Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Highlights A Major Issue With New Horizons’ Insufferable Villagers

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Now that is a paid and offline mobile app (known as ), it’s practically a full-fledged mainline game in the long-running cozy series. Since its launch in 2017, has been given love by its developers constantly, with updates that add adorable new items like outfits and unique furniture sets. Alongside this special attention are the villagers, which are the real reason that is so fun and why it should be used as an example of where the series needs to go next.

The villagers in are superior in every way to their counterparts in. This is primarily because the villagers have fuller and more realistic personalities than in On top of that huge difference, players are able to interact with their villagers in far more unique ways than in the Switch game, which mostly limits players to having repeated conversations every day and exchanging gifts.

The biggest issue with the villagers in is their repetitiveness. Speaking to any random villager will likely give the same dozen or so conversations, especially if they’re in the same or similar personality types. Not only are the conversations a little more varied in, but there are far more ways to play with villagers on an everyday basis. players can speak to villagers, give their advice on clothing or gifting options, dress up their villagers, complete requests, and find lost items. While some of these interactions — like finding lost items — are available in, they're less fleshed-out, can take too long, and can be more repetitive than in .

One Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp player has recreated one of the game's many hairstyles down to the wisps of hair emerging from the buns.

There’s simply more to do with beyond just having the same interactions and giving gifts until they hand you a framed photo like in The villagers in have more life in them, sinceplayers have to earn friendships by speaking to them daily and help them around the campsite. While the animals in are all nice, it's worth pointing out a flaw of as a mainline AC