Switch Animal crossing Is Amazing!

[The Bruce]

I just got my first ever Animal Crossing game for my 3DS.

This is the Best game I've played in a long time. How the heck did I manage to avoid this great series for so long?

Nintendo used to be all about Mario and Zelda for me

Now I have a new love

Guess I'm just saying - if you haven't tried it get an AC game and never look back t:

 

[zenith16]

nearly missed this this for all those interest and only those interested. .



Animal Crossing Is Getting A “Mini-Direct” Live Stream On November 2. September 1, 2016 . 9:15am

During this morning’s Nintendo Direct presentation,
the company announced that Animal Crossing is getting a “mini-Direct” for this fall.
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During this morning’s Nintendo Direct presentation, the company announced that Animal Crossing is getting a “mini-Direct” for this fall.

In the North American stream, Nintendo didn’t share a specific date for the Direct presentation, but Japan got November 2, 2016. No other details were revealed for the live stream, but we can expect to hear more about their upcoming smartphone app for the series that is expected to release this fall alongside one for the Fire Emblem series.

source: siliconera

 

[The Bruce]

Can't wait! The new features look great.

 

[zenith16]

Animal Crossing: New Leaf Update Will Remove All Your Town’s Pesky Weeds. September 12, 2016 . 8:30am

With the new updates headed to New Leaf this fall, Animal Crossing’s official Twitter account has announced that the update will also add the bonus of removing all your town’s weeds.

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Any Animal Crossing player knows the horror of returning to a neglected town to find it overrun with weeds. However, with the new updates headed to Animal Crossing: New Leaf this fall that will add amiibo support, Animal Crossing’s official Twitter account has announced that the update will also add the bonus of removing all your town’s weeds, saving you the task of removing them manually.

Here’s the official tweet:

Animal Crossing UKVerified account‏@AC_Isabelle

Been away from your town for a while? When the free update arrives this autumn, I'll take care of all the weeds!
4:01 AM - 12 Sep 2016

RETWEETS 638 LIKES 1,295


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Animal Crossing: New Leaf is available for Nintendo 3DS.

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[zenith16]

Wrong thread.

 

[zenith16]

Animal Crossing: New Leaf Update Will Let You Take Pictures With Its “Amiibo Camera”. October 5, 2016 . 8:30am

The update coming to New Leaf this fall will add amiibo functionality as well as the “amiibo camera,” which will let players take photos.

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This fall, an update to Animal Crossing: New Leaf will see amiibo functionality added to the game, allowing players to scan both the figures and cards. In addition to that, another new feature will be added to the game, as was shared over on the Japanese Twitter account for Animal Crossing.

This feature, which Nintendo called the “amiibo camera,” will let players take photos, yet that is all the information that was revealed at this time. Nintendo will host an Animal Crossing Direct on November 2, where they’ll share more details about the upcoming free update.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf is available for the Nintendo 3DS.

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source: siliconera

 

[zenith16]

Animal Crossing Edition Nintendo Direct Dated For November 2, 2016. November 1, 2016 . 1:00am

Nintendo announced that their upcoming Direct presentation for Animal Crossing will take place on November 2,
2016 at 7:00am PT/10:00am ET/2:00pm GMT.

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Nintendo announced that their upcoming Direct presentation for Animal Crossing will take place on November 2, 2016 at 7:00am PT/10:00am ET/2:00pm GMT.

The Animal Crossing Direct presentation will focus on Animal Crossing: New Leaf’s new update that features amiibo support and more. The livestream will be available for North America, Europe, and a Japanese Direct that will have extra info on Miitopia.

Siliconera will provide an embed along with information from the livestream following the event.

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[zenith16]

3DS
Animal Crossing: New Leaf ‘Welcome Amiibo’ update now available
Published 11 hours ago. 5 comments.

Retail version including Welcome Amiibo update launching December.

The “Welcome Amiibo” update for Animal Crossing: New Leaf is now available for download, Nintendo announced.



The free update is available to all Animal Crossing: New Leaf players and will also launch as part of a packaged version with the full game called Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Welcome Amiibo on November 25 in Europe and December 2 in North America.




