Welcome to haken in Animal Crossing podcast your podcast dedicated to all things Animal Crossing episode. 107 is brought to you by Agatha one of our newest patreon patrons and Elite four-member. Just kidding today Sergio and I are going to talk about the latest artwork for hakken. Imagine a world where Animal Crossing came out on the Wii U and and end the show with some predictions regarding an animal crossing direct so to begin. Hello Sergio. How are you doing? Hi, Chuy. I'm doing I'm doing great. It is now December. Like I said, we're closer and closer to more info New Horizons into the end of this year in this decade. Yeah. They're this is a big month. It is the final month. It's closing out a lot of things not only the Year this year, but also the decade you're totally right and So many really is we've got some fun ideas for the show the rest of this year. So we're hoping you all enjoy these but this one Sergio you came up with a really great one as far as like imagining a world with an animal crossing game on the Wii U that you know, because we never got one. There's not a single animal crossing game on the Wii U. Yeah, that's just a fact of life. But before we get too far, you also mentioned that it's December now, which means Means we have some new haken artwork to show off. And if you're watching this on YouTube If you clicked on this on your podcast app of choice, you probably noticed it except I did hear some people's have not been updating lately. It's strange. I don't know why that is an issue. I kind of had it myself. But you know, you can check out this art on the YouTube If you haven't seen it on the podcast or you know your podcast platforms, but this one was by Morgan. O'Brien and this piece is mostly his idea his creation that he thought of and he actually approached me. He's a listener of the show and this was a while ago to but he approached me and he's mentioned that he did Art and I do check out everybody's art when they do mention it and if I haven't gotten back to you recently it's because I've been very busy talking with with the artist that I'd already been talking with to do the final pieces for this calendar. So I apologize for that but I will get back to you eventually. So anyways, so this piece was a lot of his ideas came into this one. I only I simply provided a couple characters which you'll see Carrie right up front the kangaroo. I've always really liked her and then Claude in the back there. He's got kind of a Charlie Brown curl and I thought perfect they both have birth. Days in December as well. So I thought they would capture that. But as far as the villagers are no one specific there's a female villager in the back pushing a snowball and this villager in the Frontier Mail villager giving a present to carry and then up in a blimp or air balloon EC jingle, of course delivering presents to all the good little boys and girls of Animal Crossing. But yeah, this was all his idea. I've actually Lee got some notes from him, but before I get to those Sergio, what are you thinking about this piece? How do you feel? Oh, it's so good. Like, you know, you captures winter. It captures Christmas the holiday spirit in the holiday days and just it's really nice. It's very unlikely reminds me of winter in Animal Crossing. This is all there is and this is awesome. Yeah. Yeah. I really I love okay. There's one thing that I'm going to need in this new game, but the path It goes like toward that house. I love that. It's like kind of snow-covered. There's a nice little berm that's created to show that like people have worn down through the snow a bit to create a path to walk through and I need that I need to be able to do that in my Animal Crossing game. Like maybe we get big blizzards or something and then you're pushing through the snow and creating little path. So right I would love that. But yeah, it definitely captures that so here are some Some notes from Morgan and what he had to say about this piece and this is from him. So he said really had so much fun with this. Kerry was an inspired choice and the Heart of the piece. I feel a couple of extra details of included are below the snowmen represent family. The girl in the background is starting the final one Claude is approaching her with a cup of hot chocolate. The light of the house is on to represent all are welcome. The boy in the foreground features a darker skin. In tone, which I'm delighted to see is making its debut in Animal Crossing New Horizons. He's presenting a gift to carry these little Joey a reminder of The Wonder of Christmas for kids and the importance of keeping it a season of giving he has a backpack and he's traveling from afar for the holidays. It's kind of a mixture of elements from all the Animal Crossing games. Not one in particular. Hope you like it as much as I do and that it captures the sense of magic and wonder you were hoping for warm wishes send my best to Sergio and Jackie. So of course he says hello, Jaime. Yeah, I'm here. Oh, it's so good and so many good points that you might Overlook but it's so perfect it ties it all together. Yeah. Yeah, and I really love it. I love that the like every little detail has some sort of meaning but behind it, you know, and it just shows like how much of an effect or how much like Animal Crossing Really feel like life in that sense, you know because I'm excited to just be able to like mail letters to my villagers with presents and them and see if they put it in their house, you know. Yeah, so I think it's really cool. I really like and I really love the mention of like being able to choose our skin tones. That's something that's really important to me. I always like making mine a little bit darker, you know, and just to match me a little more than previous Animal Crossing avatars have matched me in. The past you know, yeah, so yeah. I really I really appreciate that. And yeah overall, it's really magical. I love the sunset in the back. It's got my favorite tree the cedar trees. That's always good. Yeah. Yeah, and and also, you know, I will say I don't talk about this too much but the holly bushes are some of my favorites too and you can see one on the left right in front of the snow people there. So it's a it's really nice to see them like Capturing everything that winter feels like an animal crossing. Yes. Yeah. Yeah it because you know, it does unfortunately in some games start to look a little bit Bland and everything, but I'm like with the lighting and all of the new HD assets of hap of New Horizons. It's going to be a beautiful season to play Animal Crossing. And yes, and I hope that like the piece the art Beach Shows there's going to be still some grass in your town and it's not all going to be covered by snow if they do that, which I really hope they do that's going to look even better. Yeah, that would be really great to like, you know, it would just show that you're like wearing through the the snow and then getting a little bit of grass to peek out underneath, you know, yeah, that's cool. So, yeah, like I said everybody this piece was by Morgan O'Brien they've done some great work. You can find them on Twitter at Morgan O'Brien art And on Instagram also Morgan O'Brien art and I'll have links in the description so you can follow them. I followed them and you can see his cute little family and I kept this one personal because he did like send me some great emails. I really loved talking with the guy but you know, he'd give me updates on his family. Let