Welcome to haken in Animal Crossing podcast gear podcast dedicated to all things Animal Crossing episode. 103 is brought to you by a vidalia one of our newest patreon patrons today Sergio and I are going to talk about the latest hakken artwork Animal Crossing amiibo in New Horizons and the possibility of vacations in animal. Crossing said it begin. Hello Sergio. How are you doing? Hi, Chuy. I'm doing rather awesome. It was a pretty cool weekend. I spent most of it at Las Vegas. He was a nice little weekend getaway if you will. Oh, yeah. I totally forgot you were out of town until just today. Yeah. Well, that's cool. Did you make time to play Luigi's Mansion while you were there? Yes, definitely mostly before but I did play a little bit over there. And of course I was looking out for Animal Crossing things. We went to a game store like an old retro games shop in I saw a pair of you know, the beat art, you know like that pixelated look aren't ya ya bum by ISO one for recent Cyrus and I wanted to give them for you so bad, but they told me those were just for display not for sale. Oh, man. Yeah, they let people put it in your store. If you're not gonna sell it. Come on. No, that's cool. I I actually recently got a present for you that you don't know what it is. Yeah, you're gonna get it around December when I go over there. Thank you. So I think you'll like it. Yeah, I ask you some questions a while back to find out what to get. So yeah, I think it'll be a nice surprise when we finally do another meet up. Yeah, maybe yeah, maybe we should just like make it a thing see if other people who listen to the show in California one. Show up somewhere and play games and everything. Of course, that'll be a lot cooler. Once New Horizons is actually out. Yeah, so soon. We'll make that happen. Yeah, sounds great. So let's we can't go too far into this show without of course talking about this new hakken artwork for those of you who are listening or watching on YouTube. You are getting the whole picture right here. This is the haken artwork for November. It's a pretty beautiful. I love it so much and the for those of you who clicked on the podcast. I'm hoping this image has updated by the time you're clicking on it. So yeah, if it is you just clicked on the new hick and artwork. So this piece is by IV tease. I think they also go by dirt Goblin on social media bit, but I know them as I've ETS, but essentially I This artist because I saw they had a really unique piece of artwork. That was Animal Crossing related where it was like a reinterpretation of the characters with kind of more realistic animal features, you know. Oh, yeah. So on their website, I think at the top it says odd Crossing for the peace, but on their website, they called it odd forest and I like both of those because of course it Blends Animal Crossing and Anna. Mille Forest yeah, which are the two English and Japanese titles for the game, but I don't know. I really loved the look of their artwork as I looked through more of their website and everything and I was just like this it has to be the next artist because they do such amazing work with like interiors and everything which wasn't really captured in their Animal Crossing peace. So I kind of liked getting to see them all. Blended together, you know where they just have like this big room full of things and you know, it's pretty crowded and there's lots of stuff they called it maximalism as opposed to you know, minimalism. So yeah, it's just like a room with and if you look closely like a lot of this stuff is like actual Animal Crossing furniture that you'll find in the game. I especially really love the little modern wood table on the right. Right with the kind of record player there. That one is one of my favorite pieces, of course in the game. But as far as villagers go / special characters at Sergio. I know I wrote this down. Have you seen them yet or do you want to guess who they are? No, I saw them but they do look pretty nice. I wouldn't be able to guess them though. Fortunately. Okay. Okay. So on the left, of course, we have Franklin. Is the turkey that comes by every Harvest to you know, celebrate the Harvest Festival with all of your little animal friends. And then in the center to the right of Franklin, we have another bird but this one is a chicken named Knox and Knox is a little chicken that wears a helmet kind of like a armor. Like what's the word? I'm looking for like a night helmet, you know. Yes. So Jackie. Picked knocks because I was as I do I always pull out the calendar that I have the official Nintendo calendar that has like all of the Villager faces and everything and she saw Knox and she was like that is the cutest little chicken. So I think she also really like that. It's got like kind of a Don Quixote feel to him. So right yeah where he's, you know, kind of a night trying to be a knight in shining armor. But yeah, he's really cute. He quickly became one of Jackie's favorite villagers. So fun fact right there. And then the last one is Antonio with his really cool like kind of black and white color scheme and I really wanted Antonio in it because we I try to get a new type of villager in all of these pieces as much as possible and I don't think we'd had an anteater before we definitely never had a turkey because that's the only turkey the game is but yeah, I really like just blending all of the animals and seeing how they come out and really like the colors of all of them worked so well and they all look really good in this piece. So what do you think of it Sergio? Oh, it's really really good. Like like I said, there's a lot going on. There's a lot of detail but in you know in a way it still feels like Animal Crossing like you feels more HD, which is what we're getting with New Horizons, I think in my engine. Yeah. Yeah, and it's kind