Animal Crossing Mobile: First Look

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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”

  3. Started to Magikarp Method for a Shiny Mimikyu for UM (I’ll probably need your help to trade it to my USUM). I’m at 40 eggs and nothing yet (saved first at 20th egg, then after each of two series of 5 eggs).

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    • You’ll love it! I bred one for Ultra Sun and Moon and I absolutely love it’s shiny colors however drab they may be!? if you need any of my breedjects let me know I have a few with perfect IV’s

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    • Breeding is such a pain in the butt……Especially the Magikarp one. You end up with boxes full of Pokemon you don’t need and then have to figure out what you’re gonna do with them. I really hope in gen 8 they add in a option to mass release Pokemon.Sure that can be dangerous, but ultimately it would a huge time saver.

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    • I do it like this:
      1.Save before putting anything in.
      2. Put both in (I usually use Ditto+Magikarp, Male and Female ‘mon are different to Ditto)
      3. Breed a box of eggs
      4. Remove one of the ‘mon from Daycare, I usually remove Magikarp.
      5. Hatch all the eggs, releasing the ‘karp as I go.
      6. No shiny, then repeat from step 1.
      Only save when you have no eggs and 1 or none in the daycare.

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  6. We’ll I just got my shiny Silvally code! They also gave me extra Marshadow codes and they still work could’ve sworn it ended a few days ago. Maybe they extended it?

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  7. So i donno if any of you know Shadypenguinn on YT? Check out his channel if you dont, does cool videos.

    But anyway to get to the point, he says that the Rainbow Rocket stuff is post-game. He was told by a friend of his who has a contact over at GF.

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  10. I have a feeling we’re going to get a trailer tomorrow to coincide with Odyssey’s release. They did it on September 22 when the two ports came out, so I think they’ll take advantage of this high profile day at Nintendo.

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    • We shall see. Could happen. Not sure it will, but certainly within the realm of possibility. I can’t believe I’m seeing people around saying that they’d never do a trailer tomorrow BECAUSE Mario is coming out. As if Nintendo and TPCI give crap about each others marketing scheduling. As if them releasing a trailer would conflict with Mario’s release. So dumb haha I’m still not sure it’ll happen, but it certainly CAN happen. We shall see tho. I think if not tomorrow then next week

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  14. Just got 2 Shiny Silvally from someone on 4chan. This is definitely going to be my go-to method of getting codes (unless someone here gives me one :P). I feel bad for those people who I beat to the punch though…but hey, that’s the gift of trigger fingers.

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  16. Hey, I can’t access the comment section on my Chromebook here. Anyone have any idea what that’s about? I doubt anyone knows (except for maybe Dae or Xatu), but I’m asking anyways

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  17. Ok I have to make a gigantic decision
    Sleep and play in the morning or wait 2 hours and play it at midnight

    I’m pretty tired (and gassy) and need rest after working 8 hours and eating at least 2 pounds ribs

    The only reason to play at midnight is the eternal bragging right of starting the return of a good Mario game on the dot

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  19. Also playing with the old gen 6 UI is SOOOOO weird after so long playing SM. Amie is kind of slow actually compared to Refresh lol

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  20. How to improve the beginning of Sun and Moon:
    -Cut the entire first day. It’s pointless for there to be two entire days before we really start our journey. Just condense it with the second day
    -Have Kukui give us our pokemon immediately as he comes to our house. One of the great things about Black and White is that we get our pokemon within the first minute of playing and are off. If it really needs to be Hala, have him come to our house instead of Kukui. We already meet him via skype, it’s not super important to meet him immediately as we settle in. Hala could fill that role just as well.
    -Make the hand holding tutorials optional. I’m aware pokemon will probably never do this, but a boy can dream. And I get Sun and Moon were supposed to serve as introductions to new players, but now that we’re at the remakes, let’s get right down to it or at least give us the option.
    -Cut the pointless scenes. For example: After Tapu Koko rescues us eventually Lillie wants us to go back to the town so the cutscene/dialogue ends. Then we walk two feet before we enter another cutscene with her….just combine those or something.

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      • Hopefully it’ll be worth them announcing that it’s coming. I feel like for USUM they haven’t done that. Not like how they did for SM last year.

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        • Kinda hope it’s light on the story details. Currently I’m more interesting in post game content and geographical differences from S/M Alola. I really want there to be new islands or something to explore.

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          • I’m thinking given the trailer will be in November that it’ll be the last BIG info drop and then the most we’ll see after that will be a wrap up trailer maybe the week of the release. I think they’ll prolly reveal what the light form is for Necrozma and maybe one more thing we don’t know about yet. I could see them also showing off one final UB before launch. That being if there is more than just one left. I don’t think they’d reveal ALL the new UBs as that’d be lame, but hell if that hasn’t stopped them before lol

          • Part of me wants to see the light form creature thing, but part of me also wants for them not to reveal it yet!! But at the same time I play games so slow so I know that even if they don’t reveal it beforehand I will see it somewhere on the internet before I get there in game xD

  22. Guhhhhhhh body tired motion sickness from bad chimera need too sleeeep but must keep playing oddasaseee
    Already collected 17 moons and all the purple coins in fossil Dino Dino world with the trex
    Earthen sleep now bye night

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  23. ARABSTAHATAGHAHNWUDNWYAL
    WHAT HAPPENED
    MAGIKARP METHOD BETRAYED ME
    I GOT A SHINY KARP IN THE 5TH EGG
    RESTARTED THE GAME
    CHANGED PARENT KARP FOR MIMIKYU
    AND THERES NO SHINY MIMIKYU IN THE 5TH EGG
    OR 6TH
    IM EMOTIONALLY BROKEN HELP

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