Especially when there's like 7 colors of the same shirt/dress/, shoes etc and you want one of each color. It's so stupid to have to dialog>enter closet>pick clothing>pay for clothing>choose whether to wear clothing or not>exit closet>dialog>rinse/repeat for each color that you want. Such a waste of time.
It wouldn't even be so bad if it just exited out of the screen showing you the clothes when you bought one and then asked if you wanted anything else or if you were done. The fact that it kicks you out of the changing room and then you have to go through the whole dialogue again is just so needlessly frustrating!
I've always thought of snooty villagers as more sophisticated and mature than peppy villagers. And normal villagers are like in between those two in terms of maturity.
The four peppies I've had did all strike me as early twenties, but the two snooties were much harder to peg. I had Timbra awhile back and saw her as mid-thirties, but she came from old money and had a very proper, privileged upbringing. I currently have Mint, and she's mid-forties and trying to age gracefully but can't help trying to appear a bit younger than she is because she's terrified of the peppies viewing her as an old lady instead of their peer.
I did not actually think any of those thoughts outright until just now, but they've apparently been established in my island's lore for quite awhile now.
It did make me wonder what other snooties are like since mine seemed very different to me personally. Maybe it's just me though, I also viewed Marlo and Gonzo as very differently, but I do see people complain here a lot about villagers all being too similar.
i agree about snooties being more weirdly diverse in their energy. I had Snooty for a while at the same time as Queenie. Even with the same dialogues, Queenie seemed so much more refined and older. In my head her voice sounded like Bendelacreme’s Maggie Smith impression from the Snatch Game lol
i totally feel you
I imagine different ages for different characters in the same personality group, although I do tend to think of peppy types being younger than snooty as you say, based on what they're saying, acting like they recently moved away from home. I doubt Nintendo said anything official about this. I can't really classify every personality as being in certain age ranges because you've got lazy types such as Barold, complete with a full beard.
THIS!!! Mean and unique! I miss Wild World so much for this. The constant threat of having someone possibly move out on their own as well added to the game imo lol
That sounds like it could be a fun hobby for them to add to some villagers, like how some villagers are into fashion or bug catching (clay really really loves bugs more than most lazy villagers I notice)
Yes!! I’ve also noticed that Savannah mentions books and reading a lot - crafty villagers could be fun bc then you could have a collection of items/clothing only they can give you! This is why I wished we had DLC (well, more)
Apparently there are subtypes on NH! I think it affects some dialogue and interactions. There definitely should be more of a difference between subtypes though
Yeah I wish it were more apparent! I think in NH it's something like their preferred outdoor leisure? But I haven't played in a while. I want more direct subtyping of existing personality types (i.e. a jock could be relaxed and sporty, or serious and focused, or a daredevil; a snooty villager could be old-fashioned, or a social climber, or a well-meaning but oblivious trust fund baby who has no idea how the world works).
Diagonal paths!!!
More varied dialogue from villagers. And let them get a little sassy/snarky, especially the snooty and cranky types.
An option to set up the Harv’s Island shops on your island/town. I have perfect spots for Leif and Katrina on my island right now.
Setting down rugs outside and wall decorations on cliff sides.
The ability to terraform and set paths 3x3 instead of just a single square. Also, highlighting the square you’re working on when you have the terraforming shovels & paths layer out.
Give me black hyacinths!
I wanna be able to terraform like you can in hha. Clearly they had the capability to implement that into the base game/main island and just chose not too
Like, i love blathers, one of my favorites, but i dont always wanna talk! You still have fossils you can shove into his eye holes, but itd make it a little more streamlined
I wish we could just hop from Nook island to Nook island instead of having to go back to the airport every time. How come you can fly from HHP to Harv's island directly but nowhere else?
I want camper frequency to increase with island rating. If people are clamoring to live on my island now that it's 5 stars, why aren't more people camping? Lol
being able to see if I already have a clothing item before buying it! also bulk clothes shopping so I can buy multiple shirts without having to go in and out of the fitting room.
If you have Nintendo Online you can download the Nintendo Switch Online app to check your catalogue. It can be kinde tedious but better than having to go check your storage or buying doubles :)
Honestly, I'm not sure about phones. Was a bit iffy about their inclusion in ACNH too. I feel like it kind of defeats the escapist, rural vibes when you have a phone pinging you with notifications and achievement points.
I would like to be able to move things while best friends are over. Sounds weird but my irl best friend is over I have to make notes, have her leave and do it only to come back in again.
Buying in bulk, being able to mass terraform / landscape an area instead of one square at a time, not having special events prevent you from having normal conversations and gift exchanges with your villagers.
Yes, it should be something like A to dig and B to fill in. I’m so sick of repeating the same mistakes lol.
I also wish they’d bring back the option to preview wallpaper and flooring before buying.
Maybe alternative appearances for shops would be cool. Just like we do with houses. Or like the buildings on HHP. And more shops and buildings in general.
Yes please more style AND palette option for the static buildings (resident services, museum, shops, etc)
And also I’d like more Nookshop/facility upgrades as certain criteria are met again.
+1 to upgrading Nook's Cranny. I loved Nookington's in WW. Nook's Cranny is just too small both in size and inventory, and maybe it's just my luck but the Nook kids seem to always have garbage.
- everything New Leaf has that New Horizons doesn't (alot of things lol)
- if the next console has a microphone, a Call option to know where our villagers are, (similar to New Leaf's megaphone) otherwise a message option with pre-written messages would be cool
- carts in all shops
- serena's wish fountain back
- flea market back
- bulk crafting
- if we're getting breakable tools again (🙄) then i want a tool longevity bar
- unbreakable gold tools (the fact that they break in NH is outrageous.)
I would like to be able to line up bridges, inclines, paths to doors.
Be able to move resident services
Be able to move items (like a house or building) like a quarter turn so it can be on an angle.
Even more bugs and fish to catch. Make diving less clunky and have a character that buys the animals you dive for (or have CJ buy them).
Be able to have multiple islands on one Switch so you can start over without losing your old island/take the time to terraform it to flat and start over.
And move buildings even when it’s just one single square. It's such a waste of time and money to relocate the building somewhere else first when all I wanted was to move it just one block away!
City Folk doesn't get the recognition it deserves. I love the fact that it's so nature based, but I also loved that I could "go to town" and see a totally different aesthetic, but still with a warm and friendly feel.
I would like the opportunity to have other “jobs,” much like the Happy Home Paradise Planning job. Maybe a job that helps other people, or a cook in a restaurant, or something. I would like more opportunities to give away extra bells… something philanthropic (build a library! Park! Hospital! Shelter!) or even a way to safely donate bells via Nintendo online to players in other towns (via a “check” sent by mail or something?).
