Animal Crossing: New Horizons is getting one big final update of free content on November 5, along with some paid interior design-based DLC Happy Home Paradise. The update adds a ton of new content all at once, much more than what previous updates to the game have offered. Brewster's coffee shop returns, Kapp'n can take players to new islands, and the ordinances from New Leaf make a return to help make players' islands a little cozier. That only covers a few things that this update is set to add in a few weeks, and with all of it, fans can easily keep playing New Horizons for a very long time.
Many players enjoy the Animal Crossing series for the variety of things players can do as they manage their homes and towns. Now fans of the Happy Home Designer spin-off game can pick up Animal Crossing: New Horizons knowing the new DLC will give them more of what they liked from the previous game, while also expanding upon it. There's a bunch of customization options being thrown into the update as well, but it isn't clear which of the new features require the DLC add-on yet. Regardless of if they decide to pick up the Happy Home Paradise content, there's still tons for fans to experience that will keep them coming back for more.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons Helps Connect Friends
Throughout the last year, with almost everything in the world shutting down in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, people needed something to do while staying indoors. Animal Crossing: New Horizons came out at the perfect time for those quarantined. With an entire island to themselves, the game has given both long-distance and local friends a place to meet up and hang out. The new update even keeps this in mind, adding more ways for players to spend time together with new features, with one that many fans were really hoping for.
In the new 2.0 version of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, players can enjoy a cup of coffee together at the Roost, which is perfect for any couple wanting new date ideas in the game. Alongside that, many fans who have been playing since the original title for the GameCube should be overjoyed to know that the morning aerobics are back as "group stretching." That feature can also be played with other players, which means some groups may get together to stretch to start their day. Now, Animal Crossing fans can not only stretch with their friends but also their villagers, which is a very welcome change that players were asking for since the game was launched.
Happy Home Paradise Offers Limitless Customization
Over the years, Animal Crossing games have innovated the features players use to customize their houses, making sure they always have new ways to make it their own. While New Horizons streamlined the design process and expanded it to fans' entire "towns," Happy Home Paradise seems to add new customization options to the mix, and lots of them at that. The DLC is practically a brand new game in itself, on top of an already beloved title, bringing back what Happy Home Designer offered to the series while making sure to expand upon it.
After November's update, fans can add partition walls, background noise, dynamic lighting, and more to their homes. With these new features, any designer will be free to make whatever design they choose with relative ease. That alone should make many players excited. These options are brand new to the Animal Crossing series, and can make players' homes even more varied and unique every time designers want to re-do their rooms.
Remodeling and Redesigning Houses and Facilities
If having these impressive new customization options in Happy Home Paradise wasn't enough to entice fans, most of the features are added to the main game as well. After a certain point, the DLC allows players to re-design the houses of their Animal Crossing villagers. They can also apply the new features to their own island home with ease, bringing an incredible amount of dynamic options to their islands. Any fans who were satisfied with how their house looks will have plenty to use the new features on.
On top of that, Happy Home Paradise offers facilities to design as well. That gives fans even more buildings to make their own with the new features and furniture found in New Horizons' 2.0 update. That doesn't even go into how these buildings and homes don't have to be only made once, as the game allows players to come back and make adjustments as many times as they want. Whether it's by going in and replacing old furniture with a newer, better version, or redoing the entire design later, the fans that are in love with the new features will never run out of ways to use them.
With the versatility and endless options coming to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, it's understandable why so many fans are excited for the update on November 5. Happy Home Paradise, for those willing to purchase it or sign up for Nintendo Switch Online's Expansion Pack, gives those who were already satisfied with the base game far more to do. Those who have left their island alone recently can easily breathe new life to their island with the new features as well.
With everything that's being offered in the 2.0 update, what fans can accomplish is practically limitless. Designs can be redone constantly, with fans trying out new furniture, wallpaper, and lighting each time they play. When the time comes to put these designs on display, new activities are there to heighten the experience with their friends that came by to check it all out.
The number of additions to the title makes it easy to continuously play regardless of the fact that support for the game is ending. With its quality of life adjustments, and the way this update changes home customization for the Animal Crossing titles, fans are most likely going to be playing this game for many years to come.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available now on Nintendo Switch.