Welcome to haken in Animal Crossing podcast your podcast dedicated to all things Animal Crossing episode. 113 is brought to you by kiwi one of our newest patreon patrons today Sergio and I are answering the most recent 100 day countdown to New Horizons questions Talking a bit about the pre-order bonuses and New Horizons merchandise and taking a A lot of mail from our post office so to begin. Hello Sergio. How you doing? Hello tree. I'm doing rather. Well, it's pretty awesome to be below the 70s numbers for the countdown. Honestly still hasn't hit me how close we are. I haven't let it hit me. I wanna realize it when it's like 20 or 15 days to go and it's gonna be crazy. How are you doing to the same? I feel like I'm really amazed that it's already under 70 when I'm just like, oh man. I don't know when it's gonna feel. Well, you know, I have like little kind of glimpses of it here and there and I'm just like, oh man, this is really happening. And then it's just a regular day for the rest of the time. But yeah, I'm really excited about it and something I forgot to say last week is hello everybody Welcome to the year of Animal Crossing because this is it like we're in 2020 now and this has been a long wait. I know I've talked about this a lot, but I feel like this wait. It started back in E3 2015. Yeah, and we got we got amiibo Festival which you know, it's something it might have been. I don't know it could have been better. But you know, we got what we got and now we're just about there. We're today is 68 days for everybody listening. It's 66 I believe right? Yes, cool. Well, yeah. So it's getting really close and I guess we'll just start off with answering the questions for the past seven days. So if you're unfamiliar with the show, we have a 100 day countdown going on and this started about I don't know I guess 34 days ago now. Yes for everybody listening, but we are going through Day 72 through 66. So these questions we asked daily on social media and our disk. Cord and everything but Sergio and I answer them for everybody here. So let's get started question for Day 72 was favorite furniture set. So surgery. I just read your answer. What is it? It is the same as your answer. It's modern would said yeah. Yeah, we both pick the modern would I mean we know that your place your mother era like, right which translated as would in Spanish for those who don't know. So naturally you like that good ol natural material, right? Yeah. Yeah, and you know, I also like that it kind of looks like chocolate. Yeah, it does kind of look like a nice little chocolate bar to yeah chocolates delicious. Yeah. I don't mind that. Yeah, I guess what I like about it. The modern would set is just like the different tone color tones of the would you know, and I really like the variety. You get when you customize it as well with Cyrus, you have kind of more of the plane. Look where it it's kind of more of the same color would you know and then you have one that keeps the wood colors like the different colors and it turns them into more like diamond angular shapes and all that's right. That's right. Yeah instead of like the stripes that we have in the modern would ya but ya know I love a lot of them and they All have like a different thing going on that I really like I think for a while actually probably to this day that upstairs in my new Leaf uses the modern would set but I think I have it all customized to kind of the basic look which that's probably confusing. So it's not like the standard look that it comes in but it's the more simplified single tone color for it right? Nice. Yeah, but I love that set. I think it's it was really refreshing to see like new furniture and Animal Crossing, you know, because I mean it's a game about furniture for at least the first three games and then it's all about the furniture you collect right? And it was I mean, they've added stuff here and there but New Leaf really gave us a huge update to what types of furniture we could find, you know, and I think that was one of the strengths of newly for sure. Because I see complaints about Pokemon. For example where everybody is let just like, you know, it's the same game every single time just with some new Pokemon kind of thing. And I mean some people if you really wanted to meet be mean you could say Animal Crossing's just the same game every time just with out new Pokemon because they didn't really add furniture sets. Yeah, but that's one thing that's got me really excited about New Horizons to That just like the new huge amounts of new furniture that we're going to be making it's exciting. Yeah. Yeah, definitely and as soon as I saw the modern wood sitting you lie, if I said yes, this is this is my main Furniture said that I'm going to be using and it is it is prominently displayed in my living room. Right as you go in I went without the customized look for it just the natural one and I just really think it goes really well with my data. In with my living room, it's perfect. Yeah. Yeah, and like I said that natural look to it. I love that look still and I had that for a long time before I decided to change it up at some point. But since I changed it up, I just don't play as much so I've never changed it back cool. So day 71 the question. This one is a really good one. And I mean, I'm surprised we said that much about the modern would set but we're going to have a lot to say about this one. I'm sure but day 71 the Question was what were your initial thoughts when you learned that you'd be starting New Horizons on a deserted island and Sergio. I'm really wondering what you kind of what you went through seeing that setting. Honestly, I was glad when it was all said and done. I was glad because I do like the beach so Beach setting and Island setting type of thing. It's really nice and I do like the change of theme, you know, the change of environment that were used to the Town for is the type of place. Now, we have an island if we want it to look like a regular 10, we can if we want it to look more like an island. It's already set. That way we can change it. So it was a little bit surprising. It was a little bit confusing and off-putting at first but overall after a little bit of time just getting used to it. I like to change I'm all for it. Yeah. Well, that's good because I know like going through that initial reaction to knew her. Horizons, you know, you're going to have different feelings about different things and I'll say for me at first I was just like yuck. I don't know about this island thing. But at the same time if there were Seasons I'd be good, you know, but essentially like I go back to this video a long time ago that are low made when he was I think it was his predictions for 2019 video where he was pretty he makes like very specific predictions about Year and what's going to happen but those videos are always really fun. So I watched it and all of the stuff he said for Animal Crossing at least the next game. I thought were not great. I didn't like it. But essentially he said, you know, it's going to be an island this time so he got that right, but he used the words like your Perpetual summer getaway kind of thing. I was just like no not in my Animal Crossing I don't want it to just be summer and I need the seasons like that's that to me is like half the fun to the game, you know, like being able to live the real time clock, you know, and then the seasons change as they change for you and yeah, I was not about that. So when I first saw the island pop up, I was just like, oh no, please no, please be winter and fall and something different, you know, and so Actually, they did show us a little scene from Fall a little scene from Winter and I was just like, okay, this is my Animal Crossing. This is this is the game. I'm ready to come back to because honestly, I don't know if I play it if it didn't have seasons. I mean I play it but I just it wouldn't be the same to me. It would still it would