Animal Crossing Pocket Camp - Are these animals more camp than the village people?

Cross Animals on your telephone.



Out next month. Looks like a slightly simplified, but otherwise pretty standard, AC game. Albeit one set in a camp rather than a village. Has some standard free-to-play bollocks (excellently, all real-world money grubbery is handled by Tom Nook), but waiting patiently for stuff is Animal Crossing anyway.

I'm into it. Remember how hooked I was on New Leaf? imagine that on my phone! I've pre-registered my interest.

That's better than any subtitle I had in mind - layered. Kudos!

Whilst I enjoyed New Leaf, my only AC experience to date, I had to get rid of it to break the cycle. As such, I'm probably not going to invest in the game. I'm over the moon for those fellow forumites who'll get right into it, though. I hope it delivers for y'all.

It looks like something in-between Happy Home and a proper Animal Crossing. I'm not about moving the villager around on a mobile device but I can already see how it would work with a proper animal crossing.

This looks the bollocks, and I'm gantin for a new Animal Crossing, although my phone battery is shiteing itself.

I hope that this has more going for it than Miitomo though. Even something close to Happy Home Designer or Disney Magical World (a game which it seems to share a few similarities with as well) would be class.

This looked really impressive for a mobile game: almost the full AC experience on your 'phone. If I'd even a passing interest in getting back into Animal Crossing I'd do so here, especially with the new multi-catch mechanics shown. As it is, as I've said a couple of times, until they give every animal their own unique personality and dialogue options I'll keep my distance.

I hope they never do that, I'd hate to think I was missing out on content by not having every animal, that would ruin the game for me.

Balladeer wrote:

As it is, as I've said a couple of times, until they give every animal their own unique personality and dialogue options I'll keep my distance.

That's just daft.

Nah. The thing that interests me the most about this franchise, in theory, is meeting new peopanimals in your village. Yet when an eagle has exactly the same dialogue (after a couple of your sayings have gone popular) as an octopus, or a bear as a cow, that snaps me right out of my gaming immersion. I'm not meeting individual characters, I'm meeting eight personalities stuffed into individual shells.

As soon as I stop caring about them, for someone who doesn't care much about the cosmetic side of his town, the remainder of the game becomes a rather dull collect-a-thon. A race to complete the museum. And I've done that twice already, giving up both times before completion.

Don't get me wrong, I wish I could enjoy this. It looks really shiny and polished for a mobile game. It looks like the full AC experience, on a device you have in your pocket at all times. But the core experience needs to change for me, without becoming a stupid amiibo-centric board game or something.

No, I mean your expectation for them to give every animal a unique personality. How's that possible?

Ah, understood.  I'll admit, they've got a large cast to go around, but I'd rather have a stripped down selection of potential villagers where each one's different.  A mobile game would have been the perfect opportunity to do just that.

Balla, have you met real people? There are like three of you, repeated forever, all thinking you're unique and original and interesting.

Yes, but 13% of those repetitions don't have an abdominal named Negative Juan.

I basically came here to tell Nintendo to shut up and take all of my money! I'm no fan of mobile movement either, but I think it'll work just fine here (it's not like it's a twitchy puzzler).

However, I feel I'm interrupting something, so

I'm quite keen for this - my only Animal Crossing experience is Wild World, which I enjoyed but never properly got into like the rest of you normally do with Animal Crossing. Maybe this will be the game to get me hooked on Animal Crossing!

A few signs point to a release maybe as soon as Tuesday, and there have been some good reviews - are we taking the mobile plunge?

Hells yes.

We have Wednesday - repeat, Wednesday. I'm out, though.

Started the game and seems cool but I'm not really felling touch where I want to move but has got me more excited for a proper Animal Crossing for Switch.

My ID is 4431 0207 039 if you're wanting to come to my gaff. My first impressions are much the same as masofdas': bring on Animal Crossing: Concentration Camp on Switch.

Well. I guess I'll just die then.

The first problem is you own a iPhone.

There's no need to rub it in like that, mas.

Drunka, I'm really sorry, man. Are you able to upgrade your phone any time soon?

Its alright, he's not wrong!
My old (android) phone finally died recently after years of abuse, so I'm using an old iPhone 4 of my dad's. I could upgrade tomorrow if I wanted, but I feel like that would be a waste when I'm gonna be in Akihabara in two months.

Ah boy. That's sad.



For anyone who's on it - 95358887502 is me. I don't know what I'm doing!

I think your ID is missing a number, Jimmers!

Mine's is 6798 1302 272 for anybody playing who's keen on adding me!

I'm enjoying this - very relaxing. I've never properly got into an Animal Crossing game, but I can totally see why they're so addicting even just through playing this mobile game. Plus, it looks pretty good playing on my iPad.