Animal Crossing 3DS: What I Want To See

Animal Crossing 3DS!

From the moment I heard there would be an Animal Crossing for the 3DS, I decided I had to own a 3DS. I wrote about my love for Crossing in another entry, so I won't bore you with that. Instead, I want to tell you what I hope to see in AC3DS


1. Better Online

Hey! I'm trying to fish here! Stop swimming!

In Animal Crossing City Folk (Let's Go to The City for my UK friends), the online was forever giving us trouble. And its NOT my internet connection. I have upgraded to the best internet I can get around here and Crossing's online still lags with a lot of company. Plus there's the terrible 'blue screan of death' as I call it. Basically, when you lose connection with your friends, the screen goes blue and shows Resetti saying he's sorry... 

For Crossing 3DS, I'm hoping that the online gameplay won't be laggy and that we won't see the 'blue screen' at all. I'm really hoping that Nintendo brings their A game to Crossing's online.

It would also be cool to be able to do more while your friends are over. Donate fossils, paintings, go to the city with your friends, maybe catch the scorpion with them and shot down the UFO? I could be dreaming, but it would be nice to have more to do with friends.

Swimming, as shown above, is an awesome first step to that.

2. Better Communication

Can you hear me now?

Please no more Wii Speak! Its awful. A headset would be nice. There HAS to be voice chat in the new Crossing. We can't go back to texting only like Wild World. So a Headset would be perfect. I suppose they could have the system mic available for people who don't want the headset. Though, I imagine that would have the same problems the Wii Speak has...

3.  Smarter Animals!

I wonder if that duck is going to the well

In Animal Crossing Wild World (and in the first game), the animals were a lot smarter. They didn't repeat phrases as much and they seemed more aware of their surroundings. In one video that I saw of Animal Crossing 3DS, there were two animals visiting and just hanging out in an animals house. I want to see a lot of that! I also hope animal pictures from Wild World return (in WW, if an animal liked you a lot they'd give you their picture).  Oh and maybe the Animals could have hobbies like in the first game. I just hope the animals have more to say (and do) than they do in City Folk.


4. No Grass Problem

Not my town. Found this picture online.

The above is an example of the horrible grass problem that plagues City Folk. Its not the worse example. I wish I had a picture to show you of my first City Folk town. Oh man. In any case, I hope 'animal tracks' as Nintendo calls it, does NOT return. Seriously. I want to be able to RUN again in my town. And not have to worry about putting walkway patterns everywhere.

5. Free and Paid DLC

The new furniture store?

City Folk has new free downloadable content that Nintendo sends to us by in-game mail. I want to see that return, but I also want to see content that we can buy with REAL money. Now, I'm NOT talking about new furniture (or new clothes). I hope the new furniture (and clothes) is free like it is in City Folk. The paid content I want is:

-new areas to explore. A jungle, a forest, a cave, etc. It would be cool to download a new area that we can visit and explore. Maybe hop on the train to go there? Each new area could have animals you've never run into and maybe some special fish, bugs, and items that you can only get from that area. Some areas could be big and others could be small.

-new animals. Wouldn't it be cool if Nintendo released new types of animal every once and awhile? Say they introduce turtles to the game. You pay for the turtles, download them to your system and the next time you have an open spot, you'll get one of the new turtles. I'm not saying Nintendo should leave out animals so that they can make them dlc. I'm talking about additional animals that Nintendo could make & add to the game over the course of the game's lifetime.

Thats the type of PAID dlc I want to see. Will Nintendo do any of this? I don't know. Maybe they'll leave this for the Wii U Crossing...

6. Lots of Stuff For the Mayor to Do

I am now MAD with power! wahawaha!

In the new Animal Crossing for 3DS, you are the MAYOR. You get your own office and you can place street lamps and other items in the town. Thats all we know about the mayor job so far. I'm hoping that as mayor you can decide what animals stay in your town and who leaves. I also hope you'll get PAID in bells for being mayor. Maybe they'll be a ton of different items, more than we've seen, that you can put in the town too. I want the Mayor job to be a great new major addition to the game (more complex than the City in City Folk please).

Oh and don't worry: Nintendo has already said you can put as much effort into being mayor as you want. So if you don't really want to be the mayor, you can just go off and fish. :)

Personally, I can't wait to be the mayor in my town!

7. Your AC3DS Town Could Look Like This

Love this map!

The above is Concept Art for the new Animal Crossing game. It came from a roundtable video that the developers of the game had. I hope this is what your town could really look like! I know all the towns will look different, like they always do, but I'm hoping that just like the picture shows you can have two islands (one big, one small), a campfire on the beach, a small hut in the middle of the ocean, and of course the train running through town. Oh and I love that the city is so close to your town! I'm hoping that they follow this concept art. I can't wait to see what the new towns look like!

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And thats what I want to see in AC3DS. If just some of these features are in the game, I'll be happy. If all of it is in the game, wow! Wouldn't that be great?

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Notes:

Thanks to freebuddy321 (Animal Crossing 3DS) on twitter for the idea for this blog entry.

All pictures here are copyright and trademarked by Nintendo.