few minigames to pass time and some form of proper objectives that the player could work towards and look forward to ( and time lock them. Make them actually challenging.I love time traveling but if we had actual store upgrades for example, I'd want to actually work towards them, not accidentally unlock them because i traveled forward a month to visit a different season)
I am of the rather unpopular opinion that I'm ok with not having bulk crafting/I really don't mind making individual crafts each time. I...can't really explain it
Hate that you can't just outright kick a villager out. It took literal MONTHS to get rid of the one villager I did not want there. Everybody else mentioned wanting to leave except for him! 😡
It's less a missing from past games, and more a missing in generally all installments; Back in wild world, the villagers had hobbies and such, but generally, there isn't really a lot to DO with your villagers. It's not about getting more personality types, and more so something to actually do with them. Hide and seek in New leaf was fine and all, but it doesn't really add to the characters. I wish they would have taken some of the mechanics in happy home designer into the main game, as a reward for befriending them. They might ask you to put down a specific piece of furniture for them how you'd think it looks best, or ask for a remodel. Something Stardew valley does for a while is giving a sense of progression to befriending characters, both through cutscenes and mechanics. I'd like dialogue choices, things my villagers remember players and even each other by, having one of the jocks jog around with you on the island, and have more meaningful conversations. Invite your animal friends for a sleepover or to cook. Basically building a more nuanced character according to how the player acts, so that even ugly villagers can have more personal attachement.
I miss all those things as well but what I really miss is having those consoles in game like the switch and the Nintendo 3ds but no minigame when interacting with it. I LOVED those minigames in New Leaf. I could say I lived in them after every shop was closed due to it being so late. I just miss having a break from creating my island, fishing and stuff because it's kinda draining sometimes so I would love to play a round of puzzle league but here we are...one of my favorite feature missing and making those consoles useless.
As a new player I really want something, like a bar, which tells me how close my tools are to giving out. And the expensive ones from nooks cranny are not worth the bells. I feel stuff gives out really fast…like a bubble blower…one bubble and it’s done. Also…can I make different buildings? Like I have all this cool furniture and nowhere to put it. I feel this is just me not knowing how the game works.
It definitely seems like they didn’t have enough time to implement all the features 😅 I definitely enjoy villagers from previous game more but Horizon has a lot more going on due to customization
Yeahhh New Leaf makes New Horizons look extremely boring. New Horizons had so much potential, but they focused too much on the customization then actual core content. You don’t even need to log in often because villagers only leave if you tell them too, not on their own
Actually Phineas in Animal Crossing City Folk was a balloon salesman. I Loved seeing him with his little cart filled with various little things from pinwheels to bubble wands. (Because of how versatile he is with the job he could do I did expect him to return with either a new perpose or one of his old ones)
The invisible space around all the items is too large, especially for small items. The spacing annoys me so much, and there are times when I can’t center things. It’s either too far to the left or too far to the right. Then I can’t get anywhere near some things. A small item has this huge space round it I can’t get through. The spacing is so frustrating overall.
No Nook's Cranny or Able shop upgrade is very frustrating. I also think Leif could have more seasonal variation in the shrubs and flowers he offers. The fact that you can only buy 1 nook miles ticket at a time is absurd. I rarely go anymore just because it's such a hassle. Same for only being able to buy 5 customization kits. I never buy less than 50 at a time.
I don't think the lack of bulk crafting was an oversight, I think they intentionally left it out just to make the pacing slower. It is waaaay too obvious to be an "oversight" that was missed during thousands of hours of playtesting. There is no way not one person said "Hey, it would be great if we could craft multiple fish baits at once." Especially after all the updates, it still doesn't exist, so they left it out for a reason at this point. A very stupid reason.
I miss making constellations in City Folk/Wild World and looking at your constellations throughout the night sky and watching it change throughout the year (Ex: Your constellation being very visible in August but not at all really in January)
Yesterday I trudged through the Pave event. I made my little brother do it instead. The game feels like it only gives stuff (like the feathers) "when it feels like it." I've finding it harder to come back to to this game when it feels like it doesn't respect your time. I can't just play a chore session done quickly and play something else. I'm pretty sure that it is subtly designed to keep you playing longer.... Of course I still like the game! Just not on the days I don't have a lot of time to play or I'd much rather work through my backlog.... (And when I don't just feel like Stardew Valley instead....)
sadly there are no more major updates to ACNH; "Nintendo has confirmed to IGN that Animal Crossing: New Horizons' version 2.0 update and its Happy Home Paradise paid DLC will be the final major updates to the game that has sold over 33 million copies since its launch in March 2020." now that's something I hate.
I still cannot for the life of me comprehend their decision on that. Acnh being one of their best selling games since 2020 and they decide to STOP large updates???? The amount of people who would be willing to pay for another large dlc is enormous. If they actually added more quality of life to the game i would throw my money at them. Stopping big updates is the worst decision they could've made for a game that has all the potential in the world
two other big things that literally wouldn’t take much to integrate. bulk buying clothes and a tool damage indicator. like- even changing the sprite, adding a bar- or like have a pop-up saying it’s damaged and will break soon. LITERALLY something so integral for breakable items. hell, even BotW did this. MINECRAFT had this since the beginning- ACNL HAD IT FOR AXES. It just… makes me so mad. Without those, the bulk crafting and upgraded nooks cranny literally makes it annoying to play. Also… not being able to change any of the service buildings outsides makes me a little mad. I 100% doubt it’ll happen but you’re out of luck you want your residents services to look different. Not even the damn roof color.
I miss being insulted and berated by my villagers being told I'm stinky and being told that they wish my house would burn down was the true beauty of the game
They wish your house would burn down LOLLL, I miss how mean they could get as well, it gave them personality. I don't think I remember the dialogue ever repeating, at least as much as this game does.
