Animal Crossing: City Folk
- DS Suitcase mode included which lets you carry your character from your Wii console to a friend’s.
- A living, breathing gameplay environment where there is always something to do.
- Multiplayer support up to four players when used with ‘Wii Speak’ microphone (Microphone sold separately).
- Extensive custotomizing options allow you to visit the salon and give your Mii a makeover.
- Befriend your animal neighbors by exchanging letters, gifts and favors in order to bring their memories and stories from their old towns into the game.
Product Description
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… More >>
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Nintendo Wii | ed2yp79 2010/01/26
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By GangstaHousewife, 2010/01/26 @ 9:47 pm
This is a good game. I just picked up my copy from Gamestop. I can’t wait to go shopping. Enjoy
Rating: 4 / 5
By nicole wolske, 2010/01/26 @ 10:09 pm
I LOVE AC. This game is great and going into the city is fun. You will like this game it has more stuff in it and graphics are a lot better.
Rating: 5 / 5
By TissueShoe, 2010/01/27 @ 1:01 am
Positive:
+ very bright, fun atmosphere
+ towns are big
+ graphics and frame rate are incredibly smooth
+ superb Wii controls that don’t overdo themselves
+ unique, quirky sense of humor
+ relaxing, fun music
Negative:
- the game is hardly even an update to Wild World
- Nook’s store takes way too long to expand
- the city is small and lacking anything that’s actually worth your time
Animal Crossing: Wild World on the DS was a huge hit because it managed to be so and big and fun on such a small console. Three years down the road, we now have a third entry in the series that’s a great game by all means… there are just so few differences between it and its predecessors that it feels like a quick cash-in by Nintendo.
City Folk starts the same as the other games, but this time you’re coming in by bus rather than train or cab. You name your town, answer a few questions, are introduced to a bit of the game’s shining, brilliant sense of personality and humor, and then you’re off. You start by working for Tom Nook, the raccoon owner of Nook’s Cranny, to pay off a bit of your mortgage on your new house, but once you finish a few jobs you’re on your own to do whatever you want.
Animal Crossing’s towns have always been big, but this game somehow feels bigger than before. As far as activities you have fruit growing that you can sell to Nook for money, go fishing or catch bugs, participate in the fun little activities that go on around town, and more. The gameplay mechanics involved are incredibly simple but it still manage to be pretty enjoyable.
One of the things that gives Animal Crossing such a huge appeal is its unique, charming personality and sense of humor. Talking to neighbors, which could be an extremely boring pastime, is spiced up with bits of quirky humor. Blathers (the museum owner) always makes a reference to how he’s the only worker there and how there’s nothing in the museum’s collection. Lyle, while annoying to talk to as he takes up a lot of your time, is actually pretty witty and funny. Every turn of a corner in City Folk will reveal yet another aspect of its fun personality and sense of humor.
City Folk also has some nice music tracks. Whether you’re just walking around town or cruising through the city, the tunes are nice, relaxing, and very fitting to the environment. The sound effects are also pretty decent, retaining the game’s feel and not getting in the way. The only problem with the area of sound is that everything, including the music, is recycled from Wild World (except the music that plays in the city of course). This is kind of disappointing but I don’t know how much I wanted it to be all new in the first place.
If you’ve ever played an Animal Crossing game before, you’ll probably have noticed by now that all this great stuff is exactly the same as it was back on the DS. Well, if you had that thought you are unfortunately quite correct. Despite being a great, solid game, City Folk features hardly anything new to the franchise. It’s still fun, it’s still packed with charm, but it’s all exactly the same as we’ve seen before. So now I’ll move on to the few things that are different about this game.
Being a game on the Wii, new controls were a must. Thankfully Nintendo fully delivered here with some excellent, smooth, and convenient control schemes. You can use either the remote alone or with a nunchuk, but both control modes work very well. The nunchuk is basically for those who want to move with a control stick rather than by pointing your way on the screen, but even that feels surprisingly smooth and works very naturally. Pointing at an icon on the bottom of the screen, which is quick and convenient, can access any section of the game’s menu. The best part about the new controls, though, is using the remote’s control pad to equip items, which saves those precious few seconds every so often that previous games in the series wasted. There is also the option to swing the remote for fishing and catching bugs, which is pretty neat.
The main difference in the game overall is probably the option to go to the city. Once you’re finished working for Nook you can hitch a ride on the bus any time to head off to the city. When you arrive, the first thing you will probably notice is just how small it is. There is simply one main courtyard with about five buildings to go into, none of which feature anything incredibly interesting. Almost all the shops and attractions feature characters from Wild World that only came around occasionally, but now you can see them any time you want. There is also an auction house, which is really the only worthwhile diversion in the city. Unfortunately bidding is only open here every once in a while.
City Folk also features some decent, simple, and smooth graphics. The character models, while revealing little detail, are very smooth and lively. The colors used on the environments are pretty vibrant and make it look nice. The great graphics are complemented by an ever-consistent frame rate that never falters and almost makes the DS game feel choppy in comparison.
Those three differences aside, you basically have a Wii version of Wild World. But despite the fact that there is so little change, it’s still a great game in itself. If you’ve already played an Animal Crossing game you’re better off leaving this one alone, but if you’ve never played a game in the series before then this is the perfect place to start because it’s truly the best Animal Crossing yet; the lack of change just earns it a lower score than its predecessors.
Gamplay: 8.0
Graphics: 8.5
Sound: 9.0
Value: 9.0
FINAL SCORE: 8.0/10
Rating: 4 / 5
By R. S. Chacon, 2010/01/27 @ 1:17 am
its a boring game. after the first day nothing interesting happen…
Is a game to play 20 minutes a day…
I recommend SIMS or other game…
Rating: 3 / 5
By nowann, 2010/01/27 @ 3:25 am
I’ve invested a lot of time into playing Animal Crossing Wild World on the DS so was excited to hear we could transfer our Wild World characters to City Folk on the Wii. Somewhere deep down I was hoping I might be able to sneak in a few items from my old DS life. I suppose I should have known better. No way the developers would make it that easy – which is understandable. In a game such as this, there’s no point if it’s as easy as transporting 10 million bells from your old town right at the beginning. The whole point is to work your way up from nothing and enjoy the ride in doing so. I enjoy playing Animal Crossing as it is. However if you do plan on transferring your old characters from Wild World to City Folk, know this: the only thing that transfers with your old character is the catalog inventory info and your haircut. Of your catalog inventory, not everything transfers either. I had a complete catalog of all items purchasable from Nook. When I looked at my catalog with my character transferred to the City Folk town, some items were not included – though they are still in the game. E.g. I had the tuxedo in my catalog from Wild World. When I transferred to City Folk, the tuxedo was no longer listed in my catalog and I had to buy it again in City Folk from the “GracieGrace” boutique store where it is sold as a special item for 7600 bells.
The clothes on your back, saved letters, saved patterns, money in the bank, items in storage and items you are holding all disappear.
If you do transfer your character to the Wii from the DS, your character info on the DS is not deleted. You are able to continue playing your file on the DS – information is simply copied.
You can “carry” your character via DS if you want to physically go to a friend’s house and upload your character to visit your friend’s Wii town. You cannot have your character from your Wii game visit your DS town.
Rating: 4 / 5