Welcome to haken in Animal Crossing podcast your podcast dedicated to all things Animal Crossing episode. 108 is brought to you by Gregor L. One of our newest patreon patrons today Sergio and I are going to talk about the 100-day countdown to New Horizons starting tomorrow animal crossing over the last decade and the latest screenshots from new. New Horizons, so to begin. Hello Sergio. How are you doing? Hi, Chuy. I'm doing rather. Well, you know, it's been another good week of very good Nintendo gaming and even more importantly we finally have something new for New Horizons. I know it's it definitely came out of nowhere, but also not out of nowhere because you predicted something was gonna happen specifically a direct but you know, I'll give you this one just because we did At something. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, yeah, we're kind of going to save that I guess to the end just to cover it. But yeah, well, I guess what have you been playing just still paintball? Come on actually catching them all. This is gonna be my actually my first time that I ever actually catch them all in. It's a good challenge. It's a good challenge how close are you to that I need about 80 more? Okay, so you're getting there. I mean I'm taking this game pretty slow like I'm only three badges in and how long has it been out now like three weeks? Yes. Oh, yes. I'm doing about a badger week which is you know decent progress. But in the meantime, like I have been getting a lot of like catching in and between and I guess I'm trying to catch em all to I don't know why I have a lot of them already, but but I decided just to do it because the wild area just makes it like It makes it appealing to do that. You know, yes. Yeah, and you see like tons of cool big Pokemon that you normally wouldn't see in previous games in the wild. So I like that aspect a lot. Yeah. So anyways, let's go ahead and get it into this show. So the first thing we're going to talk about is the 100-day countdown to New Horizons. So just so you all know this episode is coming out 101 days away from this. Game, not 101 Dalmatians. But yeah, so we're getting really close here. So pretty much like in a couple days at least for anybody listening. We're going to be hitting double digits in our wait time here, so I can't believe it's this close already. Yeah. I feel like we've been waiting for this for so long now because you know, like some people Say oh you've just been waiting since like September 2018 or so, you know, and I'm like no we've been waiting for this since they announced the we you like a nice do ya like when was that like 2010 or so like yeah, there was just so much anticipation going into an HD Animal Crossing that to be almost double digit numbers away from it is it's a big deal. That's true. Yeah, so a little background on this countdown years ago when you leave came out or at least when you leave was coming out I had an idea back then I was still in college. I was still on Tumblr. I've haven't used that site in years now. I think I have like I have some sort of code set up that things will automatically post their I don't think it works anymore though. So nothing's being posted there, but I This I made a big post on Tumblr before Animal Crossing came out and it was a 100-day countdown to New Leaf and back then like, you know, nobody really knew me or anything or you know, they just they like the Animal Crossing on Tumblr. And so there was one person who saw it and that was actually Island Grizzly who is one of our mods on our Discord very good friend of ours. Hours and she she'd brought up this countdown thing a while ago and the way she phrased it. I was like, oh, you know, I made a countdown but this doesn't sound like the one I made so maybe it's not and then she found it and it was on my old Tumblr blog which was called hakken town. And so I mean there's not a lot of towns called hate get out there. So when she found it she was like wait a second. This is this you I was like, yeah, that is my blog. That's my countdown that I made years. As in years ago, so it was very cool to kind of know that like she knew me before she knew me. That's true. Yeah. Yeah, so that was pretty fun. But yeah outside of that like it was you know, I did what I could with my questions. I was like favorite flower least favorite flower like it just kind of alternated back and forth between favorites and least favorites and I was like the countdown is Fine, it was something I just it could have been better, you know, so let's go to today Island. Grizzly has actually come up with her own set of 100 questions and I helped very minimally. I will say this was definitely like mostly on her and me like very tiny little fraction where it was just like I read through it. I gave some suggestions with some that we were changing. Yup, just because as you know, some of the questions we had or she had originally where they were we need more information to be able to ask some of those questions, you know, so I looked through it and I was like, oh, you know, we could ask this instead and you know, so edited things a bit and then she went and like handwritten wrote them all made these nice little pictures along it. So this is all available on the Discord. Right now I am put it should be on patreon by the time you're listening to this and all of these things are free to access. It's not going to be like a patron reward or anything. This one's going to be open to everybody. So in case you're worried about that, you're going to be able to find the questions there, but also on top of that I'm planning on posting these questions daily on Twitter and YouTube and I mean, I guess I should do the Facebook. I don't do enough without I'm bad at logging into Facebook. And maybe I should do Instagram to okay. Oh, yeah. I have a lot of social media accounts. I should use them. We'll do that. That will be my Challenge on top of this challenge. So anyways, we have this list of 100 questions. Now, they're really fun is the thing with this list like they're have Sergio. You look through it, right? Yes. There are so many questions on Hear that. I'm like, I cannot wait to answer these it goes way further than just like favorites and least favorites and actually like, you know, it plays with the series a lot more gives you a lot more to answer and one thing that's really cool about Island Grizzly. Is she teaches art. So all of these questions are also like super drawable like if you want to draw