Welcome to haken in Animal Crossing podcast your podcast dedicated to all things Animal Crossing episode. 112 is brought to you by Evan Lynn three one four one of our newest patreon patrons today Sergio and I are talking about the new January artwork for the show and we're answering the weekly questions for the 100 a countdown as well as recapping the latest New Horizons news. Use And discussing Animal Crossing spoilers, so to begin. Hello Sergio. How you doing? Hi, Chuy. I'm doing I'm doing much better. You know, I'm almost done fully recovering from an Express cold that I got. Um, let's see like three days ago. It's between a an interesting couple of days. But I've also been playing a lot of games. I well a lot of our game I finished my second playthrough of Pokemon shield in I'm pretty much done. I completed the leaving. Ex I'm done with Pokemon until they announce a new one. That is us. So you just like stayed home from work and stuff during that time. Yeah. Well that's good. It's good to rest up and get healthy and luckily, you know, you can spend some time playing some Pokemon as well. That's always good. Yeah, as far as me like I've been checking out the eShop every single day several times a day to see if they've added. Crossing New Horizons on there yet? Because as soon as they do I'm going to buy it. Like I haven't pre-ordered a physical copy at all yet, because I don't know when I'm gonna do that. I'm thinking like, you know, it's a big game. So I imagine we don't need to preorder it. It's just going to be there. Yeah, right when we go so I'm not worried about it being like sold out or anything but it is going to sell a lot of copies. I do know that for sure. Yes. Yeah. So yeah, that's what I've been up to but for The else we've also been up to getting some artwork ready. And this one comes courtesy of Mateo one of our newest artists for the show and they actually made a statement for this new piece that I want to go over but really quickly. I wanted to just see how consider Geo I think I the first time I shared this one it was in the newsletter that he can use letter and it was mostly just the line art but at that point, you know, So yeah, now that you're officially seeing this new artwork. What do you think of it? Oh, I like it a lot. It's perfect for you know the coziness of January in the wintertime. I especially like the camera angle because it's something that you can recreating the games, you know, how you can move the camera around. Yeah, but it also kind of reminds me of those isometric type of games, which is perfect because Animal Crossing is a game. So I really like that in also the warm color palette it just goes so well. I really love the mood of this one. I wanted overall. I just wanted it to be unique. I feel like every piece that we get and wanted to be unique from the last and really just give off a different vibe a different kind of thing with it. You know? Yeah. And so this one what I wanted to see out of it was just like we never get to see just the animals in their homes unless you've played happy home designer because in that case you do get a little screen shot of that. Them enjoying their place, you know yet but this I really wanted it to be like here's one villager. Here's just them spending some time and having some fun in their little place and enjoying it while Nobody's around because all the other times we see that there's one unique I guess case in the very first Animal Crossing population growing where if a villager was in the same acre as their home, but not inside their home. You could go in and see It without them in there. Yes, that's right. Yeah, so there's that but all the other cases like you only really see the inside of their their home when there's a villager in there, but you don't really see one when it's just the Villager. Yes. They're outside of like I said happy home designer. So yeah, I thought it'd be really nice to have a character here. Just enjoying their space. And yeah, I loved it. The colors are really great. Um, yeah, so Mateo So like I said made a statement and they said this piece was a delight to work on I wanted to capture the Cozy feeling of staying inside and having a nice cup of tea by the fire during a rainstorm. I focused on coloring this piece with a warm palette and soft lighting to evoke the feeling of being safe and warm. Mmm. And it definitely does that one of my favorite little things is actually the the steam kind of floating up from the the mug that they're Yeah, yeah, it's really cool to see that and I'm always really amazed when people do super awesome stuff in our like that. Yeah, and I agree definitely captures the feeling of what we expect the villagers to be doing in their homes relaxing like we do in the games. Yeah. Yeah, and I mean, that's literally what I do when I'm in my home in Animal Crossing. I just go sit on the couch and I turn the camera around through different angles and I'm like, yeah, this looks good. Yeah, it's funny. The things that are just really entertaining in that game. They're so simple, but just so great and relaxing most of all. Yeah, I do really like the photos on top of the chimney as well. I can't really make out the character. I think it's Savannah who's in that photo just for a little photo of herself and then the left one. It looks I don't know. I'm not sure it kind of like there's clouds. I grind I like to imagine KK sliders there. But yeah, the other thing I really love about this is just like all of the plants and things and seeing the watering can and just seeing like how much Greenery they put around their house and that's mostly because the very first game when I played like I filled my place with plants. I wanted all the different plants and I put them all over my home. And so when my friend would walk in he's like there's so many plants in here and I'm like, yeah, isn't it great. Yeah, so it's just a fun way. To decorate and everything and I love the interpretation of all the different Furniture in the game. For sure to yeah, exactly. Yeah, the lamps are especially adorable. Yeah. So anyways, if you want to see Mateos work, they do some really great things. I found them from a piece that actually wasn't very it wasn't Animal Crossing but it was Animal Crossing inspired. And so they did kind of like a living space and that was like the birth of this. F for the piece there, so that's how I found them. But they have a website. It's Mark Martin new.com there. I it's confusing how to spell it. They're all in the description though their lord of on Twitter and then Lord underscore of on Instagram. And once again, all of these links are in the description for you to go and check them out and enjoy their work because it's pretty awesome. I really love what they did with this one. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. So Sergio, let's go ahead and move. Vin to what has become a staple of this show at this point. I think this is the fourth week we're doing this. Yeah, but we are going to be answering the 100-day countdown questions and they are pretty pretty fun this week. We have some cool ones just a lot of favorites a lot of different things to think about but I also want to point out like for we've been doing this for four weeks Sergio, it's crazy. We're already at this point. And we're going over your questions 79 through 73 from the days of the countdown and that is already less than I don't know 20 percent of the way through our wait, that's crazy. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. It's insane to me how quickly it's going. Today is Sunday and we're recording 25% of the way through like this is day 25 of our 100-day wait, and it's amazing that it's going this fast. I'm excited about that cool. So let's get into these questions are there should be a little shorter and faster this time around because you know that a lot of favorites. So the first one is for day 79 in the question is your favorite new Leaf Island Tour and Sergio. I'm interested to hear what you like. Mine is the official gardening tour. It's the one where you collect flowers and you're told a specific color to get but not the specific type of flower so you can get Any red or any yellow? That one is a lot of fun to me. Hmm. Yeah, that one is one of my favorites because it's like really hard to lose in that I think overall people do a good job. And but I think where the tension comes is that with when you do play with like more than one player like four players and everything, you're trying to plant more flowers in that space than anybody else. Yes, and if you do, You're going to get rewarded with more Metals at the end of the game. And so this one is like it's in one of the most balanced games because it doesn't take as much skill as some of the other tasks like it's literally you run to a flower pick it up. You run back you drop it. And so so I feel like as far as the balance goes, it's good with this game. It's pretty it's a fair fight whenever people play this one. And you know, you can have your different strategy maybe try to Snoop all of the closest flowers before everybody comes out. Maybe somebody goes way to the end and get a bunch of flowers on their way back, you know. So yeah, it's a it's a good game to play with people I'd say yeah. My favorite is a difficult one. It's the elite balloon hunt and this one I like it because there are several. Virile different balloon Hut hunts. The reason I picked the elite one is because the whole map is scattered in pitfalls. And so every step that you take you're really trying to look at two things at once. You're trying to look at the sky so you don't miss the balloons, but you're also trying to look at the ground so you don't fall into a pit fall because you are you're stuck for like a good I don't know five seconds it feel like and it sounds short on paper because it is It in the sense of that game. You're like, oh my goodness get me out of here. I can't do anything and I need the score and it's about to fly over the cliff or that River and I'll have to find a bridge and I don't know how so I just love that the tension that builds up when you fall into a pit fall because you're going to yeah, you're you cannot pay attention to both the ground in the sky and not just trip, you know, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so that's why I like that one. I was going to pick another one but This one I think is another that's just like it's good fun. And I love the ones where essentially you're against people in some way got ya. So I do like being against people in some of the games. So but you know, sometimes the teamwork ones and the one I was between was like the scavenger hunt one because I do like that one for like being a team oriented game, you know, but I felt more in a fighting mood today. All right, so day 78 the question was what is your favorite insect and Sergio? I'm going to surprise you actually probably it's not surprising. I'm picking the tarantula and I this one was another one that I was torn with because I thought I was going to choose the one of the Butterflies either the egg dries or the Rajah Brooke butterfly, but then I was like, but the tarantula it's just so scary. Re and there's like, you know, it's a very unique thing when you get hit by at ranchland you pass out and you wake up in front of your house and you're like what just happened did my game break? Yeah. I remember I just remember the first time that happened to me and I'm like, what did I do wrong? This is never. I never game over it in it Animal Crossing game, but that's essentially at you game over it, you know. Yeah, yeah, you come back just a little ghost of yourself. So what's your favorite Sergio - actually the VIS because you know after playing the game for so long you I got pretty good at catching them. So I welcome the challenge. I'm always I'm actually always every day. I would look for them specifically and I would catch them. So yeah like them now. Yeah, and you know, I'll tell you the bees always take me to the beginning of my playthrough of any animal crossing game where you know for those Animal Crossing Pros out there, you know, there's going to be some furniture hidden in the trees every day. And so you go around you shake the trees and you know, they're about there's some beads that you're going to run into from there here and there and I remember I would run and I'd run and be like, oh, here's this villagers home. I can run in there and they won't catch me and so for a long time like I'd start just by running away and trying to get away and then I found out you could catch them and I was like what that's amazing. And so yeah after that I started learning the ways to catch them and I too got pretty good at it. And I said, yeah and you know, they even like made one of the updates in welcome amiibo around the bees where you could now shake the trees with your bug net already. Okay? Yes. Yes. So that's a that's one way to make it easier to do that whole thing. Yeah. Yeah. So these the that's a big part of the game. That's a good choice Sergio. Yeah. Okay. So day 77. The question was your favorite Public Works project and start. Yeah. I'm really interested to hear yours. So mine is the log bench. Basically, it's a tree log, but you can sit on it. It just goes perfect with the aesthetic of Madeira, you know, everything is natural wood finish. It just went so perfect and I put it next to my wood pattern flooring next to the roost Cafe. It was so perfect. I love that in as soon as I can build it in your horizons. I'm going to yeah, and the log bench looks so good and you Horizons already to yeah. Yeah, their deeds their