of You know, it's so high definition the animals look real, you know, but yeah, I really I'm in love with this piece. I'm really excited to have it for you know, just November 10th November in case you don't know is my favorite month of the year October is my second favorite, but these two months have been so fun to have artwork for and I've been really happy with what we've had. Yes. So yeah, I guess before I get too far. I do want to say all credit goes to I be teased for this piece. We got if you want to follow them on Twitter and Instagram, they are at Ivy T's that's IV Whitey EAS and I'll have all of those links in the description as well. And then they also have a website with their portfolio, which is IV T's dot Wick site.com puddle song / info. So once again, I know that's a lot to take in audibly. But check the description. It's all right there, you'll have links to their social media and their portfolio and I'm I really want you to check out their work because if you look at it, it's just got like this really amazing Studio Ghibli vibe to it. And yeah, it's all very like magical for being generally like a normal setting, you know, yeah. Yeah because this this piece itself like they're all sitting around a table and everything and there's furniture and Stuff, but it just it feels magical. It feels like something special is happening there. Yes. Yeah. So yeah, once again check the description for their work go look at their other artwork. It's really amazing. And yeah, just enjoy what they're putting out there because it's always this is an exciting time for me every podcast where we get to a new month and we get to see a new piece of artwork and because I don't know. When I first started this I was like, oh, yeah, let's go with the seasons. I was just going to do winter, you know, spring autumn summer all the seasons and everything and then we hit a goal on our patreon and I was like, you know what let's do this monthly. So so moving to the monthly I think was great. We get to enjoy more artwork. I think the one thing is like I wish we could enjoy it a little bit longer, but you know, we're working on a calendar that's going to By law all of these pieces of art together for everybody. So stay tuned with that. I'm trying to have everything compiled for that by mid-January. So hopefully we can get pre-orders open by February and then everybody can get their calendar in March to accompany them with New Horizons of the perfect. I'm so excited for this game. And I feel like it's getting faster the way I feel like Like we're in November now, they're little November December January and February are the last four months that we have to exist without this game. So it feels good. Yeah, and I feel like really good games like you just Luigi's Mansion three are helping with that because you know, we get distracted by then. We play them we love them. And then also another month has gone by yeah. Yeah, it's true. And I think right now the schedule is pretty packed. It's been packed like this. Whole end of the year, so I have a lot of games to play between these next releases like Pokemon is less than two weeks away at this point. Yes, that's insane. We just got Luigi's Mansion this past week and now we're just going to be able to play those two games and then get our fill with them. And then finally Animal Crossing will be out and we won't need any other games after that. Sergio I'm really glad you have your vacation planned out already. Yes. Yeah, that's going to be great. I'm going to be really jealous. I'm going to be sitting at work and we all like I could be playing Animal Crossing right now saved my two weeks of vacation for this cool. So once again enjoy this artwork go check out I beat he's everywhere and yeah, that's all I gotta say about that. Very nice. Nice. All right. So let's move into this next section of the podcast and we're going to be talking about Animal Crossing amiibo. So I've seen this question pop up a few times in multiple places, but a lot of people are always wondering if there's going to be amiibo functionality in the game and I'll I should have looked up the exact interview where we found this information. I think we have it in our Discord on the bulletin board. But yes, essentially the developers have confirmed that amiibo functionality is coming to New Horizons all of the animal crossing amiibo will work. Essentially. I think they did this interview with the French publication. I think this was the one but they essentially said like we made nearly 500 Animal Crossing amiibo. It's only fair that we make them functional in this new game. And honestly it is because I spent a lot of money collecting all of them. So I'm gonna hope that I can use them in this next game. Yes. Yeah. So like I said, there's almost 500 of these things and that's just Animal Crossing alone. Like you think there's a lot of Smash Bros amiibo, but it's really got nothing on Animal Crossing and of course, I mean overall maybe you've spent a little less based on the price of Animal Crossing amiibo most of them work. Cards and if you got them in packs at retail, you're spending about six dollars for six cards, unless you were in Europe, which was unfortunate. I think they got that dispense six dollars for like three card. Yeah, so that's rough. But anyways, so all of us who have spent a lot or have been looking for these and you know, maybe bought them for a little bit more on eBay Amazon wherever You have it all of us are of course hoping that they work and luckily the developers said that they will and they understand that we all spent a lot of money on these things so we should be safe there. But I do have some questions for us to answer Sergio. And this first one is do you think they will re-release the existing amiibo cards and figures for those who missed them? I