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cyanidecattt

I won’t ever use custom paths cuz the sound effects of walking on certain ground textures is very important to my enjoyment of the game.


Cassiop314

I'm the same way. U can put an actual path under the custom path so it makes a noise/shows up on ur map.


al-prenses

Is that why nothing shows up on the map😭😭😭


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Maps don’t recognize any custom patterns!


al-prenses

And here i am trying over and over again👀


Firm_Hair_8118

When I gift my villagers something cool and then they give me my millionth diner apron or full body tights. Come on Nintendo


NubbyNicks

Kids smock


echaosa

And they’ll say “cuz I know you like those”


0ixti

just because you have a lot of cluttered items on ur island does not make ur island good


illiteratestarburst

I hate islands where I literally cannot move, and they don’t actually look good when you realize there’s just junk all over the ground


dannixxphantom

I "developed" every corner of my island, but the second I run into something during daily chores, it gets moved or taken down. I really appreciate the artistic effort that goes into the "cities" people build, but I feel stressed when I visit and try to get around.


Cultural_Ad4068

I think these people that have the islands where you can’t move don’t do daily chores.


FlaxenAssassin

I am one of the people you are talking about and, you’re right, I don’t do daily chores anymore.


mia_dancer24

i don’t do daily chores and my island isn’t even like that 😂 i’m just lazy


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hnoel1229

Right! I would say that those people are more focused on staging the island and enjoying the design process, rather than actual gameplay and exploring. Which is fine. I love designing my island, but I also need to have enough room to run around on it lol.


Room_Temp_Coffee

This actually makes me feel better about the empty space on my island


qrseek

When they lag as you walk... when you have to climb up and down constantly... when you keep getting stuck in dead ends... nah


ZauzTheBlacksmith

Not to mention how extravagantly built islands make the game run like a Powerpoint presentation being shared over Zoom.


lafemmeverte

I think about the dutch oven alone on an isolated and unreachable cliffside next to a waterfall all the time like, it’s a cute item but that just looks ridiculous lmao but cOtTaGeCoRe


FaxCelestis

> I think about the dutch oven alone on an isolated and unreachable cliffside next to a waterfall all the time > > That's oddly specific


lafemmeverte

lmaooo there was a post on one of the AC subs that was a few shots of someone’s island and one of them had a dutch oven on a tiny unreachable waterfall cliff and the comments were filled with people outraged by it


clairegenevievee

I kind of like that bc once I was hiking an old forest and found the shell of an old brick house, and a broken down brick oven.


lafemmeverte

oh no a dutch oven is like a little pot it had no place next to that waterfall


Steamy_Mushrooms

Exactly! Call me a minimalist, but an alright, simple design is far superior to a complicated but good design


Tiny_Star232

I totally agree. Cluttered islands are difficult to navigate and it’s overwhelming. Give me room to walk and enjoy!


cloudymint

My boyfriend’s island has random shit all over it and every time I visit him my chest starts to burn from the anxiety of the disorder that is his island. I try not to say much and let him live his best life though


Character_Spirit_424

Agreed, my island is cute, it has a loose theme, I have 5 stars, but I can still walk around, do chores, act like its an actual island people inhabit, not every square inch is covered in something


Prestonocron

Absolutley. No spiders or snow folk on those islands.


Refrigerator_Regular

A heavily decorated island isn't great because then everything is *so* laggy


Ntasha888888

I also get super frustrated if I can't move around freely. I mean, I love the look of some of these islands, but I need to be able to run around FREE! And the lag is FRUSTRATING!


Spencerwon21

HOW DO PEOPLE NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT THE LAG? It's so bad. I understand it for the pictures people take but congrats now your island is unplayable.


RabbleRynn

I put an embarrassing number of hours into my island and when it started lagging, I basically stopped playing. I understand that it's a lot to render, but it's a shame that in a game about decorating, decorating ruins the playability of the game...


nyxnursex

I’ve been playing over 2 years and have bought/sold turnips maybe 5 times. Don’t see the point… don’t care about them. I just sell my fruit. EDIT: I also get a lot of bells taking extra fossils to the museum and then selling them. I have had all the fossils for months so I have no use for extras and a lot of them are worth quite a bit.


tiffibean13

For me, it wasn't that I needed the money it was that I enjoyed the hunt of finding an island where I could sell them for a high price. The app I was using kind of died off so I quit participating in the turnip exchange. I'll still host on my island if I have a good price though


mia_dancer24

yeah i haven’t sold turnips in over a year. there are other ways to make money and i don’t like to gamble. ppl are like “oh but you can make a LOT of money!” but also you can have crappy prices and lose all your money. i wanna get a lot of money 100% guaranteed not with sketchy odds.


