July 3 marks the first wave of Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ summer update, and with it comes a whole bunch of new features, including swimming and diving, a new category of critter to find, new visitor interactions, and a new DIY recipe set. Here’s everything new to Animal Crossing this week and how to dive in.
Swimming And Diving
You need the wetsuit to start swimming.
The biggest new feature from the update is the ability to swim and dive in the ocean around your island. We have a full guide on how to get a wetsuit and swim, so check it out to get started.
Catching New Sea Creatures
Start filling your Critterpedia with new sea creatures, like the sea anemone or moon jellyfish.
Swimming and diving on your island opens up a new world of wildlife to find and collect. There are 40 sea creatures you can catch, all categorized in their own “sea creature” label in your Critterpedia. You can also donate them to Blathers at the museum.
Pascal Is Here!
Pascal loves scallops.
Pascal is a new visitor you can meet while swimming around your island. He’ll trade you DIY recipes for scallops and sometimes reward you with pearls, a rare crafting item.
Mermaid DIY And Clothing Recipe Set
Craft mermaid-themed furnishings and clothing.
There’s a new mermaid-themed DIY recipe set you can collect and craft. Pascal will trade you recipes for scallops and sometimes give you pearls, which you can use to craft the recipes. Other crafting materials required for the set include shells and other items you can find along your beach, like coral.
New Gulliver Interactions
According to Nintendo, there’s a new Gulliver interaction. Gulliver will now sometimes appear on your shore wearing pirate-themed clothing. Nintendo’s press release states, “Offer him a helping him and he’ll send a special reward to how his gratitude.” We’ll let you know what this is once we find out.
The next summer update hits Animal Crossing: New Horizons this August.
Over a month ago, streaming service HBO Max launched. And one of the upcoming original movies that caught people’s eye was the wild An American Pickle. Now, a trailer for the film has arrived, and yes, it’s just as weird as we thought.
Seth Rogen pulls double-duty in the movie, which will premiere on August 6. He plays both Herschel Greenbaum–a man who is stuck in a pickle vat for 100 years–and Herschel’s great-grandson, Ben. Check out the trailer below.
Based on a novella from Simon Rich, the Brandon Trost-directed film follows Herschel, who immigrates to American in 1920. He wants a better life for his family, and one day while working at a pickle factory, he falls into a vat and is brined for 100 years. He is discovered in 2020, and the brine has somehow preserved him perfectly. He connects with his only surviving relative, Ben, and wants to start a business with him.
This isn’t the first time Trost and Rogen have worked together. While this is Torst’s first time directing a feature-length film, he worked on Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising and The Disaster Artist as as director of photography along with This Is The End as cinematographer.
You can’t swim in Animal Crossing: New Horizons without a wet suit. To buy a wet suit, head over to Nook’s Cranny. The wet suit will be available to purchase in the cabinet where you usually buy tools, seeds, and wallpaper/flooring.
The wet suit costs 3,000 bells. You can also purchase a wet suit from your Nook Stop terminal for 3,000 bells. They come in new designs daily, so you can keep checking back if you don’t like what you end up with. Your Nook Stop also offers a Nook Inc. wet suit for 800 miles.
Purchasing a wet suit from Nook’s Cranny.
To equip the wet suit, just select it in your inventory, press A, and select “Wear.” The wet suit will be equipped directly over your clothes, so you don’t need to manually remove shirts or bottoms in order to wear it. Your shoes and any socks or tights may still be equipped though–you can still swim with them on, but if you want to take them off or swap them for something more beach-appropriate, you’ll have to do that manually.
Once your wet suit is on, you’re ready to start swimming!
How To Swim
Requires: Wet suit
Once you purchase a wet suit, Timmy and Tommy will give you a quick how-to on swimming, but if you skipped it on accident or don’t remember, we’ve run through the basics below.
To swim, you need to head to one of your ocean’s beaches. There are two primary ways you can enter the ocean: wading in from the sandy beach, or diving in from either your beach rocks, that narrow strip of land that juts into the ocean, or your pier.