My biggest gripe is the inability to see where you are going to terraform/waterscape. The direction of the character is so precise and yet there is no guide. You are editing blind. I also wish that when you are out of "construction mode" you cannot edit custom designs like paths. I can't count how many times I tried to pick something up and erased a custom design square. So frustrating when you are on a roll doing stuff around the island!
Heres what im mad about -Lack of villager gossip -I want my villagers to hate me :) -The villagers in New Horizons when they talk, is just so bland. -I get it, Bam. You want to run laps. -i literally hate the new music. I love and miss New Leaf music -Why can't we work at Brewster's anymore?
I miss the ability to meet old neighbors in the shops like in new leaf, it hurt when Roald didnt recognize me when I saw him on an island again. Also I really miss minigames too, been saying wii sports would have been a great addition and the only reason its not here is because they probably plan on releasing it again... months later I was right (cries). I miss the sassy neighbors too and all the quirky things they did like show random letters or that they wanted to play hide and seek, we need more interactions period! Also I miss my metroid being in his lil test tube. Side note, new leafs only irk for me was that there was no virtual boy mini games that could have utilized the 3d effects, I hate that it wasnt there but not being able to buy and play mini games on nintendo consoles here blows.
The problem with ANCH is it is the first AC game no longer developed by the same, iconic development team which created it before. They totally betrayed Eguchi's vision.
I miss villagers gossiping and arguing with each other. Back in Wild World I'd always rush over to hear the latest gossip or some big dumb argument they'd get into, and they'd have really extreme reactions which would last for several minutes.
Now when they do talk it's really civil and basically just exchanging catch phrases.
They used to tick each other off or make each other happy in this game, but after one of the earlier updates, they stopped doing that.
I’ve never played an Animal Crossing game other than New Horizons. . .
BUT
I would love it because I live for the drama 😏
one time my mom heard muffy and tia gossiping about her vaulting pole, and she still hates muffy to this day
that's the only gossip we'll get on acnh 😔
They do argue and compliment each other
idk about you but my villagers still get into tiffs. sadly no gossip :(
I also hate that the villagers don’t interact with the furniture like they do in pocket camp. I was so disappointed when I put a spinning cup ride and found out the villagers only turn it on and off and just look at it. There is so much cute furniture in pocket camp that I wish they would transfer into new horizons.
Wait do they ride it in pocket camp?
@@nanthenoob i think so
@@nanthenoob yeah there are some bunny day teacup rides that they will sit inside
@@nanthenoob In ACPC there are SO MANY interactive items that the villagers get to experience...it's absolutely adorable! I thought it was such a huge missed opportunity when they made all those cool rides in ACNH *smh There's nothing like watching the lil animals having fun on rides & hanging from balloons🎈
Oh I couldn't agree more. I miss my pocket camp so terribly. But I do love playing acnh
I miss the town feeling of the original game's towns. Like with a post office and train station. I know they're outdated but hey i like old vintage feels of a cozy town. Modernity feels cold and too flashy.
The original game was classy
Same here
I felt this way too! it’s so nice to see I’m not alone
this one right here! THIS TAKE!! i miss the wild world aesthetic and its why i was so taken aback when the new game was on a tropical island
@@pip4773 I thought the same but then realized i can choose the right furniture and plants to get that feeling back. I thought if i had another switch i could make my own version of isle Delphino since it is an island game but then realized the cliffs don't come with white options like the Mediterranean has.
I mainly miss the steam train and it's whistle sound, the monkeys who greeted me at the station, the police dogs at their post, the cute poste office. It just felt so homey and like a tiny old town. I can get close with decorations but i can never recreate the post office, train station, and police station and get the same feeling i got from the original games. And i wish they had a dock at one of the river areas with lily pads.
One thing that bothers me the most, no gates to add to our fence. Building a fence around a villager house, but stopping short of the path they could exit, looks weak. It doesn't even have to be an interactible gate. Just one that swings open as you run through it. Really seems like an easy addition. And no, arches don't work since the fences do not connect to them, making arches pointless as well.
Also I wanted a Triforce, or a pet Metroid...
Honestly I just use the spooky fencing and pretend they’re little iron gates, having one opened and the other closed lmao
yes. totally agree. it looks like a criminal coyld break in. even if the fence doesnt lock. it would still look...safer
I honestly hate decorating my island. However, decorating in Happy Home Paradise is amazing because you can go in build mode. I really wish they would add a build mode to your island because that’s he one thing that’s stopping me from playing Animal Crossing right now, it’s just too much work.
I totally agree I stop playing for while bc of this! It's so hard to get 3 star island to! It ruined my mental health
They added a build mode in Pocket Camp wayyy before Happy Home Paradise! I hope they continue with the trend
Right? It's so punishing
the only way I can play is doing little sections over time. because it truly is so much work to do the simplest and smallest projects
ikr??? it should be like customizing in your house.
I absolutely hate everything about the airport. The fact that you can’t put a dodo code in again if you mess up and you have to go through the WHOLE AIRPORT MENU AGAIN. And the fact you can’t go from NMT island to NMT island and have to go back to the airport every single time
I don't villager hunt anymore but when i did i thought it was stupid how we'd have to fly back to our island every time to hop back on the plane to go to another mystery island. How does that make any sense?.... Allot of the people who make excuses for the way they setup the game like to say "it's meant to be realistic" for allot of the things like waiting another day for construction and mail orders to come in, but certain things in the game make it feel like they made the game to waste your time for no good reason like the airport system with mystery islands.
you’re so right. the dodo code thing is infuriating
@@citrusbutter7718 Yep, and I've been working on my own game that's like Story of Seasons mixed with Animal Crossing but it'll embrace quality-of-life stuff. For instance, crops don't spoil when the season changes and you don't have to water crops. The field is also already tilled.
