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'''''Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp''''' is a spin-off of the ''[[Animal Crossing]]'' series, developed and published by [[Nintendo]] for iOS and Android devices. It was released worldwide on November 21, 2017 (Australia saw the game's release one month earlier).
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* [[100% Completion]]: The Happy Homeroom mini-game runs on the medal rating. The player has to obtain an outstanding score to get all three medals of a level. Consider that medals collected are tied to the player's interior designer rank (which includes rewards for ranking up), so [[100% Completion]] pretty much equals getting the highest possible rank and claiming all the rank-up rewards.
* [[Addressing the Player]]: Like in the main games, even if the player treats the name picked as mere online handle common in online games, which this game is.
* [[All Just a Dream]]: At day, Blathers (from his special furniture, if placed on campsite/cabin) can be woken up. He claims that he just made a new discovery, only to be this instead.
* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: Having an animal's friendship level reach level 7 will reward the player with said animal's default clothing. Most events and fortune cookies will also reward clothing items.
* [[And Your Reward Is Interior Decorating]]: Outside of crafting, players can obtain furniture from certain requests, fortune cookies, and various events.
* [[Animal Motifs]]: The special fortune cookies often incorporate imagery related to the animals associated with them. The rocket-pilot helmet from Filbert's cookie has ears more suitable for a squirrel, the ribbit puddle comes from Lily's cookie, the various bear imagery on the patchwork items from Stitches's cookie, etc.
* [[Animal-Eared Headband]]: The Animal Apparel hats. Only noticeable when previewed, as when they are worn their color takes on the wearer's hair color, making the animal ears look like they are part of him/her.
* [[Anti-Frustration Features]]:
** Fish are attracted to the player's lure much easier compared to the main games. Not to mention, fish and bugs spawn a lot faster. Also, if at least one animal happens to request an uncommon fish/bug (black bass, horned dynastid, red snapper), said creature will be more likely to spawn as long as the request is not cleared.
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** At the garden, the player has a choice of planting, harvesting, and watering multiple flowers at the same time, reducing the time spent in taking care of them.
** Some items do not count towards Catalog completion, so completionists do not have to worry about missing out on special items like the Tourney trophies. This also affects platform-exclusive items, like the rainbow event items for Android and the red-and-yellow event items for iOS, reducing the frustration for players that only play on one device or do not have the other device. The rewards from the "hard tasks" (tasks in red) that can only be done after completing all four regular tasks in garden events also do not count, basically only making them necessary for Happy Homeroom's event classes. The My Sweetest Friend event rewards are also exempt from the Catalog, as the present depends on the animal's personality yet the player can only give the best-friend confection to one animal.
*** Once the August 20, 2019 update rotated out some creatures (leaving them only obtainable from Market Boxes if players still sell them), update 2.6.0 rectified the Catalog problem by removing the unobtainable creatures, allowing completionists that missed out on the older creatures to relax.
** Version 1.4.0:
*** The player can now see how many of a particular item (as in fruits, fish, bugs, shells) is currently in their inventory upon walking over one or picking one up, instead of having to check said inventory for it.
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*** The player can choose to favorite all furniture tied to a particular animal in their Contacts. This can be useful for inviting new animals, as this can save time (and taps) looking for required furniture by simply grouping them in the Favorites tab (which is the default first tab as of this update) in the Craft menu instead of checking the Contacts multiple times. The player can then clear the list by removing the Favorited tag on those furniture.
** Version 1.6.0 finally allows the player to sort animals in the Contacts list by either theme or friendship level, not just filtering by species.
** Every shell found on Saltwater Shores has a distinct appearance unlike in the main games. This is seen from the update that introduces the pearl-oyster shells in this game, which do not share the same overworld appearance as the scallop shells (the former originally being a deep-sea creature in ''New Leaf''), which retain the generic pink shell look in the overworld.
** With the addition of the first Fishing Tourney fish as regular non-event catches (albeit rare) in a later update, players who missed out on Fishing Tourneys will not need to worry about missing out on certain fish species for Catalog completion.
** Version 1.7.0 basically streamlines everything related to the garden, even including the event-related mechanics, making garden management much quicker.
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** Version 2.1.0:
*** Pete's Parcel Service (requires player level 3 at minimum to use) basically speeds up item request completion by having him instantly send the required items to the target animal if the player already has them as long as the player has met said animal at least once.
*** The garden mechanics
** Version 2.2.0:
*** Buying fortune cookies used to require going to the Market Place first. Not anymore starting from this version, as its shop menu is now accessible on the Map screen.
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*** Animals required for Memories no longer requiring invitation to unlock them.
*** Crafting materials, seeds, and flowers automatically being sold for Bells if the player's inventory for the respective item is full.
** Since the introduction of Grim Rosewater Cookie and its tie-in event class, all classes introduced after that allow the player to achieve a "Flawless!" rating using an item different from a class's recommendation instead of using the exact recommended item, provided it fits the theme and category (among other variables not immediately clear to the player). This helps greatly with normal classes 11-2 and 11-7, which recommend items only obtainable via flower trade, most requiring hybrid flowers to get them. In this case, the player can simply use flower trade items obtained from trading basic flowers.
* [[Anti-Poopsocking]]: Fruit trees will regrow new fruits three hours after it is shaken, [[Item Crafting]] takes time, planted flowers bloom after a few hours, and players can only do a certain amount of requests per cycle. Since everything runs in real-time (like the main games), this is inevitable.
