Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Happy Home Paradise

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  • Summary: Expand your horizons with DLC and help create vacation homes for clients on resort islands. Clients with different dream vacation requests will visit a new resort area located in an archipelago, made up of several different islands, where the Paradise Planning team is located. You can talkExpand your horizons with DLC and help create vacation homes for clients on resort islands. Clients with different dream vacation requests will visit a new resort area located in an archipelago, made up of several different islands, where the Paradise Planning team is located. You can talk to a client and find out the details of their requests for a vacation home, and then make their dreams happen.… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Nintendojo
    Jan 12, 2022
    100
    Animal Crossing Happy Home Paradise takes all that was innovative, fun, and satisfying from the original Happy Home Designer, fixes what made the game complete, and expands on the original game altogether creating a DLC expansion that, despite a few set backs, is well worth it for any owner of Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
  2. Gfinity
    Nov 26, 2021
    90
    Happy Home Paradise gave me a lot of freedom to make choices then act on them without too many repercussions. Ultimately, I could do what I wanted and when I wanted (within reason). I like New Horizons, it’s a good game, but there is a limit on what I can do without needing to spend a lot of Bells or spend hours grinding for one simple change which could end up being a mistake. In contrast, The DLC thrives by offering players total control over their designs, and by setting the stakes low. From designing an entirely pink house for a fabulous Flamingo to remodelling the Cafe into a 50’s style Diner, there were few limits on my designs or on the potential to have fun.
  3. Hobby Consolas
    Nov 17, 2021
    85
    Happy Home Paradise is the answer for those feeling fatigued by Animal Crossing New Horizons.
  4. Screen Rant
    Nov 8, 2021
    80
    Once players complete every milestone in their career, they can continue to update facilities, remodel homes, and offer new designs to visiting clients. This gives players a lot of content to discover and play through. When combined with the 2.0 update, the Happy Home Paradise DLC offers players a variety of new mechanics to unlock and use both at the resort and on their own island. Each new feature in Animal Crossing: New Horizons 2.0 and Happy Home Paradise adds to the players' overall experience by creating new customization options and different areas to explore.
  5. Destructoid
    Nov 15, 2021
    80
    There is nothing I like more in Animal Crossing than fidgeting around my house and changing the layout on a whim. That’s all you’re going to do in Happy Home Paradise, and for me, that’s more than enough to keep me logging in every single day.
  6. GamingBolt
    Nov 12, 2021
    80
    Happy Home Paradise is a relaxing add-on to the base game.
  7. TheSixthAxis
    Nov 11, 2021
    70
    Happy Home Paradise gives you the easiest job in the world. Creating holiday homes for various Animal Crossing characters is about as pressure-free as it gets when you're given a clear direction, a curated set of furniture to choose from, and the knowledge that the customer will love whatever it is that you do. There's no risk of a Changing Rooms disaster here. It's another avenue to express yourself in New Horizons, just don't expect much challenge, critique or need to think too far out of the box.

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  1. Positive: 8 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 10
  3. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. tigerboy3050
    Nov 24, 2021
    10
    This is just... Great. It is amazing. I, like many other people, hadn't picked up animal crossing for a while, and then the 2.0 update cameThis is just... Great. It is amazing. I, like many other people, hadn't picked up animal crossing for a while, and then the 2.0 update came out, which by itself is...good I guess? But.. Happy Home Paradise is just a beautiful, perfectly balanced DLC, from the quiet Wardell, to the adorable Niko, and then to the overworked Lottie, the characters are all just amazing. Look.. The price is quite steep, 25 dollars for DLC. But the DLC is a game in itself, and when you consider that, it's relatively reasonable. And while what tour paying for IS a game in itself, there still are many features that can hook into your main island, like the ability to invite your villagers to the archipelago, the ability to use your skills on your island, and even a Poki ABD to convert your Poki to Bells. There is so much here, and so much progression, which is something the base game lacks.

    Overall, there is so much to love about this DLC, so if your on the edge about it, I'd recommend just going and buying it. 10 out of 10, I love it!    … Expand
  2. Happyspelling
    Nov 8, 2021
    10
    Both the 2.0 update and DLC added tons of new content to get players playing again. Happy Home Paradise is pretty much just an enhancedBoth the 2.0 update and DLC added tons of new content to get players playing again. Happy Home Paradise is pretty much just an enhanced version of Happy Home Designer on the 3DS, which was already a pretty fun game. If you've played that you get the basic idea of the game. There's been a lot of improvements to the formula this time around. Firstly, building houses is quicker and more satisfying, which makes unlocking new stuff faster. You can invite villagers from your island, and there are a lot more customization options for houses that you can even take with you to your island. The gameplay is generally better overall, and I'd say it's worth the $25 price tag. One thing Happy Home Designer does better is the facilities. In that game you could do them whenever you wanted and they were huge, leaving tons of room for creativity. In this game, you are forced to complete them at certain points, and you can't leave until you finish. That would be okay if it gave you the option instead of just throwing you into it without warning. Also they are way smaller this time. I only did the first two facilities, so maybe it allows more freedom later on, but those first two facilities felt very restrictive. They were still fun overall, and I'm really enjoying the DLC so far. Probably the best part is that it technically allows you to have all 400+ villagers in the game. I wish the update allowed more villagers on the island, but this DLC fixes it in a way. The 2.0 update has fixed nearly every problem with the game, and now I am addicted to New Horizons once again. Please send help. Actually don't, this is the best addiction I could ask for.… Expand
  4. greninjaX
    Nov 13, 2021
    10
    yo, this new mode is awesome. i found some of the villagers i had in the wii game, and now tanks has a casino. it's frickin awesome.
  5. juanandesign
    Nov 19, 2021
    9
    I dont really know what my browser has to do in order to rate a game here in Metacritic, this web needs improvement guys.
  6. supstar
    Nov 13, 2021
    8
    Everything in this is a well thought out and fun addition to the game that encourages daily, slow play instead of grind. Overall an excellentEverything in this is a well thought out and fun addition to the game that encourages daily, slow play instead of grind. Overall an excellent addition to the game that makes it feel far more like a finished game than it did at launch.

    My problem with Happy Home Designer on the 3DS wasn't that it wasn't fun, but that designing homes felt too much like a chore to be done all on its own. It needed to be tied to a normal animal crossing game so you could do some designing then go back and chill, and that's exactly what we got here, with some very significant rewards for doing it.

    My only problems preventing me from giving it a 10 are the fact that you cannot use the room size options in your town, neither on your or your villagers' houses, you can't add second floors to your villagers' houses in your town, and the end reward for Happy Home (not spoiling) is not a weekly repeatable thing, because it was awesome and it's a shame we only get to see it once.

    The content is really excellent, however it's just such a huge bummer that you can't use it to it's fullest in your own town.    … Expand
  7. Dyl_lionaire
    Feb 11, 2023
    8
    This game was exactly what I was looking for compared to the base game, the interface is easy to understand and the choices for decoratingThis game was exactly what I was looking for compared to the base game, the interface is easy to understand and the choices for decorating never felt overbearing so overall I really enjoyed my time.… Expand
  8. Lesima
    Nov 16, 2021
    0
    Me ha gustado mucho la nueva actualizacion junto con el Happy Home Paradise, hay mucho mas que hacer y es muy entretenido.

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