feel like the heart of it would be missing. You know? Yes Mmm Yeah. So for me at first I was just like, oh no the island, please. He's just don't be summer every single day for the rest of my life because I don't I don't want that. But yeah, those were my initial thoughts but now I guess just to follow that up. What are your thoughts now on the island? No, I'm definitely the old for it and I appreciate to change, you know, it's nice to change things. We have four games with a regular town. So now it's an island in like you said it's affected by whether all the seasons are here. So I think it's fine. Yeah. Yeah, and I'm excited about it because I think it's pulling off something very new and unique to animal crossing that I really appreciate and that's just like when we talked about this a lot before the game was out, but I said something along the lines of like I want to start in a place. That's a complete dump. You know, like I want it to be built up from nothing essentially and I think the island setting allows us to do that pretty Naturally and easily. So yeah, I'm all about that for sure. Nice. So Day 70 the question was design a new villager species. And this one I've fallen off of the drawings. It didn't take long because it's essentially just one time that I drew something so I didn't draw anything for this one, but I guess I did come up with an idea and it's not a very great idea, but it's something that I know a lot. People want but I want bats. I want fountain at Fox faced bats specifically because I think they're adorable. They're really cute and I guess it just a lot of people when they bring up this idea. They go toward having like nocturnal animals in that sort of thing. I'm gonna ignore that. I don't think they need to be nocturnal. I think they can just be out at whatever hour of the day. They want to be out like other villagers, you know, and the one thing that I would change about them though is instead of sitting on Things they hang upside down from trees. It's awesome. Because I mean obviously right. Yeah. Yeah. So what about your villager Sergio cool? Well, I have this idea. It's sort of like a subspecies. I wanted to add panda bears to the game. I know we have Chester he kind of looks like a panda but he's technically a cup bear cub. So I want to have an actual panda bear species. They can be different ones, you know bigger smaller ones. In at least one of each personality. So I just want a lot of actual panda bears. I think it's possible. There's a lot of variety they could do there. So I'm all for that. Yeah pandas are really cute. I had Chester in my town for long time on and eventually I let him move because he was in the exact spot. I wanted to put like a lighthouse or a windmill and I feel bad because I had didn't actually ever put a lighthouse or a windmill there. There's another item there right now, so So I think I need a fix that swap with them out and just make sure that Chester is you know, that's going to be placed there for Chester by is like to remember. Yeah, exactly. The Chester Monument Lighthouse is what it's going to be officially called. Yeah. So the question for day 69 was your favorite pocket Camp Fortune Cookie, and I'm really interested. And what you're going to say Sergio because you haven't been playing this game for a bit. That's right. And you know, honestly, it's a silly answer for me. I don't really like any of the cookie ties because they look they look artificial. They don't look like a cookie that I would want to eat. They look like they're painted on and I wouldn't want to eat paint. So I'm going with the Pom-Pom Perrine cookie. That's one of the Sanrio character collaborations. And if you look at it, it kind of looks like a cookie and half of it is dipped in chocolate. It looks really tasty I would eat. That one so that's the one I'm going with. Yeah, I guess I didn't think about that like it should be an edible cookie, right? Yeah because you know the character you watch them eat it. There's a whole thing. Yeah shows them doing that. So hopefully they're not just eating paint. Yeah. Yeah. My personal favorite is Apollo's Cinema cookie and it wasn't deaf. It definitely wasn't based on what it looks like because it looks like you're probably eating paint on this one, too. But it was based on the items that I got. It was essentially like this really big screen kind of TV / theater screen, you know? Yeah and it's a very it's something that I really really want to see and you Horizons but thus far there hasn't quite been evidence for it, but it is a very long piece. So it's like a one by four I believe and or maybe even longer than that like 1 by 5 or something, but it's a very long piece of furniture and you know, the one thing that has been kind of remaining true in previous Animal Crossing games is item sizes tend to range from 1 by 1 to 4 to 2 by 2, you know, so like the biggest items would be a two by two kind of square. But like I want to see a 3 by 3 lengths items era, you know, like something bigger something longer. So this screen does that but then also it All of these really cute like Theater seating and one of them has popcorn in it and it's really cool. All the other has like soda and I'm just I so I made my whole downstairs to my camper a home theater. So everybody who comes in can just watch a movie with me. It's pretty nice. Nice. Yeah. And so I mean like if I'm not doing any work for chewy plays or hakken or you know, just recording videos and stuff. Like usually I'm watching something. NG which cuz I love watching. Thanks. Yeah. So that's my favorite day 68. This is for us today Sergio new leafs fortune. Cookie. Nintendo items cutesy or tacky. What do you think? I think they're cute overall, but I agree with your comments if they are overused to anyone had them and personally I didn't want them in my home. I just store them in the museum because like we said there. They're everywhere. Everyone has them but in a way, I think a lot of people also have them in the museum. They don't really use them in their homes, I guess because when we play Animal Crossing we want our homes to look like the ones we have in real life or like a fantasy type of location, but not really a Nintendo type that's more for like other games. So it's nice to have them for the people that want them but overall for the most part. I think most people really don't want them or use them. Yeah, and I think For me, it's like you were saying I feel like they're cute and I definitely liked them but they just become overused a lot of people as at least if you played around like convention centers and got like tons of StreetPass every single place that you went into would typically have like Nintendo item room, and I was like, I just want to see something different. Yeah, but Yeah, II feel like for me my experience with it was that it was overused and I saw it too much. But now I don't know I guess we'll see how I feel about it in this next game because I don't know if I'm going to see them a lot or if they'll be like feel like more rare items, you know? Yeah, they could add that you could always add new ones. I think if they do and I think they will we're gonna see them and it's going to be like, okay cool, and that's probably going to be it. We probably not going to You use them again unless it's a really really cool one but I feel like it's better to just have one or two of them instead of a whole theme because Animal Crossing has so many unique themes to it that I think we are all mostly inclined to just go with that instead of the general Nintendo ones. Yeah. Yeah, there's going to be so much that you can do that. We're probably not going to see a lot of the same things going on in everybody's place this time around. Yes. Yeah. Alright, so day 67 concerning York. Characters face. Do you answer Rovers questions with a guide or do you leave your look to fate? So yeah Sergio. How do you handle it? I use the guide. I