me know what they were up to and you know, his kids are playing Animal Crossing two and this just like that's the dream right thing having a family Of Animal Crossing players. I know I know some of our listeners are parents and everything and I really appreciate that. They're as excited to show the game to their kids as they are to play it. You know, it's yeah, it's a huge deal and just to like have some other way to connect with your family and you know, like it gives them a bit of freedom to do their thing. But at the same time like you live in the same town, it's kind of its kind of a lot of families end up. Being you know, yeah, they live near each other they come and visit and hang out and meanwhile, you get your own place to do whatever you want. So yeah, I really appreciated my emails with them. And yeah, I hope you all check out his artwork. It's really great. He I just retweeted one with a cake a slider kind of peace that he did and I was hoping you would see it Sergio. I retweeted it earlier today, but you might have been busy and ask. Or bunny one actually, so I retweeted both of those for you Sergio because you love score bunny love cake a flatter. Those are your like number two and one for you right now. I was like, which order did I say that Evan KK's always number one. I know that square when he's probably your number two, right? Yeah. Yeah. So yeah Morgan O'Brien aren't check them out on Twitter Instagram. I think he has a website to Morgan and Morgan O'Brien art.com. Yeah, so He's really nice person really makes Incredible stuff. So I want you all to enjoy what he's putting out there. Nice. Alright everybody. So we're going to move into our main topics for the podcast. And this first one is going to be pretty fun Sergio and I are going to imagine a world with Animal Crossing on the Wii U, which once again has never happened. There is no Animal Crossing on the Wii U as you all know not a distant the Sergio I tell me about this idea because you definitely came out it came up with it. Well in the way I did but I was inspired by your latest video where you covered everything that happened in this decade in terms of Animal Crossing and you know, it kind of made me realize I mean, they're really what if there had been an animal crossing Mainline game for the Wii U instead of just amiibo Festival, which does not exist. A convention. I mean it's a thing but it doesn't exist at the same time, which is pretty interesting. So it got me thinking what if there had been an Animal Crossing on the Wii U. I'm a nine-game. Why did would have been what it should have been in if you want me to I can start on what I think it could have been. Yeah. Yeah, definitely go for it. So I feel like if there had been a main line Animal Crossing game on the Wii U. It probably would have come out around 2016 which would have been. Been three years for since the release of new leaf on the 3DS in North America and in Europe, I feel like that's a good sort of middle ground for it and honestly all things considered I think it wouldn't have been like a brand new Animal Crossing game. We probably would have been like an expansion to New Leaf something like a new Leaf Plus. In fact, I feel like the features that we got in the welcome amiibo update. They would have been part of this new Leaf. Plus in the 3DS are nearly wouldn't have gotten those features. They would have saved them for the Wii U game. I feel like it would have been nice to expect, you know, HD graphics. It probably would have been 60 frames per second. They could have maybe added two more villagers in your town. So you could have had up to 12. Maybe the ten would be a little bit bigger not too much, but maybe at least a little bit at least two to add room for those two additional villagers, you know. And as well as faster loading times in a better more stable online connection because I feel like those are some issues that new Leaf had a little bit they were in game Breakers, but people did have those issues when they played the multiplayer. I feel like that we you would have fixed that. Yeah, and I also want to say like the Wii U also had kind of USB port so you could connect through a wired connection to so I guess I mean, it's not At the most necessary thing with Animal Crossing, but when it gets to the point when you're getting that little resetti screen, yeah where you've been disconnected. It's a bummer it kind of cuts the whole thing off especially because like getting to getting four people into your town you have to go through this animation three times and it's definitely like a loading screen that's hiding, you know. Yeah, but it's still like you have to do every single one. One of them individually and then once you finally have your four people off and you play for like 30 seconds and it cuts off that's when you're just like annoyed at the at the amount of time. It takes to play online, you know? Yeah it once everything is going well and everyone is in town. You're going to be too busy playing or chatting with each other to save and when you get the mr. Resetti in everyone lost their progress or whatever items they borrowed or Or God or bought it's all over it's gone. It's back to normal and it's a bummer. Like I said, yeah, you're totally right because I remember playing with a friend who's been on the show before Connor. He was on episode 3, but Connor he came over to my town and we were just swapping some items. Right and I think he came over about three times and we got disconnected three times after swapping items. And then as soon as we swapped on that like fourth one, we should have done this sooner. But as soon as we swapped eyes I saved and then I was like, all right, we're good we can explore and we'll still have what we were trading, you know? Yeah. Yeah, so it's a it's inconvenient and I'm hoping they do fix that for sure. Oh, yeah. I feel like they willing if there had been a main line game on the Wii U. I feel like that would have been you know, not something they would they would talk about because they don't wanna mention that the issues that new Leaf had what it would have been fixed for sure. Far as happy home designer. I feel like it would have still come out on the 3DS and it would have been a separate game, you know, the first spin-off to the series and the features that they added in happy home designer, especially for item placement using the touch screen and everything. That would have been done on the Wii U gamepad. Even the menus. It would have all been on the GamePad which would have been very nice to see I think I also feel like I'm evil Festival would have been just a minigame in this new Leaf. Plus if you will and since it's a plus to an existing game, I feel like Nintendo probably would have put the game out at $40 in the equivalent around the world instead of I don't think it would have been a full price game even though we would have gladly paid for all that. Yeah immediately. Okay. Okay. I mean 60 is already a low price compared to what I probably would they ask for it, you know? Yeah. Okay. So one thing I really like You mentioned here is kind of what was it about happy home designer still coming out on the 3DS. I and what will get to my timeline of how these events will play out. But I really wonder I guess my question is like would we have gotten as many spin-off titles as we did if Nintendo just opted to create a met another man. Online game versus like going the direction they have gone, you know because