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Animal Crossing: All facial expressions and how to learn them

All facial expressions and how to learn them


In Animal Crossing: New Horizons , the latest licensing installment for Nintendo Switch , there are a few ways to connect with your islanders or friends. Among these, facial expressions are a way of expressing emotions quickly and simply. This guide to our Complete Animal Crossing: New Horizons Walkthrough will walk you through them all and explain how to unlock them.


EXPRESS YOUR EMOTIONS

Very early in your adventure on Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the inhabitants of your island will come your way. Sometimes to offer you something, sometimes to share a facial expression with you. The facial expressions learned will depend on the personality of the inhabitant (see tables below).


You can then try it out by pressing the ZR button. This will open the Faceplate wheel allowing you to assign up to eight favorite emotions to it by pressing X. Note that pressing Y will open your entire faceplate inventory.


LIST OF FACIAL EXPRESSIONS

Mimicry can be classified into three categories:


Basic facial expressions

These facial expressions will be taught to you very early in the game by the inhabitants who joined the island at the same time as you. These are fixed and do not depend on the personality of the villager teaching them to you.


In Animal Crossing: New Horizons , the latest licensing installment for Nintendo Switch , there are a few ways to connect with your islanders or friends. Among these, facial expressions are a way of expressing emotions quickly and simply. This guide to our Complete Animal Crossing: New Horizons Walkthrough will walk you through them all and explain how to unlock them.


EXPRESS YOUR EMOTIONS

Very early in your adventure on Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the inhabitants of your island will come your way. Sometimes to offer you something, sometimes to share a facial expression with you. The facial expressions learned will depend on the personality of the inhabitant (see tables below).


You can then try it out by pressing the ZR button. This will open the Faceplate wheel allowing you to assign up to eight favorite emotions to it by pressing X. Note that pressing Y will open your entire faceplate inventory.


LIST OF FACIAL EXPRESSIONS

Mimicry can be classified into three categories:


Basic facial expressions

These facial expressions will be taught to you very early in the game by the inhabitants who joined the island at the same time as you. These are fixed and do not depend on the personality of the villager teaching them to you.


Advanced facial expressions

Advanced facial expressions will be taught to you throughout your adventure on your island. The type of emotion depends on the personality of the character who will teach it to you. So you will need to have an inhabitant of each type on your island to hope to collect them all.


"Arrogant" villagers

Arrogant villagers can teach you:

  • Sigh
  • Reflection
  • Intense look
  • Stupefaction


“Chic” villagers

Chic villagers can teach you:

  • Broken Heart
  • Spite
  • Laugh enough
  • Drowsiness


Villagers "big sisters"

The villagers big sisters can teach you:

  • To laugh
  • Disagreement
  • Excuse
  • Glacial wind


“Normal” villagers

Normal villagers can teach you:

  • Euphoria
  • Depressed
  • Enthusiasm
  • Thrill


"Lazy" villager

Lazy villagers can teach you:

  • Tears
  • Goof
  • Embarrassment
  • Timidity


“Sports” villagers

Sporty villagers can teach you:

  • Distress
  • Surprise
  • Sneeze
  • Encouragement


“Versatile” villagers

Versatile villagers can teach you:

  • Perplexity
  • Derision
  • Hassle
  • Acquiescence


"Lively" villagers

The lively villagers can teach you:

  • Curiosity
  • Smile
  • Fury
  • Sleep

ULTIMATE MIMICS

Finally, the holy grail of emotions: ultimate facial expressions. There are eight, one for each character in the game. To hope to obtain one, you will need to develop your friendship with a villager to its maximum. With a little patience, he should eventually teach you the ultimate facial expression related to his personality.

Update 1.5.0

In update 1.5.0 , it was possible to unlock two new mimics related to the Halloween event.
  • Bewitchment
  • Horror

Update 1.6.0

Since update 1.6.0 , it is possible to buy a set of 9 new mimics from the Nook Stop for 2700 bells.
This lot includes the facial expressions:
  • Sit
  • Bye Bye
  • Photo
  • Sniff sniff
  • Gymnastic
  • Yoga
  • And There you go !
  • Enthusiasm
  • Ta-daaa!

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