don't know if we could be for I definitely didn't I started a new Leaf but I am going to hit New Horizons. He would need to unless we are able to customize ourselves from the very beginning. I think that's going to be the case, but it's important to me to look the way. I look in real life because Because it's it that's how I approach Animal Crossing. You know, this is me. This is my life on on an island. So I want to look the way I look. Yeah, I definitely use the guy no, no shame here. Yeah. I also use the guide typically, I guess when I first go through it and stuff because I knew I was going to reset I just kind of did whatever and saw what my face would turn out like, you know, if I just answered the questions the way I would and then after that I decided Of whether or not whether or not to use the guide and I definitely went with the guide. All right. So the final question for today is from day 66 or today for everybody your go-to hairstyle. What are you thinking on this one Sergio? So related to the previous question. It's pretty much what I have in real life and most of the time it's just a bus card that shorter my hair is the better. It's just better for our weather here and it's a lot easier. For headphones listening. So yeah, the shorter the better. Yeah, I tend to do the one that's buzzed on the sides and long on the top. Yes. Nice. Yeah. All right. So let's go ahead and move on to this next segment of the show and we're going to talk about the New Horizons merchandise and pre-order bonuses that have come up so recently if you've been looking around Twitter or seeing some videos pop up on YouTube from some people covering this I haven't really Talked about it too much yet, because a lot of this news already comes out while I'm at work and then I see other people already cover it. So I'm just like oh, yeah, it's up there, but I figured we'd talk about it here. So thus far we're seeing a lot of pre-order bonuses for the UK Europe and even like Australia and New Zealand and it wasn't until recently that we started seeing some stuff that popped up in kind of Japan that's more like merch that you can buy and You don't really I guess need to pre-order the game. So this stuff though like it is coming from Japan. So there is probably some like importing that you'll have to do to get some of it but we'll go over it regardless. But yeah, let's I guess I'll take you through this pretty quickly. So those far for pre-order bonuses. We've seen kind of some cake a slider keychains and Isabella, there's an Isabel keychain and a thomna keychain and they also have enamel Is that I don't know if those were orderable in Japan or if you would need to I guess pre-order the game for any of them, but they are an option. The other thing that came in at a pre-order bonus for the UK / Europe. There was some sticker sheets that had like some stickers of cake a slider Tom Nook Timmy and Tommy Isabel some villagers and those are like animal villagers and some flowers. And a tree as well and they had a pre-order bonus with a notepad that looked really cute. Yes, and I think the sticker sheet and notepad came together in one set. I forget where it was and then they had some New Horizons tote bags and a cleaning cloth. So kind of like a lens cleaner and a thing. So yeah a lot of those if you're in Europe, I think those are kind of your options with pre-ordering. So I'm hoping if you like one of them you can get Of them and then Australia New Zealand had a pre-order bonus. That was just one of the random key chains. So it was either the cake a slider the Tom Nook and the Isabel. So I'm going to try to put like pictures of these on the podcast if you're watching on YouTube so you can take a look and see if you like any of them. Oh nice. Yeah, and then before I go to you Sergio, I guess I'll just cover some of the new merchandise because I think we'll have a little bit more to say about behave. Since you know, they're ones that we could possibly order ourselves, you know. Yeah. So this is just Merch this doesn't you don't have to pre-order the game to get it but you could probably find a place to order it from Japan. I don't never done that so I don't know exactly the process but I'm sure somebody out there will be able to fill us in on that. But we have one thing that's very exciting is the new pop tart pattern. And for those of you who don't know there was a what we've lovingly called the pop tart. Aaron was this 3DS that came out the special limited edition 3DS. That was Animal Crossing themed and it had little kind of polka dots of different of the different charms. I guess of the animal cussing world. So everybody calls it the Pop-Tart pattern because the color scheme looks like a strawberry Pop-Tart. But yeah, I guess Sergio you've seen the new kind of Pop Tart pattern we've got yes, definitely. What do you think of it? I like it a lot. You know, it's traditional Animal Crossing Pop Tart, but with a new look and we kind of needed that so I like it. Yeah, and that's my thing too. Like I was looking at it and I was just like this is updated like there's some new things here. I think this is a really cool update to what we've already had but also like keeps that classic look and I think this was kind of what I was looking for for sure. I wanted something that captured the pop tart from before but updated it, you know, yes. Yes. Oh this new Pop-Tart pattern is featured on a switch light. Couch it is also there's also a switch / switch light over the shoulder carrier bag. So there's one pouch that will fit the switch better. There's one pouch that will fit the switch light better. There's also this what I like to call the switch lunch box and this is a carrier carrying case for your entire switch and accessories. So it'll hold the doc. It'll hold all the cables some games and the switch itself. So that one's a pretty cool one. I like It I might actually look into getting that one. And then there's some really cool like switch light back covers. There's some more outside of this Pop-Tart pattern, but I'll get to that but the Pop-Tart pattern has a switch light back up back plate kind of thing, you know. Oh nice Mmm Yeah, and then there's a switch stand. I actually have like a little stand that's just like this one, but it just isn't regular old black but this one has the pop tart pattern, so it's obviously cuter. Um, and then there's also like this tote bag of a nice. It looks like pretty nice like a nice quality tote bag and be believed were these all Horry. Yeah, I believe so. Yes. Oh then I feel like they're gonna come to the west then. Yes, they 10th. We tend to get a lot of their stuff here. So look be on the lookout for those if you're really interested in them. But anyways, if for General Animal Crossing merch, they came out with a whole line of Which light back covers that are Animal Crossing themed and some switch light cases as well. So nice little pouches to put your cases. It seems like they're very switch light heavy with this kind of options that they put out, you know, hmm, and this could mean two things, but I'll get to that then the last thing that they had was some switch Joy con skins along with like a cover for the switch and this is the regular size switch if you have that So Sergio, I did want to talk about how a lot of these items are switch light focused, you know, and to me this means this could mean two things. One thing that it could mean is that the switch light is not getting a themed console. So they're putting out like all of these back plates to kind of cover that you know, so like if you don't if you're not gonna get an animal Passing switch light maybe they're giving you some back plates to use instead and kind of still have that theme with you, you know, yes, the other thing it could mean is that we are getting a switch light thing and they're just giving you all of the switch light accessories to go even more all out with it, you