zpires - Animal Crossing

Summary

Animal Crossing is a series of casual social simulation games created by Nintendo where you play as a human character living in the same area as animal people (colloquially called "villagers"). You live an easy life of catching fish and insects, picking fruit, digging for fossils, collecting items, designing interior spaces, and hanging out with your fellow villagers. When online play is available, you can visit the towns and islands of other players.

One of the game's core mechanics is that it is played in real time, synched to the console's internal clock. Shops keep certain hours, villagers move on a schedule, and the day-night cycle moves in step with the 24-hour day.

They're some of our absolute favorite games. There's always something to do, and there are events scattered throughout the year to keep things fresh, like competitions like the Bug Off or Fishing Tourney or holidays like Toy Day. We've gotten very attached to some of our villagers, and we look forward to playing it when we can. We usually play at least one Animal Crossing game a day.

Villagers

antonio's, phil's, and doc's amiibo cards

There are 488 different villagers between all of the games, spread across 35 species, with over 100 villagers that have been in every game. That's so many animals to make friends with, run errands for, and gossip about. Each villager has a personality that dictates their dialogue and behavior.

There are 8 personality types, four for each gender: lazy, jock, cranky, and smug for male villagers and normal, peppy, snooty, and big sister for female ones. The villager personality determines their dialogue and behavior toward the player.

If pressed to name our favorite personality, it'd be really hard. We'd probably say snooty because they're sassy opinionated women, but they're all fun. Jocks are great, especially when they're not animals traditionally associated with a lot of muscle, like hamsters. They gotta get their reps in, too. Smug villagers are also so cute as they wallow in their pride. Big sister types (formerly called "uchi" in the Animal Crossing fandom because that's their first-person pronoun in Japanese) are fiery and independent, and they're the first ones to give you medicine if you get stung by a wasp. Peppy villagers love their video games and fashion magazines. Crankies have such delightfully deep voices.

Music

Animal Crossing music is beautiful. Each hour has its own theme, so every game has 24 tracks of in-game music that play whenever you're outside. If you usually play at the same time of day every day, you'll become intimately familiar with the theme of those hours. 7 PM is the staple of our experience, in both New Leaf and New Horizons.

New Leaf hourly music, ranked

12 AM
7 PM
3 AM
8 AM
11 AM
1 AM
1 PM
9 AM
2 PM
9 PM
10 AM
3 PM
2 AM
7 AM
4 AM
4 PM
5 PM
6 AM
5 AM
12 PM
6 PM
8 PM
10 PM
11 PM

New Horizons hourly music, ranked

1 AM
8 AM
2 PM (this is controversial; many people really hate 2 PM, but it's so jazzy)
12 AM
7 AM
9 AM
10 AM
2 AM
11 AM
12 PM
3 AM
9 PM
10 PM
4 AM
5 AM
11 PM
6 PM
4 PM
7 PM
1 PM
3 PM
5 PM
6 AM
8 PM

Our Experiences

baby sitting in front of a very large tree in the town square

Our first game was Animal Crossing: New Leaf for the Nintendo 3DS. We bought it a couple of years after it was released, but it became a game that we played every single day for almost two years just because it's fun.

Animal Crossing became a more significant game to us in mid-2015 when we began to feel the presence of a new member of our system, but they were having trouble coming to be. Ora decided to let them use Animal Crossing to experiment with their appearance and interactions with the characters and game. It was this exploration that helped Thyme separate themselves from the rest of us and adopt an identity of their own.

This idea came up again when our youngest system member, Mimi, wanted to explore himself and have more time for him to have the front. We downloaded a digital copy of the game and let Mimi become the Mayor of Tuesday. He loved it. He loved it a lot.

Pocket Camp was released in 2017, and it was a new game while we waited for Animal Crossing to come to the Switch. Mimi took the reins again and had a lot of fun with it, but the worst of mobile game psychology started to take its toll. In-app purchase opportunities abounded, and there was a lot of FOMO-bait in limited time offerings. It became too exhausting to keep up with, so we eventually deleted the app and stopped using it.

Tom Nook, the Nooklings, Cherry, Hamlet, and Georgie in the town square. Tom Nook says 'Splendid! Then, from now on, this island will be known as Space.'

Animal Crossing came to our system's defense a third time when D was trying to understand his gender stuff—more on that here. But Animal Crossing let her experiment with dress and name and gave her something to do that he enjoyed even in the worst of his depression.

We bought a Nintendo Switch to play New Horizons. It was the only reason we wanted the console. It would be bigger and better than New Leaf, surely! We noticed a few things about New Horizons that we didn't like, but the game is still very fun.