** Playing the Happy Homeroom mini-game consumes HH Vouchers. Only three are replenished each day, but the player can use Leaf Tickets to replenish on their own if they wish.
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* [[Artistic License: Biology]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Katie regarding the season-specific tree decorations, if the player interacts with Katie's sakura swing with her being present on it.
* [[Balloonacy]]: The party balloons furniture will make an animal float on air while holding them if he/she interacts with them. The floating balloon swing is basically that as well, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|a swing held on air by balloons]].
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: The sarong and swimsuit from the Beachwear Collection expose the most skin compared to typical clothing items in the ''Animal Crossing'' games. The mermaid dress from Francine's cookie and the colorful palace dress from Julia's cookie also expose the midriff.
* [[Beach Episode]]: Roald's Memory. Also, July 2019's aesthetic.
* [[Boring but Practical]]: Crafting cheap items with minimal time taken is the fastest way of building up duplicates to dump on Gulliver, especially if the player just focuses on the exclusive animals/maps that have a chance of coming with him upon return. The updated Gulliver's Ship used to restrict items by island requirement, but backlash ensued and Nintendo decided to revert it back in a later update (though the 3-island mechanic still stays).
* [[Bragging Rights Reward]]: Since the whole point of the game is decorating the player's campsite/van/cabin, much of the collectible are pretty much this just so the player can show off their display. The non-Catalog items are even more so, since they are not needed for [[100% Completion]]. Many of the items are subverted, though, since the addition of Happy Homeroom, which pretty much makes use of those to get the highest amount of Medals (required to rank up and claim prizes) possible.
** Clothing items, meanwhile, veer into this if they cannot be worn by animals (wigs/masks, bottoms, socks, shoes, full-body). If the player does not like certain clothing items or has a duplicate of the animal-incompatible ones, other than mere display, the player might as well just sell them or give them to Gulliver. It appears that the Sanrio event classes introduce the clothing items as recommended decor just to avoid this.
* [[Bribing Your Way to Victory]]:
** In Fishing Tourneys, the player can rent a golden rod using Leaf Tickets to always guarantee catching two event fish at once per successful fishing. This allows said player to speed up their total size progress compared to others that don't rent said rod.
** If obtaining special Memories count as "victory", then relying on Leaf Tickets to purchase event-only fortune cookies as well as utilizing the stamps system (which requires said purchase) can be considered this.
** If the player wants to, they can instantly clear a map in Blathers's Treasure Trek using Leaf Tickets instead. Note that this does not apply to Leaf Ticket maps themselves.
** If the player's score is close enough to the next Medal milestone in a Happy Homeroom class, Lottie may offer the player to reach said milestone using Leaf Tickets.
* [[But Thou Must!]]: Much of the dialogue options lead to the same outcome just with different wording. Particular example goes to the "lost item" request, which the player cannot refuse out of once initiated.
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* [[Cap]]:
** Up to 40 furniture items can be displayed at a player's campsite.
** A player starts out with 100 inventory limit for miscellaneous items (fruits, fish, bugs, shells), which extends up to a certain limit via level-ups (as version 2.
** As of version 2.4.0, up to 4,000 combined amount of clothing and furniture items can be kept in a player's inventory.
** Crafting items come with their own max limit, ranging from the minimum 30 for essences to 9,999 bags of friend powder. Like with the inventory limit, these items' caps can be extended via level-ups, but unlike the former they cannot be extended via Leaf Tickets.
** [[Relationship Values]] cap out depending on the thematic amenity the player has built and the animals associated with said theme, starting at 7 and, as of version 2.
** A player can keep up to 100 friends in the friends list, counting pending requests.
** A player can hold up 9,999 of each type of snack.
** Up to 2,000 gift items can be kept in the player's Message box.
** [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] with the Bells. While the counter maxes out at 9,999,999, the plus sign (+) is added to the right of the counter to indicate that the player has more Bells than the game's counter can display.
** Since version 2.6.0, players can now invoke this themselves on how many times another player can purchase items from their Market Boxes. This can be set to once or three times per day.
** Up to 1,000 fortune cookies can be kept in a player's inventory. Excessive ones will stay in the Mailbox for a specified amount of time until the player clears out enough of the inventory to take them.
* [[Carnivore Confusion]]: What started out in the main series still carries even to this spinoff...
**
** Goose is a chicken whose wanted furniture before recruiting him is a plate of turkey. Yeah.
** Then there is the cowhide rug, which the cows and bulls in this game do not mind standing on.
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** Even with the introduction of Reissued Items events, crafting them is not as easy as one might think. Crafting them requires a lot of money (these cost from 30,000-350,000 Bells) and rare crafting materials like sparkle stones, HH materials, and reissue materials (the latter of which is not even enough to get everything if the player missed out literally every event item featured). When it comes to those materials, those are hard to grind for newcomers, and even veterans still have second thoughts about using them.
* [[Crossover]]:
** There are free item giveaway events that involve ''Mario''. So far, the free giveaways include the Big Bro's Hat/Mario's hat (before it temporarily became craftable in the event mentioned below) every March (in 2018, it was to celebrate the 1-year anniversary of ''Super Mario Run''), the Toad Hat to celebrate ''Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker'' being ported to the Nintendo Switch and the [[Nintendo 3DS]], Cappy to celebrate the 1-year anniversary of ''Super Mario Odyssey'',
** Since March 10 is known as "[[Super Mario Bros|MAR10]] day", events in March tend to involve ''Mario'' stuff.
*** March 2018 introduces the [[Super Mario Bros|Super Mario]] Crossover Event, a crafting event divided into three parts, all featuring ''Mario''-themed furniture and clothing. Of course, the event materials involve mushrooms.
