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.
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It's not even going to come out in 2007 is it.
It really is the best game ever, not just of this year.
Thank you.
The only thing more pathetic than Animal Crossing are the people that 'play' it.
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.
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.
http://gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?id=3042#userreviews
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?!
It's only a 2006 game if you put up with NoE like a whore.
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...
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.
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.
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
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=71401
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.
Still....