designs for a lot of the furniture are really great. And I think that's something we don't talk about much but we needed I think for Animal Crossing their furniture sets like the lovely series a bunch of them that have just been like around forever, you know, the blue series The Green series just all of these furniture sets. I think for me they needed an update at this point. Like we can't just have the same furniture for 20 years. I mean, it's great if you can because it means you don't have to replace Furniture as often, but overall, I think it's really cool to see a lot of the stuff get updated and I feel like the the log bench that you're talking about is one of those for sure. Yes. Yeah. So mine. My favorite furniture or Public Works project is the zen garden and this is you know, the sand garden essentially where people if you see them in real life, you know, there's usually somebody with a rake they're making some sort of patterns, you know to the game or not to the game to the I guess the garden is what I wanted to say. So yeah this I love I've always loved these I love seeing them I and it funny because I'm not usually like a dry landscape kind of person lately. I've opened up to it a lot more and I'm really more into cacti and that sort of thing but I really like the dry landscape of Zen Gardens. Like they always worked for me, you know, hmm, gotcha. And so but then also like I just love doodling I guess in dirt and real life things. Yeah, like if there's something that I can doodle in I will do it. And the Zen Gardens one of those so I love taking the rake and the sounds that it makes is you're doing like it's all very pleasurable and it's all you know, aimed at being very relaxing, you know, yes, and so yeah, I just love the look of the zen garden and Animal Crossing and it's yeah, it's like it's got a lot of things going on that work like the organization of it. Like you're just doing a circle around this rock and it just looks pleasurable. Yeah. Yeah. So Dave 76 was your favorite spin-off Animal Crossing game, and I'm excited to tell you all that. I keep going back and forth on these. I think last time this came up. I was team pocket Camp because you know, it's happens to be the Animal Crossing game. I play most right now. That's true. But before that I was team happy home designer, and I think I'm leaning back to team happy home designer right now. And it's mostly because people were talking about it in the Discord and I was just like really in the mood to play it lately. So I haven't but I could definitely go in and do some designs right now. Oh nice nice. Yeah. So what's yours Sergio? Well mine with the small notes that I didn't really play much happy home designer. So it was pretty much an easy answer when you think about it. That way. It's actually pocket camp, but it's more so So it's not only because the other option is, I mean well Festival it's also because you know when we went into pocket Camp, I kind of kept my expectations pretty low just to be on the safe side. I thought it was going to be a lot less than what we got. So it really surprised me. I really enjoy my time with it. Yeah. Yeah and you played for a long time you definitely like both of us were covering it from the early days for sure nowadays. We talked about it a lot less and it's mostly because it does a lot of the same things these days pretty rare. Dave will only really talk about it if there's a major update now which you know, there could be one coming up. I mean they always do one. I guess once the New Year rolls around so that's pretty cool. But yeah with with New Horizons coming out, I don't know how they're going to change up the game, but I imagine they'll do something you know, and but at the same time they almost don't have to because the to seem like very different experiences that are four different kinds of games, you know. No, yes, so yeah cool. So let's go on to day 75 and the question was what is your dream crossover? And I'm going to let you go for Sergio because I want to go off on mine for a little while. Nice. Well, I'm thinking it would be a crossover that we would add to the next Main Line Game in the armored cars in series and I would just add more more of a Pokemon crossover like we had in pocket. But I definitely want a lot more especially from the gala region the Pokémon from sword and shield if that's the approach we take that that would be great. But I would also like to see Animal Crossing characters on a different franchise and I was thinking imagine a mystery dungeon game with Animal Crossing characters in it. I think that would be pretty awesome. Yes. I yes. I want an RPG type of animal crossing. Yeah and doing like a mystery dungeon kind of thing. NG it's pretty cool. Like they are definitely already did like the desert island Escape game, which is, you know, kind of a really different take on Animal Crossing thus far so yes. Yeah. Yeah, I like those ideas and Pokémon. We I'm amazed at how little Pokémon there is an animal crossing considering like the the people who play Animal Crossing a good majority of them also play Pokemon, and so it makes sense to cross it. Let's get that. Yeah, and that'll come up a little bit later. But you know we'll get there. So okay mine. I want to go off on this for a little bit. That's why one second. I want Animal Crossing to cross over with theme parks. And I just and I know that's a weird thing to I guess crossover and think about it as a crossover, but that's what I want. So we'll say specifically the Nintendo World theme park or whatever. It's being called, right, you know. How cool why are they not making an Excursion any gift shop? I like that is a biggest missed opportunity of the decade already and it's just started the decade just started in there already messing up. Okay beyond that like there are so many cool things that you can do with the shops and stuff. Like if you make just a whole big shopping center, I guess, you know, like everybody's got their what's a gift shops and everything and all of the villagers are Working the shops and stuff like having a bunch of people in villager costumes and having the special characters in their costumes to to greet people and take pictures and stuff adorable. Yes, it works so well and then like there's just so much room for like cool carnival games and like many games. I guess you could think of them but in like a carnival-style and I don't know maybe you can win things trade them for bells when other surprises and I don't know just I feel like there's a really good opportunity to make animal crossing a really nice theme park and I don't understand why it doesn't exist yet because it needs to yeah, right. Yeah. So as far as rides though, I don't know you can make a train ride. Of course a taxi ride a bus ride dodo Airlines ride, like pretty much