Eight new characters from the mind of one Animal Crossing: New Horizons fan would provide a ton of new services for players.
A fan of Animal Crossing: New Horizons has unveiled eight new characters they've brainstormed that would bring a wide variety of new services to Nintendo's cozy life sim. While Animal Crossing: New Horizons already boasts 36 special NPCs that offer special services, the inclusion of these characters (or something else like them) would provide an even bigger boost to what players can do on their islands.
Debuting back in 2020, New Horizon's special character pool contains a lot of classic NPCs like shady landlord Tom Nook and Blathers, who are always present and provide services like home upgrades and additions to the museum, and off-island characters, like Harvey, who runs a special photo studio. There are also a number of characters who will show up infrequently on a rotating basis, like K.K. Slider, who can give the player music recordings to play on their in-home audio devices, and Flick, who hosts bug-catching competitions in which both players and other NPC island residents can participate.
The new fan-made characters from bromojumbo all seem to fall into that last category, intended to provide a little added excitement on the days that they show up. For example, Kicks, the traveling shoe sales skunk, would now have a little brother named Kap, who would pop up on islands to sell hats instead. Modo, who appears to be a Komodo dragon, is Flick's cousin and would provide a higher-profit option for those looking to sell bugs, offering an even higher price for harmful bugs like New Horizons' tarantulas and scorpions.
Animal Crossing Special Character Concepts
One interesting theme in all of these characters is that, while New Horizons offers a lot of specialized merchants and other special NPCs to address specific needs, there are still some aspects of the game that don't have an NPC assigned to them, and the fan-created characters here fill those roles. Amalie, who appears to be some sort of prehistoric crustacean, would buy Animal Crossing players' unneeded duplicate fossils that aren't of use to the museum, and players tend to accumulate a lot of those once their museums are complete. Boo, the red panda, would specialize in crafting furniture from bamboo that the players had gathered. Bonnie (who may be a sea slug) would craft jewelry from objects found while diving in the sea, while Mr. E (a gray alien with a human mask) would show up at night to buy excess star fragments.
Rounding out the list are Homie the hermit crab, who would sell rare home items, and Platricia the platypus, who would offer rewards to players who capture photographic evidence of supernatural phenomena. Their creator also shared a lot of other concepts for which they don't yet have artwork, like a blobfish character that would sometimes offer to sell rare fish and a massive blue whale that could craft models of sea creatures. While it's debatable that more shops in Animal Crossing would improve the game series, these concept characters show that there's still plenty of potential growth for its games.
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