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** The game also has a series of ''Splatoon 2''-themed events. It is the first crossover to incorporate event fortune cookies, though thankfully no Memory is associated with them. There is even a tie-in "gifts for all" type of event that gives away the chaos tee and the order tee (though the player is also given the option to craft extras) to celebrate that game's Final Fest.
** The very first ''[[Pokémon]]'' crossover in ''Animal Crossing'' history debuts on October 2018, featuring its own version of scavenger hunt event where instead of gathering gyroidites, players gather Poké Balls. Particularly, the theme centers around the Pokémon Eevee, so it is safe to say that this event is tied to ''Pokémon Let's Go'' nearing its release date.
** Like in ''New Leaf - Welcome amiibo'', this game also features collaboration with Sanrio, debuting
* [[Dem Bones]]: Fishing Tourney: Pumpkins, being a part of the game's [[Halloween Episode]] in 2019, has the player catch bonefish, which are, well, living fish bones.
* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: Unlike Digby, Redd debuted as part of a special furniture first before appearing as a garden event host. If the player has Redd's mask emporium placed on their campsite while his event is ongoing, he can still appear next to the emporium instead of near the garden entrance.
** With Brewster appearing as a garden event host for the first time long after his special furniture made its debut, it is safe to say that the same rule applies to all special NPCs that can appear as a garden event host.
** As this game lacks the equivalent to the "town tune", animals can be heard humming/whistling the game's theme instead.▼
** The first anniversary music box plays its own rendition of the title screen music.▼
* [[Double Unlock]]:
** A few furniture items require a basic form of another furniture to be crafted first before the former can be made. These are never shared by the same animal, so if the player has yet to unlock a particular animal, they will be stuck with uncraftable furniture until that animal is unlocked.
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** Starting from the debut of Brewster's Sweet Harvest, all garden events offer additional furniture/clothing items (so far mere [[Palette Swap]]s of the regular prizes) that are not counted by the Catalog. If the player wants to get them, they have to complete the "hard tasks" (distinguishable with being color-coded red). But to even access those tasks to begin with, the player has to fully complete all four regular tasks first.
** The overhauled Goals system turns many rewards into this, as obtaining a milestone reward from the non-Stretch Goals requires completing the required tasks first, which reward the player with item(s) upon completion as usual. If the rewards are located in a later part of a particular Goal chain, even if the player has completed the (yet to be seen) tasks to reach them, the player has to clear the current part of the chain first before proceeding to the next.
** Since the introduction of Blathers's Treasure Trek, more prizes require this as it is possible for the given reward to be in the form of maps for said prizes, which require them to be played in this mini-game to claim the depicted prizes. This naturally requires certain items to progress through and clear them, like Bells for crafting material-related maps, friend powder for Bells, etc. The animal maps (except for Teddy's map, which is given as starter animal map once this mini-game became accessible, and the Sanrio-themed animals' maps, which are obtained from event Goals) are notable for being the only maps obtainable from Gulliver's service.
* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: The blossoming dress, which is worn by Isabelle during New Year's 2019 but the player can craft it themselves during the same period, is first seen on the Isabelle kite, a New Year furniture from the year before.
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: As expected for a constantly-evolving online game. Since the first anniversary, there are notable differences compared to the game's early days.
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** Early fishing tourneys set a low bar in completing and reaching the gold trophy, with the low 4,200 cm for the first tourney and the player could get every reward stamped until 6,050 cm. As more tourneys occurred, the size milestone became higher and higher, and later tourneys tend to include unique prizes post-gold trophy. The rate of getting double fish was also a bit higher in the early tourneys. [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Oh, and the music for when the player uses an event throw net was different compared to the later ones starting from the sixth fishing tourney.]]
** The event reward system in general has changed a lot since the early days. Crafting events rewarding more furniture items or extra event materials instead of mere Bells and seasonal event materials, gardening events allowing trading for essences before these were cut in later gardening events, fishing tourneys rewarding more event nets instead of snacks or seasonal event materials (and the earliest ones even reward fish tanks for display)... the list goes on. In general, expect more "filler" rewards like Bells, snacks, or seasonal event materials in events nowadays. Gets even more stranger once Blathers's Treasure Trek is introduced, as maps have become common rewards since then, requiring extra effort just to get Bells, crafting materials, animals, and even Leaf Tickets.
** When Gulliver was first introduced, the only exclusive animals were rewarded directly ([[Luck-Based Mission|if the player is lucky]]) instead of requiring maps (which require essences). It
* [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]]: Lottie's Gothic Rose Festival, which rewards gothic-themed items. Also, the [[Palette Swap]] version from the White Gothic Rose Cookie set.
* [[Everything's Better with Chocolate]]: Poppy's Cocoa Cookie's theme, of course.
* [[Experience Meter]]: The player's level display also counts as this.
* [[The Fair Folk]]: Diana's Fay Cookie theme. Maple's Autumn Cookie also counts.
* [[Fast Forward Mechanic]]:
** Version 1.6.0 allows the player to speed through animal dialogue by holding down the touchscreen instead of tapping multiple times. The relationship level-up animation can also be skipped starting in this update, though this is done by simply tapping the screen.
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* [[Fetch Quest]]: The main game mechanic outside of the usual crafting and decorating.
