The Lost Features of Animal Crossing - Missing in Action

Quite a few features have disappeared over Animal Crossing's 20 year history. We explore missing features like angry villagers, constellations, soccer balls, Blanca's missing face, and tons more in our latest Missing in Action. Games covered include Animal Crossing on the GameCube, DS's WIld World, City Folk, on the WIi, New Leaf on the 3DS, and more!
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[sav]

i 10000% agree with making personalities more diverse again!!! and also give blathers back his dialogue PLEASE

[DuckyQuackington]

the amount of weeds in your towns is highly anger inducing

[HollowHydreigon]

i want the golden statue of myself when i complete my debt back

[Sean_Bird]

This series was Missing in Action for a while. Glad it’s back.

[jag]

“Kind of dumb, but kind of awesome” sums up Animal Crossing as a whole.

[maskpenn]

I find it weird that we don't take people being jerks in real life but in video games we want people to downright insult us

[sonic]

I miss the planner we had in the first game. It was nice to flip through and see some if the holidays and events that were upcoming.

I also kind of miss how towns had two elevation levels. The way it was handled in New Leaf made beaches feel claustrophobic...

[zachary]

I want multi level towns back. The maps in New Leaf are too flat!

[swailey]

I Really want the mean villagers back. By making them rude and standoffish to begin with, it makes befriending them all the more worth it.

I find myself unmotivated to talk to my current New Leaf villagers because there was nothing built and nothing lost from ignoring them.

[GabsterHamster]

I need the credit card back from City Folk

[SleepyBoiYO]

Damn guys, you've got more weeds than my dealer

[leroyjenkins]

damn..I never knew how much I mised rolling that ball down the hill

nothing worse than the struggle of getting it back up the hill

[joejoejoe]

At the very least, at least we have E3 coming up soon!


please, nintendo. i beg you.

[Wolfphototech]

I miss the Diary ( great to communicating with people .

Also the sales gyroid ( in front of the house and the store )

[dailynonsense]

The message in a bottle brings back Wind Waker HD memories of “Pass it on!”

[BekkiUndSo]

All I need again is the Acorn Festival. I really, REALLY missed that.

[thenextnx]

*Timestamps*


0:00 The Night Sky (Wild World)
Chance of Returning: Big chance
(due to possible camera movement & Pocket Camp hint at a return)


3:11 Vitrual Console / Classic Games (Animal Crossing)
Chance of Returning: Very low
(It could be connected to Switch Online, but else there's no way Nintendo is giving away free games again)


4:45 Blanca's Face (Animal Crossing)
Chance of Returning: Low
(It could be too obscure for today)


6:28 The random balls (Animal Crossing)
Chance of Returning: Unlikely
(Why not? But it's Nintendo...)


7:09 The Random Special Events (Animal Crossing)
Chance of Returning: Likely
(Why not? Would work great with the DLC stuff)


8:42 Note in a Bottle (Wild World)
Chance of Returning: Likely
(Gotta push that online service, right?)


9:48 Mean Villagers (Animal Crossing)
Chance of Returning: 0%
(Nintendo did go into a controversy with how mean the villagers was. It's never coming back again).

[theletterm]

Man I LOVED the message in a bottle from Wild World! They were always so random and intriguing. One of my favourite small features from that game

[Protendo]

Keep in mind that the only thing that Nintendo’s Online service actually gives us was done in Animal Crossing 20 years ago.

[Guryxz]

I want Serena back :( it was fun and frustrating when i tried to get a golden axe in city folk... Good times :')