think so. I feel like they almost have to simply because you know, they stay did confirm the amoeba are gonna work and also because honestly when they came out he was mostly for happy home designer, which was great. He was very nice to have another animal crossing game on the 3DS the first spin-off but then again it was a spinoff. So I feel like having the amiibo available for a Mainline released its really gonna basically sell the amiibo. So I feel like they do An in they really should we release them. You know, you're totally right and I totally forgot that these amiibo were essentially just planned for this spin-off title for Animal Crossing and we've already seen Nintendo look at that massive amount of amiibo they made and be like, all right, we'll give them a break. They can use it in New Leaf as well. Let's do a welcome amiibo update which you know, like it's called The Welcome amiibo update it was built around this amiibo functionality. Ality, so already we've seen Nintendo be very generous in not only like providing a free update for the game but giving us more uses for the massive amount of amiibo cards that they made available, you know? Yes. Yeah, so I am going to agree with you essentially. I think they will release a re-release these existing amiibo just because like a lot of people are coming into this game for the first time and a lot a lot of people just were in a different spot in their life back then and maybe they did just didn't know or get to the amiibo on time. So there are a lot of people looking for them and I think with just knew life being brought to the game with New Horizons. It's going to make people a lot more interested. It's kind of reinvigorate that interest in amiibo and you know the cards there's a lot of history with the cards with Nintendo and Animal Crossing. So like Nintendo has a company there are over a hundred years old and they literally started by making playing cards, you know, and when we moved into well when they moved into like making video games and everything the GameCube implemented a little bit more of that expertise that Nintendo had by introducing the Animal Crossing e-reader cards, and so you could scan in the e-reader cards and get some special things in that animal. Crossing game but overall it was like when they announced they were doing cards again for the amiibo as well as figures. I mean we wanted figures for sure, but overall when they added cards I was like, this is awesome. I missed out on buying Animal Crossing e-reader cards for the GameCube game. This is my chance to kind of relive that to some extent, you know, yeah, so I think they can do that for other people they can rear East these amiibo cards and they can relive essentially something they missed which is what I got to do back when they first came out. So right I'm hoping for everybody. Yes that they come out especially those Sanrio cards, please bring them to North America. They did not release in North America and that led to a lot of sadness in my heart because I wasn't able to get them and I had to pay more. Oh, yeah. Luckily. I got a good deal. But that's another story. Okay. I have another question for you Sergio. Okay. Do you think that they will add to the amiibo collection? Yes, especially because it's almost a guarantee right that we're gonna get new special characters or at least new regular villagers. I feel like they pretty much have to make amiibo for them. I feel like if there's a special characters that would have those would be a better fit. For a amiibo figures in the new Villages could get new cards. Yeah. Yeah, I think you're totally spot on there. Like if they're going I mean a lot of us are suspecting. There's going to be a Dodo villager. Yeah her special character. Yep. Just based on there being a Dodo Airlines which I mean there's still so much that they need a show about this game. Show us the inside of Dodo Airlines show us a lot. I want to know more but yeah, if they're making special characters if they're making new villagers, it would make sense to put out. Set that had those new special characters and you villagers and you know, we seem them do sets of 100 sets of 50 and you know, depending on how many characters they add I could see them doing fifty to a hundred more amiibo cards to add bringing that number from 500 500 to nearly 600 amiibo cards and figures yikes. That's a lot, but I have binders. Nintendo I have room give them to me I have room I'll make room but yeah, I agree. I think I also want to see more figures though. I don't want all you just be cards. I want to see I and I keep a little sticky note on my computer with all of the amiibo figures that were missing from special characters and I feel like I've listed these before but give me at least like a bruise. Stir give me Mabel or at sorry. No, I mean Sable because we got Mabel we didn't get Sable give me tortimer. I really love tortimer. There's so many really great special characters that we just don't have amiibo for labelled Joan Harriet Leaf. Come on. Yeah, if is adorable. Yeah, everybody wants that figure. So yeah, I think give us figures of everybody. Yeah, I guess you can skip the village. Sure, sure, but everybody all the special characters. I'll make room Nintendo. I already said it. Yeah, my shelf is pretty full with the ones that already exist right now. And you only have about what 16 KK sliders. Yeah. Yeah. So there's room for a couple hundred more. Yeah, especially if they make a deejay cake at me, but which figure which they showed they really should just having him with his like DJ thing. What do they do? That like the turntable. Yeah, that's the one I'm like, yeah or yeah, that would be awesome. I would totally get that Plush Version. Yeah Giant plus. Yeah $500. That's it. Yeah cool. So I also wanted to point out that we've had