like you said this was based on my video that I made and just like looking back at the decade. I was like man like we didn't get too many like Mainline Animal Crossing games and by that we didn't even get to we got one. Yeah, you know and so like it's a very interesting time line where this game is moving away not not away from Mainland games, but more toward also, Putting out spin-off titles like because you know, we have games like Pokemon and Mario who like they put out spin-off titles so much of the year so many years are dedicated to them. Like if we think of the switch even now and think of all the Mario games that are on there. We've got Mario Kart, we've got Mario Tennis, we've got Mario Party. We've got Mario Odyssey, like there are so many Mario games on there and one of them is like a new New main line game so yeah what and I don't know. I think it's cool. I think it would still be cool to see spin-off. So I do like that your time line includes that happy home designer still a thing. It's good. Yeah, but I feel like you know the timing and you Animal Crossing gaming 2016 would have been really nice a lot of us got enough of new Leaf in about the two-year Mark so around 2015 and I feel like we would have been really nice to have So refresh your experience in 2016, like another town reason to start over if you will with a couple of new features, maybe I don't think they would have added too many. I think happy home designer would have come out in amiibo Festival wouldn't have it would have been part of this newly plus but also the timing would have work really nice for pocket Camp, which would have come out in 2017 like you did like getting a new Animal Crossing game a year before the mobile game. I think that would have worked if they could have tied them. Well, yeah. Yeah, that's a that's a good direction to go. So, what are you thinking like still happy home designer 2015 followed by whatever Animal Crossing. We you would be called and then pocket Camp. Yes. So an animal crossing game every year that when I mean, I really really nice. I mean I'm down I just sure go for it. Give me more Animal Crossing like and you know, I I mentioned in the video to like it just didn't feel Like to fans at least that it was time for spin-offs. It felt like it was time for HD animal cross. Yes, you know exactly and that was the battle there, but I'm like, yeah, but once New Horizons is out, like don't give up on the spin-offs like still give me that. Yeah, because I do really want to have like a constant feed now because you know Animal Crossing is like you play it for years like you can play it for years its intended to be played for a long period of time so a game like this That it doesn't need to come out every year. So when we do see it come out as spin-offs it just you know, it gives the true not true. I'd say but like really DieHard obsessed fans like us just more content to consume which is which is great. Yeah. Yeah, and I want to see them like play around with everything like, you know as much as I hate as amiibo Festival gets and as much as we joke that there was no Animal Crossing game on the Wii You I still think the idea of an Animal Crossing party game is great. Yes. I want that. I wish we had it, you know. Yeah, I Gotta Throw a little jab in there too and like on paper. It sounds more feasible to me to hit to have a party game based on Animal Crossing then Mario party. I mean Mario party has established now, but if you ask me which one made more sense to begin with I would have picked Animal Crossing. Yeah. Yeah like Mario party is very strange concept. Yeah, it goes from like I don't even know what the progression is, but we got Mario 64 totally changed the face of gaming, you know, this is a 3D platformer never been done before and then they're like, you know what let's make a party game and we're gonna be on a board game thing looking map and move her out. Yeah. It just it came out of nowhere. Yeah, and I'm glad I did because I love them and they're like they're crazy. You know, they do what they need to do. Yeah, so animal crossing the like it's very it's very slice-of-life type of game, you know, where you can do anything if you find yourself just in your home and some friends are over. Sometimes you just start playing a board game. Yeah. That's true. Yeah, it makes sense and I definitely agree with you there. Cool. So is that your timeline? Should I go through mine? Yes. Yes. That's what I would have expected in wish it had happened. But let's see what you have. Okay, so mine I get specific and and I definitely go a lot of the same directions you do. So this is my different world where we would have gotten in Animal Crossing on the Wii U also known as Animal Crossing coming home. It would have come out. Yes. I'm sticking to this coming home. I don't because I think it's still a really good title and Nintendo go ahead take it out of here. It's free free of use you go for it. Just give me credit side. Oh, man, if I showed up during the cake a slider playing song You Know My Name in the dreams right there? Okay, I'm getting sidetracked. This is what I do when I imagine things. Okay. So Animal Crossing coming home, it would have come out holiday 2015. And I say that specifically because we had this big E3 2015 presentation where we all expected Animal Crossing news. Everybody was talking about it. Pretty even people who didn't play the game more like, oh, yeah. It's time for Animal Crossing to come out on the Wii U. It's been a couple years since the 3DS game and everybody was thinking about it. And so going into that we did get Animal Crossing you if this there was happy home designer and amiibo Festival in my timeline. It's Animal Crossing coming home and they announced that its holiday 2015 that year and this would be similar to I guess city Folk was kind of the same way where it came out shortly after wild world and it was mostly because you know, it's a very similar game to Wild World. And yes, so naturally this Wii U game would have been a similar game to New Leaf too kind of following that Trend, but you know, it just meant it was a faster release. But it would of course be HD which is you know, kind of the big thing. We've been waiting for with a serious thing. So outside of that though, they would change the mode of transportation and I in my timeline I'm actually going to say there's no happy home designer. There's no amiibo festival and there is this idea of a mobile game and they want it to connect so with that in mind although As ideas, they had four happy home designer all those ideas. They had four out amiibo Festival. They're all getting put into this game and even some of the pocket Camp ones. So the transportation is changed. We are now traveling in campers to match kind of the pocket Camp aesthetic because one is going to be your home console game and the other is going to be like this is where you go when you want to get away. Okay? Okay. So outside of that I didn't like flesh that out. Too much more but outside of that there would be the happy home designer decorating and even a job aspect to it. So they're going to add half increments rug ceiling items and yards for example, and and they're still gonna because happy home designer introduced Lodi. They're going to introduce Lodi and she's going to actually work beside Knox homes, and she's gonna hire you to design shops for new shop. Owners or owners who are upgrading their shops. So you get to at least do some things