your answers and challenge yourself to do that for a hundred days. You are more than welcome and we will apply You every step of the way on that because it's hard to do if you know that's hard to keep up with. Yes, but I will say like if you don't want to draw them all we didn't well it was Nina or I Island Grizzlies idea to have these questions like every fifth question be very drawable, you know, so now like if you want to draw every fifth day or so like you can and so that's a little bit easier on everyone but those are definitely Lee questions that are more catered toward art, you know as far as how we'll be answering them. I guess. I'm dictating this Sergio, but I thought let's add a segment to the podcast where we will go through the week's questions and answer all of them together. Oh, yeah, that's awesome. I cannot wait in honestly. I'm going to challenge myself to go ahead and do some art for every fifth one. I I do not draw what I can do to get a large so I'm gonna do that for For the ones that are drawable. Yeah, I'm going to try to do that too. I don't know if we'll be able to put them on the podcast and we'll leave the YouTube version fast enough. I'll try I'll definitely attempt to put it in there, but I'm thinking I'll definitely post them on Discord and Twitter and I guess everywhere else. Yeah, I have on social media. So if you all are interested in seeing our less Than terrible art. I don't know. I haven't drawn in so long. So it's going to be a refresher for sure. Yeah, and I was never even like, you know, amazing or anything. I just took our classes here. But yeah, I'm gonna try to draw them too and I'll post them throughout social media and we'll try to get them onto the show to on YouTube. So if you want to see them they'll be there and if you want To see them you can still click through on our social media accounts and everything to yeah. Yeah. So the countdown for everybody it officially begins tomorrow. So today is Tuesday December 10th. If you're listening to this episode as it came out and tomorrow Wednesday, December 11th is the official start to this whole thing this whole countdown. Yeah. Like I said you can join in Here on YouTube. I'll be posting it on the community tab on my channel. I'll post it on Twitter. I'll post it pretty much everywhere and it'll be on Discord, of course. So if you want to join in and answer these questions, it starts Wednesday, December 11th, 2019. And then the end date question number 100. You will answer on March 19th, 2020 nice. That will be the day before the biggest. Release of Our Lives it's crazy to me that like we're at that point where we're now counting down to this day, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so to start a little bit early I did there was one question. We left out of these and I was like, you know, what Sergio and I have to answer this question because I was like, you know me, I've got to have one about this. So this is 101 days away from Animal Crossing. And this question is what is your favorite tree? Nice. So Sergio, what do you have for this one for this one? I don't know if I'm cheating a little bit but I'm not going with that could hurt a traditional tree. I'm going with my town tree from my data. I just really like the importance of you know, it marks the beginning of your journey in New Leaf. And you see it grow as your town girls and as your gameplay continues and then eventually it's this huge tree that becomes the centerpiece of your town like an amenity even I just really like that. I really like how they introduced the town tree. And you everybody does it on the first day of their playthrough? So it's very significant to me that is actually an amazing answer because I feel like you know there there's all the trees that you see in the game. Games all the time, but this one is like truly unique to that experience. It's truly unique to that game. You know, like we don't know if we're going to get a big town tree and you Horizons and part of me is really sad about that, you know, because like thinking back to this town tree, I think I have a video up on YouTube where for the first year first 365 days of new Leaf. I took a picture next to that tree. A single day and so I have a video that goes through all of those photos and you know what just between you and me. I think I messed up on one of them where I took you know, sometimes I'll take multiple pictures each day. And I think one of them I messed up and I put two of the same day and Skip today so little little back around at it right there, but must up a little bit in that video. But regardless, I think just that tree is amazing. I've always adored that tree and it gets huge it gets so yea big I want a big tree like that. Yeah. All right. So my answer are you ready? Yes, all I wrote in my notes here just to give you all a background. So this is what Sergio can see this answer will surprise you. And so I mean many would think that my go to Tremont number one in this game is the cedar, right? Mmm, and I've got to be honest with you. There is one tree that I do prefer over the Cedar and it's one that you actually cannot get in any of the mainline Animal Crossing games. This is a spin-off exclusive and it's from Pocket camp but my favorite tree is the Autumn birch trees in Pocket Camp. Oh, okay. Gotcha those that's just my aesthetic, you know, I love autumn and you know, I love trees and I they're perfect you put in Autumn Tree there you can put a little pile of leaves and stuff right next to it. It's the perfect aesthetic. That's essentially what I want to live in in New Horizon. So, That's my favorite nice. But you know Cedars, I love the Cedars. Yeah, and then the town tree to like that's an amazing pick Sergio. Yeah, I'm with you that it's going to be a little disappointed if it's not back in your horizons, but at the same time it's going to make the ones in New Leaf even more special. You know, it's going to be the new Leaf thing exclusive to that game. We're going to remember it very fondly if that's the case. Yeah, and I feel like it's important for every game to have like a reason to go back to especially because like, you know, they're they're pretty Timeless games like they're meant to work around the clock and so It's nice to know that each game has its differences and each one is kind of worth going back to at some point, you know? Yes. Yeah, and so I see myself like maybe in three to five years being like I wonder what new Leaf is feeling like