I had thankfully recieved this DLC expansion for Animal Crossing: New Horizons via the NSO subscription. When I got access to the Happy Home Paradise DLC, I was almost overwhelmed to what was on offer. To put it in a short summary, it is essentially the spinoff title - Happy Home Designer, but expanded upon.

This DLC is basically meeting up with the Happy Home Academy and teaming up with Lottie to help create homes for animal villagers. That's it. That's the DLC. For what it's worth, it's okay for Animal Crossing DLC. The concept of house making is fun but only if you're really switched off or struggling with anything new to do in the base game.

You do get access to making special facilities like in the spin off, but these sometimes don't offer anything when completed, but some like the final facility allows you to buy clothes exclusive there or items in the HQ with its exclusive currency, Poki.

However, when you make the 30th house for the villagers, you technically 'beat' the DLC by getting a party with DJ K.K., but there's still 400 more houses to make for money. And throughout the DLC, you get more content in the base game related to the housemaking, such as cleaning furniture, being able to customise your residents homes, and even having access to the entire catalogue from Wardell; helping tremendously with getting your catalogue complete.

Overall, the DLC is worth it if you seek more things to do with New Horizons, or if you have a knack for getting homes built. But otherwise, I'd skip this really.

Reviewed on Jan 01, 2024


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