Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer - 3DS

To be blunt, I love this game. It is open to greater creativity in decoration and other such things that are not as easily had in the main series games. Not to mention, it is exceedingly cute and provides more of a taste of the villagers in their natural state when you revisit the public properties you will be designing throughout the game.I will say though I was mildly disappointed that you do not play as your own character from New Leaf, or are not even presented with the option to do so as they did in City Folk with a previously created Wild World character. So I know it can be done where you could play as a new character without having played or purchased the previous games, and simultaneously be given the option of transferring a previously designed character over. I am very much attached to my character in New Leaf and wish she were able to, hypothetically, take a bus to work, again, a mechanic presented in City Folk.A tip for anyone who has just purchased the game, give it a chance, the requests will become more difficult, and the more homes you design, the more furniture you will have for future remodels. Also, the game provides the option to, when finished with work for the day, "study the Happy Home Academy Handbook" which provides some bonus features to download with Play Coins to better enhance your remodels. None of these features are necessarily essential to your enjoying the game, except, the option to refurbish, which much of the furniture is open to color changes, and it helps to make each remodel all the more personal.

It's a silly game and you can't really do the wrong thing, but it's very fun and relaxing.

Works great

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After a long day of work, this is the perfect relaxation. My favorite part of the Animal Crossing main series titles was always the home customization, to the point where I would make new characters just so I could have an excuse to decorate somewhere new. This is a great evolution of that idea! There's more furniture (more than AC:NL, less than the ever-updating Pocket Camp) and more ways to move furniture (I whooped aloud when I found out you could move objects in half-squares, I'm not ashamed to admit it). There's even better animal animations! Like, they tried really hard on this product and they didn't have to.The game is simple: build houses for your animal buddies. Progression comes in the form of literally building the town from the ground up, and in the new batches of furniture you get from each villager's houses you build. New features can be "bought" using the DS "play coins", but it's not a long grind even if you started with zero of these things. You can build one villager house per "day", but unlike the main games, there's no real time clock; you have total freedom over when you want to play the game.It's simple, but that's why it's so good! I can play it whenever I need a pick-me-up without feeling like it took me tons of time and energy to do so. (It also gives crazy cool rewards for your AC:NL game - a surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one!) Idk, maybe I just like the idea of my AC character going to work just like I do, lol. In addition, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the concept didn't get stale. Even when I completed all of the scripted events, there were always new villagers to be inspired by.The reason I gave it 4 out of 5 stars is because you can't decorate a house of your own. This seems silly to me - the game is already saving tons of house designs already, why not add one more? It's clear you "go to work" every day, why can't you have a place to go home to, even if you don't see the animation for it? I think I'm mostly miffed about this because I decorate all these villager's houses and I get these great ideas for my own place with all this new furniture and features (like the first outdoor decorating of AC!), but I can't do anything about it. Oh well - I'll just keep those great ideas for Pocket Camp and AC:NH!One last super tiny nitpick. There's this map you use to decide where a villager's house will go, like in the dessert, next to a waterfall, etc. It's a great feature and has led to some funny moments, like when I put a villager that wanted peace and quiet on top of a snowy mountain. However, I do kind of wish that when you chose a lot for a villager, you weren't able to choose that same lot for another villager. The pros of the current system is that you don't have to worry about "wasting" a lot. However, if the game retained your choice, then you could mess around with villagers being neighbors with one another. You might be forced to use lots you wouldn't have considered before. One of those things where maybe a hint of restriction could push my creativity far more than boundless freedom.In conclusion, a really cozy game with a simple premise that didn't have to try all that hard for us, but it did and I am ever so grateful.

As a major animal crossing fan, I'll say I was NOT disappointed. There was no false advertising about what I was getting. The game was advertised as a home decorator, and I love that! It's very cute with some new music and characters.The actual designing aspect was amazing. Edit windows? Add curtains? Blinds? Pick any rug, shape, color, or size? Ceiling fan? Chandalier?And that's not even mentioning the outdoor setting. I hope that they include these great new features in the next official AC game.Yes, it has little to no depth at all. I personally enjoy the house decorating for the various characters. Wish I could do that in New Leaf so that Iggly would finally decorate his house somewhat acceptably. I would prefer if they gave us an option to go back and edit homes that we decorated (cause you unlock new furniture as you go).I enjoyed the game and will definitely keep playing it for a while (I love a home designer game). I do think it is a little overpriced for what you get. I view it as a minigame compared to New Leaf. Still, if you love Animal Crossing as much as I do, you have to try it!

My game came with an original case and the game works great! This game is fun, and it has kept my little sister and I entertained for days now. Totally worth the money I spent!

If you like customization in video games, this is the game for you. I've only played for a couple of hours and I'm enjoying it very much. You play as a designer, remodeling various animals' homes; you're in charge of making a specific animal's house fit their "vision" or style using lots of different furniture, wallpapers, and floors. The amount of different combinations for designing different houses is endless. Actual placement of furniture is a lot more refined than that of New Leaf, making placing objects easier and convenient. If you want to be creative, this game might be for you!