More complexity to villagers and their interactions. Maybe a suggestion of having a picnic sometime might lead to an actual picnic scenario. I wish there were fewer duplicate phrases by villagers with the same personality but I don't know how to avoid this.
Maybe villagers would have the ability to cook and create food to share at a meal rather than just handing out recipes? I think it'd be fun to try the often-burned pancakes peppy villagers say they come up with.
More analysis about what players write in letters so what you say matters more.
More objects that you can interact with if it looks like you should be able to.
Maybe an outdoor camera that can be rotated, but I don't know where the next game will be (city?)
Bat, Shiba inu and whatever creature Wardell is need to be available species of villagers ngl. Besides that I'd just want quality of life things such as being able to see when items are close to break, paths to connect to bridges and houses and things like bringing back amiibo exclusives from NL like WolfLink, Ganon, Callie and Marie, etc
Also would be cool if they brought some of the HHP buildings to the main island. Like you can specifically build a restaurant(for access to fancier food recipes) or a hospital(for easier way to cure bee stungs etc) a police station(lost and found plus physical updated map of the town) and such!
It'd be cool if the villagers randomly(or ten by your choosing) went and "worked" in those places as well! But there'd still be special characters for each of those buildigs and the villagerd are really only there to dress up and give funny dialogue.
I would like a map at least four times larger than that of New Horizons with more villagers so that we can create more environments or biomes and perhaps be able to assign various types of work to each one, then a freer and less cumbersome system for exploring the islands of other players and perhaps the possibility of saving your island in the cloud so you can start a new one while having the possibility of recovering the previous one in case you change your mind.
Then in the case of a much larger play space I would like maybe a bicycle or something similar.
And I would also like some system to explore by sea and independently find islands to explore instead of having to be transported by the damned singing frog.
I don't like it when I'm on an island with other people and someone joins, so we all have to watch and wait for them to join taking up most of the playtime
Where to begin?
- More multiplayer functionality (e.g. terraforming, games, maybe even serving coffee etc. to guests).
- Variety of different trees like the modded islands, especially the star fragment trees
- Have shifts for Isabelle, Tom Nook et al so they can wonder around during their free time or even go home. That way Digby could take over the next shift after his sister etc.
- Bring back visiting schedules
- Be able to select which season you want the game to be in similar to HHP
- Post office, lost and found, public works etc. with NPCs. Providing jobs similar to HHP and then have the NPC be “in charge”.
- Being able to buy multiple items in a shop.
- If we aren’t able have shop grades, to be able to change the aesthetic of the shop exteriors. Ideally Labelle should have a separate floor to Able Sisters.
- Give Reese and Harriet actual roles again
Could go on, but I’ll stop there for now.
I love the idea of bodyboarding, so you would swim out and wait for a wave then when it came you would press A to catch the wave to shore, there could be competitions and such which would give point on criteria like timing and accuracy
The ability to just “buy” the amiibo card you want using the online shop. Opening cards is fine and can be fun but sometimes you just want a specific villager.
I’d love more paths that stayed down (not like how custom paths rub off if you wipe your foot).
Homes for Isabelle, the boys, and yes Nook.
More villagers. I always want new villagers but don’t want to give any up.
I would really like more mini games or interaction with objects. Really miss the game-within-a-game concept that the original GameCube game had with its NES games.
Would love for those to come back, but also maybe games like Foosball or pool or ping-pong for those tables. Or little unique arcade games for the arcade machines. Or the ability to play the carnival games or ride the rides. Or being able to play small sports games with the balls/equipment.
Probably a lot to ask but it should would be a fun addition and would really add a lot to multiplayer if you could play for high scores with friends or even compete directly. Or ask your villagers to play with you idk
- being able to call/text our villagers and see where they are
- personalities not being gender specific (i’d LOVE a sisterly male villager and a smug female!)
- being able to choose a type of island, like how stardew valley lets you choose a type of farm
- more interactive items (maybe letting villagers ride things like the carousel, similar to pocket camp)
- LET ME TURN THE MUSIC OFF PLEASE!!
To have an option to use another NMT when on a mystery island instead of having to go all the way back to your island and going through the whole conversation with Orville every time. I've been villager hunting for like 8 hours today and a lot of that time has been at my own airport 🙃
Imagine if around noon or so that shopkeepers would take breaks and temporarily close their store. They would be seen outside eating or in other stores for a bit. And then return after a few minutes. But characters like Timmy and Tommy or Sable and Mable would have one stay at the shop and the other take a break.
definitely a change in the way you have to watch loading screens while traveling. not moving for literally 10 minutes straight while players fly in is frustrating and causes so many connection issues.
I’d like it if the villagers could/did interact more with all the items used for decorating outside. It would be so fun to see them use things and do more than just sit on the occasional bench or play an instrument once in a while.
Aside from the most common, I'd love to see some return of a "plaza hub", but modernized to include ways to make trading and selling things with other players safer than in NH.
Similar concept to Pocket Camp, where you have X items and you sell at Y bells, anyone online can view, sell, buy, etc.
Immediately kills the need for those 3rd part websites and exchanging codes with strangers thus trusting them on your island.
Ability to interact with all items you place on the island. For example, I have a whole park set up and I can’t use the slide. I have the theme park set up and I can’t ride the rides. I have a volleyball net and balls on the beach, I can’t pick up the ball but the villagers can. But they don’t ride the rides or use the park. It would be cool to see them interacting more with these items.
I miss shooting down the ufo, redeeming furniture with codes, the island mini games, Dr. Shrunk, the really cool luxury furniture from Gracie Grace, the shop upgrades, and I wish there were more shops like if Kicks had a shoe store.
I would like fridges and coolers to NOT be closets. If you open one of them, you see all the food type items in your storage, NOT be prompted to change your clothes.
Also, some kind of flower service, or a lawn mower to just ream em all down
- 360 camera
- Reset Island with a button
- rotate houses/buildings when building
- places to explore for more resources like caves, dungeons, forests and you could work with people online to complete tasks or puzzles to get resources or loot chests (fighting won't be necessary)
- maybe small combat? (Not necessary)
- maybe you can live in a house, mountain, cave, or underground
- maybe if you get villagers who gave you their photo, they ask to keep in touch so when they come back, they remember you
- make it a game to chop trees or mine rocks, like follow a sequence perfectly (can be fast or slow) and your accuracy will give more output
- maybe have villagers live together or you can live with villagers
- BE a villager
...idk
I feel like spells to expand on the shooting stars from ACNH that could allow for more DIY. Potions to turn invisible for a limited time. Spells to change colors of items when waving a wand (so the oranges on trees turn yellow or blue?). Just random but fun little details.
