Squidward
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I'd just like to see this series return to its roots. Villagers with personality, a great soundtrack, little things to do every day instead of simply decorating your island and then promptly abandoning it.
reposting what I said upthread because I ultimately think doing a big wishlist of stuff treats the stuff that's in Animal Crossing as just Content that's been put there because "hey, it's a good idea" rather than stuff that has a specific purpose... but at the same time, I can't resist going "hmm, what would I want?" even if I'm coming up with a bunch of Content because I don't really know what the game's focus or central theme is, and I don't know what the features of the Swuccessor that the game will utilise are so... aite, let's pull out the bullet points:tbh I think a lot of NH is going to be exclusive to NH, because the entire theme is “move to a deserted island, make things from natural resources, and do whatever you want with the place” and basically every feature in the game links into that, in the same way every feature in WW links into “move into a town and get to know the people that live in it” or the way every feature in NL links into “you’re elected the mayor, see how the town grows underneath your leadership”
I think there’s going to be a different central theme entirely, with different features relating to that.
I don’t know what it’s going to be exactly. As I’ve said before, I feel that if they treat NH as either a complete success or a complete failure and either coasting on that or rehashing an older game in the series, it has the possibility to end up coming across as kind of meh to me.
It ultimately needs to feel different enough to NH so that you’re not stuck with two very similar games playable on the same system, while not coming across as just horrible grovelling… and that’s a hard one, tbh. But I hope they somehow pull it off, nonetheless!
this is still my feeling on minigames: if there's going to be any, they've got to both involve your villagers and not just be stuff you could do with your friends anyway if you've got a timer and an idea. However! If it does just end up being stuff that you could do in your village anyway: don't just have it be summer stuff! Roll up the biggest snowball possible and try and break the other player's! Catch as many cherry blossom petals or maple leaves as possible! Gather as many acorns as possible, but don't pick up any rotten acorns! Hell, even an Animal Crossing-related quiz a la Quiz Show from amiibo Festival! Have Tortimer have a grand old building covered in statues of himself in the city area to host it in, bringing back his slightly shady and egotistical sides (you remember giving money to Boondox? This is what it was actually funding)once again, increasingly feel as if Tortimer Island's minigames are mostly comprised of stuff you can do online anyway if you're creative enough. Competitive fishing, competitive bug catching, competitive finding a specific colour of flowers... if not for the Whack-A-Cornimer On A Mower, the balloon-popping minigame and the "find a specific piece of furniture in a house" minigames it would be entirely composed of stuff you can do with friends anyway.
So I'd really like something that felt minigame-specific, and more specifically something like the GBA minigames from e+, where you can play Red Light, Green Light; donjanken (essentially an athletic version of Rock, Paper, Scissors played in Japan) and dodgeball with villagers, but this time it's In Actual 3D and you can also play with friends who come round to your village (like group stretching or the Fishing Tourney in NH).
youre ideas have a lot of potentialThe ability to turn the camera left and right outdoors, having more than 10 villagers, and more buildings and features to interact with besides just decorations. Which all ties into a concept I had, I'd like to see more of an open world approach. I get a bit tired of being stranded on one island. It would be interesting if your main play area was an archipelago with varying island environments like HHP. Some inhabited with villagers, others maybe have shops, events, or features that change regularly. You can just hop on a boat, and travel wind waker style, to freely explore the islands. Add some fast travel points if you've visited an island before since you probably don't want to do that every time. You could catch unique fish at sea and find random items dropped in the water. Yeah probably won't happen and I know it's not everyone's preferred playstyle but it could be fun.
Ive always wanted to turn the camera outdoors and at this point we should get it. OHH wind waker style would be so cool, making stylized land features to explore with reasons to be there sometimes being the way the land is, just cause its nice. Or like the islands could be crammed small regions of the world inspired partly by earthly cultures and towards imagined cultures that speak from themselves, echoing their own spirit like how the visitors to the town in all games brought unique things. Events of celebration that enbolden themselves; of course that could potentially move the idea of such events visiting your town which should remain. Like saharahs land and gracies city, they had Kinda done this with the hippie dog guy who I forget his name ehhhh which should be expanded upon like a whole new town of origin. We could bring all the games together with the strengths of them made stronger and largerThe ability to turn the camera left and right outdoors, having more than 10 villagers, and more buildings and features to interact with besides just decorations. Which all ties into a concept I had, I'd like to see more of an open world approach. I get a bit tired of being stranded on one island. It would be interesting if your main play area was an archipelago with varying island environments like HHP. Some inhabited with villagers, others maybe have shops, events, or features that change regularly. You can just hop on a boat, and travel wind waker style, to freely explore the islands. Add some fast travel points if you've visited an island before since you probably don't want to do that every time. You could catch unique fish at sea and find random items dropped in the water. Yeah probably won't happen and I know it's not everyone's preferred playstyle but it could be fun.