now, you know and just revisiting that yeah, maybe like 10 years because I do I expect to be playing New Horizons for a very long time. Oh, yes, so Let's go ahead and move into our next topic and it is actually animal crossing over the last decade. So I have some fun categories for us to discuss for this. And the first that I want to cover is our favorite moments for animal crossing over this last decade because I made a video about it recently and it was it was more focused on like the history of animal crossing over the last decade and there is some things here and there that I Skipped specifically like I didn't really set the stage by saying like, oh, you know 2010 started and the latest game was city Folk, you know, but yeah, I do want us to end Sergio like I haven't gotten your ideas on this but I do want us to go over like our favorite moments and I guess the other categories are saddest moments and most surprising moments. So yeah Sergio, let's let's hear some of your favorites for this. Past decade sure thing in when it comes down to it for sure. The biggest one is the the one and only Mainland game that we got this decade the release of new Leaf. I guess following it through, you know through its initial reveal and then some III is where it wasn't and then finally when they really announced a release date after it had been in Japan for so long, but just overall the release in finally been able to play new leaf and I mean Animal Crossing fully back into our lifestyle was amazing that it that is my single biggest animal crossing moment of this decade. Yeah, and you know just for like a little bit of context to like the wait for this game was crazy. It was completely insane. I think the first time we saw it was E3 2010 and after that it was just like nothing for long long long periods of time like we would go year like a year. Year or two without seeing anything. So I think I think E3 2011 or sometime around then we did get a trailer but then E3 2012 like they skipped Animal Crossing completely and it wasn't till later in the summer. They had a japan-only event that talked about it and it was all in Japanese. But you know, we could enjoy the visuals and stuff and videos but outside of that like all the announcements were. For that they had their own direct that talked about the release, you know, and so it wasn't till after the game like had come out that we got I think the next year in February a direct of our own. Yeah actually cover that game. So it was a long wait. It was really hard waiting for it and it was really hard knowing that the game was out there. A lot of people were already experiencing it if they lived in Japan. This was like the linen coat Nowadays who you know they were both based out of Japan. So I watched every single one of their videos. Yeah, so I don't know. I I put this in my as if one of my favorite moments as well. It was a very strange day like I remember that day perfectly but it was strange mostly because like the last turn before returning to my friend's apartment where we could finally like unwrap our games put them in our 3DS has and play I Rear-ended at a red light there and it was such a bummer and then I was like, oh whatever it was. We finally got like all of that settled and then we went back and we played for hours and hours and we were all very hungry and then we still kept playing for hours and doing nothing about it. So yeah, that was a fun one. I really appreciated that. Yes, definitely. So the next one is the treehouse. Payment of when they showed New Horizons not the initial reveal. I am really really partial to whatever they showed on the Treehouse segment. I think they really went into detail about everything and they really clarified a lot of things that kind of mmm. I don't want to see this appointed me on the initial reveal. They kind of confuse me. And then in the treehouse segment, then it really showed that. This was just a new regular good Animal Crossing game and it really cemented that. You know, it's going to be a really good game in that. I cannot wait for it. Yeah. I remember that reveal being very strange because you know, I was live streaming the whole time kind of seeing the chat as they saw it and it was It was jarring at first, you know like yeah looked so different than what we were used to even though now, I look at it. I'm like, oh, yeah, this is definitely the way we had to go with this, you know, but yeah, but at first, you know, like everybody was a bit hesitant toward the new look crafting was a very I guess contentious addition at first like I think there are people who are really not wanting crafting. I'm sure there are still people who don't and An really felt like it's the right direction for the game, you know, but yeah, I think overall it's going to be a new experience. It's going to be something different from the previous four games that we've had which you know, they're different from each other of course, but they all kind of do the same thing. Whereas crafting. I feel really changes that up, you know. Yes, it gives us a new experience. But yeah, I think the Treehouse really did a lot for people and even like afterwards after that reveal. I kind of went through the trailer a pretty pretty in-depth and looked at everything and I think as I was looking at things closely people were like, oh, okay this seems yeah this seems like a special game, you know, like it seems like it's different. Yes, but I'm they were starting to feel okay with what they just saw exactly. Yeah. So the Treehouse definitely cleared that up and I like that for me. I put the New Horizons reveal just because I so relieved I was so relieved to finally see animal crossing and I've waited years and years for that moment 2015 the weight began and it took four years to finally see the game. So yeah, it's is a that was a big moment for me this decade for sure. Nice nice and the third and last one for me. It actually happened not that long ago. Was the cake a slider concert where he opened before the squid sisters for his platoon concert that some lucky people got to go to in Japan. Not only that. I mean it was awesome scene, you know KK performing the theme for New Horizons, but also at that event there was a cake a mascot like walking around and allowing for photo opportunities. It was amazing to see like videos on Twitter. Of people taking pictures with the cake a slider and it definitely looks a lot better than the KKK that was in the Harvey video. Oh man that cake