* [[Filler]]: Until a later update, pretty much all Mix-and-Match Decorations event notices that used to occur during weekends. These do not reward anything but [[Bragging Rights Reward]] and their sole purpose is to promote the current running themes (almost always related to event fortune cookies, pretty much promoting them). These are now demoted to the [[Loading Screen]]s.
** Played straight for event notices that remind players that certain special cookie/furniture's event time will run out. While this is more like a [[Player Nudge]] if they want to buy one at the last minute, this event notice still does not introduce anything to the game.
* [[Five Second Foreshadowing]]: Rarely, the player will express one of the two emotions when they are about to eat a fortune cookie. A "glee" emotion will guarantee getting either bronze or silver fortune (or even rarely for the event cookies, gold), while a "surprise" emotion will guarantee getting either silver or gold fortune (the latter only applies to event cookies).
* [[Fluffy Cloud Heaven]]: June 2019's aesthetic.
* [[Four-Leaf Clover]]: Spring events tend to go with the "shamrock" theme which features this in some way. In fact, March 2019's seasonal event is called Shamrock Shimmy, which involves collecting kaleidoclovers.
* [[Freemium]]: Starting from November 21, 2019, a paid membership service called Pocket Camp Club becomes available. It features two plans:
** One allows the player to appoint one animal as a camp caretaker to help deal with requests and events.
** The other allows the player to receive five free fortune cookies per month and store furniture and clothing items in the warehouse.
* [[Furry Confusion]]:
** The Purple Octopi from ''Splatoon 2'' can be caught in a crossover fishing tourney. Despite its origin, it behaves like normal fish, including being edible (for Chip anyway). This in a game where the player can befriend Octavian, an octopus camper. The August 20, 2019 update introduced the regular octopus as one of the common fish, so expect characters like Octavian and Marina request one or even cook one.
** The birdcage is back and still features the same non-anthropomorphic songbird inside.
** Other than Lloid (who is an NPC that hangs out at the garden), there are no proper Gyroid items the player can collect. Instead, scavenger hunt events have them collect Gyroid''ites'', the small version of Gyroids that do not appear to be living unlike their regular brethren.
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** Notably during the Bloomin' Booty with Kapp'n event, for some reason there is a random chance that visiting a garden (the player's or a friend's) will cause the game to softlock with the [[Player Character]] walking around in circles, necessitating a reset.
** Another one acknowledged by Nintendo: Players with version 2.1 of the game may encounter frequent game crashes due to a bug.
** And yet another one acknowledged by Nintendo, which involves skipping multiple levels from snacks, helped by a relatively new feature of giving multiple snacks to an animal at a time. If the level skipped happens to be the point where the animal can request a special furniture, that request will never open and thus that furniture will never be available for crafting. Thankfully
** For some reason, version 2.5.0 made it possible for players to place more than 10 apples/pears of all things in one Market Box slot (up to 100). This would not seem troublesome except for the fact that players will not be able to see the excessive apples/pears, thus unable to buy them anyway. Thankfully, the seller can just return the excessive apples/pears back to the inventory anyway thanks to the same update's overhaul to the Market Box system. Update 2.5.2 also fixed this.
** One discovered from version 2.5.1's update news (which resolves it): Players somehow ended up unable to log in to their Nintendo Account from the Settings. Keep in mind that linking accounts are required to keep a backup cloud save.
** Players have reported no longer being able to use the Spring Garden terrain options on their campsite, including the free "middle" part given away during Leif's garden event. Resolved in November 15, 2019.
* [[Gotta Catch Them All]]: Gotta complete the catalog!
* [[Guide Dang It]]:
** The cross-pollinating feature is back and still requires more guides as usual.
** How Gulliver works pre-2.6.0. Basically the player just dumps random furniture/clothing on him, up to 10, then pick a direction to send him off, wait 6 hours, then finally get the rewards. However, there is more to that if the player wants to get non-generic snacks, higher quality snacks, or even exclusive animals/maps. Direction influences the snack theme, each item has a hidden value that can influence the rewards system including a higher chance of getting a bonus reward, and said chance can also be boosted with another method by dumping all duplicates (no "solos") if the former method is not possible, but the game does not tell the player this.
** A minor one, but requests involving clothing/furniture suggestion requires knowing the nature of the animal that will receive this as well as the item's theme category. Some can make it easy for the player by providing options with at least one item that fit the animal's theme (that Cute-type Apple would definitely love a Cute-type lovely bed...), some can be implied from even other hints such as their default clothing or preferred furniture seen in their character info (that Cool-type Agnes has some Cute stuff mixed in as seen from her dazed tee and preference towards three of the Lovely series items as wanted furniture, so a Cute-type fluffy dress would be a fine clothing suggestion...), and some can be correlated (Cute-type animals tend to also have preference for the also cutesy Hip-type items), but even with this basic knowledge (though the player can be forgiven for not knowing ALL items' themes; ''hundreds'' of items), the game can still throw the players off in some way (I didn't know that Harmonious-type Margie also loves Cute clothing!). Fortunately, this is only for [[Video Game Caring Potential]].
* [[Halloween Episode]]: October has Jack visiting, obviously. Events include Jack's Halloween-themed garden event, his special furniture, and Muffy's Creepy Cookie to complete the theme. The Spooky terrain set makes its debut in October 2018. That month's fishing event even follows suit, down to having Jack as the host instead of Chip. On the day of Halloween itself, players are gifted with the pumpkin head headwear.