several and several. I guess amiibo that weren't from Animal Crossing that worked on you lie if we had Zelda amoeba. Bo Splatoon amiibo even Monster Hunter made an appearance in this game. Am I forgetting anything that worked in the game and I believe that's it. Yeah. Nothing else comes to mind right away. Mmm. All right. Yeah, I'm pretty sure those are the ones but they had like specially designed characters for all of these like you could get Gannon to live in your town if you wanted them to and you had like medley from Wind Waker and like even there were a couple squirrel characters after Callie and Marie from Splatoon and there was of course feline from Monster Hunter. So there's so many really like unique characters that came out of this whole amiibo thing and I'm really hoping that they decide to support those as well. So I did want to ask you like do you think they will continue to support amiibo from other games and even maybe add support for other titles? Yes, I believe so mostly to support, you know to have villagers based on other game series because in a way you're promoting both whether it be a Nintendo or a third-party. It's nice to promote them and I feel like they do it in a very proper way because the characters are we've gotten so far they make sense as villagers. It's not you know, they're not really reaching with who they put in the game. So I feel like if they continue to do that it's going to be very beneficial to the to Animal Crossing into the series that they promote. Yeah. Yeah, and I agree they like Two characters that really did work for the game Epona a horse. Yeah, we have Horace villagers. Yeah better and so a wolf link. We got a wolf villager. Yeah, that's link. It's amazing. I mean, I don't understand why they didn't make Callie and Marie like the octopus type of villager and they went with squirrels instead, but you know what it works. But yeah, I'd say yes to this as well otherwise like these characters that they invented for the for New Leaf will essentially go into that really long sad list of villagers that never came back and I just don't want to see that 10. It happened any more villagers. I'd rather see more and more of them get resurrected and brought back and see more and more of them get discarded essentially and left outside of the I think that's a bummer but I feel like I had something else to say. Oh, yeah, I would also really love like some more Nintendo characters to show up. So this actually ties into my next question for you Sergio. And that is what other games I guess amiibo. Would you like to be supported in the Animal Crossing Series? So what I was thinking is basically any video game animal that would make sense as a villager like I'm guessing Nintendo would prioritize Prioritize their first party games, you know like we could get maybe Yoshi as an Ami as a villager a Koopa makes a lot of sense Poulter pup makes sense. And it's very topical these days. There was a kangaroo in some of the sealed against the Oracle against called Ricky he would be really cool as a villager basically any animal in again. It can even lead to third-party collaborations again. Yeah. Yeah, and I think you're spot on with that like if it's already an animal it should be an I personally I don't think that there's anybody who doesn't want Pokemon villagers, like we've seen a lot of fan art of people turning Pokemon into villagers already and it just works it works so well and they look adorable first off but second off. Yes, give me them. I want a little Cyndaquil villager Cyndaquil is my favorite Pokemon just so you all know. I love singing. But yeah, I want to see Pokémon as villagers and I mean as much as people avoid playing pocket camp and everything pocket camps the first game that gave us like Pokemon collaborations with Animal Crossing from we got Pokeballs that we could put on our furniture and everything and there was all these Pokémon themed Furniture. We even got an Eevee outfit so we could dress up this TV so I know I think like Pokemon and Animal Crossing. I feel like the fan bases really mix. Well, you know, I think a lot of us who like Animal Crossing also like Pokemon and vice versa. Yeah, there are still those who don't so much but I don't know I think our fandom really mixes a lot and we appreciate cute animals that we collect and can live with yes. Yes, definitely. Yeah. All right, so I have one One last question in this is kind of a big one because a lot of this whole amiibo functionality. It really depends on like what does it do? So I want to ask you like, what would you like to see? Amiibo do in this new game? Okay. Well, let's say I'm not sure if they're gonna do the same thing. They did a new Leaf where basically if you have the card of the specific villager you want basically you can move them. I mean to your town right away that might still happen. They might tweak that a little bit or it might be something completely different but one you think that I think they can add to amiibo for this game is everyday you can scan one amiibo either a card or a figure and they would give you either they would give you a nine and an item in the game. It could be like a guaranteed a hundred percent chance that you get it or maybe like a 50/50 chance. It depends but I feel like they would have to script every amiibo with a specific item. So it's not random. It just depends on what card or figure your scan every day. So I feel like it could possibly lead to I don't know any random amiibo card leading to a very special and rare item and then you would see people going crazy for it on eBay, you know, but I feel like it would be nice to have a little something to do with amiable in Animal Crossing every day because we Have some of that in other games like in Fire Emblem. I think it just makes sense. Yeah. Yeah, I I like that