 Animal Crossing New Horizon has been very special for us because it's the first game that we've both really enjoyed playing together, even if playing together typically means playing individually, on our own separate islands just at the same time while sitting next to one another on a couch watching reruns of Seinfeld and screaming at Paul Hollywood for daring to suggest that Jurgen's pie was too dry. The beef has gone very, very dry. I mean, Giuseppe's clearly the better baker, but still, we like Jurgen, don't be mean. It's true, we did both love Animal Crossing, it's just that since launch there's been little to no updates for the game, and it's become a little boring. So, you can imagine our excitement when, two, huge DLC updates coming on the same day. Each crammed full with so many quality of life improvements, huge gameplay additions, entirely new items and experiences, it was honestly so overwhelmingly exhilarating, the inside of my brain probably looked a little bit like this guy's. Oh, sorry, I was just testing my Raycons to see if I could get them to fall out of my ears and, no wow, can I try? Oh man, they really don't come out, do they? Nope, no, I mean they really don't come out, they've been stuck in my ears for weeks. Every time you use my link below to buy a pair of Raycons, it directly supports my channel, so let me tell you why you should buy a pair. The new everyday earbud offers an improved rubber look and feel, with optimized gel tips for the perfect ear fit. Raycons offer 8 hours of playtime and 32 hour battery life, there's also a built-in mic so you can take calls at the press of a button, oh, hello. Raycons start at half the price of other premium audio brands, but they sound just as good and come with a 45 day happiness guarantee between my everyday's and my new gaming earbuds. I do use my Raycons every day, either in the gym, on walks, cleaning the house and now gaming. So now, more than ever, is the perfect time to buy a pair of Raycons, as you can get 20% off, 20%! More than ever before! By clicking the link in the description box, I'll go in and buy Raycon.com forward slash beat em ups to unlock exclusive deals and get 20% off your Raycon order just in time for Christmas. Oh, they came out! You used the wrong size gel tip, didn't you? No, I've got some gum on them. Ew. Should we start with the free update first? Well we may as well, since Nintendo did. Both these DLCs were supposed to launch November 5th, but the free one just became available a day early or so on the 3rd. I guess even Nintendo couldn't wait for a sip of Brewster's special roast. And maybe it's because Nintendo realized this was an ungodly amount of DLC to drop all on the same day and they were afraid too many people would develop insomnia trying to play it all at once like I may or may not have done. Or maybe that's what all the coffees were. Discover the reason? These two chuckleheads were excited to jump back into Animal Crossing for the first time in a couple of years and discover so much good stuff, like where do we even begin? With the items, I guess. If you've been looking to spice up your designing, there's over 9,000 new items. It's over 9,000? Hold on, actually no sorry, don't want to upset a Super Saiyan. I think it's actually only about 1200 new items, then it becomes 9,000 when you include all the customization options. Oh, what's new you might be asking Kim? Although you probably aren't, you've seen it all. Yeah, I might have. Everything from new furniture like this computer, which looks suspiciously like mine. And this frog chair, which I still don't understand the relevance of. And if I'm being honest, I don't even care. Sir, that is an Animal Crossing staple and you need to respect him. It's a chair? It's more than a chair. Okay. The thing that I really love about a lot of these new items is that it really felt like the creators of the game listened or at least saw what a lot of us were trying to create in the game with the very limited items that they gave us, especially with the cars. I'm sure a lot of you have tried at some point to make a car out of simple panels and sheer desperation and we don't have to anymore. So thank you, Nintendo. It's particularly bleak when you see the little gas station and there's the race car bed sat next to it. We did the best we could. I'm sorry. What's the point of a gas? That was in day one with no cars. I don't know. What are you thinking? Speaking of the dev team listening to its player base, on top of a bunch of new items, they also added several quality of life improvements. Like, oh my God, thank you. Permanent ladders and binds for you to climb on. So now you don't always got to know, no, no, no, no, no, what? Why is it always the last one? And outside ATM or AB and ABD and storage box. So you don't got to keep going in and out of loading screen doors to access them ordinances that force your villages to bend to your will and change their sleep patterns based on just your favorite time to be away for me. That means dragging my villages out of bed at 11 p.m. I do feel terrible as watching them stumbled around, dragging their feet in the middle of the night with baggy, light-sharp eyes looks like a scene from Dawn of the Dead. There's honestly more updates, additions and changes than we even have time to talk about, but you know what there's always time for? Farming. Yee-haw. Tomatoes, potatoes, sugar, wheat, carrots, plant them, grow them, cook them, stare at them. I mean, sure, you could eat them, but they look so pretty sat on my kitchen countertop for weeks on end. Well, goodie up. All right, settle down. Yeah, I probably should. So to buy the crops for your new farm, you need to head to Harbs Island and start donating to this little shanty town of shops. Once Leaves sets up shop, you can visit him there anytime. Same goes for all the other shops. Cyrus will fully customize any item you bring to him. Zaharin cakes will sell you, you know, shoes, rugs. Okay, so it really does seem like the new additions never end. Added camera features, scooching in small gaps between furniture opens you up to cuter, smaller spaces and sick accent walls, which by the way, really help when designing certain themes or cool spaces like