** 2019 decided to spice up things even more by changing the designs of the app icon, start-up screen, and Friend List into a Halloween-themed one. Its seasonal event is called [[Alliteration|Happy Hauntings Holiday]] whose collectible is, of course, the trick-or-treat sweets. Jack's garden event takes on a different theme compared to 2018, being based on a gala this time. The Eerieville terrain set makes its debut. Like the previous year, Jack hosts the Fishing Tourney again, this time with a "Pumpkins" theme. As for the scavenger hunt, players collect Halloween candies. On the premium side of things, Rover can be added to the campsite for the first time via his special furniture, there are the collections Costume Party Collection and Eerie Wall & Floor Collection, and several new special cookies are introduced (along with the reissue of Muffy's Creepy Cookie). There is even a special Leaf Ticket deal to complete the celebration.
*** Special note goes to the aforementioned year for including the Ghastly Gimmes log-in rewards, allowing players who missed out on last year's Halloween to get the pumpkin head. Appropriately, the other gifts include silver and gold treats, as well as honey (and Leaf Tickets).
* [[An Interior Designer Is You]]: One of the main aspects of the game (and the series in general).
* [[Irony]]: Carmen's Spanish bio in this game ends up [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] once the Choco-Mint scavenger hunt started, as it states that, according to translation, "...Scandinavian colors are in this year and that mint-chocolate ice cream is out. "SO true," she murmured." Guess who is hosting the Choco-Mint event HH class.
* [[Item Crafting]]: For the first time in ''Animal Crossing'', the player can craft items using crafting materials. This can only be done one at a time, though, unless the player opens additional crafting slots using Leaf Tickets (up to three in total).
* [[Last Lousy Point]]: Inevitable, considering how this game runs on time-based events.
** First off, the non-Special Catalog list. The Market Place-only items appear randomly, so expect waiting for a while until that one furniture/clothing item shows up before feeling satisfied. Also, the rarer fish and bugs will take some time before they appear and the player can attempt to catch them. In the case of fish, since it depends on silhouettes, the player will not even know what they will reel in until the fish pops out. Then there are the items obtainable only by trading flowers, which require a lot of cross-pollinations, time investment, and luck. With the fish and bugs, things only got worse when certain species got rotated out after a later update introducing newer species (mostly from older Fishing Tourneys and mini-events) was dropped... so expect a long wait until the absent creatures become available again.
** Secondly, the items only available in Timmy's and Tommy's [[Luck-Based Mission|fortune cookies]]. Expect to open hundreds of cookies until the struggling player gets them all. Granted this is only better than...
** The event-only items, categorized under Special. Woe betide the player if they are not a "whale":
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** However, since version 2.3.0, which only shows up to three randomly-selected screens, the event screens (complete with how much time they have left until they are over, serving as reminder) dominate more often compared to the random flavor text.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: The player can befriend more than 100 animals in this game. Then there are also the special NPCs to add to the count.
* [[Lost Forever]]: Due to an overhaul to Gulliver's Ship, starting from September 11, 2019, players who have yet to clear the Stretch Goal "Give Gulliver furniture or clothing to export." or start the game after the update will never be able to clear it and obtain 5 Leaf Tickets from it.
* [[Lost in Translation]]:
** The common crafting material names. In Japanese, these are named in
** The April 2019 Collection event involves backpacks and said month's Fishing Tourney is inexplicably themed after the schoolroom. There is also a Spring Break series of events which reissue past fortune cookies for about a week at the end of the month, as well as introduce reissued special furniture. While non-Japan players might see those backpacks as a way to promote the brand new back accessories outside of event fortune cookies and can imply the "school" pun from the tourney, those some players are rendered confused at the use of Spring Break term here, as it usually occurs on March. Of course, this makes more sense in Japan, as the school-themed event items were introduced in April because Japan's school year starts out in that month, and the "Spring Break" here actually refers to the Golden Week which occurs on the week of April 29.
* [[Luck-Based Mission]]: Basically almost every aspect of this game is luck-based, but the most notable are as follows.
** Fortune cookies are the bane of every completionist. It is basically this game's gacha system that grants exclusive furniture and clothing items. Worst offender is the event ones, which are only available for a certain time period. If the player would rather buy cookies using Bells, the event cookies have a very low chance of appearing at the Fortune Cookie Shop. As per rule regarding systems like this, drop rates can be seen by the player before they confirm a purchase just so this mechanic is possible to be implemented to begin with, but it still does not matter when the [[Random Number God]] refuses to reward the 5-star, (mostly) Memory-unlocking spotlight furniture. And woe betide the player who wants to 3-medal their tie-in Happy Homeroom classes without spending any money...
** Gardening events are also notorious for being an "RNG stack", as a player's progress in this event type depends on how many rare creatures will spawn upon the seasonal flowers' bloom, how successful the captures are, and how many other players are willing to share the captures with said player.
** Getting the bonus rewards from Gulliver upon his return. Even if the player knows what to do to consistently trigger it (pre-2.6.0 versions only), getting what they want is still this, especially if they only want the exclusive animals/maps.
** Meanwhile, Gulliver's Ship past-2.6.0 has three randomly-generated islands the player can obtain rewards from, each containing their own reward pool and item requirements for one trip. The player can refresh it themselves, but it is still possible to generate the same islands prior to the refresh (up to two). And yes, the souvenir obtained after the trip remains randomly-picked unless there is only one reward left on that particular island. To further the luck-based aspect even further, if more than two souvenir items are brought back from a trip, the player can only claim one at a time, requiring another try, [[Bribing Your Way to Victory|unless the player is willing to spend Leaf Tickets for the extra souvenirs.]]