know. Hmm. So what are you thinking with that? It's interesting. I was talking to a friend. I was we were discussing that I don't know about. Japan or Europe, but I believe in North America. The regular switch is very hard to come by nowadays. So if you're trying to buy a switch most likely you're going to run into the light and I mean we were kind of discussing maybe Nintendo's doing this on purpose. Maybe the light is not selling as well as they want in the kind of holding back stock of the regular switch, you know, because they want the light to sell and I think if that's the case they're going to have a limited edition Animal Crossing switch light. So seeing the Don't know it's surprising honestly, but it's nice to have options. I specially really like the accessories with the new like minty looking green popped our pattern. I really like that and like you said since their by hurry, I think it's very safe to say that we're going to get them if people wanted to to get them now just be in be aware that it could take a little while because it's shipping from Japan. So usually takes honestly about a month to get things here, but you could order from Amazon. On or for from eBay there are several several sellers that would sell you things from Japan. So if you really want them in time, yeah, I would say start looking now because it could take awhile to get here. Yeah, and you know, we're almost halfway through January at this point. So it's getting close. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So if there's anything you really want you can go ahead and get it. I'm still waiting a little bit though because I need to know if there's going to be Switch console. I just I want to know yeah, so I'm just busy waiting for that. But hopefully it happens. It's the one thing I've been that's been stopping me essentially from pre-ordering this game already. I just don't know what to order. All right, because we don't know if there's going to be a bundle and if there is it could have the game where it couldn't be could be physical digital. We don't know. That's the thing. Yeah, we gotta we had to keep waiting. Yeah. So we're still waiting. But if you all like any of this stuff go ahead and pick it up. It's pretty cool. Cool. So we've gotten a lot of questions lately on our Discord. So I thought it would be a good time to do more of a Post Office episode. So I've collected a lot of these questions for Sergio night to answer and yeah, we'll probably be focusing on that for the rest of this episode, but there are a lot of really good questions and I'm really excited to go through some of them. So Where'd y'all go ahead and read the questions and then we can go through and answer them. So the first question is from thunder buddy, and they asked what would you do to make the town bulletin board more relevant. So Sergio, where do you thinking with this? I was thinking of an idea to make it more relevant and at least in the sense of you wanted to go look at it every day and I thought of implementing something like a raffle. There's something like that in the Pokemon cafes. There's Some special battles that you can do once per day in each location in there's also one that will you check the Rodham at the Pokémon Center you can get like a raffle depending on the Pokémon numbers that you have and it changes every day. So it kind of encourages you to keep going back every day and it would be nice to have something like that on the bulletin board, especially if you can get rewards that are exclusive to that. It could be like the bulletin board series of furniture or custom. I think itís or something that encourages you to at least look at it every day and you might win something. You might not it probably wouldn't require you to write something on it. But you at least have to check it every day. That would be a nice little something. Yeah, that would be really good. That's like, you know, it could easily be turned into a Nook miles kind of goal. Like checking that bulletin board. This this many days in a row or something. Yeah, so that that could keep you you reading. I like that. I like that. That idea a lot because if you played the first animal crossing game population growing then you know that like all of the houses were essentially, you know placed around the bulletin board. It was easy to walk right out of your house and then instantly go through and see what the news was, you know? Yes, and but the other thing that it did that was really special and I feel it just hasn't made a return which is unfortunate, but I don't know how it would work. Rick but the one thing that made that one special is the scavenger hunts that popped up randomly where a villager would post something and say hey I buried an item in acre a five or something. So if you go to acre a 5 you could find something special if you found it, you know, if you manage to find it and the reason that worked is because the acre system in Animal Crossing kind of moved with you. You could physically follow the Acres because of how the screen move to each spot, you know. Yes so that because that was probably taken out because there wasn't really a way to do that anymore. At least. I haven't seen it on the new map. So it doesn't seem like things were being labeled like a through F or whatever and then one through five or six and so I don't the system just wouldn't work the same but I think it would make the bulletin board a lot more relevant if You knew you could go up to it and see like oh this villager has hid something for all of us to kind of hunt for that would be really cool to find so I think like giving yourself more kind of rewards for doing that would make it just feel more worth reading at least. Yeah. Yeah, I'd like that. Yeah, so that's kind of my idea with that and I think it just be fun. I love finding the random items in Animal Crossing. I think that yeah. A lot of the fun in the game, you know. Yeah and both of these ideas would be even something else to do every day. And I think any little daily activity they can add to the game. It's like it's a huge win in my book. So for sure daily things, this is great. Yeah. So the next question was from Atari Jinx and they asked have you noticed the orange bug net looks like it has an astro theme to it. It's orange and metal. I think her clothes look a little like a stroke. You and that watering can chewy said looks like a Fisher-Price can that looked like the kids theme applied to the watering? Can this makes me think that we can customize the look of our tools and Sergio? This is a really interesting idea. I didn't notice it that way but like when they put it that way I'm like, oh that does kind of make sense. So I'm kind of wondering if it makes me wonder if we can customize more things according to like a different Furniture Series. So yeah. I was wondering what you thought about that. Yeah, I'm definitely with you. I hadn't noticed that too. It kind of feels like oh, you know, we're just going to be able to craft different versions of the item and different tiers of them and they just going to look a little bit different which would make sense. But if we are if they have that like a normal progression in the look of the different tiers for the tools, but if we're also able to customize them and apply them to like the toy set or the blue the green said the modern wood. Everything all my goodness, that would be amazing because we're gonna be able to customize every different tier of the tool to our style the way we want them to look. I feel like that's going to add a lot of personality in a lot of variety to our towns is every something else to make it. Look the way we want. That's that's that would be amazing. Yeah, it would be really cool. Yeah. I mean, I also think it's just interesting to think that it would be customizable for tools for sure just because Was yeah the tools have always looked the same they've always kind of been the same thing