every mode of transportation in the game. Turn it into a ride. It'd be fun. I'd write a loved one. There I'm just saying there's plenty of things you could do with Animal Crossing to make it the Perfect theme park and also make a little cute Forest that we can go into and have fun all yes. Yes, even a swim park would work at this point to like an Island Getaway, you know, so it's true. Yeah, there's so many good themes and every these--and you can change the colors of everything and make it look like the season that you're in, you know, Yeah, especially like, you know, both of us are from Southern California where you know, you don't often get a lot of the different seasons there but like to have a theme park that does change Seasons while you're there. Oh, hello make it now make it. I mean, I guess I would be like kind of specific to it being in Southern California, but you know, it could be somewhere else where there aren't seasons and it'd be just as appreciated. Yeah. Yeah. These are all great ideas the Are we in the work? Yeah, so Nintendo crossover your theme park with Animal Crossing and we're good. We're good. There's nothing more I could ask about that. Nice. All right, so days 74 the question was your favorite animal crossing holiday, and I thought I was going to say something different. I thought I was going to say Thanksgiving and then I was like, no, it's Halloween. It's got to be Halloween and it's mostly just because like, you know, it's one of those where you do it throughout the month you're Eating candy and stuff you're getting all of your costumes and things it feels like what a holiday feels like the preparation behind it, you know, and so I feel like that's what captures a lot of the holiday season where it's about getting ready about having your place set up about enjoying it and then it happens and you have a good time. So Halloween, that's mine. Nice. I definitely like the the ones that are months in trick, you know, it's not just the One day it's like I said it for the season of that specific holiday, but for me, I pick one that is just one day and I picked it because it's a holiday only in animal crossing pretty much and I'm going with festive a lie, because you know, you have poverty there and you have your going around collecting the color feathers and then talking to the Villager. So I like that one. Like I said because it's it's mostly only in animal crossing and it's it's like a holiday that just comes out of of nowhere, you know, February or March. There's not a lot going around those times at least here in America. So I like that one. Yeah, that's that's a really good choice too. And I think it's fun to see like the the holidays that are unique to animal crossing. Yes, and that's definitely one of them, and I think it's a good choice. So day 73 the final day that we'll be going over and the day that we're at today 73 days away from Animal Crossing. Listening to this show on Tuesday when it releases. The question is favorite ocean fish. So Sergio, what's your favorite ocean fish? I'm going with tuna. I like the fact that it's pretty big and I do like tuna. I don't like a lot of fish. I think tuna is the only exception so for sure I had to go with that. That's a good one for me. I said the Napoleon fish and it's mostly because every time I've caught one I'm always He's like, whoa, it just blows my mind every single time. So Napoleon fish for me. Nice. It has a very very nice color scheme. Yeah, the bright blue is definitely a really fun cool. So let's go ahead and move on to our next topic and that is the Animal Crossing New Horizons news recap. So I guess if you missed it somehow we finally have started to get things from them. Endo regarding Animal Crossing and this first thing comes in the form of I guess 1/2 ish things. But essentially we got the first advertisement. It came out in Japan on January 1st, 2020. We got an English version of that same ad in the very next day. So January 2nd, so we didn't wait too long for it to get translated and then included with it was a box art reveal and we even had some tweets from Um Isabel, so I guess I'll break it down a little bit more in-depth but the advertisement covers I guess it just covers Tom Nook showing off the deserted island getaway package, you know, so we see a bunch of villagers and kind of a halt and they're being presented to it. You know, it kind of gave me some like timeshare behaves which if anybody has looked into timeshares don't because They are crazy. Okay, but anyways, so it's like Tom Nook, he's holding this presentation. He's showing off the deserted island getaway package. We're seeing all of these animals react to it and everything. One thing I found was a bummer that the animals seem to be the older models that Animal Crossing did you know, and so it seemed like they were updated like amiibo Festival models kind of because the animals are all still wearing their tank tops Isabel is still in her winter outfit. But at the same time I felt like it worked for this situation because nobody has moved to the deserted island yet. Like they haven't updated their look they haven't really, you know, they're not moved into that new spot, you know, yes, so it feels to me like it makes sense to have them in their old outfits and kind of their old look so but still I wanted to see them a little bit more educated. They do look really good regardless. Outside of that they had some words attached to everything and said a naturally abundant deserted island build a new life from scratch and an island full of possibilities. So yeah, just a bunch of stuff just saying essentially that we're starting from scratch and we've got a lot of resources there and a lot of possibilities there too. So it seemed like all of the characters were really into that idea especially Isabel at the end. She'd fallen in love because you know fun, I feel like it's also a reference. Dancing like Isabel just never got to make it out to the beach in New Leaf. Yeah. Now her whole life is the beach essentially that's so true. So I felt happy to see her like that and then at the very end, we got the reveal of the box art and Sergio. What did you what did you think about all this stuff all of this? And you add in the box art that we saw everything is looking really nice. Like you said, I like the way they presented everything that camera angles they used. Jiro as a cakey fan through and through the first thing I noticed on the box I did that KK is not there. It's not a deal-breaker, but it's a little disappointing. He had been in there in every game since wild world. So I don't know what happened. Yeah. That is a bummer. That's for sure. How many Bucks Arts has he been on he was in wild world city Folk New Leaf. I think that's it. I don't think he's in a happy home designer. Okay, so pretty much the