Player Performing Hidden Emotions?

[Pokemanz]

Dunno if anyone knows about this, but it just happened and kind of surprised me. By now most people know there are two "hidden" emotions in the game that cannot be learned from Shrunk. These are Surprise (ex-emotion from WW and CF, also known as the "villager ping") and Smirk (which is similar to Mischief). Well there is a way to have your character perform the Smirk emotion, although it will only be a once-in-that-instance type thing.

I ran into my Cranky and Uchi villagers (Roscoe and Charlise) as they were talking. The conversation was about how Charlise always seemed to approach Roscoe with a scary face, so he decided to show her how to smile at others. The first time, he smiled and she responded by using the Smirk emotion. Then they did it again and she used the Mischief emotion. Then Roscoe turned to me and asked if I could show her the proper way to smile at others. I was then given three options: Smile (Happy), Smile (Smirk), and Smile (Evil Grin). Selecting the second option allowed me to use the Smirk emotion!

Here are some screenshots:

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Charlise performing the Smirk emotion.


Me performing the Smirk emotion.

It was dark so it might be hard to see, but it happened. Which begs the question: why was it not added to the list of emotions?

Also sorry for completely random thread, I just wanted to talk about what I found. c:

 

[Chibi.Hoshi]

Ooooh! It's nice to see its actually possible for you character to do that.
I have no idea why its not added to the list of emotions your character can do anywhere. I guess space.

 

[Pokemanz]

Yeah that's what I thought too. They wanted to make it an even 40 rather than 42. But still, if they have it to where the villager is able to use the emotion (meaning it's in the game's code), why not add it to the list?

 

[Stacie]

Too similar to the happiness and sunniness maybe? IIRC there was a thread a little while ago where the players mouth got stuck in that position, it looked really cute haha!