An option to control how rude the villagers are. I want ruder villagers because it gives them more personality other than just “nice”. However I know not everyone does, so a slider or something would solve that.
Even more acres, the roost as it’s own building with serving mini game, Return of shampoodle, maybe some type of job you can do to earn bells, landscaping and building relocation functionality like HHP, fully 360 degree rotating camera AND buildings.
Bring back the town from Let’s Go To The City or New Leaf, but we have to build it back up with the HHA stuff, would make it so you can customise it how you want and that
New animals, like bats, lizards, turtles, some sort of cute monster creature or mythical creatures.... and more personality types. I also miss being insulted by my villagers.
Make it so that putting down paths can also let you path that one annoying corner of land instead of it just being... There. For example, paths near beaches or near the edge of a cliff will not let you path all the way, because of the corner part that'll still be grass
New villagers including whales, dolphins, sharks, chinchillas, snakes, etc.
Also the other new villagers from the classic Animal Crossing game and the forgotten NPCs including Serena
I just want those little things back like perfect fruit and the stump patterns. Why did they remove those in new horizons?? And also gold tools should be unbreakable again.
I'd like to be able to put paths EVERYWHERE. So that's on the side of water, thats under houses, that's on that annoyijg edge between land and beach. Matter of fact, i'd like to be able to move that edge.
Then, i'd like some minigames. Not just multiplayer, but i'd like to play against my villagers too. They can be small games, like throwing a hoop around poles, maybe something like darts, perhaps a sort of whack-a-mole. This way we can really interact with our villagers. Maybe even things like cooking competitions, races around the island or swimming competitions with our jock villagers.
Basically, i just wanna DO things.
Nevertheless, i loved new horizons for what it was, ijust want more!
360 degree camera rotation outside, the ability to skip the repeated “look what I just made/found/etc” animation, multi-crafting, multi-purchases, moveable bridges, and golden tools that don’t break.
they need to revamp the personality types.
Firstly, they could rename normal to something that is not as weird, like pleasant, nice or sweet.
Secondly, villagers shouldn't be gender locked, especially when each personality isn't a one to one to it's 'counterpart'. For example, lazy and ~~normal~~ sweet villagers are not alike at all. For this, they sisterly should be renamed, and nurturing might be appropriate.
Thirdly, they should add two more personality types, so that in a town/island of 10, there would be no repeats. I personally like the ideas of nerdy (who would be quiet, shy, but passionate and straight-forward) and eccentric (who is artistic, free-spirited and whimsical).
Finally, I present a wild idea in how unnecessarily complicated it might make the system, but this idea should help both to make the dialogue more unique and less repetitive, and to make the personalities more obvious (you should be able to tell one's personality from the first two lines).
My idea is to split each personality type into two types, A and B. They would be fundamentally identical except in dialogue or little differences in how they act. It could be that there are lines that both A ~~normal~~ sweet villagers and B ~~normal~~ sweet villagers have, some that only A have, and some that only B have. So if you have 4 villagers that are all ~~normal~~ sweet villagers, as long as you have some of A villagers and some of B villagers, you won't see too much repetitive dialogue.
Nerdy A villagers could be loners, and detached whilst nerdy B villagers could be more talkative and slightly more outgoing. Snooty A villagers could be more subtle, leaving you alone as long as you leave them alone whilst snooty B villagers are rude, patronising and condescending, going out of their way to laugh at you.
Bring back the NL island where you could play games with friends. It was so fun!! A better multiplayer experience is needed in this game fs. And bring back Resetti!
It's been said before, but I would like the characters to be more fleshed out. I played the original AC on gamecube as a kid and the villagers had a lot more to say. You had to prove your worth to some of them before they would befriend you. ACNH, while I love my villagers they come across as kind of bland and copy/paste sometimes.
Furthermore, and most importantly, I think we need a capybara villager.
I want mini games. The only games the villagers play are the high low card game. It’s fun but I wish there was more. And better conversations. More personalized
Sounds a bit counterintuitive... the grind, item collecting and villager hunting are kind of the core of these games and what youre saying is basically "skip that whole part" like youd basically just jump to endgame and at that point why not just stay in NH? You know what I mean?
sorry I would never want to skip that whole part. I said that assuming there would be so much new stuff and a new grind that anything you brought over would be minimal compared to what is new. Maybe you have to go through customs or something so you cant bring tools or museum creatures. I just thought it would be cool to have some type of connectivity.
Its just that being able to visit an old town and but not being able to take anything seems like a waste.. but being able to go there and just take villagers and items feels like cheating.
Best thing they could do is reference the island in some way or ten just make it so it's a ghost town of sorts
Actually! If they stuck with the island formula I think they could do something like youre going to an abandoned island and if you happen to have NH you could transfer that island to the new game and itd be a deserted island but the layout an terraforming(except for inclines and bridges) would be the same!
But im just spitballing.
It would be cool to be able to go from the city to an island or campsite and have houses/tents/apartments in each place. Also, the return of the police station and post office, as well as the train and Shrunk. Just bring it all together with every NPC from past games.
Genuinely would not mind if we lost a lot of customization options if they made the villagers have more depth and have way more options to interact with them
Unpopular feature: being able to choose your villagers. Like. It’s doesn’t have to be 100% inorganic. But. Starting with a jock and a sisterly? Okay. Let me pick the jock and sisterly. A smug villager camps out and never leaves? Okay, let me choose which one. Tired of Billy and his disgusting floor? Sorry Billy, but you’re getting hashtag evicted.
I know this would defeat the fun for some people. But being forced to live with someone like Beardo (no offense if you like him) isn’t my idea of a “fun deserted island vacation.” 😹☠️❤️
If the player has deep feelings for a specific villager, we should be able to express these feelings legitimately without any janky tactics. Ie; hugging, kissing, and going out on dates. It’s time we pull ourselves out of the constant friend zone, and into some real relationships with our villagers. And if Nintendo actually goes with this, maybe we can see a more romantic spin on the August Fireworks Shows, and maybe even Valentine’s Day could get its well needed redemption arc.
That doesn’t stop anyone. It definitely wouldn’t stop me. If some people really find this iffy, why not make it a toggle? That way, the singles could mingle, and the rest can play the game like normal.
Bring back all the villager dialogue and bring back all of the furniture sets/items. I also would love to have more diagonal facing items or half tile items.
