Today’s Nintendo Direct has revealed that terraforming is coming to Animal Crossing for the first time, with players able to carry out construction work such as paving paths and modifying cliffs and rivers.
It’s one of several new features coming to the Nintendo Switch title, due on 20th March. Soon after launch, a new feature in the Nintendo Switch Online app will appear allowing New Horizons functionality. Called NookLink, it’s where you can engage in voice chat or import designs from the 3DS’ New Leaf and Happy Home Designer by scanning in QR codes. Customisation is also much deeper this time out, with cues being taken from Happy Home Designer as player’s own designs can be applied to furniture.
That’ll be part of several free updates coming to New Horizon, with the first coming on launch day that will enable Bunny Day in April – one of a number of planned in-game events coming to the new Animal Crossing.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons Trailer – Nintendo Direct – 25 Minutes of Gameplay Watch on YouTube
Nintendo also offered clarity – of sorts – on New Horizon’s save data situation. Families can share an island on one console, with each user being able to register one resident and have their own house – all of which ties into local co-op, where four players can play together on one Switch console with one player being designated the leader while the other three follow.