The Nook's Cranny Closing Theme

[PandyBear]

Is one of the most thoroughly beautiful songs that I've ever heard in a game. I love Animal Crossing, and this isn't meant to sound like a diss, but - the song is so good, so overwhelmingly powerful in how well it manages to express a mood of wistfulness; elegant and timeless bittersweetness that it almost feels like it has no business being in an Animal Crossing game

That it actually is makes me love the game even more. It's very magical. In fact, I kinda wish that all stores in real life would, in their last moments of the day, play something like this!

Anyway, I hadn't played an AC game since Wild World (and very, very briefly, City Folk). I don't remember a song like this one being played as the store was about to close. Did it appear in City Folk, or New Leaf, or is the song entirely unique to New Horizons?

Seriously, though. What a great song. I've been meaning to say something about it for a long time now but finally remember to ❤

 

[Aurita]

Is one of the most thoroughly beautiful songs that I've ever heard in a game. I love Animal Crossing, and this isn't meant to sound like a diss, but - the song is so good, so overwhelmingly powerful in how well it manages to express a mood of wistfulness; elegant and timeless bittersweetness that it almost feels like it has no business being in an Animal Crossing game

That it actually is makes me love the game even more. It's very magical. In fact, I kinda wish that all stores in real life would, in their last moments of the day, play something like this!

Anyway, I hadn't played an AC game since Wild World (and very, very briefly, City Folk). I don't remember a song like this one being played as the store was about to close. Did it appear in City Folk, or New Leaf, or is the song entirely unique to New Horizons?

Seriously, though. What a great song. I've been meaning to say something about it for a long time now but finally remember to ❤

A lot of Japanese stores will play classical music or Auld Lang Syne around closing time to politely get customers to leave !

 

[PandyBear]

Wow that's really cool/hilarious! I wish they'd do that here, too! Great information.

 

[DragonLatios]

A lot of Japanese stores will play classical music or Auld Lang Syne around closing time to politely get customers to leave !

I Never seen at before and i wish i knew if there a youtube video of it as it be neat to see for those at lock in there house

 

[Aurita]

I Never seen at before and i wish i knew if there a youtube video of it as it be neat to see for those at lock in there house

here’s a YouTube video:

And a link to a post about it:

Signals Japan Uses to Tell You Your Day is Over

Sometimes things in Japan tell you to go home. Don't miss the signals or you'll look like a jerk.

www.tofugu.com

 

[DragonLatios]

here’s a YouTube video:

And a link to a post about it:

Signals Japan Uses to Tell You Your Day is Over

Sometimes things in Japan tell you to go home. Don't miss the signals or you'll look like a jerk.

www.tofugu.com

wow at neat and i wish i knew what store she is in. I maybe have to look it up to see if it told what store she is in.

 

[loveclove]

Wow by your description I'll have to check it out. It starts at 10pm sharp?

 

[Aurita]

wow at neat and i wish i knew what store she is in. I maybe have to look it up to see if it told what store she is in.

This is a super old video! But most convenience stores & malls in Japan do this

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Wow by your description I'll have to check it out. It starts at 10pm sharp?

It starts 10 mins before!

 

[PandyBear]

10 till 10. And listen while you can because they're not shy about forcefully booting you out the door at the stroke or 10 hahaha.

 

[Xane_MM]

Anyway, I hadn't played an AC game since Wild World (and very, very briefly, City Folk). I don't remember a song like this one being played as the store was about to close. Did it appear in City Folk, or New Leaf, or is the song entirely unique to New Horizons?

Wild World played a slow strings version of the gate music before closing, but only if it was Nookington's. (I assume the same happened in City Folk due to its similarities to Wild World.)

As for New Leaf, it introduced the song heard in New Horizons, but it sounded "cheaper".* New Horizons improved the song and it no longer sounds...cheap*.

Spoiler: Why do I call it "cheap"?

In all games before New Leaf (bar some exceptions), the music was sequenced, with each instrument changing samples depending on the note/octave it plays. If a song played the same exact note multiple times, it would sound exactly the same.

New Leaf uses pre-rendered music, so it can use any instruments, no matter the quality, so the composers could use instruments that don't sound identical every time they play a specific note. However, the shop closing music can be heard sounding exactly the same every time a given note plays, and it's...disappointing for being pre-rendered. Listen to 1AM for one of the clearest cases. The piano that plays the higher notes sounds the exact same every time it plays a certain note.

New Horizons still uses pre-rendered music (ugh) but it does a better job avoiding this, probably due to using things like synths in the hourly themes and possibly real recordings other times. Due to this, no two notes can sound exactly alike, or at least, not as noticeably as New Leaf.

 

[Lavamaize]

I think this is my favorite soundtrack in ACNH so far!

 

[Xara]

agreed! i don’t hear it very often but it’s honestly such a pretty tune and i’m a little sad that it only makes an appearance for 10 minutes each day ;u;