Mr. Resetti scolding the player after resetting inAnimal Crossing: Wild World.

Resetting in theAnimal Crossing series happens when the player either turns off or soft-resets the game console without first saving the game, or if the battery dies before they are able to do so, in both cases causing any unsaved progress to be lost. All games beforeAnimal Crossing: New Leaf discourage resetting by havingMr. Resetti appear each time the game is reset to scold the player with a long lecture about why they should not reset. After each successive reset, Resetti gets angrier and the lectures more long-winded. At the end of each lecture, Resetti typically gives the player a piece of life advice before telling them to "SCRAM!".

Resetti and his brotherDon work and detect resets at theReset Surveillance Center, which can be visited by the player inDoubutsu no Mori e+,City Folk, andNew Leaf. On a technical level, the game detects resets by saving in the background when a save is loaded, setting a flag that indicates that the player has reset. When the player saves and quits, the flag is cleared, so if the flag is set when a save is loaded, the game knows a reset occurred.

InNew Leaf, Mr. Resetti is made optional, and will not appear until after the public works projectReset Surveillance Center is completed. InAnimal Crossing: New Horizons, an auto-save feature is added rendering resetting impossible.

Appearances[edit]

In the first-generation games[edit]

In everyfirst-generationAnimal Crossing game,Mr. Resetti appears outside the player's house to scold them each time they reset.

InDoubutsu no Mori, there are seven reset scenarios with Mr. Resetti. InDoubutsu no Mori+,Animal Crossing, andDoubutsu no Mori e+, an eighth scenario featuringDon Resetti is added between the fourth and fifth Mr. Resetti scenarios.

1. Mr. Resetti introduces himself, thanks the player for purchasing the game, and scolds the player about the importance of saving, warning them that in future visits he will not be as nice.
2. Mr. Resetti accuses the player of deliberately ignoring his previous lecture.
3. Mr. Resetti tells the player that there is no reset button for the real world and calls them a cheater.
4. Mr. Resetti only appears once the player moves, telling them to come talk to him. The player can then move around the house acre, but they cannot leave, open theirinventory, talk to theirGyroid Assistant, or check thebulletin board before speaking to Resetti. Once spoken to, Resetti implores the player to "enjoy life here" by not resetting. At the end of his lecture, he asks the player if they understand, and he does not leave until they say "Got it!".
5. Only inDoubutsu no Mori+ onward, Resetti's older brother Don appears in his place on the fifth reset, as Resetti is out doing an "urgent errand." Don thanks the player for putting up with Resetti, explaining that he is a good person aside from his outbursts of rage, before calmly reminding the player to not reset.
6. Mr. Resetti only appears once the player tries to leave the house acre. Enraged at the player's continued resetting, he makes them repeat a phrase.^{[nb 1]} The lecture does not end until the player types out the exact phrase Resetti asks for. There are several hidden negative phrases that make Resetti more angry if inputted.^{[nb 2]}
7. Mr. Resetti tells the player he is going to reset all their progress, before making the screen turn black briefly as though the console is being reset. After the screen returns to normal, he exclaims that he tricked the player, before asking them, "Are we clear?". He does not leave until they say "Got it!".
8. Mr. Resetti yells at the player, and the camera shifts to a first-person view from the player's perspective. He then gives a lecture on the importance of not ignoring life's problems, before realizing the player is not paying attention. Enraged, he threatens to tunnel through their house, but he has a leg cramp and ends the lecture for the sake of his health.

After the eighth reset, the sixth, seventh, and eighth scenarios repeat at random for future resets.

The player's face after resetting in another town inAnimal Crossing

If the player resets while visiting another town on the same console via Memory Card–Memory Card travel, upon loading their save, all items and bells in their inventory vanish and their face is changed to one resembling agyroid. This is likely meant to remind the player to save at their Gyroid. Their face returns to normal upon saving and reloading the game. If the player resets while visiting another town on another console via Memory Card travel data, then loads the same travel data in another town, Resetti will appear in that town at thetrain station to scold the player.

InDoubutsu no Mori e+, the player can access the Reset Surveillance Center once per week by hitting a randomrock in town, if they have reset at least two times total and once in the past seven days.

InWild World[edit]

InAnimal Crossing: Wild World, Mr. Resetti appears outside the player's house to scold them each time they reset.

InCity Folk[edit]

InAnimal Crossing: City Folk, Mr. Resetti appears outside the player's house to scold them each time they reset. Additionally, Mr. Resetti appears outside the player's house the first time they load their save file after moving to town regardless of if they reset, thanking them for purchasing the game and warning them against resetting.

InNew Leaf[edit]

InAnimal Crossing: New Leaf, the first time the mayor resets,Isabelle reminds them when starting the game that they did not save and brings Mr. Resetti out. He explains that theReset Surveillance Center has been closed due to a lack of funding and asks the mayor to reopen it as apublic works project. If the Reset Center is not built, Isabelle reminds the player briefly each time they reset. If the Reset Surveillance Center is built, Isabelle does not remind the player when resetting and instead, Mr. Resetti appears outside the player's house. The first time the mayor loads their save after the Reset Center is built, Resetti appears outside their house to introduce himself and thank them.

Resetti now asks the player to choose why they reset: either "I wanted to reset", "My batteries died", or "I don't remember". If the player chooses "My batteries died" or "I don't remember", Resetti leaves and does not scold the player. If "I wanted to reset" is chosen, Resetti scolds the player like in previous games. Instead of life advice, Resetti ends each lecture with a correction to a commonmalapropism.

Trivia[edit]

• In the European version ofAnimal Crossing, when playing in Spanish, several of the hidden phrases that make Mr. Resetti angry are much more vulgar than in English and include expletives. In French, German, and Italian, the phrases are relatively direct translations of the English phrases.
• InDoubutsu no Mori e+, if the player repeatedly presses or, Mr. Resetti will eventually scold the player and tell them how many times the button was pressed.^[1] This feature returned inAnimal Crossing: New Leaf, after being absent inAnimal Crossing: Wild World andAnimal Crossing: City Folk.
• Despite being commonly thought of as a glitch, the gyroid face that occurs when the player resets while visiting someone else's town inAnimal Crossing is intentionally programmed to occur.^[2] It is also acknowledged in the officialNintendo Power player's guide for the game, stating that the player will "turn into a weird zombie-looking character."^[2]

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