key is going to be able Festival. Yes, okay, so pretty much almost all of them. Yeah, it's very rare that he's not on a box art. So it's a bummer to see for sure because I you know, he deserves a good spot in the Animal Crossing world. So yeah, just put them on box right next time people. Yeah, so let me kind of talk about the boxart a little bit so we on the box art itself. We see a couple playable characters and then we see Tom no. In the boys and then Isabel is there as well and we have fuchsia and Rod so fuchsia is the deer who knows she's been kind of the star and yeah in this game so far like she seems to be the big villager that's being advertised, you know? Yeah, and then Rod is a very interesting character. He's a little mouse that's dressed up kind of like pirate-themed, you know, or a sailor I guess but I like to think of it more as a pirate. So yeah, pretty cool debut for him there. I don't think he's been on box art before and I don't think fuchsia was either but like I said fuchsia seems to be like the front and center animal in this whole New Horizons game. And then from there the most interesting thing is the two new characters. Yes. We got a Dodo and a beaver and the beaver a lot of people are comparing, of course to chip who runs the fishing tournament and lo and behold this There is also a fishing so we don't quite know who the beaver is if it's a redesign of Chip or if it's one of chips nephews Sons daughters. I don't know. So yeah, I guess what do you think of these new characters? It's very exciting and at some point I thought when we saw the the new Beaver character, I was hoping I really hope this is a normal belly Cherry not a special character because that would mean we are finally. We getting regular villagers in the species from special characters, you know, like Beaver raccoon Etc. I really hope that's the case. Yeah, and I mean, I think it's still a possibility. I think the one strange thing is the character does have pants and I think a lot of people are pointing out that only the special characters have been shown to wear pants and statue. Yeah, but I'm like come on. Why are we not at the point where villagers can wear pants to that's to got sleeves they finally got sleeves. It would seem you know a good thing to give them pants as well. So, I don't know I'm I'm still kind of hoping that it's just a villager as well. But you know, it makes sense that the special characters have hand so it might just be a special character. Yeah. Yeah in the the noodle dough character looks very nice. I want to know their name. Yeah. I'm really wondering. I wanted to make a guess. Maybe we'll make a guess next week unless They somehow manage to reveal something before that and about the dodo, you know, but actually no, let's make a guess now. Why why prolong it, you know, I guess what would I name a Dodo? I don't know quite yet. What are you thinking Sergio? I'm thinking world. Oh, that's a good one. Weirdo. I'm gonna go with that. No dodo. It's a bird. I'm gonna call him Benny because of Bennie and the Jets rides a plane. So I don't know. I'm going with Benny. Yeah, so that's our guests were dodo and Benny are both going to be wrong, except not no Sergio. You're going to be right somehow. You're right about all these cool. Cool. So from there, I guess outside of that. We also got a few tweets from Isabelle. One of them was just a picture with Tom Nook in the boys. And it said no because looking forward to supporting us in 2020. Just talking about the New Horizons release date coming up very soon. And then they also tweeted out this advertisement. It was the English version of course and then the full New Horizons artwork, which is the cover art. But the rest of it so this cover art shows Apollo Bunny and Filbert a good friend of Sergio's and and the one real big surprise here that nobody really expected to see on this cover was Harvey in the top right corner. He is outside of his cabin and everything. So let's actually speculate on that a little bit Sergio. So what are you thinking for Harvey this time around? For Harvey, that's interesting. I'm I'm just expecting that whenever there's a new special character like Harvey maybe instead of sitting and Shop in your Island. They're gonna sit shop in a nearby Island sort of like Harvey looks to be doing and that's how we're going to be traveling from mini Island too many Island basically around your Island and in a way that might take care of the island expansion that some of us have been wanting so that's what I'm thinking as for Harvey himself. I don't know. Feature. Yeah, I'm I mean, I guess from New Leaf he was introduced as an amiibo kind of functionality, you know, so every amiibo that you put in well at least not every the the figures and the welcome amiibo cards those would show up as RVs in Harvey's kind of campsite, you know, so I guess from there like, you know an See guess would be kind of maybe he's worried the amiibo stuff happens again, but also like maybe you know, I kind of like the direction you're going with the Villagers kind of showing up there before they show up on your Island. Oh, that's true. Yeah. Yeah, so I don't know it could be interesting to see but I'm pretty I'm pretty excited about him making a return especially fun fact Harvey is one of three characters in new Leaf like the New Leaf that does not have an amiibo funny enough because you know, he's where the amiibo go. So yeah him Lloyd the gyroid does not have an amiibo and wisp even though wisp sort of has an amiibo because he appears as the smash villager amiibo but that's not a wisp amiibo. You know, right? Yeah. So none of these have cards nor figures. So yeah. Okay outside of that. I think that was all the news right? Yes. So how you feeling first of the year and they already gave us something. I know it's very exciting and it's just you know, it's making it's a good thing that the weight is going by quickly. But with this news in there everything looking so good and you know, it's still making things pretty rough, but we'll get there we'll get there. Yeah, I'm really glad that they decided to just be like, all right, we'll give you Then it's the first day of 2020 might as well because we've been waiting we've been waiting forever to start this like new cycle because you know, they gotta go all out with the game. They got to show it off. They gotta send people some cool things about it, you know, yeah, so all right. Now this next topic is one that I've been really excited to talk about for I don't even know why but I just want to but it it is called. Can you spoil Animal Crossing and Animal Crossing is a very unique game because it's not really story-driven. It's very life's image. You don't really have too much to follow in it, you know, so I've been wondering like how people felt about spoilers and what