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?
How are Z-crystals made/formed? And from that, how do specific pokemon species get their own crystals?
Don’t know, can’t remember it saying in the games. Would be nice if USUM expands on it.
It would, I like lore expansion
I mean I always saw them as the crystals they are. They’d generally be formed similar to how different kinds of gems/crystals are made in real life via heat and pressure. As for the Pokemon specific ones I actually have a theory. I think that the crystals have a chemical reaction when used and certain crystals only have the reaction when in possession of certain Pokemon
Game logic, I don’t think we have an in-lore reason. Was there ever an in-lore reason for Mega Stones?
I thought so? But I couldn’t explain it to you lol
Where’s the gorgeous one? http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1508928102453.jpg
Who? And what’s this from?
Gourgeist for sure…..
Inkay should evolve
I miss Mime Jr and Cacnea…….I also miss Arbok and Weezing….. They should come back!
I think all of them should, I mean why not? Most of their Pokémon were Top tier powerhouses (Yanmega, Arbok, Seviper, Weezing, Gourgeist, Amoongus, ect.)
I’m right here.
Funny joke
HF……share some pic if u can
What’s going on… Are all of Jessie and James Pokémon coming BACK?!!!!!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I totally want to see this happen so much (I hated it in Black and White when they abandoned all of them, then in Kalos just left them behind again)
Ohhh are Arbok and Weezing making a return!?
I hope so, there is not one Pokémon (except maybe Jessie’s Frillish) that I actually disliked that they caught
Weezing and Arbok coming home would be so awesome (But I wanna see exactly how they want to explain why they are leaving the groups that they protected in Hoenn all those years ago)
Is this confirmed real?
Ooo neato
I can’t wait to see some of there old Pokémon rejoin the Alolan ranks
Finished my interview day. I was wrong about the format, it was 3 separate interviews and they were 25 minutes each. My head hurts but I feel much happier about how I did on this one than my last one. Welp, as of now I can relax until Thanksgiving break for my next interview.
Are these all med school interviews?
Yea. I have two more already scheduled and there will undoubtedly be more II (Interview Invites) as time passes. The interview season I believe ends the latest on the month of March for most schools. I may end up rejecting some if I get accepted by a good school.
Anyone here?
Here and in both sad and happy
Kalos Pikachu time?
I failed again. I for a while didn’t play my DS because the battery was shot and after I replaced last Saturday I forgot to get through the thing
I’m super sorry and will try to make it up somehow 🙁
KURUSUUUUUUU! It’s okay, it’s actually kind of entertaining at this point. I’ll keep asking around to complete that collection someday. You don’t have to make it up!
Hey I have a Sinnoh cap pikachu cause I love Sinnoh but I realised I hate pikachu so if anyone wants it you can have mine.
I’m here, there, and everywhere.
I’m here now
Yo
Siiiiiiiigh my Brother and his moron friends are pre-boozing before his birthday tomorrow, he’s gonna be a total bitch since he’ll be harboring a wicked hangover, I just don’t think I’ll ever drink in my lifetime, I got enough problems and I don’t need my addictive personality getting hooked on drinkable poison
But at least tomorrow morning we’ll get a good episode of the anime, Type: Null battle and evolution and revealing Duskroc’s Midnight side aka the red eyes, then some kinda Lillie Gladion stuff at a sleepover where it will get a memory so all kinds of interesting stuff
Same with me for the drinking part
Sorry to here about that bud
I’m really hoping they add new Dex entries instead of rehashing old ones. It’s a small thing but I’m looking forward to it nonetheless.
Still waiting for Odyssey to ship…it isn’t even Preparing for Shipment yet. I think they’ve shipped out early in the morning before delivery a couple times but I’m still growing concerned.
Oh it’s happy to see that Nintendo is still solid in the mobile gaming, makes me wonder if they’ll continue making more games based on their franchises and the answer is probably yes 😮
There are credible rumors that Nintendo is working on a Zelda mobile app among other RPGs, so they’re going all in.
Source?
