the evolution of customization in every animal crossing game...

[@Jasper_4850]

The boy hat to me always looked like Viking helmet

[@Timebuddi2]

Not real Viking helmet. Real Vikings didn't have horns. :P (Sorry I had to say that 😅)

[@FeatherVoid]

Today I learned it's not a viking helmet!

[@Brickblock200]

I headcanon that

[@Jasper_4850]

@@Brickblock200 “head”canon haaaa

[@JaredtheRabbit]

@@Timebuddi2🤓

[@RocketElijah]

Ok mii face was in new leaf too oops 😭

[@freshjsmith9616]

Hey you made a video for animal crossing clones well you miss one call Magician's Quest for the nds

[@mrjohny193]

Was just about to comment that!

[@theneworoldgalyoutube1064]

Never played new leaf, but I do have New Leaf: Welcome Amiibo or whatever it's called. Idk how different they are tho

[@freshjsmith9616]

@@RocketElijah can you check out Magician's Quest mystery time for the DS plz

[@shadowcatgamer2521]

@@theneworoldgalyoutube1064 They're the same! "Welcome Amiibo" was just a massive update that New Leaf got that added a bunch of stuff/features.

[@ktpdreemurr]

Honestly, the Mii heads were so cursed. 😭

[@LostHorizons0]

They were an awful idea and never should have existed in game

[@Pehmokettu]

I loved the Mii mask and I made plenty of different celebrities and historical people to run around my village. 😅

[@ktpdreemurr]

@@Pehmokettu okay, in that context it’s great 😂

[@Brownyan]

i liked it

[@Sailor-Khione]

Yeah, I was sad that I wasn't able to have my skin tone as a permanent thing in new leaf. So I tried to make the mii character look like a regular animal crossing character... Didn't work.

[@jaredarenas7542]

I think it's also worth mentioning Pocket Camp had earrings as a customization option, but they added them a few years after the game came out. Really holding out hope they carry over to the next mainline game

[@SecretNenteus]

Keeping that in mind, as well as the fact that it has held items just like NH (but _way_ more of them, with a far greater focus on them being a cosmetic part of your outfit, stuff like plush toys and ice cream and drink), as well as a slot for tails, necklaces, katanas (that go on your back), wings, effects (sparkles, ghosts hovering over your shoulder, radiant glows like you're a saint, magic runes), scarves, etc. I would argue that Pocket Camp actually has *more* customsation than New Horizons, as opposed to what he said in the video about NH having the most customisation.

[@cherrycordiaI]

I always loved the design of the "classic" player characters. The triangle noses, strange hair, the princess/viking hat they never took off. To my child self it illustrated that while these characters are humans, they're not the same kind of humans we're used to.

[@DogBat]

They just silly

[@manakete_smoocher]

I do wish the silly questionnaire at the beginning of the game was still a thing, even if it’s just to choose your starting appearance/outfit before you do your real customization I also wish you could go to Harriet for her to pick a random hairstyle for you after you unlock all of the new ones she has in NH, since as it is right now she gives them to you and then becomes entirely useless. At least this way she’d have something to do (even if it wasn’t something most people would use)

[@sharkypink]

I totally agree! In an effort to make the game more customizable/modern (which I do love don't get me wrong) they have lost some of the charm/'magic' feeling of the game. I wish they could make it so we had both :(

[@jaredarenas7542]

One idea I had for Harriet is that she could give players the option of having ombre hair if they ever decide to bring her back for the next game. I think it'd be such a perfect fit for her since the word ombre is French, and its implied she's from France with her being a poodle who wears the French flag on her apron

[@ryvaxe64]

I'm pretty sure new leaf had mii masks

[@_tayador_]

it did, although they weren‘t hats, they were i think considered make-up from shampoodle

[@Iamverypoliteyes]

​@@_tayador_ Ughhhh yes :( I remember i paid for the mii head so i could have my skin color (i didn't know about tanning since they don't tell you that I believe) and i found out you couldn't even wear hats with it on. Very disappointed lol

[@the_real_i_agree]

bout to study animal crossing customization lore

[@jettash0720]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the other evolution; Mabel's dialogue for if you were a boy and wanted to try on the girls' clothes

[@Sonictheoofhog4]

What

[@ZimaNoMori]

​@@Sonictheoofhog4In New Leaf (at least) she suggested that you are buying a gift for someone else (maybe a villager) if you are a male trying to buy female clothing. If you tried it on, she would say somethig along the lines of "Oh. This is actually from our female selection, but I guess it looks good on you, too!"

