Animal Crossing: New Horizons - 10 Features Fans Are BEGGING For

3. Cut The Cutscenes And Textboxes

Animal Crossing New Horizons crafting
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It bears repeating that crafting is already a chore wading through textbox to textbox, because the problem only multiplies from there.

New Horizons has some sort of aversion to item stacks because bulk buying is only allowed in a few places. It would be great to fill a shopping trolley up with what you need, akin to the changing booth in the Ables Sister clothing shop, but alas, watching your character exchange bells for leaves again and again loses its appeal.

Watching a ticket sluggishly eject out the Nook Stop machine is agonising, as well as swapping between the Nook Stop services.

Some cutscenes and textboxes aren’t all bad. Players will happily, and quite maliciously, donate bugs to Blathers one by one to watch him squirm, but when it comes to multiplayer, New Horizons gets its revenge.

The tedious cutscenes from flying away to a player’s island, with everyone else on the island then watching the same cutscene, is too much to handle if you just wanted to sell some turnips or pinch some new tropical fruit.

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