Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer Review
Published 9/22/2015
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3DS - 9/25/2015
Animal Crossing Happy Home Designer
Show off your style by designing homes for all of your favorite Animal Crossing villagers! Use your creativity to design the perfect houses—inside and out—for both old and new friends. With the new amiibo cards, you can call your favorite villagers into the game.
- Developer
- Nintendo EAD Software Development Group No.2
- Publisher
- Nintendo
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Critic avg
65
24 scored reviews
Total coverage
24
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Score range
40–80
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Score range is 31+ points
Critic landscape
The critic average is 65 across 24 scored reviews, with a 40-point spread. Critics are far apart on this one.
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Most scored reviews currently sit in the Below 70 band.
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80–895 reviews · 21%
70–797 reviews · 29%
Below 7012 reviews · 50%
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Damien McFerran
Nintendo LifeReview: Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer (3DS)
Published 9/22/2015
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70
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Read originalBryan Rose
Nintendo World ReportAnimal Crossing: Happy Home Designer (3DS) Review
Published 9/22/2015
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50
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Read originalGriffin McElroy
PolygonAnimal Crossing: Happy Home Designer review: playing house | Polygon
Published 9/22/2015
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60
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