nudgenudge
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My first post on the forums! Seems to be a wonderful community. This post is rather long, so I've broken it up into paragraphs.
I put about 300 hours into NL and absolutely LOVED the game. It helped ease my depression, and it also helped that I got great RNG with villagers. (Groucho, Stitches, Eugene, Barold) I loved each and every one of them, and while their dialogue got repetitive, it was so memorable that I didn't care. Loved the game, things annoyed me but ultimately it was a wonderful experience.
I bought NH on Christmas, and at first I was stunned by the GORGEOUS HD visuals and all the tiny additions and fixes, such as auto-stacking fruit you collect, and a larger inventory. (THANK GOD) But over time, I just became less and less interested in the game. I love the nook miles system, but it feels like getting all the tools and features takes WAY too long, and collecting so many RNG-dependent items to build villagers houses, along with the RIDICULOUSLY OBSCURE star-rating system, really makes the game feel like a complete slog. I understand that the series is a slow burn, but this just pushes it way too far. But this isn't even the main thing that annoys me so much about NH.
Obviously the AC games are made for a very young audience, this is apparent when looking at art direction, OST, and other factors. I am aware this has been a growing issue for the entire series' life, but the games feel like they're not even made for 10+ children anymore, but 5+ children. This leads into the meat of this post: The villagers. What did they do to you guys?? I have yet to have a single villager say anything REMOTELY interesting or quirky or mean or really any emotion that isn't OH MY GOD I'M SO GLAD WE MET LET'S BE BEST FRIENDS FOREVER AND RUN THROUGH A FIELD OF SUNSHINE AND RAINBOWS.
Ok, maybe I'm exaggerating a teeny-tiny bit, but when I don't have to put in any effort to befriend villagers and have still, after TWO WEEKS OF PLAYING, STILL not been asked to do a single favor for a villager, it just makes me feel like they are what they are: lines of code with models. They don't feel like real animals, they feel like lifeless plushies that will say "LET'S BE FRIENDS!" on command if you pull the string on their back. I played NL to achieve emotional bonds, and when Groucho left and gave me his picture frame, and I looked at it in my house, I felt true and real nostalgia. I've read on some other posts here that the localization was missing a lot of the nuance it previously had and was more of a direct translation, which could be the cause for such (I'm just gonna say it) BORING VILLAGERS.
Should I keep playing NH and give it more of a chance? I'm currently trying to get KK to come perform. After I unlock terraforming, will the villagers become not boring? I highly doubt it, but I felt I should ask.
This feeds into a trend I've noticed with Nintendo's decline in quality, something I don't have time to go into here, but the have been majorly screwing up left and right.
Does anyone else notice the lack of personality and character, or am I just being cynical? I legitimately feel zero attachment to any of my Villagers.
I put about 300 hours into NL and absolutely LOVED the game. It helped ease my depression, and it also helped that I got great RNG with villagers. (Groucho, Stitches, Eugene, Barold) I loved each and every one of them, and while their dialogue got repetitive, it was so memorable that I didn't care. Loved the game, things annoyed me but ultimately it was a wonderful experience.
I bought NH on Christmas, and at first I was stunned by the GORGEOUS HD visuals and all the tiny additions and fixes, such as auto-stacking fruit you collect, and a larger inventory. (THANK GOD) But over time, I just became less and less interested in the game. I love the nook miles system, but it feels like getting all the tools and features takes WAY too long, and collecting so many RNG-dependent items to build villagers houses, along with the RIDICULOUSLY OBSCURE star-rating system, really makes the game feel like a complete slog. I understand that the series is a slow burn, but this just pushes it way too far. But this isn't even the main thing that annoys me so much about NH.
Obviously the AC games are made for a very young audience, this is apparent when looking at art direction, OST, and other factors. I am aware this has been a growing issue for the entire series' life, but the games feel like they're not even made for 10+ children anymore, but 5+ children. This leads into the meat of this post: The villagers. What did they do to you guys?? I have yet to have a single villager say anything REMOTELY interesting or quirky or mean or really any emotion that isn't OH MY GOD I'M SO GLAD WE MET LET'S BE BEST FRIENDS FOREVER AND RUN THROUGH A FIELD OF SUNSHINE AND RAINBOWS.
Ok, maybe I'm exaggerating a teeny-tiny bit, but when I don't have to put in any effort to befriend villagers and have still, after TWO WEEKS OF PLAYING, STILL not been asked to do a single favor for a villager, it just makes me feel like they are what they are: lines of code with models. They don't feel like real animals, they feel like lifeless plushies that will say "LET'S BE FRIENDS!" on command if you pull the string on their back. I played NL to achieve emotional bonds, and when Groucho left and gave me his picture frame, and I looked at it in my house, I felt true and real nostalgia. I've read on some other posts here that the localization was missing a lot of the nuance it previously had and was more of a direct translation, which could be the cause for such (I'm just gonna say it) BORING VILLAGERS.
Should I keep playing NH and give it more of a chance? I'm currently trying to get KK to come perform. After I unlock terraforming, will the villagers become not boring? I highly doubt it, but I felt I should ask.
This feeds into a trend I've noticed with Nintendo's decline in quality, something I don't have time to go into here, but the have been majorly screwing up left and right.
Does anyone else notice the lack of personality and character, or am I just being cynical? I legitimately feel zero attachment to any of my Villagers.
