Animal Crossing: City Folk

I've played the GameCube and DS versions of this game. The Wii version takes the "special visitors" and keeps them in the city where one can visit them at any time. I really like that aspect of it. I also like the aspect where one can take a Mii from out of the game and go to the salon and get a Mii head instead of only a new haircut. This game hasn't gotten all the love from my family that it deserves yet - but this game has staying power and will be something we will play for years to come, I'm certain.

We were given this game as a present and my boys, 7 and 8, have had no interest in it at all. I tried it and also found it very boring. It is a real time community which is very small. There are limited things you can do. The graphics are not great in comparison to other games. The characters talk in gibberish so you have to be able to read in order to know what they are saying. Very boring and does not make use at all of the wii platform.

This game is like many online have reviewed it as being pretty much the same as Animal Crossing: Wild World. Except for the WiiSpeak capability, however, I didn't even purchase that for this game and have no plans to. It's still fun for me without! If you have played the DS Animal Crossing you will notice the differences but really it's the same concept... again with some new things added of course! I can't say I am disappointed but then again I sort of am when I realize how much they could have changed or how much more they could have added to the game to make it THAT much better. It's still a great game despite that, just way too similar to the DS version and even GameCube version for me! It was my first purchase for my Wii because I knew it'd last me a long time considering there is something to do on it almost everyday or something to look forward to monthly! However, doing the same things over and over again is getting boring (building up the house, collecting all the fish, collecting all the fossils, paintings and trying to have a perfect town-- it's all the same). I haven't touched the game in over a week or more! I really wish they had added a lot more to do than what, I at least I have found. Adding the WiiSpeak really isn't that great of a new feature considering majority of the game itself is still the same! I guess your purchase depends on how much you liked the game to begin with. I think someone JUST discovering Animal Crossing will enjoy the game as much as I did when I first bought the GameCube version! If they ever come out with a new Animal Crossing and update it A LOT, that is the only way I'd even bother purchasing it!

Ever seen the movie Wristcutters? A guy kills himself and ends up in a world where "Everything's the same, just a little worse." That's Animal Crossing in a nutshell. Real life, but worse.

I'll admit I had fun the first time I played Animal Crossing, but after a week of pawning off fruit and fish to pay off my mortgage, i got pretty damn bored. Apparently, this game's only goal is to collect "stuff": furniture, clothes, trinkets, whatever. Anything you can't wear or use to furnish your house, you sell or donate. Otherwise, you keep doing the same tasks over and over so that you can buy bigger, better things to clutter your house with, and none of it is of any consequence. Hey, that sounds familiar!

Basic principle, the more time you spend on Animal Crossing, the more stuff you amass. No skill or thinking required. Besides buying and selling, you can pull weeds, talk to the neighbors who speak from a bank of about 3 repetitive phrases, maybe sit on their furniture for 10 seconds. This version of AC is especially neat, cause if you're really bored you can head to the City, where you can blow a week's worth of virtual fishing on a virtual sofa, or if you're really lucky, you can buy a balloon from the fabled Balloon Man. That's right: if you see him around, you get to buy a balloon!

Honestly, if I wanted to spend any time doing all this, I'd do it in real life, where the rewards are real and the people are interesting.

I like this game because it is relaxing,, fun, and humorous at times. I like simulation games like this and if they came out with a second animal crossing for the wii, i would definitely buy it!