Here's some of the core details that came out earlier today:
- Some characters might set up a tent and camp outside
- Visit the recycle shop for various materials
- Help out your in-game friends with purchasing decisions
- Use your office (as mayor) to make decisions on putting things in town
- Your secretary will help you each day
- Create your own museum exhibits
- You pick a location for construction to begin on the items you plan on adding
- Megaphone is a new item which lets you gather people
- Shoe store offers up boots/shoes for sale
- Museum store allows you to make custom-made signs
- Tom Nook can help you make design changes to your house
- Capture and sell your own critters
- Dr. Shrunk returns at the club
- You can now have many more emotions, all of them will be saved
- Design/sell your own items, which can eventually change during the process
- Much larger selection of colors this time around when designing
- View the homes of people you StreetPass
- Trade items with StreetPass as well
- Take picture via photobooth, bottom screen displays the picture you’ll take
- Visit a massage parlor that helps to relax you and put you into a dream stage
- Ability to explore the town of someone else
- Early morning music is calm, dawn the music is more upbeat, afternoon is more pleasant-sounding music, nighttime the music has more base, late night music gets mysterious
- KK Slider takes on the role of a DJ at the club, as well as his regular guitar gig
- Expect a much greater number of KK songs this time around
- Explore a town alongside other people
- Travel via boat to an island and enjoy a song at the same time
- Grab items from the bottom of the sea
- Collect rare bugs as well
- Mini-games and various stores when you visit the island by boat
- Tortimer is the host of mini-games and wears a tropical shirt
- One mini-game has you trying to navigate a maze to collect a certain item
- Create your own museum exhibits
- Buy fortune Cookies
- Each cookie costs 2 3DS game coins
- Trace the fortunes inside for rare goods
- Take 3D in-game pictures.
- Hold original exhibitions at the museum. Build a second floor in the museum through community work to open the museum shop and original exhibition room.
- Palotini will reward your hard work with a badge. Badges include ones for catching a lot of fish, gathering a bunch of stuff from the ocean, pulling lots of weeds, etc. Badges are displayed on your profile, so anyone you streetpass with will see your badges.
- Can work part-time at the cafe if you're a regular customer or order coffee for take out. Working part time will reward you with unique furniture.
- Fortune Teller hut opens through community work. Follow your fortune and keep a lucky item with you and something good might happen.
- ID card box: Passcard given to you once you're registered as a citizen. The photo used on the card is taken in the ID card box.
- Can now look up at the sky. Can see things such as a rainbow after it rains, aurora on cold nights, cumulonimbus clouds in the summer, shooting stars, balloons with presents, etc.
- Fruit produced in your village can now have special flavors or appearances to them.
- Animals from other villages will come to visit in the camp grounds. You can play games with them such as gesture games or rock, paper, scissors.
- Play hide and seek with the villagers you're good friends with. Can get items if you manage to find them all.
- Become good friends with one of the villagers and they might send you a special letter with a photo attached that you can place in your house.
Japanese Website Details
Visit The Houses of People You Streetpassed!
At the Happy Home Exhibition Street in front of the shopping street, you can visit the model houses of people you street passed. Any piece of furniture you like you can also order through mail order sales!
Take a Relaxing Vacation on the Island of Endless Summer!
Former Mayor Tortimer, after retiring, is now living on this resort island of endless summer. You can take many kinds of tours and purchase gifts to bring home amongst other things. Enjoy a relaxing vacation either by yourself or with everyone you know!
Visit Lots of Towns in Your Dreams!
When you sleep in the Dream House, you visit an actual person’s real town. You can freely walk around their town and visit houses while dreaming!
Make a Best Friend!
Become best friends with your Nintendo 3DS friends! If both you and your friend save one another as best friends, you will be informed of when that person comes online and even if you aren’t currently visiting their town, you can still talk to them by sending messages!
KK’s Famous Tunes Are Now Club Music!
Every Saturday night you can enjoy listening to KK Slider’s music at “Club 444.” (Note: Club 444 in Japanese is referred to as “Club Shi Shou” or “Club See Show” – it’s a cute pun.) From Sunday to Friday, during D.J. KK Time, you can enjoy KK’s normal sound with a club music twist!
Say Hi to Far Away Friends!
When using your megaphone, you can call one of your animal friends by saying their name inot the 3DS mic. Even if they are far away they can still hear you and respond!
Swim, Dive, and Fully Enjoy the Sea!
If you are wearing a Swim Suit (they called it a Marine Suit in Japanese), you can swim in the ocean and dive beneath the water. Pay close attention to the depths and you can collect items that you can’t via fishing like special shells, sea grapes, and others!
