Animal Crossing New Leaf Tools Guide: Wet Suit



Animal Crossing: New Leaf is the latest entry in Nintendo’s long running series about enjoying the quiet life.

Despite casual appeal, Animal Crossing has been one of the most successful properties  launched by the Japanese company, thanks to it’s simple yet engaging premise. Animal Crossing owes much of it’s success to the many customization options given to players. The extensive list of ways to customize, allows players to change their character and house with tons of personalized options, while also allowing the player to interact with their neighbors in some really interesting ways.

New Leaf brings some welcome additions to the gameplay formula, making the title even more addicting than before. Customization options have been vastly increased for both character and house, allowing for a great number of alterations. As if the enhanced level of customization wasn’t enough, players will have the possibility, for the first time ever, to become the mayor of their own town. This new gameplay mechanic allows the new virtual mayors to  customize their town, and improve the well being of it’s citizens through construction and public works projects. Creating a good city will allow you to get a Perfect Town, through a 100% approval rating , and the appreciation of your virtual citizens.

As usual you’ll also be able to take part in a lot of different activities for the game: bug catching, diving, fishing and more. Animal Crossing: New Leaf is truly the perfect game for all those players who love to collect items. Finding everything in the game will be a lot of  extra hard work.

Among the new features introduced in Animal Crossing: New Leaf are Spot Pass features, DLC and Online Play that make the best use of the Nintendo 3DS’s unique functionality.

Knowing how to use Tools in the game is really important since they’re going to be the only way to truly improve your town, as well as completing your item collection and more. All Tools can be upgraded to a Silver and Gold version once some requirements are met.

To equip a tool, drag it with the stylus onto your character in the inventory screen or use the D-pad to quickly equip or switch tools.

If you don’t need a specific tool, you can also store them in your house or even give them to other players.

  • Wet Suit

The Wet Suit will allow you to go diving and find sea creatures. To use it simply press A at the beach’s edge to jump into the water. While underwater press A to swim or Y to dive or resurface. To get out, approach the beach.