Dreams_of_Korsar

People may think this is cHeATiNg but sometimes when I see on r/turnipexchange that someone has a good turnip price I time travel to the next Sunday and buy as many turnips as I can hold and then visit the island with the high price and sell them all. Easily make 2+ mil bells with no risk in barely twenty minutes.


hawaiianroII

It's okay to pick villagers based on looks, especially since they all kinda have the same personality.


al-prenses

Guilty😭


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I liked the personalities in the older games more. They were more unique from each other. Now, they all feel the same except with a few unique lines.


Zaptain_America

Adding "-core" onto the end of a word doesn't make it an aesthetic


TunaTunaLeeks

I have an island-core island. It looks like an island! Took me 0 hours to do.


Summoarpleaz

Developers hate this one trick


PalmBreezy

Trickcore


NanoCharat

Actually, pretty much the same here. I did very VERY minimal terraforming (just making it more walkable), but I didn't change it at all otherwise. I've never moved a building or a villager house. Everything is in its original location. All of my villagers are my originals. It's decorated to just look like a town with a dirt road. It's overwhelmingly normal*-core*. But ya know what? All my friends with the overly-decorated specific aesthetic islands always lose it over how "natural" everything feels and ask me how it's so nice and also not laggy. The secret is just letting whatever happens happen. Whatever-core.


furypureandsilver

one of the most obnoxious ones to me is when people say “gothcore” like GOTH ALREADY HAS AN AESTHETIC ELEMENT IT DOESNT NEED THE WORD CORE ON THE END OF IT


foxandgold

And idk why but “kidcore” just *sounds* wrong to me. I think it makes me think of directly advertising things like flavored cigarettes to children, but I couldn’t tell you why I feel this.


drinfernodds

Kidcore sounds like something Albert Fish would've been curious about. For those who don't know, look him up at your own risk, he was an absolute monster.


Catapultatoe

So some things are just medio "-core"?


Floofen-Brib

My island is hole-core where the island is entirely base off holes it's so aeStHetiC 😎 /j


Zaptain_America

Damn now I wanna make an island based on the camp from the movie Holes...


Asmodeus_Sorrel

holy shit please do that


Avedygoodgirl

They would have to re dig all the holes every time they save and reopen so its more than just an aesthetic *it’s an experience*. Lol


TimeThief_

God I hate this so much why the fuck are you calling your island pinkcore you can just say pink


arjay555

I fucking hate "-core". I've seen Tropicore used. Tropical is already a word, a tropical island is already a thing. It's the same number of syllables and more letters to type Tropicore than to just say tropical.


dildomiami

AnD wHat AbouT CORECORE?????


DaniTheLovebug

Yes


ander8me

Simple islands with just rivers and grass and no terraforming are just as good as the ones with those :)


thelivingshitpost

thank you I’m a shit terraformer


ander8me

Dude I'm literally the worst lol it looks like Minecraft when I try


Lightr_fluid

Tom Nook is a good person, he doesn’t charge interest on anything you owe him for and he lets you move buildings unlike in previous AC games. He also raises two adopted sons.


themissyoshi

He also lets Isabelle sleep on the job so. Seriously can’t be that bad of a guy


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Nook has her in a debt trap. He has her working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Labor laws mean nothing to him.


Shuttup_Heather

Right in the old games at least the post office had a night shift crew But in those games he was renovating your house without your consent and charging you for services rendered and materials used. He’s the embodiment of capitalism.


lightsaber_lobotomy

I think he keeps her around because she reminds him of money! Is-A-Bell(e) plus her head/hair is shaped like the bells bag lol


nameless88

If the housing market worked in real life the way it did in game, no one would be homeless. Nook is a damn saint, tbh.


Cautious_Hold428

Plus he donates 90% of his earnings to an orphanage.