a slider is like really something. Yeah. Yeah. No, that was really cool. And it made a lot of sense because you know, they were there for Splatoon concert. We know the teams that work on Splatoon and Animal Crossing are pretty similar. You know that's coming out of this same I guess. How do we describe this? Because Nintendo's a big company everybody they're pretty big and so they have a lot of different development teams and some of them some of their I guess in house Studios kind of work on certain types of games, but you know, there's still a lot of movement between all of them. Yeah. Um, so, you know people will shift from one game to another but regardless this one is for the most part under nogami who works on Splatoon and Animal Crossing. So, you know, it's natural to have your star I guess performer from Animal Crossing kind of show up at that Splatoon concert, you know. Yeah, and it's so cool to watch that too. Because if you ever watch like live performances in Japan, it's really awesome to see just because of how cool. Japanese Crowds Are they do a really awesome job of like being into the show and being participatory you during that, you know, yeah. So yeah, that was a very cool moment. And I really I was happy when I heard that you like immediately were looking up how people got there because yeah, like, you know, like if anybody's going to be at a cake a slider show It should be you. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, so I guess my last one is a little bit different than yours and it's one that's it's kind of sad, but it is also happy but my other favorite moment was that the Isabel fake-out essentially? Yeah back in September, which if you don't know it was essentially there was a Nintendo Direct Isabelle popped up on the screen and we were like yes, it's finally happening. Animal Crossing is getting announced. This is great. This is what we wanted and then it turns out it wasn't Animal Crossing on switch. It was Isabelle for Smash and it was a roller coaster of emotions. But after that we did get Tom Nook announcing the new game is in the work so that whole thing. I was just like, all right Nintendo. I feel like you knew exactly what you were doing here. You knew people were waiting for this announcement. So it was just like let's mess with people and and I love a good prank and this one, you know, it's generally harmless and we got the news we wanted so that's a good prank. That's a good prank. Yeah. Yeah, awesome. So let's go ahead and move into our saddest moments Sergio. What bummed you out this decade with Animal Crossing? Well, the one that jumped to the top of my list of sad moments is the delay when they did, you know, it was very nice to Finally see the game, but they when they really when they announced the date that it was going to be March 2020 which you know, a lot of us were suspecting. We just didn't want to believe it. It was either going to be Animal Crossing or Luigi or another game getting delayed and I guess New Horizons took it for the team. Yeah, and I mean, like I said, we may have expected it but even so it really hurt in because especially because like You always say we were waiting so long to finally see the game and then we do and then it's still so far away when they announced the date. Yeah, that was the single saddest moment after decade. Yeah it is and you know, I didn't want it to be true, but it was like there's so many games stacked at the end of the year once again, and it made sense for them to move it for like two reasons. I think one was definitely like they had just gotten Planes from investors about how back heavy their release dates had been the previous year and so they're like, oh man, you know, we're doing the same thing. We got to push something and then on top of that it's like maybe they didn't have anything for spring quite yet. So that fills in that part of the schedule and then of course, there's Nintendo's official reason of giving their, you know, work-life balance to their employees, which is also important. Oh, yeah, so overall I think it's going to amount to a really nice product. It's going to amount to you know, just good treatment of your developers, which is it's rare. Unfortunately in a you know video game industry. So luckily Nintendo pays attention to that makes things work for their their team their schedule, you know, yes, so yeah, I'm still bummed about it like yeah, my guess was Little just this past Friday. I was like December 6th 2019. That's the data release Animal Crossing. So it would have been the day just this past Friday, but we've still got a few months to go but it's not far like once we hit the 20th here, it's literally just going to be three months away. So yeah. Yeah, we're getting close. It's only it's it's only getting closer. Yes. Yes, cool my first sad moment. Was definitely the pocket Camp direct and I mean it was happy because we got to finally see the mobile game, but I was unhappy about the the announcement for it where they were just like we're not talking about anything else but pocket Camp. There's not going to be a switch game as I'd be a 3DS game you all just have to wait for that news and I was just like man, we wait and wait and there's finally something and they're like, no this isn't it? And so I still went in and I was like, please be lying. Tell us something and unfortunately, they were not they were telling the truth. And so they that's it. So yeah, that was my first sad moment. Yeah. Yeah. I remember that one. That was pretty disappointing to but you know, at least they were direct about it. Yeah, that's true. They did tell us the truth at least so my second disappointment in terms of Animal Crossing for this decade. And how man sorry to say but yes it is. I'm evil Festival. I guess the saddest part was seen an animal crossing game getting an ounce and then within a few seconds see what it is in just seeing that it's not looking what we wanted what we think we should have gotten you know what we were expecting everybody wanted a Mainline game on the Wii U, or at least like an enhanced version of new Leaf understanding that, you know. Next was in the way at that point. So seeing something completely different and then getting to see more of it and basically realizing that this is really just for amiibo in to sell amiibo figures overall. I'm evil Festival was just a sad game for the decade to me. Yeah, and you know, this is been admitted to by Echo kill Goku who was like, yeah. We