** Blathers's Treasure Trek and its die roll mechanic, of course. There is no way to work around this, as much like the fortune cookies, a roll's result is predetermined by the game and the auto-save is triggered upon rolling, so the result will always be the same even if the player chose to close and reopen the game.
** Any Chip Challenge that requires the player to fish out a certain number of event fish with a certain size or above, since fish size is random. It finally culminated in Fishing Tourney Monochromatic Cat, which became infamous for its sea bass collecting Challenge requiring a minimum size of 105 cm, which is large for its type, as its size average is around 90s and it is possible to fish out "smaller" ones worth 80s. While this should not be bad on its own if it is only very few required, the sea bass is (ironically) the rarest fish in this tourney and the player is required to fish ''30'' of them. Even [[Bribing Your Way to Victory|golden rod]] users are stumped on this Challenge. Remember, Fishing Tourneys are [[Timed Mission]]s.
* [[Macro Zone]]: The fairy-themed terrain set makes the campsite appear to be placed in a gigantic forest.
* [[Magic Carpet]]: Comes in two variations in Julia's Palace Cookie. One is the standard one that only fits one person, the latter is a decorated magic carpet that can fit two people. The latter of these items unlocks Julia's Memory.
* [[Microtransactions]]: Like many free-to-play games, this game has a premium currency shop where the player can buy Leaf Tickets with real money.
* [[Misplaced Wildlife]]: Justified for the rare creatures as they are either attracted to flowers that are implied to originate from different regions (bugs) or are possibly placed by Chip himself for the player to fish out ([[Wild Mass Guessing]] for the fish). Despite this, most of the creatures... are much less than realistic compared to the normally realistic catches (cube bumblebees? Candy fish?) found in the ''Animal Crossing'' games.
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** Other rare furniture items from the twins' fortune cookies include the metal flagpoles (seen in front of the ''New Leaf''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s town hall), the model bus (''City Folk''), Nook's Homes model (as it appears in ''Happy Home Designer''), and the sapling clock (based on ''New Leaf'''s town tree).
** The vineyard phonograph plays K.K. Chorale, a song that has appeared in every main ''Animal Crossing'' game.
** From the Sanrio side of things, two of the Sanrio Characters Goals involve collecting 3 and 5 apples. This is a nod to Hello Kitty's weight being 3 apples and height being a stack of 5 apples according to her character bio.
* [[Nerf]]:
** Starting from Fishing Tourney #4, regular fishing rods have reduced chance of capturing two fish at the same time. It later gets a further nerf in the fifth tourney.
** It appears that starting from the debut of Brewster's Sweet Harvest, rare creatures' spawn rates (particularly the less common types) have been lowered. This is on top of the increased amount of captures to complete all the tasks. On the bright side, their catch rates have been increased and the event lasts much longer than previous gardening events. This is presumably done to encourage more rare creature sharing between friends.
** Zigzagged with the 2.4.0 update applied to Shovelstrike Quarry. On one hand, items offered in the Quarry end up lasting for 12 hours instead of 3 as in the previous versions, making the wait for certain materials a player wants drag unnecessarily longer than it should be. But on the other hand, the Quarry's rewards have received a buff in the amount given away upon completion and the notoriously rare sparkle stones have been included there as another one of the obtainable materials that can potentially show up.
** Also zigzagged with the Daily Goals, also from the same update as the above, considering that the system itself was already nerfed since its first complete revamp. Its page count has been reduced from 3 to 2 (for the Goals themselves, 7 to 6) and the treat reward is numerically ''worse'' than its previous iteration (1 portion of silver/gold treats (10 or 15 Friendship points respectively; pre-2.6.0) vs. 3 silver treats (30 Friendship points; pre-2.6.0)). Not to mention, the essences have been axed, removing one of the sources for obtaining them. On the other hand, the Bell rewards have been upped significantly and the player can obtain tools like Request Tickets this way.
** A July 2019 update adjusts the Rarity ratings applied to items. As a result, some of the affected may end up getting this, and it is not just in ratings either. Nerfed items have lower selling price, less Happy Homeroom points, and lowered cargo quality.
** Update 2.6.0 reduced Fishing Tourney spawns from 6-9 to 5-8.
* [[No Antagonist]]: As usual for an ''Animal Crossing'' game, there is no antagonist to speak of.
* [[Not Completely Useless]]:
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** Version 2.1.0, at least for players who managed to accumulate a lot of resources that have become uncommonly/rarely used, made the Bells avert [[Money for Nothing]] and certain crafting materials this thanks to Blathers's Treasure Trek, which require the use of these to play. This also makes claiming Bells using MyNintendo points more favorable this time.
** The introduction of Happy Homeroom made unused furniture this as they have the potential of being utilized in a class's theme. These can also be used to cover up "required" furniture when the player does not have it.
* [[Obvious Rule Patch]]: During Blathers's Treasure Trek's early days, players were able to instantly clear Leaf Ticket maps (cost ''30,000-50,000 Bells per die roll''). Yes, basically pay a little Leaf Tickets to get more (plus some Bell maps for good measure). A later update no longer made this possible, of course.
* [[Palette Swap]]: Item recolors are nothing new in the series, but notable examples are:
** The "hard task" gardening event rewards. These do not have Catalog entries unlike their normal varieties, but since the introduction of Happy Homeroom, these are still needed for the hardest event class associated with said gardening event.
** The Google collaboration items (Android-only) have the red-and-yellow variety exclusive to the iOS version. Like the above, both varieties have no Catalog entries.