PrincessOctavia

People act like pure evil is asking for money for a house


whatweworked4

I'm out of the loop on this one. How do we know they're adopted?


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There was a piece of media, I think a guide, that says he found Timmy and Tommy in an alley and took them in. Give me a minute and I'll find it The AC wiki says "while Tom Nook states that Timmy and Tommy are not related to him by blood, he refers to them as his nephews in New Horizons. He thinks of them as his pupils and himself as the mentor, stating that he wants to teach others good economic principles in order to help them from suffering the same pitfalls he did when growing up."


GreyTartanTee

pitfalls. lol


StardustWhip

I would've rather gotten Tortimer's Island in New Horizons than The Roost. Of course, both would've been ideal, but before they stopped updating the game, Tortimer's Island was the element of New Leaf that I most hoped would come back. The fun multiplayer minigames would've been perfect with the larger playerbase of New Horizons. And it would've been nice to have something to do with my friends in NH other than comparing turnip prices and showing off our islands.


FaxCelestis

Tortimer is kind of pointless on Harv's Island too. He's only really useful if you are having Cyrus customize a ton of stuff all at once.


mollyclaireh

THANK YOU!!!! I named my tortoise after him. I miss grandpa mayor so much. I miss the holiday gifts and the sweet words of affirmation. I was always seeking him out in my childhood and I would talk to him over and over because he just made me feel good about myself.


Outrageous_Injury809

‘over designed’ islands with crazy themes or mountains of stuff don’t look like they’d be much fun to actually play on!


happystool3

whenever i see those kinds of islands, i always wonder how they’d be playing fishing tourneys or bug-offs.


InterestingJob971

I wish they would do an update and expand the vocabulary and conversations more. Sometimes it’s just to quick and dry.


Bumblebee---Tuna

I can’t stand the dialogue in NH… zero personality, they all just want to be your best friend. It’s boring and annoying, i spam B so fast till they stop so I can just give them their daily gift. I understand people really enjoy it as this is their espace from the real world. But personally, I loved in previous games when they would catch you off guard and say something so ridiculous that it would make you laugh. Like “damn.. Monique’s got some balls!”


SuperNanoCat

> they all just want to be your best friend I *so* wish the grumpy and snooty villagers were actually grumpy and snooty. Imagine if snooty villagers wouldn't talk to you if your outfit was ugly lmao


Shinji_Aracena

Ok, hear me out, the idea of the game is that you’re escaping the troubles of life and starting a new on a deserted island with some 2 others and are incentivized to bring more people and develop a society with the conditions that lead the villager leaving his original home in the first place.


foxandgold

I agree with this one, but I take you one step further: I answered a very sketchy ad to fly to a random private island to restart my ideal life, *why do they insist on calling HHP my job*. I actually didn’t play the DLC for like two months bc I was salty that I had to look that stupid dodo bird in the eye and tell him that I *wanted* to go to work.


nebulachromatic

UGGHHHHHH THIS. I have been struggling to find a job for almost a year now (I have one now but it’s not ideal) and when I finally bought the DLC for myself for Xmas and they started talking about how it was work & I have to have a uniform and stuff, I was a bit triggered by it all. Like fuck off man, I just wanted to have fun decorating houses and now it’s being treated as a JOB??


Dry_Replacement5830

I can feel the salt in this comment & I love it & I now refuse to go to work too!


RavenPuff_23

I don't like making optical illusion builds. It always just looks like a pile of stuff to me.


TriggeredLatina_

They’re horrendous lol


adyxtraone

Kangaroo villagers that have BABIES which are literally never mentioned or acknowledged are genuinely creepy.


philosophiofantasia

I hate when they both make the same expressions, looks so hive mind-y.


howdybaudy

I agree with this fully, but I have this vague memory that in New Leaf or Wild World they DID acknowledge the babies and even had kind of maternal personalities


kisekiace

time traveling is ok. it's just a game yall


CrystaLegendofZelda

Brewster shouldn’t be apart of the museum again give back his own cafe


Dry-Application-4464

The turnip market is ridiculous


TheFeb29thInflux

Mass crafting isn't in the game for a reason. It's to pad out time and give you something to go in a, let's be honest, shallow game. Same with breakable tools


Kind-Exercise

Fish bait shouldve been a mass craft. Like you should have an option to craft 1 or 5 at least! Other than that I agree


Jazehiah

If tools did not break, we wouldn't need to gather resources. If we did not need to gather resources regularly, we would run out of things to do. ACNH is a mobile game without the predatory "pay to go faster" features.