[@Sonictheoofhog4]

@@ZimaNoMori what about the older games

[@ZimaNoMori]

@@Sonictheoofhog4 Not in GC/N64, The able sisters didn't exist. MAYBE in Wild World. In Let's go to the City, she also says "lmfao get bent you cross dressing gay dude" if you even think about that plaid dress as a gift. And 99% sure she doesn't give a crap in NH

[@jettash0720]

@@Sonictheoofhog4 It's been 10+ years since I last played but in Wild World her dialogue was more along the lines of reluctant acceptance? Of course, she couldn't stop you buying it, but from what I remember she would be a little unsure about you trying them on. I never played the games previous to that so I'm unsure whether she said anything. I just remember her being more relaxed about it in NL than she was in WW lol

[@JasperCasper24]

Omg I never knew the rest of the world had a different moustache in WW that’s hilarious

[@swcctsoulvity]

I honestly find the pocket camp hair items the best thing that has existed because during the run with pocket camp because they had unique different hairstyles that you could buy and not only that, they were exclusive to pocket camp and not in the other games. Its also the only game where the hairstyles had ombre and highlights of other colors, no other animal crossing game has that

[@mikenorrito6045]

It's a viking hat, so the horns are correct its not hair lol

[@ardiewardy]

'Let's get back in the mindset of 2001' looks at the date this was published on

[@quesotron2447]

the Mii mask is also available in new leaf, is not a only let's go to the city feature

[@EllieBee542]

Kind of weird not to mention the actual face paint thing where you could do stuff like give your character a third eye.

[@HannahandCailinLoesch]

My sister and I grew up playing the Gamecube version, and recently I mentioned the “ears” on the girl character and she was completely dumbfounded 😂😂😂 I could never see that as hair and never will!

[@GladioVirga]

I think the character wears a hat with horns to appear more animal-like

[@Devillishghosty]

I believe that it's horns, because in Animal Crossing New Leaf, you can recreate the hat...and they're always grey, so I do believe they're horns

[@chloeg6399]

I always wondered why it took so long for them to address the skin color thingy?

[@Tezcatlipoca_]

Japanese majority audience

[@LostHorizons0]

I don’t know but I hated in the older games when I turned black because it doesn’t look like me and alway tried to get rid of it fast

[@PhoenixRoseYT]

@@Tezcatlipoca_ it’s weird because I’m assuming the games sell better overseas anyways due to higher populations so not sure why they’d keep ignoring a substantial portion of the earth’s human population like that for so long

[@squeakboy3666]

yeah it's crazy to me that it took THAT LONG to be able to manually change your skin tone, that's a huge thing to miss in a life sim game

[@J233-4]

Ikr! Like, so many games at the time had different skin colours, why was animal crossing so late? a bit hard to go back to older AC games as a person with darker skin because of the lack of skin colours.

[@theumlautedsmile]

*bags were also in Pocket Camp, along with "auras" (like fluttering butterflies around you etc) and EARRINGS in some cookies I was really excited about the latter two (specially the earrings) and was thoroughly disappointed when NH didn't have them, so I remember :(

[@BeIlG]

I love the tanning mechanic! I wish they brought that back! so cute!

[@Jejaimes20]

This video reminds me of that time when it was a huge deal for Animal crossing players that Sheep could wear shirts instead of just scarves.

[@crossinglife]

A new Elijah video 🥳🥳 (I binged until I caught up so I’m very happy 😂)

[@Autumn-Muse]

This thumbnail is one heck of a transition timeline.

[@friendlysharkce1831]

Wild world was my first animal crossing game and I still have a hige amount of nostalgia for it and lovebthe intro music so much

[@TJWehse]

Okay that’s not even true. The mii masks were not a one and done thing. That feature is also in new leaf from pretty much as soon as you unlock shampoodle, all you have to do is talk to Harriette and pay for the “makeup” option

[@TJWehse]

I probably should’ve checked the comments before posting this. Oops, my bad.

[@The8-Bit_Gamer]

Fun fact: the girl in the thumbnail all the way to the right is from the “Animal crossing new horizons deserted island diaries” named Hime

[@KatsumiGasai]

I love playing New Horizons! I started out trying Pocket Camp, and I loved it. Bought a switch a couple of years ago just to try ACNH. I also tried New Leaf. I still love to watch playthroughs of older animal crossing games, like City Folk.

[@hedwig7s]

Yes the animal crossing hats had horns they were blending in with the animals

[@ned993]

To customize your Nook phone in New Horizons you need to get the phone customization kit from the redeem Nook Miles section, then use the customization part of a DIY bench while having the kit in your pockets.

