If you enjoy lifestyle sims like Animal Crossing: New Horizons and are looking for something else to play, now is a great time to revisit Team17's Hokko Life. A new post on the publisher's official website reveals the Nintendo Switch version of the game has just been updated.
Hokko Life made its debut on Nintendo's hybrid system back in September, and has now been updated with some performance fixes (such as improving FPS drops) and resolved some pesky bugs. As part of this update, the team has also "laid the ground work" for the next game update, which will apparently be coming soon.
"We’ve been working on the issues surrounding save game storage getting full and improving the messaging around them. We have also laid the ground work for the next update, which will be coming soon, where players will be able to manage their created items and control their save space usage. This functionality is still in the works, but we wanted to get this performance patch out ASAP to fix a lot of other pesky bugs!"
Performance Update Patch Notes (1st December 2022)
- Fixed multiple issues where the user would get disconnected or disconnection errors.
- Fixed multiple crashing issues.
- Fixed occasions where the game may stutter.
- Fixed Softlock when a save game is clicked twice.
- Fixed issue where the player receives the fully grown tree instead of the infant tree after digging. the sapling out of the ground.
- Fixed and issue where the tree stumps and tree saplings don’t disappear after digging them up.
- Fixed an issue where the game will have no input if the player uses the joy-cons remotely after accessing a menu with them connected to the switch body.
- Fixed multiple FPS drops when players open the design tool and catalog tab.
- Load time and performance improvements.
- Fixed an issue with the Customize design button not working on Sally’s premade designs.
Have you given Hokko Life a go on the Nintendo Switch yet? Leave a comment below.
[source team17.com]
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I mean I guess, like it’s inspired but they just made the animals uglier then animal crossings,if you like it more power to ya, but I’m not digging it.
It’s actually quite a fun game. It has its quality. Don’t compare it to AC directly, it’s a small team (one man?) and 15€ or something. Definitely lots of heart and ambition in this game.
I’m glad to see they’re updating it. I hope they also fixed the super slow cursor in design mode
Does the patch make the islanders look cute and not creepy?
It's sort of sad that nothing lives up to the old feeling of Animal Crossing GC to New Leaf. Nintendo is the only one who can really make a good animal crossing game, and I feel like even they don't understand how to make one anymore. Hoping one indie clone will get it right eventually.
@Snatcher
The anthro animals from Hokko Life looks cute enough in my opinion.
Of course different artist different art style.
The crafting in this game is amazing, something no other game of it's kind comes close to.
Considering Nintendo Life gave the game a 5/10, I am not sure how much an update can fix.
This trend of releasing a game and then fixing it needs to go. It's the punch in a face for people who buy early. Like what are they supposed to do, play again?
Your articles about random games that most people haven't heard of always reminds me that I have said game in my backlog that I forgot about, and then I has a shame...
I am looking forward to playing this in 2030 maybe... Nice to see they are supporting it
@VoidofLight I couldn't agree more. I want to love this genre so bad.. but for the most part it's been pretty underwhelming. I have this game installed and i'm trying real hard to like it. But so far, it's just ok. It's very forgettable.
@dugan
Well, to be honest NL gave a good score to splatoon games and I find those game really boring and kinda stupid too, the music, the characters... etc etc, my point is dont always becouse a game gets a great score is gonna be amazing for everyone and sometimes a game with not a great score is gonna be fun for some others, maybe in a sale you should try it, like others said on the comments the crafting in this game is something that Animal crossing or other game dont have.
@Alexneon well said!
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