The newHappy Home ParadiseDLC and 2.0 Update forAnimal Crossing: New Horizonshas given players a whole new set of buildings and customization options for decorating. While this has mostly led to players recreating locations likethe house fromEncantowithin the game, others have been diving into these features and finding the detailed levels of polish that Nintendo has included behind the scenes.
A recent discovery fromAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsby players on the game’s subreddit specifically involves the relationship between the mountable fans and other items that can be scattered around a room. The initial post by user Havrefrossa focuses mostly on the effect of fans on plants, but others have reported that a similar effect can be seen with other items as well.
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What these fans do specifically that affects the plants that can be placed around a room, is that placing the two items close to each other causes the leaves and branches of the plants to sway in the wind. It’s a tiny detail that might otherwise go unnoticed by most players, especially considering how little the plants actually sway when a fan is placed directly next to it. In a lot of cases, these smaller examples of polish are how players are able to makeunique homes inAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsor breathe some life into an island or building interior.
According to the comments in the original Reddit post, this effect can also be seen on cloth objects like clothes and flags that will also sway in the wind of a nearby fan. So, anyone looking to build a room that is in motion and has a breathing-like effect, fans and movable objects can add a new level of detail to any room. With the wide variety ofdecor available inAnimal Crossing: New Horizons, there are a lot of options for how to get this swaying effect from room to room.
This is the type of polish that Nintendo could have easily gotten away with ignoring, but goes a decent way towards improving the final product by not making every item completely static. For this type of game where collection and decoration are such a large part of progression, these littledetails inAnimal Crossing: New Horizonscan absolutely make or break the experience. So, when players call attention to details like items swaying in the wind, it just goes to show why this latest title from theAnimal Crossingseries has built up such a huge fan base.
Animal Crossing: New Horizonsis available now for Switch.
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