aspect because it I'm going to talk about this a little bit too because a lot of people really didn't like the the fact about how powerful amiibo where if you had them where you could essentially just pick which characters you wanted to live in your town, you know, and for me, I don't know I we're old-school Animal Crossing players, which means like we I've seen a lot of villagers come and go and I think when you've played as long as it's us, you're more okay with that and then then when you first start playing the game, like when my first favorite villager moved away that was devastating. That's a heartbreaking moment. And then eventually you get over it and you move on and you start to appreciate that kind of Life capturing aspect to it where people don't stick around forever. They Move to different places but yeah, I think switching it to like having it be a chance of getting an item. That is like very special or that you've never gotten before. I think it's a cool way to do it for sure. Yeah. Mmm. Yeah, so my idea and I really I really liked some aspects of the amiibo functionality and New Leaf specifically the welcome amiibo update. Cards which came with their own style of villager cards, which were the campers, you know, and what was special about those was it would call a villager over to your place and they would be in a camper in the special campsite and you got to go into their camper and it was decorated. Like they wanted it decorated and you could buy furniture from them using the special type of currency there the meow coupons, you know, yeah, and so I really liked that I really liked. We got to see a lot of our villagers in a different space, especially the special characters. Like if you scanned in a figure, for example, you could see Isabel just relaxing for once in her life. And that's that's important to me, you know, like kind of capturing that aspect of the villagers don't have to work all the time. Yeah can take a break. Yeah. So my idea is I would want them to keep that feature, but I want the camper to get updated to like a houseboat type of thing and that houseboat can dock on your Island and so there'd be like a little peer that you could go to and maybe like two or three villagers can show up at one time there and they could essentially, you know have a little houseboat you walk in you get to see their style and everything and you can you know, enjoy a special character for a little bit in a new setting and then also keep buying their furniture and If you know, yeah and also okay Motors they can work on houseboats to because I love that. Oh, yeah, and I want them to do I want them to do something and you Horizon. Yes, but yeah, that's that's my idea and you know personally I think they should not let us be able to get villagers to move in because I prefer the old-fashioned way, but if they can, you know, there's no harm in me for that. So if they do let you move in villagers in that way. That's something I can easily avoid doing. Yeah, and the people who want to do it can still do it. Yes. Definitely. Yeah, so that's my idea. Oh, yeah, very nice. Yeah, so I'm excited about that. So yeah, I think that's all we can say about Animal Crossing amiibo for now. I really do hope that they re release them all there's so many and it's hard to collect them all and you know, even collecting just like a pack or two would be Nice for a lot of people. Yeah, I feel like whenever they discuss more in depth what the enemy were going to do in the game. They really have to discuss this close basically if they plan to release or not. So either way I think when we find out what they're going to do, we're going to find out if how easy it's going to be to get them again. Yeah, it'll be for sure during that one hour direct for Animal Crossing that they're going to have on February. Wait. Let me look at the calendar. I'm gonna guess February 20th. Oh exactly a month before New Horizons is out. That's my guess nice. All right. So let's go ahead and move on to this next section of the podcast and we're going to talk about vacations in Animal Crossing New Horizons and Sergio. You wrote a lot here. You have some big ideas for this. So I'm going to let you take it away for for now sure definitely and of course, yeah these It's because of my weekend getaway to Las Vegas. You know, you got me thinking like basically what if you could do the same thing take a little vacation, but in Animal Crossing like within the game itself just like in real life. For example, let's see in real life. You have a weekend coming up where you know, you're going to have a lot of free time to play in if you're playing New Horizons, that's all you're playing. So you're kind of putting your free time towards that and it gets you thinking you know, what if you could go Go and vacation, but within the game itself, I feel like it's possible. We have some ideas to discuss. So I feel like you would be part. It would be really cool. If it's very interactive meaning actually you would have to go on a trip in the game itself. You're going to have to fly because you're on the island and you know, we have the total airport. So I feel like if the trip takes about an hour that that's an acceptable time frame. I think maybe a little less definitely not more and I feel like they could even be cool ways to pass. Time, you know, you could be watching a comedy show with dr. Shank or maybe something better. Anything else would probably be better but you could either watch something or play some minigames maybe a session of a mini version of amiibo Festival that would really, you know, spend the time on the trip there like like we would on real life if we if a lot of us travel in we have an animal crossing game. We're probably going to be playing that on the way there. So once you arrive, you'll You're either