Music in New Horizons or New Leaf?

[acnl.nancy]

i love the iconic new horizons music, but while playing the game i don’t care for the background music that plays. New Leafs music is so much better. especially the nighttime and early morning music. what do you think?

 

[skylucario]

i totally agree. new leaf’s music was actually *good*—i’d go back and listen to it outside of the game, and i figured out several of the songs on the piano. with new horizons, it’s just...tolerable. it doesn’t make me feel things. it’s just kinda there, and sometimes, i get annoyed by it. oh, well.

 

[mayorsami]

I like new leafs a lot better, but that may be because I've never been big on the tropical island vibe.

It may also grow on me though, I think New Leaf had my least favorite tracks when it first came out too, and now I love them all

 

[acnl.nancy]

i totally agree. new leaf’s music was actually *good*—i’d go back and listen to it outside of the game, and i figured out several of the songs on the piano. with new horizons, it’s just...tolerable. it doesn’t make me feel things. it’s just kinda there, and sometimes, i get annoyed by it. oh, well.

new horizons music is so repetitive...when the music “changes” it has a similar beat or tune but it’s basically the same!!!

 

[skogkyst]

New Leaf's is better imo but New Horizon's is growing on me, some of the evening ones especially.

 

[meo]

I like them both about the same. They both have different vibes which is fine since they're different games. Ultimately, I don't tend to like background music while playing so I don't see it being any different from NL to NH in terms of playing with the sound down low or off majority of the time. Seems even to me.

Personally I wish there was an option to turn down music and just have natural ambiance only.

 

[Raz]

NL wins this by a landslide. Some of NH's songs have been growing on me, but this games' soundtrack isn't on the same level as NL's.

I mean, c'mon, NL's 7pm is an outstanding song.

 

[thatawkwardkid]

For the most part, I wasn't the biggest fan of New Leaf's. They did have some nice songs here and there but I remember when I first bought it, I was thinking, "...is this really the music?" Especially 3pm, it sounded like it would've fit well with the Harvest Festival and it wasn't something I wanted to hear everyday.

New Horizon's music stuck with me from the start, but out of all the games I definitely prefer Wild World's soundtrack.

 

[Xara]

i haven’t played new leaf in ages but i did listen to the soundtrack on yt for nostalgic purposes and honestly, i think i prefer new horizons music ;u;

 

[Lilybells]

I really miss the new leaf music. I usually play NH with the sound off because it gets irritating quickly.

 

[RooftopsRevolution]

I'm in the same boat. NL Is iconic and wins with no contest but as someone who originally hated the NH music, it's growing on me.

 

[daffy]

I prefer the New Leaf music. I'm not a huge fan of the New Horizons music overall, though I really like some tracks, like 5am.

 

[Clock]

Acnl's music is better NH is a bit same sounding, but there's some nice ones as well.

 

[Aliya]

A lot of the NH music sounds similar to me due to the sound effects they used over the background tracks, but it's growing on me slowly now. I'm still not a huge fan, but I usually get pretty immersed in what I'm doing now so it's barely noticeable.

I really loved the music in NL and WW so for me, it's an adjustment since there was a much clearer differentiation between hours.

 

[thegunpowderincident]

Honestly, it wasn’t until New Leaf had been out for several years that I began to like its music. And even then, it was mainly because of nostalgia. I imagine New Horizons’ music will get to that point eventually too. I just loved the Wild World music so much, and still do, so anything that’s too different won’t live up to that standard for me.

 

[Blueskyy]

New leaf actually made me associate feelings with the music playing. NH hasn’t done that yet.

 

[Tentacles]

NL def had better music, way more chill . NH music is still growing on me but it's not too bad now compared to when I first heard it.

 

[starlightsong]

New Leaf by a million miles because NH's music just isn't relaxing and sometimes I get actively irritated by it. One time I was frustrated by terraforming and I actually got angry because the music was getting on my nerves so much in addition.

Some of the late night/early morning songs are actually pretty nice (3 AM theme do not interact), admittedly! I like the title theme too. But the ones I hear the most (unless I TT and change the time to one with nicer music, but then those are pretty much all hours when the shops aren't open), just aren't my style at all. Which is weird because I love the tropical island vibe of the game overall but something about most of the hourly music is just super grating to me??

NL's hourly songs however are very calming and chill and I love them, and I not only like going back and listening to them outside of the game, but sometimes I mute my tv and put on a playlist of them while playing NH--which is why I wish NH had an option to only mute certain sounds and not others so I could keep the ambient noises without the music while I play my own.

 

[s i r e n t i c]

New Leaf's music will always be my favourite, especially the late night island themes.
They just bring up good memories of staying up late hunting bugs while watching cartoons

 

[trashpedia]

New Leaf because I prefer more melodic-sounding tracks than the more jazzy and loose-feel of New Horizons. I also don’t like that they all kinda overuse the synthesizers on some hourly tracks, and I’m surprised they didn’t use the steel drums from NL because they added a more tropical sound but whatevs.