Animal Crossing: Blossom Season

Animal Crossing: Blossom Season (どうぶつの森：さくらの季節 Dōbutsu no mori: Sakura no kisetsu, "Animal Crossing: Sakura Season") is a casual life-simulation game in the Animal Crossing series, developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch console. Like New Leaf, the player takes on the role of mayor in a town full of anthropomorphic animals. Due to the Nintendo Switch's abilities, Blossom Season can be played at home on a screen or on the go, using NFC and Wi-Fi to connect with friends. The game is set for release in March 2017 in Japan and April 2017 in South Korea, Europe, North America, and Australia.
== Gameplay ==
=== Focus ===
Animal Crossing: Blossom Season's focus is a lot like New Leaf's, and that is customization. The new game adds even more customization to the series, so alongside fashion, your house, the town, and furniture, the player can now customize other characters' houses, like in Happy Home Designer, create your own shops, create and manage new festivals, change where villagers live, control which shops go where and even how the town looks geographically.
=== Plot ===
The player takes control of a villager who is leaving the big city behind for a small settlement in the countryside. In Blossom Season, for the first time, the player can see the character leaving his or her house, and where the character is actually from. Upon leaving the house, the character is guided to a taxi, in which Rover sits and asks for your name, where you're going, and the standard Animal Crossing appearance questions. Upon getting out of the taxi, the player is no longer guided straight to the town, but rather to an airport, where the character must guide themself to the right place to get to the town they have chosen to go to. Once the player has boarded the plane, the scene ends with the character falling asleep in the occupied plane seat.
Upon awakening from sleep, the character hears an audio announcement in Animalese saying that the plane had safely landed at the village. The airport in the village is a very small building with a dirt runway. Exiting the airport building, the character is greeted by Isabelle, the town mayor. After she greets the character, she tells you that she is going on holiday that she needs someone to look after the town while she's gone, and that she trusts you that you can do it. Obviously shocked, the user can accept or decline, but either way, the character will become mayor. For the next day, you are escorted by Nook, to your house and to the high street, which unlike New Leaf is incorporated into the town itself, rather than set apart.
After this day, which will be set one day before the present, therefore making it skippable and not entirely real-time, Isabelle returns and tells you that the character's done such a great job looking after the town that you may as well just take over as mayor. After this, Isabelle gives you more of a tutorial on all the mayoral things that you can do, as well as what you must do as mayor. Upon the end of this tutorial, the game becomes a lot more simple, and is just a means of paying off debt, making friends with the villagers, making money, and helping the town grow, as most other Animal Crossing games are.
=== Minigames ===
As in Animal Crossing: New Leaf, the player can go to an island, where they can collect fish, bugs, and fruit, but also play minigames and mazes and trade medals for prizes. Blossom Season improves on this idea and even brings back the original Animal Crossing's 8-bit demo games for the player, as a promotion for Nintendo's Virtual Console. There are also many competitions in which the player can partake, such as the Fishing Competition, Bug-Off and the newly added Artistic Impressions, Fossil Finders, and Mushroom Mania competitions.
Players can now also challenge other players to snowball fights from October to March and paintball fights from April to September. Furthermore, if the player has placed the game hut in their town, there is a year-round scavenger hunt competition that can be played, as well as the hide and seek game and two board games- Reversi and Four-In-A-Row
===Customisation===
As previously told in the Focus, Animal Crossing: Blossom Season is solely based on the idea of customization.
In the town, you can choose how you want to decorate, with public work projects, changing villagers' houses, opening new shops, gardening, town planning, and path-placing.
Your character can be customized in four ways. The first is the character customization questions at the beginning of the game. This will determine your looks, like your eyes, original hairstyle, etc. The second is through Shampoodle. Shampoodle can apply makeup, change hairstyle, and give the player a fake tan. The third way must be applied at the beginning, in the taxi. As Rover asks the questions, he will, at the end say "Are you happy with your decision?" and three responses will appear that you can say. If the player picks the third option; "I'll decide on my own". When the taxi ride is over, your default, the question-answered character will appear, until a box at the bottom will ask if the character is alright, with the options yes and no displayed. Choosing yes will let the player continue as is, but no will trigger a Happy Home Designer-style character customizer to appear, where the user can choose the style of what they look like, and even the clothes they wear.
In your house, you can display furniture, bugs, paintings, fish, and fossils, as well as custom designs. Furthermore, as in New Leaf, you can customize furniture with custom designs and gems.
===Travel===
In Animal Crossing: Blossom Season, travel is a celebrated feature- one that allows the player to visit other towns, holiday destinations, and new and exciting locations.