Or if you press the exit button when you're trying to input a code so you have to wait for Orville to "connect to the internet" AGAIN
@DAIZIEDAIZ omg yes. They have the "arriving screen" instead of a loading screen, but there's so many games on other consoles with online options that don't take half the time to load
New horizons was my first animal crossing game, but I always heard about how entertaining the old games were-- more specifically, the villager dialogue. So I went and bought new leaf and wild world. Some of the stuff i had said to me, especially in wild world, was absolutely hilarious; I want to actually be entertained more often with what my villagers have to say to me in NH darn it
SAME
@Amaii Yeah, Nintendo forgot that villagers are supposed to be like real people. Not everyone is all peppy and cheery all the time and even the happiest people can get annoyed. It's rare for that stuff to happen in New Horizons but the older games did some really interesting things.
Same I found my ds after 10 years and the diloge is sweet
Yeah, I think I might get new leaf or wild world, can you get either of those on a 2Ds?
@@kindlittlebunny9869 new leaf dialogue is a weak as NH… the wild world dialogue is the best
I agree with all of these. Also, I want to be able to store flowers, either in storage or a greenhouse. It's frustrating having flowers and bushes taking up room on my beaches or inventory while I'm creating new areas
A greenhouse would be amazing. I often wanted to store my flowers but I never came up with the creator solution to do so. So I always put them on my beaches, but a greenhouse would be great
For batch crafting they dont even have to make it so we can choose a quantity when making stuff. If they just added a separate recipe that was a stack of 10 of a particular item it would speed things up.
Got bored. Sold my switch and went back to playing wild world on my Nintendo DS. The older versions were just more entertaining to me. A feature I wished and hoped they would add is one that allows you to ride the bikes. It never happened. Why shouldn’t we be able to interact with items more? Plus there’s the missing characters, you cannot make resetti blow his top and I miss the pelicans love triangle. New Horizons lacks depth.
I thought of the pelican's relationship as more of a polycule. Anyway, yeah. You can't even sit on rocks in New Horizons. You can't play soccer like in Population Growing. There's no red turnips. There's no mini games. It's just... lonely. Even with a full island, there's nothing.
Was really sad when they didn't bring back constellation drawing for 2.0
Same I can’t stand new horizons
What I'm really wanting is a shopping cart at the Able Sisters. Why do we have to go in the fitting room six times if we want more than one color variation?
I'm also starting to think they're saving a lot of these features for another paid DLC, since Nintendo only specified there wouldn't be any more *free* major updates. Gotta squeeze more money out of players somehow...
Nintendo should remake New Leaf but will all of the new stuff added in New Horizons excluding the lame stuff like crafting and tool breaking.
@@Hauntaku Or at least make sure the next AC game has the best of both.
They stated the game wouldn't have anymore paid DLC either.
@@maxpowers6738 That just freaking sucks.
I absolutely hate when u plant 1 flower then suddenly you waste 5 shovels trying to get them under control
I hate that the flowers behave like weeds and the weeds behave like flowers..... Why do i have to work harder to make weeds thick and bushy yet flowers grow wild to the point of being annoying.
@@citrusbutter7718 Ikr
You can kind of fix this by putting down an invisible square around the flower garden. The only thing I hate about custom pathing is that you lose the nice sounds of the grass/brick/wood. SPEAKING OF SOUNDS why the hell can't we turn off the music? I play the game on mute now cuz I can't stand the NH songs.
@@NinjaKittkatt Definitely should have included all the music from the previous games and let you set the music schedule.
@@crustyhotdog7940 genius idea from a crusty hotdog!
I agree with everything you listed, Kora. Everything. The lack of QoL updates was very disappointing and long-time staples of Animal Crossing such as the bigger stores and Gracie Grace being excluded in New Horizons was confusing to me. All of that being said, I love what was added to New Horizons that wasn't in past games! Villagers don't randomly move away anymore. We can add furniture to every square inch of our island, we can terraform... Heck, Happy Home Designer was a *separate* game in the 3DS days. Now it's literally attached to the main island. SO COOL!
By far this is the best Animal Crossing game IMO. It's just a shame that it could have been *so* much better.
i feel almost the exact same way. i’d feel weird playin acnl after getting used to all the new things nh added!
Yeah.. The store especially is disappointing since literally the first game has a bigger store. I always expected it would come in a late free update.
I remember when I started playing New Horizons, and I was mesmerised by everything just being so beautiful! And detailed! The museum still takes my breath away. I love how the sound of your feet changes according to the weather and the type of ground you're walking on. How the villagers read books or magazines with pictures in them. And as you say, there's plenty of stuff that was added we never had before (I dabbled in City Folk, but the last game I really played a lot was Wild World - and that's a huge difference).
But there was also stuff missing or not fully thought through that had lots of potential. And I understand why some are upset by that. Also, to be honest, I wasn't exactly thrilled by getting the regular content updates. Like, I loved the content, but getting it slowly added in simply doesn't fit my play style.
I'm so glad that the characters in NH will ask you before moving away.... in NL I always saved and sorted all the mail I got from my villagers because you never know when you're gonna log on after a few days of not playing only to open up your mail and see your favourite villager moved away without letting you say goodbye.
@@syd1541 oh yea i’ve hearda that, cant even imagine wut that’d be like. not to mention villagers used to just place their house wherever by themselves
I just wish the villagers had more depth and personality. I hate that there are over 400 villagers and yet only 8 personality types.
Has anyone else actually stopped playing new horizons, but continued to watch these videos? They’re just so entertaining for some reason.
I’ve played Acnh for every day since may 2020, but I still love to rewatch kora’s videos
I’m guilty of that :I
It began in 2021 when this game began to stop on me, then it went silent when miitopia released. After waiting for an update, it was finally announced on a Nintendo direct. I then hop on the game and played for hours until the feeling of boreness began, then began silent when pokemon legend arceus released, this time…. Permanently.
I haven’t played in like a year and half but I still watch all these videos lol
ive basically stopped playing the main game but still hooked on the dlc lol
New Horizons is my first AC game, so I don't miss anything. But I agree that New Horizon's could definitely be improved upon.
