Where Will the Shops be Located?
Crafting is one of the biggest new additions to New Horizons, and we already know that you don’t have to craft every item if you don’t want to. You can still buy things from shops if you’d rather spend bells than collect crafting materials.
However, we haven’t seen any shops on the island yet. Where will shops such as the Able Sisters, Kicks, and Gardening Store be located? Will we have to travel off of our island to get to them, like in City Folk? Maybe the Dodo airlines will take us there.
Will we have to build the stores ourselves? The main gimmick in New Horizons is building our village from the ground up, so perhaps we will have to collect materials to actually construct the shops ourselves.
This would allow us to have more say in where they are located on our island, but it could take up a lot of room on the map. It would be helpful to know about where shops will be located in advance so we can keep that in mind when planning our towns.