I hate how they removed Redd's first visit, since it serves as a proper introduction to him and his shop. Now it's just "Redd randomly shows up with no explanation to sell you haunted art".

The amiibos saying "nah man I'm busy I can't come visit." Was way better than an error message.

>Nintendo doesn't update game in over a year >game is dead >randomly Lego thinks this is the time to introduce ACNH sets

they really destroyed the feeling of animal crossing it’s crazy. it just became a decorating game when it used to feel like a town you could live in virtually

We can thank Verlisify for the removal of star trees. He literally made streams of hunting people down in the dream world and reporting their islands just for having star trees. I guarantee he's the reason we don't have them anymore and it's just gross behavior to be honest. The star trees did nothing but make people's islands pretty and I'm sure if you really wanted some on your island, you could find someone to get them for you. He's a brown-nose stickler and if anybody is hacking anything, even if it's in a single player game where it really doesn't matter if you hacked your game or not, he'll tattle to Nintendo and annoy the crap out of them until they fix it so he'll shut up about it.

Imagine charging 60 bucks plus more for the DLC and membership for a game that’s 100% centered on customization… only to remove players’ favorite customization options

One feature that I would LOVE to see removed is tool durability. Worst thing they put in the game. It doesn't add ANYTHING to the game and it takes what used to be extraordinarily comfy activities (catching scorpions, tarantulas) and makes it incredibly dreadful to do due to the ever-looming prospect of your shit breaking. Last thing I want to be doing is watering my flowers when my watering can breaks. How does a watering can even break?!

As far as I was aware, the reason the Museum Upgrade/Redd Visit was changed was because you could potentially lock yourself out of progress! When you get your first piece of art from Redd, if you for some reason don't donate it (sell it, gift it, or so on...), Redd doesn't return and you lock yourself out of upgrading your museum unless you know someone who can gift you a genuine piece of art to donate. Personally, I feel like they just could have fixed this by "locking" that first artwork to your inventory or something instead of changing the whole process, though :(

Honestly i think they could have made star trees work, like on the night of heavy shooting stars or something instead of a gold spot make it white or a light blue, and only that night you can plant a single star tree, so it's not too over powered but it's still available

I'm still heartbroken about nature day. it went through my birthday and I was so excited because I felt like Animal crossing was finally recognizing earth day- we need to petition for Nintendo to bring it back

i miss waking up to hundreds of bugs and then they updated and youll get like 2 or three the whole island

I wish we could get an introduction to the sea otter guy because I ran into him ONCE, and never understood who he was and when he spawned 😭😭

I miss the rare flower island. I only go it once and wasn’t even sure what it was at the time. If I had known I would have taken more flowers.

I know we still have the frog chair, but it doesn’t make that farting sound like it used to and that’s disappointing

10:00 removing an incremenral upgrade to a shop is so concerning to me, because my biggest hope for the next AC game was bringing back more robust multi-stage shop upgrades (and just having more shops within town in general). The idea that they're going in the opposite direction sucks

They could have just made the star trees to be purely decorative. What i mean by that is that it works like a normal tree. You dont get star fragments when shaking, but they still look pretty.

I miss just buying a fully finished game without any updayes, adding or removing things and without DLCs. I have to say during the last couple of years I found myself gravitating towards older games without all that. There are so many great older games that I haven't played yet, so why spent money on the newest unfinished mess.

it's so amazing that this channel is still running considering nintendo abandoned this game a loooong time ago. i wish nintendo was as passionate about animal crossing as their fans are

star trees were modified money trees iirc, which makes me even more upset they were canned because they couldve just made it so they grew when you buried a star fragment in a money hole. or they couldve been kapp'n-exclusive trees you only find on nighttime islands! there were such good possibilities but nope. i never got one myself (didnt really play back when they were big) but im sad theyre gone :^(

Either people think Amiibo unlocks are too broken and it’s not fair that Amiibo owners get good stuff for owning an Amiibo, or Amiibo unlocks are pointless and don’t do anything for the game at all. Like it’s supposed to be a special bonus for having it, not a requirement.