just really wanted Animal Crossing amiibo. Yeah and You know, like she's right I did too but they could have done something a little better with it. And so yeah, and I think a lot of that disappointment really also stems from like we're waiting for that Mainline game and this isn't quite it and it's not as good as it could be so it's kind of not worth it. Yeah. Yeah, so I got that my other sad moment was that the Sanrio amiibo cards didn't come to North America. And it was sad because I didn't import them early enough and so they got really expensive and it just taught me a lesson overall. It made me realize that like if there's something that's region exclusive. It's probably not going to come to your region anytime soon. Like you're gonna have to get it, you know, yeah. Yeah, so it's a bummer, but luckily now I have them so it's not as big a deal, but I still still kind of wish that they'll re-release all of these amiibo and at least bring them once New Horizons is out, you know, yeah, hopefully and I agree with you that if you see something cool for Animal Crossing that it's not an ounce for North America or your might as well get it sad to say but I think Animal Crossing gets that kind of treatment more than something like Mario or even sell that gets things released in Japan or in Europe that don't make it over here, but I think animal animal Get to the worst. So definitely if you see something and you get a chance to import you I think you should yeah. So my third and last sad moment for Animal Crossing for this decade is the fact that they have not confirmed Cloud saves for New Horizons in the actually been pretty open about not not being a part of basically not being non-existent not implemented and it is disappointing. We know the game is not rowdy at something could change something could be done but it doesn't sound like that's the case and knowing how precious our towns are going to be. Our islands are gameplay our saves in seeing Nintendo not really addressed that yet. That's disappointing to me and it's pretty sad. So I'm going to put that here on my list, but it's still with some hope that something gets done, you know between now and launch. Yeah. I'm hoping this is one of those cases where it's like not quite translated very Well, like maybe it's a mistranslation with their answer, you know and hoping they change their mind because like I don't know what it is with nogami and Cloud saves but the dude is against them. Yeah, so like he's already done this to Splatoon and I'm just like come on you guys like come on just let us save our towns like they're they take a lot of effort and it's such a bummer to see him disappear. Yeah. Yeah, my last one is that And this one's another kind of news related one and it felt it feels like the same burn as like pocket Camp the pocket Camp direct but it was Nintendo skipping any sort of news back in the February Direct in 2019, because at that point like it was the first direct since we had heard about the game and we're like, they've got to talk about it. Right like it's coming in 2019 if they if it's still coming like they got to talk about it and then they didn't Just skipped it and it was another one of those like we thought you changed a Nintendo but you didn't you're still leaving us in the dark on all of this and it's such a bummer. Yeah, you know what thinking back? I think part of the reason or I guess the fact that they didn't show it should have pointed to us that this game was probably not going to make it in 2019 if anybody thought that I guess they were right so It's true. Just not seeing it at that direct. You know, that was a start of the bad signs. Basically for the release date. Yeah, that's true. It was definitely like you can't go that long without saying something about such a huge game, you know. Yeah, especially like half a year. They went into a went without saying a single thing about it. And yeah, it's a big game so they must they should start talking about it soon and even now like, We've had a couple appearances in directs and I'm just like all right, you guys start dropping the news we need some like we want to see these new screenshots. We want to see whatever you got and we're going to get into some exciting stuff. That was just random and I think we really got it by a fluke. Yeah. All right. Well, I think that was all of our saddest moments, right? Yes. Alright, then let's go ahead and move into the most surprising moments of the decade. Sergio what is it that surprised you this decade well first and foremost it's actually haken taking the podcast for Animal Crossing because you know, we kind of touched on it on previous episodes how all of this began but when you either I think you do told me be a disc or DM that you were doing an animal crossing podcast. That was a really surprising moment to me like it made so much sense that there should have been a Animal Crossing podcast by then and there really wasn't so that was a surprise to me and being being able to support you pretty much from from very close to the beginning. That was awesome in a very nice surprise to have Animal Crossing in podcast form this decade for sure. Yeah, and I mean it's it was very strange for me like looking around and trying to find an animal crossing podcast and essentially finding nothing to you know. So yeah, I'm glad I was able to surprise you with those those things and I'm glad you've joined us for this show. And because it's been it's been really great to make I always think about this game wait way more than I should and now this has always felt like my outlet to be like I get to talk about this even more. This is where I let it all out and tell everybody how I feel about Animal Crossing. Yeah for me, I guess mine are a little different. The first surprise for me was that there was no we you Animal Crossing game. It was like it was expected. You know, I felt like Animal Crossing was one of those one of those series that just like had a game every single console now, you know, so for it to be skipped. It was like what how I can't believe Of that like this doesn't seem like you're making the right decision, you know, yeah. Yeah, so I don't know it just felt like not cool. So yeah, it's surprising it's surprising to see the we you skipped. I mean it kind of technically didn't with like the amiibo Plaza and amiibo Fest not not the amiibo Plaza that what was it called that just Animal Crossing Plaza, right? Yes, and then amiibo Festival from there. But