Animal Crossing: Wild World

You’re playing on a relatively small town map, so it’s really easy to get to know where all of the residents’ houses are located. You start with just 3 residents, and new ones join in slowly. Each resident is a different kind of animal, with a name, personality, likes, dislikes and more.

As the game progresses, they give you presents, you write them letters, you trade compliments and they really do begin to seem like friends. But this is only the beginning. You set up a whole trade system with the local shop. You can buy and sell turnips on the “stalk market”, learning to time your trades to make the most money. You can harvest the local tree fruit and sell that. You can go fishing and either donate the fish to the local aquarium or sell the extras.

You can design a town song that plays in the background, design your own clothing, even breed new types of flowers. You can learn songs from the local guitar player, look at the constellations in the sky, and much more. The game is incredibly immersive, and is just as much fun if you only have say 1/2 hr a day to play while you’re riding the bus. That’s plenty of time to catch up with your virtual friends and keep the town tidy.

The wi-fi capabilities are neat if you have online friends – as long as you give your secret code, you can visit each other. That of course is critical – the last thing you’d want is some unwelcome visitor able to leap into your town and chop down your trees!

I do have some complaints with the game. First, I do think the day-night cycle is neat, that it’s timed with your actual clock. However, I am a night owl. I work very hard in the day and the only time I have to play is in the early morning hours, say 2am – 5am. The stores and everything are closed in the game!! I finally had to actually change my DS clock to be able to sell some stuff but I *hate* having to do that. Why couldn’t the store have a “night shift” so that those of us who are night owls could still enjoy the game?

Also, some of the conversation gets redundant. You have to sit through certain greetings – say at the store – every single time. Surely they could either think of something new to say or just let me get about my business. Also, when I am dropping off full loads at the store, it’d be REALLY nice to have a “select all” button instead of having to drag every single little thing one by one.

Still, those are relatively minor complaints with the game. It is really quite relaxing and fun, and since you customize your little world by planting flowers, decorating your home, thinking up nicknames and quotes and even designing your own clothes, it is just so “comfy” to be there. There are tons of little touches that add great delight to the game. If you drop a rose on yourself, you carry it around in your teeth 🙂

Highly recommended!

Animal Crossing is a game with a unique plot. That is to say, no plot. But, surprisingly, that is a good thing. A VERY good thing! It gives you a lot of free reign. Basically, it’s a ‘Slice of Life’. Okay, enough with my ramblings (I’m boring you, aren’t I?)

When you first start the game, you are in a taxi. It’s a rainy day, and the taxi driver, (a turtle/kappa named Kapp’n) is asking you questions. First, he asks your name, and where you’re going. (You don’t have a preset name or anything, you make it up!)

Then, when the annoy turtle stops talking, the sky clears up, and you begin your new life in town! But before long, you discover that your new house comes with a price. 19,000 bells! (bells are the currency) In order to help pay off your huge debt, you must work for the racoon Tom Nook.

As you have (hopefully) noticed, you aret he only human. The rest of the townsfolk are animals!And so, your new life officially begins! You can chat the day away with your animal neighbors, buy hats and other attire at the local clothing shop, buy furniture for your home at Tom Nook’s store, go fishing, bug catching, UFO-hunting (No, seriously. There are UFO’s in the game. Their driven by a seagull named Gulliver)

There are so many things in this game, it’s IMPOSSIBLE to get bored! Not to mention Holidays, Wishing Stars to…er…wish upon, Fishing Tournies, Bug Hunting Competitions too!

The best part of this game are the townsfolk, in my opinion. There’s an ENOURMOUS variety of animals that come and go. Some you’ll really get attached too, and other you’ll be begging tha they leave! For example, Two of my favorite neighbors, Alice the Koala, and Marina the Octopus moved away. I miss them. I also have two annoyign neighbors, an annoyign squirrel who’s name I dare not remember, and a moody oenguin name Hopper!

You can write letters to villagers, and even become best friends. Once, I had a very funny coversation with Marina the Octopus

Marina: You know, latwly I’ve really been getting into seafood. That’s a bit odd, considering I AM seafood…

Animal Crossing: Wild World will never fail to surprise you! The graohics are a HUGE step up from the Gamecube version. But the music, I wish was the same as the Gamecube’s.

Well, there’s so much about Animal Crossing: Wild World, I can’t posible list it all. So, buy this game and expirience the most charming expetience you’ve ever seen! Thank you.

PS: In Japan, an Animal Crossing Anime Movie is being made! Hooray!

You start off the game riding in a taxi on your way to your new home town. The driver of the taxi asks you a lot of questions and the way you answer those questions determines what you will look like. Once you arrive at your town, you are given a home and are greeted by Tom Nook, the guy that owns the town shop. He is allowing you to move into a home while you pay it off slowly over time offering several upgrades if you are willing to pay for them.

You can earn your money by catching fish, bugs or by shaking trees and selling the fruit from those trees. You can also sell items like gyroids and fossils that you dig up from the ground. The money you earn can either be used to pay off your loan to Tom Nook or it can be used to furnish your house and buy gifts for your villagers.

Overall, this is a rather fun, relaxing game. Because there really is no aim, you do not need to feel stressed over not completing goals. You can go at your own pace and are never pressured. You can spend your time talking to villagers and getting to know them so you can get their pictures (a sometimes hard feat) or just to be friendly. However you never know when a villager may decide to move and bring in a new villager to befriend.

The only thing that really annoys me about this game is how some characters tend to repeat themselves. You cannot push a button and skip what they say so you have to sit and wait until they are finished. The lack of actual, real life holidays and not something made up is also another minus. However it’s still a great game and even funner if you can invite friends over!