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Animal Crossing: New Leaf Sequel!?

keep:
-island
-being mayor
-HHA showcase

change:
-higher villager limit
-more freedom in building things
-furniture outside (although this is already a HHD thing)
 
Some things I wish they'd bring back:
1. The older Nintendo games that you could play.
2. Statues of ourselves. Haha maybe it's a bit egotistical but they should add that as a pwp option.
3. Morning exercises. Those were so fun!

1. I totally agree about the HHD capabilities. I especially like the preview option for customization. I think they should give Cyrus something like that so we know what we're in for. Playing HHD just reminded me how tedious it is to customize our furniture and decorate our houses.
2. Grass fertilizer.
3. I think this is the most important: a preview for pwps including the necessary spaces around the pwp that's required. Many a time I found a perfect place for a pwp only to have Isabelle say it's too close to the plaza, a bridge, a home or another pwp. Bridge placements were a huge headache for me and those things aren't cheap. The worst is when you have a bridge and a villager moves in and when you rebuild the bridge in the SAME SPOT, Isabelle says it's too close to that villager's home!
 
Another thing I want to see added is, as someone mentioned earlier, more customization options in the beginning. As HHA demonstrated, it's time to do away with the questions at the beginning of the game or at the very least make them apply to something else not related to your appearance.

For example: Before you're greeted by Rover on the train, your character is dreaming of a town and that you're the mayor of it and from here you design your character and the layout of your town. That way everyone could get their dream town from the very beginning.

As for new mayoral duties, I want to see villager applications. Even before a villager puts down their house, I want to be alerted. You wouldn't be able to turn whoever it is away, but instead you'd get to decide where they plop their house. This would remove a ton of headaches.
 
Three things I would keep:
1. The island. There's a good reason why this is the only AC game I ever managed to fully expand my house in!
2. Retail (both the flea market and customization aspects)
3. The player's position as the mayor

Three things I would add:
1. The house customization features in happy home designer. I'll admit I haven't played it, but it looked like you could change windows and make yards which is awesome!
2. More dynamic villagers. I want to have more ways to interact such as playing games. I want them to talk about the skills and dream jobs listed in the prima guide. I want their relationships with each other to be more clear. Just talking to them when they have identical dialogue and making deliveries gets old after awhile.
3. A new NPC who serves as the town's architect. They could have a drafting table that would allow you to see placement options for multiple unlocked PWPs to see how you can make them fit close by together before you start building one. This character could also help you assign zones to different areas. Right now it's just main street, the beach, and everything else. Sure the beach and main street could still be distinct, but in the other areas you could assign parts of your main map as being a residential area, a park area, or an area for permanent PWPs like the cafe and police station. This way you could keep some areas as natural forests or orchards and others as places for villagers to live. This would also give the villagers to talk about because they could comment on the environment.
 
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