The Evolution of Villagers in Animal Crossing - Tamashii Hiroka

so let's talk about Raymond Raymond is a short gray cat with a vest with black ears and a tuft of blonde hair that falls over his forehead, he has black paws and tail and has complete heterochromia, one of his eyes is green and the other is Brown Raymond wears big black plastic buddy glasses and his catchphrase is sharp. He often talks about stardom and wanting to be famous. His house is dressed like a sweet CEO with office furniture and the music playing in it is the ever popular ke ke cruisin. Now I'm sure you've heard a lot about Raymond recently as he's all over the broadcasts.

Raymond is an incredibly popular villager, perhaps more popular than any villager in Animal Crossing history. You might think he plays an important role in the game if you've never touched New Horizons, but in fact most players who love him have either never met him or he's one of the few

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in the game that doesn't have an associated amiibo card that allows him to be chosen personally by the player. is a resident, it is instead left entirely up to chance whether he shows up at the players' camp or on a mysterious island, making the opportunity to meet him and invite him to move to the players' town quite rare.

Raymond's unique appearance combined with his inherent rarity has made him quite coveted among New Horizons players. We'll get back to Raymond in a moment, though first I want to introduce you to a villager you may not have heard of. This is all Butch the brown dog. The first thing you should know about Butch is that he loves fossils, like most dogs, digging up bones and displaying them is his favorite way to spend time. He may want to settle down, get married and have kids one day, but you know what? Now all he wants is to have the most impressive collection of fossils you have ever seen.

They are more impressive even than flowers. The second thing you should know about Butch is that he hates degenerates who care about a name. Things like personality quizzes, and if you get a yodel shirt, he'll slash your tires and burn you. House Down Butch does have a soft spot though for his main partner, Goldy, something about Goldy's sweet, modest demeanor and gentle ways just calms this nervous pup down, which may not be aesthetically very interesting to look at, but there is a story. who likes and dislikes, will kick your ass if you waste your time, but deep down he has a heart of gold.

You just have to really get to know him to see the softer side of him. Butch has been an

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game since the beginning and most players. have the chance to have it in their cities as its amiibo card appeared in series 2 packs and is currently selling for around $10 online or so, if you have $10 to spare at some point you will have the chance to befriending this Tuffy and breaking down his capes could be yours, but the thing is not only that most players don't really care about meeting Butch and

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like him, but they don't seem to care about any of that stuff anymore. , whether Butch is older now that his ambitious youth is gone and spent. he no longer has the ability to kick anyone's ass or turn down a single yodel t-shirt.

He won't even ask you for fossils anymore. Butch will just passively smile at anything you give him and then go about his day without thinking about anything. his head, whatever he wants to do or say, Butch now looks a lot like Raymond, where the most you can say about him is described as looks and the fact that his looks were originally the least interesting thing about him makes him pretty undesirable to most. The people, now the villagers, have been in slow decline for a long time, once one of the most important parts of the game having vibrant and distinctive personalities, strong traits and values ​​like hating yodel shirts.

Villagers are now more or less another asset that players can collect and display in their Towns like statues in the past, villagers didn't passively praise the player from the background, but actively antagonize them. The contrast between villagers who were kind and builders who were mean made the relationship between the player and the villager the deciding factor between who was coveted. and who was rejected rather than superficial factors like the villagers' appearance, players of their species usually had a real reason for not liking certain villagers as much as others based on how that villager behaved in general decorum, but Today it has become a mere beauty contest. where all the villagers are valued not for their character but for their aesthetics, so what happened?

The short answer is teenagers. The long answer is the role of villagers and the Animal Crossing games have changed over time throughout each title, and ultimately these changes have led to overall commoditization. of villagers where, instead of actual dynamic characters, they feel more like static objects and are treated as such by players. I think there are several reasons for this, not only due to an increased focus on aesthetics over time but also various other factors, so today I would like to explore how these specific dynamics have changed over time in each title and how that has impacted the role of filters in the Animal Crossing series.

My hypothesis is that the relationship between the player and the villagers is informed by some specific variables throughout the games, namely number. one, what is the main role of the villagers in each game, what are their systems and how do they interact with others in the town, what mechanics exist to facilitate or encourage interaction, what do you get by interacting and how often can you interact, Number two, the pace of the game how fast or slow the player can perform tasks get items and bells how long it takes to finish your journals and line a typical game session this will change if the villagers themselves are needed to accomplish these things as a primary or secondary function and number three the influence of the player on the environment how much control the player has over the city how much impact you have on the others who live there what the balance of power is here how incentivized are you to engage with expressive elements in the game and where does that incentive come from to get to the bottom of what the value of each villager is in the village, the role they play and the relationship with the player?

We must explore each of these dynamics if the player has to work harder for basic things. Villagers become valuable resources, but the player has significantly more agency than the villagers. This will change the balance of power in the city. If the villager's systems for interacting with Townies change from game to game, so will the incentives and means to interact. Watching every Animal Crossing game released outside of Japan is a big undertaking for a single video, so let's not waste any more time and get right into it, but first I'd take a real quick pause. I just wanted to make this video even longer by announcing that I'm launching a campaign with make ship to make a limited edition vaporwave Tama Flush.

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Place the link below the video to learn more and get one for you and now back to Animal Crossing, part 1. The villagers' sisters have been around since the beginning, of course, first appearing in a growing population in this game. Villagers have a unique interaction system that is not duplicated in any subsequent games, making them a fairly constant source of content and resources. The relationship between the player and the villagers here is unique. mutually beneficial exchange of goods and services at any time the player can talk to the villagers about the town and ask them if they need a favor done for them as one of the dialogue options, these favors mainly come in the form of fetch quests, you will get my watch. from Ally oh sorry I lent it to Bob thinking it was mine here's that clock hit static and so on once completed you will be rewarded for your time with any amount of valuable resources this means you have a lot of incentives.

Spending a lot of time running around talking to various neighbors trying to get to the next objective in a game of hot potato. The more you talk to them and run errands for them, the more you get to know them and the wider the variety. tests that they will have ready to do some will ask you to plant flowers for them others will ask you to bring them a ball to kick some will ask you for an insect or a fish or a fruit and others just want you to write them letters because they feel alone, this breaks very the game well and keeps it from getting really monotonous, although you can always offer to help them, the way the errands are framed doesn't make it seem like they have no agency of their own. just for convenience, it would be nice if you did, you scratch their back, they scratch yours, basically, they tend to feel like real people, if not somewhat cold and distant, they have whims, they were once yours, they have something to offer you if you have something to offer them, the power dynamic almost puts you at the bottom when the game starts as you have to depend on them for resources and they don't give anything away, you can also just ride the breeze and sometimes they will They'll give you something to say about what's happening in town that week or sometimes they'll make you a flat out offer for something in your inventory or they'll offer to sell you something they have, they have very different personalities, some of them are happy to to see you.

