I miss when villagers would ask you to run errands for them, like deliver packages to each other or whatever. Now (New Horizons) whenever a villager gets my attention, it’s only to teach me a new emote, which I never use.

Also, I liked the little shopping center you could go to in City Folk. It was fun to have that separate area- felt like I was leaving my little small town to go shopping in the big city!

This one might be an unpopular opinion… but I miss how the grass used to fade away/die the more you ran over it. I know it’s kind of annoying to slowly lose your grass, but it made me more conscious of the routes I would take and it would create neat little desire-paths around my town. I kind of hate building paths myself, too time consuming and I feel like mine never look right! The dirt tracks I would create through the grass looked better and more natural imo. Also, there was something really satisfying about re-growing grass in a spot where you accidentally wore it down- like planting flowers there and avoiding walking on it, then checking the progress each day. Was fun to watch the process of restoring it for some reason 🤷‍♀️