Hello,
This morning (11h AM in Paris, ;)) I went back to see my villagers of VV1 (the last time it was 2 weeks ago, and every thing goes very well without me! :/) And I thought that there is some little things that I like very well in VV1 there are not in VV2 as: the school with a drum (I have said before), the well where I like to bring some one to drink when he is a little bit tired, and a sculpture but something else than an idol. When we have "the Child Prodigy", he is supposed to build many strange and uncommon things but we can't see anything! It would be funny that, at 14 years old or later, he builds (with other villagers, maybe) or sculpts surprising constructions!
I often read that many peoples would like to see children collecting mushrooms and items by their own, I think it would be too easy but I can understand that it take too much time! I suggest a compromise: children could collect items and mushrooms that they have collected once before (when they know it) and when they are near of them. So we have to teach them to do it.
(Sorry, I'm not sure to be very clear)