Many of them don't care that you're around or that they actively don't like you. You can make them happy by successfully completing favors and writing to them a lot or you can make them angry by talking to them too often and not completing a task. correctly within the framework of the day or harass them by hitting them with nets and pushing them. If you hurt their feelings, they will temporarily get angry at you and ignore you for a while and you will have to apologize or do something to stop them. It's up to them. The builders can't even ask you to retrieve an item from Sandra who is already asleep, basically guaranteeing that they will be angry with you the next day if you don't remember to finish the air, and first thing there is more interaction. or less in one way, they won't come up to you to talk and they don't have long conversations with other villagers that you can overhear, but basically you can always find someone with something you can do for them, this is also likely.

The sassest villagers to ever exist in the entire series, even when you do nice things for them, usually give you backhanded compliments or can just be downright rude to your face for no reason. The particularly unpleasant personalities of the grumpy and smug villagers. They are on one end of the spectrum with the sarcastic, happy, lazy type in the middle of the rudeness gradient and normal and sporty more on the nice side, there is quite a contrast between each personality type and it makes you appreciate the rare moments of kindness . from a bad mood or a civilized reprimand to a nice chat with a normal villager, you can have up to 15 villagers in a town, as your strength is really huge and it tends to feel like one big bustling community when you have people building several houses in a Just acre, although not complicated, these systems provide a nice sense of community and a good variety of interaction, even if the interface options are limited, the combination of wild worlds is the preferred system entirely, which takes the weight away from the interactions with the villagers of the material rewards you obtain.

Instead, I could get from them the focal point is the content of the interactions themselves and a new friendship system that was based on the quality of the interactions. My mouth was smaller on DES than on Gamecube, which meant everyone lived a lot closer together. and they mixed with each other much more frequently, the villagers were constantly moving on intersecting paths, and eventually they can have full conversations with each other that you could participate in. From these conversations, you will learn that each individual has a unique relationship with each other, as wellthat I got along well, some total clashes, some flirting with each other, some gossip about each other, the relationships between the villagers created a new type of emerging narrative with a complex web of connections between the made-up

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s in the town, who got along with who love.

One-sided friendship triangles that develop in every conversation occasionally, villagers would ask you whether or not you understood the relationship with another villager, encouraging the player to try to learn and notice these things about each villager's relationship with other villagers, plus, instead Instead of the player being the only one capable of initiating an interaction, the villagers would now ping the player with a 15 minute timer and engage them in conversation or get angry if they didn't respond. These timers were based on the villagers' last individual interaction with the player, not a single town-wide timer as later games were implemented, which meant that multiple villagers could ping the player in a row or even all at once. the time.

The high volume of pings somewhat makes up for not being able to ask villagers directly. Subtasks to do Every few minutes, at least one villager will message you with something they want to say or do, meaning you'll never be one, no one. It will speak to you for a long time and will also replace favors. The villagers now have unique hobbies that they do on bicycles. collect fossils son, click close some want to fish or catch bugs some want to redecorate their house this makes the tasks you get from one villager buried from another makes each interaction different not only do they have their established personalities cheerful and grumpy jocks etc. .

They also have interests, likes and dislikes to learn and engage with, and in the morning participate in their lives by learning about them and their interests in their relationships. The more you will be rewarded by a noticeable change in your own relationship with the village builders. He became warmer, more open with you and this was the main reason to keep checking every day to find that rare fossil to kill or catch that meat or blue air once the sun came up to see what new things your villagers would be up to. and seeing the relationship with them grow over time, this system changed the dynamic between the player and their neighbors instead of exchanging goods or favors.

The game emulates the arc of a friendship and that is its own reward for interaction. It is a mutually beneficial relationship between the player. and villagers based on satisfying social needs, not material goods, we have to work hard to become friends, since it was easy to accidentally do something that could reduce the friendship, like sending a letter with a typo or accidentally pushing them while running down the street. city. They were rated based on how often you succeeded and earned the affection of the villagers and how often you failed and the feelings of the pack of elders.

The friendship system in this game also weighs heavily in letter writing and highly encourages the player to do their best to reciprocate and meet often. each villager learning their hobbies by sending mail and building a relationship would result in a friendlier dialogue and if you get to know them well enough they will even give you a photo of them to keep in your home and they put a lot of effort into making each villager feel like an individual worth knowing, you're not likely to have two villagers with the same personality and hobby at the same time and you can talk to the same villager over and over again without running into a lot of repeated dialogue, although you will annoy them, a A cheerful villager interested in insects will have a different flavor than a cheerful villager interested in fishing if you keep playing long enough.

Hobbies run in a cycle and it is possible to hook everyone in the city. fossils at the same time, but I'd be lying if I said that in and of itself it's not an interesting emerging story that makes a city feel lived in, and it's actually a story about that time the whole town got hooked on a fossil craze. . What Wild World managed to successfully do more than any other game in the franchise is make the villagers feel alive, as they not only have deep agency, whys, desires, goals, dreams and aspirations, but They also have the potential to become dear friends of the Demons, player, even the NPC is this time.

You will have a unique story to discover the more you play and diligently spend the time getting to know them. Brewster and of course Sabol and Mabel will open up to you and share things. about themselves when you spend the time, but you are not directed to do it, you just have to find the benefit and know them to make it worth it in itself, but the value in every villager and city dweller, why not? and how cute they are or what their house is like or in their unique role as an NPC but in their friendship and company this makes them feel like real people more than any other game your value is who they are not what they give you before.

I start talking about the people in the city. I would like to offer a quick disclaimer. Townspeople is the Animal Crossing game I've spent the least time with, so I don't know everything there is to know about how villagers interact in this game compared to others, unfortunately Animal Crossing is the kind of game where you really have to commit to spending at least a month to discover these deeper system things beyond the surface level and for many reasons I couldn't give it that time this month, plus, strangely, a lot of information about the people of the city ​​online is incomplete or contradictory, possibly due to the fact that the game was released in 2008, when the online Nintendo community was just beginning to grow and most of the participants were children doing research, it was a nightmare.

I would find many sources that say things like it's a wild world in every way and then I get into the game and immediately discover that that's not true at all, so take what I say here with a grain of salt, some of the Things I think could have been. new in the new leaf, for example, could have been introduced to the city people and I just didn't come across it and it may not have some of the nuances of the systems in the way that it should. I might go back to Town People at some point and just make a full video on it on my own once I've had more time to devote to it, as it really is a strange and interesting game and why are you the way you are?

