Nintendo announced the new 3DS game Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer during its digital event at E3 Tuesday. However, what's even more exciting than a sneak preview of this new title is what players will finally be able to do in the game.
Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer will apparently finally let players choose the skin tone of their characters, according to the blog Animal Crossing World. Prior to this, players were only able to play as characters with a white skin tone unless they got a tan from being out in the sun for hours or wore a Mii Mask that allowed their faces to resemble their Miis.
Nintendo Treehouse's Alison Rapp confirmed the new feature on Twitter in response to other users' questions about it.
wait, does Happy Home actually give you skin tone options? pic.twitter.com/ujzrxdq14M
— megmar (@ran_num) June 17, 2015
@Sabriality @ran_num @Gliitchy Good eye! It does. :) — Alison Rapp (@mnemosynekurai) June 17, 2015
This new feature has been a long time coming. Animal Crossing fans have taken to the Internet to express their desire for the ability to choose their characters' skin tone since at least the release of Animal Crossing: New Leaf in 2013.
This is just the latest way the tech world is better reflecting the diversity of its users in recent months. The ability to choose skin tones for characters in Animal Crossing follows the set of racially diverse emoji released with the iOS 8.3 update in April and officially added to the Unicode Standard Wednesday.
Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer is a new design game in the Animal Crossing series, which lets players decorate the interior and exterior of their homes. It's unclear if the other Animal Crossing game Nintendo announced at E3 this year, Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival, will also allow players to choose the skin tone of their characters.
Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer will be released for the Nintendo 3DS on Sept. 25, 2015.
[H/T Kotaku]
Be sure to follow T-Lounge on Twitter and visit our Facebook page.