[@BmanZeroBlank]

I always thought the male hat was a warrior helmet so I made an angry pomegranate in 7th grade on my dsi because I couldn't afford a switch 💀

[@RobinGutierrez-y5u]

Aw man, the Nostalgia! I was -1 years old when Animal Crossing Wild World came out! 😊

[@thatfunkyorangecat]

Plus you can add custom designs to your villagers face in new horizons

[@sniperdoge44]

Another banger, I binged-watched your videos like a week ago.

[@Sonictheoofhog4]

1:34 Those are horns, because the boy character is wearing a viking hat, and the female character is wearing some sort of princess hat, and I think the pink parts of it are the hair

[@Itsanit_Isnt_It]

Even though i technically owned wild world (my sister and i thought it was new leaf lol, we didn't know that animal crossing had different games, we just knew we wanted the play the mayor game and were quite disappointed when we found out we weren't going to be mayors, shelving the game entirely after that), acnh was the first game i put actual time into, as such it will always have a place in my heart

[@6B4tZy9]

15:43 ay no mopey eye hate, i love those the most🫰

[@RedFox_playz_roblox]

Elijah I love ur vids!!! I was wondering if you can do a animal crossing video on the rarest dialogue from all of the villagers/NPC 's throughout the series?

[@batteryacid1]

my favourite will probably alsays be pocket camp. cant exactly tell why, just every thing about it is so perfectly animal crossing to me

[@crashlogger4283]

you can use a custom design as a viking/spiky hat in wild world

[@InazumaDash]

I'd like to see characters of different lengths and maybe body size in the same way you make Miis. They wouldn't be realistic depictions obviously but that's not the point. It could make your character look truly unique. Especially if you're taller or heavier in real life. It could also be fun for making second characters for yourself based on fictional characters. Like imagine making a Slenderman character for a spooky house or something. Maybe to scare your friends when they come over. lol

[@LostHorizons0]

I’d rather them look how they did in the first game but that’s just me

[@samonelly4813]

The mini mustache💀

[@ednaoverboard1052]

THE MINI MUSTACHE LOOKS LIKE THIS IN OTHER REGIONS???

[@vulasaur6799]

pocket camp also had back items and held items, but i dont remember if they started adding those before or after new horizons

[@allicat1060]

They changed the mustache because it looks like hitters

[@esxivy1944]

I like animal crossing in general, I think all the games have something special and overall they all are based on a similar formula. But i grew up with Wild World so im biased. I love new horizons but I feel like the town is dead, neighbours dont do much. I feel like if the dialoge was better, it would be my fav entry in the series. PD:And I think the short legs design is more iconic and i would actually like to see it again

[@V_Jazz_Studios]

0:25 I was born

[@ginafinnemann6656]

The boy hat is horns, i remember playing ac wii and you could choose to wear your custom designs as shirt, umbrella or hat and if chose hat, it was these original hats, and the horns did not change with the hair color and im not sure if you could also see the actual hair in the back. Also in new leaf prodesigns you could not only make shirts but also dresses and maybe hats? Again, not sure about that last part Also, pretty sure you could wear different facial accessories at the same time in new leaf

[@Bibiana_Mei]

Love the video :3 apparently there's a way of getting the og horned hat I'm new horizons too!

[@Wavecheckfoo]

21:00 you can hear this man stepping on eggshells 😭

[@daemonbug]

The mii heads were in new leaf, what are you talking about????

[@tiffanynie6439]

30 seconds into the video and I get two unskippable ads ❤️ KZbin when I catch you

[@Nyperold018]

I think it's all Animal Crossing. I know there are a lot of people who don't like some of the differences between NH and the games before, but I'm okay with it.

[@leopillows3246]

i’ve only ever played pocket camp and im curious if yall have hand held items like the leaf umbrella that prevents you from tanning. i mean that ACPC has handheld items as accessories (books, purses, drinks, sword, parasols, bouquets etc). im considering getting new horizons since ACPC is shutting down services and making the game an offline experience- and i just hope i can have my sword with me everywhere i go….

[@Amberlily9207]

The thing with the mii heads is you couldn’t wear hats or things with them (at least in the new leaf version not sure about city folk, never played with it during that game) i probably would have used it more if I could wear a hat

[@nathanblackburn1193]

I feel like in the next Smash game (because they're 100% gonna make another one) they should change Villager to the "3rd" generation designs Also you could have hats and facial accessories in City Folk and New Leaf, New Horizons allows you to have multiple facial accessories, like a beard and glasses

[@Wmx2011]

Oh and also in 2001 the towers fell.

