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Animal Crossing: New Horizons Adds Big Quality-Of-Life Features

During a recent Direct presentation, Nintendo revealed more details about the upcoming Animal Crossing: New Horizons. In addition to the brand-new terraforming feature, the company showed off a number of smaller–though no less exciting–quality-of-life features and improvements coming to the Nintendo Switch entry.

Perhaps the most notable addition is an unlockable tool wheel. Much like a weapon wheel in shooters, the tool wheel makes it easier to quickly switch between all of the tools in your inventory, such as the shovel, fishing rod, and axe. In previous Animal Crossing games, you’d have to either go into your inventory and manually equip a tool or cycle through all your tools using the d-pad until you got the one you wanted. The tool wheel should streamline this process.

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New Horizons also has a Rescue Service, which you can call whenever you’re stuck or lost (or too lazy to walk back home). For a cost, the service will help you get back home in a pinch–and based on the music that plays when you call it, it seems like Mr. Resetti is involved somehow.

  • Read more: New Animal Crossing: New Horizons Characters Revealed

    If your need for control extends beyond your own home, New Horizons will allow you to direct the lives of others as well. The game gives you control over where other residents build their homes and you can use an in-game cell phone app to create paths, build bridges, shape slopes, and stack staircases in order to decree where people should walk.

    Like its predecessors, New Horizons will see you take on debt that you’ll have to pay off. The game doesn’t force you to solely rely on using your hard-earned Bells, though. In New Horizons, some of your debt can be paid off using Bells or Nook Miles (points you earn sort of like flyer miles for airports in the real world), which should help you save up a few more Bells for that fancy new couch you’ve been eyeing.

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