for the layout of those shops right as they're getting made. So that's my little tie in there. That was their idea. Amiibo cards would get introduced amiibo figures as well. So this is where it kind of the welcome amiibo style campers come in. We'd still get a campsite. I don't think they they that it's just going to be Harvey. King there, I think it would also be Carlo better pay and Giovanni. Yes, so we gotta get our little crow villagers there. Yeah. So the other thing that is different is with the amiibo cards and figures every single character has a camper so one of the biggest disappointments I guess because you know, it was a free update. So it's hard to be disappointed in the mm amiibo update but the disappointment that I did have was that the campers were restricted to amiibo figures that were compatible and the welcome amiibo cards in this one all of the cards bring a camper so nice nice. Yeah, everybody gets a cool space and this also makes up for the fact that there isn't an amiibo figure for every special character. So if you get their card, you can still scan them in Celeste. Will show up? Well, I guess Celeste has a figure so that's not a good example Luna who runs the dream sweet. She'll show up. She'll have her own camper. And you know, you can buy a special items from it, you know? Yes. Yeah and then beyond that they would also take ideas that they had for amiibo Festival. So welcome new tortimer island where you can go and play games including this brand new board game mode. And there's a desert island Escape because you know, you're going to an island. There's got to be like a challenging Island that you have to escape from there. And then there's also some other amiibo Festival games if you played it, you know, there's some random ones including like a trivia mode. Yeah that and all of this is of course going to have online multiplayer so you can play all nice everything with other people on the internet all over the world. Yes. Yes. And then from there they they're going to add some other small things like additional Public Works projects. And here's the one that's going to be. I feel like it's going to be an idea that they implement but it's not fully fleshed out for them yet, but it is outdoor decorating and it's going to have some weird limits that are annoying and mostly the limit is that it's going to be confined to yards. So you're going to walk around your town. You're going to see a villager and you're gonna be able to like decorate the yard and this will be tied in with kind of the Lodi thing where she can hire you to design shops and stuff. She's gonna hire you to design yards. So you can't freely do it. You can only do like probably one a day. And so that way they, you know, slow you down. Yeah and in the way, it's Animal Crossing slows you down and then yeah, essentially you're not going to be able to put items everywhere but everybody's going to be like after getting a taste of that I can be like Come on, let me put an item here, you know, so so yeah, that's basically my timeline it's gonna essentially eat all of those ideas from happy home designer and amiibo Festival combine those and then also like have some foresight to think of how to connect it with pocket camp in some way which is like the camper type of ideas. So yeah travel around and campers still decorate them, you know, yeah. So that would have been my Animal Crossing coming home time line. What do you think? It's awesome. I mean, especially if it was holiday 2015 when a lot of people just were what were wanting more Animal Crossing something a little bit different. I feel like this is more than what people would have expected like like you said when this game would have gone in announced people would have said all this is the city Folk of new Leaf, but the way you designed it. It is much more. It would have been awesome. Yeah. Yeah, I think if they're gonna up the game like they already have so many things made like you might as well they'll use those next two years of development on all brand new stuff, you know. Yeah, I'm sure and this is something I didn't mention but I also had the idea of like like and wild world where you could move your wild world Town into your city Folk game. Oh, yeah. I think that would have probably had Had a thing, I would have started fresh, of course because I always got to start a new Animal Crossing game fresh from the very beginning so but yeah, like I think at least my thought with like making a new game that's very based on the previous one. I think for me I would have hoped that they would focus on really adding to what was there and you know, this is also their chance to fix a lot of things that they're like, oh, you know, that wasn't as great in that And we can make it better. Yeah. So yeah, like the island games. I think they were really fun. But you know if they really wanted to up it I think they would so yeah. Yeah, that's basically what I could think of I think there's a there's a lot of fun stuff that you can do with animal crossing. Of course, all of these ideas are just make-believe and that's unfortunately never the timeline. We're gonna live in at this point. Yeah, but we do We do have a great time line coming up. So let's go ahead and move into our next topic, which is Nintendo Direct predictions and specifically Animal Crossing direct predictions. So Sergio, I you know, you have been predicting that this upcoming week. I guess we're recording this Sunday. So Wednesday, yes, and tomorrow for all of you listening Tuesday, but you have been predicting a direct for Animal Crossing. And every week I needed I need to do this I'm checking in. Is this still happening? Is is this the thing as far as right now? Yes. So tomorrow which is Wednesday December 4 and 9 a.m. Pacific. I'm hoping it's already been announced by Nintendo so that it is official in not just a rumor. Let us know I guess if you can from the future. Yeah. Yeah, please just leave a comment. You have the power. Power. Yeah, so, okay. So you're still locked in December 4th, right? Yes, nine a m-- Pacific. That's when it's happening. You heard it here first unless they already announced it. Then you heard it there. Oh, yes. Yeah. So anyways, let's go ahead and go through some of our own predictions for this and yeah Sergio. I want to I'm really interested in what you have to say here. Okay. Well I feel Like you don't intend to always likes to really focus on how the game is going to start they did that we nearly as well. So I think we have seen enough of how our Island Experience is going to begin. But I feel like meeting the still going to recap, you know that you're in a new island in your with two villagers and you get to pick where they live at first. So they're going to repeat a little bit of that, but maybe we're going to see a few new things that are going to happen in the beginning of this new experience. Ants, but after that I am hoping that we see a lot of new things whenever they show Animal Crossing or not direct which could be December could be anytime before March. So whenever that happens, I feel like a big focus of the direct or the segment of the direct is going to be showing the special characters that we already know characters like a slider Isabel kicks the Able Sisters OR Leaf like the most popular ones that people want to see come back I can they're going to How they're coming back how their shops are going to work or if they are different. How's it going to be different? They're