Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer Day 6 (the first Challenge!)

I don’t know how much I will play today (still not feeling too great), but I wanted to at least make sure I did one very important thing as the very first Happy Home Challenge started today! It’s around for 2 weeks so be sure to enter! And don’t worry, Tom Nook will explain the rules :P

Once that was done, it was time to get started! <3

Happy Home Challenge 1 – The Sweetest Home Ever






If you’d like to rate it (which I’d really appreciate), my rating address is 0498-7754-453 :)

And video version:

Happy Home Designer – Day 5!

It’s so nice to play again today. While I didn’t necessarily feel up to it (unfortunately feeling rather awful at the moment), I really wanted to try and earn more items for the upcoming monthly contest. Sadly, I don’t really think I did a good job doing so :(

T-Bone – A fire-filled hot spot. I ended up picking this as I really wanted a Camp Fire. Ironically, that’s about the only fire item I didn’t get.



Rating address: 0302-7721-472

Marcie – A nursery school.



Rating address: 0491-7724-432

Monique – A room with stained glass. In the Japanese version, she actually wanted a Church with Stained Glass… I ended up doing something similar with the Interior anyway, but I realized late on the Exterior which was aiming for the “Solemn house with stained glass” that she was going around talking about.



Rating address: 0901-7724-322

Caroline – A rustic ranch house.



Rating address: 0495-7729-302

Marshal – A world-famous cafe. He actually didn’t get me anything new, unfortunately. I didn’t realize I already pretty much had all the cafe stuff.


Rating address: 0499-7722-462

Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer – Louie’s House!

So, to celebrate Mario’s 30th Anniversary, Louie is currently being given out through Nintendo Zones. I’m not sure how long he’ll be around so I decided to grab him while out. As for his theme, he wanted “A 30th-Anniversary Party” :P I focused less on a party and more just celebrating Mario… I think it still works.




You can rate his house at 0093-7724-330

Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer Day 3~

This will probably be the last day I get to play for a long time for a few days. My main goal was to at least get all the emotions which I did so yay! Now I just want to try and do every villager’s house at least once & unlock all the items. I sadly don’t think I’ll be able to do so before the first so I just hope I do a good job with the theme regardless.

So, I was almost going to do a different house for a ballet studio (to unlock my shoes!), but as soon as I saw Daisy’s theme, I had to. She wanted a house Santa would visit (“A magnet for Santa) and I love Christmas so…



Emotion learned: Boy’s Pose
Rating Address: 0605-7701-149

Molly – A publishing house


Emotion learned: Anger
Rating Address: 0409-7704-839

Gayle – A home with heart/surrounded by hearts



Emotion learned: Showmanship
Rating Address: 0804-7709-869

Mira – Futuristic Space. This is probably one of the houses I’ve felt most unsatisfied with in a long while. I expected a lot of the spaceship stuff and didn’t really get much of anything.



Emotion learned: Love
Rating Address: 0292-7702-179

Bam – A field-trip atmosphere. Another one where what I expected to get/had an idea of wasn’t it… I was hoping for a lot of camping stuff, but he seemed to more just want a field trip to a cabin…



Emotion learned: Explain
Rating Address: 0401-7702-199

Shari – A bed of nonwilting flowers. She was actually referring to stuff like the flower furniture (though, she didn’t give me much of it…) over gold roses, but I put them in anyway.



Emotion learned: Pride
Rating Address: 0509-7705-130

Bones – A second childhood



Emotion learned: Mischief
Rating Address: 0491-7701-110

Rocket – A Superhero Hideout. Like Mira, I expected something much different than a place for them to all relax…


Emotion learned: Agreement
Rating Address: 0201-7701-880

Kabuki – A shrine for Zen items


Emotion learned: Heartbreak
Rating Address: 0209-7704-120

Ribbot – Robohouse



Emotion learned: Cold Chill
Rating Address: 0292-7709-810

Papi – A wood-inspired abode.




Emotion learned: Shrunk Funk Shuffle
Rating Address: 0202-7709-870

Robin – A country teahouse. Despite the theme, Robin obviously wanted more of an Asian-inspired tea house than “country”.