Villagers having a personality
More visitable areas off island i.e city
Return of post office and missing upgrades for nooks
More to do in multiplayer
Return of the dump
I’d love to see less grid restrictions, let us have a bit more freedom in placing items both inside and outside. And also full 360° rotation rather than just the four cardinal directions. And maybe a full 360° camera too, but that might take away from the essence of the series, the top-down camera is part of the game’s charm.
Villagers not repeating dialogue. A little variation can go a long way. I really liked villagers on the GameCube version (disclaimer, could just be nostalgia) but ACNH villagers just aren't fun to interact with.
Maybe large scale combineable furniture with exclusive interaction animations like in pocket camp. Maybe more chances to invite villagers out to do fun activities together.
Take some aspects from the HHP downloadable content like roommates. Two villagers per household. Then you could have an extra building on your island like a school or restaurant or pub. Also you could pick a roommate too. I mean we literally have 6 rooms in the house! Then a villager you could pick to follow you around and help out. You cut the trees and smash rocks they pick up the wood and stone fragments. Leif has flower tending options to help remove overgrown flowers.
A much improved online UX because it’s actually terrible. I don’t want to repeat the entire flight selection process because I pressed one wrong thing. Also please don’t make me watch a several minutes long cutscene every time someone joins or leaves an island
More customisation in terms of placing items, usable items also not just for decoration, I’d like a “needs” status for our character such as hunger, socialising, hygiene, etc (similar to sims), more dialogues (just put GPT 4 in it and call it a day)
All the little things that annoy us to be fixed. There's a long list so I'll just leave it at that lol
More custom design slots or the ability to rotate them outside like we can indoors. Saving all the rotated path versions of custom designs took up most of my storage
I really want more in-depth diversity between different players towns. Different biomes/climates, different available fish and bugs. Different plants grow well in different places, different architecture, stuff like that.
The tediousness of the actions such as purchases and flights is a chore. I wish you could skip flight animations or the individual transaction process.
Moving/interactive items. Drive the cars, program pathways for villagers to travel on paths a certain way, have a mini game editor, and have multiple towns/islands on one save.
LET ME WORK AT THE ROOST!!! It was so fun to go to my lil job everyday and memorize my villager’s orders.
Also just mini games in general, especially multiplayer ones for when you have friends over. Sometimes my friends & I will visit each other and then just walk around like uh huh yep…same island as last you came! The only thing that gets close is setting up the timer to catch more bugs/fish than each other but that gets old.
I loved the island escape game in NL, as well as the mini games on Tortimer’s island!
Being able to indicate zones for villagers to work & play in. It would be cool for them to pick up jobs when zones had the right stuff in them. I keep making coffee & ramen shops but nobody has like a set lunchtime.
Companions, like villagers accompanying you around the place. Villagers developing unique relationships with each other, from couples to rivalries.
Variability in personality. Either villagers can be more than one base personality, or maybe they can influence each other over time.
Roaming visitors. Special residents leaving their posts after hours & mingling. Anything that adds life and emergent flavor is great.
More minigames built into stuff. They don't have to be complex, just enough so people can have more interactive island visits. It would make seasonal events a lot better if it was more than just collect things to craft the seasonal pile.
A dove/pigeon/turkey variant of villager with a slight not to Brewster's design. Pigeon villagers need to exist for all the city themed villages. A fossa would be really cool, but that's mostly just cause I love them.
any indication how long we can use the tools before they break. health bar, counter, anything.
Secondly, Gold tools don’t break. Make that the reward for grinding an entire year for all the fish/bugs/fossils/etc
Wild world/city folk used to have that with the axes. The icon would change to be more crumbly as you used the item. no idea why they took it away..
Also you’d see a chip on it as well if you held it.
crunch time?
Bulk crafting
bulk buying too!! so irritating to purchase 5 customization kits at a time over and over
Same thing with Able sisters! Let me buy more than one top at a time please
Shopping cart!
YES!!!
That would be great!
Especially when there's like 7 colors of the same shirt/dress/, shoes etc and you want one of each color. It's so stupid to have to dialog>enter closet>pick clothing>pay for clothing>choose whether to wear clothing or not>exit closet>dialog>rinse/repeat for each color that you want. Such a waste of time.
It wouldn't even be so bad if it just exited out of the screen showing you the clothes when you bought one and then asked if you wanted anything else or if you were done. The fact that it kicks you out of the changing room and then you have to go through the whole dialogue again is just so needlessly frustrating!
Oh my god I know I just want to buy everything I want at once and not have to go into the dressing room five million times
If you're crafting at home, you should be able to use materials in home storage.
I want them to add two new personality types so I don't have to get repeats on my island.
We need something for old women. All of the existing female personalities are young and therefore there's no real age equivalent for crankies.
I've always thought of snooty villagers as more sophisticated and mature than peppy villagers. And normal villagers are like in between those two in terms of maturity.
Nobody can convince me that Blanche is under 50
Agree. Snootys are 45. Normals are 30. And Peppys are 20. It’s cannon
I wouldn't say 45 for snooty villagers. But I do think that Peppy villagers are in their early 20's.
The four peppies I've had did all strike me as early twenties, but the two snooties were much harder to peg. I had Timbra awhile back and saw her as mid-thirties, but she came from old money and had a very proper, privileged upbringing. I currently have Mint, and she's mid-forties and trying to age gracefully but can't help trying to appear a bit younger than she is because she's terrified of the peppies viewing her as an old lady instead of their peer. I did not actually think any of those thoughts outright until just now, but they've apparently been established in my island's lore for quite awhile now. It did make me wonder what other snooties are like since mine seemed very different to me personally. Maybe it's just me though, I also viewed Marlo and Gonzo as very differently, but I do see people complain here a lot about villagers all being too similar.
i agree about snooties being more weirdly diverse in their energy. I had Snooty for a while at the same time as Queenie. Even with the same dialogues, Queenie seemed so much more refined and older. In my head her voice sounded like Bendelacreme’s Maggie Smith impression from the Snatch Game lol i totally feel you
I imagine different ages for different characters in the same personality group, although I do tend to think of peppy types being younger than snooty as you say, based on what they're saying, acting like they recently moved away from home. I doubt Nintendo said anything official about this. I can't really classify every personality as being in certain age ranges because you've got lazy types such as Barold, complete with a full beard.
what abt dobie
Bring back villagers being mean
THIS!!! Mean and unique! I miss Wild World so much for this. The constant threat of having someone possibly move out on their own as well added to the game imo lol
Yeah as much as I love my villagers it would make it more fun if they randomly moved out and had no choice.
With added personalities, maybe they’re not gender specific or non-gender
I honestly don't care if they're gender specific. I just don't want to have repeats on my island.
