Controversial opinion, but I think people are severely underrating the dialogue in this game

[RooftopsRevolution]

I miss the interactions of them coming to your house but other than that I think the dialogue is pretty nice!

 

[Fey]

I’m really enjoying it too so far, and still get many lines I haven’t heard before. Honestly, I feel like the dialogue, especially when it comes to the villagers interacting with each other, is just starting up in my game!

My one complaint is that despite having befriended them, they will still call you out —sometimes rudely—for reaching out too often (aka more than once or twice in a day)

 

[starlightsong]

There certainly is a lot of great dialogue from this game, even from lazies, but I'm sorry, if I hear Zucker and Punchy give me the same letters and dialogue lines about the bugs in their floor one more time I'm going to lose my mind. They were always my favorite personality before and now not even Zucker's hilarious speech about crayons or Punchy's hatred of windchimes can save them from how grossed out I am by the fact that the formerly "don't worry, I may be messy, but my house is roach-free!" personality is now the "bugs bugs bugs bugs bugs i love the bugs in my floor and i love bugs and oh did i mention there are bugs in my floor lol" personality. Which I guess is a rant for another day and not necessarily what you were talking about but yeah, aside from how desperately I wish the bug talk would be toned down, and how jocks still seem a bit too over the top obsessed with muscles for my taste, the personalities in NH are pretty solid tbh. My 2 normals do repeat dialogue a lot and I mean a lot but they do still have some nice lines and maybe I just need to keep getting closer to them! I also wanna say that villager conversations are noticeably more common than in NL and every one of them that I've encountered has been awesome. I think it helps that I honestly don't even have any problem with NL's dialogue and kinda can't stand some of the GC dialogue, though (but I did go back to play Wild World after starting with NL, and I like the dialogue in that one a lot!).

 

[Spooky.]

I feel like a minority here, but I felt New Leaf was better than Horizons. In New Leaf I felt more of a friendly connection with my villagers and I often wanted to talk to them and such. In New Horizons I feel a connection to maybe 2 of my villagers. But most of them, no. New Horizons feels more just like a landscaping game to me, which is sad, because I loved AC because of how much it helped my loneliness when I played New Leaf...I was hoping a new game would help with that as well but my villagers constantly saying how I talk to them too much is discouraging and a lot of times I don't talk to them more than once. It's repetitive and they just all seem annoyed to see me.

 

[Aleigh]

I think the dialog itself has improved a lot, but there isn't much of it. I find villagers repeating themselves very often but we will see what the future brings us! I'm sure more dialog will come as the game progresses

 

[Breath Mint]

The problem with the dialogue is you have to talk to them repeatedly before they say anything remotely interesting. The first time I talk to any villager all I get is a bland one liner and it looks like no effort was put into it. I don't want to have to sit there and talk to them 5 times every single time before they say something of substance.

 

[Zura]

I got a lot of peppy villagers and apparently they're starting an idol band or something... Someone send help!!!

 

[Hesper]

I'm at a point where I have to talk to my faves, like, over ten or so times before they tell me to bug off. Which really isn't that bad imo. Once you build the friendship up, they're much warmer. And it's not like they never told you to go away in NL, so we have got to quit acting like it's new. The way villagers sort of unfold here is so much more interesting.