Welcome to heekin in Animal Crossing podcast your podcast dedicated to all things Animal Crossing episode. 115 is brought to you by James Washington one of our newest patreon patrons today Sergio and I will be answering the week's questions for the 100 day countdown talking about a possible. We you port and the current state of Animal Crossing news, so to begin Hello Sergio. How you doing? Hi Chuy. I'm doing pretty awesome. It's been another really good week. Like honestly this 2020 has been great. And you know, we're not even at the best part of it that's fire is coming up and yet no, I agree with you Sergio. It's just been really good today. Lots of progress was made. I've gotten better mock-up of the calendar now, all the art is in for the show for the next couple of months and then I hit 10,000 subscribers on YouTube. So You know, yeah. Yeah big thing and I'm really happy that people are enjoying our show and the podcast of obviously, you know, because I mean this started the whole thing and now it's just like it's crazy to know that people are waiting anxiously every Tuesday for the podcast to Papa. I know in all of those people are going to be you know with us through this 7 plus year your name for New Horizons. Yeah, it's been so long, but we're nearly at the end. They're essentially we've got seven Friday's left without this game. Which means on the 8th Friday will be good. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like there was something else. I wanted to tell you. Oh, yeah, I beat Pokémon as well. I finally finished it off. Oh, that's right. That's right. Yes. I streamed it over the last two days because oh my goodness that anything is long. Yeah. It's kind of too long. I kind of wish they Change things around a bit. Yeah it is and you know, maybe I'll talk about that a little later. But who knows for now I beat Pokemon and I'm happy that I can spend the rest of my two months playing Luigi's Mansion and Fire Emblem all nice. Nice. Yeah. So, I mean, that's basically what's going to get me through these next eight weeks seven weeks that we've got left. It's it's not long now. Yes. Yeah essentially 8 So days left of the podcast before this game comes out, we're gonna have to do a live show pretty soon. Yes. Yes. Yeah. I'm thinking yeah, very soon. We're gonna have a whole celebration Extravaganza coming cool. So let's go ahead and answer some of these questions for the week. We've got seven brand new questions to count down from day 58 through 52. So yeah as per usual we're gonna just be going through that one. Read a countdown and let's see what the questions are. The first question is from day 58. And that question was your favorite museum artwork. So Sergio, what do you have to say about this one? Mine is the capitoline wolf also known as the motherly statue. It's the that statue of a wolf that has to baby like creatures beneath it if it's the real one if it's the fake one, it only has one. I really like it because it's a wolf, but it's also because you It's an animal and it matches Animal Crossing. So I like yeah. Yeah, I think what's cool about that one too is that this is the first game will essentially new Leaf was the first game to actually have statues and sculptures for the artwork before then. It was yeah it before then it was all portraits and paintings, you know, right? So I think they added like a lot of really cool things with that. This one was actually my second choice on but I decided Go with another one because I saw you already picked. This one. I probably would have picked it but I went the more Classic route with mine and I said the dynamic painting which is based off The Great Wave off Kanagawa Hokusai. So it's the of course famous. I mean all of these are very famous pieces that they have but this one's the more Japanese painting with the wave over the mountain and right, you know how you can tell if it's fake or not is if you if the mountains Is bigger or smaller? Oh, yeah. Smaller Mountain. I think it's the real one. Yes. Yeah, but it's pretty fun that both of ours have like the different alternate version right now because and I like that they approached the artwork this way a new Leaf because before it was like you could put it up in your place and it looked normal essentially, but then you'd go talk to blathers and he'd be like, oh it's a fake and then you'd put it back up in your place and it looked like really messy, you know. Oh, okay. Yeah, so it didn't really capture that like it was a fake because it was just like, you know remade in some way. Yes. So the new Leaf versions are like here's the slightly different version of it so we know it's fake because it's different right now. So yeah. No, that's how they essentially do the differences in the older games. And I remember being like what I would have noticed that if it looked like that before I turned again I can tell this is a A fake come on. Yeah, honestly, I'm hoping they change them around this time like the difference is I hope they make them different this time. So we don't know what to expect them. Yeah, and I I mean it's still be really fun to have that idea run through because you never know if they're gonna change it up again and just take it out. But right I think they'd I think they'd keep it going, you know, yes. Yeah. So anyways, the next question is for day 57 and the question was Your favorite holiday special characters. So these are special characters who essentially are, you know, they only appear during a holiday. It's different than other characters special characters. Like is it Katie? The little cat that comes every once in awhile or Phineas? You know, whenever you got a badge they come just when they come but these other special characters come specifically for a holiday. So who's your favorite here? My favorite is jingle. Hi gotta go with the classic in You know, I believe in his cause basically a of gift-giving. It's pretty awesome. And he's just like the classic reindeer, you know, perfect for toy day. Yeah use the black nose reindeer it right? Yeah. I really like a jingle that probably would have been my choice to I feel like you're getting a lot of the choices that I would have made this time around but I was like, you know, I gotta go with something that's like it's probably not. My favorite aesthetically because he's actually kind of creepy but it's definitely my favorite in terms of like what is this? Right? So I went with Zipper T Bunny famous for having a big creepy bunny mask and zipper down the back and you know, there's there's a lot of possibilities about whose Zipper T Bunny is I like to think that t in the middle is a clue is Right Mortimer. Is it took to KK? Is it who else do we have? There are a lot of characters, right? Yeah start with the T. You know, I guess who do you think is a purty bunny is oh, man. Hey, I gotta think it started. My her just wants to be back in town, you know in the spotlight a little bit. But yeah, he definitely doesn't like it when you look at the shipper. Yeah, and it wouldn't be the first time that tortimer is dressing up either because we do have Corner myrrh in wild world who does the A Corn Festival, you know, which honestly that's one of my favorites for sure to I just love that. It's so clearly tortimer, right? Yeah. Okay. So question for day 56 was what is your favorite cake a