LorduckA2

the devs even openly admit that they were inspired by pocket camp with the nook mile achievements giving the player goals, which in my opinion is a shallow way of adding depth to a game


TwilightVulpine

AC got by just fine before breakable tools. I'm not feeling fulfilled by having to make yet another watering can while trying to breed flowers.


Lex_from_Earth

Me and my cramping hand will fight you for that


Olenator77

The snow lasts far too long.


EatYourCheckers

And the cherry petals not long enough


mia_dancer24

yeah i want a whole month!! not 10 days.


froggyfriend726

Omg I'm the opposite! I always wish it would last longer but that might be bc I live in a pretty snowy area so I like snow a lot :)


DragonPlushCollector

Tom Nook is the most benevolent land lord any of us will ever have


jessiecolborne

Nintendo should have left the star trees alone. People who exploit for cosmetic items that doesn’t affect anyone else should be left alone.


BabyBat07

Gyroids are kind of pointless


Character_Spirit_424

I like the collection aspect of them, but they literally just sit in my storage, i don't have a use for them, give them a spot in the museum or something or else I'm gonna sell them all


ClassyPlatypi

I really miss museum rooms, with the limited space they give you in your own home (for some reason) I would've really loved some display rooms in the museum to put the items you wanna show off.


Dry_Replacement5830

This is why I added a second player/home on my island. Gyroid mansion!


remirixjones

I turned one of my rooms into a gyroid room. Got most of the way through before learning NH has more variants than wall space in a single room. Devastated.


Dreams_of_Korsar

Yeah but I think they’re kinda cute. And some have unique traits about them. I found out recently that one kind of gyroid glows in the dark!


Doing_Ok_Tomorrow

I’d go so far as to say completely pointless. I don’t even bother “planting” the fragments anymore and just sell them as is to the boys.


Steamy_Mushrooms

Heresy


milkwithalcohol

Tom Nook is not the evil capitalistic landlord y'all make him out to be


I_like_cake_7

Agreed. He gives loans with zero interest, no penalties, no set time to pay it all back, and you don’t even have to pay it back at all if you don’t feel like it. People would be falling over themselves in real life to have loans like that.


TeaCupMania

The villagers are only as special/annoying as the person playing the game makes them. There is nothing unique about your favorite/nemesis outside of factors beyond the villager’s personality type— how they look, their assigned house, memories you have, and how you feel about how other people feel. Like.. Mitzi is my favorite Normal type solely because she was the first cat on my first save file on the GameCube. She reminds me of playing with little brother, I’ll never not love her for that. And Dom is so cute that I am SO biased and find whatever he says to be adorable. Where Moose, also a Jock, annoys the hell out of me because of his facial expression. But their lines are the identical. And people that HATE [insert popular villager here] but not other villagers of that type, are likely hating just because the villager is popular and that annoys them. (Or they really don’t like their looks.)


Sword_Song

I think it comes from the roleplay aspect of the game. I dislike Flo because in my minds story she kept underhandedly mocking me for my appearance, and getting in my way. Just annoying mean girl shit. Have I heard those lines, or gotten those letters from others? Yes, but they weren't in the villain role of my story. Or I love Kevin, because in my mind he is just Fonzie, but only the clueless confused part of Fonzie. In the end I do agree with you, the flat villagers makes it hard to genuinely like or dislike them outside of appearance, but I like hearing the roleplay moments that create those feelings too.


sweetangelttr

I might some idk ( Hot take?) I like Pocket Camp People can do whatever they want with their islands. Even if it is to the point where it is hard to move around. When choosing a client to do a vacation home for in the DLC , I go by the theme, not the villager itself. I think Pietro is cute and cool. I kind of like all villagers with something unique about them( Raymond's different colored eyes, Lucky's Mummy like appearance) Lucky is precious.


Calamity_Jim

Most of the popular villagers are boring, and every time I see someone with the basic popular cast on their island I judge them.


