SpiritofAce
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I'm playing Wild World at the same time, and the way villager friendship is handled is so much better. You can tell when you gradually gain a villager's trust, with any personality type. Speaking of the personality types, I've got 3 Jocks - and barely had any repeated dialogue, other than their first line which is usually about the weather or what time it is, or something. When you get a villager's picture in Wild World - and it requires dedication. It took me 3 weeks of playing, and talking to each villager daily as well as sending gifts and doing favours, you feel like it's more meaningful.
They actually have unique dialogue for giving you the picture, expressing how much you mean to them as a friend, before telling you that they'll give you a picture of them as a keepsake (that was just what Goldie said).
So how did New Leaf and New Horizons handle this wholesome moment? Uh... they removed it. Now, you just randomly get given a picture from your villager, and you don't really see that gradual increase in friendship. There's not even any unique dialogue for them giving you the picture - something I was really hoping they'd improve that was also absent in New Leaf. Instead, you just get this really out of place dialogue: 'Thanks for doing that for me! Here's (Opal's Picture!)' for example.
You might think it doesn't matter, but to me and I'm sure to many others it's just yet another way they have dumbed down the villagers over the past few games. It's no longer a game about building a friendship with your villagers, at least it doesn't feel that way, because they all feel the same. The situation is better (slightly) than in New Leaf, but it's just not good enough when the poor writing of villagers was one of the top complaints people had about New Leaf.
I'm sure people will accuse me of having rose-tinted spectacles when playing Wild World, but seriously, go back. Even for a couple of days. The difference is night and day. I've been playing it for over a month now, and whilst yes New Horizons is an amazing game, and definitely my favourite in the series, it once again falls at arguably the most important hurdle that New Leaf also failed at - poor writing, lifeless villagers.
They actually have unique dialogue for giving you the picture, expressing how much you mean to them as a friend, before telling you that they'll give you a picture of them as a keepsake (that was just what Goldie said).
So how did New Leaf and New Horizons handle this wholesome moment? Uh... they removed it. Now, you just randomly get given a picture from your villager, and you don't really see that gradual increase in friendship. There's not even any unique dialogue for them giving you the picture - something I was really hoping they'd improve that was also absent in New Leaf. Instead, you just get this really out of place dialogue: 'Thanks for doing that for me! Here's (Opal's Picture!)' for example.
You might think it doesn't matter, but to me and I'm sure to many others it's just yet another way they have dumbed down the villagers over the past few games. It's no longer a game about building a friendship with your villagers, at least it doesn't feel that way, because they all feel the same. The situation is better (slightly) than in New Leaf, but it's just not good enough when the poor writing of villagers was one of the top complaints people had about New Leaf.
I'm sure people will accuse me of having rose-tinted spectacles when playing Wild World, but seriously, go back. Even for a couple of days. The difference is night and day. I've been playing it for over a month now, and whilst yes New Horizons is an amazing game, and definitely my favourite in the series, it once again falls at arguably the most important hurdle that New Leaf also failed at - poor writing, lifeless villagers.
I've been on level 5 with several villagers now for sometime, but still no luck.