I havnt seen celest on my island in over 2 months 😭

Taking away features that are not glitches is inexcusable. Stuff like this is one of the many reasons why so many of us still prefer the older games to NH even with all of the new features.

Back in newleaf we had more features, sure not as much custimiazation but none the less features. One of them was minigames, both single player and multiplayer.

I just started a new island- Redd still shows up by walking around and you do get introduced to him the same way as far as I know! The museum is just automatically upgraded.

When they removed the 4th tier decorating, it honestly ruined one of my islands at the time. Everything I had built and decorated was dependent on the stuff I did on the 4th level to look good. I can understand removing the ability to decorate up there but I still don't understand why they had to remove everything that was already placed there. It kinda ruined the 2.0 update for me and I ended up just deleting that island

How exactly would keeping the tent permanently work anyway? I mean, you just give stuff to Blathers to display and they just...never get displayed anywhere?

That's crazy they removed some things. I always did wonder why I wasn't getting hybrid Flower islands anymore 😅 I def miss that!

I don't get the discourse of removing features in efforts to moderate resources. After a certain point you have an overflow of Nook Miles anyway and the hybrid flower gatekeeping is redundant. I was a launch player and NEVER came across the hybrid flower island anyway so it does show how rare it was at least to me let alone you are limited to what you can carry off of it. Previous versions of this game feel like a fever dream at this point because of the nature of playing it during the pandemic.

The star fragment trees worked because the star fragments are stored alongside the fruit in the game's data. Each fruit tree has a value that corresponds to the type of fruit on it. Someone with a modded switch could take a peach tree for example and change the value that corresponded with the peaches to the one that corresponded to the star fragments. It was more than likely just an oversight rather than something Nintendo ever planned to use.

You can also get villager posters by taking your villager to Harvs island the only ones you need amibo for are the NPC (E.G Celeste)

Hi crossing channel dont know if you know this bbut: my friend had jambette (the botox frog) on her island and she left. I never knew she had jambette. Jambette came to my island. After she moved in my friend came and said that jambette was on her old island. She talked to jambette and guess what: Jambette recognised her. I talked to jambette a few days ago and she said that she remembers when she-was on my friends island and literally said the name of her island.

I just restarted on my second Switch. The museum was fully upgraded immediately, but I still got to meet Redd. He was wandering about and introduced himself. So that part is still in the game.

If the game isn't getting updated, I wonder if fans could mod the removed content back in? It would be cool that, even if nintendo pulls it plug, fans can still give updates years later.

I have a random tip: when smashing rocks to get stuff. If you put 2 holes that can block you from getting pushed back, you can hit it 8 times!

The only "paylocked" posters are of the NPC characters. If you bring your current villagers to take photos on Harvey's island, it will register their poster in your catalogue. So there's a way without amiibos to get posters of regular villagers.

So i recently reset my island, Once you unlock the museum unlocking redd's art stuff was the same as before. Just that the art gallery is automatically unlocked but you still have to first find him walking around before the boat.

1:25 that's me haha never expected to see one of my screenshots in one of your videos!

I think the campsite interactions were moved to the cafe. Because I’ve invited Isabella’s brother there before. And it makes more sense for them to be there than at the campsite.

