Did the game also not feel complete to you until you got a certain (beloved) villager?

[Underneath The Stars]

Animal Crossing: New Horizons didn't feel complete until I reunited with my original villager friend

I set out on a quest to find my old GameCube buddy in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

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i came across this article and first i was like, okay mood... honestly before i got punchy & marshal, the game felt incomplete to me. like, not a day goes by with me playing and wondering "when will they move to my island".

then my next thought reading this article is... this writer is basically getting paid to talk about hunting for a villager. I WANT THIS JOB!

 

[Chris]

When I started playing my goal was to find Lobo. I've not found him, but I'm perfectly content. I've a lot of new villagers I love so I guess the answer is no.

 

[Fisher]

I wouldn’t say not complete, but I did get lucky with getting Bob as my fifth move-in. (even though not having his normal house kinda sucks)

I still don’t have Cookie yet who was a childhood friend of mine from the GameCube game, but I’m not going out of my way to get her either. I really hope I do one day, but for now I’m happy with who is on my island atm.

 

[courtky]

I feel the same way. That's why I told myself I'm not going to buy any of my favorites, I'm just going to try to find them on mystery islands or on my campsite. Otherwise, I'll end up buying them and the game will feel stale to me, lol.

 

[CrankyCupcake]

... no? Unlike other games I play, I don't see anything in ACNH that spells "completion" for me. I don't have completion goals. Villager-wise, I have no dreamies. There is no list of villagers I must have. When I started playing, I thought it'd be nice if I could have the villagers I'd enjoyed playing with in WW and NL. For instance, Rolf is in my game. I loved him so much in NL. I found him on a mystery island even though I wasn't looking for him. It makes me happy. But my island will continue to see villagers come and go (even though there is no villager I dislike) because change keeps the game fresh for me.

 

[Underneath The Stars]

... no? Unlike other games I play, I don't see anything in ACNH that spells "completion" for me. I don't have completion goals. Villager-wise, I have no dreamies. There is no list of villagers I must have. When I started playing, I thought it'd be nice if I could have the villagers I'd enjoyed playing with in WW and NL. For instance, Rolf is in my game. I loved him so much in NL. I found him on a mystery island even though I wasn't looking for him. It makes me happy. But my island will continue to see villagers come and go (even though there is no villager I dislike) because change keeps the game fresh for me.

i agree! getting new things, features & villagers totally keeps the game fresh for me. i want a new set of villagers every now & then up to the future. but i just wanna say, i feel like there's a difference between "completion" to how it was said "doesn't feel complete". idk it's hard to explain haha but i don't think having a certain villager means my game is completed as well.

 

[Xara]

when i first started playing, audie was the one dreamie that i really, really wanted. every time i went island hopping or had a campsite visitor, i always wanted to find her and once she actually showed up in my campsite, things began to feel a lot more complete with her around c’:

 

[Le Ham]

Imo maybe it would make more sense to say the villager made your island feel complete, rather than your game? I guess it's a matter of whether you have a set of specific dreamies and consider those villagers absolutely essential to your island because you planned from the start to have them there. That could apply for a single villager as well. For me, since I preferred to just go along for the ride and meet new friends, Espera has never felt incomplete in that sense. To me, the history of the villagers on Espera means more than the villagers themselves.

I have one exception, and that's Melba. Marina has forever been a placeholder for her that I pay zero attention to, and I've been building the yard around her house specifically for Melba since I put the plot there in March. Yes, finally getting the villager I've been preparing for for months will lend me a feeling of completion lol. But it's not like I haven't been enjoying the ride without her!

edit: aaaand now that I've actually skimmed the article and discovered it was more about childhood favorites: I don't really have a strong attachment to any villager on that level, so I guess that would also be a factor. For the most part, favorite villagers have stayed favorites only within the context of the games I had them in. Their meaning to me isn't usually separable from that of the town/island.

 

[Midoriya]

Lucky is my favorite villager ever and I really wanted him in this game as well once I started playing. Thankfully, a friend was able to get him for me. I wouldn’t say having him or not having him makes the game feel more or less complete to me though. There’s so much more to the game than just the villagers you have, and I enjoy experiencing it all.