Emotion learned: Lottie’s “All Set!” Pose
Rating Address: 0204-7702-870

Fauna – A home concert hall.



Emotion learned: Complete
Rating Address: 0791-7705-102

And with that, I finally earned every Emotion!:

Lottie’s is probably one of my favorites as I just love the end pose:

Cheri – A fruity room for juicing.



Rating Address: 0591-7701-132

Stitches – Colorful Toy Box



Rating Address: 0292-7704-822

Biskit – An “eggstravaganza”.


Rating Address: 0594-7709-852

Bunnie – A perpetual Birthday party.


Rating Address: 0405-7709-102

Frobert – A shrine to all things Gracie.



Rating Address: 0191-7702-142

Kidd – A photography studio.



Rating Address: 0795-7705-817

Jeremiah – A blue room, top to bottom.



Rating Address: 0201-7705-187

Boone – A Desert Paradise


Rating Address: 0894-7704-167

Finally, thank you to everyone who has been rating my rooms! Look at my cute little rating card:

Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer Day 2!

It’s weird having the “plot” essentially all done and just wandering around doing houses. It really makes me wonder if anything happens once you’ve done a house for everyone. I’ve definitely forgotten a few things while doing houses or gotten things later I’d want to implement so I expect to do that a lot once I’ve made everyone’s house (just to make sure I have everything). But yes, onto today’s customers!

I started playing a bit later today as I wanted to get QRs done first. I realized I somehow missed some though so I had to check back to my ACNL game… unfortunately, I started a day to do some QR codes already and didn’t want to just save without doing someone’s house/waste the day so I went out and Chrissy was there! She wanted a delightfully dotted room/lots of polkadots. I made sure to at least record locally.



Emotion learned: Inspiration
Rating address: 0908-7704-173

Phil was the first villager I ended up picking once I started streaming. He wanted a personal micro cosmos.




Emotion learned: Disagreement
Rating address: 0100-7704-839

Next was Pango who wanted a Posh, private day spa. I was hoping to earn more baths from Pango’s request, but I sadly did not.



Emotion learned: Shock
Rating address: 0403-7709-869

Paula was the next I picked just because it sounded cute. She wanted a Karaoke Parlor.




Emotion learned: Apologize
Rating address: 0107-7702-859

Alice wanted a mix of antique pieces. I was hoping to get a lot more than I did with her room, but I still tried my best.


Emotion learned: Resignation
Rating address: 0298-7701-860

I then decided to browse the Happy Home Network briefly to check out some of the high rated homes/places. I only visited two, but they were both quite nice.

I hope someone likes my places that much too one day. Once I’ve unlocked more things, I’d love to take another look at some rooms for when I’m struggling a bit with ideas just to get some inspiration.

Beardo was one I had been looking forward to from some of the early game footage shown. While his theme doesn’t seem as much about tea now, I still put a lot of that into my home for him despite him only asking for a “Landscaped Garden”.



Emotion Learned: Happiness
Rating address: 0707-7704-850

Friga was picked due to her wanting a “Classy, royal, room”. I was really hoping it’d unlock more stuff to my tastes. It sadly did not.



Emotion Learned: Sunniness
Rating address: 0298-7702-170

I was incredibly excited when I saw Amelia though. She wanted an Elegant, Lofty space and from what I had been told, she unlocked fountains. I’M STILL SO HAPPY ABOUT FOUNTAINS.



Emotion Learned: Sheepishness
Rating address: 0293-7705-192

Next was Roscoe who I knew still had several things I needed. Even though he is one of the ones that shows up in the early crowd more often than not, I kept seeing a lot of themes I’d pick over him. It was nice to finally get him all settled in his “Black & White Bastion” though.



Emotion Learned: Sorrow
Rating address: 0508-7701-182

Margie was next and she wanted a Place full of clothes. This was a fun design to play around with custom patterns more.



Emotion Learned: Disbelief
Rating address: 0498-7709-182

Nothing stood out for me in the next group and I knew I wanted to add a fountain to the Hotel, so I decided to go and re-do it to add more of the water-accents in.