@mello~ Nah, that's a fallacy.
@mello~
NH has better graphics, a new storyline, plenty of new features and new villagers. Adding things we missed from the old games would by no means make it identical to them.
IMAGINE how Garcies furniture and clothing would look like in NH with the incredible graphig features! It would look so stunning.
And does anyone think the Nooks looks kinda ugly. I am pretty unsatisfyed with how the shop looks
The festive tree Clothing returned but it looks more generic now.
Totally agree about the villagers' personalities! My villager hunts used to be about the villager, now it's whether or not their house will suit my neighborhood. And I only talk to them now to get their photos, once they give me their photos - I'm happy to let them go (with very few exceptions).
I also hate the villagers dropping in unannounced at your place. Why did they add this?? It's not charming, it's annoying when I'm busy! Why can't this feature be something YOU initiate?
Why can't they have a feature where you could put up a sign on the door to tell people to go away?
To be fair the dropping in on you is something from the old games
when i’m in the middle of redecorating and a villager shows up at my house then the game tells me it’s rude to redecorate when a guest is over,,, i hate it so much
@@winnielou8206 The old games also had a bigger range of personalities and drama. If they can change that for the worse, and add so many other customized options - they could've made the 'dropping in' thing optional.
i really miss my villagers calling me completely worthless if i don’t do what they want😭
I'm glad I'm not the only masochist.
I usually describe my disappointment with this game by saying, “This Animal Crossing feels more like a design game than a life sim game.”
Some people are going to love that about the game; I just grew up with Wild World, so I really miss the life sim vibe.
Estoy totalmente de acuerdo contigo. Y es algo que odio, todo el juego parece girar en torno a la personalización, pero es aburrido. También vengo de Wild World, y me encantan sus diálogos, pero mi preferido es New Leaf
Your description is 100% on point with what I think about New Horizons.
The best thing about this series was the villagers and their interactions. I have no idea why the devs decided to focus on the decorating instead of polishing and improving the villagers more. They just feel more like trophies than characters now, and that makes me sad since I’ve felt genuine connections to my villagers in Wild World and City Folk.
Also what bums me out is that sometimes when I’m roaming in the Internet I will see people that will describe Animal Crossing to those who never played the game as a game where you can decorate your island…and there is no mention of building friendships with your villagers alongside of developing your island. That made me “click” in my brain that New Horizons isn’t really (seen as) a life sim game; In reality it’s like what you said: A design game, and I didn’t buy the game for that.
I actually just started playing the first game recently (this was the only Animal Crossing game that I never got a chance to play up until now), and man…I’m so glad I don’t have to worry about decorating lmao. The Cranky and Snooty villagers are actually in character and are sarcastic, snarky, or lowkey throw shade at you the first couple of times you speak to them. I actually felt reactions when the GC villagers spoke to me compared to me having little to no kind of any emotional reaction from my New Horizons villagers speaking to me. I’m hoping that for the next distant Animal Crossing entry the devs will try to re-improve on the villagers, but I’m pretty pessimistic about it, to be honest.
@AndrewWithEase11 11 oh no women bad men good oh nooo
@AndrewWithEase11 11 yeah, that’s why all of these women are complaining about it?
All great points. Still very mad about the fact that you can only have one island per switch. We have a family Switch and I bought animal crossing so I got my island but my siblings would love it and I just can’t bring myself to share the island. I just wish they would have done that because the switch was meant to be a shared console ( except for switch lite)
"why do I have to wait for it to show up in one of FIVE shopping spots??" ---- I STILL haven't seen froggy chair!!! Duuuuuuuuuude. >:[
Have you tried shaking trees and popping balloons? Talking to Whisp?
Do you have the dlc? After a certain amount of things bought you can use the catalogue
The lack of Gracie *is* an abomination. Glad to see someone else saying it 😂
Tortimer's Island and its mini games is what I miss the most, I also deeply miss my boy Wolf Link :(
He was a very special friend 💔
I also miss Porter and Copper
Porter used to traveling to other towns by coordinating transportation between towns and Copper used to warn us to be careful at night. I’m saying is I miss the old villagers being sassy and I miss the mini games and I was new players were there to experience it
The main thing for me is that this game is too easy. I hated when my villagers left and I couldn’t stop them in Wild World, but it made me work hard to keep them! And sometimes I couldn’t, which taught me that life is about change and a friend leaving makes space for a new one. I miss those timessss
yet i sobbed about resetting because i left rosie and butch
I wish we could build empty buildings to make our own cafes etc inside, and I wish we could craft windows to add inside our rooms, if you want to use a pattern on your walls you have no windows!
I do enjoy the creative and insane solutions for buildings on peoples islands tho! It makes the game a bit harder which is nice
MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY!!! I’d also say some other issues are…
- No sound/music adjustment app
- No top down pov but there is a completely horizontal pov. A top down pov would be super convenient for terraforming.
- No option to use nook tickets when already on a mystery island
- Can’t build on fourth level
My biggest frustration is the removal of the tropical island where no matter what season it was you could go and catch really expensive interesting bugs and catch sharks. But weirdly I haven’t seen anyone else complaining about this? I know you can get a tropical esc island from kappn though I haven’t got that myself. My personally I would easily get rid of the lottery of which island you might get, and put back the tropical island where it felt like there was more to do. It was enjoyable to be around. It was never disappointing and it was a great money maker. And also the chest to store more stuff in to transport home! I would do anything for that back. Maybe a bit of a niche complaint but I’m just glad to get to say it!
You’re 110% right 😭😭
I miss being able to have my own house on a tropical island like in GameCube. I also miss just being able to go to the island and it's always warm, which meant better fish, like sharks.
As much as I love the terraforming and everything, I dislike that this game encourages you to make your island not look like an Animal Crossing village anymore. Why is it that my star rating only improves the further I get from an experience that looks and feels like the earlier installments in the series?? I'm here because of how much I loved those games!