designing a coffee shop and having just one bean wall rather than being surrounded by beans. Which to be fair, sounds like Bob's dream come true. We haven't even mentioned Brewster's coffee shop. Oh, I don't think we have time to mention Brewster's coffee shop. There's entirely too much going on. And we haven't even got to the paid DLC yet. Well, what if we make coffee to help us kind of, you know, speed through this last part? I will never say no to coffee. So in the museum, you go out of coffee shop. I thought you got to go to a boat ride with a little singing frog. Not a frog. Find a coffee hour. Pigeon. And buy them back to your island. But close your museum, build a cafe, and boom, ban me going to coffee whenever you want. And buy other villagers over for a cup of water or buy some friends over for a cup of bean juice. Bean juice? Yeah. Yeah, that about does it. It's super cute, but honestly. Boring! I wish they'd made it more like new leaf where you would learn your villagers' favorite coffee orders and you would go get it for them. But I mean, it's still cute. Oh, yay, it took Stephen's order. You'll be paying for everyone, Stephen! Stephen! Come on, man! Yeah, there's not much else you can do down there. Also, I think I've come down already. Okay. Can we talk about the gyroids for a second? Yes, please. I know you didn't care initially. This was something that I was really excited about because gyroids are, much like froggy chair, an animal crossing staple. That was like one of my favorite things every day to do an animal crossing. I would try to see which little butt hole was the gyroid buried in the ground. I wasn't really sure what the designs were going to look like for the new version, but I'm going to be honest. I love these so much more than any of the old ones, especially this one. I also really love that they've added new dialogue for the villagers. I love that they can now unexpectedly show up in your house and ask you to play cards for some reason, but it's still nice that they came to visit. The entire experience just feels more interactive now and it's breathed new life into this game that we both loved a lot. I agree, and all of that is free. There's more, I'm sure, that we didn't even talk about, but let's talk about money. Give us some. No. The second DLC is optional, but will set you back a cool $25. Or it's included in the Nintendo Online Expansion Pack weirdly nestled in between the N64 and Mega Drive games. One of these things is not like the other. But whichever way you decide to grab it, it is absolutely worth it. Yeah, look, it's called Happy Home Paradise, and you fly to these vacation resort areas and design homes for random villagers. And when I saw this, I thought, who cares? I was not interested in designing homes for NPCs that do nothing to affect my home island experience, but I was wrong. This is where most of my addiction over the last week has settled in, meticulously designing the perfect spaces for each village's specific needs. An arcade, sheet, living, a home studio, whatever the request, I'm gonna do my best to create a cool, exciting space, and I'm gonna go all out even on the front yard, because that's the wood design company guarantee. Yeah, I'm honestly surprised that you're taking it as seriously as you are considering how much crap you give me for decorating houses in the Sims for hours on end. In the time it has taken me to design 40 vacation homes, you have built 10 homes and a school. Hey, that's not true. I also built a cafe and I nailed it. The Happy Home Paradise edition is really cool. I was worried it might have been its own separate game, like Happy Home Designer, but the fact that it's also tied into the base game experience is really awesome. You go to work designing homes and businesses that are actually usable, rake in that sweet pokey, which is a separate currency from bells, and by the way, Nintendo, thank you for not making me pay no miles for all the items I want on this island. It's very nice of you. Then once you've designed enough vacation homes, you can even start redesigning your own villagers' houses back on your island, which I'm very grateful for, because I can finally fix Nox's creepy casket, whatever this is. I haven't got there yet. I'm still on house 11. Once you clock in for work, you'll find different villagers hanging out on the vacation beach every day. You see what they want for their homes and pick whatever interests you and completely ignore anyone who wants something boring, like well water. That was one I had today. Oh really? Yeah. How would you even? I don't know. Then go to work giving them the most wonderful vacation homes possible, or if you're just trying to blast with a DLC, just throw their three requested items in the corner and call it a day. The possibilities are endless and the freedom of spawning whatever you want, customizing it on the fly, clicking and dragging things around, even outside in the overworld is so freeing. At first, the rooms you designed are really small, but as you progress further in the DLC, they allow you to create much bigger rooms, which good. What is this? A center for ants? How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read if they can't even fit inside the building? The center has to be at least three times bigger than this. He's absolutely right. Thank you. I have a vision. Happy Home Paradise in itself does feel like a separate animal crossing game. So for only $25, it's a really great deal. But the fact that it's part of the animal crossing new horizon experience and cohesively works together just makes it that much better. Honestly, it's worth $25 for Niko and Wardle alone. Besides being ridiculous and cute, Wardle will give you a catalog so you can order whatever items you want in any color you want and Niko will give you DIYs for pillars and countertops. The only thing that sucks is we've waited two years for a substantial update in the game and granted, we got two huge ones at once. But Nintendo has already said that that's it for both paid or free DLC. I will say it's been very nice being able to play it again, but also play it together. Yeah. Hit the like button down below, subscribe and leave a comment. We appreciate you watching. Bye.