Animal Crossing: New Horizons Co-op Gameplay: 20 Minutes Of Off-Screen Footage | PAX East 2020

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the next entry into Nintendo's carefree life-sim. It's almost out and we got a taste of it at the PAX East 2020 show floor. Granted, Animal Crossing is all about living your in-game life over the course of days, weeks, and months, but the demo let us check out a little bit of the crafting system, the new Able Sisters shop, and the expansive museum.

The crafting system has gathering specific resources to construct the necessities like the fishing rod or vaulting pole, but also new pieces of furniture to deck out your house. To craft items, you'll need to go to the shop run by Timmy and Tommy Nook. The Able Sisters shop lets you browse for new outfits and you can dress yourself with pants, shirts, socks, shoes, hats, and glasses--it's the deepest fashion has gotten in Animal Crossing. The museum was especially impressive, now including a biodome for all the bugs you collect, an aquarium for all fish you catch, and wide open showcase for all the fossils you dig up. The PAX East show floor demo also allowed for four-player couch co-op where friends can hop on and explore your island with you.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons launches on Nintendo Switch on March 20, 2020. We have you covered from several angles, so be sure to check out our video on 19 things new for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, some impressions from our recent hands-on preview, and our pre-order guide if you're already planning your virtual island getaway.

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[mr.mewmeow]

Glad I got to hear the music more clearly in this gameplay. It's so good!

[DJ_TJ]

The music is so awesome, it has a very calm soothing vibe. It kinda shows that this game is more modern than Animal Crossing Population Growing but still has that nostalgic vibe!

[Lumalee_Jay]

So that’s the 4pm theme is. That’s so cool!

[takemetoyonk]

9:50 the new able sisters theme! It's a less harsh remix for sure. Even better for looping when I make designs there! And now that it's on our phones, we can design at night!!

[HertzNazaire]

beautiful and peaceful I need this in my life right now

[PopCultureFan_]

and i rememeber seeing the chat bubbles on screen, i thought they were when the characters were chatting with eachother lol, i didnt knkw the anaimla villagers have speechbubbles now and actually will say things out of the blue. So cool!, its actually alittle more reministent of real life now..

[tianamaria]

I know that a lot of people got to play at pax but I wish they would have had some single players cuz it’s a tad bit annoying to see the other players do nothing but switch items

[tianamaria]

How did you isolate the music from the outside noise?

[Schilddruse]

Honestly, the music is a little bit... too... loungey for me. If that makes sense. Not much Animal Crossing-vibe going on there. I might get used to it, though. But holy moly that town is just a mess of a town.