[Animal Crossing] The whole world is now indebted to Tom Nook!

HallowedFaith

Animal Crossing: New Leaf - For Nintendo 3DS(XL)

Release Dates:
North America: June 09th 2013 - OUT NOW!
Europe: June 14th 2013 - OUT NOW!
Australia: June 15th 2013 - OUT NOW!
Japan: Been out since freaking Nov 8th 2012. Lucky bastards.

RESOURCES AND GUIDES:
QRCrossing.com
Nookpedia
AnimalCrossing @ Wikia
Detailed Animal Crossing guide from Thonky. (Really good)
Gamefaqs
Upgrade requirements and time frames.
How to share your photos on Tumblr or Twitter.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=895koqZvihI


Special Inside the Nintendo Treehouse - Animal Crossing: New Leaf series!
These videos are about 3-5 minutes long each.

Episode 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgg62DMyzyA

Episode 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXLic104_0U

Episode 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC02TSYOdaU

Episode 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08kFwqsVOww

Episode 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_auNlNZOdi0

Episode 6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-9djgbEsgQ

Episode 7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVuAAQ3Fns4

Episode 8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0XcHdgTt2_U

Some Screenshots: (7 To be exact)

New Features:
A lot, actually. Unofficial list here: http://acwiki3ds.wikispaces.com/Facts

• You are the Mayor!
• New Shops.
• New Music!
• An insane amount of customization. (Socks, Hats, Shoes, Skirts, Pants, Shirts, Paintings, Eye Contacts (Yes, eye contacts))
• A neat new QR Code sharing system to save your patterns/designs and easily share them.
• Re-Design of the town system. You can do a lot with it and in it, like swimming.
• New Island (Remember the one from Gamecube? It is back!)
• Nook is into Real Estate now. Slave labor probably still a thing.
• Villagers are far far more diverse. Lots of new speech/interaction.
• Dream World/Suite - Visit random player towns from all over the world (Even if you don't know them).
• Run on the beach barefoot!
• Tons and tons and tons and tons of new items. So many it's not even funny.
• Characters now have "legs" and are a lot more detailed.
• You can place your house anywhere in town. So can animal villagers.
• Buy Fortune Cookies with Playcoins. (You know, those things you get for walking around with your 3DS in your pocket)
• New plants!
• New Fruits! (Lemons, Bananas, Mangoes, Persimmons, etc)
• Customize the outside of your house!
• Shopping Mall!
• Mini-Games!
• Much easier networking to visit towns.
• Cross-town chat with friends in your friends list - without being in their town! Woot!

..and a lot more. Seriously the list is pretty big. Easily one of the largest upgrades/updates to Animal Crossing since its inception.

Penny-Arcade Animal Crossing: New Leaf Friend Codes:
I put together a simple way to keep track of our Friend Codes.

1) Submit your 3DS Friend Code here: (It is automatically added to the spreadsheet listed below.
http://bit.ly/pa-submit-friend-code

2) View the list of Friend Codes here:
Note: This list can only be seen through the direct link which can only be found in this thread and is omitted from search engines. Yay google.
http://bit.ly/pa-animalcrossing


If you're in the market for both Animal Crossing and a new 3DSXL - you can get your very own 200 dollar poptart!


Let's talk about Animal Crossing: New Leaf! (Older versions require a down payment of $9.99 + S.H)

RidleySaria

Fuck yeah, Animal Crossing!

So what are you all naming your towns? I might go with Sanctuary in honor of Borderlands 2.

HallowedFaith

I always name mine Hyrule because I am a dork like that. I might switch it up though, see what I am feeling when I get the game. Which will be the midnight download.

Darth Nathan

I am UNREASONABLY EXCITED for new Animal Crossing, goddamnit I've been itching for this game since they announced it.

Just looking at those screenshots of furniture makes me pumped. Look at that bloody sideboard, so cool.

Al Baron

So you can issue Town Ordinances, but 'keep these chuckleheads from leaving after I gave them all that stuff' isn't one of them?

skeldare

Woo! Animal Crossing!