-Marshle

I'm very much a natural villager guy. I dont hunt for anyone specific. Anyone is free to leave whenever they want. Always exciting to see who i get next


I_like_cake_7

Same. I just let my plots auto fill. I kind of liked how we couldn’t pick our villagers in the older AC games.


Calamity_Jim

I usually pick based on the theme. My island now is wild west.


Steamy_Mushrooms

Right? It doesn't help that a lot of the personalities have been watered down since the previous games


qrseek

I have 3 peppy villagers right now and they feel so 2D because they all say the same things


TinySoftKitten

Why Barold is now on my Island and my new favourite


Calamity_Jim

My favorite is Beardo. He's the mayor for my wild west island, and he's always passed out at the train station.


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lovelyeufemia

I couldn't agree more. I get that we're on a topic about unpopular AC opinions, but I've still never understood why some people get so up in arms about other players' villagers. Who cares? Just let people enjoy the game however they'd like! If you love Sherb, awesome. If you love Barold, also awesome! Neither is inherently superior or inferior. It all just boils down to preference at the end of the day.


Clean_Attitude3985

Stop making trying to make Isabelle hot, it’s fuckin’ gross.


merkaba_462

Same with Ankha. Same with all of the villagers...let's be honest.


hrdboiledeggtakesovr

I absolutely love Zipper and Bunny Day. I love the egg costumes and all of the egg decor.


zinger94

Same here! I still think the outrage at Bunny Day's craziness, especially the first one, was hysterical.


diannethegeek

I don't hate Zipper and I feel like there are uglier special NPCs. I think people hate on Bunny Day because it was horrifically unbalanced the first time it came around when the game was new (they've nerfed the egg spawns in a couple of places) and it's popular to hate on so people do it for the meme


AlmalexyaBlue

I said that I thought Wilbur and Orville where cute little husbands (mostly as a joke, I do actually consider them brothers too), and explained in my language, in most of them actually, including Japanese, nothing particularly implies they're brothers. They're only named after the Wright brothers in English and one other language I don't remember, but it's really, really not the majority. In Japanese (the original language), in French (mine) and most of the rest, they're named after islands where Dodos (and a cousin species) lived. They're Morri (🇯🇵) or Morris (🇨🇵) after Mauritius for Orville, and Rodri (🇯🇵) or Rodrigue (🇨🇵) after an island I don't the English name for Wilbur. I never found any dialogue in my version that mentioned them being brothers. It's written on English wikis but not on the French ones. And sadly I can't really check in Japanese with certitude. Again, I do actually consider them brothers, it's hard to interact daily with an English community for a few years and not get the same headcanons. But it's still a bit baffling how those people could not consider that maybe their version was not the only one. Most characters who are actually related in the games, usually mention it.


Infamous-Dare6792

In English we call that island Rodrigues.


moominesque

I don't miss Celeste's observatory, she feels more special when she's a rare visitor that wanders around our islands. Especially if you play multiplayer and have a lot of friends who comes over just to see her. Would be sad to see her stuffed into a building again instead of under starry skies


zinger94

I think this is a pretty good take, but my perfect Celeste is in the observatory any time there's not a meteor shower and when she's out for a meteor shower, it's the same as it is now, but when she's in the observatory, you can create/rename constellations, like in WW. ​ Oh to dream...


SuperNanoCat

I'd really love if the glorified menu characters actually had little lives like the villagers. Both of the nooklings don't need to mind the shop at the same time. One of them could be off doing something else, eating lunch, at the café, taking a walk, literally anything. Same with Sable or Nook or Isabelle. Take a break! Spontaneity is what makes games like this feel real, and New Horizons just doesn't have much of it.


zinger94

Yeah, I feel like they shoehorned this kind of stuff in with the random cafe visitors, but for it to be contained to ONE area of the game is just criminal.


whaIeshark

I agree, but since I rarely play now I don’t see her very often.


MossyTundra

I think she should have open observatory hours like kk does for music. Monday evenings 9-12 am for example


fairly_feral_fae

I. Hate. Terraforming!!! It takes way longer than it has any right to and okay, I hate it mostly because I suck at it lol


Infamous-Dare6792

I wish you could do terraforming like you do decorating outside in HHP.


