THERE IS ONLY ONE GAME OF 2006
And it is Animal Crossing Wild World. Any web sites that do a top 20 or a top 50 are just going through the motions. There's not even any point doing a top ten or a top five. The other nine or four would be meaningless filler. We could pretend we like some other shit half as much as DS Animal Crossing, but you'd be able to tell. And we've been through too much together to start lying to each other now.
We were playing Animal Crossing when other people started playing it. We were playing it when those people then stopped playing it a few weeks later after not seeing what the fuss was about.
We were still playing it when those people started playing it again to see if they could work out why we were still playing it after a year.
We played it this morning and will play it again this evening. For reasons to do with turnips you probably won't understand. We have played it every day since last December - apart from, maybe, three or four days. That's not a stupid internet exaggeration either - you don't get an insect collection of this magnitude by only playing for a couple of minutes every now and again.
These are some of the hybrid flowers we have bred in the last year. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
This is a bit more of the iceberg, but still only the top part of it. We have THAT MANY hybrid flowers. This is not gay because it's only in a video game. Video games are not gay. Even ones that involve breeding and caring for flowers.
This is how much money we have in the bank. In Animal Crossing we are independently wealthy.
That's why gold-digging sluts like Marina live in our low-carbon-emitting super-town.
This is the main room of our massive house, or the Bridge as we call it. We have put on our Wesley Crusher uniform to show it off to its fullest potential. See that photo of KK Slider? You have to do the gaming equivalent of crawling 500 miles on broken glass using only your eyelid muscles to get that.
And there's still loads to do, even after a year. We haven't even seen let alone shot down Postman Pete thanks to his stupid anti-social working hours. We only have one of Gulliver's UFO items, the Modern furniture series is far from complete, and we're only half-way to Platinum membership of Tom Nook's Reward Scheme.
This is when the flying saucer crashed in our town. It was such an amazing event we had to take a photo of the screen. When has a game ever been so amazing you've had to take a photo of the screen to keep as a memento? NEVER BEFORE, that's when.
And Katie still hasn't sent us the Lovely Phone to put in the Lovely Room.
You know you're special when you get RARE ALTERNATE DIALOGUE sequences with one of the major characters.
We'd prefer it to contain a few more moments of double entendre, but there are still just about enough to make it worth 'following through' with.
This is how to make a snowman. This is mainly for our reference so that next year we can start off properly without the tiresome learning process of working out what size the balls need to be.
See? He loves it.
It's nice that he's a misogynistic snowman. We know full well that the snowmen come alive when the game is turned off and start harassing the female town inhabitants.
Got all those.
Got all those.
Got loads of these.
We left these acorns on the floor as a reminder of the good times had by all during the October Acorn Festival. Roll on October 2007!
Come back next year. We'll still be playing it. It's that good. And if you don't get it you can bugger off back to playing games about men shouting "HOLY SHIT" and shooting machine guns at each other with all the other 14-year-old morons.
The problem with giving Animal Crossing Wild World a number out of ten and placing it in the all-time lists is this - it's not much of a game. It doesn't test your skills. It's not like playing Quake III at the absolute limits of your gaming skills for hours on end. It's not like mastering Gradius V. It's not like getting to the last boss of Raiden on one credit or completing Hellfire using a third-party controller.
It's more like keeping a diary, or remembering to have breakfast.
Animal Crossing is just a simple little thing you have and do every day. It's like your kettle. It's not as exciting as your new LCD TV or your Sky+ box. It's simple, but you'd be fucked without it.
Animal Crossing Wild World: "Simple, but you'd be fucked without it" - 10/10, UK:Resistance Game of the Year By A Mile. Here's a review we wrote of it at the time and never got around to uploading.
A FREE PUBLIC SERVICE REVIEW OF ANIMAL CROSSING WILD WORLD FOR NINTENDO DS
This is a public service review. We don't often write reviews on the site for free, because they're a lot of words and a bit of a chore and then everyone disagrees with everything you say and calls you a cunt afterwards. But sometimes you have to tell people about a game because it's so great. Writing about good games for free is more fun than writing about shit games for money (not actually true, but sounds nice). This is one of those important times!