arrive to a hotel or a vacation house in basically that's going to be where that's going to be your home for the duration whether you book a trip for the weekend or maybe one week or two weeks or maybe more that's where you're going to be starting the game whenever you save and restart. That's basically your home. Another cool thing is that it, you know the shops and everything would be very different from the layout that you have in your Island. Not only that. I mean, obviously you would meet a lot of new abilities, but I feel like everything would be different. The location of the shops, even the layouts. For example, we know the rules we know how it is. It's a semi small coffee shop, but I feel like depending on where you go to Vacation. Maybe the roost is like twice as big and maybe it's back in the basement of the museum or maybe kicks shop is like a little kiosk an outdoor kiosk and it's next to a four-story building for the Mabel sisters. Maybe they are very popular in this particular City. So I feel like The shops would be different the way they're laid out in their locations, you know based on where you go and if you like that would add some variety variety to the vacation spots that you could go. There's a lot of potential key because you could go to real life places like Las Vegas or puri's or even made up locations like from games that we know like the Mushroom Kingdom or Hyrule, or they could even me be some specific locations that would feature. Amenities something like a skate park or a really big concert hall or even a water park in I feel like this type of locations would use the pocket Camp Ami amenities really? Well, they could make vacation spots based on those amenities. I feel like it would encourage people to take vacations in New Horizons, which I think it's a really cool idea. And of course, you know, if you really wanted to you could cancel your vacation mid-trip, but you would have to go spend. An hour on the trip again and you you wouldn't get a refund basically. So I feel like there's a lot that could explore here, you know, even the way you book your trip how many Bells it takes who's going to be the special character in charge of all that and how many times you can do that in for how long I mean, it's I think it's an interesting idea concept. There's a lot of potential here. What do you think tree? That is a lot? Yeah. No. Okay. So this kind of reminds me. I feel like you had similar ish type of idea way back in the day where we kind of thought about it in the sense of like shared kind of towns essentially that you can have with other people and I kind of want to like a mix it in with that like maybe two people can go to the same location for a vacation, you know, and you know kind of spend their time exploring that place but you know, you could also just like run around on your own and everything but but I'm also very intrigued by this idea of like, you know, you mentioned the Able Sisters having a much bigger three-story shop here because they're like a big popular story, you know? Yeah. So what I like about that is like it gives you like a whole new set of I guess inventory to look through and collect and everything and that's one aspect. I really like like we got a little bit of a taste of this in New Leaf where Could go to the international Islands or the like the local Islands the the essentially the club tortimer stuff, you know, yes and every island that you went to like had something else in stock. So you could go to a place and see maybe like they had a hammer there which was a rare item at the that could only be found there. Or maybe they have the mermaid furniture that you've been looking for. But each one you went to like like it had something different. So I do I like that aspect of it just to think of like a place where you're not really limited to all of the stuff that you have only in your town. You know, it's sometimes it's a place where you can do a little bit extra and that's of course going to be good for like the players who are a lot like us who play a lot in a single day and then they're like I need I need Then else to do and so but I mean we'll keep playing will keep fishing catching bugs and everything. Yeah, but yeah, like I think it just gives those types of players a lot more to handle and do on a daily basis, you know? Yes. Yeah, so I don't know. I like it. I like that idea. It's something very different. I don't know if they'll implement it right there based on like what they're going with this island, but I do like it. It I had a bit of a Twist on it though, but mindset may sound a little bit familiar to so what I fit what I was thinking with vacations when you mentioned it was rather than going to a destination. Maybe your place is the destination to go to and this is what I mean by that is like it'd be cool if like special characters. For example, your Isabelle's of the world your cake a There is and everything if they could visit they can set up like a little campsite and be part of your town for the weekend or the week or maybe even for just one day, you know, and while there they can hang out and possibly even sell you things and you can talk to them and get to know them and honestly, it's basically like the camping feature but for special characters before they arrive on your Island and actually like set up a shop there, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So like maybe you can show them that your Island is great. You're going to provide really good business for them. So they should definitely come by and set up a shop in your Island. So yeah, I like that maybe you could even be like, they're targeting you could actually take them to all the different shops and depending on like the order you choose they decide to stay or not. Yeah, and I like that you mentioned that because