The first day of the summer update, and it’s raining on my island…
Either way, you’ll have to run up against the water and press A to enter the water. (You must have all tools unequipped.) To keep swimming, press A. Each time you press A, you’ll do a stroke, but if you just hold A down, you’ll keep paddling. You can use the left stick to move around. If you don’t press anything, your character will just tread water. While treading, you can still use the analog stick to paddle lightly around, but you will move very slowly. Your character will never get tired of treading water, so don’t worry about floating around if you get tired of pressing A.
To exit the water, you have to swim back to a sandy beach. Just swim right up to the beach until your character reaches land and can walk out of the water.
How To Dive
Requires: Wet suit
There’s no point in swimming in Animal Crossing: New Horizons if you don’t know how to dive.
To dive, just press Y while you’re in the water. Your character will dive under the waves, and from there, you can just use the usual swimming controls to move around–A to swim, joystick to move around. If you want to come back up to the surface, just hit Y again, but don’t worry–your character won’t run out of oxygen and will just come up for air when they need it, so you don’t have to time your dives.
How To Catch Sea Creatures
Requires: Wet suit
The new swimming and diving features are all about exploring the ocean around your island, which means there are new sea creatures to catch and rare treasure to find. All you need for this is your wet suit–no net or any other tools required!
A column of bubbles in the water signals a potential discovery.
When you’re swimming around, you might notice columns of bubbles floating up from beneath the waves. If you swim directly over the bubbles and press Y, your character will dive under and, if you positioned yourself right, come back up with a sea creature, like a sea star or a sea anemone. You can also find new types of vegetation, like seaweed.
Another way to catch sea creatures is to dive underwater and look for little shadows. When you dive, the camera will tilt and give you a better view of what’s below you. Those bubble columns and shadows line up, so an easier way to find creatures is to dive under and swim towards the shadows. Your character will automatically collect whatever’s down there once you reach the shadow.
Diving under reveals a shadow, which makes it easier to locate and collect sea creatures.
In addition to the new sea creatures you can gather up for your Critterpedia and the museum, you will also find scallops and pearls. You can use pearls to craft certain DIY recipes, including the new Mermaid set. Scallops can be traded in to Pascal, a red otter who you will run into on one of your swims, for DIY recipes.
What To Do With New Sea Creatures
If you check your Critterpedia, you’ll find there’s a brand new tab for “sea creatures.” Anything you find on one of your underwater excursions will end up in this section, even if–as Blathers later explains–it isn’t exactly a “creature.” Seaweed, sea grapes, and other ocean plant life will get categorized here too. Check out our full list of all 40 sea creatures added in the new summer update.
The new sea creatures tab in your Critterpedia. We’re still filling ours out!
Not only does the new swimming update mean new wildlife to log in your Critterpedia, but new things to donate to your museum as well. Blathers will gladly take any new sea creature or vegetation you find while diving as a donation to the museum.
You can also, as with any other wildlife find, place it as decoration. While most of what we’ve found so far will appear in a standard display tank, a few items like the seaweed have a unique placement style that you can use to decorate your island, so don’t forget to experiment!
An official release date has yet to be confirmed, as the world continues to wrestle with the coronavirus pandemic. Due to the surging cases in the United States particularly, theatres have pushed back their reopening dates, with AMC Theatres remaining closed until July 30 and California theatres seemingly closed for longer.
Funimation did share a new key visual for the Demon Slayer Mugen Train film in a tweet with the announcement, which you can check out below.
Mugen Train follows the events of Demon Slayer’s final episode, in which Tanjiro Kamado and company follow Flame Hashira Kyojuro Rengoku to investigate a mysterious series of disappearances occurring on a train. One of the Twelve Kizuki’s, Enmu, is also aboard the train and things quickly take a turn for the worst.
Earlier this year, it was announced that Demon Slayer would get two different video game adaptations: a battle-royale mobile game and a PS4 action game. Trailers for both games were unveiled back in March 2020 and though no specific gameplay elements were shown off, we have learned that the mobile game will launch this year and the PS4 title will arrive in 2021.
Live action fever dream Super Mario Bros may be one of the best-worst movies of all time. How well do you remember it?
In the pantheon of bad movies, the live action Super Mario Bros stands out as a special sort of awful. From its absolutely nonsensical plot to its baffling choices in adapting one of the most popular video game franchises in the world, there isn’t much about the movie that can be redeemed in a purely cinematic sense–but here in 2020, 27 years after the movie’s release, we can appreciate it for the cult classic it is.