they considered a spoiler and everything and I guess before we talked about like kind of New Horizons, I did want to talk about New Leaf because I was our last experience waiting for an animal Passing game like this, you know. Yeah, I mean we have gotten waited for like spin-offs and stuff in between but I didn't feel like that weight was quite the same as waiting for New Leaf where the news was very scarce. It was a big new game that we really wanted to play and it's a Mainline game. So it's obviously going to have a lot more draw a lot more attention. So yeah, I guess how did you feel about the wait for New Leaf? Did you avoid news or where you desperate for it? I was keeping. Up with all the neeeews until the game came out in Japan and once the full game was out. I you know, I bowed out and I said, I'll wait for the full release here in North America. So the reason why is because before the game was out in Japan, you know, it was fair game from everybody. Everyone was on the same level basically and all the news were for everyone. I feel like it's different now with New Horizons because it's not going to come out sooner in any region that Everywhere, it's gonna come out everywhere at the same time. So I think it's on a for me. I'm keeping up with everything. I don't think there's anything to particular that I'm avoiding. I'm I am avoiding something. I mentioned that later. But yeah New Leaf was very unique because it took forever to come out everywhere else, you know. Yeah, and you know, you make a good point in two ways one is of course like how long the game was out in Japan? Before everybody else because you know at that point there was like months and months of stuff accessible that you could see for the game and I was definitely not one of those to avoid it. I was like, yeah show me I'm down. I'm I don't think and I guess part of that came from my feeling that like, I don't feel like it could be spoiled for me. Like I just kind of want to see something a Nintendo's not showing so let's let's see something, you know, right but the other good point You're also making is that New Horizons is going to be the very first animal crossing game that we all get at the same time even like the spin-offs that we've gotten recently. They never came out at the same time everywhere. They came out first in like pocket Camp came out in Australia month before and even the release of happy home designer was weird. I have to double-check amiibo Festival. Maybe that was the first one to come out everywhere at the same. Time but what makes the switch unique is that it's just it's not region locked at all. So there's nothing stopping you from going to the Japanese eShop uploading some Japanese eShop money, you know, yes, and then just downloading any game on there. So that force is Nintendo to put every single major release out on the same day everywhere and to some extent that does kind of slow down. The release dates and make them have to work more to get games out on time, you know, yes, but yeah, it's just like it's a very unique situation where I imagine we've been waiting this long literally because there's a lot of dialogue in Animal Crossing. There's a lot to localize and change and we've already heard that the games being localized in like Latin American Spanish for the first time. So not only are there dealing with new languages, but they're just trying to have all of these things. Dated before March 20 20 20. So it's a lot of work that goes into that, you know. Yes. Yeah. So yeah, I guess for me. I was desperate for New Leaf new so I didn't avoid any other gameplay and I guess my follow-up question there is do you think the or do you feel like the weight for New Horizons has been just different than you leaf. And yes, very different because all the news that we get our for everyone at the Sometimes I don't feel like I'm avoiding anything specific it's safe because the game is not going to come out sooner in a certain region and then we might get something really big is spoiled. You know, everyone is getting the same info at the same time. Yeah. Yeah, it feels like all the news is for us and even just seeing similarities between the ads already like the January 1st both the ads that we got were identical essentially. Yes. Japan got there at it was in. In Japanese, we got our ad and it was an English, you know, so yeah, it's just it's feeling like the marketing is aligned here and it's actually meant to come out in all of the regions at the same time. Yeah, cool. So let's talk about spoilers for New Horizons now and the first one is kind of more General Animal Crossing. But the first question is do you think Animal Crossing can get spoiled? Why or why not? Sergio I don't think so not for the most part I think if anything some of the most experienced Animal Crossing players, some of us may want to avoid something on purpose more on that later, I do have something that I am avoiding, but I think we're doing that on purpose. Like I said, it's not because it's a spoiler per se. Yeah. Yeah, definitely and you're right like we come at it from an angle of like we played every game so it's not like a huge deal for us. Some things to be spoiled for us because we kind of know a lot of what to expect already. Yes. Yeah. So for me I say I don't think that Animal Crossing can get spoiled and I think they're just for sure things out there that I think people would consider spoilers. But overall for me. The experience is something that can't be spoiled like no matter how much you see how much you play or you know, like you're going to play your own way and you make your experience very Unique to other people. So yeah, I just don't think it's something that's going to get spoiled because it's really just dependent on how you play the game overall. Yes. He's going to be very different for everyone. Yeah. So my next question is what would you consider a spoiler an animal crossing if you considered anything a spoiler? Yeah, let's say they show us a new a new location like a new shop or something that is managed by a new special character. If I feel like it would be nice if they show us a couple of details of the new location or the new special character. But if they show a little too much, I think that kind of takes away from the magic. Do you know the newness of the the addition to the series in also the music to me the music is the the big thing to spoil so that's what I'm avoiding. Yeah. I think the music can be spoiled. Yeah. Yeah, and that makes sense to like you can flood people with too much information I think for a long time. Pokemon really struggled with that where they just gave us way too much all the time. And yeah, the music is a cool one too, because that's going to be very special to to really just play your first few hours or first, you know, your first 24 