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[June 5th] We have formed an IRC to keep things a bit less chatty in the thread. Quote the thread to see.
[June 2nd] Welcome to the Animal Crossing: New Leaf OT! I've been waiting 3 years for this game and it's finally almost here.
A few parts of the OT aren't 100% complete yet but it's close. I hope everyone enjoys it as a lot of time went into this.
[June 2nd] I have spoiler tagged some buildings which are not accessible until later in the game. However, most of these "spoilers" are well known and even Nintendo's official websites mention many of them. So beware that they may be mentioned by posters in this thread without spoiler tags.
[June 2nd] Welcome to the Animal Crossing: New Leaf OT! I've been waiting 3 years for this game and it's finally almost here.
A few parts of the OT aren't 100% complete yet but it's close. I hope everyone enjoys it as a lot of time went into this.[June 2nd] I have spoiler tagged some buildings which are not accessible until later in the game. However, most of these "spoilers" are well known and even Nintendo's official websites mention many of them. So beware that they may be mentioned by posters in this thread without spoiler tags.
Animal Crossing: New Leaf (Animal Forest: Jump Out in Japan)
Platform: Nintendo 3DS
Developer: Nintendo EAD
Publisher: Nintendo
Genre: Not City Folk (Simulation???)
Save Slots: 1 village, with 1 mayor and 3 additional players
Multiplayer: Up to 4 players both online and local play, no download play
Price: $35 MSRP
Blocks: NA: 6002 Blocks EU: 6336 Blocks JP: 8192 Blocks | Don't take these numbers as 100% fact yet, there's some confusion still.
Release Dates
Japan: November 8th, 2012
South Korea: February 7th, 2013
North America: June 9th, 2013
Europe: June 14th, 2013
Australia: June 15th, 2013
South Korea: February 7th, 2013
North America: June 9th, 2013
Europe: June 14th, 2013
Australia: June 15th, 2013
New Features to New Leaf
Play as the Mayor! Build Public Work Projects around your village such as benches, fountains, campsites, bridges, new buildings, and more. Also, set a town Ordinance to control shop hours and more.
The Island returns from the original Gamecube version with mini games to play online with friends.
A new Main Street area across the train tracks with plenty of shops and other new buildings. If you played City Folk, this is basically a much improved version of the City.
New customization features allow you to add custom pattern designs to many furniture items like couches, pillows, chairs, and more.
Use QR Codes for easy sharing of custom pattern designs. I expect everyone in this thread to share!
Many of the holidays have been reimagined for this version. New versions of Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and more are available.
A LOT of new furniture and furniture sets. The developers say there's about 50% more furniture over City Folk. If you've played Animal Crossing before, you know that means a lot! Some of the new sets include the Balloon series, Mermaid series, and Ice series.
Decorate your village even more with new flowers, bushes, and bamboo.
The outside of your house doesn't have to be same as everyone else. With the new exterior parts available from Tom Nook, you can change your door, fence, mailbox, roof, and more!
The characters have grown taller! Say goodbye to just plain old regular shirts... Now there's pants, short sleeved shirts, long sleeved shirts, dresses, skirts, and more.
You can swim. You can stack fruit. Next-gen is finally here.
The Island returns from the original Gamecube version with mini games to play online with friends.
A new Main Street area across the train tracks with plenty of shops and other new buildings. If you played City Folk, this is basically a much improved version of the City.
New customization features allow you to add custom pattern designs to many furniture items like couches, pillows, chairs, and more.
Use QR Codes for easy sharing of custom pattern designs. I expect everyone in this thread to share!
Many of the holidays have been reimagined for this version. New versions of Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and more are available.
A LOT of new furniture and furniture sets. The developers say there's about 50% more furniture over City Folk. If you've played Animal Crossing before, you know that means a lot! Some of the new sets include the Balloon series, Mermaid series, and Ice series.
Decorate your village even more with new flowers, bushes, and bamboo.
