Animal Crossing: City Folk
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. 
Build your own community |
Enjoy mini-games against friends.
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Get to know your neighbors.
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Play at all hours of the day.
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Feel free to have company over.
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Gameplay
You make the whole story, as you and up to three other players move into a town and just live life. Befriend your animal neighbors, decorate your house with cool furnishings, fill up your wardrobe, get to know the local wildlife, hop on a bus to visit the new city and just explore the world. There are a million different ways to play. Every charming animal character has a personality: some are grouches while others are chatterboxes. And there's no final goal or high score to hit. The game keeps going for as long as you want to play, and your town will always be there when you return. Move into town, buy a house and then do whatever you want. Time and seasons pass as they do in the real world, so there's always something different happening. Collect more than 2,400 items, go fishing for rare and interesting fish, catch all kind of cool bugs, dig up dinosaur fossils and buried treasure, hang out with other players or spend the day in the city. There's so much to do, and you have all the time in the world to explore it all.DS Suitcase Mode
The DS Suitcase lets you carry your character from your Wii console to a friend's, thus giving people without an Internet connection the ability to experience multiplayer modes. Additionally, you can move your character from Animal Crossing: Wild World on Nintendo DS and play as him/her in Animal Crossing: City Folk.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.
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Animal Crossing: City Folk Reviews
There are a lot of positive reviews of this game. Due to such positive reviews, my husband bought this game for us to play about a year ago. When we first got it, we played through the initial jobs of Tom Nook and then we were totally lost. What were we supposed to do now? I recently started playing the game again to give it another chance. And now after quite a few hours logged in, I can honestly say that I don't understand the glowing reviews of this game. Why is this game FUN? I find myself spending my hours collecting fossils, shells, fruit, bugs, and fish. But since your tools take up space in your pockets, you are constantly running back and forth between Tom Nook's to sell them or to the museum to donate things. Dialogue is scrolls slowly and there's no options to stop it from scrolling. Of course, the people you need to speak to the most have the LONGEST dialogue. After all, the guy you talk to all the time at the museum is named BLATHERS.
Yes, so...there seems to be two goals - upgrading/decorating your house and completing the museum's collections. Neither of these prospects is easy to do. To upgrade your house, you need bells (money) and to make money, you need to gather anything and everything and sell it to Tom Nook. But unfortunately, due to your pocket size, you'll only make on average 1500 bells per gathering excursion. You have 19,000 bells of your first mortgage to pay off and then, after Tom Nook upgrades your house, you'll owe something like 120,000 bells! That's hours of gathering and well...that's not my idea of fun.
The museum collection is interesting. You do feel compelled to donate fossils, fish, insects, and paintings to the museum. Unfortunately, this is no small task. One of the games more interesting designs is that it takes into consideration time and date on what kind of things "spawn" in your town. So, if this is a main goal of the game, you need to play for at least one year and at different times during the day to collect everything.
This game reminds me a bit of World of Warcraft. You're constantly trying to make as much money as possible and get the next new thing. But there's always something better, something more, and you just keeping playing and playing. In the end, you're really not getting anywhere. I am not impressed with this game, but I'm still playing it. Perhaps the one endearing quality of this game. It has the same addiction quality as World of Warcraft - the sense of reward and accomplishment, even though you're not really getting anywhere fast.
"Animal Crossing: City Folk" may be the best version of "Animal Crossing" yet, but it's clear the series is showing its age.
Certainly the problems of this game are not due to the actual gameplay. Gamers will always love AC for the sheer amount of stuff you can receive. You can upgrade to a giant two-story house with a basement. You can purchase all of Tom Nook's and Gracie's furniture and apparel. You can mail-order goods you purchased in the past. You can keep fossils, bugs and fish in your museum. The sheer volume of stuff you can obtain never ends.
No, the big problem is that there wasn't much depth to this game in the first place. Once players obtain all the goods they ever need, there's not much left for them to do but to find more stuff. There's hardly any substantial narrative, so it will never reach the epic scale of storytelling in games such as "Harvest Moon."
AC is much easier to play than a majority of "Harvest Moon" and other real-life simulators. It's even more user-friendly than "The Sims." Characters are never restrained to a short time limit. Since the game clock is conjoined to the actual time and date of the year, players have nearly all day to collect as many things as possible.
But there isn't much inside the actual game that is new. Sure, the city is the perfect place to position Crazy Redd, Dr. Shrunk and the fortune teller. Players can even get their own new haircuts. However, there's no real urgency to find these items because they are available right from the beginning of the game. Even the new items in Gracie's only change every season of the year.
With all this said, though, "Animal Crossing" retains its massive appeal. The new Wii remote controls allow players to effortlessly design all their clothes, flags and hats. Fishing is easier than all the other AC games. Even town traveling is incredibly simple if players have a Wi-fi connection.
Just don't expect anything mindblowing. The Wii edition of AC really could have been the equivalent of a real-life chat community, where players interact freely in massive worlds. However, with "AC: City Folk," it's clear that Nintendo wants to keep children safe by limiting the free-roaming range of activities. It's still a great game, but for the newest generation of hardcore gamers, it could have been so much more.
I really like this game, there is so much more to do than the game says, you can change your shoes, shoot down balloons. Go to flea markets. You can even make your own constellation, plus all the other things you could do in the other games, you can even play hide-in-seek. Plus a ton of other stuff. So if you enjoyed any of the other Animal Crossing games, you'll love this one even more. Though some things about the game take a little getting use to, like at first it is harder to fish, like the angels, and the other animals do not ask for as many favors. Other than stuff like that the game is fabulous. Though I only recommend the game to people who are not in to violent games, though I think some of them might still enjoy this game, but I personally think that the ones who will get the most out of this game are the people who what a game this is just pure fun to play.
I was a bit dissapointed when I found out that Animal Crossing City Folk was going to be similar to Animal Crossing Wild Worlds. I mean, it's basically just Wild Worlds for the wii! If you don't have wild worlds get this or if you don't have this just stick with Wild Worlds.
Pros:
-a new Animal Crossing game
-wii speak
-online play is fun
-controls are comfortable with the use of the wii mote
-you can take photos of yourself doing stuff!
-sending letters to friends online is fun
Cons:
-recycled music (get Shinobu Tanaka to compose the music for the next game please)
-I wish you could go to the city online
-basically the same as Animal Crossing: Wild Worlds
-glitchy at points
-gets a bit boring if you play for a long time
I have been playing ACWW on DS for almost a year now and have almost mastered it and have everything. I got a wii this year so I could do wii fit plus and get exercise....doctor approved and recommended. Anyway it is a blast and I use the game as a reward for exercise.
It is about 75% like ACWW. Then man it takes off and has twice if not more things to do. If you are an ACWW player here are a few things that are different and so fun.
1. You get to choose 1 of 4 houses to move in when you start.
2. You get 4 characters all having own house (4 mortgages too)
3. Many of the same animals from ACWW but they say different things.
4. So far I have meet Pascal and he behaves differently
5. Saharah also has different things for you to do.
6. The town landscape is multi layers. Mine has canyons, cliffs, many lakes, 2 waterfalls, You still have Nook's, Ables, Civic Center, Museum in the town
7. You take a bus to the city and there are many animals walking around to talk to, that is so fun. I'll not tell you all the shops but you will know some of the people there too.
So far it has been a lot of fun and starting over is great, something to work at. It does let you move your house from the DS if you want to. I did not so do not know how that would look.
I am an adult player and I simply love the game.
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