slider song Sergio? What is your favorite? Nice a silly question. This one? My favorite is KK Modi introducing new. Leaf as soon as I heard it it was an instant classic. It hit me right in the fields. It's so emotional very nice way. It's like a love song. I Like to imagine that it is so yeah KK Modi. Yeah, and that's a good pick. I actually remember asking you what your top 5 favorites were and you gave me a list very quickly because I mean obviously that's something you're going to know all the time. But yeah, most of it was because I was getting One of those music boxes that had a little kick a slider print on it is but I knew I wanted to make sure I got you a song that you liked a lot, right? Yeah Okay cool. So my favorite is KK Jazz and this is yeah. This is one that Pete mentioned last week when he was on the show and I just agree with them. I just like that song a lot. It's even the intro I'm opening up to so that nice. Yeah, I think I think it's a great song. I think the lot of fun and it just makes you feel good when you're listening to it. Yeah, and I want to say that was one of the originals right from population growing. Yeah. Yeah, it's been throughout the games. Yeah. Yeah, and you know I and I think this one recently became my favorite because I would normally say kick a techno-pop, correct? Yeah, just because I have like that that songs got history for me. I Ran into cake a slider my first time and I was just like dude play whatever you want and then he played it and I hated it. I was like, what is this? This is I don't know and then I put it I put the, you know, the bootleg in the one that he sneaks into your pocket for free and then I listened to that and I was just like, oh, this is the I get it now. So now I do still really love KK techno-pop, but I think Jazz has recently taken the lead for me. Me so day 55. The question is if you could add a new fruit to the game, what would it be Sergio? What are you thinking? I'm thinking limes or Lemonis in Spanish because you know lemon is nice but you might agree with me that you know, we won the green ones. We want the little green ones that lives here Lee Lehman over there where the the names are switch. I don't know why so I would want those, you know that they have different different. Of taste and I do prefer lives. Yeah, there's there's a lot of room for them for sure because you know, there's a lot of fruits that I'm surprised. They haven't added yet to write. So for me I said just in general berries on bushes. I don't I guess it didn't really matter what kind of berries but when they introduced the bushes in New Leaf when I saw those I was like, oh obviously you're gonna be putting these on the berries on these, you know, like it seemed like yeah the thing to do when you did that but they didn't and I was like what come on. It's like what are you thinking? Right? Yeah. So just in general berries on bushes that that's what I want and that would be a very nice opportunity for a Pokemon crossover because Pokemon has so many different Mary types. Yeah, that's true. They have just berries all over the place. So yeah, no definitely you can do a Pokemon cross over there. All right. So where was I day 54, correct? Yes. Awesome. So day 54. This one's an evil question copper or Booker. What are you thinking Sergio? Yeah, this this was definitely a tough choice, but I'm gonna go with copper because I mean I do like Booker but I think he's just a little too careless. I little too much I know copper is also a little too, you know, Lenient to strict, but I would prefer that and honestly, I think part of that is because I had Booker in my data so I'm kind of due for a change. Yeah. Yeah, I guess you're right. I definitely had Booker as well. But I said Booker still just because I think I really like his carelessness and kind of the way he approaches things like from throughout the games whenever I remember the first time walking into essentially the police station and you know you talk Copper who's always standing outside ready to give you the latest news on the goings-on around town, you know? Yeah and you're like, oh how professional the very cool and then you walk in and there's this guy just you know, keeping watch over the lost and found and he's like, well, yeah, I guess you can take that it I don't think that's a problem. And so he's just like, you know, he's giving stuff away all the time. Yeah, so and you know, like even if he leave that stuff it never gets claimed. So it's Right there for you to take it and the whole thing is just like a little joke with him being kind of a bad cop, right? Yeah and by bad, I mean like not great at his job. So yeah, I like I love them both though. I really hope they don't yes separate the two. Yeah, that'd be great. Yeah, because I think it's just such a bummer that you either go with like the modern style police station with copper or you go with More rustic one with Booker and I'm just like not just give me just give me both of them. I don't care. Yeah, if and let me just customize the look of the police station anyways, so, yes, they'll be idea. Yeah. So yeah, that's basically the thing with that one and it was it was very hard to get the police station in that game. It just like it took time it took effort. Yeah. Well not really just really had to get lucky. Yeah. All right. So Dave 53. The question is your favorite special interaction and there's some examples here like hide-and-seek lost objects overheard conversations Museum or shop Wanderers. What did you pick for this? I picked hide and seek. I don't know if it was introducing New Leaf of or if it was there before. If not, I would guess maybe city Folk introduced it. But man, I remember the first time it happened in nearly if it actually happened like about six or eight months into the game for me. And I was blown away like Bianca asked me. Do you want to play hide-and-seek? And I was like wait what that's that's that's possible here. And I love that. She was really tricky. She hid behind a three I had a hard time finding her. So I very fondly remember that first time in yeah, definitely my favorite interaction. Yeah, that's one of the really fun ones to I like that they put the pressure on there by putting a timer and everything. So it just makes it very hard to find them for sure. My favorite it's another one that this one's pretty rare and it's one that wasn't listed in the examples, but it's essentially whenever you got sent on a mission to find another villager and bring them back to a villagers house essentially be talking to them inside of their house and then they'd be like, oh, can you bring so-and-so over I need some I have something to say to them, you know. Yeah, and so you go and get them they follow you to their place you both walk in and then you get to see this like really fun conversation. Out and everything. Yeah, so that one to me like it mixes a lot of things where it's like kind of hide and seek because you don't know where they're going to be and then on top. Yeah, and then on top of that it's like it's one of those surprise interactions like sometimes you run by villagers and they're just already talking, you know, so yeah, I feel like it makes has those too and it makes it pretty fun. Yeah. Mmm. Yeah, so day 52 the question was Will you be sharing your town with someone? What