Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer will be released for $40 on September 25, 2015 for 3DS. It is an all-new spin-off title in the Animal Crossing franchise, one of two announced (the other being Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival for Wii U) at Nintendo’s E3 2015 Press Conference.
Check out this gameplay trailer for Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer.
Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer (first revealed during Nintendo’s April 2015 Nintendo Direct broadcast) is not a full-fledged Animal Crossing title, but it does look like a very indepth experience; one that will certainly make most Animal Crossing fans happy. It will also make full use of the Animal Crossing: Amiibo trading cards, which will launch alongside the system.
Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer for 3DS has more in common with the core Animal Crossing games than the upcoming Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival for Wii U (which is essentially a multiplayer, Mario Party-style digital board/party game) so fans should get a more satisfying experience here.
The goal in Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer is not to collect bugs, search for fossils, deliver presents, fish, run errands, or any of that.
Instead, the entire focus of the game is on interior design!
For the first time in the series, you will get to actually design the homes that your animal villagers live in!
Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer will hit stores in both physical & digital form on September 25th, 2015; so this will apparently be a full-on experience and not a shallower, digital 3DS eShop-exclusive, as it will be getting a hardcopy release (and is available for pre-order now from Amazon, GameStop & Best Buy in the U.S., and Walmart, Best Buy & Amazon in the UK).
In Japan, an Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer 3DS XL System Bundle was also announced, that contains the game and the system with an Animal Crossing theme. No word on whether or not we will get the system bundle in the West, but given how much of a cash cow Animal Crossing is for Nintendo, I wouldn’t be surprised if they used Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer to sell more “New 3DS XL” systems by bundling the game with the system for the holiday/Christmas 2015 season.
Check out a full 21 minutes of Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer gameplay footage with this Day 1 video from Nintendo’s TreeHouse Live E3 2015 coverage.
ANIMAL CROSSING: HAPPY HOME DESIGNER SYNOPSIS
Design Your Own Animal Crossing Home
Show off your style by designing homes for all of your favorite Animal Crossing villagers!
Use your creativity to design the perfect houses—inside and out—for both old and new friends.
With the new Animal Crossing: Amiibo Cards, you can call your favorite villagers into the game.
Key Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer Features:
* Design the interior and exterior of hundreds of homes for animal villagers.
* Leave your decorative touch on the school, hospital and other public facilities.
* Collect and Connect – Collect and share amiibo cards of your favorite villagers, and invite them into your game.
* Tap Animal Crossing: Amiibo Cards to invite up to four characters into a room to hang out.
* Tap the Animal Crossing: Amiibo Cards of special characters to call in animals that would otherwise not appear in your game with requests.
Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer looks like just the cure to tide Animal Crossing fans over until the next proper (hopefully console instead of handheld) game in the franchise.
The Interior Design and the extensive customization options that are offered in Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer is something that fans have requested for a long time.
So it’s great that this is finally a reality.
I hope that this game will work with Animal Crossing: New Leaf however.
You should be able to transfer the homes you design into New Leaf. If you can’t… Then what’s the point? It kind of loses a lot of it’s appeal if everything you do is confined only to Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer and doesn’t transfer to Animal Crossing: New Leaf…
Do you like what you see with Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer? Do you plan to buy the game?