We still play New Horizons, especially since the Happy Home Paradise DLC was added that added a new decorating side system. Unfortunately, when the Virtual Game Cards were added to the Switch software, we lost the ability to play on our main save. In our frustration, we bought Pocket Camp and a new cartridge of New Leaf.

Having since regained the ability to play New Horizons on our main save, we now play up to three Animal Crossing games every day.

Tips and Tricks

Here's some little things we've learned along the way.

Set your time to match your schedule. If you can only play in the evenings, set your clock back a few hours so that the in-game time is the middle of the day. This gives you more hours to get stuff done before things close. Just be sure the game is closed when you reset the time.
When catching fish, use the audio cue to know when to pull. Look away or close your eyes to prevent yourself from pulling too early when the fish touches the bobber.
Shake your trees as often as possible. There's bells and furniture in there. In New Horizons, you can shake trees over and over for more resources.
Hold your net when shaking trees. When a wasp nest falls out, you'll turn to face it, so you can press A immediately to catch the wasp before it stings you.
If you're holding a net, put it away before you respond to a villager ping. Accidentally hitting them resets what they were going to say.
Before hitting a rock with your shovel, dig holes that will stop you from moving backwards. Wedging yourself between two holes will make it much easier to hit the rock for the maximum eight times.
Donate the first of every type of critter you catch to Blathers. The Museum is very fun to explore, and populating it with critters as soon as possible makes the Museum look even better.
If you want to make a lot of money very quickly in New Leaf, farm beetles and sharks on Tortimer's Island.
If someone asks you to bury a time capsule for them, bury it right next to their house. Burying it far away in a random location will make it easy to mistake for a fossil or gyroid later.
The Bell Tree Forums are the go-to forums for everything Animal Crossing.

New Leaf

In New Leaf, you take a train to a new town, and once there you're welcomed as the new mayor. Despite the mixup, you take the responsibility and join the villagers of the town as it grows and expands.

You can place Public Works Projects around the town and build up Main Street as part of your mayoral duties.

Villagers love getting letters and show them off regularly. They gossip about you and each other, use you as a mailman as they give each other gifts, and request bugs, fruit, fish, and furniture all the time. They're needy creatures, and you're the mayor who must attend to all their needs.

When not in your town, you can visit Tortimer's Island and go on tours (bug catching, whacking a contraption with a hammer, running in a maze of fruit, et al.) or just play on the island itself where it's summer all year round. The best way to make money in New Leaf is catching beetles on the island, where you can easily make several hundred thousand bells a night if you're diligent.

The interactions with the villagers are the best thing about New Leaf. They have ongoing relationships with each other, inspiring presents and arguments. The letters you write to them are kept as special keepsakes that they treasure and show off. Their houses fill with all the stuff you get for them (for better or for worse, it's a sign of just the amount of work you've put into the relationship). It's rewarding building up those relationships by performing acts of service.

Pocket Camp

Your domain is a camper van and a campsite in Pocket Camp. You can travel to four different locations to fish, gather insects, pick fruit, and collect seashells. At each location, a villager is there that has three requests for collected items. Fulfilling their requests levels up the villagers, and you earn rewards and level up yourself as the villagers level up.

You invite villagers to your campsite and cabin so they can interact with the furniture you put there. As you level up villagers, you can dress them up or they can make new kinds of requests.

There are tons of events and limited-time items. In the original Pocket Camp, there were also a lot of microtransactions and subscription fees that, if you didn't engage with them, you had a significantly lesser experience. As of December 2024, they released Pocket Camp: Complete, a one-time-pay app without online features and reworked mechanics. There's a few things that Complete doesn't have that the original Pocket Camp did, but overall it's a significant improvement in the way we approach the game. We feel far less pressure to get everything, but it's also easier to do so, so it's a lot more fun.

New Horizons

We have complex feelings about New Horizons. It came out right when COVID lockdowns hit, so it quickly became something that we spent a lot of time and energy in. Instead of a town, you run an island that blossoms into a community over time. The initial pace of the game is agonizingly slow, and there's a lot of features that take a while to establish themselves, like the Museum. There were also staples from earlier games missing from the initial release, such as Redd the traveling art salesman and gyroids, that only came about in 2.0, released in November 2021. The DLC, Happy Home Paradise, was also released at the same time as 2.0.

A lot of feelings. Still, it's a very fun game! We would recommend it, especially to people who like playing games that let you customize spaces. That's what New Horizons is best at.

