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In an interview with Nintendo Europe VIP, Katsuya Eguchi, producer of Animal Crossing DS, revealed some new details on the highly anticipated game:
Single player mode
- new characters
- new furniture
- buildings have changed
- museum has a second floor with a different kind of exhibition. first floor has a coffee shop where K.K. Slider plays
- Tom Nook’s department store is much bigger and has a beauty salon where you can customise your hair
Online multiplayer mode
- visitors will come to the host’s town, so the session will take place in the time zone of the host
- the host can hide several presents and three visitors can come into that town and start a scavenger hunt, there are more new features like this
- no plans for downloadable content at the moment
‘As for the difference between playing with friends at home or over the Internet, the point of the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection is to bring people, who are normally very far away, closer, so that it feels as if you were playing together in the same room. Of course, when you are playing the game by yourself, you can go fishing – but if you’re playing with someone else, both of you can go fishing and you can perhaps create your own rules for a fishing competition, like ‘Let’s play for 10 minutes and see who catches the most fish.’ This is exactly the kind of communication that is so important to the game: establishing rules, negotiating, and coming to an agreement. You can go and play tag, or hide and seek, and it allows the two players to kind of customise the environment, the situation that they’re going to be playing, which allows for a lot of different gaming experiences.’
Single player mode
- new characters
- new furniture
- buildings have changed
- museum has a second floor with a different kind of exhibition. first floor has a coffee shop where K.K. Slider plays
- Tom Nook’s department store is much bigger and has a beauty salon where you can customise your hair
Online multiplayer mode
- visitors will come to the host’s town, so the session will take place in the time zone of the host
- the host can hide several presents and three visitors can come into that town and start a scavenger hunt, there are more new features like this
- no plans for downloadable content at the moment
‘As for the difference between playing with friends at home or over the Internet, the point of the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection is to bring people, who are normally very far away, closer, so that it feels as if you were playing together in the same room. Of course, when you are playing the game by yourself, you can go fishing – but if you’re playing with someone else, both of you can go fishing and you can perhaps create your own rules for a fishing competition, like ‘Let’s play for 10 minutes and see who catches the most fish.’ This is exactly the kind of communication that is so important to the game: establishing rules, negotiating, and coming to an agreement. You can go and play tag, or hide and seek, and it allows the two players to kind of customise the environment, the situation that they’re going to be playing, which allows for a lot of different gaming experiences.’