Updated Rating Address: 0393-7702-112

Unfortunately, it was another group that really didn’t stand out so I let the stream chat pick. Tabby ended up winning the vote with her Old, abandoned, hospital theme… which was honestly probably my least favorite of the bunch. At least it’s out of the way now.


Emotion Learned: Daydreaming
Rating address: 0697-7701-127

Tammy then showed up and with October only a few days away, I decided to go ahead and do her theme of a Halloween-themed place/Halloween Party.



Emotion Learned: Fearful
Rating address: 0803-7704-807

I left the next selection up to chat vote again. Zell ended up winning with his “Themed Hotel” theme. I’m still not 100% sure if I covered it properly, but I still had fun with his room.


Emotion Learned: Outrage
Rating address: 0397-7702-807

I decided to do Bubbles’ Home next as Bubbles’ “Indoor Beach” theme had popped up a few times and I was hoping for more beach/water items anyway.



Emotion Learned: Amazed
Rating address: 0903-7705-875

Then, to end the night I did Bluebear’s theme–A Supersweet Bakery! Even though I had most of the sweet-relate stuff unlocked, I did get a bunch of cool things from her home. Plus it was just a cute theme to finish off with.



Emotion Learned: Girl’s Pose
Rating address: 0096-7704-115

Finally, my father surprised me with two more boxes of the Amiibo Cards! I sadly didn’t have much luck after the first few packs, but I only have one card left now (Clyde). We may have gotten him from someone, but I’m not going to update anything until the card is successfully here. I also have a new page for all of my extra Amiibo cards now.

Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer – Day 1 continued!

So, as previously mentioned, I was looking forward to playing again after sleeping and thus, it was time. I played for about 12 hours and once again, you can watch the recordings on my Youtube channel or check out below for lots of photos and summaries :D

Upon loading the game back up, Toom Nook was there and complimented me on my skills!

With my promotion, I received access to the Happy Home Handbook which let me learn various lessons

I was allowed to learn the first one for free–Ceiling items!

By the end of this entry, I learned the rest of the lessons as well and I will say that I wish there was an additional lesson on Layouts like there is for Designs. Layouts with more than two rooms for Villagers are generally quite small and the only way to get the options with the expanded versions are to go back and forth which wouldn’t be as frustrating if it wasn’t for the fact that each time uses up a day in which you do absolutely nothing. It’s just a tiring/frustrating cycle and while I find myself mostly using just one room (Afterall, Villagers usually have only one room), I can think of a few examples where I’d really love two rooms or even bigger single rooms and knowing I have to go through that annoying back and forth is pretty frustrating.

With my new lessons in hand and Isabelle not having any new assignments, I was back off into the world of the plaza to find someone to make a room for next. After some wandering around, I ended up picking Pecan who wanted a relaxing room with Chic furniture.



I also received the emotion Delight.

Isabelle then showed back up with new facility options for me to do. I decided to pick the Cafe first as all the food items are adorable in this game.



After finishing, Lottie told me about the Happy Home Network!

It essentially lets me upload designs of mine online for people to rate. The Cafe’s rating address is 0000-7731-174.

Next up, I did a shop for Isabelle!



It’s essentially toys and cute things.
Rating address/search number: 0798-7734-144

And to finish off Isabelle’s current requests… the hospital.





This is probably one of my least favorite buildings just because of how sick the animals in it get. I don’t see myself going there much.
Rating address/search number: 0490-7734-864

With all of Isabelle’s jobs once again completed, it was off to help out more villagers who needed homes. I picked Deirdre next who wanted a place that was essentially Year-around Autumn/an Autumnal atmosphere.




Emotion received: Distress
Rating address/search number: 0296-7734-814

Next up was Greta who wanted a Hot Springs Spa. While I had a lot of fun with it, it made me realize I really want to get more baths.



Emotion received: Mistaken
Rating address/search number: 0308-7734-884

Isabelle was then back with even more facilities. I decided to pick the restaurant first as it was one of the buildings I had been excited to do since the early trailers of the game.






Rating address/search number: 0607-7734-104

I didn’t have a preference out of Isabelle’s other choices and one of the viewers watching asked me to do Office next, so I went with that. It’s an office where the boss is also a Detective. Whether the whole office is in on the Detective-ness and it is also a Detective Agency while pretending to be an office, I haven’t decided yet.