where it's regular tool silver and gold at least since they added the silver of I think in the first game only regular and gold existed. But yeah, I think it's a cool idea. I wonder if it'll play out like that, but that's a good catch for sure. So what were you going to say and you would also encourage us to you know, try different looks for the tools because once we get for example, the golden fishing rod, that's pretty much all we going to use But if we're able to customize the looks of it, we might want to change it. I don't know every week or so and just have a different look for different season or different event or something. Yeah. Definitely. Yeah, I'd like that. So lampshade asked what improvements would you make to the fossil system digging identifying and donating it was I was thinking it would be neat to have a new special character visit once a week and archaeologists building museums and researching across the world. Old you can interact with him or her once and he either gives you more Bells than normal for specific fossils of the weeks enough to hold onto or special Fallout fossils or archaeology archaeologist themed furniture or he could act as some of fossil wonder trade of fossil wonder trade with random Islanders across the world and it says the fossil was donated by that person in your Museum or something. I haven't thought of so, yeah. II guess I remember seeing one thing that J VG s Jeff wanted to change and if you don't know him, he's one of the just like longest-running Animal Crossing bloggers out there. His towns have been existing for a very long time at this point. So he's very cool. But he in one of his recent videos said he would really like to see us be able to identify our own fossils. So that would be interesting but me personally I'd Really focus on the finding them aspect, like maybe we can find fossils underwater or something and you can add a see fossil exhibit. For example all okay. Yeah. So that was my idea. What do you think of that nice know? I like all of lamps ideas and I like your ideas. Well everything they can do to improve the fossil system would be great. My idea is you know, eventually we find all the fossils and that's kind of it. So we just sell them or give them away to friends and Can still do that but I have an idea to add more value to this and I was thinking maybe if you keep getting the same fossil several times eventually you get the perfect perfect version of that fossil. I'm thinking I'm just throwing a number out there. Maybe after you get the same fossil 50 times you get that perfect version of it, you know that's gonna take a while but it's it's something we would look forward to doing, you know, we have already our collection, but now we're tracking which ones are close to being perfect. That'll be a nice little incentive. I think yeah, that would be kind of bring some different value to the Future fossils that you find rightly blathers could say oh this one's even better than the first one we found. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I like that too. So Sasha 2020 asked how would you improve the museum bringing the observatory back is something that people really want but what else how would you improve the Bug fish? Fossil art rooms? I adore the museum and that's why I think it would be fun to see. Being improved. So what are you thinking for this one Sergio? Okay for this one. I mean it's gonna take a lot of work for the developer team in the translations and also for bladders, but I think it would be up to it because it would promote the museum. So I have two ideas what the first one is that bladders would give you a random description for a bug or a fish or a sea creature. They're going to be random once every day and it's going to be like little actual fun facts about the the items in the museum in they're going to be factual. So they're going to be true in they're going to be random. So it's going to encourage you to go to the museum at least once a day. So you get a couple of cool facts about what's in there the second one. It's a little more involved than that. It would actually be bladders doing like a little skit or like a presentation for the fish or the fossil. He would actually wear lined up bug or a fish costume just to make it like more exciting, you know, and in sizing for people to visit the museum, so maybe this could work in tandem he Have the little scaling he could give you the facts about the fish the bug dark bees are everything that's in the museum. So it would be random it would be again something else to basic daily another reason to go to the museum. Yeah, and you know the kind of gives me a thought to like what if you could hire him as like a tour guide and maybe he'll tell you some different stuff about everything as you pass by and maybe who won't show everything in a single day. Like he'll focus on certain things each day. Yeah and kind of give you some new information. Nation as you go, yeah, exactly good. We know he's an expert at all this stuff for sure. Yeah, of course, especially the bugs. Yeah. Yeah. I like that for me. I said I'd give us some different options to upgrade the museum and change the layout of how you display your findings. I I think we attended just have all of the same Museum, you know. Yeah, and so like once you've seen one of them you've kind of seen all of them. So there's really no not a huge reason to go into a frenzy Museum unless you're just interested in what they've caught or what they're missing, you know, yes, but outside of that I'd also like it to keep records on like sizes because like a new Leaf all yeah, it would show what size something you caught was but it just wouldn't you couldn't ever find that information again? And so I think it'd be really fun to keep trying to beat the record in the museum and you know donate the biggest sea. Bass that was ever caught, you know, yeah, so I don't know. I think that would be fun and it also gets you back into donating to the museum a lot longer than just like you donated at once you're done for now, you know forever essentially. Cool ice. Hmm. So the next question was from Clare and they asked what if Isabel is a real estate agent in the picture. It looks like she's showing fuchsia around the town. Maybe she promotes the island as and tries to get people to come to the island. And yeah, what are you thinking for Isabel Sergio? Yeah. Actually that's a really good idea hadn't really thought about it in it makes sense. It would be nice. It seems like she might be trying to get more people to the island. And it I feel like that's something Isabelle would do. Only concern for people that really like Isabel and they would probably want them in they would probably want her in their Island, you know, mostly daily on a daily basis, but I feel like if she's working to get people in the island. She's probably not going to be around that much. She might only base hit like once a week or so that might make her a little more meaningful like a special character, you know, kind of like AK, we only seem to see him once a week. So it's about could be like that now and I guess if she's okay with it, you know, we should be okay with it. Oh, yeah, I still want to see her more though. Yeah for me. I said it does it look like she's wearing you know, the classic uniform now at this point there their island T-shirt If you can say so it does look like maybe she was hired by Tom Nook and I've no idea what she's going to be doing for him. But I imagine she is very helpful with getting new residents situated. So, yeah, she I mean she handled us moving into our new Leaf where That very well, so I'm sure she'll be able to handle that everybody going into their Island. Yeah, definitely soku asked what do you think about the new young beaver special character? Do you think chip has been replaced or does fishing have a new mechanic that needs a new special character? And I think it's definitely that last one I think fishing has a new mechanic that needs a new special character. We do see him fishing of course, so that's kind of where that That idea comes from but they added the new bait feature, you know and perhaps it plays a big role in fishing that it requires a bait shop. So yes, that's kind of my thinking with this character, but I don't think he's a replacement for chip. No, definitely I agree. I he doesn't need a replacement. I really hope he's not getting replaced. I agree with you that a bait shop would be very nice for cheap Junior. I guess we could call him for now, and I'm thinking if we I've chipped jr. In we already had Timmy and Tommy it will be nice to finally start seeing some of the younger versions of the special characters. They could either help in the shops, or they could have their own unique shops or like we kind of we're hoping the other episode maybe they could just be regular villagers in they're just going to be around your Island and they're just act like normal regular villagers introducing those special species as regular builders. That would also be very nice. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. I'm super down to see like more siblings and children and other people I guess animals related to the characters. We already know. Yeah. Yeah. So the next question is from honey oceans and they asked what if part of our Island expansion is actually being able to reach smaller and nearby Islands to decorate on one hand. It would be cute to have different mini islands with their own themes. But on the other I'm not sure I'd prefer it over what we Originally thought Island expansion might be what are your thoughts? And which do you prefer? What are you thinking Sergio? Hmm. That's very interesting. I do hope there's a way to expand the island regardless of how it is. I just really want to be able to expand it. If there is a multiple Island system my first and biggest concern is how easy and quick it would be to go from one little island or from your main island. I guess to the the smaller ones around it. I hope it's quick if it's a Little you know, if you have to go to the place where dodo Airlines is and you have to wait a little bit between travel that might make it not too enticing to do, you know, it sounds like a little a little bit bothersome, but if it's nice and easy if it's maybe just Bridges all over the place, but they look nice. They look like an actual natural way to expand the island. I'm all for it. The more room. There is the more special locations. There can be a mold for a bigger island. Yeah. I think I would. For expanding but I'm kind of opening up to the idea of different Islands being around. Yeah, I just feel like it makes it a little bit easier. I guess to handle it makes it a little bit easier to grasp because some people might be like, it seems a little weird to expand your Island, you know? No, yes, so and we're already kind of seeing like another Island pop up where Harvey is like off in the distance. So yeah, it's starting to look. Look more and more like islands are going to do some different. They're going to be different islands that do different things, you know, yes, but at the same time I'm like when has Tom Nook ever turned down and making us pay for something else, you know? Yes, like I feel like once we paid off that first loan he's going to be like, yeah, so you can pay off another make your house and maybe pay off this big loan for a big island, you know, the second floor to your Island. Yeah. I just feel like that is in Tom. Xcode at this point so I I feel like I have to happen nice. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, so she's away said do you believe that Isabel foreshadowed New Horizons when she said that she wanted to go to the beach. However, since she was the hardest worker and you leave she asked for seashells since she could not go and for me I said, I think the developers are just constantly coming up with ideas for Animal Crossing. There are things that they just Can't fit into the game if they want it to eventually be done so we can play it, you know. Yeah, so I think you can see a lot of the ideas show up from spin-offs and like they're making their way into New Horizons some things from each spin-off game I think is making an appearance. So I wouldn't be surprised if there were plenty of ideas that were sparked during New Leaf, you know. Mmm. Yeah that makes sense. It's a it's an interesting idea. I think if that's the case. Definitely gonna say something about that so that we can all make the connection, you know, officially in a way so if that's the case and I think it would be a very nice a nice approach to it. I feel like if they acknowledge it and she something she said something about it. Yeah, that's a very good catch. Yeah, it could have happened. So gamma game said do you have any thoughts or once for early game progression like villager Milestones to unlock features like the town Tree Town Hall shops Etc or some set playtime unlock system. So what are you thinking for this Sergio? I'm thinking for the most part. They're going to stick to the traditional way of unlocking things which is by the number of days that you play the game and that's nice because you know, everyone is going to be playing pretty much at the same Pace in the beginning. We can only play one day every day, right but I feel like if they can add a little more unlockable items or things depending on how Many hours you're playing that would be a nice little extra. You know it since this would be for people that have a lot of free time in the beginning. It's probably not going to be the biggest thing the biggest craziest feature to unlock but it would be a nice little extra something else to keep track of we have however many days were playing but also the hours could play into that. So if we two ways to unlock things, I think that would be nice. Yeah. Yeah, the traditional a definitely seems like you know, that's the normal thing to do. Do with animal gassing and I kind of went that way to where I guess I just always treat the new shops and like shop expansions is kind of that early game progression. Yes. I think it's like more things pop up. You kind of see like how special the game becomes after putting some time into it, you know. Yeah, so and it'll feel especially more. So with just that we start with nothing we essentially are going to have the one shot that Tom Nook runs and two villagers and yourself. And then it's going to grow from them, you know, so I think it'll be cool to see just like how much they can grow it from there. And I think it'll be a lot for sure. Oh, yeah. So something said and that's your name. It's something that what's the verdict on the money rock? Is it cheating by giving basically free money or is it a good part of early game start up and you know I said I didn't even think of it in terms of cheating or you know, just Making it easier for us to get money at the beginning of the game. But personally I just love it because it's a quirky part of Animal Crossing and like it's quirky and magical and that's kind of the fun things about Animal Crossing is just like yeah, you know, you're already moving into a town where you're the only human and everybody else is animals and just add the fact that you can grow money trees and hit rocks and money falls out of them and you know even money falls out of trees if you shake them. So yes, I just love that. Is these little weird places that Bells come from and it's it I think that's magical so I don't think it's cheating. I don't think I don't even consider it like a fun startup thing. I just think it's fun. Yeah. Yeah for sure. I don't think he's cheating either and you know, it's cool because it's optional and it's another one of those daily things to do. I also like that sometimes, you know, depending on your luck or the items like the lucky items if you have any you might get more