But for now I will do it. I have to settle for having incomplete knowledge and you can correct me in the comments saying that I was wrong about something, so what I have been able to gather during my short time with the popular pastimes of the city is in this game, perhaps the most important reason What's hard to tell is that they've introduced a strange new dialogue system here based on topic trees, they really blur the line between what is a tree and what is a hobby, the villagers will start talking about a topic and if you keep talking to them repeatedly, all subsequent dialogues will be on the same topic, so sometimes it seems like a hobby related dialogue, they may say a lot of things in a row about bugs and then ask you to find a bug for them, plus some villagers have a higher chance. to talk about some topics that are related to things at home makes me think that this is the Hobby system diluted until it is almost unrecognizable if it is the Hobby system they change hobbies very frequently and at random but sometimes they choose one random topics like vacations and keep talking about it until they have exhausted their dialogue tree, once they do the villager will simply repeat the last item in the tree until you stop talking to them, most of these trees are too short for interactions worth the money. sorry for each one. it results in ending up pretty quickly with a broken record villager that you can't interact with anymore and some of them are longer, but that's pretty rare.

The strange thing about the system is that it discourages you from talking to a villager multiple times in a row. and at the same time, it often means that if you are looking for a request or task from a villager, you will have to talk to them several times in a row until you reach the point in their tree where you will land on it. The ping timer was also changed to be a king for the entire city/from three to five minutes, as it was now limited to one ping at a time, even in a shorter time where the result was fewer interactions with villagers in general and since he was friendly. of a game of chance by talking to them normally, much less often did they want to have anything to do with you or have anything to offer you in terms of content, some new types of interactions were added, such as playing hide and seek and weekly events, such as villagers lose your keys.

They need messages to be delivered and some vestiges of the wild world persist, such as the friendship system, villager gossip, and distinct personalities, but the people of your town and city are much larger than the cities in the wild world, which means that villagers are much less likely to cross paths and interact with each other. and overall the villager interactions in this game are extremely toned down to the point where it seems like they actively discourage you from talking to them, this says it apart from the wild world to a large extent, a trend almost continuous to the point of that the Belchers are downright depressing to interact with the original personality is cheerful, moody, etc., were fixed and made softer to the point where they were practically indistinguishable from each other, even with two new personality types added, gucci and the hobbies cocky were also completely removed at this point and with nothing to replace them there was nothing to differentiate one Pepe villager from another Pepe nothing to make their interactions unique they are distinct each member of their community became completely interchangeable in terms of the types of things they say and the type of tasks associated with their interactions, the ping timer here hasn't changed from people in town, but the tree system is gone, which means talking to them normally on startup One conversation was much less of a random disaster and you can actually go back to having normal interactions, however the dialogue itself was so lackluster that you weren't likely to want to talk to them much and you were still quite likely to repeat phrases just because to the lack of unique dialogue in this game.

Additionally, most task requests were relegated to pings, meaning you couldn't just talk to them. they, if you were looking for something to do, they had to talk to you and he basically only interacted with them once he had read 10 minutes at best, more new types of interactions were added, like request requests that you had to receive . the signatures for in a friend's town and the individual friendship system remained, but the incentive to befriend these cardboard cutout mannequins did not exist, there was nothing at stake because the villagers would no longer feel hurt or upset if he did something wrong and they had no personalities or tastes.

She doesn't like knowing that he just did the same kind of things for everyone pretty infrequently and they all responded the same way to everything you did. The dynamic was completely lost. I think New Horizons tried to remedy this since the game actually has a pretty complex friendship system. discovered through data mining, but obviously someone had to think a lot and spend a lot of time, but the way it was implemented makes it seem like it wasn't actually tested enough and there was some kind of massive oversight, essentially, though Interactions with villagers are possible. In New Horizons, the way the friendship system is designed makes them look like a fool in the game in a way that feels like an accident.

In this game, you see the different types of interactions you can have with villagers beyond normal conversations, they are tied to a table. Based directly on your friendship level with them, which is based on points earned from talking to them once a day, giving them gifts once a day, the quality of the gifts, whether they are gift wrapped, etc., this seems be an attempt to add depth and incentive to your relationship with a villager, as they will grow closer to you the more you talk to them and want to do a wider variety of things with you;

However, if you reach a new friendship level, the game will prioritize higher level interactions and tasks. like catching fish and bugs, playing with them is a lower level interaction than trading items and receiving gifts for them after a while, they basically just want to talk to you about items and nothing else, this means that although the villagers can direct the game asking They ask you for favors or games like they used to, if you become more friendly with them they will stop doing it completely and start treating you like a mobile pawn shop. Instead, it is now also virtually impossible to lose villager friendship points without exiting. in its wayto do so, since letter writing has been completely removed from the friendship equation and you can't accidentally irritate them by not completing a task or talking to them too often, since points are so easy to earn and so hard to lose .

The intricacies of this friendship system are pretty much lost in the result; it doesn't feel like an arc, as the villagers more or less simply become broken down animatronics over time that have lost most of their initial functionality. Villagers may actually like this game. They don't dislike you as much, they have preferred clothing styles and colors that they like to wear over others, and you'll get more friendship points by giving them their preferred gifts than by giving them something outside of these categories; However, you will ultimately be more rewarded for ignoring them. this together and just give them any piece of furniture, so it seems like a waste to have these clear complexities built in and then make them irrelevant.

The fact that in almost all of your interactions with this revolver game I'm giving them things once. one day also makes it seem like a one-sided friendship based on material goods. Builders will actually award friendship points for birthday gifts you give them based on their monetary value, above all other factors - they have a small inventory database in their brains. All in-game items are ranked by highest value first, and we'll rate you based on how much you spend on them. It's a strange system that actually makes them feel more superficial rather than more developed, despite the complexities, the other big missed opportunity here is In fact, the dialogue villagers have a wide range of things they can say in this game However, the game once again heavily weights one set of dialogue options over another, making it much more likely that villagers will talk about a couple of specific things over and over again. and that you'll get a lot of repeated dialogue, it's possible that this is some kind of variation on the tree system, since almost everyone in town will want to talk about the same thing at the same time, it's a bit strange if you talk to them. nine times out of ten they will comment on the players' activity in the city or on another player who came to visit if you do nothing all day you dig up zero fossils you don't haveVisitors from other cities for several days, in fact, have other things What they can say, but if you play, do something in your city or have a visitor, they become small diaries of the things that happen in your city and they have no personalities or desires or needs of their own, they simply tell you events in which you were present , if you have a goldfish's memory to a fault, they essentially feel like little voids of personality that don't say anything interesting and only exist as cute little accessories. sing and act cute and watch the things you build so you can get a nice little video to post on social media about how cute your animals are when they do the cute empty things they do in fun ways, they actually refer to pantomimes random things the villagers do. around the city like the hobby system of this game, but it has nothing in common with previous pastimes; it just makes certain villagers more likely to read over others, some more likely to run and so on, adding to this empty and broken feeling, the ping system was so very messed up, villagers will only ping you once. once a day or once a week, so over time, as you play more and more, they stop having tasks to do, they stop having interesting things to say to you, and they stop wanting to talk to you.