Rating address/search number: 0593-7739-154

Next I chose the Department Store as I figured it’d probably have a lot of neat items. I was right.





Essentially besides the display hall, there’s a clothing & jewelry/accessory area, and a fancy teddy bear area. Because fancy teddy bears are awesome. I need more teddy bears for it. And I forgot a changing room in the other area. Darn it. I plan to fix so many things once I have a lot more items unlocked. I’m mostly holding off so I don’t have to go back an forth too many times.
Rating address/search number: 0700-7739-144

I then had to make another shop and I ended up using the same exterior as the first shop. I just love how it looks way too much. This shop ended up being a flower/garden shop.




Rating address/search number: 0406-7739-154

Finally, Isabelle wanted us to upgrade the school. I kept the original appearance and first classroom I had the same. While I did like the new school exteriors, I preferred the coloring of the one I originally selected. I wish they used those colors for the new version. Anyway, I made the Hallway mostly achievement based while turning the other classroom into a Home Economics/Sewing/Creativity




Rating address/search number: 0997-7732-824

With that, it was once again to the plaza to pick a villager. I was so excited when I saw Muffy as I knew she unlocked the Rococo furniture so I quickly went to help her with her wanted home–an Ornately decorated room.



Emotion received: Aggravation
Rating address/search number: 0600-7732-854

Isabelle was back the next day with the project I was most looking forward to… the Concert Hall! It is the best for the villager interaction and hearing them sing K.K. Slider’s songs is absolutely amazing. I could sit in there all day and just listen to the music play. I just wish there were more than 4 performers.




And yes, that is K.K. Slider next to me and no, I didn’t scan his Amiibo card. I didn’t know special villagers could appear in the buildings randomly so it caught me by complete surprise.
Rating address/search number: 0199-7735-103
Isabelle also was ready with the final facility–the Hotel, but before I started I used my next day to just remove the stool from the Piano so they could actually play it… I’m honestly pretty frustrated that you can’t do more than one thing a day. That and just having a hard time with the way items are organized are really my only big issues with the game. Though, the layout thing is something I still have a lot of mixed feelings about (along with the item limit).

But yes, it was then onto the Hotel which actually features my favorite facility Exterior. It’s just absolutely beautiful. I had a lot of fun with the hotel and making the rooms mirrored.






I can’t wait until I have the fountain though–that is what that pond is kind of being a filler for. That area was too empty without it.
Rating address/search number: 0004-7734-803

And thus, I officially did all the facilities (and fully expanded the Plaza)!

Of course, Isabelle had to hold a ceremony for it :P


And then the credits rolled!

Unfortunately, this means I will no longer see Isabelle, but now the only assignments I still have to do are for Villagers I haven’t done yet, so now it will officially be those I picked to help in this town (though, I do hope to help everyone eventually!).

Sprinkle wanted a Frozen World to play in.



Emotion received: Greetings
Rating address/search number: 0504-7739-813

Cookie wanted a room fit for a Princess.



Emotion received: Consent
Rating address/search number: 0392-7732-873

Monty first said he wanted a Zodiac Room in his thought bubble… and then a Monkey Mansion. I’m still not entirely sure what he wanted, but I gave him a Monkey shrine and lots of bananas.



Emotion received: Flourish
Rating address/search number: 0594-7735-169

Merengue wanted a Candy House like in a Fairytale :D



Emotion received: Shyness
Rating address/search number: 0699-7731-829

I also finally got some new things and changed my outfit:

I still haven’t gotten a skirt I really wanted though or my Ballerina slippers yet however :(

Bob wanted a Floral Atmosphere/to be surrounded by flowers. While I’m not a big flower person, his exterior has been the one I’ve felt most satisfied with. I’ve had a lot of issues with making the exteriors look okay and just really wish I had more things for them.




Emotion received: Glee
Rating address/search number: 0302-7734-859

Sheldon wanted a non-stop gaming room. Unfortunately, when I read this I expected something like an AR-like thing/Super Mario room where the level was brought to live over an arcade in his house. I think it came out okay, but I probably would have used a different room layout if I realized…



Emotion received: Worry
Rating address/search number: 0595-7732-169

Maelle wanted a High-end fashion boutique. I ended up picking Maelle due to hoping she’d unlock more skirts. Unfortunately, I received barely anything new and I guess most of what she would have had was already unlocked through the facilities. I still had fun with her home though and I finally got to use the car as well.


