Animal Crossing was at E3!
Sadly the release date was pushed back to March 20, 2020, but we do have a lot of info about the title!
It’s going to be called Animal Crossing: New Horizons!
It takes place on a “deserted island” which you then get to develop, building everything from scratch!
There’s a crafting system now! You can pick up wood and rocks and grass and craft tools!
You can choose your hemisphere! So June for someone in North America can look different for someone in Australia!
You can put down permanent paths!
(Hopefully you’ll be able to customize them too, but even just having a permanent option is HUGE!)
You can set up your tent/house on the beach!
(Beachfront property, oh yeaaahhh)
You can make a “vaulting pole” to cross the rivers without having to build a bridge!
You can place furniture OUTSIDE!! So you can actually have a lawn chair in front of you house! Or whatever you like!
You can move your furniture in HALF INCREMENTS just like in HHD!!
You can harvest flowers instead of pulling them! Which is awesome because they added a flower crown that you can craft!!!!
It looks like you can get wood from trees or use a shovel to move them! This will make landscaping easier?
It looks like multiplayer support has increased to 8 players!
Skin Tones! If the trailer is to be believed you can now pick out your skin tone and be other shades than just plain “pale peach.” I know this is great news for the multitude of POC AC players! (You can see some characters with darker skin in the screenshot!)
During the Treehouse they confirmed that wind will be present in the game, and that some days will be windier than others!
It looks like you can pick up and place grasses now!
A phone! You have a little smart phone now! There are only 5 apps shown in the treehouse segment, but there definitely appears to be room for more! Maybe you can add the numbers of your villagers later!
BACKPACKS! Maybe we’ll get costumes like the little wings I wanted!!
(Also Nook is still like that)
EDIT: A couple of things:
So far there has been no mention of Amiibo functions, hopefully that will change!
No sign of Isabelle, but that’s probably because she’s busy kicking your butt in Smash lol