are you thinking Sergio for me? It's know at least on the local side of things. But definitely like I mentioned before I'm going to be gathering a ton of resources and I want pretty much anyone that's interested to have at it if you will, so everyone is welcome. Awesome. Yeah for me. It's a maybe it's a maybe a Mario. But yeah. No, I don't know how we're going to To go about playing because I know I want to get Jackie into the game and start playing it as well. So we'll see how we approach it. But yeah, maybe she might play in my town. She might have her own. So we're going to see what happens with that. Yeah. So anyways, either this week's questions were pretty fun. We're getting really close essentially two days away now from 50 days. Can you believe that is that's crazy. It is insane how Close we are to this point now, it's been it's been a long wait. It's been essentially September 2018 was when we heard about this game and it took them nine months to tell us something but of course we're going to talk about music a little bit later. So Sergio you came up with a real fun discussion for this next topic. What are you thinking? So it's it has to do with some rumors that having floating out there. Originally it All Began by a rumor by Emily Rogers who is pretty well-known, you know for getting Nintendo information right ahead of time in some rumors that most of the time in the being correct. So she mentioned that there are two more games that are gonna get we a ports from the Wii U to the switch. There were no other specifics so we don't really know what's going on. But I'm a member of the IGN NBC podcast Pierre. He talked more about it and he kind of gave us more information. He said the secret word. Will you porch that are being discussed one of them is a 9 out of 10 for me in one of them is more of a 6 out of 10. I really like when Nintendo did with their take on real time strategy games and quote. So if there's rumors are to be believed, I think they are and I think that comment about the real-time strategy games. It's most likely tied to the nine out of ten game and if that's the case, I think it's they're talking about Pikmin 3 and that's also been rumored a Pigman game on the switch would be great. But when you look at the other side the six out of ten honestly my first thought when I saw that number I right away went to a Medieval Festival. So it's very possible. You know, it was just it was a Wii U game. It didn't do its best or as well as it could have I think part of it had to do with timing for sure. It came out at a time with people want in our real Main Line Animal Crossing game. So depending if there is a port depending on the time and I think it could do much better. What are your thoughts on? On these rumors. I think I almost feel like they're not really pointing toward Animal Crossing amiibo Festival because I'm surprised you would get a 6 out of 10, I guess to me. I kind of leaned toward like Star Fox Zero maybe that that feels like a possibility to me, but I don't know. I don't know. I'm trying to remember because I listened to the NVC podcast every week and Remember what their thoughts were on Star Fox or other Wii U games, you know, but yeah. No, I mean I'm still like totally open for of course Animal Crossing amiibo Festival coming over but they'd have to make some changes for sure. Right? I just feel like the game as it is now. I don't think I want it again. I want something pretty updated, you know, yes. Yes. Yeah, so but yeah, I think Pikmin that's got to happen. I feel like that's got to happen. But at the same time like it's confusing for it to happen as well because so many people have been waiting for that next Pikmin game. So right that one also falls in the realm of who knows because yeah, but you know, obviously they're saying real time strategy and in tendo's take on it is Pikmin, you know, right? So that's I feel like that just tells us what it is. Yeah, and then the other ones a 6 out of 10. Yeah, and that's that stuff. Like honestly, I cannot really think of any other six out of ten game. You might be on the right track with Star Fox but I think that was a little better than that. I remember that controls were very tricky but the game was really fun. Yeah. Yeah, you know that that is what I've heard about it at least like people who have played it have come out of it going like once you get used to the controls you like it a lot more. Yeah. So it's you know, it can be more positive. But who knows? Yeah. Yeah, so we wanted to discuss a few things. Like you said the game would have to change if it's if I'm evil Festival it since up on the switch and we each have a list if your mind I can go with mine just some changes or additions that we would make to the game if it were to come to the switch. And of course, I think first and foremost I both of you and I have this online play would be a must it has to have that Definitely, I do not want this game. If it doesn't have online play yet this time around. It's just like I don't know. It's it's something that should come standard at this point with all of Nintendo's games simply because like they're already charging for online multiplayer. They might as well make every game have online multiplayer and just up the ante a little bit more make that more appealing for one because you know, a lot of people can still get away. With like just not getting online and doing their own thing which you know, not everybody needs it but occasionally there's that game where you're just like man, I really just wish I could play this online. Why is that not an option? So yeah. Yeah, this one in needs it. I feel like this needs to have online for sure. Yeah, definitely and also related to multiplayer. This would be more of a local Improvement to the experience if you are able to scan with different Trollers, you know either whether it be a Pro Controller or a joy con it would be easier to have multiple controllers that can do the scanning of the amiibo because on the Wii U. It was just the GamePad and you had to either kind of set it on the center table in the neighbor one would scan their me but there or you would pass it around. So I feel like it would be easier if everyone is able to scan the amiibo into their separate controllers. Yeah, you're right because it was kind of annoying having to pass around the the GamePad every time you know. It just didn't seem like I don't know. It just seems like something that you can easily overcome. But at the same time you're like only one of these Joy con sides can scan an amiibo right or you put I don't know. I feel like there's ways around it. That could make it work. Yeah. Yeah, but yeah, but yeah, like passing the controller. I just we don't want to do that anymore and play with her own controller. Yeah, definitely. Then another thing that could happen where this game to come to the switch. It might be time and it would be very nice to have new Animal Crossing amiibo figures. You know, there's there's some key special characters that are missing to have an actual like amiibo figure. This could be the time to bring them. Yeah, there are so many figures that are missing. I get a list on myself all the time just so I can always look back but Yeah, I mean they've and they've only really done the special characters to so the the amount of figures greatly