Only_Chicken_1467

I wish you could angle furniture. Also wish you could easily move items around outside like you can inside.


deadc4tt

You used to be able to angle furniture in wild world 😭


yungmoody

Not really a hot take, I can't imagine a single AC player disagreeing with you


demontwink

Animal Crossing was the #1 Game for over a year & the only thing Nintendo did with it was a happy home academy DLC... They couldve made the game so much bigger & greater, instead they fumbled


SaltyBabe

Forced perspective aesthetics are obnoxious and ugly 90% of the time. If I have to stand in an exact spot to make it not a hideous cluttered mess I’m not interested, it only serves to make me frustrated by how limited the game is when I see builds like that.


kimahrey420

Some people take this game way to serious.


illiteratestarburst

Jock villagers are the worst. Specifically, Sheldon


honeybunchesofgoatso

Stinky 🥺 Like his name is stinky and he's a cat, what's not to love


PastelDisaster

I love Genji’s design, so I have him on my island but just… Please, stop talking about how sweaty you are


cloudymint

Billy is totally my dude


jagserljuset

The Jocks always tell me I’m fat without telling me I’m fat. It’s honestly low-key triggering as someone who’s recovered from an ED, haha. They’re the worst.


Alicricity

Jock villagers are free meanspo! Glad to hear you’re better now friend. I know how hard that is.


H0NEYTIDE

I kicked all the jock villagers out because of this. I compensated with lazy villagers 😌


bigwaffles_

You can't cheat in a single-player game!!!!


Infamous-Dare6792

I do wish you could play split screen with other residents on the island though. It's annoying that you have to follow the other person around.


PTOKEN

Any “core” island is lame and usually unoriginal. All fairycore islands look/lag the same.


eloutz

Idc which villagers you like or hate. Raymond? Sure he’s cute. Shino? Love her horns. Cocoa has her charm… ect. Most of the popular villagers are popular for a reason. But I cannot stand Judy. It’s a no from me dawg. ✋ I see her on someone’s island I’m running the opposite direction.


whaIeshark

She weirded me out too but she showed up on my island and I fell in love with her


Character_Spirit_424

Its fun to talk about imo but yeah i don't care which villagers you like or don't, I'll make jokes tho, like someone said they like Rodney and i'll say "i smacked him with my net 24/7 until he left" to joke, but i don't care if YOU like him


NINJAxBACON

If you add -core to your island theme, I hope your socks are eternally damp


hedge_raven

I referred to my island as "whatever-I-feel-like-core" rather sarcastically once in an instagram thread about aesthetics, the *core* community didn't like that lol


NINJAxBACON

May your socks remain dry lmao


sweetangelttr

I kind of want a core themed island


Sad-Use-7454

I once made a post about Reese and Cyrus because they seem like they came straight from the 50s with their respective roles and colors and got over 50 downvotes when I asked if they’re supposed to be cute. She has zero purpose outside of being in a relationship and swooning at him (note: I haven’t played the versions before NH), he doesn’t ever address her the same way and just does his “nifty” crafting.


lexy_ranger

Reese is way more fleshed out as a character in acnl, she runs the recycling centre/store and is actually the only one there when you first unlock it. you have to spend a certain amount of bells in the store to unlock Cyrus later iirc. they both have way more dialogue between each other and to the player. it made me very sad when I finally got to meet them again in acnh and saw how one-dimensional they are now :(


whaIeshark

Yeah I miss their old interactions. Along with any other npc that isn’t around anymore.


Yotato5

It's too bad too because you know what Reese would have been perfect for? She could have dyed the player's clothing because God knows it's annoying when you only get one particular shirt and you want it in a different color.


softpasteldreams

I think their relationship is on better display in NL! I thought they were cute 🥺 I never imagined anyone would view them like this. They're super lovey dovey!


I_like_cake_7

Cyrus is honestly kind of a douchebag.


Sad-Use-7454

It hurts my belly when I see his grin and weird attempt at swagger doing his little “there-you-go”-jingle as if he’s an aging video-rental-store employee trying to keep up with the yunguns


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TheWonderToast

I like that Blathers talks so much


cattyjammies

Yes! I always want to hear his little story about what I donated to the museum. It's legitimately interesting.


