Animal Crossing player spends 2 Years Completing DLC, Feels Disappointed

Animal Crossing Player Spends 2 Years to Complete DLC, Finds Reward Underwhelming

The Happy Home Paradise DLC for Animal Crossing: New Horizons (AC:NH) has provided hundreds of hours of content for players across the globe since its launch. The DLC, which built upon the spin-off Happy Home Designer, tasked players with traveling to a resort archipelago to design vacation homes for over 400 different villagers. While most players cleared the main story to unlock key features for their main island, one dedicated user spent two full years completing every single design request, only to be met with disappointment.

Two Years of Design Dedication

The Happy Home Paradise DLC offers a lengthy, open-ended experience. Players must fulfill specific design briefs for each villager who arrives at the resort. Successfully completing these requests unlocks new furniture items and home features, such as accent walls and pillars, that can then be used on the player’s main island.

• Open-Ended Gameplay: Because the DLC has no punitive rules or strict mandates, most players focus on clearing the primary narrative missions. Then, they treat the remaining villagers as side content to be tackled whenever they feel like it.
• Ultimate Completionist: However, one user, known as Beautiful-Support-56 on Reddit, decided to pursue the ultimate completionist goal: designing a house for every single eligible villager. This monumental effort took the player two full years of dedication and creative input.

The Disappointing Endgame

Upon completing the design requests for all available villagers—which eventually totaled over 400 houses—the player shared their experience on Reddit, noting the anticlimactic results.

• No Final Reward: Beautiful-Support-56 noted that the regular in-game notifications tracking the number of houses designed suddenly stopped after they passed the 350-house mark. When they finally completed the final house, there was no special event, cinematic, or unique reward.
• The Silent Hub World: The primary disappointment was the resort’s Hub World. At the start of the DLC, this area is populated with many villagers walking around, enjoying the amenities. After completing all the design requests, the player observed that the area became strangely quiet and deserted.
• Sole Compensation: The only continuous reward was the Poki currency, which is the special currency used on the resort island to exchange for unique furniture to bring back to the main island.

The player conceded that the DLC still offers value, such as unlocking new home-decorating features for their mainland villagers, purchasing exclusive clothes at the resort’s department store, and visiting the café. However, the lack of a proper, celebratory end-game sequence for such a time-consuming achievement was an undeniable letdown for the dedicated player.