 

[Lotusblossom]

My town is no where near complete in any sense of the matter but in order to complete I consider getting my dreamies one of those things I just needa do to complete the island for sure... julian WYA

 

[Serabee]

Not really, no. I actually really like finding new villagers to love!

BUT I did love bringing Ursala and Dobie in with their Amiibo cards. They're two of my favorites, and I had them both in all my ACNL towns ever since getting their cards. It was so fun to see how cute they looked in this game, too ☺

And I have a few dreamies I've had in previous games- Tangy, Marina, and Maple I'd LOVE. Maple especially was the first villager I ever met in the original game, and so she's extra special!

 

[Sidney]

Yep! Lolly was my a favorite from NL that I’m emotionally attached to so I didn’t truly feel like I had *started* the game until I received her from a very nice friend <3

 

[Dunquixote]

It’s hard to say. Initially, maybe, but now, I’m starting to appreciate some of my random move ins more and want to take the time to get to know them before letting them move. I had used three amiibo cards to get some of my favorites and realized it takes away some of the fun and not just the frustration of getting random villagers; so I kinda regret that. I think it is fun to get to know villagers even ones I don’t plan on keeping them, so, now, I may try to take my time before I use any more amiibo cards. So far I’ve met rudy as my starter who I used to not care for but now, in spite of the muscle talk, I love him and Lily, I was neutral about but now am pretty fond of her too (she’s going to be hard to let go if I happen to find Lolly or use her card). I also got Tex as a random move in from @JeffreyAC’s town. I initially was disappointed to see him (before I found out his was from my friend’s town; after, I decided to enjoy him until he decides to ask me to move) since i just used up my NMTs looking for Raymond awhile back. Now, I actually don’t mind him and have even started dressing him up.

Random side note: I think I now might want to give Punchy a pet bed thanks to the article. I did not know he would sit in the bed.

 

[Rosch]

Even if I get all my beloved villagers, knowing that many features are still absent from the game will never change the feeling on always wanting more from the game.

 

[Saga]

Yes. I have three favorite villagers who I desperately wanted. Lolly, Tangy, and Teddy. I got incredibly lucky by getting Teddy as one of my original two villagers. Then I got even luckier by finding Tangy by using just a couple NMT in my second week of the game.

However, my island still feels incomplete because I'm missing Lolly. I miss her enough that at this point that I'm strongly considering buying her with NMT here on the forums. I've never bought a villager before and I would prefer to find her myself via island-hopping, but since the chances of finding her are only 1/1000, I feel like I might be better of just trading for her.

I feel like I have other major goals (like completing the museum, finishing my 2nd character';s house, breeding all hybrids, and fully decorating my island), but getting Lolly and my other remaining dreamies is probably when I'll feel I've largely "completed" the game.

 

[niko@kamogawa]

It took me a while to reunite Felicity. I even had to suffer for it by missing a lot of giveaways. (It's not their fault. I just don't time travel.) I also did my island hopping recently and failed to snag her.

My suffering ended when my friend sent me a gift of Felicity's Amiibo. I guess she doesn't want me to see my ranting.

 

[JunoHorizon]

Nah I'm pretty happy to boot faves once they've handed over their photo. Honestly villager dialogue frustrates me so much in this game that I barely talk to them anymore. Not that there aren't villagers I like.
Content updates do far more for making the game feel complete to me in terms of establishing more goals.

 

[Kattea]

No, but my game does not feel complete until certain ugly villagers move out. I'm looking at you, Tex and Octavian.

 

[Feraligator]

I used to not settle for a town if it didn't have Walker in it. The amount of times I reset in ACCF was ridiculous just to get that guy ('and other things lol).

But now I guess not, since my lineup of villagers now is so good (for me) and it doesn't have Walker. I guess Biskit really compensated for him

 

[lulu112]

Honestly, at first, I was kinda sad because I wanted my new leaf villagers to also be on my island but there are hundreds of villagers in the game and I've played the series for so long and still never met some of them!! It kinda became fun to meet new random villagers I'd never interacted with before and pick new favorites