Emotion received: Sneezing
Rating address/search number: 0402-7735-880

Elvis, unsurprisingly, wanted A Royal Palace! I was very surprised that he didn’t unlock more things (such as the Suit of Armor), but I tried to make do. I definitely want to add to his place though.



Emotion received: Thought
Rating address/search number: 0901-7731-190

Harry wanted a Messy room/A “slop-tastic” pad. I was mostly just looking to unlock more things. Despite him wanting it messy, I feel like I still made it too much of an organized mess.



Emotion received: Sleepy
Rating address/search number: 0505-7734-830

And the last customer of the night was Puddles who wanted an adorable pink room and obviously, I can not say no to requests for pinkness.




Emotion received: Sadness
Rating address/search number: 0101-7739-890

And that was it for today! Also, as an update on the card status, I managed to get 3 more of the cards I needed thanks to an awesome friend of mine :D So I have updated previous entry to reflect this along with changes in extras.

Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer – The first day!

So, Happy Home Designer officially came out today! Gamestop was doing a midnight launch for another game, but said they could do them for Animal Crossing as well, so I headed out with my mom and we bought the game (with the NFC reader for me), the New 3DS Bundle for her, and 2 boxes of Amiibo Cards! Before I unboxed the cards (as I honestly don’t plan to use them until I have most of the game complete), I wanted to go ahead and get started. You can find recordings of my playthrough of the game in this playlist!

But yes, as soon as I got home, I quickly loaded up the game and despite some issues with Twitch & XSplit, I did stream most of it. Now, let’s get onto game adventures…

So, despite Tom Nook completely forgetting who I was, I still received a very warm welcome at Nook’s Homes:

After introductions and Tom Nook taking his leave (to apparently go golfing. Wow.), Lottie gave me my uniform!:

It was then off to my very first job to get a hang of things. I had to decorate an interior to fit the theme of “a Room with a Lovely Atmosphere”:

I did my best! In the end, it turns out it was for Lottie:

Despite her being my first customer in that sense, I decided I’m not going to officially count her on the page until I go back and do her house properly through the Amiibo cards.

Once I had learned the ropes, we received our first actual customer–Goldie!

She wanted to be surrounded by books.



I think she liked it! And I even earned my first emotion–Joy.

The next day, Lottie gave me the Client list and asked me to go see Goldie again.

Goldie seemed to still be enjoying her house a lot and I even took a nice photo of us relaxing in front of the fireplace:

Next up, Lyle and Lottie were talking about a customer outside who Lyle ended up scaring off. They put me to the task and I ended up getting my second customer–Lopez! He wanted a Metropolitan Lifestyle. I had a lot of fun with his room, but I definitely want to change up the colors as soon as I unlock the ability to do so:



I also received my second emotion: Bashfulness.

I then finally got to start picking for myself who I’d like to do rooms for. For my first pick, I chose Tangy who, unsurprisingly, wanted a room with lots of fruit. I managed to fit every bowl in there and it’s super colorful:


And received my next emotion: Laughter

The next day, Tom Nook was there with Isabelle!

We’d have some bigger projects to do starting tomorrow.

In the meantime though, I decided to help Pekoe out with her request–an Exotic Resort:


And I received the emotion of Surprise!

It was then off to the next day and as promised, Isabelle was there to talk about building the town up–starting with a brand new school.

I had a lot of fun putting it together:


And unsurprisingly, I picked the pink one:

We even had a really nice ceremony for it:

Building a new school invited a new customer to Nook’s Homes…

…along with now letting us pick a location for the home and decorate the Exterior as well! I plan to go back to all of the previous villagers’ homes above to do this at some point and maybe even give them a bigger place as well. But yes, going back to that new customer… Carrie wanted a Garden for all her kids to play in.

And the exterior:


I also received the Curiousity emotion.

Lyle and Lottie then told me about the brand new Amiibo phone!