Basically, it seems like their system failed and has the complete opposite effect in practice than they intended on paper. The more time you spend with them, the less they want to have anything to do with you. Part 2, the rate of population growth is much slower. than any of the later games Paul, your wife doesn't know her. In this game we mail fossils to the Far Away Museum and they come back three days later and then you can donate them in this game. Fishing is difficult and you have much less guarantee that you will be able to get something when you cast your line and the crack in this corner of the game takes a single piece of furniture a day and a single tool a day, which makes getting started really difficult and the handful of expansions.

We only add one piece of furniture sold in each upgrade in this game We send letters one at a time and we don't even send them until there is a bag full of mail ready to be delivered There are no suppliers, especially a character who visits the town a couple of times week Not once a day, life moves slower to progress in this game, it really requires you to make a significant daily contribution of time, even the act of needing to sit down and boot up here Gamecube and dedicate almost an entire memory card Of space.

Going to the game grounds even makes the time you spend with the game and investment essentially in the key game, the catalog is smaller, there are only 40 fish and insects to catch all the equipment and fewer fakes and works of art, but you have to put in a lot more work to acquire each one by getting any of their rare items our fish is a huge task that requires a lot of effort I have been playing in my town every day for a month and I still don't have a bed for my house because there are There are very few daily opportunities to obtain new furniture, this makes villagers a really necessary resource as they are one of the only ways to gain access to new things throughout the game through favors.

Villagers can give you rare fruits that are not found on the furniture walls of your town. stationary floors or even paintings, if you are very lucky as a result, since there are very few ways to expand your catalog, the routine of running errands for villagers is integrated into the main game loop. I've been calling this game a grind, but a lot. Like pokemon gold and silver, the investment of work you put into everything makes the fruits of your labor feel much more like rewards and taking the time to run around your town every day slowly achieving your own goals is constantly exhilarating and rewarding, It's a relaxed game, but you're much less likely to run out of things to do in a session, even with fewer overall features than in later games, and the fact that the villagers are such a big part of it all means you'll spend a lot Spend time talking to them and searching for them in your massive 42-acre forest, and as a result, each villager is an important player in your daily life.

The Wild World is where many of the main gameplay staples were found that have been maintained across most titles. The main game was introduced, you still have the same house to pay for and the same means to fill it and fill your museum as before, but many quality of life improvements were made. Now fools could identify fossils for themselves instantly and the touch screen made it much easier and faster. inventory management and junk shipping, this also sped up the pace of the game slightly, which changed the flow of the game instead of spending a lot of time working towards long-term goals in one go, while growth has more Pick-up and play sessions where you can carry the game with you on your handheld throughout the day and record it whenever you have a free moment.

Things like earning bells and upgrade corners seem to happen much faster, even the base looks like a crack. The store has two items: furniture per day and two tools per day. day instead of just one and it's not that hard to quickly put together a decent looking, furnished house and start looking for fish and bugs and filling your museum. The game requires less time to progress and places less emphasis on grinding. Perform household chores to get one or two extra pieces of furniture per day from the villagers. There are still weekly events that come and go that we look forward to and plan for truly special and unique rewards and experiences, but the basics of daily life are much more important. more easily, instead most of the time you spend in the wild is simply hanging out and enjoying the emergent gameplay that emerged from the new villager systems.

The villagers have hobbies that became the main motivation for expanding the catalog. They would tell you to do things for them. like finding a new t-shirt, catching a new fish, and that would help guide you, but activities would be the focus of that play session if Peavy wants a bass, for example, and for some reason you've never caught a billet motivated to grind the shore to fill your encyclopedia until you finally find that stinky forum. One of the main reasons why expanding the catalog became less difficult is that, for some reason, villagers will throw one or two pieces of furniture out of their houses a day until they are almost empty, perhaps to incentivize the player. send them more furniture in letters, which means you can quickly get a matching set of furniture straight from the recycling bin, including basic items like beds and cabinets.

Storage increases considerably to compensate for, as in the GameCube game, a cabinet. Only three items would fit at a time. Here you can easily store entire sets of furniture without having to choose what to hold on to and what to sell. Villagers will now also always send you a gift in the mail if you write them down and attach them. an item, no matter what you said, making them very durable. sources of items like wallpaper for clothes to guarantee even fruits, so they are still a resource, but they are often full of things to give you without needing to put much effort, but you don't really need to include it in your daily routine, they just end up filling you with things at every step.

City People was created mainly to market the online features as we talked about at wiiconnect24 and it seems to have been launched in a rush. Otherwise, along with most of the content and assets taken directly from the wild world, the game encourages you to import your character and catalog from the wild world itself and continue playing the same file more or less, even though online play is introduced with the world of files in which the technology was. its childhood at the time of the community because it didn't explode overnight, a stable Wi-Fi connection was not common in most homes around the world, but gradually more and more people adopted it and it felt like a small club. of enthusiasts for the lack of social media matched these characteristics, but the community was safely tucked away in dedicated forums and you weren't likely to have more than one or two close friends who would also play with this in mind most of the time. new features added in the city people really pushed to expand online play to support the new Wii features they were trying to connect the first time you go to the city Rover sits you down to talk to you about wiiconnect24 this was essentially the same in line wild world systems, except instead of being able to trade villagers and send mail only when you were in someone else's town, you could now do it pretty much whenever your Wii was connected to the city ​​without internet access or your wild world catalog you can go to the city immediately and everything there costs a lot of bells.