Does it make any sense at all? Absolutely not. Do we find ourselves constantly questioning our own sanity as we try and process what we’ve watched to write about it? Of course. Is it all worth it anyway? Debatable. But here we are, regardless. And to make matters even more bizarre, there are currently no ways to stream or purchase the movie digitally in the US. If you’re hungry for a rewatch, you’ll have to dust off your DVD player and find a copy–or, you could search out a clandestine copy uploaded to a video sharing website like Vimeo. Just a little suggestion. Either way, the lack of accessibility really ups the movie’s fever-dream-like aesthetic, which can be either a feature or a bug, depending on who you ask.
So, without further ado, we present 27 things that definitely, actually, really happened in the Super Mario Bros movie, ranging from Nintendo Easter eggs to absolutely inscrutable lines of dialogue and everything in between.
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1. University Students Digging For Dinosaur Bones In Brooklyn
This is far from the most absurd thing to happen in this movie and, sure, both the economy and the college experience were very different back in the early ’90s, but the concept of a group of university students running a full-on archeological dig in New York City seems pretty wild even by those standards when you think about it for a second. And yet, it’s somehow the cornerstone of the movie’s plot. Without Daisy and her New York dinosaurs, none of this would have happened.
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2. DeVito, Schwarzenegger, Keaton, and Hanks
Apparently Danny DeVito was not only offered the role of Mario, but a shot at directing the movie. Both Michael Keaton and Arnold Schwarzenegger were offered the role of Koopa, and Tom Hanks was approached to play Luigi, according to this 2018 retrospective.
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3. World 1
Super Mario Bros is the first ever Hollywood film to be based on a specific video game. Thankfully, it was not the last.
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4. Princess Daisy
Which, of course, brings us to the first real “Easter Egg” if it could be called that–Daisy, played by Samantha Mathis, is supposed to be Princess Daisy, who was introduced back in Super Mario Land in 1989. She was designed to be Luigi’s answer to Princess Peach though they don’t have any canonical romance plots through their games together. The romance is definitely present in the movie, however, so, hey, at least there’s that.
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5. Daisy’s Egg
No, you’re not hallucinating. According to the worldbuilding of the Mario Bros movie, Daisy–and, consequently, anyone descended from dinosaurs–was born from an egg. Apparently no one at the monastery she was abandoned at thought this was odd, so it did not make the news.
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6. Mario Mario and Luigi Mario
At the time of the movie’s release, neither Mario nor Luigi had official last names, so the “Mario Mario” and “Luigi Mario” line was a gag–but, in 2015 for the Super Mario Bros 30th anniversary, Shigeru Miyamoto “confirmed” that Mario’s full name was–you guessed it–Mario Mario. We love a movie with major cultural impact.
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7. Hand-Held De-Evolution Guns
Koopa’s patented Hand-Held De-Evolution Guns are actually just repainted Nintendo Super Scopes, an actual peripheral available for Nintendo systems.
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8. Thwomp Stompers
Thwomps are those giant stone enemies with furious faces that like to crush Mario when given the chance in the games. In the movie, their name was borrowed for a brand of rocket boots called Thwomp Stompers which allow people to pull off something vaguely similar to video game Mario’s double jump.
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9. Bullet Bill’s
In the games, Bullet Bills are bullet-shaped enemies that are shot out by turtle canons. In the movie, Bullet Bill’s is the name of a Dinohattan bar. Interestingly, the cartridges that power the Thwomp Stomper boots actually look like game-style Bullet Bills.
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10. I Was A Teenage Mammal
One of the movie titles visible on a background marquee in Dinohattan is “I Was A Teenage Mammal,” a reference to the 1957 horror movie I Was A Teenage Werewolf.
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11. Plumber alert
Upon realizing that Mario and Luigi have crossed into the alternate dimension, Koopa issues a “Plumber alert” for the kingdom, which everyone reacts to as if this is not only a fairly common occurrence, but a regular alert that goes out in the city. It’s certainly a gag, but it’s played so deadpan it really does feel like renegade plumbers are just a known issue.
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12. Toad
Movie Toad is, uh, nothing like Toad from the video games. And that’s putting it lightly. Though we have to admit we wouldn’t be mad if real Toad were given a harmonica and made to write folksy protest songs.
