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Platform: Nintendo Wii
ESRB Rating: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Product Weight: 2.00 pounds
Model: 045496901363
Manufacturer: Nintendo
Release Date: 2008-11-16
Sales Rank: 94
It's Animal Crossing, Only Better,
by Thomas J. Thayer, 2009-01-03
Animal Crossing: City Folk for the Nintendo Wii is Animal Crossing as you know and love, only better.
Think of this version as evolutionary, not revolutionary.
The game itself is very similar to the old Animal Crossing for the Nintendo Gamecube. You'll still fish and run errands to earn money for various items - from home remodeling to furniture and clothing, but now there's even more cool items to spend money (Bells) on.
Many of the characters from the original Animal Crossing have returned in Animal Crossing: City Folk, including Tom Nook, the mayor, and many of the town residents.
If you liked the original version, you'll like this one. Likewise, if you didn't like the first one, you wont like this one either. In my home, Animal Crossing: City Folk has been a hit with everyone from age 11 to 43.
What's improved?
- Movement is much quicker.
- No hesitation between "acres".
- Larger town.
- Ability to travel to the city.
- Ability to speed through long text dialogs more quickly.
- Graphics (although, they remain true to the original feel).
- Control. The Wiimote is a natural for this game.
- Much greater variety of fish to catch.
- More characters.
- More character customizations, including hair and makeover changes. You can even choose to make your character look like your Mii characters.
What hasn't improved?
- You'll still eventually run out of challenges and become bored. But it takes a while.
- Fishing is actually more difficult now.
- Resetti is still a pain.
- Character jokes are still lame.
Overall, this is a good game. There's nothing earth-shattering here, but it's entertaining.
Fun but only one player,
by Dawn M. Jackson, 2009-01-02
This game is fun, but you can only play one person at a time in the same household. I understand that you can connect to someone else and play with them online and visit each other's towns, but it seems like it would be fairly simple to allow multiple people in the household to play simultaneously as well. However, this is not an option.
You can create up to 4 "people" on the game, however, none of those people can meet each other in town at the same time. As a result, the toon that I created cannot meet my son's toon in game, which is sad.
Let's Go To Animal Crossing,
by technofranki, 2009-01-02
The game is called Animal Crossing: Let's Go To The City in Europe, but I like the shorter US name better: Animal Crossing: City Folk.
The gameplay, graphics and music haven't changed that much since the N64 version. But I don't think that is a problem, since everything fit fine with the game.
I like that you can press the 1-button an take a screenshot and save it to a SD-card. That's how I made all the screenshots for my blog.
The game never ends. You collect insects, fish and dinosour skeletons which you can donate to the local museum. When you have played by yourself for a while, you want to travel or invite people to your town. You need a friendcode from people to travel to their city.
Is this a good game? YES. Does it offer anything new (if you played some of the other versions)? NO, not realy. But I recommend it for old and new Animal Crossing players.
Animal Crossing City Folk,
by null, 2009-01-02
This game is very addictive, just like the original one, for anyone who has ever played it. It has a few new features which is cool, lots more fish, bugs, fossils and paintings to collect. Overall good fun for the whole family. Only downside, other than the few enhancements, not really much different from original one.
Same Same Same!,
by A. Jolly, 2009-01-01
At first glance, I told myself I didn't need this game. I knew it would be the same as the last two. There was no question in my mind that I didn't need it. I went on with my life, trying my hardest to resist. Until Christmas. I had enough extra money to buy Animal Crossing. I told myself no. Repeatedly. No, No, No! But I am weak, it seems. I opened the package, inserted the game into my Wii and transferred my Animal Crossing Wild World character over. Then.... I thought my fears had been realized. Was this simply a port of Wild World? Nook said the same thing he has said in the last two games, I did the same "Give this too *animal*/Write a letter/plant stuff/write something on the town message board!" tasks. While paying off (very little of) my debt to Tom Nook, I started to wonder if they had even changed the script at all. Everything seemed the same! That's when I noticed the little things. Birds in the trees, the animals ears flop as they move, talk, and emote, the sound effects they had recycled before, are now slightly different, each animal has a different voice.. I could go on and on. All of this makes an otherwise stale, old, moldy, yet fun game new again. Don't get me wrong! I love City Folk. Really, I do. I will play the heck out of this game. But was it worth the money? Not really. Would I recommend this game to someone who has played the last two? No, not really. Just stick with the one you have. Would I recommend it to someone who has never played Animal Crossing before? A very loud, enthusiastic yes!
This game is great for children. If the child is under 7, then I really wouldn't bother. It isn't inappropriate.. This is a great family game. I just don't think they would really have much fun. This game is text intensive, so unless you want to sit beside them and read everything... :)
All in all, Animal Crossing City Folk is a good game. Is it anything new? Nope. Did Nintendo make the most of this sequel? Not even in the least. But I still love it.
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Categories -> Wii -> Simulation -> Life