is overshadowed by the amount of cards that are out there. Yes. Yeah, so I'm down for more figures especially ones with like the new costumes for the characters that we've seen so far. So, all right. I think there's room for that for sure. Yeah, and you know speaking of the costumes. I left my best feature for last. I think this would be amazing if they do it. So, you know in amiibo Festival the more you play with a certain I'm able figure you unlock different outfits for that special character. So let's say if they bring this game to switch in their able to connect it to New Horizons. So the costumes are you unlock in a Medieval Festival Plus or whatever they call it what if they carry over to? Horizons and then for example when you see Isabel, she might be wearing her new tradition secure new regular outfit or one of the ones that you unlocked in a Medieval Festival and it will probably be random but it would be a nice way to get them to actually change their outfits like we do in the game, you know. Yeah, that would actually be pretty fun because you have like the villagers that can change their outfits pretty regularly, but the high you know for a long time is about was kind of the only one that did change throughout the year like she had her summer. Her outfit she had her winter outfit and now it does seem like they are giving the special characters at least that but it'd be pretty fun to see them in like other settings and seeing them. We're just their day clothes, you know, yes. Yeah. So I really like that option that idea a lot. It's pretty cool. Yeah, and I like that it's related to just like New Horizons versus it being in amiibo Festival again, right? Yeah. So I guess I should go through my list. Yes. All right. So online play we talked about it. It means it. I just think yes, we need that. My next one is going to sound kind of weird, but it's also weird that it is a thing, but I don't want there to be a need for amiibo with amiibo Festival because it's like a complete barrier to entry for this game. So you cannot buy a copy of a me. So festival and play it without an amiibo. Literally you have to scan in an amiibo figure and Animal Crossing amiibo figure to play it because the the menu like the starting screen actually the starts. Yeah, it does not let you go past that start screen without an amiibo. You have to scan one in and it has to be an animal crossing one and it has to be a figure like you can scan a card either. Yeah, so I mean luckily they overcame that As you know game came packed with one well to Amoeba so that's not a worry. But like if you ever see this game out in the wild do not buy it without an amiibo. You will have to go back to the store and get one. So so yeah, that's kind of what I mean by that but also there's another thing when you're playing the board game mode, you have to roll the dice with your amiibo. You put it on there you hold it and then you remove it and it will roll the dice right? Right. Why why is that the only functionality T this is literally the only thing you do with the amiibo. I just don't think it's needed. You know, it just feels like it's there simply and you know for the most part this game has been admitted to be made just because they wanted to make animal crossing amiibo which duh we wanted them to so that's fine. But like at the same time like come up with something that's a little bit more than yeah, you know. Yeah because you know, like for some people are Actors and they just want the amiibo to have them but like say they got the game and they're like, oh, let me try this game out and then they find out. Oh, I have to open up this amiibo that I don't want to open up because it's like my collector's edition. I am not going to do that. So I'm just never going to play this game, right? But yeah, like I don't know if you're gonna be forcing people to opening opening the amiibo then at least make them do something a little bit more than rolling the dice, which is it's In a button command in Mario Party since the N64 come on. Yeah, we just don't need it to be anywhere. Okay. So the rest of mine they they wouldn't do this. I don't think just because I feel like this these ideas Fall more into the category of amiibo Festival to or just in general brand new Animal Crossing party game. So this first one is I want more minigames and I want minigames to be happen. During the board game. Yes, because if you've played it, you don't play many games during the board game. You literally just roll the dice. I mean, there's kind of mini games when there's like events and characters over and stuff but it's like the most game like they become as like draw this card or guess if the car next card I'm going to draw is higher or lower than this card. It's really it's not in depth or anything. Whereas like instead you could have had like played with The daily activities that you have in Animal Crossing there could be a fishing minigame a bug catching minigame a slingshotting one in art collecting one like you could and I have ideas for these who like the art collecting one you the goal is to pick the right piece of art, they like you get the fake pieces and then the real peace and you have to accurately guess the real pieces more than everybody else, you know, right, right. So yeah, I think there's fun things that you can turn daily activities and to fund many games to play each day, you know, and so like that's what it could be called like it's time for a daily activity at the end of your turn or at the end of the round, you know, and then you get thrown into this little game where it's like catch the most fish and two minutes or something like that, you know, right and so I just feel like that would have been of we really cool thing to do with the game like there's Opportunities there and then even like the holidays they can turn them into fun little activities that you play. So yeah that like I said this idea definitely screams more like oh this needs to be a new game for us trying to Clemente that is because we're not going to do it on this one, you know? Yeah. The next one is I want them to like kind of implement the New Horizons look into it because at this point like you Horizons looks different than what animal crossing. You would have looked like because essentially we got those HD renders in amiibo festival. And yeah, they're really nice. But like the New Horizons ones are just like really nice at this point. At least. I feel like everybody's like now used to the art style and we're just like yes, this game is good. So I would say add some New Horizons costumes for the characters you play as give Nook Timmy and Tommy and Isabelle their new outfits for sure. Sure, and then outside of that I think the board game was nice, but I was always a little bit slat sad that you could only play as a special characters. I think I'd really like to be able to scan in the regular amiibo cards and play as villagers as well. Yes, definitely definitely. So yeah make a new game Nintendo because this is more than important. Yeah, and you know make it fun add some minigames do some cool stuff with it because there's that's just the saddest thing about this. Game for me because I like it. I do think it's really cute. But it's just like it's doesn't play with the concept of Animal Crossing enough for me. Right guys, and you know