I mean still like it's a Mainline game that we were waiting for. So I was very surprised not to see that on the Wii U. It seemed like a good console for it. Yeah. Yeah, and it should have been something it would have been like a nice send-off to the Wii U or like one of the last big releases for the system Animal Crossing would have been pretty perfect. I think around that time but yeah sadly nothing. Yeah. So another surprise for me for Animal Crossing I think. You can agree was see New Horizons again in the September 2019 direct and I feel like since we saw, you know the reveal at E3 and then a pretty lengthy Treehouse segment on it. We were pretty much set for a while and a lot of us were not expecting it at the September direct especially because Nintendo said, you know, we're focusing on Luigi's Mansion in Pokemon, and it turns out Animal Crossing had the biggest showtime in that drag, so I was surprising and I was just awesome overall. Yeah, that was angry for sure because that was really surprising first off like they go so long without ever focusing on the game and then it just happened to be the biggest thing for that that whole show you know. Yeah, and I was like, yes, that is treat us like that from now on because luckily, you know, we haven't had a direct since then so there hasn't been an opportunity to skip the game again. But yeah, I'm I'm I'm hoping that now they're just like all right. We gotta go full with this Animal Crossing game. Yeah it now it's time to talk about it. So yeah, I was surprised for sure. My next one was actually the welcome amiibo update. So that was there was a lot of brand-new things that Nintendo did with Animal Crossing that have never been done before first, they started doing like spin-offs and then they decided to update new leaf. And to me this was an there were several things. I thought were being said here. They're saying like we have not started working on this new Animal Crossing game. Here is an Date to kind of fill in the Gap, you know, and that was a bummer. That was a bummer to accept. I was just like all right, fine, but the welcome amiibo update. It was fun. It brought me back to New Leaf and it felt like a good time to be playing that game again, you know? Yes. Yeah, so I was surprised they did it. Nobody expected it everybody still like, you know, this game has been out for three years. It's pretty crazy to update it all of the sudden. Yeah, you know, I don't know where so I thought that was cool. Yeah, definitely, especially that it was free. Yeah, definitely big part of why I was so surprised him for sure. Yeah because it was a huge update and they just gave it away. Yeah. Yeah in my third and last Animal Crossing surprise for the decade is actually pocket Camp overall because I don't know if I shouldn't have but I wasn't expecting much I guess based on. Well, not really. I mean Nintendo's mobile game. It's have been pretty good overall. But I don't know for some reason. I wasn't expecting too much. I guess I had low expectations for Animal Crossing as a mobile game, but thinking back. I know I don't play Pocket Camp anymore. But when I did I was really into it and I feel like it offers a little bit of everything that works in Animal Crossing like the villagers the item collecting the crafting being a new thing the different locations. It gives you a little taste of everything you do in a Mainline new. And Animal Crossing game. So having that basically for free if you decide not to buy anything, which you can that was pretty awesome pocket Camp is pretty awesome, honestly. Yeah. Yeah and it's it's a new kind of look at animal crossing it. They definitely filled it with like new ways to play the game new ways to approach it, you know, so I appreciate it at for sure. I still play I've check in Daily still. And yeah, I don't know. I've had a good time with it. I think it's been fun and they did a good job of making it a different experience. I think because you know, I think a lot of people were disappointed when it wasn't similar as similar as they wanted it to be to a Mainline Animal Crossing, but I'm like, you know, I've played a lot of animal crossing at this point. I'm open to the new things, but I am wanting something. A little bit bigger a little bit more classic feeling at this point, you know. Yes Mmm Yeah, and then kind of going off of yours. My last one was that I was just surprised to see spin-off titles. That's true. That's true before this decade. We never saw that before, you know, like it's just a new way to approach Animal Crossing and that's what I appreciated about pocket Camp. That's what I appreciate about. Happy home designer and even amiibo Festival to some extent, you know, Because a happy home designer. I felt grew the design so much that I was just like I don't want to play the next game and not have all of these options anymore. So that really changed up the game for me at least from that perspective and then amiibo Festival. It was just you know, I didn't know that I wanted an animal crossing party game until they announced it and then you know now that it's out. I still kind of want an animal crossing party game. Because I think they should go back to this idea for sure and do it again. Yeah, because I think it could be fun. Yeah, definitely agree. Mmm. Yeah. All right. Well, this was really fun. It was fun to chat with you about the last decade of Animal Crossing. I'm looking forward to the next one will probably you know, talk about what we think is coming up with that pretty soon but that's going to be for another episode. So a little bit of an anticipatory comment there for all of you, but let's go ahead and talk about these new screenshots that we've both mentioned this episode, but haven't really gotten to Anything about yet. So just as background for everybody Nintendo held an event in Mexico and they it was I guess I don't know exactly what they showed off. But the thing we did see come out of it was some new screenshots for Animal Crossing and these were posted by my parents and he kind of just posted on Twitter some new the new announcement from Nintendo. It was essentially a photo that he took of like a kind of PowerPoint slide, you know? Yes, and so everybody saw this and was just like what this is insane. We just got something new and the big news that was tied to it. Was that Animal Crossing is now getting localized in Latin American Spanish and there will be elements of Mexican culture in it. So they showed off a new dress that was part of it. They also showed a monarch butterfly which isn't new to the series, but it is Significant because if you don't know monarchs migrate every year to Mexico and so there's a huge migration in October or so. And you know, there was one random year where we drove through Mexico during that time of year and it's insane to see how many monarchs are flying through that country. It's amazing nice. So yeah, that's kind of the relevance with the Monarch in that one, but it has been in the game before. But regardless like there was also like a new nose has confirmed on this before we've only had triangle noses. Now, we have kind of more of a rounded and square nose and there's like updated visuals to the game. It's just it's looking really good. