New Mechanic: Your Villagers Come To Smashville

[Lozjam]

Hear me out. It would be a nice touch for your villagers from city folk to come to Smashville. Alternatively they could potentially come from Animal Crossing: New Leaf via street pass, or connectivity. This could even work for the 3DS version. How cool would it be if your close Animal Crossing friends came to root for you! Thoughts?

 

[Substitution]

Hear me out. It would be a nice touch for your villagers from city folk to come to Smashville. Alternatively they could potentially come from Animal Crossing: New Leaf via street pass, or connectivity. This could even work for the 3DS version. How cool would it be if your close Animal Crossing friends came to root for you! Thoughts?

...Eh...
I guess, but there's just no point to it...
Besides, everyone knows the best part of Smashville:

Don't deny it...

 

[dimensionsword64]

It'd be cool, but it's not necessary.

 

[lordvaati]

that actually could bbe kind of a neat expansion to the K.K.Slider concerts.

 

[Lozjam]

that actually could bbe kind of a neat expansion to the K.K.Slider concerts.

It would make it so alive.

 

[Hong]

I think this is a cool idea. The StreetPass functionality is quick, easy, and light-weight. No reason why the Wii U can't handle it, and it shouldn't take the developers too long.

Only possible draw-back would normally be the polycount, but the other characters look great on the Animal Crossing Plaza so I'm not too worried.

 

[KingofPhantoms]

I like this idea a lot!

There are so many villagers I'd like to see in Smashville...this would be a nice touch to the stage.

 

[Lozjam]

I like this idea a lot!

There are so many villagers I'd like to see in Smashville...this would be a nice touch to the stage.

Thank you good sir. And perhaps it could also compliment, holidays, club night, and maybe just maybe, your town tune and flag could show up.

 

[Substitution]

Thank you good sir. And perhaps it could also compliment, holidays, club night, and maybe just maybe, your town tune and flag could show up.

Good luck tolerating my town tune (I didn't want the standard town tune to stick in my head, so I put all the notes on random)...

 

[Lozjam]

Good luck tolerating my town tune (I didn't want the standard town tune to stick in my head, so I put all the notes on random)...

I love my town tune, it's so charming

 

[Substitution]

I love my town tune, it's so charming

It's not too annoying IMO, but them all on random might get on peoples nerves.

 

[Halfhead]

I like this idea. Also, your hall of fame team from Pokémon X or Y could be pictured on the screen in Pokémon Stadium. The only problem I see is that these little differences might cause inconsistencies with the stage when playing online or with a friend locally. These customizations must be purely decoration.

 

[Lozjam]

I like this idea. Also, your hall of fame team from Pokémon X or Y could be pictured on the screen in Pokémon Stadium. The only problem I see is that these little differences might cause inconsistencies with the stage when playing online or with a friend locally. These customizations must be purely decoration.

Or online it could be replaced with default town. Just like how pokemon nicknames change back to the pokemon's species in online play

 

[Davidreamcatcha]

It's not that I wouldn't love to see this happen, it's more of a question of how it would happen. City Folk isn't really as relevant anymore, and I don't see Sakurai developing an easter egg that requires a 5 year old game (yes, time really does fly that fast) from a previous console to work. If there was a Wii U Animal Crossing, this would be much more likely.

I haven't played New Leaf - but how is the character memory stored? If it isn't like Wild World and is stored on the 3DS rather than the cartridge, they could potentially be transferred alongside the other connectivity features. Even so, it doesn't strike me as something that's really needed - as it's much less time-consuming for Sakurai to just model a handful of Animal Crossing villagers/the special event characters rather then the 80 or so villagers that can be seen in your town. It kind of reminds me of the pre-Brawl speculation that you'd be able to connect your Pictochat to Brawl to control the drawings on the stage in that while it'd be cool, it's extremely situational.

 

[DaDavid]

There' no downside to this honestly. Like... at all. I mean other than the obvious "how would it work/is it worth the effort?"
If it was something they could do easily though, I'd be down for it.

 

[Lozjam]

It's not that I wouldn't love to see this happen, it's more of a question of how it would happen. City Folk isn't really as relevant anymore, and I don't see Sakurai developing an easter egg that requires a 5 year old game (yes, time really does fly that fast) from a previous console to work. If there was a Wii U Animal Crossing, this would be much more likely.

I haven't played New Leaf - but how is the character memory stored? If it isn't like Wild World and is stored on the 3DS, they could potentially be transferred alongside the other connectivity features. Even so, it doesn't strike me as something that's really needed - as it's much less time-consuming for Sakurai to just model a handful of Animal Crossing villagers/the special event characters rather then the 80 or so villagers that can be seen in your town. It kind of reminds me of the pre-Brawl speculation that you'd be able to connect your Pictochat to Brawl to control the drawings on the stage in that while it'd be cool, it's extremely situational.

In Animal Crossing New Leaf, you can actually visit other towns via online, or local. Furthermore your data is even stored on streetpass. One of the coolest features is that if a villager moves out, they have a chance to go to a friends town via streetpass. And what's even cooler is the lost villager will remember you and your town song. So they could easily implement something for either version I believe.

 

[Headcrab Jackalope]

I wish Animal Crossing let you pick at least one of your villagers because I can never seem to get an octopus.

That said, I definitely do like this idea. It gives the stage the personalization the AC series is known for.