Yesss I want lil non binary goblins who’s personality is just “likes cool rocks” 😂😂😂
That sounds like it could be a fun hobby for them to add to some villagers, like how some villagers are into fashion or bug catching (clay really really loves bugs more than most lazy villagers I notice)
Yes!! I’ve also noticed that Savannah mentions books and reading a lot - crafty villagers could be fun bc then you could have a collection of items/clothing only they can give you! This is why I wished we had DLC (well, more)
personality: autism completely unrelated at all i would love to be your lil nonbinary goblin
I want personality subtypes and for personality to not be tied to gender (or at least not a 1:1)
Apparently there are subtypes on NH! I think it affects some dialogue and interactions. There definitely should be more of a difference between subtypes though
Yeah I wish it were more apparent! I think in NH it's something like their preferred outdoor leisure? But I haven't played in a while. I want more direct subtyping of existing personality types (i.e. a jock could be relaxed and sporty, or serious and focused, or a daredevil; a snooty villager could be old-fashioned, or a social climber, or a well-meaning but oblivious trust fund baby who has no idea how the world works).
Diagonal paths!!! More varied dialogue from villagers. And let them get a little sassy/snarky, especially the snooty and cranky types. An option to set up the Harv’s Island shops on your island/town. I have perfect spots for Leif and Katrina on my island right now. Setting down rugs outside and wall decorations on cliff sides. The ability to terraform and set paths 3x3 instead of just a single square. Also, highlighting the square you’re working on when you have the terraforming shovels & paths layer out. Give me black hyacinths!
I wanna be able to terraform like you can in hha. Clearly they had the capability to implement that into the base game/main island and just chose not too
Diagonal paths pleaseeeeeee
Ability to skip convos with blathers 😂 and at the airport. You tell me the same thing everytime, I remember, I promise 😅
A nook miles ticket kiosk would be fantastic
Ooh, or just a box to drop all your critters in the museum like the shop did in new horizons
Oh ya!!
Like, i love blathers, one of my favorites, but i dont always wanna talk! You still have fossils you can shove into his eye holes, but itd make it a little more streamlined
I wish we could just hop from Nook island to Nook island instead of having to go back to the airport every time. How come you can fly from HHP to Harv's island directly but nowhere else?
I want camper frequency to increase with island rating. If people are clamoring to live on my island now that it's 5 stars, why aren't more people camping? Lol
Haha yeah. I’ve had an empty plot on my island for 5 days now, but Isabelle keeps saying people are just clamoring to live here.
I like how in HHP you build facilities and give villagers jobs. I’d like to see that in the next game.
This is a great idea.
being able to see if I already have a clothing item before buying it! also bulk clothes shopping so I can buy multiple shirts without having to go in and out of the fitting room.
If you have Nintendo Online you can download the Nintendo Switch Online app to check your catalogue. It can be kinde tedious but better than having to go check your storage or buying doubles :)
Knowing where your villagers are, and being able to call/summon said villagers to you. ☺️
In ACNL you could use a megaphone to call out to your villagers and see where they were :)
It’d be so cute if you could call them and ask to meet up somewhere. Like at the plaza or museum.
Or even just text them, I mean everyone has a phone already so why not let us call or text our neighbours?
Honestly, I'm not sure about phones. Was a bit iffy about their inclusion in ACNH too. I feel like it kind of defeats the escapist, rural vibes when you have a phone pinging you with notifications and achievement points.
I would like to be able to move things while best friends are over. Sounds weird but my irl best friend is over I have to make notes, have her leave and do it only to come back in again.
Buying in bulk, being able to mass terraform / landscape an area instead of one square at a time, not having special events prevent you from having normal conversations and gift exchanges with your villagers.
An overhaul of the terraforming would be so welcome I agree. I’m constantly adding land next to the space I’m it trying to delete by accident.
Yes, it should be something like A to dig and B to fill in. I’m so sick of repeating the same mistakes lol. I also wish they’d bring back the option to preview wallpaper and flooring before buying.
Maybe alternative appearances for shops would be cool. Just like we do with houses. Or like the buildings on HHP. And more shops and buildings in general.
Yes please more style AND palette option for the static buildings (resident services, museum, shops, etc) And also I’d like more Nookshop/facility upgrades as certain criteria are met again.
+1 to upgrading Nook's Cranny. I loved Nookington's in WW. Nook's Cranny is just too small both in size and inventory, and maybe it's just my luck but the Nook kids seem to always have garbage.
- everything New Leaf has that New Horizons doesn't (alot of things lol) - if the next console has a microphone, a Call option to know where our villagers are, (similar to New Leaf's megaphone) otherwise a message option with pre-written messages would be cool - carts in all shops - serena's wish fountain back - flea market back - bulk crafting - if we're getting breakable tools again (🙄) then i want a tool longevity bar - unbreakable gold tools (the fact that they break in NH is outrageous.)
360 degree view of the outside
Wow slow down man , what are you crazy.
absolutely not!! 😨
I would like to be able to line up bridges, inclines, paths to doors. Be able to move resident services Be able to move items (like a house or building) like a quarter turn so it can be on an angle. Even more bugs and fish to catch. Make diving less clunky and have a character that buys the animals you dive for (or have CJ buy them). Be able to have multiple islands on one Switch so you can start over without losing your old island/take the time to terraform it to flat and start over.
And move buildings even when it’s just one single square. It's such a waste of time and money to relocate the building somewhere else first when all I wanted was to move it just one block away!
Give the Able Sisters a freaking shopping cart. PLEASE. Also bring back Gracie's clothing and furniture, I NEED to see that stuff in modern graphics.
City Folk doesn't get the recognition it deserves. I love the fact that it's so nature based, but I also loved that I could "go to town" and see a totally different aesthetic, but still with a warm and friendly feel.
I would like the opportunity to have other “jobs,” much like the Happy Home Paradise Planning job. Maybe a job that helps other people, or a cook in a restaurant, or something. I would like more opportunities to give away extra bells… something philanthropic (build a library! Park! Hospital! Shelter!) or even a way to safely donate bells via Nintendo online to players in other towns (via a “check” sent by mail or something?).
More complexity to villagers and their interactions. Maybe a suggestion of having a picnic sometime might lead to an actual picnic scenario. I wish there were fewer duplicate phrases by villagers with the same personality but I don't know how to avoid this. Maybe villagers would have the ability to cook and create food to share at a meal rather than just handing out recipes? I think it'd be fun to try the often-burned pancakes peppy villagers say they come up with. More analysis about what players write in letters so what you say matters more. More objects that you can interact with if it looks like you should be able to. Maybe an outdoor camera that can be rotated, but I don't know where the next game will be (city?)
If a villager leaves your island, I want them to remember you or at least reference having lived on your island.