hours because it's going to be an all-day thing and just hear all of the music as it goes, you know, so it's exciting. I'm really excited about that for me. I guess what I'd consider spoiler. This is kind of like the few story aspects that we get like the conversations with Sable. You know, I think it's fun to read those and experience them the first time as you play and then you know, I think it's fun to see what people think about it online later but like getting that kind of depth and more more character driven narrative from the game is very rare. So I think that could be a bit of a spoiler and then the other thing is I don't really want to see how the holidays work until I play them. Oh, that makes sense. Yes. Yeah, so like I don't really want to be spoiled on holidays. I just want to play them and see how it goes the first time around. Yeah, so then my next question is what wouldn't you consider a spoiler in Animal Crossing? Like is there anything that you feel like is just something you can talk about? I think honestly, I think most things are not a spoiler in the reason for that is because you know, let's say you see a feature or an item or a villager. Anything that you see in somebody's town or play through if you run into that into your own game, and that's only if because there's so much content in this game that it's not a guarantee that you're going to see everything or at least not enough a couple of years then even if you do see it eventually it's going to be in a very different scenario. Your town is going to be different the time the season the villagers in your town are going to be different. So it's very hard to spoil anything. I think like you said, it's all about the experience that you cannot really A spoiled that yeah. Yeah, it's all about like what you do with what you get. Yes. Yeah for me. I guess I don't think sharing advice is too much of a spoiler and I guess the thing with that makes in this is kind of a bigger topic than Animal Crossing maybe but I think like what makes humans themselves unique to other creatures on the planet is that we can record information and pass it down. Essentially. Yes. I like we have writing and words and I guess in this case typing and the internet and so I think like you're able to easily share advice with players on like how to get certain items. If and you know, of course the one constraint there is like some people just don't want advice on stuff and they just want to do it on their own. Yeah, like respect that and that's fine. You know, I might be one of those on in a lot of cases like I just want to do something I don't Be told how to do it, but you know outside of that like if somebody asks, like you're totally free to just say something. Yeah, I guess in some sense that police's itself from being a spoiler. But yeah, because you know so many people go before they start playing Animal Crossing they go and look at the face guide. Like how do I answer these questions to get this face? You know? Yes, so I think there's a lot of like advice that I don't think is really spoiler driven. It's just like You know, it's kind of improving the Aesthetics of what you have. Yes, exactly. Very well sir. Yeah. Okay. My next question is is there any information you want to avoid about New Horizons? Honestly, just the music I mean whatever we getting the Traders is fine, but I don't want to really listen to it until I hear it in game. It's just going to make it a lot more special. So yeah for me just the music. Yeah, that's a good one, too. For sure. Mine is essentially the holidays. I just don't really want to see what the holidays are until I see them nice. All right. I had one more question for you on this topic and it is is there any information that you absolutely need to know about Animal Crossing New Horizons? Yeah, there is one thing and it's been bothering me from pretty much the very beginning when we saw the map in the size of the island. I really Need to know if we're gonna be able to expand it or how our new shops are new band is going to be added. I just want more details on that if we can get more information on a lot of other things I'm all for it. Right? But if I can only get one thing it's that how does the island expand or how did the shops get added to it? Yeah, that'd be a good one to cover. I think before it's out. Yes, so mine. I just absolutely need to know pretty much everything else. I mostly I want to know but I guess the one thing I really want to know is just like if there's any other new Greenery that we can plant around the island, you know, like will there be new trees because they just added some to pocket camp and I'm like yes, I want those trees. They're super cute, but you know me like I love seeing the different types of greenery and stuff that we can grow. So yes like the other day. I was just like we haven't really seen bushes outside of the two that are planted around the houses and Yeah, the Villager homes, you know, like those are the only bushes that we've really seen them. Like I'd really like to see more bushes more just things that we can grow. We have seen the new weeds and some new flowers. But yeah, I'd like to see more of that. Oh nice. Yeah. Alright. So let's go ahead and move into Hagen's Islander corner. And for those of you who don't know every week on the podcast. We asked our patrons on patreon a question and read some of their answers here allowed for you. So this week's question. What is your dream Crossover with Animal Crossing and Sergio and I have already talked about that. We have been keeping in line with asking them one of these questions from the I guess the hundred day countdown. So Sergio, let's go ahead and go back and forth on these. Do you want to start out sure thing in the first answer is by Nikki Coburn and they say I would also like a Pokemon crossover. It would be really cute and they have already done some Pokemon. It's tough in Pocket. Camp. Pokemon villagers would be great. Yes. Yes, I completely agree. Yeah, and you know like you have brought up Pokemon being a crossover already. I mentioned that we would touch this topic again and I'll say this was not the only comment about Pokemon in being a crossover with animal crossing. A lot of people said this so there are a lot of people who are really looking for in some Pokémon stuff in Animal Crossing. Nice. It makes perfect sense. Yeah, so Miss Alice said Ed would love in Animal Crossing and Studio Ghibli crossover mostly for furniture. There's there could be Totoro stuffed animals and Kodama statues. I feel like so many movies. There's a lot to work with and making a Ghibli inspired town would be relaxing and a lot of people really liked this comment to because once again Animal Crossing fans tend to be Studio Ghibli fans to Esther says like their Pokemon fan. So yeah, this is a