oneinamelon91
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I wrote this post on reddit and I wanted to share my ideas with the forum too:
The ideas you are about to see are based on existing ideas from Animal Crossing games, but elaborated to make the new game cool and ful of things to do. Most of the functions I will take as an example are basic functions with not so many interactions at all, but I think that taking them as an example, could be a great idea to create new cool functions in a new game.
I will not talk about things like "quality of life improvements" (order things in the inventory, bulk crafting etc...), but about "bigger" things
I will use the term "village" to refer to the main village where you have your house. When I will talk about "city", I talk about a different part of the game outside your village.
- City: City Folk, New Leaf and HHD both have a street/plaza full of shops. I like the idea of City Folk more, tbh. You can take the bus to go to the city and there you find lots of shops and things to entertain yourself.It would be really cool to have something similar in the new game. The main game is set on a village/island where nature prevails the most, so having something completely different (in this case, a city) would be really really cool). The most important shops (to buy and sell basic things) would still be in the main village, but in the city you will be able to find different kind of shops and building to enojy the game more and have lots of different things to do during the day/week.You have a station in the village and you take the train (So Porter appears again like in New Leaf) to go to the city.
- Cinema/Club: We can learn new emotions trough Dr. Shrunk's shows again by visiting the cinema or the Club.
HHD has a main plaza with different buildings: school, hospital, hotel, shopping center, restaurant, cafè... In HHD you had to decorate the buildings yourself, but in the new games they should be ready to be enjoyed and every building should implement a new special character (as it is in the other games)
- School: you take the bus to go to school (the bus is driven by Kapp'n as in City Folk). The school is inside the City, so you can take the bus and go directly in front of the school, or take the train and walk/run to the school. In the school you learn all the new recipes to craft things.
The school teachers are Pelly and Polly. When they don't work at the post office (which appears again), they work as teachers in the school. Be prepared to spend your mornings with Polly's lessons :')Special teachers will come to teach you how to use different items from the basic ones: Blathers will teach you to use fossils to create diy recipes, Celeste will teach you how to use stars, Leif will teach you how to use flowers and so on...
- Hospital: In the hospital you buy medicines to heal when a bee stings you. And when you find a sick villager in their house? You bring them to the hospital, so they can be cured. Sometimes, when you are in the hospital, you can be asked by the doctor to bring or craft medicines to heal patients using fruits and vegetables...
- Hotel: This building is half already decorated and half empty. In the already decorated rooms, villagers will visit the hotel as they do in the campsite. So you can talk to them and convince them to come to your village or just play some minigames with them. Regarding the empty rooms, Lottie, Lyle and Digby will ask you to help them decorate the rooms in different styles to attract specific kind of villagers. And you will obviously be able to use amiibos to call your favourite villagers. Villagers visiting the hotel, will be seen visiting the city and the shops too.
- Cafè/Restaurant: Pretty self explainatory: you learn new cooking recipies and you can take orders from the villagers to raise your friendship with them and obtain bells in exchange.
- Shopping mall: In this building, you can find lots of shops: Gracie Grace shops, Able sisters (Label will now sell seasonal items from her new fashion line), Kicks and... Shampoodle!Yes, you can customize your character as you wish in New Horizons, but Harriet will offer special haircuts and exclusive hair colours in her shop!
- Empty Building: Other than the previously mentioned buildings, you will have an empty building that you will be able to customize as you wish! Other than decorate the building, you will be given display cases or stands where you can put items you want to sell! (Something similar to Re-Tail)
This is mostly focused on the City (so outside the village), but you will still have things to do in the village: you will basically have the same things you have in New Horizons, but Nookling store will be replaced by Re-Tail (Nookling store will be found in the city), you will have the Police station again, the Resetti center and even the post office!
The City is not the only place you can visit outside your village! You will be able to visit other locations that will unlock seasonally.
There will be two basic locations available all the year:
- A garden/orchard full of fruit trees (that you can't find in your village). Every season will offer different kind of fruits and players will have different kind of fruits in their garden.The place will host a building where Leif lives: you can buy trees, bushes and flowers from him and you will be given little quests to earn bells. You will even find villagers from your village walking and interacting with the stuff! Oh I forgot, you can eve harvest vegetables in the garden!
- A mine/cave/quarry: This is pretty self-explainatory. You will have to help Lloyd with the quests he will give and after completing some of them, you will be given your own shovel! In the mine you cane break rocks to find minerals and you can use minerals to craft special kind of furniture!