The outside of your house doesn't have to be same as everyone else. With the new exterior parts available from Tom Nook, you can change your door, fence, mailbox, roof, and more!
The characters have grown taller! Say goodbye to just plain old regular shirts... Now there's pants, short sleeved shirts, long sleeved shirts, dresses, skirts, and more.
You can swim. You can stack fruit. Next-gen is finally here.
The Village is, well, your village! It's the place you'll be spending most of your time in New Leaf at. Here's a list of some of the buildings you'll find around town:
Re-Tail
A humble recycling shop in your village operated by two new Alpaca characters named Reese and Cyrus. Sell your items to Reese if you're too lazy to head out to Main Street or purchase new furniture. You can even put your own items up for sale at the store for the villagers or friends online to purchase. It's kind of similar to the Flea Market from the past games.
Town Hall
The base of your operations as Mayor of the village! With your fancy office and eager secretary Isabelle, you can start the construction of Public Work Projects and enact ordinances.
Town Tree Plaza
The Town Tree Plaza is the base of the many holidays, events, and visitors you'll discover in your time playing Animal Crossing.. Whenever something is happening in your town, head over to the Town Tree Plaza! It's also where you accomplish your first act as Mayor: Planting the town tree. It even grows as you progress through the game!
Your House
Arguably one of the most addicting aspects of Animal Crossing is decorating your ever expanding house. With
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7 million
Coffee Shop
Join Brewster in his new standalone Coffee Shop! If you get friendly enough with him, you might even find yourself working a part time job as a barista at the shop.
Police Station
It's back from the Gamecube version! Choose to build either the Modern station with Copper or the Classic station with Brooker. Inside you'll find a convenient lost and found.
Reset Surveillance Center
If you choose to, you can build a manhole which will give you access to Resetti's Surveillance Center on certain nights! Inside, you'll find Resetti and his brother. Talk to them enough and you might just get their pictures!
Campsite
Build a campsite in your village and you might find some new villagers setting up a tent or igloo (depending on the season) in your town! Talk to them a lot and they may just choose to move in to your village properly.
The Main Street shopping area is where you'll do the majority of your shopping in New Leaf. In addition, there's also non-shopping buildings located here such as the Museum. A great aspect of the game is that new buildings will be constructed and others will be remodeled as you play and accomplish goals.
Here's a brief list of the many buildings you'll find in the Main Street:
Able Sisters
The Able Sisters shop is where you'll head for all of your fashion needs. They sell shirts, pants, dresses, skirts, hats, glasses, and other accessories.
A new unique feature to New Leaf is the ability to share your custom created patterns using QR codes. This feature is very useful for sharing patterns compared to the previous methods.
Nooklings Store (Timmy & Tommy)
Previous players of the series will remember Tom Nook's shop but in New Leaf, his assistants Timmy & Tommy have taken over operation completely with Tom Nook
as a proper real estate agent. This shop is where you'll go to purchase new tools, furniture, wallpaper, carpet, K.K. Slider records, and more.
Museum
Head over to the Main Street Museum to donate fish, bugs, fossils, paintings, and statues!
Nook's Homes
At Nook's Homes, you'll find Tom Nook's brand new official housing agency. Here you can purchase parts to customize the exterior of your house including doors, fences, mailboxes, roofs, and more!
Photo Booth
For a small fee, this photo booth will take a picture of you for your ID card.
Post Office
The Post Office offers mail and this is where you'll pay your debt to Tom Nook through an ATM. You can also pick up DLC items through the internet here.
Club LOL
Dream Suite
Fortune House
Garden Shop
Happy Home Showcase
Kicks
Museum - Second Floor
Shampoodle
Those who played the original Animal Crossing on N64/Gamecube may remember the Island. It's back in New Leaf (no Gameboy Advance required!) with a selection of Island Tours (mini-games?) to play online with either your friends or random players through Club Tortimer. These vary from simple bug hunts to the more complex Hide & Seek and Fruit Maze tours. There's even an item shop on the Island operated by Kappn's family, you'll need to earn medals from the Island Tours to purchase the items.