** Starting with the introduction of Isabelle's Cafe Cookie, some fortune cookie sets are just outright reskins/recolors of existing sets.
** For fish examples, Fishing Tourney #4 features a different variety<ref>Achilles surgeonfish, spotted knifejaw, black clown fish.</ref> of Fishing Tourney #1's fish<ref>Surgeonfish, barred knifejaw, clown fish.</ref>, making them appear to be like this. Meanwhile, Fishing Tourney #8 features [[Gold Makes Everything Shiny|gold]] recolors of some of the Saltwater Shores' fish, while the mini-event Golden Bug Catching Goals feature gold recolors of the horned dynastid, emperor butterfly, and horned hercules. Fishing Tourney:
* [[Play Every Day]]: Daily Goals show up every day and players can claim daily rewards by logging in into the game every new day.
** Starting with the introduction of Sanrio Characters Goals, this has become a Goal objective. Some require simply booting the game every new day, but some require logging into the game every day in a row.
* [[Point and Click Map]]: How the player can navigate between recreation areas in this game.
* [[Prize Letdown]]:
** The game's events, tiresome enough already, tend to have prizes not worth the participation. If an objective/progression rewards Leaf Tickets, expect each to give away single-digits of them... when premium items and fortune cookies cost two- or three-digits. If valuable materials like sparkle stones, reissue materials, and HH materials are offered, expect 90% of them to be given away as maps that will drain one's Bells quickly for just trying to clear them (and woe betide anyone who wants to get everything without Leaf Tickets).
** Related to the map issue above, Leaf Tickets can also be locked behind maps, and unsurprisingly these drain Bells very quickly (30,000 Bells per roll just to obtain 10 Leaf Tickets; ''50,000 per roll'' for lotsa Leaf Tickets maps... for a reward of 30). Until the 2.6.0 update, essence maps drained Bells just as quickly too (just to reach 10 bottles of essence...), not helped by the fact they are more common (since then, they consume either wood, steel, cotton, paper, or preserves; easy to obtain crafting materials, and instead of snacks, the treasure nodes are now filled entirely by the respective essences, not to mention that the end reward has been raised to 30). Let's just say that Blathers's Treasure Trek is guilty of this in general, as even the common crafting material maps also share this nature (1,000 Bells per roll just to reach the goal of 20, when the player usually sells 100 of these materials just to get those 1,000 Bells). Insta-clearing using Leaf Tickets only worsens the letdown.
** Gulliver's Ship in general. Pre-2.6.0, a player will have to lose 10 furniture and/or clothing items just for an attempt to get a new animal friend. But even then, despite using the best items, all the player gets is usually snacks due to RNG. Also, animals that are not O'Hare, Rowan, and Plucky are locked behind maps, necessitating essence drain (or Leaf Tickets for your [[Bribing Your Way to Victory]] goodness). While this should sound fine as a prize, animal friends have been free since the game's very beginning. Meanwhile, post-2.6.0, instead of furniture/clothing, a player has to lose far more Bells in addition to sparkle stones (only applicable to golden packages starting from November 21, 2019, which fixed various issues), essences, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|wood]] (and possibly HH materials if they dare to use golden packages) because the islands containing animal maps only accept cargo (export-only items that can only be obtained by crafting). Even then, similar to the ship's first iteration, all that effort ends up wasted on treats and Bells. It is even worse since the "X and Pals" islands have a much larger prize pool, so the likeliness of a player running out of resources is much higher (unless the player uses Leaf Tickets to claim multiple rewards per trip, but even then the wanted map may not be included because of this fact).
*** For more post-2.6.0 woes, look no further than special islands that require exceptionally high cargo points but only accept golden packages and the "Golden" series furniture. Both cost a lot of resources and Bells just to craft... all just for Bells lower than the cost needed, Leaf Ticket ''maps'', and golden HH vouchers (which the player will most likely never use if they do not play a lot of Happy Homeroom). With the November 21, 2019 fix, this has been toned down as players can simply export any item like in the older Gulliver's Ship and the export point requirements have been lowered.
** For those who are not fond of recolors, any event that rewards recolored versions of items they already have is this.
* [[The Quincy Punk]]: Rock-Star Collection's aesthetic. It has the stereotypical clothing/accessory items related to this, from the mohawk hairstyle to biker jackets.
* [[Random Drop]]: Basically, the entire rewards system (except for ones tied to certain milestones or events) is this.
* [[Random Event]]: Occasionally, finishing an animal's request has a random chance of showing an event related to the given item(s), like making barbecue (fruits, fish) or having said animal show off their collection (bugs, shells). This will result in a bonus crafting item (varies by animal) rewarded. Among all basic requests (not the ones denoted with a "..." in an animal's thought bubble), only the flower-related requests will always show an event.
* [[Random Number God]]: Pretty much applies to almost everything in this game.
** Special mention goes to Fishing Tourney #12. Since the debut of this event, the amount of event fish spawn per cycle varies between 6-9 fish instead of the constant 7. Update 2.6.0 further nerfed this, however.
* [[Rare Random Drop]]:
** Sparkle stones have a very, very low chance of being rewarded from certain animal requests. Said animal has to be level 10+ and an invisible variable has to reach a certain amount for this drop to even be possible.
** This part is only applicable to pre-2.6.0 versions. Gulliver's travelers have 30% chance of appearing as a bonus reward from item trading with him. Considering that most other rewards consist of bonus snacks (and that is assuming the bonus is triggered, which can be either around 50% or >98% depending on the item(s) given) and the player has to wait for 6 hours after trading for the result, it is not unheard of players spending days or even weeks trading cheap items just to meet all available travelers. Starting with the introduction of Blathers's Treasure Trek, animal maps other than Teddy's are also part of Gulliver's bonus reward.