Regarding the seasonal places, you will be able to visit different little locations (like you do in pocket camp, but better):
- Summer: tortimer island with basically everything you had in New Leaf)
- Mountain (winter): Snow family lives there, but when you visit it for the first time, you only find Snowtyke: his family is lost and you must "build" them again to help him. Every snow family memeber will give have the same functions they had in New Leaf, but if you are lucky enough, you will find Snowbelle, the new family member!
- Woods (Autumn): In autumn you can visit the woods: there you can find different kind of mushrooms (there are even giant ones!) and even lots of bushes! But not only the bushes we already know... In the woods, you will be able to find berry bushes! Harvey lives there with Harriet. They will give you little quests to earn bells and materials to craft items.
- Spring: A garden full of flowers, where you can find new species of flowers and make new hybrids. There's a new character here that seems related to Leif, Petalius, but who knows who he is?! He will ask you to grow flowers to use them to make new furniture items! And that's not the end!There are two buildings in this place: in one you can find Petalius and in the other one, you will find Nat! He will give you a special camera for bugs! He works with Blathers now... We know that Blathers hate bugs, so he asked Nat to help him studying them without having anything to do with them!The different kind of flowers will attract lots of new insects, so you will need to use the camera to make photos of the bugs and send them to Blathers. For every new bug you discover, you will receive a piece from the bug furniture set!
Ok I'm stopping here xD... I could go on for hours (maybe I will write a "second part" one day). All these ideas may seem crazy or too big, but to be honest they are not. Even if in a basic form, they already exist in other games, so it would not be so difficult to put them in a new game. We don't need giant locations to explore. We just need something even small, but that keeps you entertained.New Horizons felt good for all the quality of life improvements, but felt completely empty and boring when talking about things to do outside of decorating or terraforming the isle. What made Animal Crossing special before New Horizons was that there was always something new to discover. It felt like and adventure where you couldn't wait for the next day to arrive to discover which exciting new thing was waiting for you. New building, new characters, new things to do... I think that with just new things like the ones I listed (to be honest I would even be ok with them reciclying models from past games -even hhd- and giving them new life, if this could mean having something more to do in the game) the game could be enjoyed for years and years.
I know that after what Nintendo did with New Horizons this is almost 90% impossible, but if Nintendo would still be the same company that released New Leaf, Happy Home Designer and Welcome Amiibo, this could be 90% POSSIBLE.
Thanks if you reached the end and read everything, I really appreciate it.
And sorry for my bad english, i tried to make my best to make everything as clear as possible.
The ideas you are about to see are based on existing ideas from Animal Crossing games, but elaborated to make the new game cool and ful of things to do. Most of the functions I will take as an example are basic functions with not so many interactions at all, but I think that taking them as an example, could be a great idea to create new cool functions in a new game.
I will not talk about things like "quality of life improvements" (order things in the inventory, bulk crafting etc...), but about "bigger" things
I will use the term "village" to refer to the main village where you have your house. When I will talk about "city", I talk about a different part of the game outside your village.
- City: City Folk, New Leaf and HHD both have a street/plaza full of shops. I like the idea of City Folk more, tbh. You can take the bus to go to the city and there you find lots of shops and things to entertain yourself.It would be really cool to have something similar in the new game. The main game is set on a village/island where nature prevails the most, so having something completely different (in this case, a city) would be really really cool). The most important shops (to buy and sell basic things) would still be in the main village, but in the city you will be able to find different kind of shops and building to enojy the game more and have lots of different things to do during the day/week.You have a station in the village and you take the train (So Porter appears again like in New Leaf) to go to the city.
- Cinema/Club: We can learn new emotions trough Dr. Shrunk's shows again by visiting the cinema or the Club.
HHD has a main plaza with different buildings: school, hospital, hotel, shopping center, restaurant, cafè... In HHD you had to decorate the buildings yourself, but in the new games they should be ready to be enjoyed and every building should implement a new special character (as it is in the other games)
- School: you take the bus to go to school (the bus is driven by Kapp'n as in City Folk). The school is inside the City, so you can take the bus and go directly in front of the school, or take the train and walk/run to the school. In the school you learn all the new recipes to craft things.
The school teachers are Pelly and Polly. When they don't work at the post office (which appears again), they work as teachers in the school. Be prepared to spend your mornings with Polly's lessons :')Special teachers will come to teach you how to use different items from the basic ones: Blathers will teach you to use fossils to create diy recipes, Celeste will teach you how to use stars, Leif will teach you how to use flowers and so on...
- Hospital: In the hospital you buy medicines to heal when a bee stings you. And when you find a sick villager in their house? You bring them to the hospital, so they can be cured. Sometimes, when you are in the hospital, you can be asked by the doctor to bring or craft medicines to heal patients using fruits and vegetables...