just going to highlight those characters at the same time. I feel like it's the perfect time to show. I was thinking at least one, but now I'm thinking at least two new brand new special characters and their shops or their amenities whatever new features are bringing to Animal Crossing. I think this is the best time to show it so at least two and Maybe just too but that's I think that's that's more than enough of new features new special characters. I'll be great and like you have mentioned before Nintendo did say they're still going to show us more details on the multiplayer and I think like they have to keep up with that word. So whenever they show a direct I feel like they're gonna focus a little bit on that especially the eighth player multiplayer in hopefully, there are many games to go along with that. Yes. I want minigame. So Bad, okay. I love these predictions. I think you're totally spot-on with like what they're entering with, you know, like kind of showing that start of the game. So I guess just so I also tell about mine but and I guess I'm skipping some but as far as like the direct goes, I think it's definitely going to cover arriving on your Island, especially because like we know nothing about dodo Airlines. He's and right all we've really seen is the exterior the name and we don't know what it means. So I think showing that kind of intro stuff capturing a bit of Dodo Airlines and showing that to the players. I think that is definitely something they'll do and you know, because there's always like a bit of recap with these directs. Yeah, because you can't just assume that everybody has seen every single thing so far so some people But maybe this next direct is the first time they're tuning in to hear anything about Animal Crossing. So yeah, everything we already know like this isn't still news to them. This is still something that they'll no need to know. So long story short. I just feel like Nintendo would repeat a lot of things. So yes, that's right. Yeah. I think you're spot on there. I'm really I'm also hoping that they confirm like how many villagers will be on your Island? Cuz you did mention like, you know, we start with two villagers, which is the lowest amount of villagers we've ever started with I think I want to say wild world was 3, right? Yeah. So to is bare-bones Village right here, you are more the third villager essentially. Yeah and in the beginning of this thing, so I feel like it's almost capturing like here is what this town looks like before you actually get there but surprised you're here. Yeah. Yeah, so I like that too. I think for sure. Let's see you expect that whenever we see New Horizons again, they're going to show off some special characters. And yeah, I expect it to I think like yeah every one of these I'm just like yes, they've got to show us this in like you mentioned. I feel that dodo bird of the airline's that's going to be one of them for sure. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I think because your next one Is just like at least one new special character and maybe to you know, yeah. Yeah, one of them has got to be whoever this dodo Airlines person is yes. I mean like it could always be Porter. It could always just be Porter and the name of the airline says just dodo Airlines, but I would not put it past Nintendo to be like, let's bring dodos back like they're extinct now, but you know, like if we're gonna have a magical place where villagers little Most can talk to you and everything might as well bring some species back and have them make an appearance, you know? Yeah. Yeah, so I don't know I think yours are probably spot on I'd say as far as all the predictions go. Yeah and mine mine are too specific. So they're going to be wrong or at least most of them if I could you never know I could get lucky but really I think as far as predictions. Go Sergio, you're the one to listen to hear. You got the name right already. There's some other stuff you got right, but I think you've got a good track record for guessing this stuff. Hopefully he doesn't end tomorrow. Oh, right, right, you know, this is no man. I want that so bad. Alright, so my predictions here we go, January 15th 2020 is going to be General direct that outlines the year for Nintendo and I say the specifically because I've complained about how they've handled directs kind of the last couple years where I thought January 2017 was awesome. I thought what they did with like finally revealing the switch console finally talking about what it's doing what games are coming. I thought that was great and they essentially like Gave us what to expect during the year and then threw in surprises during it, you know, yes, so I really like that aspect of them. I want them to continue that but you know, there are things that I think would of course be included with this. There's Animal Crossing. There's the Xenoblade Chronicles kind of remaster that they're doing there's you know, there's the possibility of Metroid and I guess Bayonetta 3, you know, so there's existing things that we know about. Oh, I almost forgot Zelda breath away. Too of course. Oh, yeah. So yeah, there's like existing things that we know about. We don't know when they're coming except for Animal Crossing. That's the only one with a date. So there's stuff that I think would show up and then, you know, there's some surprises they could throw in but even like through out the year, there's still some more surprises I can do but I want January 15th 2020 to be that kind of outline to the year for Nintendo. And then of course they're going to show us Animal Crossing and promised a I hated Direct in February and this February direct will take place on February 20th. That's exactly one month before New Horizons. It'll be at 6 p.m. Pacific 9 p.m. Eastern why you ask well, it's because it's 11 a.m. In Japan and Animal Crossing is huge for Japan. They're going to need to know about it during the day, you know, but, you know, like early in the Winning would also work because they'd be at nighttime and at home and available to watch it. So yeah, I could be wrong on that one, but that's my guest right now and I'm being specific just to be specific. So here's what the direct will cover Animal Crossing dedicated direct. You're just like yours. It's going to cover the kind of beginning stuff riving on your Island. It's going to show off to a Dodo Airlines and kind of starting out your Island and then they're going to Focus more outside of like the crafting and stuff. They're going to start focusing on growing your Island and some of the things are going to talk about are the crafting bench has like thus far we've seen crafting benches in other places, but we the only ones we've really seen used are the ones inside of me looks shocked, you know. Hmm, so they're going to go more in depth with crafting benches and really like the process of crafting rather than actually collecting things and making Stuff, you know, they're going to show off some new crafts like new recipes that we can get to they're going to show up decorating some more and then from there they're going to get into some new stuff like shops. And of course expanding your town eventually, you'll be able to pay Tom Nook to bring over some dirt from another place and make your Island even bigger. Nice. It'll take a week to make this expansion. It's going to be a long-term. Something and you know because it's got to be a long-term game. So if you're gonna upgrade your