some extended does like it captures like the daily living type of thing pretty well all the little stories that your characters go through. Those are really nice. But overall, I just feel like there's more aspects to Animal Crossing that have that can be explored, you know? Yeah, and you know, honestly thinking about it in might be based on who made the game. I feel like if somehow they could they were able to get you know, the core development team, too. To be the ones in charge. They know how Animal Crossing is they know what the fence like about it because they are fans themselves. So they would definitely take all of that into account in making really feel like Animal Crossing turn into a board game in a good one this time around. Yeah, for sure. I think they could definitely do some just better stuff with it. And you know, just let somebody who actually really likes Animal Crossing in his Plata and knows the concepts a lot. Make it. Yeah, because yeah, there there a lot of good ideas there that they just didn't get to Right in the last question we have here is do we actually want this we actually want to move a festival on the switch. And if so, when do we want it in? I would say yes. I do want it. I like I said, I feel like a lot of the I mean we can see maybe failure or disappointment. Let's say for a Medieval Festival was the timing it came out at a time when everybody wanted a Mainline game on the Wii U, or at least an enhanced Port of new leaf, and then it Said if we got this in it just wasn't one. Pretty much. Nobody wanted it. You know, we made the most of it but I feel like if it were to come to the switch after New Horizons, it would be a much better experience in with that in mind. I would pick this game as for sometime around January 2021. That's usually when the viewports come out for the switch around January maybe February so I feel like that's enough time between New Horizons in this potential port. People that have been playing New Horizons would get it either, you know, just to experience it if they haven't yet or to get the connectivity that it could offer. So I feel like you know, it's almost a year. I feel like that that's good timing. Yeah, you're right. I feel like if it came out too soon. I don't think anybody would be interested just because like we have this brand new Animal Crossing that already looks so great. And you know, it's going to have eight player multiplayer online already to so in many ways this New Horizons is already with In this game for sure, but I mean if it happens I'd be open to it, but it needs some specific changes and overall. I think they need to revisit this party game idea for Animal Crossing because I think it has so much potential for me and I just want to see it reach that, you know, yes. Yeah, so that's that's basically the main thing. I just want to see it be a real proper interpretation of what an Double-crossing would be as a party game. Yeah, cool. So let's go ahead and move on to the next topic and it is all about Animal Crossing news. So the state of Animal Crossing news to be exactly. Yes. We you know, we are in we're at the end of January at this point. We've seen Isabel tweet once at the very beginning of the month. It's literally been 20-something days. She's last set anything on Twitter and it's just like what is going on is this game coming out in two months and you're just don't care because I because I think I have no doubt in my mind at this point. We're getting the game March 20th 2020. It's not getting delayed at this point. I think it's happening. Yes. It's just like what is going on? Why aren't you talking about it? Like people are starting to forget, you know people out there might not know. What animal crossing is and you're just not putting it out there, you know, right so I didn't have some questions for us to discuss a little bit. So the first one was how do you feel about the news we've gotten so far Sergio? Honestly, I'm a little bit concerned. There's so many thoughts or ideas it speculation as to why things are the way they are right now. Maybe they said you know what? Yeah, we had to delay it this this one time. It's going to be March 20 20 20, but we're going to be you know, right at the deadline will probably not going to have marketing material until very close to release date and maybe that's why we haven't seen pretty much anything. But this week we did see a couple Couple of things. I thought it was very nice to see both bladders in Mabel because you know that kind of tells you yeah, the Able Sisters are coming back. The museum is coming back little things like that. I just I'm I want to see things coming back. I don't want them to cut any features and if we don't see anything, you know people like us, you know, we're going to be a little bit concerned. I know Nintendo could just say well people will find out once they play the game, but I feel like that's not the right approach. So I'm Your concern but I'm optimistic. Yeah. Yeah, and I mean, I think it's good that we're seeing little things here and there but I'm getting to that point where as I'm like is this enough is it is this enough for me to be satisfied and to a lot of extent it is it was exciting to see that like, you know characters like blathers and the Able Sisters are making an appearance because you know, they've been Staples of the series since it He became one so it makes sense for them to come back. But you know as we get closer people are starting to get a little bit worried. They're like what news is they're like is there just like nothing coming back and it's gonna be all brand new but you know people are getting to that point where they don't know but like you I'm also optimistic about it. Like I feel like it just because they haven't said anything doesn't mean it's not quite in there yet because they're always Animal Crossing's a big game. That's meant to be played over a long period of time so I feel like there's always new discoveries as you play, you know? Yes. Yeah. So for me, I guess I'm glad we've gotten news. I like that. We actually got some time during E3 this past year. Well, yeah, I mean it took them nine months, but I was going to be very upset if they didn't talk about it. So I'm glad they talked about it as much as they did and had like The Treehouse segments as well as trailer and I was actually really surprised when they gave us the news in September, you know, I wasn't expecting it. It at that point. I was just like oh, you know, it's they'll probably save stuff for next year now just because the game is so far out at this point, but they showed it in September, you know, but seeing as we haven't gotten anything yet this year. I'm just like okay, they probably showed it to us just to you know, keep us busy for the next 3-4 months. But yeah, I guess it just seems like Nintendo knew we'd be waiting a while and they needed to say something and give us something to hold us up. But yeah, I like what we've seen and since covering a lot more Animal Crossing stuff since this for this release and just like through the podcast and the videos. I've noticed that I feel like a lot of things have come to us a lot easier / earlier. For example, when I think of recently we've been seeing tweets that are showing off like marketing materials at like Walmart and Target and that sort of thing