Animal Crossing Mobile: First Look

In the latest Nintendo Direct, a new Animal Crossing title was (FINALLY) announced and it will be accessible, at all times, right from our pockets! Rejoice, because Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is hitting the small screens of our iOS and Android smartphones come late November!

Pocket Camp seems to be nothing like the much despised “train wrecks” Happy Home Designer and Amiibo Festival. The game actually plays like a traditional Animal Crossing only this time you won’t be managing an entire town like in A New Leaf, but rather a campsite! You won’t be decorating houses and sculpting town landmarks in Pocket Camp, no sirree, now you’ll be working on trailers and campgrounds as the new camp manager.

When it comes to getting furniture, you won’t be hitting up the store or shaking trees for now you must get your hands dirty by crafting it with materials that you collect by visiting places called Recreation Sites. You earn these materials through rewards achieved by helping out the villagers there. The collectibles are then given over to a familiar-looking, blue alpaca blacksmith by the name of – you guessed it – Cyrus, who will create the pieces in the blink of an eye.

He can also build different amenities (Public Works are back!) for the campsite, such as a pool, but not in the blink of an eye. Nope, he takes his time for these projects…unless you have Leaf Tickets. Leaf Tickets can be traded for materials or to pressure Cyrus to work faster. You get them from completing in-game quests or in exchange for real money.

Yes, Pocket Camp has micro-transactions, giving you the ability to be in debt to Tom Nook for real. The good news is our favorite evil raccoon shows face in Pocket Camp and only face (he’s not in the game, hehe) and the bad news is you will be in debt to a bunch of penguins this time. However, Nook’s legacy in the form of his nephews Timmy and Tommy will return and so will the Able Sisters, as well as Kicks who is still kicking.

Pocket Camp is multiplayer, as it should be, but only by adding each other’s exchange ID numbers (Friend Codes, lol) and visiting each other’s campsites, with the option of giving pointers on how to improve. And when your campsite looks good, it pays off.  There is a new Friendship Level feature implemented in Pocket Game; players can tell how much an animal likes them – something we Animal Crossing fans have longed for. Also, we can catch use fishing nets to catch multiple fish at a time now – another one!

Additionally, the season system along with seasonal events will be in full effect but in real time! So, when Santa Claus is coming to town shortly after Pocket Camp‘s launch, you can expect beautiful snowfall and decked halls in the game as well.

Last but not least, they launched an official website for the game too – and it’s absolutely adorable. There, you can pre-register to be notified exactly when Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp goes live – like you and I aren’t already mashing the refresh button every second.

Until then, you can watch the original 15 minute long Nintendo Direct here, or check out the trailer below! Excited for Animal Crossing’s first ever venture into mobile gaming? Will it be a regular in the Games folder of your smartphone, or will it be something you think you’ll delete shortly after?

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301 thoughts on “Animal Crossing Mobile: First Look”

  1. back at it again with the nasty, boizzz

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1227303e51538591ff3b4ce0bfd5dec81e5d6d2d6eca83bdda751a7d4e97abf8.png

    UB CHANGE (lemme know if you have a better suggestion)
    water-psychic

    i really like these simple designs, the whole idea for this was i was thinking “amoeba”, and then “amoebaaaa” lmao

    its like beast boy where it can shape shift into anything heeyyyyy, its
    based off an amoeba, a nonspecific goat / ram type creature, and a
    chimera >:'<<<

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  2. Oh by the way Odyssey fanatics
    Both the Japanese, European and North America eShop is now letting us preload Mario Odyssey at the cost of 5.2gs of space

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  3. Apparently, the Australian App Store accidentally released it earlier this morning for like a second, and then took it down. That kinda sucks since I have an Australian iTunes account, and I missed out on it.

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  4. Now I’m off to my second interview this cycle. It’s not going to be like last time with 7 interviewers over an hour. It will probably be two sessions of 30 minutes with 2-3 interviewers. Thus, I am a little bit intimidated that I will be talking to them for a longer period of time.

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  5. Well today has not gone well at school

    -My web Design project can’t be finished cause my computer is fried
    -Chem. teacher moved our test to the day after Halloween
    -Today is the one day in the 6 day cycle where I have no friends at lunch

    Just another crummy day in my life

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    • Honestly it’s still unknown. The article they say that in is full of holes and comes from a website that is known in the French community as a click bait site. The interview did happen and theoretically the translation isn’t “wrong”, but over all there’s still a lot fo questions that come from it. The way Ohmori and Iwao speak during the interview seem very different than what we’ve heard in past interviews and even the trailers we’ve seen. They contradict themselves by saying that it’s still Alola, but at the same time we’eve had trailers and even interviews where they say it’s not like the Alola we know from SM. Also the explanation they gave form why there wouldn’t be new forms is contradictory to the fact that there are still Pokemon in the game that aren’t in Alola in SM. By that very fact it’s not the same. MAny people that are well informed in this kind of stuff even say the article and interview seem sketchy. At this point it’s best to wait and see what the next trailer or so bring us before we jump the gun. In any event it’s best not to get hopes up.