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Imo Infernapes is the best, not only by appearance but also because the stakes are high when Blaze activates and he eventually learns to control it.
Honestly, if GF has even the smallest team handling PR, or TPC, and they haven’t included new Alolan forms, they OUGHT to release a statement to clear up this confusion before it blows up nearing release and they lose a lot of sales.
https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/923474298886504448
More considerations on Alolan formes: I’ve been perusing the internet on mention of Team Rainbow and Rainbow Rocket and both the leaks mention Alolan Forms IIRC and the latter mentions a grass/poison type.
Anime Lillie cant touch Pokemon, because she fused with Nihilego when she was younger before Silvally saved her. Lmao this is some messed up show man am out
SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOILER
What episode was this?
From today
Okay so it might not be out yet on the site I use.
USUM wishlist said that Lillie was going to surprise us…will the main evil villain in USUM be tentacle monster Lillie!
Wow that’s…something
Ughhhh bad night of sleep, crazy dream
So we learn something important about Ash’s Lycanroc, it cannot stand having its mane dirty or wet… So it has some vanity issues causing it to fly into an aggressive state
That kinda reminds of how Josuke (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure) loses it whenever someone insults his hair
I’ve got all the Ash hat Pikachu’s! Finally done! Btw @Monkeyfuzz I’ll have your pikachu by this evening.
You haven’t got a spare Hoenn one have you?
That’s the one I wanted to sooo much and missed out on ?
Dang I’ve got three of each, one to keep and the other two to be used for future high-end trades so I’m kinda reluctant to trade them now but I’ll mull it over if the price is right. But if you need the Alola cap let me know and I’ll get that to you.
Omg did you seriously reset for that many? You must be dead tired of the beginning of sun and moon lol
I am?…. all those small meaningless cut scenes, dialogue bubbles, forced tutorials and battles all to get to a Pokemon Center! If there was another cap pikachu i’d probably go mad?
Hmm ok if you can get an alolan cap that would save me trouble.
I’ll have to see about the Hoenn one another time!
I think I’m gonna make my Spin on the stereotypical Chick into Hen/Rooster depending on the gender. I wanna make Chichen (the female evo) part fairy type, with a motherly love theme and Roosken part Psychic with a Sound/Telekinetic/Waking Up theme (both names may be changed). Now I need you guy’s help. What should the typings be? For Chichen I thought about Normal/Fairy, Fairy/Flying or something like that, for Roosken Psychic/Flying or something like that. And what about the prevo? One idea was an egg themed Hatchick. Really would appreciate your ideas/opinions about all of this
Anyone? Please?
Maybe psychic and normal or psychic and electric?
Fairy/Flying
Psychic/Ground?
Actually, maybe I’ll make Hatchick Normal/Ground
Chichen Normal/Fairy (or Fairy/Normal)
And Roosken Psychic/Ground
I haven’t seen this (I’ve been busy with Odyssey lol) but I’m glad I could help!
Copied and pasted from another forum. These thoughts are not mine but I found them to be quite interesting and wanted to share with everyone here:
If it’s true that all villains are brought together in USUM, then I think USUM will feel much more like the anniversary games, much more than SM did.
Speaking of bringing the series together, it might be a stretch, but I believe USUM mascots are meant to combine the traits from some mascots of all previous regions because they:
– are created when Necrozma absorbs Solgaleo or Lunala, Pokemon that are the second stages of evolution, like Kanto mascots,
– represent Sun and Moon motif, the same motif like Ho-oh and Lugia represent,
– are called Dusk Mane and Dawn Wings, which means they represent the endings and the beginnings, like Groudon and Kyogre,
– can travel through portals to different places, like Sinnoh mascots,
– are formed by one Pokemon absorbing the other, like B2W2 mascots,
– are created when Necrozma absorbs Solgaleo or Lunala, the former produces the energy like Xerneas, the latter absorbs it like Yveltal.
Most of these are stretches
Whether or not they are, it is interesting that Gamefreak created mascots with the design and lore that allows some of us fans to draw these connections. Remember, when interpreting a piece of art the experience we have is subjective to each individual.