I always really liked the beginning of The leaf where Tom Nook is like running behind you to let you set up your home, you know, and even when Isabel's helping you with a public works project. I like that she runs behind you and sets up, you know, she's just waiting for you to pick a spot for this project and she's you don't get a lot of that follow me type of thing even real and I just remembered like the villagers. Sometimes they'd be like, oh, you know, you'd go visit them in their house and then they'd be like, oh this This one villager. I'll say pancho had asked I want them to come over. Will you get them for me? And then you could go out into your town you could talk to them and then they follow you back. And so I don't know. I really liked that follow me aspect to it. If you were to give them a tour. Yes. Yes. I think it'd be pretty cute. But yeah, I mean, I don't know that's just kind of my idea. I want it to be I want that want this to kind of be the game that lets you essentially speak and interact with the special characters in more of a trying to think of the word for it. But more I guess more substantially like more like you're building a relationship with them in some way, you know, because Animal Crossing does a good job with This like the the stuff with Sable from the Able Sisters is always one of people's favorite things. They talk to this. I guess Hedgehog behind a sewing machine. And at first she doesn't give you the time of day and then eventually she's like, hey even stopping around this shop a lot and you become friends with her assent. Yeah. So like animal crossing the game itself does a really good job with building relationships with the other characters. Pictures but they just I want them to do it more. I want it to be like every time you talk to them you're digging a little bit deeper and learning something else about them, you know. Yes, definitely and with the personalities that we have again, it's going to be just ate but I feel like they can be different enough that they the way you approach the relationship with each ability with a different personality. It could lead to very unique moments. I'll definitely we agree with that a hundred percent. Yeah, and I that's what I'm looking for with this game. I've played a lot of the well, I guess this game is going to be a lot of new stuff like the crafting thing is already a huge new mechanic and we're going to be learning and using a lot but I really I want them to go all out with the dialogue in this game and seeing this Nintendo. I hope they take Animal Crossing in the direction where they're supporting it every month. Maybe they're adding new line. Dialogue for us. Maybe they're adding a new stories. Maybe they're adding new furniture and just like I want to see new things each month in this game. That's what I want. Yeah. Yeah. Well, do you have anything else to say about vacations in this game? No, I feel like I feel like we covered it. It would be interesting if either of these options so or even something similar gets implemented, right? I feel like you know vacations are cool and in a way that New Horizons is a Vacations to a lot of us so you would be nice to have something in the game itself. Yeah, definitely. All right. Well, then let's move on and get to our Higgins Islander corner. And for those of you who don't know. This is our segment of the show where we ask our patrons on patreon a question and then read their answers here. So this week's question was if Animal Crossing added a hotel, what would you like? Be able to do there and Sergio, I guess I'll start today. Okay, sounds good. Um, actually, you know what, I've totally forgot. What would you want a hotel to be in Animal Crossing? I think to thinks it will be very nice to meet a lot of new villagers that are there just passing by so there's definitely no way for you to recruit them to your Island, but it would just be nice to talk to them and meet new villagers and also So in your room just get room service. Let me pretty cool. Yeah, yeah for me. I think I'd say I'm still looking for some cool and a lot of my answers have been about this today. But I really want it to be some way to connect more with those special villagers. So if it if they just decide like oh, there's going to be a hotel here and that's where you can go see the special villagers after they've closed up shop and everything. I'd be into that, you know, okay. For sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so that's what I would look for a nice. Anyways, let's go ahead and read some of these answers will go back and forth and I will start with Emily Rose Garvey who said I always thought it would be a cool idea to have a hotel to stay and if you leave the island, it would be really cool to socialize with other villagers that you never see or even stay with other players. Maybe there could be some sort of public club and yeah, I mean like oh Club, LOL, that's what they mean. So yeah. Yeah, I think it'd be really cool to see like a club pop up in the hotel and that's like a new place to seek a slider on The Daily, you know, oh, yeah nice in and yeah, it's like a sharing a vacation with friends online or locally the yeah, that would be really cool as well. Yeah. So Allah Walker says I used to really enjoy playing The Sims 2 on the DS Where the premise of the game was to run a hotel in the game you could build. Rooms like a casino Jim bar Etc. So if Animal Crossing were to have a hotel I would I would enjoy many different amenities such as those these could give cake a slider and additional been you maybe this could also be a way to for new villages to move into the island like the campsite feature in New Leaf. Yes, definitely Ella in I feel like the hotel manager could be a new special character. I mean, we're always looking for some of those. Yeah. I