Dream Salon (Dream Mansion)
- Can also register your village in the Dream Salon.
- Can be opened via communal work.
Club 444
- Saturday Nights are Totakeke (KK's) Live.
- Sunday through Friday night is DJ K.K.'s DJ Time.
- The owner of Club 44, Shisho, might teach you some reaction acting during the day before the club is open (art of acting centered on making people react. I don't know if there's an English equivalent term).
- Can be opened via communal work.
Station
- Travel to other villages and invite friends to your village from here.
Police Box
- Police can check whether someone is visiting your village or if any lost articles have come in.
- Can be opened through communal work.
- Picture on the site shows the policeman saying, "Rollan has asked for permission to visit and sell things today."
Docks
- Pretty much the same as previous Animal Crossings. Costs 1000 bells to go to the resort island.
Events
Fishing Tournament (held January through May and October through December)
- Done once a month during the above time frames.
- Uomasa the beaver holds the tourney.
- Catch the biggest fish to win a prize.
Bug Catching Tournament (held June through September)
- Kameya-san, the lizard, runs the tourney.
- Can you catch a rare bug that'll even surprise Kameya?!
Birthdays
- If you're invited to a villager's birthday party bring a present.
- If you become good friends with the villagers something might happen on your birthday, as well.
Island
- Become a member of "Club Kotobuki".
- Can play with friends or total strangers at the island.
- Island has its own shop that sells Souvenirs
- Rent a marine suit to play in the ocean.
- Catch rare fish and insects at the island.
- There are a bunch of minigames tours.
- Hammer fun tour: a machine runs around and the objective is to hit it with your hammers a set number of times in the alloted timeframe.
- Diving tour: split up with friends and go diving, gathering things from the ocean.
- Labyrinth tour: everyone works to grab the various things placed around the garden maze within the allotted timeframe.
- Other tours include flower picking competition, borrowed item competition (not sure what this would be).
Happy Home Exhibit
- Can see the profiles of, and talk to (I think just an NPC version of) the people you street passed with here in addition to the other stuff.
Digging for Treasure
Official Japanese Twitter:
"Good afternoon everyone! I came across a way to search for fossils this morning! You can have the fossils you find analyzed at the museum. You can then donate them, sell them at the store or to others, to mention a few things you can do but recently collecting dinosaur fossils and turning them into miniatures is popular!
E... Everyone! Here's some new! An emerald was just dug up in town!! There's even indisputable photographic evidence! It seems like there are minerals in addition to fossils sleeping under our feet... There're all kinds of secrets in town!"
- Have fossils analyzed at the Museum
- Donate them or sell them at a store
- Collect fossils and turn them into miniatures
Full Calendar
- 11/17 - Fishing Tournament
- 11/22 - Harvest Festival
- 12/8 - Fishing Tournament
- 12/21 - Winter Solstice
- 12/24 - Christmas Eve
- 12/31 - Countdown (New Years)
- 1/1 New Years
- 1/19 - Fishing Tournament
- 2/3 - Last day of winter
- 2/9 - Fishing Tournament
- 2/11 - Carnival
- 3/3 - Doll Festival
- 3/16 - Fishing Tournament
- 3/31 - Easter
- 4/1 - April Fools
- 4/13 - Fishing Tournament
- 5/5 - Children's Day
- 5/18 - Fishing Tournament
- 6/15 - Bug Catching Tournament
- 6/21 Summer Solstice
- 7/7 - Tanabata
- 7/20 - Bug Catching Tournament
- 8/4-11-18-25 - Fireworks Meet/Tournament?
- 8/15 - Obon - Lantern Festival
- 8/17 - Bug Catching Tournament
- 9/3 - Weed Day
- 9/19 - Moon Viewing Festival
- 9/21 - Bug Catching Tournament
- 10/12 - Fishing Tournament
- 10/31 - Halloween
- 11/16 - Fishing Tournament
- 11/28 - Harvest Festival
- 12/14 - Fishing Tournament
- 12/22 - Winter Solstice
- 12/24 - Christmas Eve
- 12/31 - Countdown (New Years)
New Fruit Forms
- Apples
- Oranges
- Pears
- Pairs of Cherries
- Triplets of Cherries
- Peaches
- Coconuts
- Mangos
- Lemons
AC: JO Preloaded 3DS XL
Nintendo has revealed a cute looking Animal Crossing themed 3DS XL, which includes the downloadable version of Animal Crossing: Jump Out preloaded. It launches in Japan on November 11th priced at 22,800 yen.
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