Fans of the Animal Crossing franchise may have scratched their heads in confusion following the recently announced – and potentially free download – Wii U party game Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival. But don’t let that deter you, as there are reasons to jump for joy when it comes to the adorable series, particularly with the upcoming 3DS title, Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer. Spotted in a screenshot from the most recent trailer, it appears as if players will finally be able to change their character’s skin tone in-game.
From the trailer embedded above, pausing it at the 35 second mark – or thereabouts – displays a character avatar with a darker skin tone. Previously, Animal Crossing fans could only darken their skin by tanning in the summer months throughout the game. In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, players could achieve the effects of a tan by walking around in the sunshine for approximately 15 minutes, with up to five darker tones available.
Though it’s yet to be officially confirmed by Nintendo as such, E3 Treehouse member Ali Rapp has stated via Twitter that Happy Home Designer will give players the option to change their skin tone. It is, at the very least, a good indication either way. Let us know what you think of this recent discovery in the comment section below.
I mean, I’d say that’s an official confirmation!
Very glad this is here now. :) Was pretty pleased to see it in the trailer.
Official, but not quite official official. So it’s probably – quite definitely – official. *gives up*
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Yay. Now all I need is a real animal crossing Wii u game with skin tones.
In AC:NL if you stay a lot of time in the island your skin will turn darker, so, it’s already a feature but not easy to obtain.
Animal Crossing X Duck Hunt! Better game than Amiibo Festival!
About time,
This is good news for dark people and lighter people who want to play as darker toned villagers.
This shouldn’t really be celebrated. It should have been possible long ago. Unfortunately most Japanese game devs still don’t give a shit. Many games are created by Japanese for Japanese. Nothing ill meant.
But Nintendo have been loved worldwide since the 80’s. You’d think something as simple as skin colour choice would be there when making a character. Like in Pokémon X and Y only to have it removed again in ORAS. That’s silly even if they were remakes.
If you’re gonna have character customization and let the player enter a name at least let them pick skin/hair colour. That should be a fucking standard in EVERY modern game like this. Made by Nintendo anyways.
>this shouldn’t be celebrated
Thank you. It kind of pisses me off when people treat this sort of thing as new features in long-running franchises like the goddamn second coming.
Wow. How revolutionary. :/ Still not buying this party-ized crap.
What took them? It’s been like a decade to make this decision.
Just another example of Japan’s backwards ways when it comes to diversity not perpetuated by stereotypes. More ignorance than bigotry, but still. They get off far too easily.
Do you think its possible for them to update New Leaf to include all of the new furniture that’s available in Happy Home Designer?
Sure if you pay 50 bucks. Just buy the new game if you want them.
Why are these boring-ass games so popular?
Because people have different tastes.
Why is your penor so small?
Tumblr is going to be all over this shit, I can already feel it.
I loved AC new leaf, but I will not buy this One, it didnt appeal to me, I wish they could have worked on a new AC real title, but whatever.
Can you change religion and sexual orientation too?
>>>Yes to the first, no to the second, period>>>
Fuck religion, it’s all about what that skank Isabelle says. You have no say in anything. Orientation? Relationships never happen in the first place, so forget the furry buttsex.
Did you run out of things to write about or was this article meant to be patronizing? This trailer has been out for a while now, so it seems more like this article was meant to be patronizing if it that feature JUST went noticed.
Of course it wasn’t meant to be patronising. We hadn’t covered it on MNN, so I wrote the article. Most of our readers hadn’t spotted this either, and it’s an imperative (edited for clarification!) part of the series that should have been added long ago. :)
This ever so hurts my cold black dead heart. :D
Too bad for you.