rewards you Just get regular belt. So you might get a special gemstones which eventually give you more. So that's nice. One thing I would change is that maybe it would be better. If you don't have to like do the the Diggy spots around you sort of like to set of like a barrier so you can hit the money Rock perfectly without the bounce-back effect. So if they could do it so that you could still hit it all the times in a day. But without setting up that very I feel like they'll be like a more natural. To it. Yeah. Yeah, you're right and I totally forgot that was a thing too, but I did kind of naturally every single time where I just dig holes behind me. So I don't have to you know, I don't get pushed back with each hit. Yeah. So yeah, that's pretty funny. Yeah, I like that. But I wonder if we'll get an update to it. I will see because right now we know that we're going to be hitting essentially materials out of rocks this time around. So yeah. Who knows if it's going to make a comeback, but I hope it does. Yeah. Yeah, so we got a question here from Islander Tab and she said chewy, what do you think about the paid DLC for Pokemon? And do you think there will be something similar with New Horizons and I realized she said Jimmy, but we can both answer it because we're both here for me. I think the paid DLC is in terms of Pokemon good and bad and here's kind of my In behind that one, I think it's good because I know that there are a lot of people out there who just kind of by a new generation of Pokemon, you know, like that's all they get they don't buy the next game in the series like when you have your red and blue there's always that yellow that follows, you know, yes, so I like that instead of buying a full new game to get like all of these little updates and stuff. You can just add to Or existing game right but there's also that small amount of people that actually doesn't buy the the game when it first comes out and they only by the next little updated version, you know, Platinum is one that comes to mind or Emerald is one that I actually did like I didn't play Oh Ruby or Sapphire. I just bought Emerald because I was already like late into getting Ruby or Sapphire like my brother got a sapphire and I was like Man Pokemon I miss this and so I went out and got Emerald version, you know, right nice. And so there is there's that's not going to exist essentially. Like if people want that version of it like they're going to have to buy that original one plus the DLC to get all of that which would still come out to more than they would have if they had just gotten that third version, you know, it's right. So that's what I think about it in terms of Pokemon. But I think the vast majority falls into the they've bought that first game already and appreciate that. The second version is a lot cheaper, you know, that's true. But do I think there will be something similar and you Horizons kind of I think like Nintendo has been dipping their toes into DLC. They are putting it out for a lot of different games. Now, at least I paid DLC they always kind of did free things. For but I think now they have like a plan to do substantial DLC packages. We've seen it with Zelda Splatoon just like tons of games. We didn't know would that would happen to but yes now that it has and you know, we've kind of seen a big DLC update to Animal Crossing before it was free then I don't think it'll be free in the future. Yeah. Yeah. So what are you thinking Sergio? I'm completely with you, especially on the Pokemon side. It's very surprising to me that they are not said so quickly. It kind of points to me that they were working on it before the game was finishing. That's a little disappointing. But personally I can never say no to Pokemon. So I already pre-ordered both of them. So well good. Yeah, but definitely I think Animal Crossing is gonna get something like that. I mean if you look at games even something like fire emblem has the LCN the way even Luigi's Mansion 3 and that that's still really surprises me. That again like that is going to have DLC. So I think Animal Crossing definitely is going to follow suit and I feel like like those other examples that I mentioned pretty much anything except Pokemon. You can tell they are working on it either as soon as the game is finished or even afterward and I think that's going to be the same with Animal Crossing so it might take a little while before we see whether working on but when we see it, it's gonna it's gonna it's gonna be DLC that makes sense and it's gonna expand our playtime in our the value of our Island. I'm looking forward to that for sure. Yeah, and I just totally forgot about that Luigi's Mansion DLC. Yeah. I know. It's all like kind of what's the word for it? It is multi player DLC, which is also very strange because they've guess for the most part just done story DLC thus far that's right. Like that was the case with Splatoon and Zelda, but I guess they're just trying out different things now. Yeah. Yeah. So the next question is from Flair and they asked how do you plan to? Decorate your house and you Horizons and when I saw this question, I thought it was pretty funny because like I haven't thought about decorating my house and your eyes and I've strictly kind of been thinking about decorating my Island, you know, because that's like the big new thing that we're going to be able to do so that has been where my focus has been but that said I do really hope they add some things from happy home designer. I want the rugs I want the feeling is Items, I want I'm glad that we already have the half grid placement. So that's a huge thing. But I think for the most part with my homes and Animal Crossing I go for more of a cozy look for sure. But what are you thinking Sergio? Nice? Yeah. I'm also thinking the same type of rooms that I usually like to have. You know, I like that main room to be like a cozy inviting living room and then I have a bathroom a kitchen in my own bedroom this time around I'm probably gonna switch them. Like instead of the bathroom be on the left. Maybe I'll have it on the right this time around. I also have like a game room or in an entertainment room in the basement and then a storage Cellar so I'm probably going to stick with the same rooms, but I'm going to change the location in definitely going to change the theme the items that the style that I go for each one. Yeah, and that's that's my plan right now. That's fine. I'm glad you have like plans for different types of rooms to make it like a home, you know. Yeah. Yeah. I hadn't even thought that far so your Way ahead of me. I'm just like I hope we can do these things before I decided right? Yeah. All right, so we have one more question and it's another one from island or Tab and she asked chewy and Sergio. There's been some discussion about this on Discord, but I'd love to know what you guys think now that we are seeing bundles for sale for the switch / switch light not being a special edition. Does it change predictions on there being special edition consoles for me? I said I think there's still time to hear about a special edition console. I mean, they just have to make animal crossing Joy con. They have to please what do you think Sergio then they'll be great for sure. I'm with you. I think there's still time I think if there's going to be any Limited Edition full system is probably gonna be the light in honestly. I kind of warming up to the idea of - which library for I mean for sure. I'm going to wait until March. Until the very last second. I guess it would be the day before or the day of the release when they couldn't answer. I mean they could even announcer for like the holidays, you know, but I guess I'll be waiting longer than that then yeah, that's true. There's a long wait, but I'm glad I mean like it's if they put out an animal crossing switch light. I think that's honestly going to be the what gets you Sergio? Yeah. Yeah, cool. So thank you