I just hate that you can't turn off the music. I know it's Nintendo's motto for not allowing this option but it hurts a lot more here because of how incredible the sound design is. I occasionally play the game muted unless I fish just because of how tiring it is for me to listen to the same songs over what would otherwise be a cozy vibe.
yeah… a personal opinion but- it sucks more because i don’t really like the hourly music that much here. compared to previous installments… acnl 7pm song when it’s raining is just… 🥰
@@Poedoco I definitely agree! I think the music is great (just not to my personal taste) and it fits the island theme very well, but that's part of the problem - I feel like previous games' music was much more neutral, in a sense?
Yes!! I only put the sound on when fishing. I don't understand how such a BASIC and normal feature isn't in the game! Shame
I was really hoping they would add in an option to play with the past games soundtracks - at least for the hourly music. I can’t stand the new songs but love the ones from the past games, particularly wild world
Agree 1000% with all of this. Also why can't we adjust SFX independently??? Sometimes I want to turn off the music, especially if I have a headache that day, or if I want to listen to a podcast at the same time. Sometimes I'm fishing for a particular fish and just want to hear the audio cues without also blasting the music throughout the house at 2 am. Like, seriously, what's up with that???
I still can't believe this game was so bare bones at launch that we were begging for gyroids.
Yeah
At least they added them and gave them all a fresh coat of paint. They added Brewster too. It's just disappointing that they didn't give us everything on launch. You know how many updates New Leaf got? Just one.
And we were fairly happy!
The entire reason I loved Animal Crossing is because of the villagers. I never got to play new leaf, but I played the GameCube version and all I ever wanted was to meet them and talk to them. Unfortunately I've heard many people complain that the villagers in Animal Crossing lack depth. So sad to see the game missed the mark on it, it's the reason I never bought it
Nintendo is always keen to not include too much value. That's why it took 15 years to get the quality of life features we have now. And they rushed out the DLC, I'm guessing they combined 2, Harv's Island and HHA Island. And the game is selling too well to justify sweetening the deal with more DLC.
New leaf will always be my favorite. It was the only one I really played (besides city folk which I remember nothing from since that was years ago) so I feel really connected to it. I have a perfect island, some great villagers, all the shops unlocked, and I’m just overall very satisfied with my progress. New horizons stresses me out sooo much. I love the ability to customize my island a lot more, but it also makes me feel so much more stressed since I want everything to be perfect now and I know it won’t be. Now that I’ve finally made more progress, I’ve realized I want to change some things to make it better. But it costs 10,000 bells just to move a building or demolish an incline which costs 98,000+ to rebuild. I also hate that the online aspect is a paid subscription thing. I wish I could use other people’s designs for clothes or decorations but I’m not gonna pay real money for that
When your first animal crossing game is new horizons so you can’t really compare it to the other games: 👁👄👁
Graphics = better
Gameplay = worse
In New Leaf, your tools will never break. In City Folk, there's a big city. In Wild World, there's red turnips. In Population Growing, there's balls you can actually play with.
@@Hauntaku thanks
Also Please give me the oppurtinity to order more then 5 items a day, maybe even with same day express delivery for extra bells. The Mailcase isnt even limited anymore like it was in nl
I hardly agree with the villager one. It might sound weird but I really enjoyed it that some of the villagers were straight up rude in the past games. That’s what made me love the snooty villagers so much. In new horizons even our worst enemies became our friends and they lost there personality. Now they are just boring and dry lifeless creature’s.
I mean to be honest, I really don’t miss Ressetti always lecturing me whenever I didn’t save… but I do miss saving manually, there’s something… reassuring about it
You can still do that by pressing -
The biggest flaw I absolutely CAN’T stand about this game that stops me from playing it is being restricted to one island per console. Let’s say you want to have a second island where the layout and theme is completely different, you’d have to buy a separate console just to make the island, since that data is stored into the console instead of the game card. It’s even worse when you have siblings that also play this game, and I feel as if it’s just a total cash grab.
Especially if Nintendo really cares about the family playing aspect. No kid wants to have to play on an island their sibling controls… especially because the whole experience for a second player is incredibly diminished. They would have made more money and had a happier user base if they just charged a fee for an additional island slot to be added to an account.
I actually get enjoyment out of the villagers in a aww this is adorable kind of way and I also headcanon a lot but ofc that shouldn’t be mandatory… as for the rest? Agreed. I love and adore ACNH, I still play daily, I have three islands. But so many baffling choices. I still hope the Zelda items will be back as cross promotion bc why did they remove something that was in the game since the original?! Their own IP?! It’s so baffling. Same goes for the Cranny and while we’re at it why can’t we customize it then at least or Resident Services?! Argh 🙈
i found animal crossing from the sims community just before acnh came out and i fell in love with the franchise immediately. i've been a nintendo fan my whole life but i didn't have a switch so i bought one to be play animal crossing. i have to say acnh felt amazing and it still is an awesome game but i wish there was more to it since these features exist, there were so many missed oppoturnities and they could've made the game even better. honestly i've thought about buying a 3ds to try new leaf especially bc i've heard many good things about it
New Leaf is really good! The only thing is that you can't really place furniture outside.
@@Siena2209 It's not that big of a deal though. I actually don't miss it.
@@Hauntaku I agree! Just saying for the people who don't know that👌
I hate the fact that I cannot just SIT and RELAX inside The Roost. If I order a cup of coffee, i drink it fast and immediately get up. If I try to sit at a booth, Brewster tells me it's reserved. That's BS! what kind of coffee shop doesn't let you sit down and rest for a few minutes, FFS!?
