Reset

Mr. Resetti, the character who appears when an Animal Crossing series game is reset without saving.

Don Resetti, who rarely appears and is much calmer than Mr. Resetti.

Resetting is a gameplay mechanic in the Animal Crossing series utilized when the system is either turned off or its reset button is pressed, causing any unsaved progress to be lost. In all games prior to Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Mr. Resetti appears when the player begins the play session after resetting, giving a long lecture on the cons of resetting the game. After multiple resets in Animal Crossing, Animal Crossing: City Folk, or Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Don Resetti will appear in place of Mr. Resetti, who merely gives the player a warning rather than a full rant.

In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Resetti only appears once, unless the Resetti Surveillance Center public works project is built, at a cost of 368,000 Bells. Until the Center is built, Isabelle will take the place of Mr. Resetti and remind the player about saving when the game is reset.

The reset mechanic is not used in Animal Crossing: New Horizons due to the game's auto-save behavior. It is possible to quit the game without saving from the Nintendo Switch home screen to attempt to reset actions since the last auto-saved state, but no character will pop up to talk to the player when they begin their next session.

Trivia

A player with the face texture of a gyroid

• In Animal Crossing, if the player visits another town and resets the game, the next time their save is loaded, the texture for their face is that of a gyroid. This effect ends the next time the player saves their game. Additionally, when resetting in another town, all items and Bells in the player's pockets disappear. The gyroid's face is not a glitch as there is code that suggests it is intended as a punishment for not saving.
• During online play, the player will be forced to reset if they get disconnected. However, in Animal Crossing: Wild World and Animal Crossing: City Folk, this would not cause Mr. Resetti to appear.
• When a player resets, lights and sirens go off in the Resetti Surveillance Center. This can be witnessed by the player in Doubutsu no Mori e+, Animal Crossing: City Folk, and Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

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