ABOUT THE ABOVE REVIEW:
We're releasing this review under the GNU Free Documentation License, so if you want to run a review of Animal Crossing Wild World on your web site, blog or student magazine, feel free to use this copy and put your name on it. It's free for everyone to reproduce! We're doing this out of love.
WHAT SCORE TO GIVE IT:
If your web site, blog or magazine scores games out of 5 give it 5/5. If you score things out of 10 give it 10/10. If you use the archaic percentage system give it 97 percent because anything more than that makes you look stupid like those American magazines who give games 100 percent. Nothing's ever 100 percent you pricks.
We were playing Animal Crossing when other people started playing it. We were playing it when those people then stopped playing it a few weeks later after not seeing what the fuss was about.
We were still playing it when those people started playing it again to see if they could work out why we were still playing it after a year.
We played it this morning and will play it again this evening. For reasons to do with turnips you probably won't understand. We have played it every day since last December - apart from, maybe, three or four days. That's not a stupid internet exaggeration either - you don't get an insect collection of this magnitude by only playing for a couple of minutes every now and again.
These are some of the hybrid flowers we have bred in the last year. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
This is a bit more of the iceberg, but still only the top part of it. We have THAT MANY hybrid flowers. This is not gay because it's only in a video game. Video games are not gay. Even ones that involve breeding and caring for flowers.
This is how much money we have in the bank. In Animal Crossing we are independently wealthy.
That's why gold-digging sluts like Marina live in our low-carbon-emitting super-town.
This is the main room of our massive house, or the Bridge as we call it. We have put on our Wesley Crusher uniform to show it off to its fullest potential. See that photo of KK Slider? You have to do the gaming equivalent of crawling 500 miles on broken glass using only your eyelid muscles to get that.
And there's still loads to do, even after a year. We haven't even seen let alone shot down Postman Pete thanks to his stupid anti-social working hours. We only have one of Gulliver's UFO items, the Modern furniture series is far from complete, and we're only half-way to Platinum membership of Tom Nook's Reward Scheme.
This is when the flying saucer crashed in our town. It was such an amazing event we had to take a photo of the screen. When has a game ever been so amazing you've had to take a photo of the screen to keep as a memento? NEVER BEFORE, that's when.
And Katie still hasn't sent us the Lovely Phone to put in the Lovely Room.
You know you're special when you get RARE ALTERNATE DIALOGUE sequences with one of the major characters.
We'd prefer it to contain a few more moments of double entendre, but there are still just about enough to make it worth 'following through' with.
This is how to make a snowman. This is mainly for our reference so that next year we can start off properly without the tiresome learning process of working out what size the balls need to be.
See? He loves it.
It's nice that he's a misogynistic snowman. We know full well that the snowmen come alive when the game is turned off and start harassing the female town inhabitants.
Got all those.
Got all those.
Got loads of these.
We left these acorns on the floor as a reminder of the good times had by all during the October Acorn Festival. Roll on October 2007!
Come back next year. We'll still be playing it. It's that good. And if you don't get it you can bugger off back to playing games about men shouting "HOLY SHIT" and shooting machine guns at each other with all the other 14-year-old morons.
The problem with giving Animal Crossing Wild World a number out of ten and placing it in the all-time lists is this - it's not much of a game. It doesn't test your skills. It's not like playing Quake III at the absolute limits of your gaming skills for hours on end. It's not like mastering Gradius V. It's not like getting to the last boss of Raiden on one credit or completing Hellfire using a third-party controller.
It's more like keeping a diary, or remembering to have breakfast.
Animal Crossing is just a simple little thing you have and do every day. It's like your kettle. It's not as exciting as your new LCD TV or your Sky+ box. It's simple, but you'd be fucked without it.
Animal Crossing Wild World: "Simple, but you'd be fucked without it" - 10/10, UK:Resistance Game of the Year By A Mile. Here's a review we wrote of it at the time and never got around to uploading.