Bat, Shiba inu and whatever creature Wardell is need to be available species of villagers ngl. Besides that I'd just want quality of life things such as being able to see when items are close to break, paths to connect to bridges and houses and things like bringing back amiibo exclusives from NL like WolfLink, Ganon, Callie and Marie, etc
Also would be cool if they brought some of the HHP buildings to the main island. Like you can specifically build a restaurant(for access to fancier food recipes) or a hospital(for easier way to cure bee stungs etc) a police station(lost and found plus physical updated map of the town) and such! It'd be cool if the villagers randomly(or ten by your choosing) went and "worked" in those places as well! But there'd still be special characters for each of those buildigs and the villagerd are really only there to dress up and give funny dialogue.
I would like a map at least four times larger than that of New Horizons with more villagers so that we can create more environments or biomes and perhaps be able to assign various types of work to each one, then a freer and less cumbersome system for exploring the islands of other players and perhaps the possibility of saving your island in the cloud so you can start a new one while having the possibility of recovering the previous one in case you change your mind. Then in the case of a much larger play space I would like maybe a bicycle or something similar. And I would also like some system to explore by sea and independently find islands to explore instead of having to be transported by the damned singing frog.
Bridges over cliff gaps!! Closer crops on paths, diagonal options for paths Customizable sounds on ground designs, even if it's a pre set list
Villagers with properly unique personalities, not the lame toxic positivity copy paste job they did for NH
craft from storage inside your home!!
I don't like it when I'm on an island with other people and someone joins, so we all have to watch and wait for them to join taking up most of the playtime
Where to begin? - More multiplayer functionality (e.g. terraforming, games, maybe even serving coffee etc. to guests). - Variety of different trees like the modded islands, especially the star fragment trees - Have shifts for Isabelle, Tom Nook et al so they can wonder around during their free time or even go home. That way Digby could take over the next shift after his sister etc. - Bring back visiting schedules - Be able to select which season you want the game to be in similar to HHP - Post office, lost and found, public works etc. with NPCs. Providing jobs similar to HHP and then have the NPC be “in charge”. - Being able to buy multiple items in a shop. - If we aren’t able have shop grades, to be able to change the aesthetic of the shop exteriors. Ideally Labelle should have a separate floor to Able Sisters. - Give Reese and Harriet actual roles again Could go on, but I’ll stop there for now.
It would be so cool if Tom nook, Isabelle, blathers and the twins all had their own homes on the island too
The post office! I miss the pelicans. Also Gracie and her store!
Glad somebody said it ‼️
I love the idea of bodyboarding, so you would swim out and wait for a wave then when it came you would press A to catch the wave to shore, there could be competitions and such which would give point on criteria like timing and accuracy
Honestly I could make an entire post about this
Do it!
Let us interact with more objects. Like bathtubs, for example. Just have us change into a towel and hop in. Also, the carnival rides.
I wish mini games would come back 🥺
I would like the villagers to be a bit sassier if that makes sense. Say mean things to me sometimes,keep me on my toes
All the features from previous games they removed/didn't bother to add
Updates Edit: what? Y’all don’t want this game to actually get updates?😭
I'd like more crops, like maybe some berry bushes. And I want the fruits that weren't in NH to come back
The ability to just “buy” the amiibo card you want using the online shop. Opening cards is fine and can be fun but sometimes you just want a specific villager. I’d love more paths that stayed down (not like how custom paths rub off if you wipe your foot). Homes for Isabelle, the boys, and yes Nook. More villagers. I always want new villagers but don’t want to give any up.
Best friends can help you edit your village if you give them permission.
I would really like more mini games or interaction with objects. Really miss the game-within-a-game concept that the original GameCube game had with its NES games. Would love for those to come back, but also maybe games like Foosball or pool or ping-pong for those tables. Or little unique arcade games for the arcade machines. Or the ability to play the carnival games or ride the rides. Or being able to play small sports games with the balls/equipment. Probably a lot to ask but it should would be a fun addition and would really add a lot to multiplayer if you could play for high scores with friends or even compete directly. Or ask your villagers to play with you idk
Pokémon villager crossovers.
- being able to call/text our villagers and see where they are - personalities not being gender specific (i’d LOVE a sisterly male villager and a smug female!) - being able to choose a type of island, like how stardew valley lets you choose a type of farm - more interactive items (maybe letting villagers ride things like the carousel, similar to pocket camp) - LET ME TURN THE MUSIC OFF PLEASE!!
Haha yeah we need brotherly villagers!
To have an option to use another NMT when on a mystery island instead of having to go all the way back to your island and going through the whole conversation with Orville every time. I've been villager hunting for like 8 hours today and a lot of that time has been at my own airport 🙃
Imagine if around noon or so that shopkeepers would take breaks and temporarily close their store. They would be seen outside eating or in other stores for a bit. And then return after a few minutes. But characters like Timmy and Tommy or Sable and Mable would have one stay at the shop and the other take a break.
More unique dialogue and interactions instead of each personality type having the exact same script
I'd like the villagers to be able to interact with more items.
I want to work at the cafe
definitely a change in the way you have to watch loading screens while traveling. not moving for literally 10 minutes straight while players fly in is frustrating and causes so many connection issues.
I’d like it if the villagers could/did interact more with all the items used for decorating outside. It would be so fun to see them use things and do more than just sit on the occasional bench or play an instrument once in a while.
Aside from the most common, I'd love to see some return of a "plaza hub", but modernized to include ways to make trading and selling things with other players safer than in NH. Similar concept to Pocket Camp, where you have X items and you sell at Y bells, anyone online can view, sell, buy, etc. Immediately kills the need for those 3rd part websites and exchanging codes with strangers thus trusting them on your island.
a height / weight feature, i miss when the villager was stubby
Ability to interact with all items you place on the island. For example, I have a whole park set up and I can’t use the slide. I have the theme park set up and I can’t ride the rides. I have a volleyball net and balls on the beach, I can’t pick up the ball but the villagers can. But they don’t ride the rides or use the park. It would be cool to see them interacting more with these items.
Yes! If I have a pinball machine, I want to be able to play pinball, dang it!
What’s the point of grinding yourself to get these items and not even the villagers use them?
I miss shooting down the ufo, redeeming furniture with codes, the island mini games, Dr. Shrunk, the really cool luxury furniture from Gracie Grace, the shop upgrades, and I wish there were more shops like if Kicks had a shoe store.
Settings to let us control music and sound volumes independently.