Opening a red shop only costs three thousand bells, getting a haircut costs another three thousand, shining your shoes is five hundred, and going to see the doctor. the trunk theater costs another eight hundred a day, it may take you all day to earn enough to do everything without having access to different types of fruits and other people's talents to sell our big Bell, trade at the auction house with the stock market, you basically just have to waste a lot of time catching snappers all day to earn money in any season other than summer, unlike the wild world where villagers shower you with gifts in the mail and constantly offer you tasks to earn more bales and furniture, and also Constantly throwing out their own furniture for you to pick up from the recycle bin in this game, the villagers are by no means a constant source of anything thanks to the new broken record dialogue system and are much more likely to ask you to sacrifice something expensive to give to them instead of selling it to make much-needed banknotes, the control scheme itself discourages writing lots of letters to villagers to mail you gifts, unless you whip out a USB keyboard for speed. speed up the process and the speed at which they throw away their own things for you to carry decreases considerably between a museum, my villagers and the city, and being immediately pulled in three directions at once, there are many clothing services and expensive furniture available to me, but I'm always screwed if I prioritize completing content over earning expressive items, although the game put a lot of emphasis on online stuff and some new expressive items may have shifted the game a little more in the direction ofaesthetic blogs and previous games, the online community for city people.

It didn't have much more activity than the wild world and the small groups of dedicated players online and the feeling that the small community remained the same, of course it didn't have the control scheme or interface to facilitate quick typing in the game without the use of dedicated peripherals. and we spoke wasn't very popular or reliable, the quality of the we spoke headset was the same as the in-game chat feature found in the Pokémon DS games, i.e. it wasn't great, so despite Their best efforts, the city's people did not significantly expand the online service.

The player base and many people continued playing Wild World instead of making the jump to weekly. An attempt was made to heavily integrate online play and encourage players to use it, but their response to this game was lukewarm, resulting in most of the gameplay. resorting to the weaker villager-centric single-player stuff, considering the dialogue system actively discourages players from talking to villagers long enough to get tasks from them, this made it less likely that guidance would be offered to the villager. player for their game during a session and there was very little to offer the player, otherwise the villagers faded into the background.

No Leaf, on the other hand, was launched in 2013 in an era when Wi-Fi was not in almost every home in the world and smartphones had completely r

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ized the Internet and social media. As a result, this time access to online trading with other players and the use of expressive elements to compete for the most aesthetically pleasing city became the focus of the game and was much more successfully integrated into the gameplay loop, which the average player was encouraged to take advantage. online resources to play the stock market and quickly amassed large amounts of bells and rare items instead of spending a lot of time slowly grinding it out the hard and single-player way through favors the villagers were waiting to see what you had the store every day. public works Projects that cost money continued to make having lots of bells a bigger part of the game beyond paying off your house.

Your city required a constant flow of cash to continue building it, which meant grinding a lot of beetles on the island throughout the year to make ends meet. FL to invest in turnips and Flickr to make profits online, but thanks to the huge increase in online support from the community, this time this was actually a viable way to play and the online economy was a real resource needed and accessible . Dream Suites gave players a way to show off their defiance to the world, perfectly preserved in time, the happy home showcase meant you could show off your mansion to anyone you passed on campus or on the bus, tourists from The island offered structured activities for you and your friends, completely removed from your life with your villagers.

A portion of New Leaf's core gameplay is based around selecting expressive items and using those items and playing online much like a social media profile, this greatly diminished the importance of villagers as a resource. For the player, they added two new furniture sets that could only be obtained from the villagers' inventories, the sloppy and cardboard sets, but after a certain time, the game became available on the online market and became a Much more reliable way to get them through retailers too. Villagers can now trade items directly with the player, but there was less incentive to use those means to get furniture instead of trading with real-life people, the only real way for villagers to feed themselves in this new situation.

The loop game at all is that their suggestions are how public works projects are unlocked, but this happens on a timer rather than deliberate interaction and certain sets are locked to certain personality types, for example villagers are the only ones who They can suggest the wisteria trellis, for example our Lazy villagers are the only ones who can suggest a hammock, which gave players an incentive to have a wider variety of personality types in their town, but otherwise, the random nature of these suggestions and the fact that the villagers don't react to whether you or not. actually following and building them makes it feel somewhat arbitrary, plus with hobbies being removed, villagers had even less of an impact on the game loop.

New Horizons takes shape again in terms of pacing, it has a lot in common with New Leaf, including a focus on aesthetics. and an emphasis on online play, but it takes some things in a new direction and r

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izes the game cycle thanks to a new, much smaller set of items available in the game and the fact that the player must create most of the items through DIY recipes to complete the catalog are once again an important part of the main game and require an investment of time. There's a separate section of items and furniture that can only be purchased and nooks that can only be upgraded based on some pretty strict time requirements.

Furniture is ridiculously expensive now to compensate for players making a lot of money in the online economy and most of the catalog isn't available at all until the first update happens. Interestingly, although the player has the ability to change the color of most crafted items by restoring, the different colors of purchased furniture are locked to the player; a player will only get the white rattan set in the store and will not You will be able to change your color and another will only get brown, so online trading with other players is once again a major focus of the game, especially because of the opportunities. for new DIY recipes they are limited to a few per day and there is a glitch-like rarity table that makes repeats of common recipes very likely.

Another money sink is infrastructure, as clans and bridges cost an entire mortgage in bells to pay off and with little means to grind bells in single player mode buying and selling turnips is now basically mandatory, the Encyclopedia of Insects and fish has been greatly expanded to a total of 80 each and with tools now breakable and the need to dig up clams and craft bait to get some of the rarer or more locations, specific fish to spawn, crafting items itself becomes The game's core task, quality of life, and ease of accessing menus and doing things like evaluating fossils is about what you'd expect it to be at this point in the series, but strangely so.

There are some strange things in the design that slow things down in a way that doesn't necessarily seem intentional. Wilbur's Wi-Fi menu is so time consuming, for example, I think it's something they just didn't think about enough. capable of creating several identical elements at the same time, I think it is deliberate. New Horizons is also the most linear Animal Crossing game yet, with customization options unlocked by completing a story mode that spans a few weeks of gameplay and forces the player to worry about city ranking. Something that has always been an optional objective in previous games, villagers are one of the only consistent sources of DIY recipes, making them valuable to the player in that sense and providing another way to play cooperatively online by sharing that resource with friends at any time.

Throughout the day, at least one villager in each town will be making something and I will share that recipe with a player in any visiting player. It's not uncommon for Discord servers to be abuzz with activity about who's crafting what and sharing dota codes for access. to that rare DIY, however, beyond that point, the new villager interaction systems locking barter behind a friendship level means that from the start they are much less likely to be a source of new items for the player ; In fact, the way interactions with villagers are built into this game makes it almost impossible to get mana items regularly, as a result, builders don't help you much, other than giving you one more chance to roll that die to a new DIY recipe in each session if they are not inside their homes making it, they are not. really contributes something to your playtime, as the homemade recipes are not tied to personality or species or anything specific about the villager.