While I’m saving my cards for one of the later things I do in the game, I did at least scan my Villager Amiibo for this lovely furniture item:

I was then allowed to pick randomly from outside again and while not being a huge fan of the Kangaroos for the most part (Marcie is the only one I really like), Sylvia caught my attention with her theme of “a Place with a pool where kids can play”. I love fountains and waterfalls so anything that gets me more water-related items = must be done.



And I received the Sighing emotion.

With that, my first play session of Happy Home Designer was paused so I could take a break to unbox 2 boxes of the Animal Crossing Amiibo Cards :D And I really love how the title screen adds your character to it now:

But yes, as for the Amiibo cards, I actually did an Unboxing! You can find Part 1 and Part 2 of the unboxings on Youtube! But if you’d rather just read about it, here’s the summary. After 36 packs/216 Amiibo Cards (18 packs/108 cards per box), I managed to get all but 11–I am missing Digby (#9), Harriet (#11), Tiffany (#30), Patty (#38), Midge (#65), Clyde (#68), Cherry (#77), Truffles (#79), Annalisa (#83), Diana (#89), and Willow (#97). It’s definitely a pretty good go essentially, but I do wish I at least got all the special villagers and Diana as well. I won’t be opening more packs until series 2 so I just hope I can trade or buy them.

Edit: Any crossed out above are ones I’ve gotten since making this post!

As for doubles, you can find a list of all of them here!

LBX Complete!

So, if you recall one of my more recent posts or are subscribed to my Youtube channel, you probably know I’ve been playing LBX :P I finally beat it today (Most people have beaten it much faster than I have though) and I really enjoyed it so I just wanted to talk a little more about it! If you’re curious about the game, you can watch my entire playthrough on this handy-dandy playlist.

I would say the hardest battle I had was actually not at the end, but I think if I had another battle that hard I’d have cried. The story is great and is a lot deeper than you’d probably expect. I did not see the final villain coming at all either.

But yes, please look into the game! It really is quite good. One of the cool things from the credits is you actually get to see all the LBX you used in the final area:

There is also this lovely end scene:

But best of all I was finally able to unlock Princess M and all is right in the world:

She’s the best LBX <3

Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer – What I’m looking forward to most

With the game less than 2 weeks away now, I’ve had a few people asking me how I can be so excited and while I’ve made a couple of articles talking about features that excited me, I really wanted to talk more about what makes Happy Home Designer special specially to me and why I feel it could be my favorite Animal Crossing game ever.

Now, if this isn’t your first time here, you probably know I adore Animal Crossing. I even a full blog for it. The game has been very special to me for many reasons, from fun experiences with family and friends to just such a fun customization experience with adorable characters and seeing the games continue to improve. While I wasn’t always happy with every installment (City Folk having the same item limit as Wild World with a smaller house will always baffle me and we’ve spoken enough about how New Leaf’s moving mechanic was beyond broken), I still had fun with them. The thing about Happy Home Designer though is most of my favorite features of the game are still in it without the “stress” component.

I don’t play too many real time games. In fact, off the top of my head I can only think of two–Animal Crossing and the first Style Savvy (and the third will be included in this if it ever comes over). Disney Magical World is also included in this to an extent, but with how long events lasted and how few things really were time dependent, I find it closer to what Style Savvy 2 had with months changing. I like putting a lot of time into my games, but I’ve never been fond of time traveling and despite what some people think, checking in every day actually isn’t that easy sometimes.

Customization is generally my favorite part of any game. I love decorating and designing and making things and it’s something that I just am not able to do much in real life so whenever I get so much creative freedom and can actually do something with things that I really enjoy makes me incredibly happy. It’s that exact reason why when stats are paired with customization (Such as in Mario Kart 8 and Splatoon), I get so upset because I can’t continue to play and have a good time because it’s just continued failure unless I don’t choose the customizations I really enjoy.

Happy Home Designer focuses so incredibly much on the idea of customization and while I do miss some staple Animal Crossing features (such as the museum–I really did enjoy collecting all the fish and bugs) and all the other NPCs (thank you, Amiibo cards), the fact that it focuses exactly on my favorite part of the game is just incredibly exciting. I do wish there were a few more exterior appearances for buildings (afterall, three buildings share the same selection and there is really only one I like best for each–it’d have been neat if they just had the styles and you could pick the colors separately) and am still worried about the item limitations, but it’s hard not to just think of how much you can do.