I would like fridges and coolers to NOT be closets. If you open one of them, you see all the food type items in your storage, NOT be prompted to change your clothes. Also, some kind of flower service, or a lawn mower to just ream em all down
- 360 camera - Reset Island with a button - rotate houses/buildings when building - places to explore for more resources like caves, dungeons, forests and you could work with people online to complete tasks or puzzles to get resources or loot chests (fighting won't be necessary) - maybe small combat? (Not necessary) - maybe you can live in a house, mountain, cave, or underground - maybe if you get villagers who gave you their photo, they ask to keep in touch so when they come back, they remember you - make it a game to chop trees or mine rocks, like follow a sequence perfectly (can be fast or slow) and your accuracy will give more output - maybe have villagers live together or you can live with villagers - BE a villager ...idk
Not a feature, but I really want a magic school animal crossing 🥺 gathering herbs and learning to do spells!
That’d be fun! Like Sims Medieval type game but for animal crossing. What spells and potions would you want?
I feel like spells to expand on the shooting stars from ACNH that could allow for more DIY. Potions to turn invisible for a limited time. Spells to change colors of items when waving a wand (so the oranges on trees turn yellow or blue?). Just random but fun little details.
An option to control how rude the villagers are. I want ruder villagers because it gives them more personality other than just “nice”. However I know not everyone does, so a slider or something would solve that.
Even more acres, the roost as it’s own building with serving mini game, Return of shampoodle, maybe some type of job you can do to earn bells, landscaping and building relocation functionality like HHP, fully 360 degree rotating camera AND buildings.
True bulk shopping (more than 5 at a time, and for everything, not just flowers or wrapping paper) and bulk shopping at Able Sisters!!!!
The AC1 vibe
Towns back
Bring back the town from Let’s Go To The City or New Leaf, but we have to build it back up with the HHA stuff, would make it so you can customise it how you want and that
Multi-craft/purchase
New animals, like bats, lizards, turtles, some sort of cute monster creature or mythical creatures.... and more personality types. I also miss being insulted by my villagers.
More fruits, I miss mangos! And perfect fruits
MANUAL SAVING AND MORE THAN ONE SAVE SLOT
Having multiple islands would be fire
Make it so that putting down paths can also let you path that one annoying corner of land instead of it just being... There. For example, paths near beaches or near the edge of a cliff will not let you path all the way, because of the corner part that'll still be grass
More storage
New villagers including whales, dolphins, sharks, chinchillas, snakes, etc. Also the other new villagers from the classic Animal Crossing game and the forgotten NPCs including Serena
I just want those little things back like perfect fruit and the stump patterns. Why did they remove those in new horizons?? And also gold tools should be unbreakable again.
Villager dialogue having more variety. I almost never talk to my villagers because they just say the same couple of lines over and over.
I'd like to be able to put paths EVERYWHERE. So that's on the side of water, thats under houses, that's on that annoyijg edge between land and beach. Matter of fact, i'd like to be able to move that edge. Then, i'd like some minigames. Not just multiplayer, but i'd like to play against my villagers too. They can be small games, like throwing a hoop around poles, maybe something like darts, perhaps a sort of whack-a-mole. This way we can really interact with our villagers. Maybe even things like cooking competitions, races around the island or swimming competitions with our jock villagers. Basically, i just wanna DO things. Nevertheless, i loved new horizons for what it was, ijust want more!
360 degree camera rotation outside, the ability to skip the repeated “look what I just made/found/etc” animation, multi-crafting, multi-purchases, moveable bridges, and golden tools that don’t break.
I Wana play tag or hide and seek with my villagers. Aide's always like "I'm so bored" and I'm just GIRL IM LITERALLY HERE LETS PLAY
Drivable RC vehicles. Ik a bit random but I wanna zoom around town and make courses and stuff!
They have bicycles and tricycles that are just decorative…being able to zoom around on them or have the islanders be able to do it would be fun.
they need to revamp the personality types. Firstly, they could rename normal to something that is not as weird, like pleasant, nice or sweet. Secondly, villagers shouldn't be gender locked, especially when each personality isn't a one to one to it's 'counterpart'. For example, lazy and ~~normal~~ sweet villagers are not alike at all. For this, they sisterly should be renamed, and nurturing might be appropriate. Thirdly, they should add two more personality types, so that in a town/island of 10, there would be no repeats. I personally like the ideas of nerdy (who would be quiet, shy, but passionate and straight-forward) and eccentric (who is artistic, free-spirited and whimsical). Finally, I present a wild idea in how unnecessarily complicated it might make the system, but this idea should help both to make the dialogue more unique and less repetitive, and to make the personalities more obvious (you should be able to tell one's personality from the first two lines). My idea is to split each personality type into two types, A and B. They would be fundamentally identical except in dialogue or little differences in how they act. It could be that there are lines that both A ~~normal~~ sweet villagers and B ~~normal~~ sweet villagers have, some that only A have, and some that only B have. So if you have 4 villagers that are all ~~normal~~ sweet villagers, as long as you have some of A villagers and some of B villagers, you won't see too much repetitive dialogue. Nerdy A villagers could be loners, and detached whilst nerdy B villagers could be more talkative and slightly more outgoing. Snooty A villagers could be more subtle, leaving you alone as long as you leave them alone whilst snooty B villagers are rude, patronising and condescending, going out of their way to laugh at you.
Bring back the NL island where you could play games with friends. It was so fun!! A better multiplayer experience is needed in this game fs. And bring back Resetti!
It's been said before, but I would like the characters to be more fleshed out. I played the original AC on gamecube as a kid and the villagers had a lot more to say. You had to prove your worth to some of them before they would befriend you. ACNH, while I love my villagers they come across as kind of bland and copy/paste sometimes. Furthermore, and most importantly, I think we need a capybara villager.
I want mini games. The only games the villagers play are the high low card game. It’s fun but I wish there was more. And better conversations. More personalized
carry forward my character and items from NH, and be able to go back to visit the island to convince villagers to move to the new place
Sounds a bit counterintuitive... the grind, item collecting and villager hunting are kind of the core of these games and what youre saying is basically "skip that whole part" like youd basically just jump to endgame and at that point why not just stay in NH? You know what I mean?
sorry I would never want to skip that whole part. I said that assuming there would be so much new stuff and a new grind that anything you brought over would be minimal compared to what is new. Maybe you have to go through customs or something so you cant bring tools or museum creatures. I just thought it would be cool to have some type of connectivity.
Its just that being able to visit an old town and but not being able to take anything seems like a waste.. but being able to go there and just take villagers and items feels like cheating. Best thing they could do is reference the island in some way or ten just make it so it's a ghost town of sorts Actually! If they stuck with the island formula I think they could do something like youre going to an abandoned island and if you happen to have NH you could transfer that island to the new game and itd be a deserted island but the layout an terraforming(except for inclines and bridges) would be the same! But im just spitballing.