I think that the main objective of animal crossing turned from paying all the debts and loving or hating all villagers to decorate your island cutely
I would like to add rugs outside and a shopping cart in Able Sisters to the list to of things we are salty about. As long as it's clear that I will still love and play this game. LOL
I agree with everything you said, except I really hate terraforming one square at a time. While the DLC is great, it dangles the carrot. Clearly it's not an issue of not having the mechanics in place, they just deliberately want to make it slow and painful. 😂 A couple other pet peeves of mine... Only being able to buy one type of item at a time in the dressing room at Able Sisters; Only being able to buy one item at a time from vendors (Kicks, Sahara, etc); Button mashing your way through the same overly chatty dialogue constantly; Paths not connecting together if they're different; The dreaded cut scene you have to sit through every single time someone arrives or departs an island; Reconnecting to the internet and starting over if you mess up a Dodo code. It also would be nice if it shows what you already have in your storage/inventory when you buy things. If not for all the things you listed and the few things I added, I would play more regularly. But the tediousness of these things and the constant grinding sometimes burns me out. 😥
There could be a simple fix for a lot of these problems as well. Have a visiting cruise ship. We could go on board, visit Gracie’s on board designs, rotating characters that are missing could invite us to play on board games and win prizes, and have special cruise events for holidays.
Additional pet peeves of mine is not being able to fully expand every room in my house, and not having a castle as a home choice. I also miss all the flowering bonsais.
idk that seems like a big update to me, which they promised ain’t happening anymore. not really as simple when you have to think about it from a game developer’s perspective... i love the idea though.
idk about the rooms… unpopular opinion but- i really didn’t like how huge the side rooms got in NL. Like… how do you even style them?
@@Poedoco I like stuff.😁
I miss having the NES games in our house.
Sure, we can play them in with Nintendo Switch Online, but it's not the same.
Question: Does anyone kind of... Hate CJ, Flick and Daisy Mae? I LOVED Nat, Chip and Joan. I know it's the whole "New generation" but come on! If Tom and Isabelle are here so the others should be too! Also: I MISS PHINEAS THE BADGE MAN!
Daisy Mae, Flick, and C.J are cool!
Me too. I just feel like them and the new villagers are very cute and anime-like and the older ones didn't look like they were made to look good.
Yeah! I mean... Dobie looks AWESOME for an old wolf but I get what you mean!
@@zenbamboo7978 I love Dobie! But for example Judy and Sasha have an entirely different artstyle than the rest
My main pet peeve with the game is the paths. If we place custom designs via the construction tool, they should register as actual paths!!! I love the look of custom paths, but I've stuck to default ones because I want my villagers to actually follow them.
I honestly dont like the villagers randomly walking in, I'd love it if they had personality added in, but since theyre so bland it just feels inconvenient and interrupts my island decorating lol
I just started playing acnh last month and while I love it a lot I always felt it was lacking so many features… Bulk crafting, hhp terraforming, and more villagers interaction, etc. The game loves to waste an unnecessary amount of your time and the villagers are so bland. I have four peppy villagers, if I hear about the maglevs more than once in a day, I’ll just shut off and come back to playing later.
Ugh agree so much with the square thing and Street Pass. I miss Street Pass so much but I also get so frustrated when I'm trying to customize my island. Honestly, I didn't pick up a switch or New Horizons until the 2.0 update came because there were so many things to do in New Leaf. This makes me want to go back to playing New Leaf again. Ah Nostalgia .....
a sort of minor thing i wish would be added is being able to plan your island before doing things. by this i mean it like how some websites allow you to use the map and decide how you want your island to look. why should we have to use a whole other device to try and get something to plan our island with ? it would help so much with deciding how you want things to go , even if you couldn’t walk around or use the imagine feature like you use for buildings.
I kinda miss villagers moving away... it also would've been good karma for people who spend bells on villagers and see them as aesthetics lolll but they also see them like that partially because of lack of quality of life updates. I love everything new horizons added but it's become more of a decorating game...
Karma? They’re pixels limited to 8 possible dialogue styles. Who cares if people are using bells to get them for aesthetics?
@@fallon3340 Haha yeah karma. I mean it more as a tease/joke. I just wish people experienced certain animal crossing aspects that were taken out. I don't care as much as u think I do, considering u went out of ur way to say they're pixels. But I care enough to mention was I said before. It's just something I would've preferred and would've made for good memes and brought the community closer.
I think the thing I hate most about New Horizons right now is that villagers can just barge into your house whenever they want, and SUPER frequently I might add. It makes me not want to customize this house that I spent SO SO SO much time and effort upgrading. I wish you could just put a Do Not Disturb sign on your door or something. I also miss Gracie, Pelly, Phyllis, and Pete. Especially Phyllis' snarky attitude and under her breath roasting. I feel like the villagers are just so cuddly and soft now, like I miss the shade that villagers could throw your way. I feel like the graphics and customization are the only things that are better in this game than in past games. There was so much more to do in New Leaf! Anyway, thanks for listening to me rant. Great video!
Only complaints I have about the game are the blend effect in design editor and the soundtrack.
I do all my own original designs and all of the work should be about color choices, outlines, composition, that sort of thing. What happens instead is 80% of the work becomes all the trial and error you have to do to figure out what bleeds into other colors and what doesn't, with seemingly no rhyme or reason, tweeking all 15 colors until they each blend the exact way you want them to. I couldn't just go in and change one color -1 darkness, for example, without throwing off the entire design. Your brain automatically blends an image composed of sharp pixels anyway, so remove the smoothing!
2nd is the hourly music. I've never had a video game OST so bad I had to play the game on mute, because every other game in existence will at least allow you to turn the music off. The game's SFX are fine!
They give us a marker for when we're placing down buildings so I don't see why we can't just have a smaller version of that for when we're terraforming or shoveling. Or even to show where our fishing line will be cast. Maybe it's just me but I almost always have to cast my line 2-3 times before I can land it in front of the shadow.
There is still no bulk crafting, The airport still feels lackluster, we still have no mini games, and of course no new shop upgrades.