Island, it's got a you got to put some muscle into it and then outside of that. I think there will also be some multiplayer stuff because you know, you mentioned it before they promised that they're going to go over multiplayer, but I think they're going to go more in depth than we expect. I think they're going to cover same console multiplayer because it's the brand-new Thing like being able to play on one console with everybody. That's cool. So it's going to talk about living with eight people on your Island, you know having eight different homes on your Island. I imagine some of them are going to offer I guess options where your you can choose to have your own place or move in with somebody. Okay. So that's prediction. Probably wrong. Nice. I would like that a lot. Yeah. Yeah. Would be really cool. I'd be like it changing it up in some way. You know, the other thing is that they're going to show of course the four player on the same console and show a bit of the mechanics like swapping through items kind of just like more mechanical things that we don't understand, you know, then from there. They're going to go into online play or you know playing with the different console, even if it's still local and there it's going Show off like the dodo airlines traveling features, like actually going somewhere using dodo Airlines and then they're going to go in depth on what you can do in the town's showcasing like the games that you can play with eight players, even you know, yeah, and then finally the big finale to this whole direct is the reveal of an Animal Crossing themed switch and switch light model. Oh, those are my predictions. Dictions for the Animal Crossing direct I hope you all enjoyed the show. I know I did but yeah, what do you what do you think of these? All of these are great. I do like how you went specific you win a little more out there and I kind of want to hold you to a bunch of these. Yeah, I would definitely hold me to it. Do you have any ideas? I'm guessing the switch model. They're going to be they're going to look the same but they're just going to be different like the regular switch and switch light. I think they're going to be a little different actually because the joy con models that we've gotten so far. It's never it's very rarely that we get a joy con model where it's one color, you know, I actually walked into Best Buy the other day and I got the Splatoon joique on the pink and green. But I did notice they had just a green option there. Yes, and I was like wait they made it just a green option. That's crazy. So I didn't know that was a thing. But yeah, I don't know. I guess I feel like we're gonna get two different Joy cons. And for some reason my brain is leaning Timmy and Tommy on like one being to me one being Tommy or one being Tom Nook and the other being like Timmy and Tommy. But you know like they have kind of what's the word for it there their patterns on their shirts are reversed. I guess like the colors are reversed. Oh, you know, I could see it being that you know the joint Khan. Yes, Mmm Yeah. So ones like Tom Knox shirt pattern and the other is Timmy and Tommy is shirt pattern right where the colors are just swapped in a slight way. Yeah, so that's my guess for like that because I think the joy Icon are going to be different whereas the switch light design will probably be just like one full design, but I could even see them doing like two different designs for the switch light. Ouch my wallet. Yeah, I just see little flies little dust pooping out of it right now. But yeah, I guess what are you thinking with that? That sounds really good. I feel like if they do. Something it's going to be if you know if it's for the switch in the streets light is probably going to be the same design. So a whole pattern on the switch light and then you just get the same pattern for the joy Con on the regular switch. I would be good with that. It would be home and that would be very enticing together switch light if it's very nice looking animal crossing themed. That's that's very tempting. Yeah. Just wait for the cake a slider one all I want them I was Really disappointed with the new 3DS XL because it didn't have the changing face plates. Like if they made a changing back plate model of the switch. That would be the go to one and I feel like it's possible with the switch light, you know like to make that for the switch light and just be able to make it your own design whenever you want. I would be obsessed with getting yeah every single animal crossing pattern out there. Yeah. Yeah, so yeah, I don't know. I'm really I I don't know. I think I'm confident. I'd say 95% confident that there will be a Nintendo Direct and the 5% unconfident is just like we've been disappointed before by Nintendo and so I can't help but think that they can always disappoint us again. You know, there's plenty of room for disappointment. Yeah in part of why I would agree with you on that is because I really really expected a Luigi's Mansion Centric direct and there never was one. The game is great the game came out. It sold really well, but I'm still surprised. We didn't get like a specific regions Mansion direct so I can see that I can see that same thing happening to Animal Crossing but I feel I feel I'm with you like it's a very much. A possibility. Yeah, and I almost wonder if that was like situational because like June the summer like there was so much dedicated to showing off Luigi's Mansion three, you know, and maybe they just considered like we put a lot of work into this live coverage here at E3. Let's take a little break. Let's just let people anticipate this game, you know, because it felt like a direct light year this past year. Here, it just felt like there wasn't too much that Nintendo was trying to push you know, so so yeah, I don't know. I don't know what happened this year. It feels like we just got less directs in general, especially like General directs, you know, so I and that's why I just really want the next year 2020 to be different where January is like here's the setup and then we're going to have directs throughout the year. With little surprises, but we're going to go more in depth with what you already know, you know? Yeah because I want to go in depth with Animal Crossing. I really want to so I would I would I think regardless I'm 95% confidence still that there will be an animal crossing direct with, you know, Reasonable Doubt. Yeah, but I would really like that approach of showing here's what's coming this year. We will keep you posted on each game and there will be a few surprises. That's that just makes a lot of sense to me. Yeah, and I feel like it just keeps people excited about the the I guess the schedule, you know, yeah it because Nintendo does this amazing thing where they made some consoles that garnered very little support from third parties, very little support for Indie Games, you know, and so it turned them into this machine. And that can just pump out games so much faster than other places and my my example of this is always PlayStation. Yes, the quality of PlayStation games that do come out are very good. They're very high a lot of people think so at least you know, but like they come out every three years or so. It takes a long time for their games to come out. Whereas like this past year you May complain about how many Nintendo games came out but let's take a look at it. There was new Super Mario Brothers Deluxe which you know arguably a port not as hard but