Pros:

Beautiful graphics
Crafting and cooking are great systems, from resource acquisition to actually preparing items/food
Interior decorating is easy and fun
the Museum is stunning and exciting to explore
Many, many fun reactions/gestures to do with friends or in front of other villagers
the Happy Home Paradise DLC makes great use of how easy it is to decorate, and it has great rewards for its completion
Nook Miles are a great reward system for daily play, and they are much more flexible and useful than their predecessor (MEOW Coupons, introduced in the update to New Leaf, Welcome Amiibo)
Greater control over where villagers live and what their houses look like. Well-loved villagers in earlier games might have very eclectic and unappealing houses because they're filled with random items, but in New Horizons you can directly decorate villagers' interiors if you have the DLC
Unprecedented control of exterior spaces, such as placing whatever items outside and literally reshaping rivers and cliffs
Lief and Kicks at Harv's Island have expanded stock

Cons:

Villagers are shallower and less fun to maintain relationships with (don't show off letters, very repetitive dialogue, fewer requests, fewer games)
Some aspects of crafting and cooking are unnecessarily annoying, such as not being able to use items in storage or not being able to make more than one of the same item at a time
2.0 released after a lot of people felt burnt out with the limited experience presented in 1.0, so it was hard to want to jump back into the game to make the most of it
Cyrus is relegated to Harv's Island and processes changes immediately. In some ways, the immediate changes are a pro, but it lacks the charm and sense of hard work of waiting for half an hour or so for items to be done.
Missing furniture sets from previous games
Missing NPCs, like Pete the Pelican mailman and Gracie the giraffe designer

New Leaf: Tuesday

Mayor: Mimi
Residents: Baby, D
Town fruit: Orange
Creation date: July 15th, 2017

Villagers

a chocolate brown rabbit with a white face and buck teeth and mint green inner ears wearing a mint chocolate chip plaid shirt. some brown swoops down over her forehead like bangs. her hands are white. her eyes resemble those of emoticons

Carmen

brown bulldog-like dog with white paws and cream-colored muzzle and dark brown ears wearing a red hawaiian shirt. he has a furrowed brow and round eyes with white sclera and black pupils. his hands are cream-colored like his snout. his tongue pokes out

Mac

white cat with no nose and a beauty mark on her left cheek. she has large eyes with yellow sclera and thin black cat pupils and lilac purple eyeshadow and mascara'd eyelashes. her ears are dark red with pink inners, and her tail and limbs are burgundy tipped, with more on her right arm and left leg. she's wearing a dark purple shirt with white flowers with yellow centers

Olivia

purple cat with narrowed eyes and square smile and no nose. he has patches of darker purple on his body. his inner ears are purple with very light purple deeper inside. he's wearing a pink shirt with simplified white daisies.

Bob

light blue cat with very large eyes with yellow sclera and wide pupils. he's got a nose and protruding buck teeth. his snout and lower jaw are white with a band of dark blue covering most of his face. his ears are dark blue. he has bands of dark blue over his arms and legs. he's wearing a black shirt with BB written on it in white. his inner ears are light pink at the bottom and darker pink at the top. he looks like his brother, Tom

Moe

dark blue cat that looks a lot like moe, his brother. his eyes are a little smaller with lighter yellow sclera and round pupils. his full nose and lower jaw are white. he has no nose and a 3-shaped smile. his inner ears are dark pink with lighter pink inside. he's also wearing a black shirt that says BB in white

Tom

light gray-blue cat with dark gray tiger markings on her face and gray ears with dark pink insides with lighter pinks inside. around her snout is a white circle. she has no nose and has a 3-shaped smile. her eyes, like carmen's, are shaped like those of emoticons, resembling a 6. she has dark gray bands around her arms and legs and tail. she is wearing a pink shirt with blue and white diagonal plaid (trans flag colors)

Lolly

light orange cat with a snub nose and wide smile with upper teeth showing; purple-lidded eyes with dot pupils; rosy flush circles on her cheeks. she has dark pink inner ears with lighter pink inside. down the center of her forehead is a gray-brown vertical stripe with gray-brown horizontal stripes down it. gray-brown horizontal stripes on the side of her face. gray-brown spots on her arms and legs. hands and feet are white. she is wearing a black shirt with long vertical stripe down the center with three horizontal stripes down it, mimicking both a human rib cage (it is called the bone shirt) and the markings on her forehead

Tabby

white cat with round eyes with white sclera and three lower eyelashes. smiling. blue gradient inner ears. on her right ear and part of her face, including right eye, there is a rich red-brown spot. on her left cheek is a brown spot. on her left arm is a rich red-brown spot and two more on her legs. her left arm is regular brown with a white hand.she is wearing a dark blue shirt called the 'periwinkle tee' with lighter blue circles and wave-like lines

