Mr. Sean's Ten Favorite Animal Crossing: Happy Home Paradise Clients

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Hello everyone and welcome to yet another attempt of mine at re-awakening my blog. I've had ideas rattle around in my head the past many months but not enough motivation to act upon them. I'm currently feeling very motivated to add to my blog and I have been playing the Animal Crossing: New Horizons Downloadable Content called Happy Home Paradise. Happy Home Paradise is a spiritual sequel to the Nintendo 3DS game Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer. In the main Animal Crossing games one of the possible things you as the player can do is decorate your house with different furniture, wallpaper, flooring, and other knick-knacks. Happy Home Designer takes the house decorating game to the next level where you get to decorate houses for the various Non-Playable Character (NPC) animal neighbors that inhabit Animal Crossing. Happy Home Paradise for the Nintendo Switch is similar to Happy Home Designer but in my opinion feels meatier in content. I could be wrong but I only have at the time of writing (August 2022) about seven months left to purchase Happy Home Designer for the Nintendo 3DS and see for myself which game has more content. 

Enough about my worries about time and FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), it's time to get to the meat of today's blog post. I've been playing Happy Home Paradise recently and having fun decorating houses for different animal NPCs and have worked on enough houses that I can discuss my ten favorite and my five least favorite NPC clients I've worked for. Today I'll focus on my personal best of the best and who knows, maybe my ten best list will be different in 2023 if I keep at it. This list is not in order of whose houses I enjoyed designing the most but is just a list of whose houses I greatly enjoyed designing.

1: Tipper

Tipper is a cow character of the personality type called snooty. Snooty villagers tend to be very fashion forward and quite judgmental of their neighbors' fashion choices. Tipper wanted her own ranch so I gave her a desert wheat ranch because it looks cool and also I had the idea that Tipper wanted some challenge to accomplish.

2: Nan

Nan is a "normal" goat NPC. Normal is a misnomer and it would be more fair to call Nan a "sweet" villager as normal villagers tend to be the kindest neighbors in Animal Crossing. Nan tasked me with the making of a luxury hotel room. I tried to make the hotel room in the spirit of an actual hotel room, but really spruced up. There usually are not pianos in many hotel rooms.

3: Claude

Claude was my first lazy villager and my first rabbit villager in Animal Crossing: New Horizons back in April 2020. In New Horizons, lazy villagers love food and their bug friends. Claude also happened to be one of my first Happy Home Paradise clients and he wanted a fun arcade. He has great taste in vacation homes and I had to include some gamer fuel provided by the vending machine on the right side of the image. 

4: Audie

Audie is a peppy wolf villager and in New Horizons peppy villagers are obsessed with becoming pop stars. Audie is making a name for herself in the electronic music scene instead of mainstream Top 40 music with her club. Her club is complete with club snacks because those who dance to Audie's beats will work up quite an appetite.

5: Ken

Ken is a smug ninja chicken. Smug villagers are fashion conscious like snooty villagers but are more inwardly focused on themselves to the point of vanity. Ken wanted a dojo for martial arts so I obliged him with one where Armor-sensei (the Samurai Armor item in the background) watches over martial arts practitioners and four zabuton (seat cushions) for guests to observe the action.

6: Agnes

Agnes is a sisterly (or uchi as some Animal Crossing fans prefer) pig villager. She may be a little rough around the edges but she genuinely cares for her friends. As much as uchi villagers seem to get a bad rap for not being cultured, Agnes bucks the trend with her request for a museum full of cultural treasures and knowledge to be shared.

7: Miranda

Miranda is a snooty duck villager. Snooty villagers tend to not be fans of physical fitness but Miranda wants a gym that can kick her butt with a nice workout. I added some variety for potential workouts so her muscles don't get complacent. The Ring Fit Adventure station in the back is worthy of being included in the great gym as it will give you a real workout but with RPG (Role-playing game) elements thrown in such as battling enemies by doing squats or planks.