Another benefit of Tortimer Island is the summer season all year long, providing the ideal location to hunt bugs and fish during the winter. Also new to the series is the ability to swim in the ocean either on the Island or back home at your Village. Don't forget your swimsuit!
Videos
Screenshots
Iwata Asks
GIFs
Are you new to Animal Crossing or coming back after a long break? In this section, I've written down some handy tips and tricks for your first days in New Leaf.
Make Sure Your Clock is Accurate
Before you start playing, please double check and be sure that the date and time on your 3DS is as accurate as possible! Animal Crossing is very reliant on the real-time clock, it won't be as fun if your date and time isn't accurate.
Choosing Your Face
At the opening of the game, you'll be asked a couple seemingly meaningless questions. Your answers to these questions decide the fate of your eyes and face for the game. You can't change the majority of this later down the line so if your look is important to you, consider using this handy Face Guide. Just answer the questions as stated in the guide for the face of your choice!
The Money Rock
You might notice there are a number of rocks around your town. But don't worry, they're not useless! Everyday in your village, one of these rocks will be the "money rock". If you find that rock and hit it with a shovel, money bags will come flying out for every shovel hit until the timer ends! You might even want to consider digging some holes behind you to maximize your return.
Where to Sell?
There's two shops... Re-Tail and Nookling Junction? But where do you sell your items? It depends. For most cases, you want to sell to Re-Tail for 20% more Bells than Nookling Junction. However, Re-Tail will charge you for them to take you trash and other items which don't give you Bells. Nookling Junction will take them for free. So keep that in mind.
Buried Treasure
Look around your town... do you see any "starfish" or "X" spots in the ground? Take out your shovel and get digging! If you find a fossil, don't go selling it ASAP. Head over to the Museum in Main Street to have your fossils examined by Blathers. You can either donate them to the Museum (which will yield rewards in the future) or head over to Re-Tail for some quick Bells. If you find a gyroid... well....
Can I play this game online with friends?
You certainly can! Almost everything that you can do solo, you can do with friends either online or through local play. Whether that's hanging out in your town, shopping at Main Street, or fishing and playing games on Tortimer Island.
What is Time Traveling/Time Travel in this game?
One of the fundamental aspects of Animal Crossing is that the game runs on a real-time clock. If you choose to, you can change the time on your 3DS or game to whatever you want, bypassing and ruining the real time aspect. In my opinion, this ruins the longevity of the game, and you'll find yourself growing bored of the game sooner. For this reason, many of us would rather not play with those who choose to time travel. Besides, you'll have more fun in the long run without it!
What's all this nonsense about not running? Why shouldn't I run?
Lots of people like to plant flowers around their village and even cross breed them for hybrid flowers. It's hard work and if you run through flowers, you'll weaken or even destroy them. So please, be careful where you run in other GAFer's towns. You're sure to piss people off if you ruin their flowers. Also, running causes grass wear and some don't like that either.
Is there StreetPass in this game? What does it do?
At the back of Main Street is the Happy Home Showcase. When your StreetPass a player with New Leaf, their house will appear in the Happy Home Showcase area. Feel free to take a look around their house for design inspiration and if you see an item you like, you may be able to order it for yourself!
Does this game use Play Coins? What for?
Play Coins can spent at the Nookling store to purchase Fortune Cookies for 2 coins each. When you open a Fortune Cookie, the fortune inside can then be traded for a Nintendo franchise item. These items range from a Samus Helmet to a Mario Coin to a Wii Fit Balance Board.
Does this version have real holidays?
Unlike the last portable version of Animal Crossing, this version offers all of the real holidays from the Gamecube plus many more. In fact, the gameplay of many of the holidays have been revamped to offer a new experience if you played them before.
How many save files are there?