Don't forget to intend to buy this on Club Nintendo!

HallowedFaith

skeldare wrote: »

Woo! Animal Crossing!

Don't forget to intend to buy this on Club Nintendo!

Crap I totally forgot about that, thanks for the reminder! I should log into Club Nintendo more often, I always forget.

nicopernicus

I haven't played Animal Crossing since the gamecube days. I'm quite excited for this. I think I'll go with a digital purchase, just so I can have it on the machine whenever I want.

HallowedFaith

I think it's about 1gig, so make sure you have room for it. I too will get the download because I realized after downloading a few games, having quick access to them without the carts is nice. Most of my 3DS games are download now, and having access to them at midnight is really awesome.

This made me chuckle:

earthwormadam

I want to name my town something clever like Buttocks, as Tiny Cartridge did, but I also want to name it Ramen after my first town on AC for GC...

carmofin

So I'm trying to get into this right now, not sure what to think yet.
Mostly, because I'm making slow progress and many features just aren't available yet. But I can confirm that the crosstown communication works great, I really cannot wait until everyone has the game, it will be fun! It's the first Nintendo game I've ever played, that had anything close to solid online integration.

nicopernicus

That is very encouraging. Also i added you @carmofin

HallowedFaith

carmofin wrote: »

So I'm trying to get into this right now, not sure what to think yet.
Mostly, because I'm making slow progress and many features just aren't available yet. But I can confirm that the crosstown communication works great, I really cannot wait until everyone has the game, it will be fun! It's the first Nintendo game I've ever played, that had anything close to solid online integration.

How do you have it a month early?

carmofin

Im supposed to review the game, though for the first time I wonder if I'm the right man. Looking into City Folk I see a lot of loud complaints that the game is always the same and everything is recycled. So as far as I can tell, most things still pretty much look the same, so I don't know if I can actually judge this at all.

HallowedFaith

Animal Crossings main formula doesn't change much, they just add new features and items. Kinda what I like about it. I know what game I am getting.

It's a day-to-day game, not something you're supposed to sit down and play 10 hours a day like most games. You get a full appreciation for AC over the course of an entire real-time year, so I imagine it's going to be difficult to review outside of that.

RockinX

I'm getting it digitally, but in July. Club Nintendo is a mess, indeed.

Ov3rcharge

I need to have the physical cartridge for collecting purposes.

Xenogears of Bore

RockinX wrote: »

I'm getting it digitally, but in July. Club Nintendo is a mess, indeed.

You can safely buy it in the last week of june as you have over ten days to register it.

Ov3rcharge

New fruit like bananas, persimmons, and perfect fruit which sell for more.
So hyped.

anoffday

This looks good. I'm even considering the 3DSXL bundle since I'm still using the original 3DS.

HallowedFaith

anoffday wrote: »

This looks good. I'm even considering the 3DSXL bundle since I'm still using the original 3DS.

It's really not a bad idea. The 3DSXL is so much better than the standard 3DS if you ask me. They still don't have textured circlepads..*sigh* but it's really awesome. The screen quality is great and they did a reallyh good job with it.

I am considering picking up a cartridge version of it because I am broke and I can do trade-ins right now at Gamestop.. I don't want to, but I can get 28 bucks for Monster Hunter and if I throw in some random other game I don't play, i'll be able to get it without paying. Need to find out if they are doing any midnight releases.

I also apparently need a copy of Pokemon Heart Gold because starting with Black 2 is apparently a terrible idea but that's a whole other thing.

Xenogears of Bore

It's not a bad place to start. You can go back and forth pretty well between gen 4 and 5. Well you can't trade backwards or anything but playing B2 won't negate anything before or after.

Mx. Quill

Although HGSS are the superior games because of the touch screen controls, better world, and Totodile.

I'm currently trying to figure out how I could afford an XL for New Leaf.

Xenogears of Bore

gen 5's mechanics far outweigh the odd awesome crap that always seems to be misplaced transferring between the revisions/remakes and the next versions.