crossover that makes sense for sure. Yes, there is It sounds really nice too. So rain says my dream crossover is with Final Fantasy XIV another game where you also gather at fish. They create houses in Harvest since it's an MMO. I would love to see the armor from the game as cosmetic items iconic iconic furniture sets and maybe even Mughal or Chocobo Villages. Yes, the chances of it happening are impossible. But I Can Dream and okay, so this isn't something we talked about About a lot Sergio. I know you're a huge Final Fantasy fan. I don't know if you know that. I'm a huge Final Fantasy fan. I play. Oh, I've played a lot of them that have been on Nintendo consoles. Yeah, mostly because I usually had Nintendo consoles, you know, so I saw this when I was like I have to grab it. We love Final Fantasy cool. So then the next answer is from Kiki Vulcan, and they said if you're talking dreams then Fantasy Life, it would be so cool to go around Gathering Fantasy Life. Like tables and crafting them using Fantasy Life themed minigames and this one's really cool because I'm a big fan of Fantasy Life and essentially when you pick a path like cooking or being a tailor those were the two that I mostly did their little mini games that you play as you cook and make clothes and stuff. So I think that would be a lot of fun for sure. It definitely adds a lot more to the crafting mechanic but thus far it doesn't seem like it's going to be Like a very mini game themed thing. It's going to be focused kind of around collecting the right materials to make things, you know. Yes. Yeah, but it would be cute and I would love it. Yeah. Nice. So bunny says I have always dreamt of an Animal Crossing Tamagotchi. It would be so cute. Imagine having Isabel with you to keep you company all day plus the Tamagotchi characters would fit well in an animal crossing game. They are so cute and colorful Tamagotchi has had a few Nintendo collaborations in the past, but I don't Russian is the one I need right now. They definitely fit well together. Yes. Yes. I want this for sure. It's just like, you know, it's a little pet in your pocket and it's fun. Yeah, I would like that. So honey ocean said Rilakkuma. I love this cute teddy bear. It's better. I love it's cute teddy bear aesthetic and it would fit perfectly the stop-motion show they made on Flicks is super cozy and relaxing which overlaps with Animal Crossing to I love collecting real akuma's in real life. Let me collect them in Animal Crossing or not. Yeah, that's really cool. I looked it up and saw a little picture and it's cute nice quantitative analysis is Starfox. The characters are already talking animals in there are already modeled types for each member of the team that is a really cool idea. They could even have the fake voices that they used to have. Don't be great. Yeah, that's one that's really fitting especially like if you make villagers of the characters, it's one that works. Yeah, cool. So the next answer is the last one and it's from Lake Mount and they said I would it would be fun to see a Legend of Zelda / Animal Crossing crossover something like four Swords Adventures, but with your favorite villagers following you around and helping you solve puzzles. I love this because this is is like going more in the Zelda Direction, you know, it's a lot of these crossovers were very in the Animal Crossing direction. Right? So this one is really cool to think of like Zelda being a game that's has Animal Crossing characters. Yeah. Yeah, and that would be really fun. There's one game. I don't know if it is out yet on anywhere, but and I forget the name of it, but it's got this really cute like Fox character and It's essentially like oh they look like link, you know and they're kind of adventuring. Do you remember what this game is called? I forget the name, but I don't think it's out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and the other unfortunate thing is I don't think it's coming to switch yet, right? Yeah. I think I just followed them on Twitter. So let me see if I can see what they were. They were called really quickly tunic. That's it. Yes. Yes. So look up to Nick it's this really cute little It'll Fox dressed up like link and it looks like it's coming to steam and Xbox and probably some other places. It's probably only a matter of time before it comes to switch because if you see this game, you're like, why is this not coming to switch? Oh my goodness. I'm just looking at this little video of the fox making a snow angel. It's adorable. But yeah, that'll be your Animal Crossing Zelda crossover for sure. Oh, yeah. Cool. Well, thank you all so much for watching and tuning into this episode of hakken and Animal Crossing podcast don't want the episode to end. Well, you can keep the conversation going by Nintendo switching over to our Discord just follow the link in the description and you can talk with other people who love Animal Crossing as much as you do including Sergio and me want to support the show in a bigger way and get your voice heard during the show visit patreon.com chewy plays in tendo. 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This is the first episode of the month and the year! That means we've got some new artwork for Animal Crossing New Horizons. This new art gives us a look at the day in the life of Savannah. We discuss the new art and ready a statement from Mateo, the artist. Find Mateo's art here: Website: marceneaux.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lord0f Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Lord_0f/  From there, we answer the 100 Day Countdown Questions for the week, the latest news we've gotten about Animal Crossing New Horizons, and whether or not we can spoil Animal Crossing. Finally, we end the show with Haken's Islander Corner and read some answers from our patrons. Time Stamps: 0:05 - Introduction 7:27 - Countdown to New Horizons Questions 26:43 - New Trailer and Box Art 38:18 - Can you spoil Animal Crossing? 51:42 - Haken's Islander Corner 58:27 - Outro Announcements  Support my channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chuyplaysnintendo  Join the Haken Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/wJTCMRK  Find Haken: An Animal Crossing Podcast on Podcast Platforms here: https://anchor.fm/haken-an-animal-crossing-podcast  Get More Nintendo and Video Game Content Here: http://chuyplays.com/  Follow me on... Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChuyPlaysNTDO Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChuyPlaysNintendo Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chuyplaysnintendo Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/chuyplaysnintendo Tumblr: http://chuyplaysnintendo.tumblr.com/  ---   Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/haken-an-animal-crossing-podcast/support 