The star trees weren't necessarily a planned or cut feature, just an unintentional quirk with how the trees are programmed that hackers took advantage of. It's been 4 years since I messed with it, so I might be a little off with how it works, but iirc, all of the non pine/palm trees are actually the same exact type of tree in the game's data. And they just use a variable to determine their state (growing, empty, holding a beehive/leaf/coin, fruit tree, or a money tree holding 3 money bags) Regular fruit trees just have a second variable to determine what type of fruit they are. But money trees use their second variable to state the exact item ID of what they are holding. Normally, only ID's for bell bags are used, but the trees fully support holding and displaying any item ID in the game that has a drop model. So you could hack them to be a star tree, a fish tree, a leaf tree, a clothes tree, a tree tree, etc. Some people messed around with the other types of trees, but star trees were the only ones that really spread since they were so pretty. After the star trees gained a ton of notoriety, Nintendo added a check in one of the next updates that runs at the start of every new day. The check looks for any planted money trees in the town that have an item ID that isn't a bell bag and replaces it with an empty tree instead. You can technically still have star trees in your town, but they will always be replaced the next day you play the game if you leave them.

still remember doing the item duplication glitch to farm money b4 it was removed, good times lol

9:13 redd came to my island without just showing up with his art today! And I have the upgraded museum (fri 5th April 2024)

It's so weird seeing a video like this pop up. I pre-ordered New Horizons and took a week and a half off work to play it. I poured my heart into Population Growing and City Folk, while New Leaf blew my mind. Spent years with each one. In terms of visuals, it's stunning. A lot of things just felt wrong though, lots of important aspects and content saw cuts and I wasn't impressed by the soundtrack- why is the iconic 24-hour music system locked behind a time sink? The online community was the worst it's ever been thanks in no small part to streamer culture, though the Nook mile system effectively being the tired old mobile gaming "daily rewards" function didn't help. The fact I saw multiple serious petitions to brand time-travelers with a permanent badge of shame is disgusting. I work 12.5 hour days, 40-60+ hour weeks in a warehouse and I should be able to time travel if I want. I literally could not buy turnips without time traveling. I spent less than two months with it then dropped it forever. I walked away heart-broken and it doesn't seem like it ever improved after I left.

i just started with animal crossing in general and i didnt even got the tent for the museum, it went straight to the building, i was wondering why I didn’t got the tent because i saw it on all of the videos everywhere

Nobody quote me on this, but I thought I heard that they removed the Hybrid Flower Islands because there was something about the code of the flowers that didn't allow them to 'breed' properly on your own island. I don't know *why* theirs would be different than the flowers you grow on your own island, but it would explain why I could never get those damn green mums to spawn.

feeling sad because I thought the star trees were fake / modded so i never experienced them 😱😮‍💨

I started after the flower islands were removed, and I can't afford Nintendo Online... literally the only way for me to get anything is what the base game provides. (I don't have HHP, either. Can't afford it.)

I did not know there was a star island!

Don't know if anyone mentioned this, but you can get access to posters from bringing villagers to Harv's island. So if a villager lives on your island you can gain to access to the poster for free(like the portraits)

I actually got red to walk around my inland when I got him 2 days ago!

Shoutout to the moth that always spawned by the tent museum ❤

New Horizons is my first real animal crossing game, and honestly I like this game. There are some things I do wish they would add, especially for people who don’t really play online. I know the point is to connect via online, but as someone with crappy internet, it’s hard for me to feel like I can do that without the internet disconnecting out of nowhere. But without the internet connection, the game is still fun for me and I still do my island every day whenever I get a chance at home. I just really wish that there was a way to get recipes for certain themes without an internet connection.

10:39 you can keep the tent to continue the story and upgrade the RS. You don’t need the museum to get 3 stars

If you take pictures of your villagers on Harv's Island, you get access to their poster. I didnt even know the amiibo was an alt option.

14:47 if you want one (ONLY DO ONE FOR A 5 STAR ISLAND) use a normal hardwood tree (not a fruit one or a cedar tree) put 3 of the same star fragments where fruit would fall on fruit trees to make it look like fallen fragments

I really have no doubts that this is the worst animal crossing game, remove features after release!? Ive never see this in any game

I remember Nature Day! They gave me the task of relocating a tree, and I had to look up how to do it because it's something they covered on the first day and I wasn't paying enough attention.

1:51 tip go by the cliff then you will get the max amount cause you will bump into the cliff!