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  6. Well today pretty much has everyone down in the dumps
    Even I woke up sick, but now I’m better waiting on a giant line at subway and going to GameStop to get my gold bottlecaps

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  7. Ive always wanted to like this game.. just never got around to shelling out the money for it. Now I’m getting a new phone which can handle it.. maybe I’ll play ?
    Looks super cute

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  8. Sounds like there was a huge mistranslation with that interview from this morning. The question asked had to do with Eevee mostly than it did with Alolan forms. They were asked if it’d get a new evo or Alolan form and they said no. Technically they didn’t deny the existence of Alolan forms as a whole. Just that Eevee and it’s family wouldn’t get anything. Which is like no duh……lol So still a little sketchy, but Alolan forms are still kind of on the table. Even if that means they’re on the very edge of said table haha

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  9. Wait so it was a mistranslation??
    Any confirmation on this?
    I really hope the stupid interview was not translated correctly. New alolan forms is a big thing for me

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  10. This is the correct translation of the article:

    Will there be new regional forms (Alola) of Pokemon or a new Evolution for Eevee in Pokemon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon? The response of the Pokemon Company here.
    The specific regional forms of the first generation of Pokemon were surely one of the most appreciated features by the players. As we would have liked to see new ones in USUM, we asked about it to Kazumasa Iwao and Shigeru Ohmori, respectively producers of Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon and Sun & Moon.

    A: “Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon are set in the same region (Alola) and we decided not to add more regional forms of Pokemon. On the subject of Pokemon added, we can not say too much about the subject, but the trailers do not show all the news. There will be about 400 Pokemon that will be able to meet and capture. We do not really know how to answer that, there are different possibilities about Eevee, you will have to ask Professor Kukui if he knows anything about it. “

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    • Where did you get this translation? From what I’m hearing on Bulbagarden the entire part about the Alolan forms is a huge mess. Someone had they’re french friends look into it and it sounds like Alolan forms as a whole were never out right denied. Just that Eevee and it’s line don’t get any forms. Seems like this website is also known for causing trouble and being clickbaity

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          • Guys I don’t know if the site lied about the interview. This is what reported. Rich-Tea (who works for tpc) said: “translation is accurate 🙂 Agreed with you though that the headline is a little misleading” (agreeing with joe merrick not me)

          • I think that Melty is just full of it and while they did in fact have an interview what they wrote in the article was partially fabricated/misunderstood by many. They seem untrustworthy in any event.

          • But posting a fake interview is not a small issue, you know…I mean they litteraly reported “Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon are set in the same region (Alola) and we decided not to add more regional forms of Pokemon.” I mean, here we are talking if they reported or invented those lines.
            I mean if they actually invented those lines TPC could denounce them…

          • It’s kind of a messed up situation honestly. It’s so weird……Idk. I suppose it’s best not to argue about it and just keep in mind that the site shouldn’t be 100% trusted. It’s a weird move on their part to try and pull one over and it’s weird on Pokemons part to even give an interview to a site that’s known to be trouble.

          • Honestly i’m not surprised about the article. GF had to answer about A Forms at some point and 25 days before release is better then 5 days before when reviews are online and the world will go mad for this

      • I don’t think so…Imo Ohmori was just stating that eeveelutions may happen in the future…”you may ask kukui about that”. If new eeveelution was in the game he would have answered “I cannot talk about this at the moment” as he always says

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          • I think this is the most confused part of the article cause we don’t know for sure what they asked about eevee, so while “translation is accurate 🙂 Agreed with you though that the headline is a little misleading” is a clear statement, the eevee part is really confusing. Anyway I don’t think eevee will have a new evolution. It got a z move where we can see all of them, if they wanted to add a new one, that would have been the best way to promote that.

  11. Well I’m bored as fuk
    I’m running out of things to do in stardew
    Working on my next set of barns and coops and to burn up the last week of winter

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  12. Even if it’s still alola, GF has already confirmed multiple times that it’s an alternate world. The plot tskes a drastically different turn, necrozma gets new forms, new z-moves not to mention a heavily expanded alola Dex. I see no reason why this alternate world can’t feature new Pokemon adapting to Alola when new Pokemon are found here anyway. They literally said this isn’t the alola you thought you knew.

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