first , if you love the original , you 'll be just as addict to this one . I be lucky enough to pre-order , so I have have a chance to play it for awhile . several thing have change , mostly good , some which take some get use to , and a few bad . so far the latter have add some confusion and annoyance which keep I from give it the five star I want to give it . good change - no more run about look for special visitor ; they all show up at the town hall ... you animal neighbor be much funnier ... it be easy to get very funny response to letter -lrb- altho ' in the past , all you need be a exclamation point and a question mark to get a positive response -rrb- ... be able to take fossil straight to Blathers be a huge time savings , and visit the coffeehouse and draw constellation in the museum basement and attic , respectively , be a lot of fun -lrb- especially watch you hand-drawn constellation float by overhead at night -rrb- ... there be a huge number of new fish , new fossil , and new bug to find - no more trudge along the beach in winter scarf up only a pile of miserable sea bass ... now you buy you clothes at the Able 's shop , and the many new accessory be hysterical - I spend one day run around in a native american warbonnet and a pacifier -lrb- do not realize I have the pacifier attach -rrb- ... the bulletin board be actually use ... Pelly work late -lrb- do not have to see Phyllis til really late -rrb- ... you house can be huge -lrb- 3 extra room , plus the usual large expansion ... you can put you own artwork on easel in you house and decorate the path outside with the same in graffitus square ... the path system be nice -lrb- much less bang into tree while run around -rrb- ... you can pick and then replant many kind of flower , put they in you hair , or drop they in you home as a decoration ... some bug be only attract to certain flower , so you do have to plant they all ... change that take get use to : not be able right away to ask you neighbor for errand to run - you have to wait until they begin to warm up to you , and then you still can not ask - they ask you instead ... you can really hasten this effect by waive to they as you pass ... use the stylus be awkward at first , but then you begin to see how really effective it be - write letter , drag thing around in you menu , etc. , become much easier ... you barely have to touch it though , which take some get use to , to relax you grip ... even with all the new and improved bug and fish , it seem to take more time to earn money now , especially with have to wait on you neighbor to warm up ... one very funny effect , as neighbor move in , they house stay fill with packing box for a day or two - only then can you investigate they home ... there be no island , so coconut wash up in the beach , along with message in bottle ... thing I have trouble with : the `` scrolling world '' -lrb- think sonic 3-d -rrb- make it difficult to shoot down present etc , because you have to race `` up '' the world to bring the present into closer view , and then race about try to line up you shot - it appear you need to have the floater directly overhead and not `` in-the-distance-overhead '' - for you shot to work ... also , you tend not to focus on the top screen , so if you miss the sound clue you may miss action on the top screen altogether - there be a lot of sound in this game , so it be not hard to do ... fishing be harder - thing dart about and change direction , often swim offscreen by the time you cast you line - sometimes more than one fish will come to you - unlike the first game , where a visible tug-and-splash show you have a bite , in this game , the only clue be a audible `` plop '' sound - so you be listen , not see , which be awkward . Booker seem not to know when visitor show up - and since they show up at the town hall , what be the point ? - and you never get to talk to copper unless you be do wi-fus ... also , catch the proverbial mole cricket -lrb- the only winter bug available , really -rrb- have prove impossible for I at least ... you dig it up , but by the time you get you shovel put away and get you net out , it have crawl off and disappear - catch thing happen in real time - the game do not freeze action , so it be like a active-time-battle in a standard rpg . finally , the official game guide be puzzling - clothes be give huge up close shot -lrb- so you can copy design ? -rrb- -rrb- but item and furniture , etc , be tiny dark picture with no definition at all ... very wierd .