and we're starting to see all of these like really Ali nice renders that we saw just last month, you know, I think it's kind of December they popped up. So yes, it's funny to get like an early look at the renders that were going to be used in a month, you know, and so like to some extent I'm like, oh man. Normally this would have been used as soon as it hit the shelves, you know, like this. This would have been a brand-new thing to look at but now it's like oh, yeah. We already saw this. How did we get this so early but yeah, it's kind of fun. Being how things are playing out this time around covering it more. So it makes me want to just like go back and look through the history of like how Animal Crossing has been marketing marketed, you know, that's right. Yeah, eventually I'll make that video nice. Um, so I guess how do you feel about the amount of news we've gotten well, I would want a little more but I guess the amount is fine, but my I guess my biggest desire about the news is I want to hear it as I say from the horse's mouth. I don't want us to be fishing for information or renders from accessories or even magazine articles. I know those are more official, you know than accessories, but I just want intended to be more open about it. It doesn't have to be a direct if they don't want to do that or they don't have the resources or the timing or what have you. I don't know what their line of thinking might be, but they could always do even just a press release or even An on-the-spot video upload like we wake up in there's a new official video on Nintendo's YouTube about Animal Crossing that could be that would be very significant. I just want to hear it from them directly. Yeah, that's in that helps a lot too because one of those things with that last set of renders that we got like they weren't from Nintendo. It was just from nowhere essentially to some extent is from Nintendo because obviously they're Distributing this stuff right? But yeah, I just want to see it. Nintendo start tweeting about it start talking about it start feeling excited as excited as we are about it. So yeah. No, I agree. I want to see those like random Tweets in during the week in the evening time that always pop up that yeah, so hopefully, you know right for me. I just want more of but of course, I'm going to want more you know, but I remember I do remember going through what I call the drought. New Leaf where they said practically nothing in the three years that we were waiting for that game, so I don't think anything will ever be that bad at least because you know, like essentially we heard about the game in September. I think the worst wait part of that weight was the nine months between September 2018 and III 2019 when we actually got used so yeah, that way it was hard. But from there it was like June we got news September. We got news January. We got news and all this was Is all news straight from Nintendo essentially. Yes, we got the III stuff. We got the direct stuff in September and then there was that one little ad that we got in the beginning of January. So like pretty much every three months. We're getting something which is a very nice change from like once a year. That was New Leaf, you know, right? Um, but yeah, basically just don't we've gotten more than New Leaf. So I'm happy with that, but I can always use more Yeah, so here's another question for you. So like why do you think that Animal Crossing news is so slow to come out. I think the biggest reason is because it's very hard to advertise Animal Crossing especially to new players. You know, how do you convince people that live in another life on a game in paying a mortgage to a raccoon is fun? And I mean we know it is and we cannot wait to do that, but it's very difficult to put it in perspective to somebody that hasn't played and Animal Crossing game and also to somebody that hasn't played a game like Animal Crossing like a life sim a slice-of-life type of game. You know, those are very unique. So I think that's the biggest part of that and it's hard to also advertise to new players and also to defense they're very different markets because usually Animal Crossing fans are very very big fans. So they're looking for something else. That a new player is not looking for so you kind of have to do two rounds of art advertising or advertising in two different ways. I feel yeah. Yeah, and you totally right like we're huge Animal Crossing fans. So the way we also like take news is very different than people who don't know anything about the game because it you know, people make fun of our fandom all the time where it's just like, oh man, they're freaking out over Bridges and noses and kneecaps so, you know, like that's the Animal Crossing fan base like we care about all of these really little insignificant details compared to everybody else. So like, you know, any amount of news they give us is going to be like it's a lot it's a lot for us to handle but you know, like they feel like they need to approach animal crossed that they feel well, I don't know if they need to approach Animal Crossing differently in one way. Yes. I feel like they can say more but I feel like Nintendo itself feels. They don't approach animal crossing the same way. They approach other games and I don't know quite what it is. I feel like maybe it's just their overall thought of what the general gaming audience wants to see you know, and and that doesn't really match up with how What type of game Animal Crossing is. And so maybe they're scared of showing more because they're like, oh, yeah, people are just going to see this and think it's Yeah, but boring game but at the same time I feel like they're always new Animal Crossing players with with each game and everybody who's new to it like takes interest from it from watching like people play the game watching trailers, like first off like the trailers that they show are gonna get people to like look into this game because at first they're probably confused or like what's going on with this game. Yes, and then they go and watch people play it and they're like, oh, I think I The appeal of this. Yeah, but really I feel like nobody actually gets it until they actually play it too. That's true. So, so maybe that's Nintendo thinking maybe they're just like, you know, they're really only going to get it if they play it, you know, but I don't think that should stop them from putting out more news about it and telling people some cool things, you know. Yeah. Yeah, so to kind of jump into this like how would you change the news for Animal Crossing? Oh man. Well if I wasn't intended, I would first and foremost, I would address the fans in by that I mean, I would show everything that is returning from the previous games because I feel like that's their biggest concern. We want to know what's coming back. We just want to confirm that it's coming back. We don't need to know the details, but we just want to know, you know, what stores are coming back. Are they going to be stores? How is it going to be I would address all of that first in a very almost like a quick-fire type of Just showing everything and then the fans are probably gonna re-watch it 50 times over in and they'll catch and all the details that we show, you know, after that you're free to advertise differently to the people that are going to be