A FREE PUBLIC SERVICE REVIEW OF ANIMAL CROSSING WILD WORLD FOR NINTENDO DS
This is a public service review. We don't often write reviews on the site for free, because they're a lot of words and a bit of a chore and then everyone disagrees with everything you say and calls you a cunt afterwards. But sometimes you have to tell people about a game because it's so great. Writing about good games for free is more fun than writing about shit games for money (not actually true, but sounds nice). This is one of those important times!
ANIMAL CROSSING WILD WORLD REVIEW
For Nintendo DS
Animal Crossing isn't a game. It's a career. A vocation, a mini alternative life. You could educate a child with it and it would turn out OK. It teaches you everything you need to know about the real world. It teaches you the importance of money, shows you the true value of patience, punishes you for lying, and when characters move out of your town it's an important lesson about the harsh realities of bereavement in adult life. Freckles is gone, Timothy, she's gone to another town very far away and she's never coming back.
It's not a game, it's a job. You HAVE to collect your fruit to begin with, else you can't afford the cool furniture. You HAVE to keep fishing, else you might miss a rare fish. You HAVE to collect all the fossils, fish and insects because something cool might happen when you do. Animal Crossing uses an enhanced version of the COLLECTEVERYTHING(TM) engine that Nintendogs used. It makes chores into games, giving you incentives to spend hours and hours doing nothing in the hope of finding one rare little thing no one else has got.
When we bought it we played it for an hour and a half in bed in the morning, we played it for an hour and a half in the afternoon, we played it for an hour and a half in the evening, then for an hour an a half in bed before going to bed. If anything that's an underestimate, because starting to play Animal Crossing is like stepping into a time machine where suddenly it's a huge amount of time in the future when you turn it off and look at the clock.
That's another reason why it's great. You can use it to fast forward your boring life. So anyway, we played it for six hours a day (minimum) for the first few weeks of having it. Some of those six-hour periods were spent fishing. Just fishing. Fishing, then running to the shop to sell them, or to the Museum to donate any rare ones we caught. The game keeps a list of all the fish you've caught, which is one of numerous mini, incidental challenges you have to complete. In your own time and whenever you like. We're now down to about three 15-minute periods of play a day, which is much more manageable.
Animal Crossing really suits the handheld. You can play it for ten minutes in the morning, a bit at lunch time and switch it on in the evening for a proper play. It's why Wild World is such a perfect game. We do all our farming/shopping chores in the morning on the train to work instead of reading about war in a newspaper, then spend the evening having fun instead of watching war on the news. And wi-fi play lets you do it all in another town, with the added excitement of random router crashes to keep everyone on edge. It's the perfect game and it suits DS to a tee. 10/10, again.
ABOUT THE ABOVE REVIEW:
We're releasing this review under the GNU Free Documentation License, so if you want to run a review of Animal Crossing Wild World on your web site, blog or student magazine, feel free to use this copy and put your name on it. It's free for everyone to reproduce! We're doing this out of love.
WHAT SCORE TO GIVE IT:
If your web site, blog or magazine scores games out of 5 give it 5/5. If you score things out of 10 give it 10/10. If you use the archaic percentage system give it 97 percent because anything more than that makes you look stupid like those American magazines who give games 100 percent. Nothing's ever 100 percent you pricks.
Labels: ENTHUSIASM
Posted by Cmdr_Zorg 12/27/2006 03:51:00 PM
29 Comments:
That's an awesome update. Cheers. I like the way u mentioned Quake 3, Gradius and Raiden in one paragraph. You get extra kudos for that =]
Cheers for the giggle :P
http://idlethumbs.net/display.php?id=261
No, extra kudos are granted for mentioning Hellfire, not bloody Quake.
can you makes sexytimes there??
Wish I could find my cartridge. Bet my town's full of weeds.
:(
Animal Crossing should have been a Wii launch title instead of all the shite that was released.
It's not even going to come out in 2007 is it.