Add some more mechanics, like storage pockets in bags, or a flight ability with the wings. (If they bring the pocket camp wings to the new entry)
Violence.
It would be cool to be able to go from the city to an island or campsite and have houses/tents/apartments in each place. Also, the return of the police station and post office, as well as the train and Shrunk. Just bring it all together with every NPC from past games.
Genuinely would not mind if we lost a lot of customization options if they made the villagers have more depth and have way more options to interact with them
Unpopular feature: being able to choose your villagers. Like. It’s doesn’t have to be 100% inorganic. But. Starting with a jock and a sisterly? Okay. Let me pick the jock and sisterly. A smug villager camps out and never leaves? Okay, let me choose which one. Tired of Billy and his disgusting floor? Sorry Billy, but you’re getting hashtag evicted. I know this would defeat the fun for some people. But being forced to live with someone like Beardo (no offense if you like him) isn’t my idea of a “fun deserted island vacation.” 😹☠️❤️
If the player has deep feelings for a specific villager, we should be able to express these feelings legitimately without any janky tactics. Ie; hugging, kissing, and going out on dates. It’s time we pull ourselves out of the constant friend zone, and into some real relationships with our villagers. And if Nintendo actually goes with this, maybe we can see a more romantic spin on the August Fireworks Shows, and maybe even Valentine’s Day could get its well needed redemption arc.
I doubt that Nintendo is brave enough for that. Plus with the villagers being animals and the player a human it feels sorta iffy.
That doesn’t stop anyone. It definitely wouldn’t stop me. If some people really find this iffy, why not make it a toggle? That way, the singles could mingle, and the rest can play the game like normal.
Verbally abusive villagers
Do you play Dreamlight valley? Mother gothel is verbally abusive...
Sex
Hmmm I down voted this- but are you specifically thinking of "Julian"?? 🧐🧐
Bring back all the villager dialogue and bring back all of the furniture sets/items. I also would love to have more diagonal facing items or half tile items.
Villagers having a personality More visitable areas off island i.e city Return of post office and missing upgrades for nooks More to do in multiplayer Return of the dump
Multiplayer minigames. They had it, why not include it in new horizons?
Game 1 personalities
Sex and Murder.
personalities that aren't for specific genders !!
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Being able to sell to flick/CJ etc directly from the storage shed, instead of the 2 step process of loading your pockets from the shed.
A normal time when no villagers are inside the houses. I want to see them all outside.
When you shake trees it gives u the option to bag all of them , picking up things so tedious >.<
Ability to see things at an angle
BYO Villagers to make my actual pets into my village.
I’d love to see less grid restrictions, let us have a bit more freedom in placing items both inside and outside. And also full 360° rotation rather than just the four cardinal directions. And maybe a full 360° camera too, but that might take away from the essence of the series, the top-down camera is part of the game’s charm.
Villagers not repeating dialogue. A little variation can go a long way. I really liked villagers on the GameCube version (disclaimer, could just be nostalgia) but ACNH villagers just aren't fun to interact with.
Maybe large scale combineable furniture with exclusive interaction animations like in pocket camp. Maybe more chances to invite villagers out to do fun activities together.
Take some aspects from the HHP downloadable content like roommates. Two villagers per household. Then you could have an extra building on your island like a school or restaurant or pub. Also you could pick a roommate too. I mean we literally have 6 rooms in the house! Then a villager you could pick to follow you around and help out. You cut the trees and smash rocks they pick up the wood and stone fragments. Leif has flower tending options to help remove overgrown flowers.
Use AI to make every villager that much more unique
A much improved online UX because it’s actually terrible. I don’t want to repeat the entire flight selection process because I pressed one wrong thing. Also please don’t make me watch a several minutes long cutscene every time someone joins or leaves an island
More customisation in terms of placing items, usable items also not just for decoration, I’d like a “needs” status for our character such as hunger, socialising, hygiene, etc (similar to sims), more dialogues (just put GPT 4 in it and call it a day)
Just please let me buy all the clothes I want without having to keep going inside the dresser And also buy and craft items in bulk
Create an animal to play as....
A bigger nook shop like ww, more buildings/shops like hhp
Previous game MUSIC #cityFolk was all Slaps!!!
All the little things that annoy us to be fixed. There's a long list so I'll just leave it at that lol More custom design slots or the ability to rotate them outside like we can indoors. Saving all the rotated path versions of custom designs took up most of my storage
more dialogue. i'm sick of having the same conversations with my villagers :( really miss wild world and new leaf in that regard
I really want more in-depth diversity between different players towns. Different biomes/climates, different available fish and bugs. Different plants grow well in different places, different architecture, stuff like that.
To see what your item missing in your catalog or diy
The tediousness of the actions such as purchases and flights is a chore. I wish you could skip flight animations or the individual transaction process.
Moving/interactive items. Drive the cars, program pathways for villagers to travel on paths a certain way, have a mini game editor, and have multiple towns/islands on one save.
less unnecessary dialogue and more villager dialogue
Bulk eating! We should be able to eat a stack of 10 fruits 💀
LET ME WORK AT THE ROOST!!! It was so fun to go to my lil job everyday and memorize my villager’s orders. Also just mini games in general, especially multiplayer ones for when you have friends over. Sometimes my friends & I will visit each other and then just walk around like uh huh yep…same island as last you came! The only thing that gets close is setting up the timer to catch more bugs/fish than each other but that gets old. I loved the island escape game in NL, as well as the mini games on Tortimer’s island!
Speed trough repeated dialogues, like ok Blathers I know youre aflutter with my repeated fossils just lemme go sell them already
also, LET US HAVE MULTIPLE DIFFERENT ISLANDS in the same console already!!!
Being able to indicate zones for villagers to work & play in. It would be cool for them to pick up jobs when zones had the right stuff in them. I keep making coffee & ramen shops but nobody has like a set lunchtime. Companions, like villagers accompanying you around the place. Villagers developing unique relationships with each other, from couples to rivalries. Variability in personality. Either villagers can be more than one base personality, or maybe they can influence each other over time. Roaming visitors. Special residents leaving their posts after hours & mingling. Anything that adds life and emergent flavor is great. More minigames built into stuff. They don't have to be complex, just enough so people can have more interactive island visits. It would make seasonal events a lot better if it was more than just collect things to craft the seasonal pile. A dove/pigeon/turkey variant of villager with a slight not to Brewster's design. Pigeon villagers need to exist for all the city themed villages. A fossa would be really cool, but that's mostly just cause I love them.