new to the series. You can take it very slow and focus a lot on how your Island life is going to be in just go from there the fans already going to be satisfied in they're also going to be looking forward to how things are going to start into the new details. So by then they're booked and you can focus on the new players. I feel like that would be the best approach if I was intended at what I would do. Yeah, I think that's pretty cool. I think yeah, I feel like the does go the route of this like here's what the fans want. Here's what the regular people need it. Yeah. So I do like that approach me. I would honestly just be hyping the game up way more than they are. I think Animal Crossing is about the real time clock. I think it's about the daily. Every is in kind of seeing yourself progress over a long period of time, you know, because I think we talked about this a bit with Pete but like one of the walls that a lot of people hit with Animal Crossing is that they can run out of gameplay in a day, you know, and then they think oh man, what am I playing this game for? Whereas you you got an understand that you are going to be playing this game for a very long time like it's intended to be played over a long period of time and You have to see the stuff build up as you go, you know, so my Approach would be to kind of show that off so my plan would be like Monday you show off a cool new recipe for something. We haven't seen yet, you know, maybe it's like just browsing through the catalog and looking at stuff and then being like Oh, yeah. I'm totally going to craft this tomorrow, you know to kind of show like maybe somebody's that already at the end of the day their day and they're like ready to go and hang up the game even though like, you know, that's not us we can't relate to That but but you know, like some people well, so anyways, I'll say I'll crap that tomorrow and then Tuesday rolls around and then it shows them collecting crafting materials. Maybe they can even like team up with their friends and be like, oh, let's collect some crafting materials together and build out this stuff, you know, and then Wednesday you show them going to notebooks and getting it crafted like they've already got all the materials they need and they're like, oh, yeah, let's put this thing together and then Thursday like once it's all crafted. You can show them looking for a spot to place their item. You know and so they place it down. They start setting their space up. And then Friday you show them like being inspired by this area that they found and building it out a little more and then Saturday you come back to it and you show their setting this setting up a lot of things and they've got this whole cute little thing going on and then Sunday, of course, it's the rest day. So you put the characters in you throw some animals in there put this whole recap of the experience. You know, how they got from Point a of this space looking like nothing to point B of this place looking like a really awesome place to hang out. Yeah. So honestly, that's that's how I would approach it. I would just say like this is a game you play a little bit every single day and then after a while you see real progress, you know, yeah, you know what this this gets me. I got a great idea I think because we always say oh Animal Crossing doesn't really demo very well. Well, what if Nintendo does something like this and they put out a demo I would say not the week before maybe two or three weeks before the game comes out and it's a demo that you're going to be playing a little bit every day and you're going to be making the progress that you're describing here or maybe some other side activities, you know, like, oh now that you have been playing for days this other new store opened up check it out and you probably play 15 to 30 minutes of the demo every day and then you play for a whole week in the game tells you this is basically Animal Crossing you play a little bit every day. You can also play A lot every day if you want but it's mostly about coming back every day and hopefully you have been enticed enough. I feel like they'll be a very nice way to do a demo. Yeah, and you know, that's the other thing like everybody always is like Animal Crossing doesn't demo well and it really just depends on how you approach it for sure. I really like this idea of like would if it just limits you to 30 minutes a day like you can do 30 minutes a day per week and that's the demo and people just get to experience like oh man. Man, look at all I did in 30 minutes every day and when they get to that point where the places like all nice and finished and then the demos over and they're just like I cannot wait to play this game. Yeah, you know, no I really I really like that approach a lot. I think that would be a cool thing to get plus we get to play it early. Come on. We want this game so bad Nintendo. Do you know this? I hope you do. So yeah, I don't know but then also like he how you approach it. It can also be a little bit tricky because maybe people already get attached to that map from the demo or like if it's one set one or does it take you through the intro, you know, right because you know, there's some like specifics like once you decide on what you're doing. Like, how are you going to approach that? What are you going to actually allow players to do an experience? So yeah, there's there's only so much but I download that demo and I'd play it. With my eight different profile every day because that would give me let's see four hours of gameplay every day. Yeah. Might as well. Yeah, and then you have two switches you get a good eight hours ago. My my work. Yeah, I would need to get a new Switch right away for that. Nice. Okay, so to close out this little topic, when do you expect news to come? I'm still very hopeful that we're gonna get a direct and I'm not thinking it's going to be Animal Crossing Focus. I think it's going to be a general direct and they're really gonna talk about an Animal Crossing New Horizons a good bit because it's it's going to be the next big release and I'm paying it for before February 20, so that gives us more than a month before release that at that's what I'm still hopeful for awesome. So yeah, I think that's a good amount of time. I am also right there, I think February I'm expecting a February direct at this point. You said before the 20th, which which is a month away in the past. I said an AC Direct on the 20th. I'm still down for them to do that but I'm starting to think that Treehouse that we got at E3 was our Animal Crossing direct all of that's true, which would be sad because I do want more Nintendo. Don't don't get me wrong here. Yeah, but yeah, I think early February so in about I guess maybe This week from from this episode, you know, yeah, maybe we'll get an announcement then if not, maybe the week after that, but definitely the first half of February for me. Nice. Yeah, cool. So let's go ahead and close out the show with our hinkins Islander corner. So every single week, we asked our patrons on patreon a question and then read their answers for you here on the show. This week's question was your favorite special interaction and like I said earlier the examples were the hide-and-seek lost objects overheard conversations Museum or shops wonders Etc. So Sergio, let's go back and