** As the fortune cookies mechanic is basically this game's take on gacha/lootbox, naturally some of the rare items obtained from the cookies end up being this.
* [[Relationship Values]]: This game's level-up system depends on this, filling up by leveling up an animal's friendship level. Animals will gain friendship points if the player finishes their request, chats with them, changes their outfit if they ask to, finds their lost item (campsite guests only), or builds an amenity. Reaching certain friendship levels will allow inviting the animal to the campsite, changing their clothes, new requests from that animal, obtaining that animal's clothing, or even obtaining new furniture that cannot be obtained elsewhere.
* [[Retcon]]:
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** O'Hare, Rowan, and Plucky used to be outright rewarded to the player after a lucky trip from Gulliver's service. Since version 2.6.0 (which also happens to revamp said feature), those three animals now require maps to befriend.
* [[Save Game Limits]]: One per player. Also per install, unless the player links the save with a MyNintendo account. Also, the player cannot play the game with same profile on another device of the same platform (iOS/Android crossplay is fine and still keeps the same progress except for purchased Leaf Tickets) unless the player uninstalled the game in the older device or used MyNintendo's cloud saving feature.
* [[Save Scumming]]: Believe it or not, there is, but only concerning catching bug/fish after a save. To put it simply, if the player fails to catch a bug/fish (rare creatures from the gardening events do not count), as long as the next auto-save is not triggered, the player can close and reopen the game to have another try.
* [[Slouch of Villainy]]: Animals that sit on the wicked throne furniture invoke this.
* [[Socialization Bonus]]: Having friends in a player's list allows them to request Shovelstrike Quarry help without Leaf Tickets (though this can only be done once per day). Another benefit is that the player can view a friend's Market Box at any time without having to wait for them to appear in a random recreation area. With the introduction of player-exclusive local produce in version 2.1.0, this becomes a necessity for collecting all fruits.
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** Lobo the wolf's event cookie is inexplicably titled "Solo Table". Yep, his fondest Memory is being a (literal) lone wolf in a café.
** Apollo's event cookie is cinema-/theater-themed. While it might be kind of a stretch (the following reference is a music venue, not a cinema) and is more on wordplay, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Theater Apollo Theater is a thing.]
* [[Steampunk]]: September 2019's aesthetic. From the clothing side, there is the aptly-named Steampunk Collection.
* [[Technology Marches On]]: Like in ''New Leaf'', this is invoked with the historical theme, specifically on items that were relevant at the time of the previous ''Animal Crossing'' games' release. TV with VCR, anyone?
▲* [[Theme Tune Cameo]]: This game's title tune can be heard in a few situations.
▲** As this game lacks the equivalent to the "town tune", animals can be heard humming/whistling the game's theme instead.
▲** The first anniversary music box plays its own rendition of the title screen music.
* [[Throw the Dog a Bone]]:
** After long-time frustrations regarding [[Luck-Based Mission|fortune cookie problems]], it appears that Nintendo tries to alleviate it a bit by making certain event fortune cookies free rewards in certain events, starting from the Summertime Bug Catching event.
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* [[Timed Mission]]: Basically every request and goal the player can do (except Stretch Goals). Animals that do not stay at the campsite will only be available for three hours before being switched out with another, while Timed Goals (including event-based ones) have their own set time limit. If the player is a completionist, then trying their best to buy/obtain all event-only items before the event duration runs out also counts.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: The themed snacks correspond to an animal's preferred theme, so natural animals prefer waffles, hip animals prefer lollipops, cute animals prefer donuts, etc. Giving an animal a matching snack will increase friendship points by nearly or the same as giving them a generic-themed snack.
* [[Trial and Error Gameplay]]: Happy Homeroom gameplay in general, if the player does not have all the required furniture/clothing and thus can only rely on "Good eye!" grades. Lottie's own event classes up the ante by hiding their recommended furniture/clothing and leaving only the item categories, so the player is left trying every possible item and hope to get a "Flawless!" rating from all of them. Subverted, of course, if the player takes a closer look on the layout and see the correlating items/themes (partition-type item right next to a violet screen? Another violet screen, obviously!). The tie-in Goals also mention crafting certain items, which also serve as hints.
* [[Valentine's Day Episodes]]:
** For 2018, all players logged in that time are rewarded with the Valentine chocolate furniture item.
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*** The garden event and Gyroidite Scavenger Hunt also go with the Valentine theme.
*** Premium clothing items which are part of the Valentine's Collection are also offered.
* [[Vendor Trash]]: The cheaper items from the standard fortune cookies. A few of these are mere [[Palette Swap|recolors]] of Market Place items and considering how common they are due to the nature of fortune cookies, they can fill up a player's inventory quickly. These are best dumped on Gulliver for some
* [[Video Game Caring Potential]]: The player can choose to give the "correct" clothing/furniture item to an animal (or his/her friend) whose request involves suggesting what to wear or what furniture to give. It is a minor [[Guide Dang It]] in determining which, but seeing the animal's happy response if the player succeeded in doing so can give the player a feeling of satisfaction.
* [[Virtual Paper Doll]]: As per usual for an ''Animal Crossing'' game, the player character can be customized with various clothing items. Guest animals' clothing can also be customized, though not every clothing item can be worn by them.
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