Purrl

Mimi's House

mimi standing in front of the exterior of his house, which has a blue roof, white siding, pink door, mermaid fence with stars, pink mailbox. the light inside the house is pink

mimi sitting in the main room of his house. it has pink light from three lamps, one orange 4, one blue 2, and one pink lamp shaped like a balloon dog. there are pink and colorful items, including four mannequins with different outfits, sanrio items, a gnome, Wisp's genie lamp, and illuminated signs with stars. olivia's, carmen's, moe's, and antonio's pics are visible

mimi standing in the left room of his house's main floor. it is red, black, and gold primarily with the 'gorgeous' set of furniture and the furniture based on playing cards. deirdre's, antonio's, and kyle's pics are visible. he is looking at a lemon and a thought bubble over mimi's head says 'lemon'

mimi sitting in the back room of his house. it is rainbow colored and includes the 'kiddie' set of furniture, a watermelon table, toy day presents, and candy. the floor looks like a field of flowers

mimi standing in the right room of his house. the wallpaper and flooring make it look like a jungle. there are mostly halloween furniture along with some plants and gold items

mimi lying in bed in his upstairs room. it is primarily blue and white with a lot of the blue and 'sloppy' sets of furniture. there are also art supplies, a painting of a sunflower field, scattered art on the floor, a video game arcade machine, and both a regular twin bed and a bunk bed. the light is vaguely teal from the lamp shaped like a 0

mimi doing a reaction where he emits stars in the downstairs of his house, designed to look like a junk room or garage. the flooring is sandy and the wallpaper is made of reeds. there are mostly brown, tan, and red items, but the light is vaguely yellow from a yellow lamp shaped like the number 3. furniture items include 2 cars, rice bales, a drum set, a bicycle, and a unicycle.

Baby's House

baby standing in front of the exterior of his house, which has a brown roof, gray siding, brown door, brick fence, red mailbox. the light inside the house is red

baby standing in the main room of his house. it has red light from four lamps, all red 2s. the flooring resembles dirt and there are skeletons, gravestones, 'islands', and naked mannequins surrounding a large bonfire

baby standing in the left room of his house's main floor. it has a rainbow balloon and carnival theme with items like a tea cup ride, balloon furniture, a blue kiddie pool, and an apple tv (tv shaped like an apple)

baby standing in the back room of his house. it is blue and green with the light tinged blue from a blue lamp shaped like a 2. the flooring is tatami and the wallpaper looks like a rice paddy landscape.there is a kotatsu, a pear-shaped dresser, and a drum set. he is standing on a piece of paper and a thought bubble above his head says 'expired bingo card'

baby standing in the right room of his house doing the Mischievous emotion. the floor resembles clouds and the wallpaper is orange. there are mostly halloween and 'astro' furniture in orange and white. there is a mushroom table and a mushroom chair.

baby standing in his upstairs room. it is mostly a collection of random items on a wooden floor with a cityscape wallpaper. there are blue and yellow items, including a kamehameha statue, and two items of 'exotic' furniture. various display heads with feathers on them are visible.

baby standing in his downstairs room. it is pink, purple, and white with 'harvest' furniture items, a gravestone, an aquarius jug, a skeleton, an astronaut suit, and a black statue bust with purple eyes

D's House

d standing in front of the exterior of her house, which has a yellow roof, light brown siding with stripes of yellow and pink, brown door, pink and yellow fence with stars, pink and yellow mailbox. the light inside the house is pink

d standing in the main room of her house doing an emotion that emits little stars. the room has dim blue light from a dark blue lamp shaped like the number 8. the flooring looks like paint splatters and the wallpaper is blue and white. there are many pieces of 'alpine' furniture, which has a nordic white and blue pattern. there is a lamp shaped like a seashell, a blue dog house, a white lucky cat, and an ebony piano, among other items.

d standing in the left room of her house's main floor with a thought bubble over her head. it has an orange and white theme with an orange floor and yellow rose wallpaper. there are 'astro' pieces of furniture, large white chess pieces, a clothes hanger, a cart of hairstyling equipment, and a blue kiddie pool

d standing in the back room of her house. it is a blue and white room featuring blue furniture, furniture from the 'princess' series, a white beach chair, a white beach table with blue umbrella, and a medical figure of a human with no skin. the floor is sandy and the wallpaper is a beachscape with a cloudy sky

d standing in the right room of her house with a question mark above her head. there is a metal floor and a wallpaper that looks like the sky above the clouds. there are 'modern' pieces of furniture, two hologram machines (one of an alien, one of a globe), and a giant set of tv monitors with hearts on the large screens

d standing in her upstairs room with her hands clasped together and a heart over her head. it consists of alpine furniture and sloppy furniture items, with occasional green furniture. there are two 8-shaped lamps, one light blue and one green.

d standing in her downstairs room, slumped, with a broken heart over her head. it has deep pink lighting cast from a lamp shaped like the number 8. there are mostly furniture from the 'lovely' series, along with a cat tower, venus de milo statue, and pink exercise ball

New Horizons: Space

Resident Representative: Georgie
Island fruit: Peach
Creation date: November 7th, 2021