Even if I haven’t played Animal Crossing New Leaf for like 3 months, I’ll still kind of want to go back but sometimes New Horizons can feel a bit like you have to go back so your villages don’t guilt trip you (there more guilt-trippy in ACNL but in ACNH you feel as if you have to make an effort to unlock certain features). For example, just by going on New Leaf, after a couple of days, you can unlock the island and Kapp’n (who is a bit creepy but that’s besides the point). To be honest, I’ve had New Leaf for longer so maybe that’s why I like it more but I’ve had New Horizons for over a year and I still haven’t unlocked terraforming (I’ve just looked up how to do it so I guess I’ll do it soon). Although some characters are annoying, I think I’ve realised what I like about New Leaf; there’s more interactions, whether that’s getting your hair done or working at the coffee shops, there’s always people to see. 🤣
I also don’t like how I get so many random phone calls from Tom Nook. (And you can just randomly take your phone out when your in the ocean.😂)
@1:30 awww villager kora had to crane her neck to look up at gracie lol.
i know it's not something to "miss" but how come there isn't a long, straight hairstyle with no bangs? seems so obvious yet its not there...
Why is nobody talking about these two things:
1. PORTER!!! He was so adorable, we need more of him and his train station!
2. How our stuff in our storage would also be able to be accessed through other islands
dude yeah i miss porter sm😞😞
Oh boy, I want Metroid crossover stuff xD Bring me Samus' armor, gimme that baby Metroid, I'd love a Raven Beak villager
Bulk crafting & Nook's Cranny updates are probably my most wanted things. I wouldn't mind Able Sister update too- Put Label there with Gracie's designs or such placed on posters or display and you can order them, Label just calls Gracie and you'll get the stuff tomorrow or something
I also of course still got my impossible wishes, a full 360 camera and stuff so you can enjoy things to the fullest & being able to play as an animal character
I miss mean/sassy villagers so much. They added so much more personality and variety. ACNH feels too... sanitized. Every villager is nice and loves you. I truly miss when they'd insult you or act petty.
I hate how they make you wait a day for no reason, like in quests. It's like they're trying to give the illusion that the game has more content than there actually is.
If I'm going to dream, I want more refined control over the audio in the game. It has improved but still doesn't properly separate the diegetic music from the hourly themes, and I keep having situations where a speaker and the hourly theme are fighting each other to horrible results. It's even worse when KK is around. I often just wish I could turn off the hourly music, especially when many of the songs just aren't as pretty as they were in New Leaf, and even moreso after hearing them for hundreds of hours each.
exactly!
Well, since you asked . . . the big, huge thing I miss from an older game (apart from everything you mentioned already) is drawing constellations, from "Wild World". "New Horizons" gave us an adjustable camera where you can pan up to look at the sky, and there are clearly a lot of stars out at night. They could have made it so we could get Celeste's observatory put back in the museum so we could draw constellations again.
Come to think of it, why didn't they bring back the customized museum exhibit rooms from New Leaf? I loved that feature. It was fun putting together additional rooms with different types of furniture that didn't fit the theme of any of the rooms in my house.
I'm mature so I used to draw phallic things and bees :)
i actually had resetti appear once cause i dropped my switch and the battery disconnected (luckily no permanent damage), but i did get to hear resetti be angry (disappointed) at me for suddenly turning off the console while the game was saving
Would be nice if you could ask villagers to leave your island.
Maybe you could even help them pack up. Or something so it's not just giving them the boot. Would be nice instead of the waiting game to see if one does want to leave or the right one to leave.
Imo the biggest flaw is definitely no mini games and other objectives like shop upgrades from other games. Once you get bored with decorating you have basically NOTHING to do, there isn't really anything to work towards after the 'tutorial' stage,nook mile stuff is basically just the same boring repetitive stuff and the villagers and NPC's don't have much of an entertaining dialogue either. I've decorated. And decorated. And decorated. Over and over again. Flattened, restarted, the whole nine yards. It's just so boring after a while, all i want is a few minigames to pass time and some form of proper objectives that the player could work towards and look forward to ( and time lock them. Make them actually challenging.I love time traveling but if we had actual store upgrades for example, I'd want to actually work towards them, not accidentally unlock them because i traveled forward a month to visit a different season)
I am of the rather unpopular opinion that I'm ok with not having bulk crafting/I really don't mind making individual crafts each time. I...can't really explain it
Hate that you can't just outright kick a villager out. It took literal MONTHS to get rid of the one villager I did not want there. Everybody else mentioned wanting to leave except for him! 😡
i hate that when you're on a treasure island, it tells you when someone's leaving/coming to the island. SUCH a waste of time
the most interesting thing my neighbour Marlo did is gossip about how Erik's place has a 'unusual' vibe ONCE
It's less a missing from past games, and more a missing in generally all installments; Back in wild world, the villagers had hobbies and such, but generally, there isn't really a lot to DO with your villagers. It's not about getting more personality types, and more so something to actually do with them. Hide and seek in New leaf was fine and all, but it doesn't really add to the characters. I wish they would have taken some of the mechanics in happy home designer into the main game, as a reward for befriending them. They might ask you to put down a specific piece of furniture for them how you'd think it looks best, or ask for a remodel. Something Stardew valley does for a while is giving a sense of progression to befriending characters, both through cutscenes and mechanics. I'd like dialogue choices, things my villagers remember players and even each other by, having one of the jocks jog around with you on the island, and have more meaningful conversations. Invite your animal friends for a sleepover or to cook. Basically building a more nuanced character according to how the player acts, so that even ugly villagers can have more personal attachement.
I miss all those things as well but what I really miss is having those consoles in game like the switch and the Nintendo 3ds but no minigame when interacting with it. I LOVED those minigames in New Leaf. I could say I lived in them after every shop was closed due to it being so late. I just miss having a break from creating my island, fishing and stuff because it's kinda draining sometimes so I would love to play a round of puzzle league but here we are...one of my favorite feature missing and making those consoles useless.