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. So all of this came from just a little screenshot thing, but then my parents says that Nintendo gave him some more screenshots to share so We got more and these screenshots are just they're wonderful. They are so nice to look at and it just feels like they are fine-tuning the visuals of this game big time right now, you know, yes, yes. Yes. Oh Sergio, I made a video about this but I really wanted to check in with you and see like would you what do you think of the screenshots? How do you feel about the news and everything that they announced so I think the game is looking amazing like you said and it's nice to get new screenshots and being able to analyze. Them and getting new details like you you're always amazing at doing that by the way, and so we really appreciate the videos you do but gaining new info is great in getting information for Latin American Spanish translation officially for once. It's it's pretty awesome. I I did play when I had a second town in nearly five plated in Spanish, but it's the Spain Spanish and you know, you could you could you could get along like if you know a Spanish you Do you know what your reading but every now and then you see a word or a phrase that you were really not familiar with and that's fine. That's that's cool too. But now getting a Latin American one and then having Mexican culture references like it specifically added to it. I think that's great. I think that's especially really good for Mexico itself. So that in Latin America for people that are there that play Animal Crossing in getting this recognition in this translation so they can enjoy enjoy the game a hundred percent way more. That's pretty awesome. Yeah. Yeah. It's a really cool thing to see like a game that you love get just a little bit closer to home to you, you know? Yeah because you know Animal Crossing's always been kind of this huge Global thing and it's represented a lot of the time through events and holidays, you know, so there are like region-specific holidays and region specific items that have come out through and I really like that they are, you know, it pushes people to build communities around that and meet people from other parts of the world just to like because you know, it is an annoyance that say South Korea has an event that we don't have you know, but at the same time you're just like oh man, what if I just knew somebody from South Korea and could go over there on that day and then something I want to kind of capture to like this is going to be a side note, but you know when we're working on. The calendar all the time, at least I'm always thinking about it. And one thing that I want to make sure with this calendar is that it captures the international aspect of Animal Crossing where oh nice each the calendars are going to have every holiday like 400 no matter where it's from, you know. Oh, yeah, so I want people to be able to look at their calendar and be like, oh, wow, it's this day over here in the world. I got to go find somebody from there and go celebrate. Great, you know yes, so I feel like it opens you up in one way to just like learn about different cultures learn about different things around the world and also get some cool new stuff in Animal Crossing. Hey, yeah. So yeah, I really like that aspect. I think it's really cool to see that like Mexico is getting some cool treatment Latin America is getting some cool treatment. It's a it's a big awesome change for sure. Yes. Mmm. Yeah, so outside of that I guess I had this note here. I'm trying to figure out what I meant by it. Please leave us your questions in the comments on Twitter via email or the post office on Discord will be answering a ton next episode. Oh, that's what I mean. Okay, I guess yeah. I wanted to say that we got some awesome questions in the post office recently on Discord and I want you all. All to send in some questions and stuff. We're going to do kind of a male episode Mailtime Post Office episode, you know, so yeah send us your stuff leave them on, you know, wherever you can contact us comments here on YouTube. Send us a tweet. Send us an email. All that stuff is findable. I don't know exactly where but I'll have stuff in the description as always, you know, yes and you know on Discord check the post. Send us something there, but there are a lot of really cool things that I want to answer and I'm in an answering questions mood. Mostly because of this hundred day countdown. Yeah going right. All right, so we're gonna be answering a lot of things next week and it should be pretty fun. Yeah, I guess yeah any other thoughts you had on the screenshot Sergio? No, I think it's very nice to get information. And honestly, I feel like that's just the beginning. I kind of feel like like we should be expecting little things like this happening way more often. Yeah II definitely feel like it's beginning to it's just like this next year. They've got to start giving us a lot of information about this game and just you know, pumping it out there getting people excited. It's going to be a big game and it's going to be one that's like going to be relevant for at least a year, you know. Oh, yeah, so everybody who plays it like there's this Feeling that you get when you play and you're just like, oh man, I really want to play and see what all of the seasons look like. Yeah. So yeah, that's that's what I'm hoping happens with everybody on this one cool. So let's go ahead and move into our Hankins Islander corner. And for those of you who don't know every week we ask our patrons on patreon a question and then read their answers here, and we actually wanted to get started a little bit early for them. On this 100-day