Animal Crossing: City Folk

Animal Crossing: City Folk
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Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #95 in Video Games
* Brand: Nintendo
* Model: 045496901363
* Released on: 2008-11-16
* ESRB Rating: Everyone
* Platform: Nintendo Wii
* Dimensions: 2.00 pounds

Features

* DS Suitcase mode included which lets you carry your character from your Wii console to a friend's.
* A living, breathing gameplay environment where there is always something to do.
* Multiplayer support up to four players and 'Wii Speak' microphone functionality available (Mic sold separately).
* Extensive custotomizing options allow you to visit the salon and give your Mii a makeover.
* Befriend your animal neighbors by exchanging letters, gifts and favors in order to bring their memories and stories from their old towns into the game.

Editorial Reviews

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If you were given the keys to your own community, what would you do? Go fishing, collect shells or watch fireworks with friends? Build a snowman, exchange presents with family or decorate your house for the holidays? Take a trip to the city, go on a shopping spree or visit friends from all over the globe? In Animal Crossing: City Folk, life moves at a relaxed pace, but the world brims with endless possibilities.

Key Game Features

* There's Always Something New To Do: In the living, breathing world of Animal Crossing: City Folk, days and seasons pass in real time, so there's always something to discover. Catch fireflies in the summer, go trick-or-treating on Halloween or hunt for eggs on Bunny Day. If you're in the mood for something a little faster paced, take a bus to a new urban city area that's unique to Animal Crossing: City Folk. There you can catch a show at the theater or check out the sales at Gracie's boutique. But if you don't show your face back home for too long, your neighbors will miss you.

* Play With and Hear Up to Four Friends: Up to four people from your household can live and work together to build the perfect town. Design clothes and patterns, write letters and post messages on the bulletin board for each other, or play online using your broadband connection and invite up to three friends to visit your town using Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. With the new optional Wii Speak microphone (sold separately), it's like you're all in the same room. The microphone sits atop the sensor bar and picks up the conversation of everyone in the room to encourage a more inclusive experience.

* Get to Know Your Neighbors: The heart of Animal Crossing: City Folk is building relationships with the animals in your town as well as with other players. Befriend your animal neighbors by exchanging letters, gifts and favors. Animals can also move from town to town, bringing their memories and stories from their old towns with them. And since animals are notoriously loose-lipped, they spill all the juicy details.

* Express Your Personal Style: Customize your town, your house and yourself by collecting bugs, fish, fossils, art, furniture, clothes and accessories. You can also go to the salon in the city to change your hairstyle and get a Mii makeover. Plus, if you design clothes in the tailor's shop, animals will wear them and maybe even bring them to other towns.

Your Neighbors
Familiar faces such as K.K. Slider, Tom Nook, Blathers and Mr. Resetti all appear, as well as a bunch of new characters like Festivale host Pavé and Bug-Off judge Bud. Many characters who occasionally visited your town in previous Animal Crossing games have now set up permanent shop in the city, so you can see them anytime.

Special Powers, Weapons, Moves & Features:
Use the Wii Remote pointer to type letters, use items, draw designs for clothing or wallpaper, drag clothing or items onto your characters, interact with animals or objects, or lead your character around the world. Use Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection to hang out in real time with up to three of your friends.

You can also send them e-mails and text messages from the game. Play at different times of the year to experience different activities, holidays and seasons. And when visiting a friend in another country, experience the holidays native to their culture.

Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection
Up to four people can play together in real time via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. The host opens his or her gate to allow friends into the town, where they can perform all sorts of activities: fish, write letters to townsfolk, shop at the store, swap items, play hide-and-seek ... anything. Up to four players can interact in real-time, communicating via text chat, mic chat and emoticons.

WiiConnect24:
Using WiiConnect24, you can buy and sell items to friends by participating in silent auctions, view actual players' homes in the Happy Room Academy office or send letters to other players' towns.

Customer Reviews

It's Animal Crossing, Only Better
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
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
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.

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