8: Shino

Shino is a peppy deer whose design inspiration comes from traditional Japanese Noh theater. Naturally her Happy Home Paradise request had to be Japanese themed and with her personality in mind she can be quite the J-Pop star mixing modern day Japan with the old traditional Japan and creating new fusions that are the future of J-Pop.

9: Eugene

Eugene is a smug koala villager whose wearing of sunglasses reminds me a bit of Elvis Presley. His request for a vacation house was a talk show set so with my limited knowledge of late shows from TV I tried to include multiple cameras for multiple angles, a couch for show guests, a live audience section, and a piano represents the musicians that tend to accompany the late night talk show hosts. 

10: Petri

Petri is a snooty mouse villager. In Animal Crossing promotional images she usually is wearing a pair of glasses that conceal her eyes and is dressed in a lab coat because she is a scientist mouse. Petri's idea for a vacation house is a message to her fellow scientists that it is okay to take breaks sometimes and that you don't need to be nose to the grindstone 24/7. Petri's ideal relaxation includes tea and snacks.

Next time on Mr. Sean vs Motivation: My five least favorite Happy Home Paradise clients and their visions.

Mr. Sean's Ranks his Animal Crossing: New Horizons Neighbors: Numbers 10-1

Today I will show off my top ten Animal Crossing: New Horizons neighbors. There is an old favorite in the mix along with a really tiny villager. Here we go!

10. Kabuki

Kabuki is a cranky cat, except he isn't really all that cranky in New Horizons like he was in past Animal Crossing games. Anyways, he ranks highly because he's a good mentor to Broccolo who'll appear later in the post and is willing to sing with his neighbors even though he is shy regarding solo performances.

9. Audie

Peppy Audie may say foxtrot and seem more fox than wolf, but either way she is an interesting peppy villager. Peppy villagers in New Horizons tend to have the nebulous goal of being a popstar but Audie's main hobby is fitness. Health is important and fitness can build endurance for long tours. Bonus points to Audie's house for being perfectly themed for island living.

8. Norma

The first cow in the countdown. Norma's name is a bit on the nose as she is a Normal villager. Nintendo should come up with a better name than "Normal." Maybe try "Sweet" or "Caring" instead? Anyways, I like most of the cows in Animal Crossing and her hobby of nature pairs well with Claude so they can learn from each other about the flora and fauna of New Maui.

7. Tipper

Tipper is ranked higher than Norma for looking more like a real cow (I've yet to see a pink cow in real life). Also, despite being a snooty villager, she tended to not be snarky but helpful in her fashion advice and other conversations. I like how her eyes seem perpetually closed yet are very expressive. Also, she pulls off the Animal Crossing version of haute couture very well.

6. Skye

Skye is a sky blue wolf, but she's not hungry for meat and is rather sweet. Her house continues the sky blue coloring scheme and despite it looking like a normal house for a normal villager, she has a piano that accompanies well with her singing. She was a shy singer like Kabuki, but she was even shyer.

5. Katt

Katt isn't the prettiest cat out there, but who cares when she's got musical chops for days. Singing? Katt can belt out tunes really well. Guitar? Yes! Drums? She keeps telling me to not request her to play them but I have evidence that she has an excellent sense of rhythm. She's also defends Broccolo the mouse from haters. I personally like her color scheme, fangs, and eyes. Her hind paws (feet) are blue, which is cool.

4. Sydney

Sydney the Koala and I go way back. All the way back to the GameCube Animal Crossing. In fact, she still lives in the acre to the left of my house today. Anyways, New Horizons decided that she would be musically inclined like Katt, Kabuki, and Tangy are. Maybe she can be the lead singer and have Kabuki playing bass, Tangy at guitar, and Katt on drums? She is definitely the sunshine on my island.

3. Claude

Claude the rabbit often mentions his love of bugs. Other lazy villagers do the same thing but only a few of them can prove their love of bugs via knowledge. I'll often see Claude reading books about nature and his favorite nature book features bugs. He also has books on fish and flowers. One of my favorite things about rabbits in New Horizons is that their ears are very floppy despite being upright. The wind will blow the ears back and forth. I wonder if heavy winds give Claude a headache?