And even if customization isn’t so much your thing, seeing the Animals interact with everything so much more is great. It’ll also be nice having all my favorite villagers and being able to visit them in their house whenever I’d like without worrying that they will go away forever.

I really hope so many of the features in Happy Home Designer do find a way into New Leaf. Maybe we’ll even be able to alter our island/town itself–decide where the ponds and waterfalls are, make cliffs, have a full customized town. But if anything, Happy Home Designer shows me just how much customization the series can have and while I already loved the Animal Crossing series, Happy Home Designer has managed to make that love go to new heights.

I can’t wait until I can start playing and open up Amiibo Cards. I hope to see many of you all playing too!

Pokemon GO! for Android and iPhone

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So, if you watched the presentation on Niconico today, you’ll know that they announced an upcoming Pokemon game (dedicated to Mr. Iwata T~T <3) that has been in progress for over 2 years called Pokemon GO. It is a mobile game (and thankfully, it looks like it will be out for both Android and iPhone at the same time) and seems like it'll use AR and essentially let you catch Pokemon in the real world.

The trailer reminded me a lot of the advertisement for when Google did their April Fools thing with catching Pokemon, except the fact that AR Pokemon really will be a part of this game. I wonder if that event really a test if anything. It does seem everyone who participates in getting a legendary gets it (and they are timed for how long they show up) as well which is nice.

I do wonder how trading heavy it may be though–like if Pokemon will actually be region based. Will you be able to get items like Mega Stones? Will AR properly work? I find myself with a lot of questions, but considering it’s not out until 2016, I’m sure there will be plenty of time to see more and have more answered.

While I’d still prefer anything but a mobile game (still hoping for a Pokemon Snap with all Pokemon or a Pokemon MMO one day), I do think this looks really cool and I had a lot of fun with the Google Maps thing so I am excited regardless. They said that it would be a lot like “Ingress” which was a Augmented Reality MMO, but made for Pokemon. Like a real life Pokemon journey. You’ll use your phone to see the Pokemon, of course.

I just hope I can catch all the Pokemon without necessarily trading. I feel like they will be making things very region-based and I’m hoping that won’t actually be the case as traveling isn’t that cheap. Regardless, I can’t wait to see the game out and I’m looking forward to it so much.

It really seems like they are putting a lot of effort into it. One of the things they showed at one point during the trailer was a upside down teardrop-shaped Pokeball which is apparently called the “Pokemon GO Plus”–it is a way to alert/notify you when something is happening in the game. You can use it to throw Pokeballs as well by hitting the button in the center.

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It is an optional addition, but I actually think it’s really cool and definitely want to get it. You can even wear it as a clip-on or wristband accessory.

This could be an actual reality in a way:
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(Above figure commissioned by me from Viistar)
I could be dressed like a Pokemon trainer (ignoring that I can’t sew. ONE DAY) and have a Mega Audino and be a real Pokemon Master :P

I wonder if you can earn actual badges too? That’d be so cool. I’d love to see them continue adding things to it. Maybe a PC Pokemon Ranch where you can see all the Pokemon from your phone interacting and doing things. I feel there’s so much they could really add to it and just thinking of all these possibilities just makes me even more excited. I mean, just think of actually catching shinies in real life. Going out with a group of friends and also looking for Pokemon. And more and more scenarios! I can tell this will easily be one of my top games of 2016 already. I just hope I can get all 721 Pokemon (and future new Pokemon) regardless :D (please no box limits).

That said, I am surprised the game will be going to the freemium route. If it really does, I hope it’s more like Pokemon Rumble World versus Pokemon Shuffle. I’d definitely prefer just buying the game though.

Also going to be crossing my fingers for custom trainers considering these were shown in the trailer:
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I know the game itself won’t be like that (afterall, you see the Pokemon threw your phone), but the idea that you can have cute custom trainer icons (or maybe even a full 3D model in the actual game, who knows) has me pretty excited too.