The update adds Amiibo functionality. By tapping the new Welcome Amiibo cards for Animal Crossing: New Leaf launching December 2 or the 16 previously release Animal Crossing Amiibo figures, you can bring in new villagers in their own RVs to a special new RV campground.
Here’s the full list of new features, via Nintendo:​

Work with amiibo!

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  • New Life for Animal Crossing amiibo Figures!: The 16 Animal Crossing series amiibo figures let you invite special guests into your game with their own RVs, where you can interact with them on their day off from daily duties in town. These characters will also offer players an in-game Wii U console item or New Nintendo 3DS XL and New Nintendo 3DS items, which give players access to new games Desert Island Escape and Animal Crossing Puzzle League, which are almost like new games in themselves!
  • Wisp’s Wishes: By finding the magic lamp in the main game, you will unlock amiibo functionality. Once acquired, you can use the lamp once a day to summon the ghostly Wisp, tap a compatible amiibo and invite that respective amiibo character to your village. Do you want to live in a village full of ducks? Or cows? By using specific amiibo, you can make that wish come true!
  • New Welcome amiibo Cards: 50 new amiibo cards for Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Welcome amiibo launch on Dec. 2, the same day as the new packaged edition of the game. These cards not only include cool new villagers from past Animal Crossing games, but also their RVs as well! And speaking of those RVs…
  • New RV Campground: After updating the game, you will notice a new area in your town. This new campground offers different interactions with special villagers and new shopping opportunities, as well as Harvey, a hilarious new character that will assist with all your campground needs. By tapping certain amiibo figures or cards, a character will show up in her or his custom and stylish RV. This even applies to some non-Animal Crossing amiibo like the Inklings from Splatoon and Wolf Link from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD.
  • More to Play!: The in-game Wii U console item unlocks the Desert Island Escape game, while Animal Crossing Puzzle League can be accessed with the in-game New Nintendo 3DS XL and New Nintendo 3DS items. The Wii U and New Nintendo 3DS XL and New Nintendo 3DS items can be obtained via fortune cookies at the Nooklings’ shop, but it’s much easier to obtain these items when you scan any of the 16 Animal Crossing amiibo figures.

No amiibo needed!

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  • MEOW Coupons: By earning new MEOW (Mutual Exchange of Wealth) Coupons, you can obtain unique in-game items at the campground or from your visiting animal friends. To earn these coupons, you must complete new daily or weekly Town Initiatives, like pulling a set amount of weeds or gathering certain seashells.
  • Say Cheese!: With the new amiibo Camera mode, you can take the coolest in-game selfies ever. By gathering your favorite villagers, you can snap a photo and save it to view whenever you like! You can even share with friends using the 3DS Image Share tool. No amiibo are needed for this mode, but by tapping an amiibo you can take photos of your new villager friends!
  • What Do you Do With a New Storeroom?: Store things, of course! With the Animal Crossing: New Leaf update, you can use your Bells to obtain a new storeroom for your house at Nook’s Homes. You can access this storeroom from anywhere in your house and it stores tons of collectibles. Maybe you can even hide a dusty old umbrella in there. Isn’t that where all dusty old umbrellas are stored?
  • Decorating is Easier Than Ever!: Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Welcome amiibo lets you customize your home by moving around your furniture and items using the Nintendo 3DS touch screen. This makes setting up a perfectly styled room easier than ever.
  • Happy Home, Happy Transfer: If you have save data from the Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer game, you can link your save data and unlock 20 giant furniture items to spend your Bells on in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. What do we mean by giant furniture? Well, just that. This new furniture is HUGE and will definitely make an impression in any home.

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Watch the full presentation of the new update below.
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Animal Crossing: New Leaf’s Welcome amiibo Update Is Amazing. November 7, 2016 . 12:00pm

From the added storage space and touch screen decorating options,
to the two substantial minigames and ability to bring in visitors and neighbors from Splatoon everything offered with the Animal Crossing: New Leaf Welcome amiibo update is comprehensive and extraordinary.