[@joelwriter9583]

I’m surprised that you didn’t mention with face paint people can have eyebrows now lol

[@LostHorizons0]

I was sad when there was no Dawn shirt in new horizons it was my uniform from gc-new leaf It’s a horned hat my man it’s called “horned hat” or “hat with horns” one of the two in new leaf Pocket camp isn’t going anywhere. They are closing the crappy online gatcha part of the game and turning it into a real game no issue with me 🤷🏻‍♂️ I’m so tired of the “they abandoned new horizons “ crap they didn’t abandon anything it’s not a mmo / live service game it’s a single player game with some optional multiplayer to trade items and visit islands. There was nothing else to add, there is so much content in the game if people can’t figure out what to do than that’s on them.

[@ouhhoh]

finally someone with common sense about new horizons. people act like they've never played a single player game before. genuinely don't understand why people have such a hard time figuring out what to do... new horizons has had the most longevity for me by far. and um yeah as for your other points.... this guy really doesn't research things very well lol. its present in almost every video but the hair vs horns on hat thing from this one really tells you all you need to know.

[@vuxl]

@@ouhhoh nintendo did do updates for new horizons bc like that’s what they said they would do, and since they announced the final update the game is complete, so like they didn’t really abandon it they just finished releasing it and releasing updates also if it was ever hair then they gotta sue the barber like just theoretically if it was hair ik it isnt

[@Jelly_shy_guy_man]

22:30 what incident?

[@7b7BenGazing]

Sooooo….. how’s your continued play-through of New Leaf going?

[@kiradarkangel4563]

2001 was so nice! I wasnt born yet 🥰🥰

[@shammahikoro8475]

Don’t forget customizable nose!

[@chollene]

u have to buy a case in order to customize your phone

[@gross_grl]

although i was just as excited as everyone else to wear pants, in hindsight the stubby bodies are so iconic. ik the more human-like bodies fit better in the new-gen hi def but imo the old models are just so cute and perfect for their little animal world

[@Jacobturtle]

Viking hat moment

[@RiloGaming101]

My character is a zombie so I have green skin to match the zombie aesthetic

[@StarSpacewolf]

13:54 ZACKSCOTTGAMES SPOTTED!!! HE'S THE REASON WHY I BOUGHT NEW LEAF!!! I WATCHED ALL HIS 200 ACNL VIDS!! Wait... changing skin was a thing in Happy Home Designers?! Why didn't Nintendo update New Leaf and give that possibility?? My first AC game was on the Wii... Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City (European name of City Folks) and I loved it so much... then eventually I got Animal Crossing New Leaf (even before it became the Welcome Amiibo edition) I wanted to get New Horizons so bad (especially how they FINALLY implemented darker skin colors for black people like me) but... I didn't have a switch, the game would be time consuming and by the time I had a switch and money, the... community had committed the sins of Ankha, every other female character and that stupid cat raymond everyone simps over for some stupid reason... So I just... moved away from that idea.

[@TopoliGaming]

Can you do the same thing for animal crossing new horizons?

[@hiphophoney]

didn't new leaf have the mii mask too?

[@unblairable]

you should adjust your mic setup, it keeps popping when you say words with Ps or Bs in them

[@beepthelunarmoth]

Omg I'm early :D love your videos

[@moscow1915]

Its sad to see Pocket camp go, though the game play wasnt all that i loooooved the different furniture items, flowers, and themed outfits you could get. Kinda wish we got some of those furniture sets from the Pocket camp in New Horizon hell even if they sold it as DLC i would buy that in a flash

[@lunar0275]

I does make me bit sad that it took them soooooo long to make darker skin tones :/ but better late than never I guess-

[@chrisbeach423]

Are you the same person as “Rocket Sloth” who covers Halo content?!?

[@TheSapphireEclipse]

1 view and 1 minute ago, lmao hai :3

[@otwordsone]

👍

[@KaneTheAvgeek]

8:22 I think I know why they censored it too Woah, you are that far fr? Alright, just wait The censor reason was 🇦🇹🎨

[@Amethyst-Marshmallow]

It's so cool to see how it evolved over time and gave us new options, although i do miss the silly questionnaire, i wish that was there to pick like ur starting outfit or something while the actual character (like the skintone face and hair) was up to you ...Also what was the space buns incident?????

[@ZoeBravo-p5n]

Guys it’s 9/11 ! 😱😱😱

[@khil1210]

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[@Chrisylikespissy]

PETER?! 10:54