You've got what, three weeks of saving ahead of you to get an XL? If you need all the money then you're going to need to pick up some hours, sell some stuff, find a minor odd job, or cut 250ish dollars out of your budget, which depending on your situation is either easy with some sacrifice or impossible.

If you had another week or two you could try crowd funding it.

Magic Pink

HallowedFaith wrote: »

Animal Crossings main formula doesn't change much, they just add new features and items. Kinda what I like about it. I know what game I am getting.

Except they end up removing just as much as they add and yet it all still feels the same.

Decoy

City Folk was such a guilty pleasure. Sadly though, my 3DS has really sat dormant for awhile otherwise the bundle would be a no brainer. Still, it'd be something to do on my lunch break. Ha.

Maz-

I'll probably be getting this as part of the "buy three, get one for free" promo Nintendo is running. I've only briefly played the one on the DS, other than that I'm a total AC noob. Is there anything I should know beforehand, i.e. can I irreversibly screw up somehow? Or should I just go in blind?

@HallowedFaith I just tried to register you as a friend, but it's telling me the friend code is incorrect.

urahonky

Go in blind Maz-. Nothing you can really do to screw anything up.

urahonky

I'm really excited for this game too. My daughter is set to be born around June 20th and this seems like it would be the perfect game to play for 10-20 minutes at a time while she's sleeping/resting/preparing for another 1.5 hours of crying and screaming.

HallowedFaith

Maz- wrote: »

I'll probably be getting this as part of the "buy three, get one for free" promo Nintendo is running. I've only briefly played the one on the DS, other than that I'm a total AC noob. Is there anything I should know beforehand, i.e. can I irreversibly screw up somehow? Or should I just go in blind?

@HallowedFaith I just tried to register you as a friend, but it's telling me the friend code is incorrect.

Aha, yeah I am dumb and typoed my own friend code. I updated the list, and also it is: 1676-3768-1812

Ceno

Fuck yeah, Animal Crossing.

All mah bells.

EDIT: Oh shit new fruit?!

Henroid

I just hope everyone learns to ignore me when I walk into your town with an axe and you suddenly have less tress.

HallowedFaith

Henroid you bastard. My tree gardens are usually my pride and joy.

Darth_Mogs

The 3DS XL bundle will be my first exposure to actually having a 3DS of any sort. I was just sort of waiting for an XL that I liked the look of, and while the AC one isn't perfect, I -really want- AC even though I worry that I'm going to get bored with it after 'beating' it. (Generally when you paid everything off in previous games)

Is it confirmed that we can force all the shops to be open 24/7? Because that would be -awesome- and actually give incentive to play the game at night if you forget to during the day.

HallowedFaith

Darth_Mogs wrote: »

The 3DS XL bundle will be my first exposure to actually having a 3DS of any sort. I was just sort of waiting for an XL that I liked the look of, and while the AC one isn't perfect, I -really want- AC even though I worry that I'm going to get bored with it after 'beating' it. (Generally when you paid everything off in previous games)

Is it confirmed that we can force all the shops to be open 24/7? Because that would be -awesome- and actually give incentive to play the game at night if you forget to during the day.

Shop Hours and Town Ordinances

There is only one shop open 24-7 and that is the Dream Suite shop, the rest can have their hours extended but I am not aware of anyway to force them open 24/7. You can use Town Ordinances to extend the shop times:

Beezel

Aw shit I thought I was done with these games. What're you doing to me Nintendo? I thought we were cool.

Mx. Quill

Your debt to the Nook is never done, Beezel.

carmofin

Well I'm quickly losing interest in this. The fact that I can't play during the night (3 hours later is still nothing) is a complete dealbreaker, which is a shame.

carmofin

I guess this is where you guys come in, because I can use you americans to travel back to the afternoon! ;P

urahonky

There's still a shop open 24/7 if I'm reading it right.

urahonky

Also, can't you just set your system time to line up with your personal time?