I’m still mad that they didn’t buy the og furniture like the regal set plus I felt like the furniture content was so low and the seasonal stuff was a big no from me like the Mario set.

I started playing like a year and a half ago, so there’s so many things I didn’t know in here. Also 12pm music for the win. I can hear it in the background

I JUST restarted my island and I still got Redd visiting my island, and he gives you the intro dialogue. Im not sure if his boat was already at the island, but I did run into him on my island first

To be honest, I prefer the villager photos over the posters. I don't even understand the purpose of the posters.

You can invite the special characters to the happy home and make them a home I have done it with Celeste and grandma kappin

it would be cool if in the next game, there was a "research tent" - for identifying stuff; and then a Museum to display them, if you want. It seems tedious to separate them, but so is life; hence the real-time clock in Animal Crossing. I don't think AC should just be a game to "get the best house upgrade, with the best furniture in the optimal layout"

I got a second hand switch recently to have a second island and I didn't realise that it hadn't updated and was on version 1.0 until I got through a good chunk of the tutorial, and I happened to get a hybrid flower island on my 3 nook mile island visits for villagers! I just assumed they'd added it back (not knowing what version I was on) but I guess I was just strangely lucky? I might be one of the last people to play on a hybrid island on acnh

I think the fencing-block on the docks is because they’re similar to the rocks where the wharf roaches spawn in some way. When they realized people were “farming” bugs then they removed the fence building feature for those rocks. I know nothing would spawn on the dock, but I imagine it’s because they are connected in a way on the backside

I never got to play Nature Day. I got ACNH and a switch in general Xmas 2020

if you make an island and get to the museum while offline on a switch without letting the game patch you can still get it. Same with some of the other stuff the Fun Police (Nintendo) nerfed or removed. You just can't patch your game or go online and you need a original cart from launch

You can catalog villager posters by going to Harv’s island and going into the photo studio, invite your villagers in for a photo shoot (make sure to take a photo) then their poster will be available to buy when you get back to your island

i started playing in june 2020, i had no idea "nature day" was even a thing that existed

Oh man, I remember seeing screenshots of the star trees, I was so jealous because they were so pretty! I'd love to have them and permanent pink trees as legit options, might make me play the game again lmao. But oh well, I can work on that whenever the switch stops being supported.

a correction for crossing channel redd still shows up and walks around our islands on newer saves

I really hope I’m not the only one that actually enjoys and prefers new horizons compared to the other animal crossing games. I think it’s purely because of the customization it definitely makes it easier to achieve a 5 star rating. The only major complaint I have is how the music isn’t as lovely, melancholic and nostalgic as it was in new leaf or the other games.

*gains reverb mid video*

I completely forgot about the Nature Day event! Jeez, it's been so long...

I know this video is months old at this point, but the way the star fragment trees worked is that they were basically just money trees. Iirc internally the money trees are just the bell bag item placed on a tree in place of fruit, however with modding this could be swapped out for ANY ITEM, so long as it had a field sprite, not just star fragments, it could be ANYTHING, it's just that star fragments were the most popular.

So they'll get rid of nature day but not zipper 😑

17:18 you can get posters from harvs island

They kinda got rid of the original tutorial and there's just a different and easier tutorial

Bob's Gang! I recently came back to ACNH after a while and I did not know that the hybrid flower islands weren't a thing anymore. That's really a shame :(

the log fences still work on the dock actually! its not technically a fence and is a regular decoration item but it certainly works well

My path trees just stayed where they are. I specifically made 2 trees on my paths lining a garden.

A simple workaround to cutting out Redd could've been letting us meet trade/opportunity NPCs organically, or meeting Redd the original way, then guiding them to Harv's Island if they're looking for a hub or camp spot. I feel like one of the lovable parts of previous Animal Crossing games was unlocking more of your world or upgrading existing parts (adding bridges or unlocking a fountain or assisting Tom in upgrading the shop).

I don't understand why they patched out the fourth level. That and the star trees were missed opportunities

maybe they removed the amiibo thingy in favor of the roost invites.

