{"id":109746,"date":"2020-02-28T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/02\/animal_crossing_new_horizons_wont_lock_any_customisation_options_behind_gender"},"modified":"2020-02-28T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T15:45:00","slug":"animal-crossing-new-horizons-wont-lock-any-customisation-options-behind-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/28\/animal-crossing-new-horizons-wont-lock-any-customisation-options-behind-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Crossing: New Horizons Won&#8217;t Lock Any Customisation Options Behind Gender"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d0db510c47282\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d0db510c47282\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"ACNH\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d0db510c47282\/acnh.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d0db510c47282\/acnh.900x.jpg\" alt=\"ACNH\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Making your character look like you is a big deal to a lot of gamers in games that offer character customisation, and so when certain styles or features don&#8217;t quite look how you would want them to, it can be a touch annoying. What&#8217;s even worse is when there <em>is<\/em> a hairstyle or eye shape that matches your real flesh self but it&#8217;s inexplicably greyed out. Yep, ponytails are only for girls and buzzcuts are only for boys, <em>it&#8217;s the rules<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully Nintendo has seen fit to ignore this troublesome trend for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/animal_crossing_new_horizons\">Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/a><\/strong> and instead has opted for a complete and total free-for-all of all the customisation options regardless of what gender you pick. This includes hair, facial features, the whole kazoo. We&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/02\/customise_your_villager_more_than_ever_before_in_animal_crossing_new_horizons\">seen the customisation in action before<\/a>, but it&#8217;s good to know that our gender choices won&#8217;t be restricting us in any way.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Customisation Tool Infographic\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c9164a0d7ad65\/customisation-tool-infographic.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c9164a0d7ad65\/customisation-tool-infographic.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Customisation Tool Infographic\"><\/a><span class=\"image-credit\" title=\"Image Credit\">\u00a9 @ac_atsumare<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Animal Crossing is no stranger to this idea, past entries have allowed male characters to wear dresses and skirts freely, but it&#8217;s still pleasing to see that character customisation follows this trend as well. After all, what&#8217;s the point in limiting your selection?<\/p>\n<p>Will you be taking advantage of all the options available? Let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making your character look like you is a big deal to a lot of gamers in games that offer character customisation, and so when certain styles or features don&#8217;t quite look how you would want them to, it can be a touch annoying. What&#8217;s even worse is when there is a hairstyle or eye shape [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}