I've never had any of my current NH residents in any game before. Whole island hopping I saw some I've had before and like, such as Renee and Punchy, but I like that I'm making all-new friends.
In New Horizons I've mostly wound up with the same species I liked in New Leaf...pigs,bears,cats,ducks and squirrels.I kind of picked my favorites from NL and threw them in there with some of the new villagers from NH.
My only villagers I have that are the same right now are Punchy and Felicity. I would have had more villagers that are the same in NH, but I share my island with 3 other people so we all worked together to pick villagers that we could all be happy with instead of just one person picking all the villagers. Honestly, I would have been happy having all the same because they added new things to villagers personalities in NH, so I wouldn't have minded. But I am happy with who we are ending up with in NH either way.
Since I didn't trade online at all when I played NL, the villagers were all random move-ins. The only villagers I have that are the same are Static and Muffy as I bonded with them the most. In NL, I remember having Roscoe, Stitches, Rodney, Kitt and maybe one of the mouse villagers (don't remember the others from the top of my head)!
I know the feel! At first I wanted to get the same ones, then changed my mind and thought I'd only get new ones, but I missed some of them too much so it's a 50/50 old/new villagers for me! But nothing is set in stone
Ahaha completely different! I was quite young playing NL and didn’t understand villager mechanics so I just let people move in as they wished. With NH and the ability to “choose” your villagers, Ive definitely tailored my town to ones I really like.
Of course some nostalgia is a must! Diana is a returning member in NH and I plan on getting Rosie at some point (tho I think she was in my ww town...)
Most of my villagers are new villagers I don't have from NL. Skye and Wendy are the villagers I have in my island that I had in NL. I'm thinking about letting Wendy go when she wants to leave to try a new villager.
I had moved all my favorites from NL into my NH island except for Pashmina and Mathilda, whom I replaced with Plucky and Vivian. I ended up bringing Mathilda back though, couldn't get attached to Vivian.
At this point, half my villagers are from my NL town and half are new. I had a hard time getting as attached to some of my NL villagers- some of them just aren't the same. I like all the new villagers I've come across though, and they will probably be long term or permanent residents
i think i was going for a different set for nh, but slowly i'm missing my old villagers and i think eventually i'll want to move in at least ruby and erik :''')