2. Broccolo

Tiny mousey boy Broccolo is my second favorite New Maui villager as I write this post. He's basically a little child who: must be protected at all costs, is ready to learn everything about the world, has a bottomless pit for a stomach, and is one of the cutest mice in the game. He can relate to each of my cat neighbors well. With Mitzi, he and Mitzi have a younger brother older sister dynamic but seem to be best friends. Kabuki is the mentor to Broccolo being the mentee. Katt will defend Broccolo against all haters and Tangy and Broccolo share a favorite song: "I Love You" by K.K. Slider. He also gifted me at least two real pieces of art for the museum. For somebody who loves to run around like an airplane, he's contributed a lot to New Maui society.

1. Mitzi

Although Mitzi hasn't contributed artwork to the New Maui museum or been the most active cat in the town square, she is my favorite villager in New Horizons and is knocking on Purrl's doorstep as my favorite Animal Crossing cat. She's friends with everybody, is an opportunist when it comes to finding places to plop down with a good book, her eyes are funny when she's surprised, and is the sweetest virtual cat I've ever met. She also loves to visit the museum and is one of the few villagers I've spent much time with looking around the museum with and seeing the growth of New Maui's culture. 

Mr. Sean's Ranks his Animal Crossing: New Horizons Neighbors: Numbers 20-11

In the past six months since I got Animal Crossing: New Horizons, various villagers have come and gone from New Maui. Some I liked more than others, one was a total disappointment to me, and one of them is an old favorite from when I played Animal Crossing on the GameCube. This post will showcase the first half of the twenty villagers that have called New Maui home.

20. Bangle

I'm from New Maui, but I'm not a fan of you up and leaving so quickly that I couldn't get at least a poster with your face on it. She may be a tiger, but she left with the speed of a cheetah.

19. Rizzo

Rizzo failed to live up to my hype. He's actually based off of a Japanese thief and folk hero called Nezumi Kozo but he was more boring than his fellow cranky Kabuki (who will be featured in the top 10). At least he was pretty funny when he was angry as he is a tiny mouse.

18. Reneigh

Reneigh's hairstyle may remind some people of Rihanna (her Japanese name is リアーナ, which sounds like Rihanna). Personally, I don't feel she added much to the culture of the island. I hardly saw her partaking in activities but she did Naruto run a few times.

17. Boone

Boone was an okay starter villager and his design is cool (in-game he is a gorilla, but he looks like a mandrill), but he was too one dimensional in terms of working out. He could have worked out his brain muscles more with reading and vocal muscles with more singing.

16. Lyman

Lyman is slightly better than Boone because he wasn't singularly focused on weight training. He was more into cardio with his running around the island. His running form could use some work though as arms behind you isn't quite optimal. He also managed to get two of his neighbors to really work their singing muscles one time. He was an okay koala.

15. Henry

Henry's ranking is bolstered by his house, which is a showing off of the ironwood furniture set. He also liked to sing and having some musical experience I'm a bit biased towards musically inclined villagers. Being a frog, he had no need for an umbrella and actually loves the rain.

14. Tex

Tex's house might not have ironwood furniture, but it is definitely cooler than Henry's house. Tex also loves music and he does a better job of showing it with a drum set, a few guitars, an amp, and a DJ booth. Also, penguins are better than frogs.

13. Tangy

Tangy is only ranked so low because she is the newest neighbor on New Maui. She'll definitely rise a few spots the longer she stays on the island. I think she'll be better than Audie. People love Tangy because she's a citrus cat.

12. Soleil

Soleil's hairstyle may remind people of the stereotypical middle-aged woman who demands the manager, but Soleil hardly complains about things, especially places to sit and read her book. Often times she'll be on the cold hard ground enjoying her read. Soleil is one of the better hamsters, certainly better than Apple.

11. Twiggy

Twiggy does not seem to be liked or disliked by the Animal Crossing community, but rather ignored. I hope this post will at least bring some awareness to her existence. This budgie bird has dreams of being a popstar, but sometimes I had convince her to stop reading fashion magazines and practice singing to help her achieve her goals.