Submitted by: Matt Benoit at 29/10/06
Game rating: 8.3
GameScore: 8
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Editors Plus Rating: +.3
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Animal Crossing DS a remake or second version if you will of a game previously released on the Gamecube simply a few months more than 3 years before it's own release. Animal Crossing is a game that will either suck you in like a class 3 hurricane, or you'll toss it aside in the dumpster. Onto the review.
Animal Crossing, you start off in a Taxi Cab being asked by it's friendly driver who you are and questions like that, your answers to these questions will pick your look hairstyle, your look you can never change but you can change your hairstyle later in the game. After that you will need a place to stay in your new-found-town. So the local slave driver-err Tom Nook will offer you a house for free, at the moment.
Tom nook owns the hardware store that will eventually evolve into NookingTon's which is a lavish two story building with hair-dresser.
Your goal for almost the rest of the games goal orientated length is to pay-off Nook which after you finish paying will insist on upgrading your house for a higher price that just keeps rising. Your final house is a Gigantic Mansion, but I'll let you find out about it on your own.
At start you have a humble tiny room with wood floor and upstairs. The upstairs at start is your bedroom which remains for the entire game and cannot be edited except for changing the bed. Besides building up your house, you've got to fill it.
There are various furniture items in the game that are often called sets/styles. The outside is filled with things you can dig up like fossils and bags of money, you can either keep the fossils and display them in your house, sell them too Nook or bring them to the museum.
The Museum is one of the main drivers in the game in that sense that you always want to keep filling it until you've got every fossil and fish recorded.
It also has a coffee house where on Friday nights you can hear the friendly musician/dog K.K.Slider, you can also get tracks from him which you can put in radios at your house if you have one so you can have music playing. The game however does have its short-comings. It can get very repetitive and annoying at times since theres only so many ways to gather money.
One of the things I found the will help establish the game to a much longer replay value is join a community site such as http://www.NookWay.com where you can buy and sell items and show off your town as a way to waste even more time. All in all your going to need to give the game time since you can't get a big house overnight without cheating[listed in glitches].
You'll enjoy this game if you liked the Gamecube version but most likely I'd say if you don't have it yet. Spare the wait and 15 extra dollars to buy the Animal Crossing version for the Nintendo Wii if you plan on buying one which will most likely have 10x the features and much higher graphical quality.
Glitchs:
When you turn off you DS by accident or forget to save you'll be pestered by a mole/animal called resetti who you'll need to talk to for about 10 minutes until you can get back, he basicly tells you to treat Animal Crossing like real life and if you make a mistake you can't turn back.
There is a glitch in 2-player play that may be executed to create multiple item clones of rare or completely normal items. Which can be sold for higher profit despite making the items less rare and they're price go down, this can oftenly be reffered to in any context as "cheating".
Time clock, in the game you can reverse/go forward in time while getting all the affects of traveling in time, such as changing seasons or your town getting infested with weeds. Many players over-use/abuse this feature and is often a offense in online communitys since you can advance much farther in the game with less time and work.
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I pretty much agree. The game is good but not good enough to be worthy of a 9 or a 10
me to theres so much more they could of done hope the next 1s beta
nice
I like Animal Crossing, but it does get boring after a while. It's one of those "on again off again" games.
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