Villagers

dark brown rabbit with white face, with dark brown coming down like a swoopy bank. she has white tips on her hands and feet. she has cyan-colored inner ears. she has a smile exposing two front teeth. small blushing cheek ovals. emoticon-like eyes shaped like ps but filled in. she is wearing a white dress with blue, green, and green criss-cross plaid on the top and regular plaid on the skirt

Carmen

brown bulldog-like dog with cream-colored paws and cream-colored muzzle and dark brown ears and cream colored belly. he has a furrowed brow and round eyes with white sclera and black pupils. he has whisker dots on his muzzle and. his tongue pokes out. he is wearing a white shirt with red sleeves and color. in gray is 'UNIV' and underneath is a gray circle with '19' written in white

Mac

a bright red dog with black ears, black legs, and black tips of her arms. she has two gray bands on her left ear that look like looped earrings. she has almond shaped eyes with white sclera and turquoise irises with no pupil. she has an upper eyelid with three lashes and a three lower lashes. her nose is oval and magenta. she has a black spot around her left eye. her smile is on the left side of her face. she is wearing a black shirt with a spider-web design.

Cherry

a light cream colored cat. she has yellow hair with bangs and curled sideburns. she has arched brown eyebrows and lidded eyes with purple eyeshadow. her eyes are small black circles with no sclera. her mouth has cherry red lips and she has a mole by her lips on the right side. the tip of her tail is yellow like her hair. she is wearing a shirt with four layered black sequinned fabric with choker and oval pendant

Monique

Winnie

Skye

Cephalobot

Wolfgang

Broccolo

Rowan

Georgie's House

georgie standing in front of her house. it has a brown stone roof, white and gray stone siding, and a pale blue door. she is doing a reaction with stars around her.

georgie dancing in her main room. it is orange and brown with an orange camo wallpaper on most walls and an orange mod wallpaper on the left wall. it has wood flooring. furniture items include a yellow kid's tent, a brick castle wall, potted plants, mushroom and cube lamps, and glow in the dark stickers on the walls.

georgie sitting on the floor in her left room. it has a rough stone floor and mountainous landscape wallpaper with a river. there are large plant furniture, a stone table with plants on it, a camping cot, and a bicycle. there is limited light in the room

georgie doing the scare reaction in the back room of her house. it is yellow themed with yellow plant wallpaper and cloudy flooring. there is a moon-shaped chair and yellow lighthouse. a fake copy of the 'motherly' statue is in the corner

georgie doing the bashful reaction in the right room of her house. it is a red, white, and blue styled kitchen with blue tile floor and red and white tile wallpaper. there is a kitchen cooktop, stacked fish baskets, two tables with food on them, and a mushroom screen, among other things.

georgie sitting on the floor of her upstairs room. there is a wildflower floor and a blue mountainous landscape wallpaper. there are many items seem around the house, including mushroom lamps, stacked fish baskets, large plants, and castle walls. there is also glowing moss furniture and bug heads on the walls

georgie dancing in the downstairs room. it is styled after a bathhouse with 9 bathtubs along the walls. many many gyroids are displayed on the walls. some, because they are low to the ground, make it look like the gyroids are taking baths. there is a corner with a tape deck and three gyroids surrounding it. wolfgang and hamlet's pictures can be seen on the left wall, along with other pictures not in frame

New Leaf: Gravity

Mayor: Georgie
Town fruit: Pear
Creation date: June 5th, 2025

Villagers

Mac

white elephant with blue eyes with black pupils. her smile is on the left side of her face. she has light pink oval flush marks. on her head is a yellow spot with scalloped edges bordered by a dark orange with scalloped edges. the very tips of her hands and feet are peach pink followed by a soft yellow band followed by a dark orange band.

Margie

dark purple frog with white on her arms and legs that look like long gloves and socks. she has a bunched pursed kissy mouth with pink lipstick. she has a beauty mark on her left cheek. she has lidded eyes with turquoise eyeshadow and black eyes with starry white pupils. she is wearing a black dress speckled with white dots with a white collar.

Gigi

brown cat with white hands and feet that look like socks and long gloves. his face is mostly white. he has round eyes with yellow sclera. he has yellow gradient inner ears. he has a round red nose, like rudolph, which is what his name alludes to. he is wearing a white shirt with a yellow-orange grid.