The one with the pinatas is better
My girlfriend is lying in bed playing this game right now, whilst I sit here, drinking beer, posting comments on an internet forum.
It really is the best game ever, not just of this year.
Thank you.
Animal Crossing is all about spending three hours picking up apples and then selling them in order to buy a new carpet, hmm :P
Reasonable update... as usual I just skim-read it... but that review on idlethumbs was really good!
wouldn't, wouldn't, wouldn't, wouldn't, wouldn't, would, wouldn't, wouldn't, wouldn't, would, wouldn't... there's more but i got bored.
Animal Crossing isn't even a game. It's a stupid piece of shit for socially inept idiots that can't seem to get the hang of the real world.
The only thing more pathetic than Animal Crossing are the people that 'play' it.
my town is fucked, full of weeds and im still paying that prick nook.
Hopper says that yaw'l are fools if you dont love animal crossing. You bear bating seal clubbing ass bandits.
Fuck the chubby faced cum stain soaked bullshit like Gears of War and the ridiculous "Oh look crates are bouncing around as if they were made of ice and dropped in treacle yet still slide around as if treacle means nothing to ice" Havok engine car crash Half Life 2.
This is the real Game of the Year, and I've hardly fucking played it (compared to this) but look UFO CRASH! had absolutely no idea and makes me wish I had wasted my year playing this great game.
The missus was allowed a go on her sister's game of Wild World on Xmas day.
20 minutes later, it was:
"But I made you money!"
"You sold TEN turnips AND my coconut AND my fossil?!? ARRRGH! Don't you know turnips go up and down in value, if you sold them for less than 95 bells you LOST me money!"
"I made almost 1,500 bells!"
"I don't care, you're never playing it again."
Oh the hilarity. It even surpasses how, on said sister's Gamecube version, I called Tom Nook a penny-pinching jew in the advert he makes you write, and sent one of the townsfolk a letter calling him a 'bastard fuckface' after I did a really infuriating chore, only for him to give me fucking paper and suggest I write him a letter with it.
An animal crossing film?!?
http://gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?id=3042#userreviews
Haven't you even caught all the insects yet? Disgraceful.
It's a fantastic game. Like crack, but without Pete Docherty of Kate Moss.
Erm, but how did you get the Star Trek uniform? I'm crap at designing clothes. And can I come and visit?
PS duckula? I saw that trail on Gaygamer.net is there something you want to tell us?!
haha, those kotaku wankers used this as an excuse for an update on their shitroll site. All they are is yank pricks and queers. And you let them get away with it!
Spot the irony in the title screen!
It's only a 2006 game if you put up with NoE like a whore.
Hey, Zorg, I totally agree with you.
How foolish I was to only push it to 9 in our list.
I should've fought harder.
Still, at least it's higher than Viva Pinata...
Grumbler said: "Spot the irony in the title screen!
It's only a 2006 game if you put up with NoE like a whore."
Spot the cunt in the comments section!
ANIMAL CROSSING WILD WORLD: GAME OF ANY YEAR, BUT PARTICULARLY OF 2006.
You cunt.
GAME OF THE YEAR?!?!
I'd rather live in a world of grey skys and drive by shootings than play somthing like this.
You'll all be rotting on WOW next, harvesting gold and collecting Elven Swords.
Been there done that. AC took over my life as I tired of raiding in WoW with 19-39 other COMPLETE RAVING B.O. INFESTED CUNTS.
Now I can just do it with my villagers instead, who never get pissed off when I treat them like shit. And the rare times I have to interact with others it's just to trade items and I can 'accidentally' switch off the Internet whenever I want
Let's make Animal Crossing Eurogamer's best game of 2006!
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=71401
You lost it!
That's gutting. I mean gutting normally but gutting especially because of all your hard work.
Gutting.
Do you still think about it? Does it make you feel sick.
Yes, I still think about it. Reading this update makes me very, very sad, but also happy that I bothered capturing all these screenshots of my poor little lost town.
Yeah. Counts for something I guess and at least you didn't have to go through the akward deleting the town/just ignoring it for the rest of your life.
Still....
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