Each copy of the game allows for a single village with four residents. (players) Only the first resident/player in the village can be the Mayor. For the best experience, I recommend playing with your own copy of the game with your own village to yourself, but that's not the say the game isn't fun in someone else's town too.
I hear there are new fruits in this version. Tell me about them?!?
Is there a character limit for Town and Character names? What is it?
Both the Town/Village and Character/Player names have a limit of 8 characters. Choose wisely.
What's the appeal?
Let's have Animal Crossing creator Katsuya Eguchi explain it:
Or Animal Crossing: New Leaf director Aya Kyogoku:
Looking for a white 3DS XL to be available in North America? This just might be the closest we'll ever get here. A bundle is available for $219 which includes a limited edition Animal Crossing themed 3DS XL and a digital copy of the game pre-installed on the SD Card.
The Telegraph 5/5
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/10096208/Animal-Crossing-New-Leaf-review.html
Gaming Age A
http://www.gaming-age.com/2013/06/animal-crossing-new-leaf-review-for-3ds/
IGN 9.6/10
http://ign.com/articles/2013/06/04/animal-crossing-new-leaf-review
Nintendo World Report 9/10
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/review/34430
Polygon 9/10
http://www.polygon.com/game/animal-crossing-new-leaf/3240
Nintendo Life 9/10
http://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/3ds/animal_crossing_new_leaf
Edge Magazine 9/10
http://www.edge-online.com/review/animal-crossing-new-leaf-review/
EuroGamer 9/10
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-06-03-animal-crossing-new-leaf-review
Joystiq 4.5/5
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/06/04/animal-crossing-new-leaf-review/
Game Informer 8.5/10
http://www.gameinformer.com/games/animal_crossing_new_leaf/b/3ds/archive/2013/06/04/review.aspx
GameSpot 8/10
http://www.gamespot.com/animal-crossing-new-leaf/reviews/animal-crossing-new-leaf-review-6409125
Games Radar 4/5
http://www.gamesradar.com/animal-crossing-new-leaf-review/
Destructoid 7/10
http://www.destructoid.com/review-animal-crossing-new-leaf-254835.phtml
GameExplain No Rating Yet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8ukZw0QzEQ
Town Visiting Etiquette
When visiting the villages of other GAFers, you should keep the following etiquette in mind. If problems arise, we have to implement some kind of a blacklist in here, but hopefully that won't happen.
- Be careful with your axe. Don't cut down trees without permission!
- Be careful of where you run and leave flowers alone.
- If others are trying to trade, leave them alone and don't touch their items.
Friend Codes
Philia and Mikor are managing the friend code form and spreadsheet for this OT. If you have questions or problems with the system, send one of them a friendly PM.
Want to view the list/spreadsheet or add your own friend code to the list/spreadsheet? Quote the post to see the link. Please do not share in the thread without email tags.
Need to have your entry edited for any reason? Contact one of our friendly spreadsheet managers: Mikor, Philia, Samurai_Heart, and Robin64. Remember, if you don't have a 3DS yet, you can fill out the form without a friend code and have one of our helpers update your entry later.
Use this website to find your UTC timezone offset for the form.
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Hall of Fame/Shame of the last thread
DLC (It's all free! No paid DLC in this game!)
The first DLC for North America is the Rainbow Screen. Europe is unknown.
Also, Best Buy will have exclusive DLC this summer.
Promotions/Deals
Europe: So Many Games! Get Animal Crossing: New Leaf free if you register three other select Nintendo 3DS games from this year.
http://www.nintendo.co.uk/Misc-/Nintendo-3DS-So-Many-Games-Promotion/Overview/Overview-750393.html
United Kingdom: Get a free Isabelle figure and Town Hall model if you pre-order at GAME.
http://www.game.co.uk/en/animal-crossing-new-leaf-122844
Australia: Get a free Isabelle figure and Town Hall model if you pre-order at EB Games.
https://ebgames.com.au/3ds-152865-Animal-Crossing-New-Leaf-Nintendo-3DS
United States: $30 ($5 off) on release at Kmart