They also removed the footstep sounds linking up to whatever base path was underneath your custom design. Now it’s all the same rubbish quiet sound, which is annoying when I spent ages designing pink stone and it sounds like walking on a carpet…

wait wha :< i got the game in november last year and i didnt know there was a step of museum without the art gallery :< mine already had all of them

I love learning more lore about a game I'm relatively new to! I started with ACNH in 2022 and have really loved it, despite most people no longer playing by the time I got into it which takes away a lot of the game play elements of visiting islands and having visitors, I still found a lot of fun in just building my island and exploring for new residents.

They never had this in NH but I really hate how they removed the fish and bug tourney. Now we just get two characters just wandering around you sell your fish or bugs to. Yeah it's for more bells but the tourney was more exciting. It even was posted on the boards and everything like a real event

I did remember the amiibos I had 3 figures on discount at a five below before ACNH came out when I got the games I did individually scan them and got the dialogues, I never knew they took away the the dialogues 😔

They removed the cataloguing posters JUST as I finished my collection. I luckily had a second house on the island where I stored a copy of each poster but ouch for the partners I was doing the project with who just catalogued them to buy as needed!

When I got this game on launch day, 2 days after my birthday, I let it sit on my shelf for a good month before I played it. Once I started playing, I played this game so much. It's sad that I got tired of it after the last update.

Someone else has already explained this, but in case they haven't: Let me explain star fragment trees. So, trees have fruit on them. Fruit is an item. How does the tree hold the fruit? Well, there's special coding that lets the trees say "I'm holding something!" The code also specifies what item the trees are holding. "I'm holding an item: pears!" "I'm holding an item: apples!" "I'm holding an item: oranges!" etc etc. There's also code for what should happen to the items when the trees are shaken and how the items should fall. The trees were only ever meant to hold fruits, but the code didn't ever do anything special to make sure the item is actually a fruit. There's just a blank space there you could theoretically put any item in. It was only meant for fruit, but there was nothing that double checked the correct item (fruit and only fruit) is the item the tree has been given to hold. Modders looked and noticed how the fruit spot was just an empty box to put any item into, and realized the item could be changed with mods. They could say "Tree, you're not holding an orange anymore, you're holding apples!" and the tree said "Okay!" Then they went, hmmm, what if we changed this item to something a tree can't normally have? What if we made it furniture, or clothing, or... star fragments, even? Turns out that no matter what item they asked the tree to hold, the tree just went "Okay! I'm holding this now!" That's how we got star fragment trees. The tree is holding the stars the same way it would hold a fruit, the tree doesn't really notice a difference. As the "what item am I holding?" data can go along with the tree when it's put in an inventory, the trees holding stars could be given to other players and they keep being star trees. Holding other items was never intended to be normal tree behavior. There are some items that you could mod onto trees that would be very buggy, even game-breaking. The game doesn't know what to do when certain items are put in trees or shaken out of them, because those items were never meant to be there- which could cause serious bugs. But star fragment trees were totally safe because they are small items that work very similarly to fruit, when it comes to falling or being picked up anyway. That means the normal code that makes fruit trees work would still work fine on the star fragments, even though that's not the way it was meant to be.

Somehow I still have two of my trees planted on a concrete pathway - they never disappeared after the patch

the infinite item glitch had me and my best friend ROLLING in dinero

i didnt even realize trees on pathways was a glitch? was it all pathways? a significant amount of mine are still on pathways lmao

I restarted recently and met Redd walking around my island like 3 days ago. Meeting him is still required to be able to buy art from him, just not to unlock the gallery

Redd still shows up walking around.

As long as you don’t change it yourself the trees can stay on the paths, I still have it on my island

Hi fairly new player of ACNH, I'm sad I won't be able to experience those things that are gone, it kind sucks. 😢💔

I really really hope the next Animal Crossing is more akin to the old titles... But I'm not holding my breath