There are roles in the town that are more or less interchangeable, this means that the only major way villagers influence the game cycle is by being another. Aesthetic Element to Manipulate through Gotcha Grinder Part 3 Power or Agency The expressive elements in GameCube Crossing are light and there is not much the player can do to influence the environment. You have almost the same power to impact the forest as any of the other animals. who live in your town, meaning basically none, you can plant trees and flowers that villagers can't, but the forest doesn't give players much say over where things go, there are only a certain number of viable places. . to grow trees on every acre, then you can't just plant trees and neat little rows and hope it works, but there are dead zones everywhere that are impossible to detect without experimenting and seeing what wilts and what doesn't. nature is in charge here you can finally get that rare fruit and plant it in the middle of an open field and the forest can say they are not killed the horde sprouts exist flowers but you just start with zero flowers in your city and only They can be bought corner and whatever quantity you have available every day, they cannot be picked and replanted once they are dropped, they are not easy to rearrange if you change your mind later, they are also very fragile and there is no watering can and no hybrids , it takes a long time to fill your forest with flowers.

All villagers will not plant their own flowers in this game. They will often request that the player plant a garden for them through the favor system that incentivizes the player to plant. the few flowers available each day where your neighbors want them, but the customization options are also quite superficial. You can design patterns, but only eight of them and they can only be used on your entire outfit or umbrella, while paper or floor, except for the occasional poster with furniture. Being hard to come by and storage extremely limited, it will take a lot of time and a lot of hard work to make the few items you do get decent.

This isn't a fashion show, it's not about having the most impressive house or city or the most attractive clothes, my population growth goals or more about providing a life simulation game where you slowly progress through various areas over time and then the player is given a lot of power and freedom to express themselves well, the elements are present, but one clearly takes precedence over the other it is not your town it is a town that you share with the others who inhabit it some Things and spaces are yours and you can within certain limits have them say something about you but most spaces are shared by the forest community.

Certainly, if you do not come to play, your absence is felt, there is a feeling of neglect that comes with weed growth, so you add some value to the community by living there and participating, but you are simply maintaining this space, not owning it. The expressive elements are simply a reward for participation, they are not the only focus of the game, although the means through which the villagers can express their agency are limited, the game still does a good job of making them feel like active participants in the life of the city through the elements they have. ferry across the city to them, it becomes clear that they have a lifestyle, they are watching video tapes playing games, guys reading books, all without you, you are external to their ecosystem in many ways, you are absolutely zero in saying whether a villager enters or leaves your city and where they put their house if someone moves, they don't notify you and one day they will simply be gone and the only notice you receive is a letter in your mailbox.

Sometimes villagers leave their own messages on the nearby board. your house about how they hit a piece of furniture somewhere or planted a dangerous seed, sometimes they will take care of repainting your ceiling without asking you, sometimes if you talk to them with a rare item in your inventory, they will take you away without your consent, these guys are cunning and stubborn and their presence is noticeable and the impact well, the world is spacious, I started to see this dynamic change, just a little bit of style, now you have much more control over the landscape because the process of planting trees became more clear and transparent dead zones, instead of undetectable dead zones, trees simply could not be planted in any area where they did not have complete clearance in each direction, flowers could now also be plantedPick up and move, as well as water and grow crops to produce new flowers and hybrids.

In addition to the new option to place custom patterns on the ground, this freedom created the possibility for the city layout to be another moldable expressive element for the player. , since this was still somewhat superficial as the palettes for creating paths and patterns were extremely limited compared to later games and it was difficult and tedious to design them in a way that looked even remotely decent. The limited pattern slots also meant that you might need to create additional characters just to hold things like corner pieces if you wanted your pass to be more complex and the diversity of the terrain and the different colors and shapes of the grass at different times of the year made it Transparency was really difficult to achieve and with few ways to share patterns with other players built into the game other than filling your mannequins in the store it required a certain degree of artistic skill or ingenuity for the community to do something truly impressive with its design, but There was still a noticeable advantage in the expressive features of this game rather than things being hard to get to begin with, the goal here was to create an impressive combination of things to show off to your friends and help the character build a more variety.

Wide range of house options, expansions and clothing were introduced, but as players' ability to impact the landscape expanded, so did villagers to the point where villagers could now plant their own. flowers and watering them too, and we're especially likely to do so if gardening was their hobby, they also chose the location of their own homes and there were no restrictions on what they could and couldn't move in, plus what they could spend. Spend a lot of time planting flowers and growing hybrids, laying out perfect paths, but if any of them are too close to a sign and a villager moves away, they will be removed and removed to make room, villagers could still come and go without any feedback from you and We're more likely to move if they're between hobbies, but now you have the option to ask them to stay in their inboxes, and depending on their level of friendship with you, they can reject or force attacks from the wild. of a balance between giving the player more freedom and agency to shape the town into whatever they want and making the villagers still feel like participants in the town with their own agency through weekly events like Lottie's Day.

Villagers could suggest new town tunes and most other events like yay day are experienced only through interaction with villagers. The majority of the game's content is villager-centric, designed to make the pop-up events of daily life with your neighbors the main draw. Villagers will no longer bury things in town and leave. There are messages on the notice board about it, but there remain mysterious messages from the week that were presumably written anonymously by residents and the villagers will speculate as to who wrote them. The main way the villagers' presence is felt is still through the way they influence the flow of the game. through their systems and I think that prevents it from seeming like you have more say than them in the life of the city, the player can shape the city to look however they want, but it's still no more your city than theirs .

You may be in charge of beautification, but the main draw of coming to play is ultimately a wild world that makes it clear that the community is the foundation of your city and any changes you can make to the landscape or in the surface of the only area where the city is located. What's most similar to Wild World is that it more or less replicates the player's expressive abilities word for word, except for being able to more quickly change things like your hairstyle and being able to change the color of your shoes. The biggest difference is the layout of the city. now gives each player an individual house instead of all users of a single system being tied to one large mansion, encouraging a multitude of people to express themselves and their will in the city, at the same time as the Higher definition graphics encourage a better looking city and Higher quality patterns allow players to finally design clothes with unique front and back sleeves instead of having the same pattern plastered on every item, but the flow of the game was altered to make harder to earn enough money to take advantage of expressive items and get your hands on furniture and clothes to impress your real-life friends.

Now you often have to choose between spending time with your villagers and helping them or using that time to earn money. Instead, the animal footprints feature also encouraged players to create natural paths that follow players' most used routes throughout the city by running much like it appears in high-traffic grass areas in real life. ; However, this backfired as most players do not specifically run on the same path every time they go from one place to another. and ultimately the more the person played the more they ended up with no grass, this became a very lost function as it used the players own agency against them.