==== The Airport ====
The Airport, officially known as [Town Name] National Airport, is how the player enters the game, but also how they get to other towns. In the airport, there is the baggage claim and a small row of three shops, Dream Travel, The Import Shop, and an unnamed souvenir shop. The Airport flies the user to other towns with an NFC connection or Internet connection. The runway is dirt and takes up a little space in the town. To the right of the main airport terminal, there are two small hangers- one of which will always have an airplane in, and the other will sometimes have one in. Alongside multiplayer functionality, the Airport can also be used to go to various other locations. Like with the Dream Suite in Animal Crossing New Leaf, Dream Travel operates a service where the player can choose to go wherever they want, as long as there is a dream code and a substantial amount of money in their pocket. 
Another feature of the Airport is the timetable. Six airlines operate from the airport to 12 different locations, all of which are unlocked or can be unlocked, and hold a variety of benefits to the player. It is always advised to get to the airport 5 minutes before the flight, so the character is ensured it can get on.
Bold = There is no hotel in the area
Airliner	Destination 	Departs at 	Price 	How to unlock 	Hotel included?
 	Autumn Town 	Mondays at 12:30 	500Bells 	Already unlocked 	No
 	Spring Valley 	
Sundays at 12:30 	500Bells 	Already unlocked 	No
 	Cherry Castle 	Wednesdays at 18:00 	800Bells 	Play the game for at least 2 hours 	
No
 	Cherry Vineyards 	Saturdays at 19:00 	800Bells 	Play the game for at least 4 hours 	No
 	The Orchard 	Saturdays at 08:30 	1000Bells 	Sell at least 20 fruit 	No
 	Fishing Bay 	Tuesdays at 10:00 	1000Bells 	Catch at least 15 different types of fish 	No
 	Bug Wood 	Fridays at 17:30 	1500Bells 	Catch at least 15 different types of bug 	No
 	Excavation Territory 	Saturdays at 04:10 	1500Bells 	Complete 2 dinosaurs at the museum 	No
 	Inspiration Spot 	14th of every month, at 12:00 	5000Bells 	Donate 3 pieces of art to the museum 	Yes
 	Icy Island 	Mondays at 14:00 	7500Bells 	Customized at least 20 pieces of furniture 	Yes
 	Tortimer Island 	Thursdays at 19:00 	10000Bells	Spent at least 100,000 on furniture and clothes	Yes
 	Blossom Season Festival	Every Sunday in April at 10:30	12000Bells	Saving at least 10,000,000 in the bank account 	No
==== Hotels ====
Hotels are a brand new feature in Animal Crossing: Blossom Season. They can be added to your town, but also allow the player to save and quit in a far-away location. This feature was created so that players could spend longer at their desired locations. For example in Animal Crossing: New Leaf, the player could visit Tortimer Island, but could not save there. However, if the player checks in at the hotel, they can save and quit any time and upon playing the game again, the player will still be at the hotel, therefore meaning that the player can spend more time at their desired location.
Some hotels also offer tours and special excursions.
Hotel 	Location of Hotel	Price 	Tours Offered 	Rental Available 	Inclusive in airline
Cherry Castle Chateau	Cherry Castle 	800 Bells 	Tour of the Royal Grounds, Tour of the Royal Castle 	Bug net, Fishing Rod, Roller Skates 	No
Vineyard Resort 	Cherry Vineyards 	1000 Bells	Wine-making Tour 	Bug net, Fishing rod 	No
Happy Homes Hotel 	Fishing Bay 	1000 Bells	Fishing Tours 	Fishing Rod 	No
Bug Wood Treehouses 	Bug Wood 	1000 Bells	Bug Tours 	Bug net 	No
Inspiration Resort and Spa	Inspiration Spot 	- 	Spa Day, Grounds Tour, Scene Tour 	Wet Suit, Roller Skates 	Yes
Icy Island Igloos 	Icy Island 	- 	Ice Skating Tour 	Ice Skates 	Yes
Tortimer Resort 	Tortimer Island 	- 	Maze Tour, Hit-it! Tour, Video gaming Tour, Balloon Tour, Hide & Seek Tour	Bug net, Fishing Rod, Wet Suit, Roller Skates	Yes
==== Information Centres ====
In villages without hotels, information centers will offer tours and will tend to have gift shops inside, like hotels do. Unlike hotels, information centers do not offer check-ins, and will not allow you to save in these locations. Information centers will always be run by AI, like in Tomodachi Life.
Information Centre 	Location of Info Centre	Tours Offered 	Rental Available
Autumn Town Town Hall 	Autumn Town 	Mushrooming Tour 	Shovel, Fishing rod, Bug net, Wet Suit, Roller Skates
Spring Valley Town Hall 	Spring Valley 	Food Tour 	Shovel, Fishing rod, Bug net, Wet Suit, Roller Skates
The Orchard Gazebo 	The Orchard 	Fruit Hunt Tour 	Shovel, Fishing rod, Bug net, Wet Suit, Roller Skates
Excavation Territory Special Information Centre 	Excavation Territory 	Fossil Finding Tour, Treasure Hunt Tour	Shovel
Blossom Season Festival Information Centre 	Blossom Season Festival	 	
Shovel, Fishing rod, Bug net, Wet Suit, Roller Skates	 	 	
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