As a new player I really want something, like a bar, which tells me how close my tools are to giving out. And the expensive ones from nooks cranny are not worth the bells. I feel stuff gives out really fast…like a bubble blower…one bubble and it’s done.
Also…can I make different buildings? Like I have all this cool furniture and nowhere to put it. I feel this is just me not knowing how the game works.
It definitely seems like they didn’t have enough time to implement all the features 😅 I definitely enjoy villagers from previous game more but Horizon has a lot more going on due to customization
Yeahhh New Leaf makes New Horizons look extremely boring. New Horizons had so much potential, but they focused too much on the customization then actual core content. You don’t even need to log in often because villagers only leave if you tell them too, not on their own
Actually Phineas in Animal Crossing City Folk was a balloon salesman. I Loved seeing him with his little cart filled with various little things from pinwheels to bubble wands. (Because of how versatile he is with the job he could do I did expect him to return with either a new perpose or one of his old ones)
The invisible space around all the items is too large, especially for small items. The spacing annoys me so much, and there are times when I can’t center things. It’s either too far to the left or too far to the right. Then I can’t get anywhere near some things. A small item has this huge space round it I can’t get through. The spacing is so frustrating overall.
No Nook's Cranny or Able shop upgrade is very frustrating. I also think Leif could have more seasonal variation in the shrubs and flowers he offers. The fact that you can only buy 1 nook miles ticket at a time is absurd. I rarely go anymore just because it's such a hassle. Same for only being able to buy 5 customization kits. I never buy less than 50 at a time.
I don't think the lack of bulk crafting was an oversight, I think they intentionally left it out just to make the pacing slower. It is waaaay too obvious to be an "oversight" that was missed during thousands of hours of playtesting. There is no way not one person said "Hey, it would be great if we could craft multiple fish baits at once." Especially after all the updates, it still doesn't exist, so they left it out for a reason at this point. A very stupid reason.
I miss making constellations in City Folk/Wild World and looking at your constellations throughout the night sky and watching it change throughout the year (Ex: Your constellation being very visible in August but not at all really in January)
Yesterday I trudged through the Pave event. I made my little brother do it instead. The game feels like it only gives stuff (like the feathers) "when it feels like it."
I've finding it harder to come back to to this game when it feels like it doesn't respect your time. I can't just play a chore session done quickly and play something else. I'm pretty sure that it is subtly designed to keep you playing longer....
Of course I still like the game! Just not on the days I don't have a lot of time to play or I'd much rather work through my backlog....
(And when I don't just feel like Stardew Valley instead....)
FanTheory: We can only have 5 Items sold to us in Nooks Cranny because that’s how manny we can buy with the Nook Shopping Online service.
I miss Blanca. Digby freaks me out for some reason. 😂
i miss the cozy small town vibe. miss the old music.
sadly there are no more major updates to ACNH; "Nintendo has confirmed to IGN that Animal Crossing: New Horizons' version 2.0 update and its Happy Home Paradise paid DLC will be the final major updates to the game that has sold over 33 million copies since its launch in March 2020." now that's something I hate.
I still cannot for the life of me comprehend their decision on that. Acnh being one of their best selling games since 2020 and they decide to STOP large updates???? The amount of people who would be willing to pay for another large dlc is enormous. If they actually added more quality of life to the game i would throw my money at them. Stopping big updates is the worst decision they could've made for a game that has all the potential in the world
two other big things that literally wouldn’t take much to integrate. bulk buying clothes and a tool damage indicator. like- even changing the sprite, adding a bar- or like have a pop-up saying it’s damaged and will break soon. LITERALLY something so integral for breakable items. hell, even BotW did this. MINECRAFT had this since the beginning- ACNL HAD IT FOR AXES.
It just… makes me so mad. Without those, the bulk crafting and upgraded nooks cranny literally makes it annoying to play.
Also… not being able to change any of the service buildings outsides makes me a little mad. I 100% doubt it’ll happen but you’re out of luck you want your residents services to look different. Not even the damn roof color.
I miss being insulted and berated by my villagers being told I'm stinky and being told that they wish my house would burn down was the true beauty of the game
They wish your house would burn down LOLLL, I miss how mean they could get as well, it gave them personality. I don't think I remember the dialogue ever repeating, at least as much as this game does.
My biggest gripe is the inability to see where you are going to terraform/waterscape. The direction of the character is so precise and yet there is no guide. You are editing blind.
I also wish that when you are out of "construction mode" you cannot edit custom designs like paths. I can't count how many times I tried to pick something up and erased a custom design square. So frustrating when you are on a roll doing stuff around the island!
Fun fact: The "operator" is also one of the moles (I can't remember his/her name) and you have no nook miles he/she will rescue you for FREE
Heres what im mad about
-Lack of villager gossip
-I want my villagers to hate me :)
-The villagers in New Horizons when they talk, is just so bland.
-I get it, Bam. You want to run laps.
-i literally hate the new music. I love and miss New Leaf music
-Why can't we work at Brewster's anymore?
living for the lyle slander
all of this was so relatable, especially the fish bait thing, it makes me SO MAD
Hey, I recognize this video from the members-only editing stream!!
How do I before a member
I miss the ability to meet old neighbors in the shops like in new leaf, it hurt when Roald didnt recognize me when I saw him on an island again. Also I really miss minigames too, been saying wii sports would have been a great addition and the only reason its not here is because they probably plan on releasing it again... months later I was right (cries). I miss the sassy neighbors too and all the quirky things they did like show random letters or that they wanted to play hide and seek, we need more interactions period! Also I miss my metroid being in his lil test tube.
Side note, new leafs only irk for me was that there was no virtual boy mini games that could have utilized the 3d effects, I hate that it wasnt there but not being able to buy and play mini games on nintendo consoles here blows.
The problem with ANCH is it is the first AC game no longer developed by the same, iconic development team which created it before. They totally betrayed Eguchi's vision.