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13. Bob-omb
The fungus keeps offering Luigi and Mario miniature Bob-Ombs that look exactly the way they do in the games–though they obviously don’t function the same. In the movie, a Bob-Omb is basically a mini warhead. Everyone in Dinohattan completely freaks out the moment they see one.
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14. Smart Stooges
The only two characters with anything resembling real “arcs” in the movie are Iggy and Spike, who go from bumbling idiots bent on one-upping each other to earn Koopa’s praise to weirdly overblown geniuses care of Koopa’s evolution technology. They have a change of heart and go on to help Mario and Luigi get Daisy back. Apparently, in a deleted scene, the two of them used their newly empowered brains to perform an anti-Koopa rap at the Boom Boom Bar.
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15. Yoshi the Animatronic
The movie’s Yoshi may bear little to no resemblance to the Yoshi we know and love from the games, but the animatronic used in the movie was seriously impressive and entirely practical. You can check out a behind the scenes interview with a closer look at the technology that went into the little guy on YouTube.
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16. “They never forget the first time they’re kissed by a lizard”
A completely real line of dialogue that is played completely straight by Dennis Hopper, bless his heart: “You know what they say about little girls, don’t you? They say they never forget the first time they’re kissed by a lizard.”
Excuse me, what? Who says that???
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17. The Club Scene
After Mario, Luigi, Iggy, and Spike team up, they head to one of Koopa’s night clubs in some absolutely incredible costumes–specifically Mario in a solid red suit and Luigi in solid yellow. There’s even a throwaway line about how the clothes used to belong to Spike’s ex-wife, which is certainly a choice. And that is to say nothing about Mario seducing a woman to get her necklace by asking her to punch him repeatedly.
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18. Everybody Walk The Dinosaur
Believe it or not, the song “Walk The Dinosaur” by Was (Not Was), wasn’t written for this movie. It was released in 1987, which implies that Dinohattan is somehow getting real life music transported between dimensions.
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19. Lena’s Worm Drink
For some reason, when Lena takes a shot with a worm floating in it, the movie added a dialogue effect to make it sound like the worm was sentient and trying not to be eaten. Why? We have absolutely no idea.
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20. Python Pizza
Koopa has a Koopa Special order at a chain restaurant called Python Pizza. It comes with “dino, lizard, hold the mammal, no worms” and is spicy. So, apparently all the dinosaur descendants in the mushroom kingdom are also cannibals. We’re not entirely sure what else we’re supposed to be gleaning from this moment.
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21. The Costumes
The closest Mario and Luigi get to their classic video game looks comes care of a costume change roughly three quarters of the way through the movie. The outfits are inexplicably found in a locker in the basement of Koopa’s tower. Maybe some of Koopa’s employees were running around cosplaying as plumbers.
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22. Pipe Slide Chase
Mario escapes with the missing girls by sliding on a mattress down a frozen pipe while an instrumental pop-rock song wails in the background. Why not.
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23. “Sir, your pizza’s here.”
The Python Pizza gag actually has a payoff. This is a movie with priorities.
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24. Bob-Omb’s Reeboks
Maybe the finest moment of product placement and branding in movie history: The tiny Bob-Omb wears Reebok shoes. This is matched only by the Olive Garden jokes in this year’s Sonic the Hedgehog movie.
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25. “I’m back. Love those plumbers.”
That’s right, the first thing the newly re-evolved king has to say for himself has nothing to do with his daughter, it’s a declaration of love for those rascally plumbers.
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26. Dancing Goombas
That’s right, the thing to really turn the tides during the final conflict with Koopa is, in fact, a bunch of Goombas realizing that they just love to dance.
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27. The Cliffhanger Ending
Tragically, Daisy decides to stay in the alternate dimension while Mario and Luigi go home–but don’t panic. Just before the credits roll there’s a two week time jump that features Daisy, now kitted out like a resistance fighter, showing up at Mario and Luigi’s door saying “you’re never gonna believe this.”
We will never know what she was actually talking about, or what Mario and Luigi’s next live action adventure could have been if the movie ever got a sequel, but try not to let that keep you up at night. Or, better yet, write some fanfiction and share it with us here in the comments. What does your ideal Super Mario Bros movie follow-up look like?