even then there was Yoshi. There was Super Mario maker to Fire Emblem astral chain Damon ex machina Zelda ring fit Adventure Luigi's Mansion three Pokémon sword. Like I stopped counting. There were just so many games that came out in a single year from Nintendo and that's what every single year looks like for them. Yeah. It's hard to keep up with so it's a special thing that they were forced to do that and it's not an easy thing to do. So, yeah, I am amazed. We're going to have a big year this upcoming year. There's you know, there's still a lot of big games that we know about Animal Crossing of course has a release date. So I'm already happy with next year. Yeah regardless of what happens, you know, yeah. Yeah, so we've got the game that we've been waiting for and I just want to see it and celebrate it and enjoy it and there's not I don't think there's much that's going to get in the way of that. No. Yeah, we have our game of the year already, you know by March. We already know which one it's going to be. It's no question. Yeah, you don't even watch our game of the year videos next year because you already know what it is. You could watch it this year. Yeah. So I'm excited. Let's go ahead and move into our final segment of the show. And that is our Hagen's Islander corner. For those of you who don't know every week. We ask our patrons a question and read their answers out loud here. This week's question was what is one thing you want to know about New Horizon. So, of course, we're predicting our directs here Sergio and out of all the things we predicted in everything like what is The one thing that Nintendo that you want them to tell you about this game. The one thing I want to know the most is about Island expansion. Is there a way to do it? How big does it get or is this it and if this is it, how is the hardest jobs going to be laid out? That's what I'm the most curious about. Yeah. I completely understand that. I'd say I'm the similar to you with that, but I'll pick something different just so we can get to and For both of us. I'm gonna say the one thing I really want to know about. This is a tough one because I want I want to know a lot about a lot of things. So it's hard to pick. Oh man. I'm just kidding. You all are gonna hate me for this one. I want to know about growing trees. I was gonna kiss this. Yeah. I know I can't help it. But I need to make sure that my place has nice little cedar trees around my house. You know what I need so I want to know about growing trees and I guess if I wanted to know I'm sticking with that drawing trees. Tell me about it Nintendo. I gotta know. So let's go ahead and go through our patrons answers Sergio will go back and forth as usual. Do you want to start sure our first answers this week is by in this era and they say I really want to know if we will get a dedicated console and we predicted some of that I feel like If there is when they're definitely gonna save it for a direct announcement, although you know what I mean old Nintendo used to just rebuild them like it used to be on the store ads the week they came out but I guess now that Nintendo is a little more active on Twitter. I can see them doing that, you know, if it's very close to the release of the game. They might just save it for that, but I would love to see it on a direct and answer it so that we can sort of prepare ourselves in our wallets. Yeah, you're totally right like this. One thing that Nintendo has been doing very differently to like they feel like they haven't been announcing like new console things under ex. They've mostly been doing it via Twitter and like social media, you know. Yeah, so it's a very different landscape than in tendo's kind of navigating now and they're using it. Well, I think they do a good job of helping people up for what's coming out but consoles are Definitely one of those things that might not be in the direct and might just be a Twitter announcement is some random weekday night, you know, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but I also really hope that we get a dedicated console because it's Animal Crossing. We need one it be the cutest one. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so many said, I really want to know if holidays are back. And yes, this is a big one too because like though we've In that the real-time clock is making a return though. We've seen that as a seasons are coming back, you know, like one of the big things that makes Animal Crossing exciting is the holidays and you know, just going every day. It's like, you know when you're a kid and you're just sitting in school and you're like, oh man, I'm so excited because next week is Thanksgiving. I only have to come half the week and the rest is off and you know, like it's an adventure it feels yeah. It makes the month feel exciting to have thing to look forward to so yeah, I agree. I want to see that. Yeah, definitely that would be really nice and it's important so, you know, the sooner they confirmed the better. I think so dearly and tougher says villagers. I'm really looking forward to seeing all the new characters in hopefully new species all yes. This is this is a big one too. We need to see those as soon as possible. Yes. I am surprised we haven't yet like you pointed it out a few podcasts. As to go and I was like dang you're right. Where are these villagers? Like there's got to be some new stuff. You know, it's been so Bare Bones in that front so far. Yeah. So tab said I want to know about the museum filling it is one of my favorite things to do in Animal Crossing. When will we see blathers how far into the game will I be before I can start donating to my museum and where will the museum be? Hmm? And this is huge to like I agree with tab like This is one of my favorite things to do outside of paying off my home and expanding it. You know, I think the other big thing to work toward throughout the year is definitely catching bugs fish everything and donating it. Yes, definitely agree and not knowing where the museum is gonna be from sorely in the game. That's that's it's unusual. So I'm waiting to have we should know hopefully soon. Yeah. So Tara Steiner says, can I hug villagers? Just kidding? Want to know how amiibo will play into the game Tara? I want both. I want to be able to hug the villagers if that's a possibility. Hopefully they tell us but oh, I'm evil. It's a really good point. They're gonna they're gonna have to talk about it because they did confirm that they're going to work. So Nintendo tell us how it's going to work. Yeah, and I mean like the biggest thing here is that there are nearly 500 Animal Crossing amiibo and there are crazy people out there. I don't know who they are who bought them all. Definitely not me. It was me. But you know, there's like people out there who have tons and tons of these things and there are people out there who want these things. So re-release them. Let us know what they do. I'm you know, we want them we want. Yeah. So dragon flame said, I want to know what the island equivalent of this game is, and no not your home Island unless you can invite random foreigners to to your own Island. Somehow okay. So this is a good point like what he's referencing here is definitely tour Demers Island and I double checked with him. That's why I say definitely but Tory hammers Island was the place where we could go and play many games with people, you know, and so with there being a players in the game. I would expect there to be this