everybody for sending us some listener males. Into our post office on Discord if you are interested in sending us some mail to feel free to leave a comment on YouTube tweeted us and on Twitter and pretty much anywhere you can find a send us something and I'll if I remember because sometimes I forget about these things I'm like, oh man and don't be afraid to just give me a little nudge because I need a lot of those with all the stuff. I'm always thinking about but yeah, send us anything wherever you want and will fit them into the show next time. We do another one of these post office. Roads nice, but let's go ahead and close out the show with our classic Hankins Islander corner, for those of you who don't know every single week on patreon. We asked our patrons a question and read their answers out loud here. This week's question was what were your initial thoughts when you learned that you'd be starting New Horizons on a deserted island. So Sergio and I have already answered this but we're going to go ahead and read these answers back and forth Sergio. Do you want to start? Yes, definitely the Sensor is by Miranda and they say I was so excited. I love camping in real life and I'm excited to do that in New Horizons. I love that starting from scratch would be able to extend how long it will take until I feel like I'm done with the game Ah, that's a very good point. We're starting with so little just two villagers. That's it. Only one shop. Like I said, so for sure this is going to add value. Yeah. Definitely there's just so much that we can do from right the it from the get-go, you know? Yeah. Yeah. So t with the T said or t with t said I was glad to see a refreshing take on the game. I believe the Animal Crossing team is overall very good at continuously improving each installment. I'm always happy to see them try new things. Yeah, and I agree with this to like at this point. We've played how many different Animal Crossing games. I think it's really nice to see one that's as different as this, you know, yes, definitely. Yeah nice, so, Library says I was just excited about any news by the time I could start to judge the new features more fairly and in-depth the details from the tree house where available in everything sounded great. That's true. We got we got those three has details very soon after the first reveal. That was nice because I remember a lot of us were kind of concerned but then the tree has just like put us at ease. Definitely. It was great to see. Yeah. I do think they said like a lot of what we needed to know to make us Us feel at ease for sure. So I'm glad they had the tree house after and it seemed like they planned it out very well. They know. Yeah, I think they had an idea of how we would react to some stuff and they handled it very well. Yeah. Alright. So the next answer is from Taos Ski and they said I was just worried that we weren't going to have different seasons at first it looked like it only featured summer, but I'm glad they cleared that up pretty quickly or else I would be losing my mind waiting to see if we could Snowman no, that is exactly where I was. I was just like not about a seasonless animal crossing that that's the one change that never needs to happen. So I'm really glad that we're going to have seasons. Yes. Definitely. We need them. It just goes hand-in-hand with the real-time aspect of it. Yeah, we definitely need them. So that's good. Yeah, so I got this is when I saw the initial trailer, I was kind of confused and happy. I'm not sure if it was even a Mainline game. Oh, that's a good point. But then the Treehouse came along and I saw where they were going with New Horizons. I'm so excited to build something from the ground up in to see how creative people can be by making their Islands their own. That was a very good point because there's like a in that time lapse version of the first trailer a friend and I was thinking wow this kind of looks like a mobile game. This doesn't really look like a fool Main Line AC game, but eventually I in the tree As you can definitely tell it is yeah, definitely and it's good. It looks great much more than just a mobile game. Yeah cool. So the next answer is from but elephant. She said I honestly don't think I had an impression directly about it being an island setting I was too I was too surprised and excited by even seeing the news that my brain was just like yes. Yes. Yes after the shock wore off. I still was just excited about how pretty the game looked. And the fact that we can place Furniture outside personally, I'm freezing all the time in western Canada. And I don't mind the fact that I can be on an island when I'm spending my life on Animal Crossing New Horizons. I'm just happy we have all the Cozy Seasons. Yeah. So for some people living in the cold, it's probably pretty great to know that your you've got an Island Getaway during that time. Yeah. Yeah, definitely cool. Say would you or says I was really hoping for an expanded large Forest town with access to new something like Bloom areas. The island was the getaway area that we could decorate in go to but not we we lived so it's rare to see that as the main place. We live also. That means not train station, but I don't know despite being an island as long as it is bigger overall. I doubt it would feel that different from normal still the beach rivers and trees, but what's the island we get to go in This one the mainland that's true. And I guess that goes in part with the speculation. We were talking about earlier. There's got to be different like sub Islands. They could even have a slightly different theme to them a different feel because definitely the island for like a different place from our regular Council. I really hope there's something like that here as well. Yeah, that's true. It's just gonna I remember what Nina was kind of saying about her changing heard whole Direction with her town because it didn't seem If it like the Island theme, you know, yeah, so yeah, some people might have changed their mind based on that too. Cool. So the next answer is from Spirit of ace and I think this is the last answer that we've got but they said I was really confused at first because for the first half of the reveal trailer, they actually made it look like it was something completely different to what we were used to and then when the screen goes black shortly before the music kicks in again and reveals the tent that's when I got really excited because that's when I was for sure. I was sure it was a proper Animal Crossing game and also the part where you see the villagers talking in the snow. Yeah. I mean this game is really doing winter very well. It's like I think winter for a lot of people has been the least favorite historically but now it seems like it just looks too good. Yes. Yeah. This is the best-looking winter we've gotten in awhile. So it's pretty exciting to see yeah, I agree it. It makes it inviting it makes it nice and cold but exciting. Yeah, who would have thought that winter would look the best on and I yeah, that's true. Yeah, it's pretty funny. All right, everybody will thank you so much for tuning in to this episode of hakken and Animal Crossing podcast don't want the episode to end. 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Today, Sergio and I answer the next round of questions in the 100 Day Countdown to Animal Crossing New Horizons. There were a lot of fun ones in this round. From there, we go over some of the pre-order bonuses that have appeared in the UK, Europe, and Australia. There has also been some new Animal Crossing themed Switch Merchandise shown off. After that, we take a lot of mail from our listeners and answer their questions. Finally, we close out the show with Haken's Islander Corner. Time Stamps: 0:05 - Introduction 19:40 - New Horizons Merchandise 26:06 - Listener Mail Q&A 1:00:15 - Haken's Islander Corner 1:06:59 - 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 