Nintendo Switch 2 launched about a month and a half ago, and now rumors swirl around what will be shown in the first ever Switch 2 focused directly. At the top of the list is a new animal transition, which is rumored to be set on a reveal in the exhibition for a launch date 2026.
As someone who spent almost 1,000 hours playing new horizons, I'm ready to see the next post in the series so I can do the exact thing again. But I also hope that it draws more from the previous post, New Leaf, to fill in the gaps in new horizons.
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It's not you, animal transition, it's me.
New horizons missed what made new blade so good
Decoration is the essence of new horizons. You can adapt your island completely to your taste of terra -shaped rivers, lakes and cliffs, crafts and paint furniture and plant flowers and trees, all with the goal of serving a visit from the KK slider. But when you have done it? You can … wander around the island and admire your work, I guess.
Animal intersection was not always so. In fact, for all the time I spent playing New Leaf, I barely adapted my city at all, besides planting flowers and bushes and placing any public work projects. It was so much more To the city, the villagers and what you can do.
Even on Main Street you can go to Dr. Shrunk's Night Club, Explore three Floors in the Nook store, or get the hair made in a salon rather than just with a mirror. In addition to your city, you can take a boat out with the race for a visit to Tortimer Island and do even more activities there. I know that New Horizon's whole thing is that you are on a deserted island and you make a small community, but Devs could have given us a little more to work with than just two stores and the museum.
Even Brewster's Cafe has been moved to be back in the museum in new horizons such as older AC games, rather than their own building.
The villagers became props, not friends
However, the most harmful change to new horizons is to the villagers you invite to stay on your island. After two or three conversations you have quite a lot exhausted all the dialogue you ever get from them. To make things worse, there are only eight personality types in the game, compared to the nine places on your island, so you always have at least two villagers with the same personality and repeat the same few lines with dialogue, day-in, day-out.
While you would eventually encounter this problem in New Leaf, it wasn't almost as incredible. I had many normal and peppy villagers in New Leaf and did not really notice that they were all the same personality type. If you have the same personality types in new horizons you will definitely Know about it.
Why are all the lazy villagers obsessed with bugs?
There is also not so much you can do with your villagers in new horizons, which makes the lack of dialogue so much more obvious. I mean, it took the 2.0 update for them to be able to visit your house without inviting them first.
In New Leaf you can play hide with them around your city. They can even ask you to bury a time capsule somewhere and then ask you to dig up it weeks, months or potentially until years later. There is a lot you can do with villas -interactions, and new horizons did … Yes, nothing.
What was even the point of New Horizon's multiplayer?
New Horizon's multiplayer is similarly hollow. Up to seven players can visit your island at once, but what can you do when everyone is there? Walking around and admiring the landscape is pretty much the only thing on the itinerary, plus a KK slider show if it happens to be Saturday.
Seriously, where was mini -game? Fans started making their own games to play on each other's islands because the game gave nothing, which is quite shameful. New Leaf's Tortimer Island mini -game would have worked perfectly here – they are already set on an island. Throw some new ones in, and New Horizon's life would have skyrocketed.
Five years after launch, everything I can see are the dazzling missed opportunities in new horizons. Hopefully, the next title, when revealed, draws more from the series' past to make it even better.
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