Only if you dont allow yourself to see the patterns
Lol gamefreak does not think about it this much
How can you say they don’t
Because they’re gamefreak. They design first and go from there, hench alolan raichu and most other alolans
I think you’d be surprised you know. When I see some interviews you can see the designing process and all the details of the games do have quite a bit of thought!
Oh I mean they do put a lot of thought into it, but not quite like that. At least I not in my opinion
Ughhhhhh guys I need help, my brain is totally whack yo…
I woke up at like 4am freaked out of my mind sweating and gasping for breath, then I had an extremely bizarre dream with Team Rocket’s Jessie but it wasn’t a perv dream I was apparently helping her catch a new Pokemon, and there was a real alligator in a pit and it just ate anything that fell in…
On a scale of 1 to Tom Cruise how crazy or disturbed this was
5.
This barely registers as a 1.5 in comparison to the nightmares I have.
Odyssey is still on track to be delivered tomorrow, the game is getting 10’s almost across the board, Stranger Things is also coming, and basically this is the weekend to end all weekends. My current mood (I just want an excuse to post this):
https://youtu.be/aI10UC2Tzs4
I have mine preloaded and ready to go, hopefully my brain issue will be resolved by the end of the day, I just feel like I’ve legitimately lost some IQ
Hope you enjoy it! It looks fun.
Slow….well as with all Thursday and or Friday’s starting tomorrow it’s officially three weeks until USUM
So start gearing up now, Mario Odyssey fans be sure to collect anything that moves, I for one will be attempting to 100% the game
Seems like I am alone….
Alone with my thoughts… Ahhhhhhhhh! I hate it!!!!!
Same
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I love this way too much
I’m losing my freaking mind
My iPad is clearly broken
I kept it on charge all night and morning, I take it off to go to work, I periodically check the time every 45 minutes then it’s down from 100 to 98, then the next thing I know it’s 95 and it started ticking down a percent every other minute until 88, I plug it it only to have it say 84 WHAT IS GOING ON I BARELY USE IT AND SOMEHOW IT LOSES THAT MUCH BATTERY
Maybe you need a replacement battery (If one exists)
Amazon is taking its own sweet time with Odyssey…but it’s still supposed to come tomorrow! I guess they’re doing overnight shipping so I get it on release day and not any sooner. The fact that this is matching or exceeding Breath of the Wild with its amount of perfect scores makes this wait very, very unbearable.
I’m just gonna go to Best Buy tomorrow and buy it in person. Why wait for the mail when I can just go get it immediately? haha
Amazon Prime gives discounts for preordering
I suppose that makes sense. I wish I was still a student so I could get the cheapened account haha
Same…luckily my brother is going to college next year hehe
Or Orr
Buy it online and preload it like I did
At the stroke of 12 (phrasing boom) I will playing Supah Merio Oddasee
I’ve almost never had problems with receiving games on release day with Amazon. Ironically, one of the only delays I’ve had was with 3D World because it was shipping from Pennsylvania or something and the plane got caught in a storm. (It was a few months after release but still).
Yeah, but even if you get it on the day it releases you still have to wait for the mail to arrive haha
Meh I’m so pissed that Odyssey only got 97 metacritic, it’s like Nintendo isn’t even trying anymore. Their quality of games really has dropped a lot, I mean 97 is the same as Breath of the Wild, and we all know that was one of the weakest efforts Nintendo has done the past five years. Therefore I cancelled my SMO preorder, I knew that the 39/40 Famitsu didn’t bode well for the game.
Yeah I just canceled my USUM preorder as well. The Switch is def going up on ebay tonight
You can’t look at deleted comments, can you?
I can, why?
Now you have a greater weapon than the banhammer that you can use against me…
You’re absolutely right. I expect Nintendo’s mascot to no less than exceed Link’s efforts. If Odyssey is less than 99, I’m not buying. It’s disgraceful.
97 is good guys. I mean 97/100 is almost perfection…People today complain for whatever…
We’re just being sarcastic!
THATSA THA JOKEA
I hope you knew this was a joke?