I’ve given all the things that I had to complain about for each Animal Crossing game that I’ve ever played. Now, as we get (hopefully) closer to the announcement of the Animal Crossing Switch release date, I am going to talk about all the things that I loved about each Animal Crossing game!
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Portability
I love the portability of this Animal Crossing game! It was so much fun to finally be able to play Animal Crossing on the go. This game really helped me through a move as I was sitting in a car for hours at a time and playing for hours in an empty house while I waited for my stuff to be moved in. The game looked pretty ugly graphics-wise, but it was magical for me back in 2011. I really thought that I was walking around a village at night, fishing and talking to my friends the villagers. I played this a lot more than the Gamecube version because I could take it on the go.
The Bedroom
I liked that all of your characters in this game would sleep in one gigantic bedroom. It made it seem like all your characters were in one big family, which was really really cute!
Weather
I can’t say why, but I felt that this game had really cute weather. Because the DS had two screens, the rain would start on the top screen and then fall down to your character on the lower screen. There wasn’t much happening on the top screen, so it made that screen much more active while you were walking around at the bottom. The weather did the same thing for the most part in New Leaf, but I felt that it just had a better look in Wild World. The darks were darker, the lights were lighter, probably because of the bad graphics, but it just added to the ambiance of the world.
Animal Crossing City Folk
The City
The city addition was the most adorable thing in this game! It made it feel as if your village was the smaller country area and then you would go on little trips to the city with your character. The city had its own selection of stores, which expanded the world of the game. You would still have to wait for certain days to go to certain stores, but they were available for the most part. The city also sometimes had its own weather system and its own events, so it was truly a world of its own within the already huge City Folk world.
The Events
Speaking of the events, this game had the best events! I loved all the little scavenger hunts for holidays and the random stuff that would happen in-game on a weekly basis. There always seemed like there was something to do, but you didn’t feel as if you were missing out on the world for being unable to play for a day or two.
The Multiplayer
I’ve never played multiplayer on this game (sadly), but I have seen videos of others playing multiplayer. This is the only big-screen console Animal Crossing game with wifi multiplayer, as the game series has only come to Gamecube and Wii so far. The multiplayer on the big screen looks like so much fun, if not more fun than playing on the little screen. I am going to have to give it a try someday.
The Villagers
I don’t know how to describe it exactly, but I felt like the villagers truly came to life in this game? Sure, they had their usual repetitive phrases, but they seemed much more personable. It was less of the pre-programmed attitudes and more of their selves shining through.
Alright, I am around halfway through my games list! I will try to squeeze the last few into the third post for next week, and then we will finish it off with 10 things that I hope the Nintendo Switch Animal Crossing will include. Thanks for reading!