The Nintendo WiFi Community - [VIDEO] Animal Crossing 3DS

Today Japan held a rather lengthy Nintendo Direct providing us with a lot of video and new information on the upcoming Animal Crossing: Jumping Out for the Nintendo 3DS. They covered many different features in this game, with many of them being new, and although everything is in Japanese it is still interesting to be able to watch all these features in action.

Here is a list that someone kindly translated for us, explaining some of the cool new features added to this installment of the Animal Crossing series:

Use your office (as mayor) to make decisions on putting things in town
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
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
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
Mini-games and various stores when you visit the island by boat
Tortimer is the host of these mini-games and wears a tropical shirt
One mini-game has you trying to navigate a maze to collect a certain item

Animal Crossing: Jumping Out will be released on November 8th in Japan, and although no dates have been given for North America or Europe, it is expected to be out sometime during the first half of next year in these regions.

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8 Comments

Konamon - 10-05-12
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At 40:00 of the video...
"MANGO NE, MANGO *some japanese words*, MANGO, MANGO, MANGO MANGO MANAGO MONAGOM MAOGANOOGAMANGOAG"

CraigLand - 10-05-12
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FINALLY!!!!!!!!!! I can't wait.

GentleFire - 10-05-12
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I wonder when it's coming out in NA? I hope in early 2013.

Marcoboy - 10-05-12
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Sounds a lot of fun as well.

Squrtle - 10-06-12
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Why does the title not have the name of the game?

GaijinGuyJim - 10-06-12
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Originally Posted by Squrtle

Why does the title not have the name of the game?

The main reason I did that was because there is no official English name for this game yet. Animal Crossing: Jumping Out is just an approximate translation, and may not be the name we get in the west.