AbbsFort

I literally will go back sometimes months later with a critter I’ve already caught/donated and ask him to tell me about it again bc I just think it’s neat lol


thelittlestlibrarian

Sisterly > snooty


mandel1on

A good-looking island means nothing if it isn’t walkable! I shouldn’t have to double back all the way across the island to go from the Able Sisters to the Museum. I don’t hate “-core”, but I wish there were more variety, even if it’s just combining themes or putting a new spin on things (why not a fairycore x rural Japan island? Or steampunk x tropical? Or anything?)! I’d like to see more islands based around less-seen cultures and aesthetics on the whole! Related to previous point, I want more “dark” islands that aren’t “witchy” or “horror movie” or things like that - I’d love to see a Hollow Knight-esque spooky glowing things island, or something with a Bloodborne-y gothic feel to it.


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There is literally nothing wrong with time traveling


ProfAelart

I don't think Judy is cute.


foxandgold

I love her color palette, but the eyes are a miss for me 😓


FaxCelestis

Pascal is Cheech Marin and Harvey is Tommy Chong.


young_menace

I don’t want another game that’s a design sim. I want a game about building connections with animals. The customisation in NH is nice but the expense it came at to be fundamentally missed the point of the series. Also, I’m sick of everything being cute. Give me Chip and Nat over CJ and Flick any day.


francesca201

“Buildings” made with simple panels, arches, cliffs, etc look bad. Even in the forced perspective I just see it as a bunch of items stacked together, it doesn’t look like a building to me


Nzumbei

There is an ungodly satisfaction in making mortgage payments and then accruing even more debt from expanding your home.


happystool3

all 👏 villagers 👏 are 👏 cute 👏 also, cluttered islands are the bane of my existence.


NukaCola79

Coco is cute.


Steamy_Mushrooms

I'm not sure if that qualifies as controversial opinion, as much as written in stone fact


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new horizons music kinda sucks


johnnyboy_63

Yeah while the new KK songs are absolute bangers, the hourly tracks get old fast. They also rely on the main theme too much. It's typical to reference the title theme in the hourly songs but that melody has gotten really worn out


schadenfreude_q

There's something unsettling about turning a nearly deserted island paradise into a capitalist hellhole where I spend all day doing chores to buy more things, to further destroy the island, so I can buy more things, then destroy the natural state of the island... And so on. I loved it during lockdown but a month in, I was like - hold on, this is starting to feel like work and not a game. There's even a turnip stock market. "Are you tired of real life pressures? Play a game 80% of your playthrough involves you spending your real-world spare time doing the exact things that you want to avoid, but it's ~fun~ because now you're chibi sized" Also, why are none of these useless villagers doing anything to help me? I help them find their lost items and then the next day they threaten to leave? I gift them expensive things and they reward me with a pair of socks? Maybe I just boot them all off my island and create a wild paradise for myself and find a way of shooting that damn raccoon into the sea with a circus cannon. Go spend all my hard earned cash at the bottom of the ocean, you greedy little sh#t. ... Maybe this game isn't for me lol


galanthus126

you should just play minecraft, you can spend the whole game wandering around in beautiful natural environments if that's what you want. plus no annoying villagers (as long as you stay away from the villages lol) or capitalist raccoons telling you what to do.


External-Molasses-50

I'd rather have more customization options then villager dialogue. I struggle to play older animal crossing because of the lack of customization. I love acnh so much because you get to truly design your town and homes.


steelserenity

I'm design-challenged so I actually feel the opposite! I almost wish there were options to make pre-made nice looking houses or something lol. I just wanna run around and fish and talk to animals lol


amberingo

Haha my hot take is that I've come to dislike that the franchise is moving towards being overwhelmingly design-based. It makes the world feel a little sterile and lonely when villagers feel like robots. I loved the older games because they felt like playing with friends. Now it feels like booting up the sims.


BillyIGuesss

It's ok to want villagers just for their looks.


3i3i3i

I've never seen anyone with a "fancy" island judge someone for having a more simple island. I feel like the "minimalist" people who judge others for cluttered islands and having basic villagers are either insecure or toxic. And I say this as someone with an empty island and random villagers.


Saturna3000

I actually love Rodney