The popular city villages are quite large with multiple levels and not being able to run around without leaving a big mark on the appearance of your city was a big obstacle thanks to the wiiconnect24 feature, villagers can now enter and leave your city basically anywhere moment and this is being able to ask them to stay, it was changed a bit instead of suddenly being in boxes like in the wild world, here the villagers would ping the player and mention that they want to leave the player. has the option asked on this day if you miss this ping, however, the villagers will end up packing up on the set moving date and thanks to the dialogue system, you won't have the option to ask them to stay.

The villagers retain most of their agency. and the ability to impact the town from the wild, they can also plant flowers and villagers' plots are linked to sign locations, meaning they can move on top of anything placed too close to a sign. Holidays and events are still primarily experienced through villager interaction and content focused on some villagers remains, however villagers will no longer use the bulletin board for any reason and thanks to the change in systems of interaction and Pink's lower frequency, her presence is much less noticeable in the city and feels much less like a close gathering.

The tight-knit community wild world changed the balance of power a bit to give the player more agency, but beefed up villager interactions to compensate for the townsfolk, it simply replicates that player power while toning down villager activity. and it starts to feel like a deterioration of that foundation, all of this changes dramatically. with a new leaf when you are instantly appointed mayor upon arriving in the city, you immediately change the role you play in the city compared to the other inhabitants and place yourself above them, you make all the decisions for the city, not only do you have a say absolute and how it works. look through planning public works projects and planting trees, flowers and shrubs.

You also establish the rules through municipal ordinances. This was the first point in the series where you could disable the effects of negligence if you didn't want to lead your carefully planned and executed tasks. plots every day, you had the power to select each aspect of the game according to your preferences, flowers no longer withered if they were not watered as long as you set the correct Ornan and weeds no longer grew if you wanted to earn a lot of money without working . On the other hand, you could make the economy a priority if you work the night shift in real life, you could keep shops open later or have them open earlier and even affect the sleep schedules of the villagers, there was no longer a need to plan your real life around the game. everything was accessible to any player any day of the week, the idea of ​​​​living a second life within the game was more or less completely dismantled.

Animal Crossing became first a city builder and then a city simulator with a heavy emphasis on the player's will and expression. Much of the game's appeal and focus was on creating the most impressive, most manicured city, every bush, every tree, every flower, every hybrid, every pattern designed and grown to say something about you, the mayor, and everything in between. They were supporting players who could design a multitude of pattern types, from mosaics to dresses, from hats to wallpapers to floors, and sharing them via QR codes meant that the attractive electric rail pass was no longer locked behind the need to have some artistic ability or know people who had them.

A Google search will give you hundreds of QR codes from strangers just a click away. You are a public service representative, now the forest is your domain and you are here to do the work of transforming everything from something simple and boring to something perfectly personalized and personalized. for you and although your agency, your power in the city increases considerably, the agency of the villagers decreases considerably, they can no longer leave your city without your express permission and welcome the amiibo update to any player who is willing to disburse the money. the ability to handpick each resident and immediately expel anyone you don't want, the location of the house is no longer tied to signs around the town, which made it somewhat more difficult to predict where a villager would move, but to compensate , villagers would now make an explicit effort not to move over paths or flowers if open spaces were available, giving players some control over where they would place their plots.

About the only freedom that was not taken away from the villagers in favor of the player is the ability to plant their own flowers and water them. This dramatic change from previous titles marked a change in focus. They could have had a balance of expressive elements in the online game. and for single player there is no reason why animals with hobbies or personalities would have harmed the game cycle new leaf or the townspeople set out to achieve, but the fact that this change persists across multiple titles in the series and now in most Animal Crossing games itself says a lot about what the goals of the game ultimately are and that this change was no accident.

Right now, all of your daily tasks were focused on making your city look the way you wanted and making the villagers your constituents, not your equals. New Horizons removes any remaining obstacles that might have interfered with giving the player absolute power over all aspects. of the city with terraforming now even the earth itself bends to your will all the bridges and slopes are deliberately placed by all of you because Anna became an Asian ekor is deliberately placed by you the only creature in the city that could have more power than you as a corner and that's only because he's sitting behind a desk taking your money every time you want to put up a new bridge that you could have built with the bully monster in your Abel creation, he also decides the arbitrary value of his own miles of currency, which seems like a freemium feature that Nintendo chickened out at the last second to monetize, he and Isabel still make the daily announcements on their schedule if the first time you play that day is 2am. m.

Isabel will continue to take the microphone and wake up everyone in town just to share the Daily News for your benefit. About the only thing you can't do is move Town Hall for some reason because the city ranking system relies heavily on large crafted items and items densely packed into every available space in your city. The game expects you to spend a lot of time creating parks, restaurants, and small outdoor tableaus of non-interactive stationary elements to serve as photo opportunities for your Instagram, ironically, although the player has more freedom than ever to express themselves creatively with all new tools and customization. options, the ranking system combined with the limited catalog of items available in the game incentivizes everyone to build basically the exact same things and place them in the exact same way, since there are a fairly limited number of ways that vending machines and The outdoor stalls make sense and the game requires so much of these big elements that the game has no real way to rate any creative terraforming, so if you spend a lot of time having fun making cliffs, valleys, waterfalls and rivers and use everything your space in those things, you will lose the writing.

Points for not prioritizing open, flat space forplacing furniture, this also ironically involves divorcing your entire island, since you need a lot of space to keep building and Isabelle wants you to have a really limited amount of trees on your island, out of the way. on small and neat paths, wasn't this game called animal forest? Any remaining agency the villagers may have had at this point is completely eliminated. They can no longer choose where their homes go. You choose that and you can move them at will whenever you want. They want, at any time of the day, they will act out the villager's theater and agree to have their house moved, but there is never a doubt that you know better than they do where they should live.

Villagers can no longer plant their own flowers and cannot pick them. Any of the insects or fish that run around pantomiming that they are hunting, God forbid, take away any opportunity from the player by consuming that insect in their own inventory. Mystery Island Towers gives the player additional means of controlling who moves into town beyond the amiibos and about the only thing you can't manipulate on any real level without them is who wants to leave your town. The only thing the villagers can do to interrupt your absolute power is to sit in your way while you try to open a path. or make a river, the villagers are now just cute dolls that act as another perfect decoration and your perfect city, their role is even simpler than that of your poles and the Fire Emblem heroes that work, it is a nice piece of art for look at Hunt's port, but ultimately.