Rudy

light pink bunny with white polka dots on her ears. she has white arms and a slightly darker pink for her legs. she has a completely white face with a oval light green nose and small oval blush cheeks. she has a yellow hair bang. her eyes are very large with anime-like white circles inside them and pink eyelashes

Chrissy

rainbow-colored sheep with white arms and legs with red at the tips. he has round cyan-colored horns. he has red on the top of his head and a white face with red clown makeup (round red nose, red painted lips around a black smile, crying tear under the right eye)

Pietro

black rabbit with round eyes with light blue sclera. he has a red frown and two exposed buck teeth. the inside of his ears are orange. the tips of his hands and feet are light gray. he is wearing a shirt that looks like the inside of an orange

Keaton

Coco

a cream colored rabbit with dark blue ears and legs. the top of her head is a dark blue spot with scalloped edges, mirroring hair bangs. her inner ears are light brown. she has all-black narrow oval-shaped eyes and matching nose. she has freckles and a faded gray line that connects her nose to her smiling mouth. she has cream colored arms with light brown hands. she is wearing a mint chocolate chip plaid shirt (the same as carmen)

Pippy

Rhonda

Screenshot Gallery

Tuesday

mimi standing in his upstairs room while carmen shouts from downstairs 'hey mimi! i wanna play!!' with play in all caps

hans telling someone 'i'm not sure why i want your archaeopteryx so much. maybe i just like all this drama.

mimi and a friend on kapp'n's boat on the way to tortimer's island. kapp'n's song goes 'hey mister bug, don't you-ou get me wrong. i won't be squishin' you. 'least not in this song'

mac and d at d's front door. mac says 'don't say anything... just follow me

mimi and our spouse's player character sitting on a wooden swing in a house filled with furniture from the 'gracie' set. they are both doing the 'cold chill' emotion

mimi swimming in the ocean holding a scallop. the text reads 'i got a scallop! hey, this isn't a potato at all. 5.70 in.' and behind him is pascal the otter, awaiting a delicious scallop treat

miranda telling d 'weeding is sort of like shaving...but for the earth'

mimi standing in front of the roost at night surrounded by mango trees. in the sky are very vivid northern lights rippling

olivia telling baby angrily 'if i don't get what i want for toy day this year, i will be displeased'. 'i will be displeased' is in all caps

penelope in the campsite telling mimi 'it's your loss! but just so you know, the blue card had 1,110,524 bells on it!'

mimi and phineas the sea lion who distributes 'badges' sitting in the roost drinking coffee

mimi having his fortune read by katrina in a blue magic circle surrounded by a black sky full of stars. katrina says 'unisex top'

snowtyke, a kid snowman, with a very small body and very large head, cries 'waaaaaaahhh! i'm gonna tip over, and everyone will laugh at me, and i'll be 'that weird snowtyke'!

Pocket Camp

cabin with colorful furniture, fish wallpaper, flowers, horses, elephant slide, rotating playground toy. Moe, Wolfgang, Drago, and Ava are visible.

Mimi standing in front of a BBQ tent at his campsite next to floating cubes of light. Mac and Alfonso are enjoying delicious food. Mimi has his hands clasped and a heard over his head

Mimi watching Alfonso and Coco bounce in a bouncehouse shaped like a birthday cake with candles

campsite with a skateboard park halfpipe in the background and a giant dragon statue in front of it that Monique is riding near the head. Winnie is in a bubble and floating. Timmy, dressed like an angel, is floating and playing a harp. the sky has a checkerboard pattern

cabin with various pink and crystal furniture. Ketchup, Alfonso, Rocco, June, Aurora, and Apollo are enjoying the furniture

Mimi standing in his campsite. Kid Cat is riding a heart shaped bubble. Penelope is in a bubble floating. Carmen is levitating Fang. Phoebe is watching a giant aquarium

Monique and Winnie enjoying a pool with Mimi in the foreground with clasped hands with a heart above his head

Winnie riding a skateboard up the halfpipe. Tom is standing in front of it and dancing a little

Thursday

Juliet sitting on a tire in front of a small house with a picket fence around it, with a vibrant pop filter

Juliet sitting in the butterfly room in the museum at night with a soft cool photo filter

Mac (the human played by our spouse) and Juliet wearing fancy clothes in a beautiful room decorated like a beach wedding with a sign that says 'Mac + juliet'

Juliet blushing and looking bashful at her birthday party with a vibrant color filter

Mac (the dog villager) wishing Juliet a happy birthday calling her 'cupcake' while Juliet has the dialogue option 'cupcake for you' in all caps

Juliet and Astral (played by our spouse) looking at the camera and smiling

Mac (played by our spouse) with gray skin and a dog muzzle and Juliet with purple skin clapping and smiling

Fish-eye lens closeup of Juliet making a silly face

Juliet standing in front of a house and a starry black sky with a shooting star overhead

Space

Astral and Georgie sitting in front of Able Sisters on the beach. they are both wearing 'silly glasses', which make their eyes look round and silly. astral is holding an ice cream cone and georgie is holding an axe.

Georgie next to the ABD in the Resident Services building. dialogue box says 'That's Mac's amiibo! Would you like to invite him to the campsite?'

