Animal Crossing Is Overdue For A New Art Style
Animal Crossing has been coasting on the success of New Horizons for some time now, and with updates slowing down, players might be starting to wonder when the next entry will come out and what it will look like. However, players are holding their breath as even with the long cycles between main series games, Animal Crossing hasn’t improved much graphically since its GameCube debut. It’s time for the series to take a large step forward and adopt a new art style for the next generation of Animal Crossing games.
Not to say that a new art style needs to be realistic, as the cheery and lighthearted nature of the characters in players’ towns are important to keeping them coming back. However, Nintendo would be missing potential by simply adding new gameplay features and DLC to Animal Crossing. Its art style is cartoonish, but it’s suited the series well in the past. Looking to the future, it would make sense to have the characters stay the same art style while the world around them changes to have more detail.
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The visual aspect that most needs to be updated is the world — the city from Animal Crossing: New Leaf and the island from New Horizons are great hubs for previous games, but they can look bland compared to other life simulators. The simple art style of the game is one of its strengths, but it's already looking worn and outdated for a game on the Nintendo Switch. Adding detail or even allowing the player different camera views could reinvigorate the franchise and inspire new forms of decorative creativity for players that want to decorate their Animal Crossing island with new furniture.
The world that Animal Crossing takes place in doesn’t have to
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