- Hotel: This building is half already decorated and half empty. In the already decorated rooms, villagers will visit the hotel as they do in the campsite. So you can talk to them and convince them to come to your village or just play some minigames with them. Regarding the empty rooms, Lottie, Lyle and Digby will ask you to help them decorate the rooms in different styles to attract specific kind of villagers. And you will obviously be able to use amiibos to call your favourite villagers. Villagers visiting the hotel, will be seen visiting the city and the shops too.
- Cafè/Restaurant: Pretty self explainatory: you learn new cooking recipies and you can take orders from the villagers to raise your friendship with them and obtain bells in exchange.
- Shopping mall: In this building, you can find lots of shops: Gracie Grace shops, Able sisters (Label will now sell seasonal items from her new fashion line), Kicks and... Shampoodle!Yes, you can customize your character as you wish in New Horizons, but Harriet will offer special haircuts and exclusive hair colours in her shop!
- Empty Building: Other than the previously mentioned buildings, you will have an empty building that you will be able to customize as you wish! Other than decorate the building, you will be given display cases or stands where you can put items you want to sell! (Something similar to Re-Tail)
This is mostly focused on the City (so outside the village), but you will still have things to do in the village: you will basically have the same things you have in New Horizons, but Nookling store will be replaced by Re-Tail (Nookling store will be found in the city), you will have the Police station again, the Resetti center and even the post office!
The City is not the only place you can visit outside your village! You will be able to visit other locations that will unlock seasonally.
There will be two basic locations available all the year:
- A garden/orchard full of fruit trees (that you can't find in your village). Every season will offer different kind of fruits and players will have different kind of fruits in their garden.The place will host a building where Leif lives: you can buy trees, bushes and flowers from him and you will be given little quests to earn bells. You will even find villagers from your village walking and interacting with the stuff! Oh I forgot, you can eve harvest vegetables in the garden!
- A mine/cave/quarry: This is pretty self-explainatory. You will have to help Lloyd with the quests he will give and after completing some of them, you will be given your own shovel! In the mine you cane break rocks to find minerals and you can use minerals to craft special kind of furniture!
Regarding the seasonal places, you will be able to visit different little locations (like you do in pocket camp, but better):
- Summer: tortimer island with basically everything you had in New Leaf)
- Mountain (winter): Snow family lives there, but when you visit it for the first time, you only find Snowtyke: his family is lost and you must "build" them again to help him. Every snow family memeber will give have the same functions they had in New Leaf, but if you are lucky enough, you will find Snowbelle, the new family member!
- Woods (Autumn): In autumn you can visit the woods: there you can find different kind of mushrooms (there are even giant ones!) and even lots of bushes! But not only the bushes we already know... In the woods, you will be able to find berry bushes! Harvey lives there with Harriet. They will give you little quests to earn bells and materials to craft items.
- Spring: A garden full of flowers, where you can find new species of flowers and make new hybrids. There's a new character here that seems related to Leif, Petalius, but who knows who he is?! He will ask you to grow flowers to use them to make new furniture items! And that's not the end!There are two buildings in this place: in one you can find Petalius and in the other one, you will find Nat! He will give you a special camera for bugs! He works with Blathers now... We know that Blathers hate bugs, so he asked Nat to help him studying them without having anything to do with them!The different kind of flowers will attract lots of new insects, so you will need to use the camera to make photos of the bugs and send them to Blathers. For every new bug you discover, you will receive a piece from the bug furniture set!
Ok I'm stopping here xD... I could go on for hours (maybe I will write a "second part" one day). All these ideas may seem crazy or too big, but to be honest they are not. Even if in a basic form, they already exist in other games, so it would not be so difficult to put them in a new game. We don't need giant locations to explore. We just need something even small, but that keeps you entertained.New Horizons felt good for all the quality of life improvements, but felt completely empty and boring when talking about things to do outside of decorating or terraforming the isle. What made Animal Crossing special before New Horizons was that there was always something new to discover. It felt like and adventure where you couldn't wait for the next day to arrive to discover which exciting new thing was waiting for you. New building, new characters, new things to do... I think that with just new things like the ones I listed (to be honest I would even be ok with them reciclying models from past games -even hhd- and giving them new life, if this could mean having something more to do in the game) the game could be enjoyed for years and years.
I know that after what Nintendo did with New Horizons this is almost 90% impossible, but if Nintendo would still be the same company that released New Leaf, Happy Home Designer and Welcome Amiibo, this could be 90% POSSIBLE.
Thanks if you reached the end and read everything, I really appreciate it.
And sorry for my bad english, i tried to make my best to make everything as clear as possible.