countdown. So this is their question for day a hundred and one the question is which two villagers. Do you hope join you when you start your Island? So what we know about New Horizons is that we are going to be starting with two villagers and two villagers only. This is the lowest amount we've ever gotten hopefully we can get like 20 of them. I don't know but I did it. We just wanted to know which two villagers were the ones that they To start with so Sergio. What do you think honestly and I know this is bearing on very not likely to happen. But I hope I get to brand-new Builders right from the beginning. I one brand new ones considering the amount of villagers that are that already exists. You know, I don't think they're gonna add that many new ones or at least not as many as they are now, so it's unlikely you got to be pretty lucky to get two brand new ones, but I really hope I do. Yeah, I'm kind of Eileen that way too and I'm gonna be a little bit I guess not so picky with that either and I will consider brand new ones as just ones that I've never had before my town. Oh nice, they could be ones that have existed before you know, yeah, but they would be brand-new to me at least. Yeah. So yeah. I'm hoping for like a nice fresh start, you know, it's just like we're getting a completely new game new setting so just giving you stuff. That's what I'm here for guys. Yeah, cool. So let's go ahead and go back and forth on these answers Sergio. Do you want to start sure thing? Our first answer is by so each orn and they say they want stitches in Marshall in those are amazing. So we fix great pics. Yeah. Those are really fun. Definitely those two have always been like very popular. So yeah, I get it. I get it. LOL Walker said stitches and Lolly. They're cute. - makes me makes my heart Happy I would have said feline because he's my favorite villager in Animal Crossing New Leaf. But I imagine he would still be amiibo exclusive if they brought him back at all, which I hope they do. Yeah, I really do wonder what they're going to do with those like amiibo only villagers that they introduced in the previous games. Like I hope they come back in some way. Yeah, but yeah another stitches fan very good and then lolly lolly is really cute. Yeah, yeah, definitely and I just hope everyone makes it back all the villagers all the amiibo wants everyone everyone. Yeah, definitely. So lean see Hitler says Marshall in Maple. If I don't at least get Marshall, I will start my game over and over until I do he's so cute another Marshalls. Yeah, definitely adding to the popularity of that awesome guy. Yeah, two stitches two Marshals so far a lot of popularity for sure and maple Maple is cute too. I love her. Definitely. Yep. So Kevin's son said Tangy and Nate the two villagers. I was super bummed about leaving them in. Population growing when I updated to Wild World and yeah, that's another thing like there's some villagers that I've never had since population growing so I wouldn't mind seeing them either. You know, it feel like coming home in a way. Oh, yeah. Yeah, definitely. So Elijah Baron says Poncho is my number-one friend from New Leaf and Filbert from pocket Camp. So it would be awesome to start a new island with them as neighbors, but those sheep loose look so cool. So maybe you need Nice nice. Oh, I I feel like a lot of people got a touch to feel burning pocket Camp to yeah, filbert like that was one of the first characters to kind of get highlighted. Yeah the fortune cookies and he had a really cute set like the stokehole space thing that he had. That was awesome. So I definitely see the appeal for sure. Nice. Let's see. I think we were on Tab, correct. Yes cool. So tab said I want to be A prize with some new villagers I've never seen before. I think I would like one villager to be cute and a small like a frog hamster squirrel and one big species like a gorilla or a rhino. I can't wait to see who arrives with me on the island. I love I used to not like the gorillas but now I love the gorilla and the Rhinos. I love them to I just like rhinos in general. So I'm a fan nice. I'd like to have some approach like very different what one of each type of thing. NG yeah, that's a really cool way to put it to like just having completely different types of animals there. Yeah. Nice. So cyber gyro says, it's Sneaky and Mitzi with static as a close. Third. I wish for all three if I could nice. Yeah Mitzi. She's one from my population growing town that somehow. She always manages to be in every single one of my game. So we'll see if it happens again. I'd be I'd be very torn restarting if Mitzi where they all got you guys. Yeah, so lampshades said I would melt if my pouch Chief stepped up off the dodo plane with me accompanied by a new bat villager or any other villager really nice. Yeah. Having bats would be great. I think they're so I was I watching that showed some bats I think is like Survivor or something and I was like, yeah, they're cute. Nice and are less answer for this week is by Grizzly Nina and she said I grew very fond of Eric in New Leaf. So I would love a lacy villager like him to supply the comic relief and I think I would like my second villager to be won. I've never ever had before it's time to make some brand-new Island friends. Definitely definitely agree with that. Yeah. It's for sure a good thing to have some like brand new. Villages with you. Yeah, I think a lot of people are hoping for that especially if they're ones that they like so I think it's yeah. All right, everybody. 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We are now 101 days away from Animal Crossing New Horizons. This episode, we introduce the 100 Day Countdown to New Horizons. Each day will feature a new question to answer until the game releases on March 20th, 2020. After, Sergio and I discuss some of the biggest Animal Crossing moments of the decade. We then talk a bit about the latest screenshots we got from an event Nintendo held in Mexico. Finally, we end with an early question to kick off the countdown to New Horizons! Time Stamps: 0:05 - Introduction 2:12 - 100 Day Countdown to New Horizons 16:10 - Animal Crossing over the last Decade 45:10 - New Horizons Screenshots 53:02 - Haken's Islander Corner 59:36 - Outro Announcements  Support my channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chuyplaysnintendo  Join the Haken Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/wJTCMRK  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 