Georgie standing in the dinosaur section of the museum. all of the dinosaurs skeletons are complete. within view are a triceratops, pterodactyl, dimetrodon, brachiosaurus, and diplodocus

Georgie having her fortune read at Katrina's camper on Harv's island. Katrina says, 'Oh dear... I see... I see... two darling little raccoons soaking their pillows with tears.'

The crew of the Happy Home Paradise DLC in the upstairs building of the office celebrating Georgie's many homes decorated. they are holding drinks and there is pizza and chips and colored banners on the walls.

Cloudy day in the hedge maze in front of the museum. In the center of the labyrinth is the statue of David (which, famously, is naked), and Georgie is making an embarrassed flushed face

Monique and Georgie in the first room of the museum which chows small fossils and objects under glass. Monique says, 'You know what? I'm going to return the favor. Here, take this. It's Monique's photo!'

Georgie carrying a coelacanth while standing on a rock on the beach. dialogue box says 'Blast from the past!' in big letters

Georgie doing the flourish reaction in a corner of the art museum that shows many paintings and statues

Georgie standing next to Skye sleeping standing up in her house that's filled with blue, pink, and white furniture

Georgie standing in Carmen's house, which has blue lighting and pink, green, white, and blue furniture, with Carmen in pajamas and nightcap. She is saying, 'If you're ever feeling sick, possum, just let me know. I'll def help you out

Georgie and Cephalobot standing in the rain near the plaza. Cephalobot is saying, 'Alright, somersuault! I'll be sure to call you somersault!'

Georgie at the doctor's office with doctor Hamphrey. Hamphrey is saying, 'So, I was told your nose is runnin'. Could you go into a little more detail for me, Georgie?' and the dialogue options are 'My nose is dripping.', 'My nose is running.', and 'Actually, I'm OK.' with 'My nose is dripping.' highlighted

Luna and Georgie in the dreamscape. Georgie is lying on a camping cot wearing pajamas and an eye mask surrounded by pink and purple clouds with a starry sky. Luna, a brown tapir with blonde hair held in a bun, is wearing a white dress and standing behind Georgie on the cot. From Georgie's head, there is a ribbon of roses and pink twirling into the air.

Skye and Georgie sitting under a peach tree. Skye is highlighted with a fisheye lens, making her head look very bed, with Georgie off to the side, squished and small

Georgie, Wilbur, Broccolo, CJ, Rowan, Brewster, Tom Nook, Hamlet, and Irville in the middle of group stretching in the plaza. Instructions to the player tell them to push down on the left stick to 'push out your chest'

Georgie on Kapp'n's boat as it jets through the water at night. Kapp'n is singing, 'I love my li'l girl, she's me pride an' joy. Can ye guess her first word? It was 'ahoy'!'

Georgie at Nook's Cranny looking at a skeleton for sale. Tommy, offscreen, is saying, 'Seems like you're interested in a skeleton.'

Georgie presenting a walker cicada standing in front of fruit trues and tomato plants. text reads, 'I caught a walker cicada! Pfft. I walk all the time and no one calls me 'Walker Georgie.''

Outfits

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astronaut helmet, orange sweater with yellow and brown stripes, zippered pants, yellow tights with white flowers, orange basketball shoes, star pochette

green auctioneer's cap, green bottom-rimmed glasses, orange and green shop uniform, yellow formal shorts, orange accent socks, green work boots, and tool bag

bamboo hat, bronze round glasses, orange bohemian shirt and vest, yellow tied draped skirt, orange comfy sandals, orange and cream canvas bag

blue beret, blue round-rimmed glasses, blue after school jacket, blue sailor skirt, light blue vivid tights, blue ballerina shoes, blue clasp bag with blue and white flowers on it

black rainhat, black kanji shirt, gold bedazzled sunglasses, zebra-print skirt, black labelle tights, yellow rainboots, and star pochette

blue baseball cap, blue flower-shaped sunglases, cyan frilled tank top, blue outdoor shorts, light blue vivid socks, blue converse, blue draw-close knapsack

black cat ears with green inside the ears, cucumber pack, black shirt with pink flowers, black formal shorts, pink leg warmers, black bat wings, and green heeled boots

royal crown, blue round-rimmed glasses, aviator's jacket, red plaid skirt, blue vivid tights, blue basketball shoes, orange backpack

red devil horns, red long sleeve shirt layered underneath a black tshirt, red plaid skirt, red vivid socks, black steel-toed boots, and black devil wings

hotdog hat, food mess, light brown coat over white and green striped shirt, red plaid skirt, white tights, shamrock shoes, and green clasp bag

yellow/red/purple jester's hat, red frilly dress, purple garter socks, yellow labelle converse, yellow messenger bag