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For too long, Minecraft players have frantically smacked Creepers before exploding, only to think to themselves: “I wonder what that thing tastes like?” Wonder no more, because Kellogg’s has announced a cereal that finally gives a flavor profile to the exploding slime monster.
Minecraft Creeper Crunch cereal is a cinnamon breakfast snack littered with green “Creeper Bit” marshmallows. It’s coming to US store shelves this August, and you can pick up an 8oz box for $4 or a 12oz box for $6.
Does the promise of crunchy cinnamon candies and green marshmallows not tempt your palette? Then you may also be interested to know that each box will include a code to unlock one of 10 clothing items like jackets and cloaks. These don’t appear to be exclusive cosmetics, but every time you don your snazzy pants you can think to yourself: “I obtained this by devouring a tie-in food product that turned my milk a sort of brownish-green.”
FunimationCon, the anime virtual convention, has revealed a whole slew of new and returning series to its streaming service in the upcoming month during the con’s industry panel. Some of the series returning include One Piece and Fruits Basket, along with plenty of new shows coming.
The first virtual convention for FunimationCon featured two rooms with panels taking place all day. Early on Friday, July 3, anime fans got plenty of info about returning series. Season 2 of Fruit Baskets will be arriving this summer, and the simulcast of One Piece will continue. The Millionaire Detective – Balance: Unlimited will resume its simulcast on July 30 with Episode 3.
There is also a lot of new series arriving to Funimation as well. The biggest was none other than Naruto arriving to North America on July 6. One of the new series anime fans won’t have to wait for is Super HxEros, which arrives today, July 3. The series follows high schooler Retto Enjō who joins the HxEros team in order to fight off an alien threat.
Also announced were numerous products, including Funko Pops–there were also a couple anime Pops announced for Comic-Con@Home. There are both Dragon Ball Super and Dragon Ball Z Pops, along with a a bunch of Pops all in chrome. You can check out a few images of the Pops and Fruits Basket statues below, some of which are available for pre-order on Funimation right now.
Returning and Continuing Series this Summer (North America)
Fruits Basket Season 2
Fire Force Season 2 premieres July 3
Black Clover
One Piece – Simulcast continues
Sword Art Online Alicization War of Underworld Part 2 premieres July 11
No Guns Life Season 2 resumes July 9 with Episode 13
The Millionaire Detective – Balance: UNLIMITED resumes Simulcast on July 30 with Episode 3
APPARE-RANMAN! resumes Simulcast on July 24 with Episode 4
A Certain Scientific Railgun T – SimulDub™ resuming
Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater returns July 28 with Episode 4
Bungo and Alchemist -Gears of Judgement- returns July 3 with Episode 8
New to Funimation’s Streaming Service in July 2020 (North America)
Naruto July 6
SUPER HXEROS premieres July 3
DECA-DENCE – July 2020
Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! premieres July 10
Lapis Re:LiGHTs premieres July 4
Muhyo & Roji’s Bureau of Supernatural Investigation Season 2 (Subtitled) premieres July 7. All of Season 1 (subbed) will be released on same day as Season 2 premieres
New Products and Home Video Releases in the Funimation Shop Highlights
Dragon Ball Z Funko Pop
Dragon Ball Super Funko Pop
Fruits Basket Kyo and Yuki Figures
Chrome Pop Collection.
Pre-order is open for Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Part One Standard Edition Blu-Ray.
Home Entertainment
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Part One Standard Edition Blu-ray (Pre-order)
The Rising of the Shield Hero – Season One Part One – BD / DVD Limited Edition
The Rising of the Shield Hero Season One Part Two – BD / DVD + Artbook
The Quintessential Quintuplets – Season One – BD / DVD Limited Edition
Products Available for Pre-Order
Dragon Ball Z Funko Pop – Ultra Size Shenron – Pre-Order (metallic/glow in the dark)
Exclusive Dragon Ball Super Funko Pop – Kale/Caulifla 2pk
Exclusive Fruits Basket – Kyo Figure
Exclusive Fruits Basket – Yuki Figure
Special Product Offers
Berserk Guts: Black Swordsman (exclusive bloody variant)
July 3rd – Chrome Pop Collection / XL All Might Glitter FiGPiN
Drake Hollow, the next game from The Flame in the Flood developer The Molasses Flood, has been delayed indefinitely just a few days before its previous July release date.