type of feature in this new one, you know, so naturally wondering what that is is good and Definitely. I need to know because I want to play multiplayer games with everybody on these islands. Like that's going to be one of the big draws to playing the game with people outside of like, you know, touring their town and getting to see all their designs and stuff which is going to be much better than ever with this game with all the we can decorate but after we're done with that, let us go play with each other. Yeah. That's right. Yeah multiplayer is going to be important. So when they talk about multiplayer, I feel like they're going to Was where most of it is going to take place outside your Island. So there's got to be a new location in they should talk about it. Yeah, for sure. So Jeff says we get the observatory back in honestly. I have no idea why we don't have it back yet. Why was removing the first place so hopefully we get it back. Hopefully I feel like if it is back they're going to talk about it whenever they talk about the game again. Yeah, and I'll say like for me. I like the observatory. I like that we can design things. I found that I didn't do it too much but I think more it hurts the just seeing the downgrade and jobs for Celeste. I think yeah putting hers just like the souvenir shop person and the second floor of the museum. That's that. I don't know. She's better than that. She is an astronomer. She knows her stuff about the skies give her a job that she works, you know exactly she got her degree. In it don't make your just do some random stuff. So Mal said I want to know if there is farming probably won't be but a girl can dream and okay, I was going to kind of like say this with my tree comment, but I want their I like the idea of farming simply because we will get a much bigger variety of just stuff that we can grow and decorate our town with, you know, I like the idea of being able to plan. Aunt a pumpkin patch because there will be pumpkins that I can enjoy in my town during Halloween, you know, so I do really think the farming would be a nice complement to the crafting but also like a compliment to being to able to decorate outside because oh yeah part of the fun of like decorating outside and kind of having all that freedom is other freedoms that come with that like Jackie and I Every Spring we work on our garden we You will tend it we will make it something that can grow something and we have failed here and there throughout the years but over time we've gotten better at it. And I do really enjoy being able to walk outside and see that stuff and if I have that kind of thing in this Animal Crossing game, I think it's fun. I think it's cool to be able to grow new stuff and be able to enjoy them. Yeah, and that would be like a really nice considerably new and significant features that they would say for closer to launch. That would be you know, that would be like big news type of announcement. Yeah, and if it's not there like three years down the line I could see this being like the big welcome again Bo update feature that we get, you know, exactly. Yeah. Yeah, so there's always room for growth with the series and I think just because you may not enjoy some features or anything like They're definitely features that I ignore in Animal Crossing games. There's some that I don't use as much as other people, you know, and but that's kind of the game like you're free to choose what you want to do what you want to play. So I don't think like adding in that way is going to hurt it at all. I think it'll just like give more people more benefits, you know? Yes, definitely and our last answer for this week is buyout package. Chino or Mike and they say I really want to know how the shops are going to work are the same ones all coming back. Will there be any new ones will the shops be separate to or actually on the island and to what capacity like an actual building or say a pop-up style kiosk and if so, can we decide where they will go? Basically? I just want to go shopping in New Horizons already. That's a lot of good questions in a lot of unknowns in you know for a games with we do so much shopping. We just we do it every day and it's a big part of coming back to the game daily. Now knowing these features it's interesting. I feel like there's a reason why Nintendo is holding back so much information on shopping. Yeah, and the interesting thing is like the bulk of the gameplay in the previous games really revolved around shopping. Like that was the big thing that you did to unlock different items. Yes, as you know, we don't view it as unlocks but it kind of is like You earn money and then you trade that money for some new features some new things that you can use. So it's it's an interesting way that they're changing the game. But also, yeah, I want to know how shops are going to work. I want to know like where do they go where they were they going to live? How are we going to place them who's going to work them and I will add another prediction because this reminded me of it there is going to be You shop it's going to be run by a wallaby. It's going to be a backpack shop or you know bag shop and we're going to learn that bags will expand our inventory while walking around. So there you go. That's my final prediction for this direct. I hope you all enjoyed this show because it's going to be a really good one. Yes, but yeah, I will say like everybody is bringing up some really great things that they want to know. About this game and you know the like even reading through all the answers that we got on patreon. Like there was such a good variety of what people wanted. Some of them definitely popped up more than once to like and if you know just among our small group there could already be duplicates. I imagine they're just like thousands of people out there who want to know any one of these things. So yeah. There you go Nintendo like if you are still planning that direction no problem. We planned it for you we have Of all of the concerns people have here too so cover those and it'll be a great show will enjoy it. Yeah. Awesome. Well, thank you all so much for tuning in to 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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It's a new month so that means it's time to feature another artist on the podcast! This artwork was created by Morgan O'Brien. He does wonderful work and even has a RedBubble shop where you can buy his designs on shirts, mugs, and more! Follow him all over social media:  Twitter: https://twitter.com/morganobrienart Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/morganobrienart/ RedBubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/morganobrienart/portfolio  After we discuss the new art, we imagine a world where a mainline Animal Crossing came out on the Wii U. After that, we make our predictions regarding an Animal Crossing Direct. Nintendo has been very quiet lately so it's time we had some fun coming up with our own ideas for the direct. We end the show with a very important question: What is ONE thing you want Nintendo to tell you about Animal Crossing New Horizons? Time Stamps: 0:05 - Introduction and Art by Morgan O'Brien 10:08 - Imagining a World with AC Wii U 30:58 - Animal Crossing Direct Predictions 52:29 - Haken's Islander Corner 1:06:07 - Outro Announcements  Support my channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chuyplaysnintendo  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 