forth on these. Do you want to start? Sure? First answer is by Grace Lee Nina, and she said I love hide and seek. I especially love how you can cut down the tree in front of a hiding villager and they'll freak out too cute. Oh, I should have done that with Bianca. I totally I picked this one because I didn't know this was a thing and that's a really cool. You can actually like disturb their hiding spot and make them scared. Yeah. I really like that. They planned out things for that. I really wonder Who they have testing these games all the time just to figure out. Oh, there's something that you can do and nothing special really happened. We probably should make something special. Yeah. And yeah, so yeah. No, I'm really down for that to get to continue happening and I so Denise Patterson said overheard conversations are my favorite simply because it's always fun to see what they're talking about. And of course if you've ever seen one walk away mad at the other you wonder what was said. Yeah, they definitely play off of the like if you don't get into this conversation quick, you're really going to miss something especially something that could be important and cause some emotion to happen. Yeah. Those are those are pretty awesome. Yeah, I like them a lot. Yeah, so thi cat says I love seeing what petitions the villagers come up with when they ask you to go to a friend's time for signatures. Some favorites are stubborn or old men day. Why? Why because I said so and fondue for everyone to name a few. Yeah, those petitions they were always really liked exciting when they happen because you're like, oh no now the race is on I've got to get this thing signed. Otherwise when who knows so you're just asking around getting people to open their their towns up and yeah, I guess what I like about that 1/2 is just that like it forces you to go somewhere else and talk to people. Yes. So yeah. I appreciate those lat So check had said I love seeing what petitions villagers. Oh wait, we did that. Well, yeah. Sorry. I'm all mixed up today. So Allah Walker said overheard conversations. I love seeing my villagers interact with each other. It makes my town feel more lively when I'm not the only one talking to them and also further demonstrates their personalities and how some of them Clash in a humorous way. I picked this one because you know the over Herod conversations. Were very popular in these comments, but this one also points out like this. This is your opportunity to get more depth out of the villagers, you know, because I think a lot of people's complaints with new Leaf was just like how their personalities didn't feel as much of a personality, you know. So this was this was the chance essentially like you could talk to your villagers and together and it showed a lot more how their personalities came into play, you know. Yes and in The Clash in between them, if you know if there's eight, but when you look at the different ways, you can Clash all laid between themselves. There's so many different possibilities and I think the conversation is definitely carried out in there's so many different ones that are pretty awesome. Yeah, definitely. So Riley G says I love doing chores or errands in the original Animal Crossing hoping and praying they bring that back in this game. Yes. That's a very A very nice one and that would be a great throwback from the very first game for sure. Yeah. This is this is something people have been asking for it to come back forever. And right I think we're if it's not in this one we're going to keep asking because it was a really good way to kind of extend your days gameplay, you know, but then on top of that like force you not really Force you but like inspire you to talk to villagers more I feel that's why I like the the interactions with the villagers in the And we're so strong. It's because you were interacting with them as much as you were just to at least do some chores and run some errands, you know by yeah, so the last answer is from Leto Jagger and they said I remember in the wild world Dave's it was so cool inviting an animal over to my house and setting the date and time keeping my DS on me and waiting in my house for my neighbor to arrive was great. Yeah, and this one was one that came up a new Leaf a lot to you know, where Are you a villager would essentially say hey do you want to hang out and they say oh you can hang out at my place or your place and essentially you'd have to set an alarm because I I would forget all the time and they'd be really sad that I didn't get out. So in many ways it made me sad but when you did get to have them over is really special is like a nice little treat you no. Yes. Yeah, and it's one of the it's a little thing but it's one of the few cases where We have a different camera angle going on where you're not in the center of the screen because like if they decide to not if when they knock the door it essentially like zooms out and you're somewhere in your room. It's not the center most of the time and then right you get to see like the place in a different setting. So I appreciate that for sure. Yeah, cool. Well Sergio. Do you have anything else to say about any of the topics we covered today on the show? No, very nice topic very nice discussion saying, you know, I'm starting to really feel the hype. It's getting to me and I love it. Yes, we are. So close at this point in a couple of days from the day this episode airs for days for us, but we're going to be essentially 50 days away from this game. It is so close that we're already halfway through this countdown. It's insane. Yes. I can't believe it. It's Y-yeah, so 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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This week, Sergio and I have a lot of fun topics to cover. As usual, we start by answering the week's 100 Day Countdown to New Horizons Questions. From there, we discuss the possible Wii U ports that could come to the Switch. Specifically, we talk about amiibo Festival and what we would want from the deluxe version on Switch. After that, we discuss the state of Animal Crossing News at the moment. Unfortunately, we recorded before the new characters were revealed, but we still cover how we'd market Animal Crossing if we were at Nintendo. Finally, we close out the show with our world famous Haken's Islander Corner. Time Stamps: 0:05 - Introduction 2:45 - 100 Day Countdown 17:51 - Amiibo Festival Port on Switch 35:46 - The State of New Horizons News 55:07 - Haken's Islander Corner 1:01:36 - Outro Announcements  Support my channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chuyplaysnintendo  Join the Haken Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/wJTCMRK  Find Haken: An Animal Crossing Podcast on Podcast Platforms here: https://anchor.fm/haken-an-animal-crossing-podcast  Get More Nintendo and Video Game Content Here: http://chuyplays.com/  Follow me on... Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChuyPlaysNTDO Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChuyPlaysNintendo Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chuyplaysnintendo Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/chuyplaysnintendo Tumblr: http://chuyplaysnintendo.tumblr.com/  ---   Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/haken-an-animal-crossing-podcast/support 