A short message from studio director Forrest Dowling explains that the delay is down to technical issues that can’t be delved into due to NDA restrictions. “Unfortunately, due to the nature of the delay we don’t have a new date yet, but will let everyone know as soon as we do,” Dowling concluded.
Drake Hollow is a cooperative mix between survival and wave-based defense mechanics. You and three friends can build settlements and raise drakes–sentient plants that you’ll need to feed, shelter, and, most importantly, keep entertained. The drakes will help you defend your base by manning weapons you build or suppling energy to automated defenses with treadmills. But if you don’t hold their interest, they literally die.
Drake Hollow will eventually launch for Xbox One and PC on Steam and the Windows Store. The Molasses Flood’s previous survival game, The Flame in the Flood, launched in 2016, shortly after the studio of AAA veterans opened. In GameSpot’s The Flame and the Flood review, critic Edmond Tran wrote, “Despite the awkward menu system, it’s an absorbing game that lets you experience a journey in the present, and fully appreciate the sights, sounds, and joys of floating down the river in its alluring world.”
In a blog post, studio director Alexander Perrin detailed some of the features players can expect while soaring through Heavenly Bodies’ zero-gravity environment. These include using the analog sticks, triggers, and bumpers to control the character’s arms and legs, how the lack of gravity will impact navigation and the role it plays in solving various in-game puzzles, local cooperative play to discover new and inventive ways to complete tasks, and more. You can check out the announcement trailer below.
In addition to these features, Perrin confirmed 2pt is baking in further tactile enhancements that will make use of the PS5’s DualSense controller. Alongside the haptic feedback that will provide a sense of immersion when something like a bay door is unexpectedly opened, the DualSense controller will communicate other sensations like objects slipping from your character’s fingertips, the density of in-game items, the feeling of levers snapping and the ship rattling, and more.
A definitive release date for Heavenly Bodies has yet to be announced, but it will launch on PS4 and PS5, as well as PC via Steam, in 2021.
Heavenly Bodies wasn’t the only game PlayStation announced as part of its Indies Initiative. The company also unveiled nine other titles, including F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch, Haven, Carto, Recompile, and others.
Pascal isn’t a newcomer to the Animal Crossing series, but he did make his first appearance in Animal Crossing: New Horizons after wave one of its summer update went live this week. The red sea otter loves scallops and will trade you DIY recipes in exchange for them. He can also gift you pearls, a rare crafting item requires for certain recipes, including the new mermaid set.
How To Find Pascal On Your Island
You can find Pascal while swimming and diving in your island’s oceans. If you don’t know how to do either yet, check out our Animal Crossing swimming guide for instructions on where to get a wet suit and how to swim.
He waits…
Once you’re in the water and start diving for sea creatures, Pascal will eventually appear, but only when you find a scallop. He won’t appear every time you catch a scallop or even the first time–it’s random, and we’re not quite sure what the rate is, but it seems to only be once a day. It does seem like he can appear on your island alongside other special visitors, however. Leif was in my island’s town square on the same day I met Pascal.
Of course you can, Pascal.
When Pascal does approach you, he’ll ask you for the scallop you just found. If you choose to give it to him, he’ll reward you with a DIY recipe and probably say something philosophical before swimming off to the other side of the ocean barrier, where you can’t approach him or speak to him until the next encounter.
What To Do With Pearls
Pascal may gift you a pearl, which is a rare crafting material that will come in handy for making the mermaid set, which Pascal offers DIY recipes for in exchange for scallops. You can also find pearls while diving for sea creatures.
Should You Save Up Scallops For Pascal?
Scallops count as one of the new sea creatures you can find and donate to the museum, and you can also sell them to Nook’s Cranny for 1,200 bells. Since you can also trade them in for DIY recipes, it makes sense to hang onto them–however, we’re still trying to verify how trading scallops with Pascal works. At the moment, it seems he has a chance of appearing only when you catch one, and will give you the option to trade it in, which would make saving up scallops kind of pointless. But if it turns out you can encounter him as you would any other special visitor, like C.J. or Flick, then having scallops to trade in would be useful.
We will update this section once we can verify how trading with Pascal works.