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Animal Crossing: New Leaf could very easily become an addiction again. The Welcome amiibo update is live and happens to be incredible. This doesn’t just add the ability to scan amiibo into your game to shift around your town’s population. It doesn’t only offer you a wealth of new furniture, some of which you had to attempt to acquire via Retail or other tricky means. It changes everything. This update gives a reason to visit every day, what with the promise of MEOW coupons for accomplishing tasks like planting fruit trees or catching certain bugs. It makes decorating our rooms and collecting easier, with new touch screen controls and more storage. It even gives us extra activities in the form of more minigames. Animal Crossing: New Leaf feels like it’s been rejuvenated with an update that makes the absence of a Nintendo Wii U installment in the series easier to bear.

Harv’s Campground is the biggest addition to Animal Crossing: New Leaf with the Welcome amiibo update. An RV park has opened to the side of your town, with people able to stop by every day. MEOW coupons, earned by completing initiatives that appear on your character’s ID card and other activities, can be spent on items Harv and the visitors are selling, as well as by talking to Wisp once per day. It’s a valuable way to influence your game and earn new items by checking in daily and engaging in typical activities. For example, an initiative could ask you to visit another town, get a new ID card photo, update your town’s dream, wear today’s lucky clothing item, or visit the island to buy some souvenir’s. None are ever too taxing, and you’re often given a few days to complete certain goals.

Of course, getting Wisp’s lamp is a priority once you know about Animal Crossing: New Leaf’s campground. He’s the one who can summon a second van there. (One random van with a special NPC will appear each day.) The day after you acquire the update, meander around your town. I read the instruction book Nintendo sent to my character before hand, but it doesn’t seem necessary. Eventually, Wisp will begin to talk to you. His lamp will appear, and you’ll need to take and place it in your home. You can now scan one amiibo figure or card each day. Scanning a non-Animal Crossing figure or Animal Crossing card will let you either get a random gift item or invite that character to your campground. Scanning an amiibo figure brings that person to your campground, having Wisp replace them at their job that day. (This means if you summon Reese, Retail will be closed that day and she’ll be in her RV.)

Probably the first thing any amiibo owner will do with Animal Crossing: New Leaf’s Welcome amiibo update is get the Nintendo Wii U and Nintendo New 3DS in his or her game. Fortunately, Nintendo made it easy. While it is possible to get these two items, and the Nintendogs statues, from fortune cookies sold at the Nooklings’ store, you can more easily get the in-game consoles from the Animal Crossing amiibo figures. Tom Nook, Isabelle, K.K. Slider, Kicks, Blathers, and all the rest all offer those two minigame unlocking items, as does the Super Smash Bros. Villager amiibo.

Once these two items are placed and added into your home, Animal Crossing Puzzle League and Desert Island Escape are playable. As a nice bonus, both games kick off with a Nintendo 3DS or Nintendo Wii U intro. Animal Crossing Puzzle League feels like the more robust of the two, as it has Story Mode, with multiple difficulty levels, Score Attack, Time Attack, Garbage Attack, and Candy modes available. Many of these offer furniture or clothing items as rewards for clearing or accomplishing specific goals in the game. It plays much like standard Puzzle League, with players clearing blocks by matching them with similarly colored ones. Desert Island Escape is the Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival strategy game plucked and ported from the Nintendo Wii U game to here. You start with an easy difficulty level and a handful of stages, but earn more as you work your way up. While I haven’t noticed any furniture unlocks for my progress, I have found it gives 2 MEOW coupons every time I beat a level.

After that, getting items from special characters or inviting in specific villagers is a good idea. I recommend going through a special character first, like Viche from the Splatoon Marie amiibo. When she’s summoned, you can talk to her and buy Splatoon costumes and items from her. (Note: these are different from the items Inkwell the octopus, who comes from the Inkling Boy, Girl, or squid amiibo, will offer.) Now, summon her as much as necessary to get the items you want from her. Once she moves in to your town, you can’t scan in her figure to do more shopping. But, once you have acquired every item, go ahead and move her in, if you’d like. If you have a vacancy, she’ll pop right on by. If you don’t, you’ll be able to choose who’s forced out of your town so she can move in.

