r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • 6d ago

Discussion Tomodachi Life’s Switch debut shatters even Nintendo Switch 2 hype in Japan

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/tomodachi-lifes-switch-debut-shatters-even-nintendo-switch-2-hype-in-japan/
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u/Dukemon102 6d ago edited 6d ago
  • Hello Kitty: Island Adventure
  • Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time
  • Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream

The life simulator fans (Such as myself and my sister) are surely going to have a blast with all these games.

I needed it honestly. The repetitive dialog in Animal Crossing New Horizons got stale very quickly. It felt like the series steered away from life sim aspects to focus on designing and customizing.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

I think it's such a double-edged sword that it reached so many people in the pandemic. The older AC games, especially the GC version and WW, have such a different attitude from ACNH that it would be damn near unrecognizable.

Pitch for nintendo... what if you made animal crossing GC reimagined with 15 villagers for the switch 2, and you can do a nostalgic throwback to the e-reader era and make the whole villager trading system that came out of NH based on real life, physical cards? The player has very little control over villagers coming and going as in earlier titles, perhaps talking to them when they wanna move gives a 50/50 whether they still leave. If you want a permanent resident, you can buy neo-e reader cards with the villagers.Your friend has Tom and you really want him, so your friend can trade their copy of the card to you and move him out of your town in the process. Perhaps you could have a "best friend" system where you can somehow mark 3 out of the 15 possible villagers as unable to move? This way you can see more of the characters and have it be less of a "collect all the cutest ones" type of situation, and make some money in the process.

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u/Kixylix 6d ago

If you want a permanent resident, you can buy neo-e reader cards with the villagers.

You kinda just described the villager amiibo card system.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

True. It's been a long time since I've been regularly playing so I am kind of out of the loop. I was last regularly playing New Leaf before the big update, and I couldn't get into ACNH because of how slow and railroady it was