orange head bow, cucumber pack, yellow tee, yellow/orange/green striped tiedye skirt, orange accent socks, yellow mary janes, and orange traveler's backpack

red phrygian cap, pink sunglasses with red lenses, white tshirt with red hems, red pencil skirt, red soccer socks, red basketball shoes, white messenger bag with red accents

pilot's cap, cream collared shirt under brown plaid vest, zippered cream pants, brown argyle socks, pirate boots, and brown leopard-skin backpack

red rainhat, pink bendy straw glasses, white shirt under pink fisherman's vest, pink and turqoise boardwalk shorts, pink frilly socks, hot pink work boots, and mermaid pochette

white bear ears with light blue insides, broken glasses, light blue caveman dress, white accent socks, cyan ballerina shoes, and white bear backpack with blue straps

cream sheep's head, coral button down, denim wide-brimmed pants, nose drop, brown argyle socks, cream converse, brown bear backpack with red straps

strawberry hat, strawberry dress, pink bendy straw glasses, pink holy tights, pink basketball shoes, pink backpack

Gravity

Mayor Georgie staring up at a beautiful rainbow

Mayor Georgie with her face in the Summer Solstice standee as a sunflower

Isabelle and Mayor Georgie standing on a bridge with no other guests with Isabelle saying 'first up, we have an incredibly short speech from our very own mayor! take it away, mayor georgie'

Mayor Georgie next to a planned plot outline of a future water well. the dialogue box says 'the project's donation goal has been met!'

Mac the dog villager in his house telling Mayor Georgie 'oh no! tomorrow... the competition begins! gahaha!

Mayor Georgie being declared the winner of the Bug Off by Nat the chameleon. Chrissy got second and Rudy got third

Harriet telling Mayor Georgie 'ta-daaaaa! oh it looks fabulous!' with her new blue color contacts

Georgie and Pietro in Pietro's house. He's frowning and saying 'You're very sweet... But sometimes we all know you can be a big, silly liar-face!

Timmy and Georgie in T&T Mart. Timmy is standing next to the fortune cookie display and is saying, 'If you bring us the lucky ticket inside, we'll exchange it for a special prize! So rare!' So rare is slightly smaller than the rest of the text.

Mac and Georgie standing outside Georgie's house. Mac is saying, 'I feel like I'm not worthy of something so delicious!'

New Horizons video clips

Astral and his flute (our absolute favorite video of New Horizons gameplay)
Tarantula catching fail
Giving the final fossil to Blathers
Mac having second thoughts
Hamlet copying Georgie's dance moves

Amiibo

Amiibo are figurines and cards that you unlock in-game experiences or items in various Nintendo games. New Leaf gained amiibo functionality with the Welcome Amiibo update in 2016. The character of Wisp was introduced, a fat little ghost who lives in a magic lamp. If you select A when standing in front of the lamp, Wisp will pop out and ask you for a body to inhabit. If your figurine is for an Animal Crossing NPC like Tom Nook or Isabelle, Wisp will take their place in-game and the character's RV will appear in Harv's campsite, where you can buy their RV items for MEOW coupons. Villagers have amiibo cards, and you can invite them to appear in Harv's campsite, but you can also invite them to live in your town.

Some amiibo from other games work, too, unlocking unique crossover characters, such as Cece from Splatoon, Wolf Link and Epona from Zelda, and Felyne from Monster Hunter. There's also villagers created for other tie-ins, like 7/11 and the Japanese supply company Fueki.

In New Horizons, you can use amiibo in different places, but it only supports Animal Crossing characters (and the two Villager Super Smash Bros. figures). Characters can be invited to take pictures on Harv's island, where you can decorate rooms and put characters in. You can invite characters to have coffee at the Roost, and you can also design their vacation homes in the Happy Home Designer DLC. After scanning an amiibo, you can also order their poster from Nook's Shopping. And, most importantly, you can invite villagers to your campsite.

If you have an amiibo card for a villager, you can scan it at the Nook's Terminal in Resident Services. This invites the villager to stay in the campsite. This only works for villagers that aren't in your town, not NPCs like Tom Nook or Rover. After inviting them, you can talk to them at the campsite and they'll request you craft an item for them. If you invite them three times, each time crafting an item for them and giving it to them, they'll suggest moving in. If you say yes but you don't have any empty plots, you can pick which villager moves out.

We own two official Nintendo amiibos, a Tom Nook figure and a Mac amiibo card. We've used the Mac amiibo card to get Mac in Space and in Gravity after attaining him naturally in Tuesday. The coins are not official, and we got them from MilkPrince on Etsy. They're so cute, and they work exactly like an official amiibo card would. We've used them so far to move Coco into Gravity and Winnie into Space.