As a quick refresher, here’s who can stop by with the non-Animal Crossing amiibo you can scan into your game. Cece and Viche have similar catalogs, though each has clothing for their respective Squid Sisters, Inkwell has unique Splatoon furniture, and each The Legend of Zelda furniture has some unique furniture and items. Each character will also reference things from their respective series.​

• Splatoon’s Callie summons Cece the squirrel.
• Splatoon’s Marie summons Viche the squirrel.
• Splatoon’s Inklings and squid summon Inkwell the octopus.
• The Legend of Zelda’s Ganondorf summons Ganon the pig.
• The Legend of Zelda’s Sheik summons Epona the horse.
• The Legend of Zelda’s Toon Link summons Medli the bird.
• The Legend of Zelda’s Wolf Link summons Link the wolf.
• Super Smash Bros. Villager summons Wisp with Nintendo furniture.
• Monster Hunter Stories’ Nabiru and Riders with One-eyed Rathalos figures summon Felyne the cat.

Of course, these opportunities to get so much extra new and unique furniture make another Animal Crossing: New Leaf Welcome amiibo addition even more awesome. Tom Nook can sell you a secret storage upgrade if you’ve added a second story to your house. This adds an invisible storeroom to your home, which you can access by tapping the icon on your touch screen while inside the house. This gives you four sections, each with nine pages worth of space. That means room for 360 more items. Also, it isn’t connected to your standard in-house storage, in case you were wondering. For 158,000 bells, it’s absolutely worth it.

The nods to Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer are lovely as well. Besides the inclusion of items from that game, which appear in Harv’s Campground either as pieces he’s selling or that you can buy from animals’ RVs, the oversized contest reward items and touch screen controls have been added to the game. The oversized furniture has all been added to the Nooklings’ store catalog, letting you get larger than life pieces like huge ants or Resetti inflatables for 8,000 bells each. The controls are introduced via a brief tutorial in Nook’s Homes, with Lottie taking a few moments to explain how everything goes. The decorating is a bigger factor, since it allows for customization options that weren’t previously available. (Some rotation options are amazing.) But it also allows for decorating abilities like cushions on stools and flat-screen TVs on low tables. It’s extraordinary.



But, it’s about more than the major additions. Animal Crossing: New Leaf’s Welcome amiibo update includes the quality of life in so many ways that we might not realize. Remember how hard it used to be to catch bees? If you’re holding a piece of equipment that only uses one hand, you can still shake a tree with it equipped. That’s huge! You can sit on a rock or floor cushion, as well as use things on a table if they’re facing you while sitting there. I recommend a cushion in front of an in-game Nintendo Wii U or a chair in front of a New Nintendo 3DS. Villagers who are moving out give you a week’s advance notice, so you have more time to change their mind. You can even share any screenshots you take from within the game by tapping on icon on your touch screen, sending them off to Twitter.

Nintendo has done something truly incredible with Animal Crossing: New Leaf. They’ve taken an amazing game and added enough content to make it feel new again. The initiatives make you want to stop by each day to earn MEOW coupons for the extra items found at Harv’s Campground. The amiibo cards and select figures let you create your town entirely to your liking, choosing who moves in and out. The Animal Crossing Puzzle League and Desert Island Escape minigames are robust adventures that easily could have been sold separately for $5-10 in the eShop. The inclusion of Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer’s touch screen decorating controls and larger items offer more opportunities to improve your homes. It’s an amazing addition of supplemental content, and everyone with Animal Crossing: New Leaf is going to appreciate these niceties.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf and its Welcome amiibo update are immediately available for the Nintendo 3DS.

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Top, Switch
Animal Crossing announced for Switch
Published 11 hours ago. 27 comments.

A new mainline entry in the series.

Nintendo has announced a new mainline entry in the Animal Crossing series for Switch. It will launch in 2019.

Further information was not announced.

Watch the teaser trailer below.

source:Gematsu