love seeing you special. Characters but yeah, I really like this idea mostly because it would give us a chance to see like the amenities kind of it from pocket Camp to because they had like the swimming pool. They had the skatepark kind of thing. So it'd be cool to see villagers kind of using those types of amenities around. Yeah, definitely. All right. So Quantrell to Vall said maybe a hotel would be the new / next spotpass feature. It would be littered with random other players who can give you some dream address type access to their Island sort of like the four random visitors. You get every cycle & pocket Camp, I think okay. I really like this as kind of replacing the street paths that existed in you new Leaf, you know, because we're not going to have StreetPass obviously on you. Horizons, but we could still do like spotpass where we sign up and then maybe our one of our rooms get sent to somebody's Hotel, you know, and then they could go and see a special space that they didn't create and somebody else did and kind of enjoy that so yeah. I just really want a replacement for StreetPass. I'm really sad that it's not going to be in this next game. So I like that aspect to it. Yes, definitely definitely agree Street Press has missed but if they can figure out a way to have it work when you Horizons. Yeah, we're all for it. Yeah. So keep later 173 says I think a hotel in Animal Crossing would be a cool place to incorporate the multiplayer. This could be somewhere that your friends chicken to when they visit they get assigned a room, which they would be able to decorate. They would also be an outer area with a pool and waterslide with Brewster. At a tiki hut selling everyone drinks. Yes. I feel like the outdoor venue or the pool area would be like at the place to be at, you know, when you're at the hotel definitely down for that. Yeah. I think that's really cool too. And like I said, it just be really cool to see like those amenities and stuff show up around there and that it's funny that Brewster Tiki Hut came up again. Yeah our letter from last week must have been inspirational over that it was a good idea. Yeah. Yep. So Alex our coconut as answered. It'd be cool if the dream sweet and Luna got incorporated into this hypothetical hotel and maybe tortimer is the owner of the hotel overall like his Island from New Leaf is still around but now it has a hotel and yes, that's a that's a really good character to put in that. Yeah. I know we would like a new one but tortimer he's vacationing it up. He needs a new hobby for for keeping himself busy since being mayor, you know, so we all need something to do when we're retired. And yeah, the dream sweet is also really a cool idea to just get even if it were like in that place you could go have a dream look at somebody's town and then wake up and feel well rested. Yeah. Yeah. Awesome. Well, thanks so much Sergio. Did you have anything else to say about anything on the show today? No, I think we're you know, we just Keep imagining really cool things that we would like to see and hopefully very soon. We can have actual details of what's going to be added and we can share them with all of you. Yeah. Definitely. We're going to be on top of that when it whenever we get some new news. There's already some rumors about a direct coming up this month. Let's talk about that a little bit. Do you think it's happening? Do we are we getting a direct this month or is it still in December? No, December 5th. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, the the one piece of I guess evidence that came out that could point to some sort of direct and honestly, I still I'll say I don't believe there's going to be a direct until next like January to February so I don't really believe it but we did see well recently. I saw that somebody reported the smash site was updated with whoever Terry is coming soon, you know. I don't care about Terry we already they honestly peaked at putting Banjo-Kazooie into the game. So true. Everything else is not a big deal. It just seems like it's just extra this point. But yeah, so they did change the site to say it's coming soon. So a lot of people kind of think there's going to be a direct coming up this week. I tell you I feel though, like maybe I should believe it because when we tend to talk about About directs on this show and whether or not they're happening soon. They tend to get announce like the day the show comes home. So maybe we should believe it. You know, that's true. That's a good point in also this match character. Yeah. So yeah the smash character we've seen enough directs for smash though. Just end it with some more Animal Crossing info and we'll be happy. Yeah. Yeah. All right, everybody will thank you so much for tuning. Into this episode of hakken in Animal Crossing podcast don't want the episode to end. 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It is finally November, which means we get to showcase some new artwork for Haken: An Animal Crossing Podcast. This new piece was created by Ivyteas and you can see more of their work on Twitter, Instagram, and through their portfolio. Twitter: https://twitter.com/ivyteas Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ivyteas/ Portfolio: https://ivyteas.wixsite.com/puddlesong/info  This week, Sergio and I discuss amiibo in Animal Crossing New Horizons. We go through past info on amiibo and go into our own ideas for how amiibo could function in this game. We also come up with ideas for vacations within Animal Crossing. Finally, we take answers from our patrons for the Haken Islander Corner. Time Stamps: 0:05 - Introduction 2:13 - New Haken Artwork 11:30 - amiibo In Animal Crossing New Horizons 32:15 - Vacations in New Horizons 43:57 - Haken's Islander Corner 52:10 - 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 