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Regular readers will know we like a bit of Animal Crossing. We even said the DS version was the Best Game of 2006 or any year. And now, after two years of resizing textures, Nintendo has the game ready for Wii.


Animal Crossing: City Folk

It's awesome, because it's hi-res Animal Crossing. The game we loved then (literally) lost.


Animal Crossing: City Folk

It's a bit of a shame that it looks exactly like the DS game.


Animal Crossing: City Folk

Not just "a bit like" but "precisely the same as."


Animal Crossing: City Folk

There's a video floating around. It has the same sounds. Same items. Same people.


Animal Crossing: City Folk

It is simultaneously exactly what we wanted, but also a crushing shame.


Animal Crossing: City Folk

This was going to be the game that made us bother getting a Wii.


Animal Crossing: City Folk

There's not much point now. We've already collected all these.


Animal Crossing: City Folk

If Nintendo's only putting two people to work on porting it over from DS, we're not going to bother with the dehumanising trip to GAME to buy it.


Animal Crossing: City Folk

This seems to be the only new bit. A jazzed-up shopping area. Great.


Animal Crossing: City Folk

The same.


Animal Crossing: City Folk

The same.


Animal Crossing: City Folk

The same. Great, yet also a terrible disappointment. We are in mental turmoil.
Blogger Grytpype said...
Being Animal Crossing means it was going to be disappointing no matter what they showed of it. Games like this are for tiny little children, women and... Zorg.

Btw, any plans for you to review sex toys on Shiny Media?
Blogger P.P.A. said...
I miss the charming top-down view of the N64/GC version.
Blogger P.P.A. said...
Oh what, I just read you can switch between both camera styles. And a couple of other neat features, awesome.

Copypasta from a /v/ thread:

Here's what we know:
*Good holidays are back, including Christmas, Halloween, etc.
*Multiplayer is easier, allows microphone (and apparently, a USB keyboard).
*Visit people's towns even when they're not playing.
*You can directly mail and send items to friends in other villages without having to visit them.
*Take a bus, driven by Kapp'n, to the new city area with fashion boutique (owned by Gracie and employing a new Able Sister), auction house, salon, theater, Happy Room Academy, and more.
*Pointer controls and vastly improved user interface including features like a quick-switch for items without having to go into inventory.
*Animals are no longer stuck inside when you have friends visiting, they'll now wander outside freely.
*All four players can be in a house at once, and you can move furniture even when you have people visiting in your house.
*New giant furniture pieces -- a wrestling mat about 5x5 squares was demonstrated.
*Much higher texture res, faces are no longer blurry masses.
*Camera can be zoomed in and out even while outdoors, and you can switch between ACGC and WW camera styles.
*Camera icon may imply screenshots/photography feature.
*Varied topography, ACGC cliffs are back.
*Fish are in 3D.
*Improved animations, details, effects, etc. Less immediate but still noticeable visual changes. Characters animate more fluidly, ears bounce on villagers as they move, other small touches.
*More furniture, items, villagers, conversations, etc., more of all the basics.
Blogger gaijintendo said...
HOLY YEAH! A game where I can move furniture!! YAY!

This game was fun, but like all things I stopped before I achieved anything significant. Maybe I could relive the guilt of not picking up weeds in my town on a Wii.
Blogger ian said...
The time gap twixt the DS version and this means no connectivity shenanigans like on the GBA & Gamecube. For shame.

I got excited enough when I saw Animal Crossing on Wario Ware Wii, so this is enough for me.

For what it's worth, I'm a 34 year old man. And I'll never be as cynical as gritpipe. At least not where Animal Crossing's concerned.

Hopefully there'll be a Tom Nook FPS mode, I always wanted to kill him right from the word go.
Blogger PhotoBoy said...
From the look of the videos it doesn't seem to use any pointing or motion controls whatsoever. So you can't go fishing, dig for fossils, shoot using the slingshot or chop trees down using gestures on the remote. It's just the same old controls on a different console. Disappointing.
Blogger P.P.A. said...
Disappointing? That's a plus in my eyes! Now I just hope you'll also be able to use GC controllers.
Blogger Urban Reflex said...
Wow. This is bad even considering Nintendo's past history of remakes.
Blogger SMEGHaMMeR said...
Thing is i don't have a ds. But i have a chipped wii, so i'm very happy. Thx for asking.
Blogger hahnchen said...
With voice comm, and photo sharing, it's inevitable that the Daily Mail will do a feature on Animal Crossing child sex grooming.

Maybe you could get My Animal Crossing started again, and we could tip them off.

Nintendo will be forced to defend themselves with bucketfuls of lifestyle photography and advertorials in women's magazines about how awesome a mother that psycho Carrie Dunaway is.
Blogger Bas said...
You know you won't play this as much. Why? It's not portable.
Blogger genjyuro said...
but the "Fish are in 3D"!
Blogger Grytpype said...
I played Animal Crossing on DS. I have a DS Lite. It gave me the same feeling of RAGE that I got from playing The Sims as I couldn't work out how anyone could have so little going on in their lives they could sit and play a game that revolves around doing things you do in real life, only less fulfilling in every way. And AC is not cute, it's like playing in a 6 year old girl's imagination.

Why not just buy a dolls house and admit it's what you like doing?

I genuinely cannot understand why a game like this exists. Very simply 'why?'.
Blogger Cunzy11 said...
Grytpype clearly can't sort out their HRA rating.

Classic case of the fox and the grapes.
Blogger colin said...
Well with the list of upgrades, I now think it'll be good stuff.

Anyone who doesn't like Animal Crossing is a great big fag (and for you people across the pond, I don't mean a cigarette). If you can't enjoy Animal Crossing, it is because you are so incredibly homosexual that the least little bit of cute makes you want to stick a big ol' cock in your mouth.

grytpype, don't worry, your secret is safe with us. Please refrain from trying to tongue kiss me.
Blogger colin said...
By the way, the only good Nintendo game in the world is Animal Crossing, just in case anyone thought I forgot my Sega roots. And yes, that includes Metroid, Zelda, and Mario titles.
Blogger The 9000 said...
Speaking of "Game Of The Year" type stuff, aren't you going to review Ninja Gaiden II on here Zorg?

If/when all the avalanche of Dreamcast Logo world exclusives lets up a bit obviously.
Blogger Cmdr_Zorg said...
I was. I forgot. It's too late now. Maybe for Christmas.
Blogger Kentonio said...
Anyone want to bet against Zorg having bought a wii and AC within about 12 hours of the release?
Blogger PhotoBoy said...
"Disappointing? That's a plus in my eyes! Now I just hope you'll also be able to use GC controllers."

That's a good point actually. Aside from Resident Evil Wii Edition I'm still waiting for a game that actually puts the remote to good use. But since that's not likely to happen, it would be best if AC does support the good old Wavebird.

What's the betting the NES games are absent again so they can still sell them on the Virtual Console?
Blogger colin said...
photoboy said:
What's the betting the NES games are absent again so they can still sell them on the Virtual Console?
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Maybe they'll be incredibly cool and include playable levels from Genesis, Master System, and TG-16games. Alternatively, maybe they'll be incredibly weak and include playable levels from SNES games.

Word verification: wrnius: a little known offshoot of the Gradius series where you play as a fire shooting Wyvern flying through a mystical fantasy realm. Only about 32 shooter fans have ever played it, and they will not ever shut the fuck up about it.

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