They don't feel like real characters nor do they have a real role to play in town life Their props Their houses are little doll houses with perfect little doll furniture inside There's actually a level of weirdness built in who you'll meet on mysterious islands that have relatively uninteresting villagers visually and unpopular species, such as farm animals, at the bottom, your first five villagers, when you first do the story and unlock everything, are pre-set by the game to basically guarantee that you are going to spend. Most of your time playing is trying to replace half the island, villagers abandon their lots very infrequently without the use of amiibo cards and lots are basically guaranteed to auto-fill the next day thanks to villager Hoyt. of the player fills every time they travel to someone else's island this means that without paying for the cards, the average player will basically have only one day a month where they will have a free chance for a new villager, which also means that the Players are guaranteed to sync all of their corner miles into two tickets for a single Island day.

Additionally, this level of rarity makes getting the villager you want for free not impossible, but such a frustrating and unfair feeling that creates this perfect storm of desperation, players won't feel held hostage by a system designed to take their money. but they are still motivated to spend money on cards so they don't feel like the time they spent searching on the highway was a sunk cost if they waste a whole day searching for their dream and don't get that forty or fifty dollars. Amazon for your amiibo card is starting to sound more reasonable, the camp gives the player and others the free opportunity for a villager to choose how to leave town after paying for the cards, so this isn't just Gacha adjacent, it is a complete game. -In Gacha mechanics down to Gacha specific in-game currency, when you create a game primarily to give the player control over everything, but then work with a bunch of elements that the player has no control over unless they spend more money , this is how villagers first become commodities in people, secondly, these villagers could also be collectible stamps and ones that no one wants or common drawers over time, it seems clear that a deliberate decision has been implemented to decrease the villagers' roles in the game's agency and ability to interact with the player.

In the design of the Animal Crossing games, the villagers are almost vestigial at this point, a holdover from when the series had a unique identity and charm and was still at its core a life simulation game with role-playing elements that They change and focus over time to favor the elements. With an ever-widening appeal it meant that whatever personality the villagers had had to be fixed to please as many people as possible at once, you can't expand the player base and expect all players to agree on things. like the grumpy and smug villagers being overtly evil or Miss Teresa DS's supposedly hostile role has been changed in the new leaf because she made little kids cry in the older games by being too scary, so considering she's not too surprising that the rest of the cast also now think they are permanently on xanax, an appeal.

Expressive/RPG elements also helped expand the audience beyond the niche and into the mainstream to help Animal Crossing go from a beloved cult classic to competing with monsters like Minecraft. The sad thing is that in games like Wild World, a pretty slick online whoa. Single-player gameplay and interactions with villagers together, even with some decent expressive elements in online play, the developers opted to give the villagers a much larger role and integrate that role with the other mechanics. One of the most common interactions to get pinged in the wild was your Villagers showing letters that their friends wrote to them while they were visiting or if they moved from another town, allowing them to enter their story with their friends.

This, along with a host of other role-specific interactions with online villagers, gave players a social incentive to type. send emails and interact with other people's villagers and cities, rather than close virtual friendships with your villagers being something separate from your relationship with your real-life friends, they wove them together quite neatly creating life that existed within DSN city, so if you can clearly make both work, why choose one over the other? I've seen speculation that they originally changed the dialogue of villagers and townspeople and discouraged interaction to make the game more accessible to people who couldn't read, i.e. younger children.

I can see this being true only for the townspeople, but the villagers still have a minor presence until you reach New Horizons, a game with a ridiculous amount of dialogue. Instead, I think there is something else going on. Nintendo is a toy company at heart and I think The Gotcha model appeals to them by having so many cute little blank characters for gamers of all ages to project whatever they want, making it a more desirable product for Wales to sync. doodles and piles of cash, and since the villagers themselves had a larger role in the gameplay is the baby hat trend, the reincarnation of the 90s and for that to happen, the villagers must have about the same amount of personality than the characters in a gotcha game, they don't necessarily have to be blank slates, but consider who they appeal to and the expressive content of the game.

Otherwise, it is very difficult to find specific graphical information about who plays Animal Crossing because Nintendo usually it doesn't talk or publish that kind of information about most of its games. However, I found this article with a link below that says that although 69% of the 3ds user base at the time of its release were men, 56% of the 3ds and new leaf bundle sales were two women between 19 and 24 years old, this means that the majority of sales of a game and system typically dominated by young men went to women for this particular title and that gives us an idea of ​​what proportion of anal

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players must be women, without even taking into account other age groups.

This was corroborated by the general experience of most social media posts about the new leaf and the new horizons ahead. of young women makes it seem likely that most, if not a large majority, of the players are women. These are just rumors. There is basically no data to support this information, but a large portion of the active online animal crossing community also tends to be young. LGBT now I don't want to make generalizations, but in general, when you look at online B Nia fandoms aimed at similar demographics, you tend to find that the most popular characters tend to be really interesting visually, but without many defined character traits to inform who are they. characters that get the most fans from fan art fan fiction, etc., these characters tend to spark the collective imagination of their fans and act as an attractive framework for young creatives to build their own personal vision of the character in this context that has less personality is an advantage, considering that Animal Crossing in its later versions is already a space for imaginative young people to express themselves, it is not surprising that there is a lot of overlap in these communities and that these types of characters may be more desirable to the active imagination of the online fanbase is why you see a lot of online content about Raymond overlapping and themes present in the infamous Tumblr fandom, so basically Nintendo is pulling a stunt aimed at teenage girls and we're all for it. agree to distill his presence. reducing the presence of the villagers in the city people may not have been the goal when they originally started to reduce the presence of the villagers in the city people, but it certainly must have been on their minds from the new page they were on. playing, the long festival with amiibo was just a quick way to make money. an idea that was going to take years to fully realize, even if these items are not directly monetized through in-game microtransactions, the fact that some amiibo cards have ridiculous prices on the second-hand market shows that their whales are out there, either or how they choose to profit later.

I suppose we'll see that in some markets amiibo cards will actually get a second printing, which shows that they are very aware of the demand they created and intend to capitalize on it with their insistence on physical media. rather than digital transactions, although in this current global climate it will be difficult to reach as many people who are willing to pay, so it won't surprise me for the next game or even later in a New Horizons update. We're starting to see an in-game payment system for villagers, no smiles, it certainly seems like a proof of concept for that, but it's Nintendo, so I won't be surprised either if they put in the effort and keep finding ways to convert their micro. transactions in toys, helps them circumvent gambling laws that block cheating in many European countries so that players buy packs of cards instead of playing virtual roulette.

Whatever the case, it seems clear that villagers have an important role in Animal Crossing as a single-player game is a design element that we won't see return as social features and a focus on aesthetics take a seat every more important and generate large amounts of cash with trading cards, it is still Nintendo's number one goal, don't come crying to me. when at the beginning of the fourth quarter Nintendo releases a new limited edition of Raymond with red ears and an elf-flavored maid outfit.