Animal Crossing: City Folk

There are a lot of positive reviews of this game. Due to such positive reviews, my husband bought this game for us to play about a year ago. When we first got it, we played through the initial jobs of Tom Nook and then we were totally lost. What were we supposed to do now? I recently started playing the game again to give it another chance. And now after quite a few hours logged in, I can honestly say that I don't understand the glowing reviews of this game. Why is this game FUN? I find myself spending my hours collecting fossils, shells, fruit, bugs, and fish. But since your tools take up space in your pockets, you are constantly running back and forth between Tom Nook's to sell them or to the museum to donate things. Dialogue is scrolls slowly and there's no options to stop it from scrolling. Of course, the people you need to speak to the most have the LONGEST dialogue. After all, the guy you talk to all the time at the museum is named BLATHERS.

Yes, so...there seems to be two goals - upgrading/decorating your house and completing the museum's collections. Neither of these prospects is easy to do. To upgrade your house, you need bells (money) and to make money, you need to gather anything and everything and sell it to Tom Nook. But unfortunately, due to your pocket size, you'll only make on average 1500 bells per gathering excursion. You have 19,000 bells of your first mortgage to pay off and then, after Tom Nook upgrades your house, you'll owe something like 120,000 bells! That's hours of gathering and well...that's not my idea of fun.

The museum collection is interesting. You do feel compelled to donate fossils, fish, insects, and paintings to the museum. Unfortunately, this is no small task. One of the games more interesting designs is that it takes into consideration time and date on what kind of things "spawn" in your town. So, if this is a main goal of the game, you need to play for at least one year and at different times during the day to collect everything.

This game reminds me a bit of World of Warcraft. You're constantly trying to make as much money as possible and get the next new thing. But there's always something better, something more, and you just keeping playing and playing. In the end, you're really not getting anywhere. I am not impressed with this game, but I'm still playing it. Perhaps the one endearing quality of this game. It has the same addiction quality as World of Warcraft - the sense of reward and accomplishment, even though you're not really getting anywhere fast.

"Animal Crossing: City Folk" may be the best version of "Animal Crossing" yet, but it's clear the series is showing its age.

Certainly the problems of this game are not due to the actual gameplay. Gamers will always love AC for the sheer amount of stuff you can receive. You can upgrade to a giant two-story house with a basement. You can purchase all of Tom Nook's and Gracie's furniture and apparel. You can mail-order goods you purchased in the past. You can keep fossils, bugs and fish in your museum. The sheer volume of stuff you can obtain never ends.

No, the big problem is that there wasn't much depth to this game in the first place. Once players obtain all the goods they ever need, there's not much left for them to do but to find more stuff. There's hardly any substantial narrative, so it will never reach the epic scale of storytelling in games such as "Harvest Moon."

AC is much easier to play than a majority of "Harvest Moon" and other real-life simulators. It's even more user-friendly than "The Sims." Characters are never restrained to a short time limit. Since the game clock is conjoined to the actual time and date of the year, players have nearly all day to collect as many things as possible.

But there isn't much inside the actual game that is new. Sure, the city is the perfect place to position Crazy Redd, Dr. Shrunk and the fortune teller. Players can even get their own new haircuts. However, there's no real urgency to find these items because they are available right from the beginning of the game. Even the new items in Gracie's only change every season of the year.

With all this said, though, "Animal Crossing" retains its massive appeal. The new Wii remote controls allow players to effortlessly design all their clothes, flags and hats. Fishing is easier than all the other AC games. Even town traveling is incredibly simple if players have a Wi-fi connection.

Just don't expect anything mindblowing. The Wii edition of AC really could have been the equivalent of a real-life chat community, where players interact freely in massive worlds. However, with "AC: City Folk," it's clear that Nintendo wants to keep children safe by limiting the free-roaming range of activities. It's still a great game, but for the newest generation of hardcore gamers, it could have been so much more.

I really like this game, there is so much more to do than the game says, you can change your shoes, shoot down balloons. Go to flea markets. You can even make your own constellation, plus all the other things you could do in the other games, you can even play hide-in-seek. Plus a ton of other stuff. So if you enjoyed any of the other Animal Crossing games, you'll love this one even more. Though some things about the game take a little getting use to, like at first it is harder to fish, like the angels, and the other animals do not ask for as many favors. Other than stuff like that the game is fabulous. Though I only recommend the game to people who are not in to violent games, though I think some of them might still enjoy this game, but I personally think that the ones who will get the most out of this game are the people who what a game this is just pure fun to play.

I was a bit dissapointed when I found out that Animal Crossing City Folk was going to be similar to Animal Crossing Wild Worlds. I mean, it's basically just Wild Worlds for the wii! If you don't have wild worlds get this or if you don't have this just stick with Wild Worlds.

Pros:
-a new Animal Crossing game
-wii speak
-online play is fun
-controls are comfortable with the use of the wii mote
-you can take photos of yourself doing stuff!
-sending letters to friends online is fun

Cons:
-recycled music (get Shinobu Tanaka to compose the music for the next game please)
-I wish you could go to the city online
-basically the same as Animal Crossing: Wild Worlds
-glitchy at points
-gets a bit boring if you play for a long time

I have been playing ACWW on DS for almost a year now and have almost mastered it and have everything. I got a wii this year so I could do wii fit plus and get exercise....doctor approved and recommended. Anyway it is a blast and I use the game as a reward for exercise.

It is about 75% like ACWW. Then man it takes off and has twice if not more things to do. If you are an ACWW player here are a few things that are different and so fun.
1. You get to choose 1 of 4 houses to move in when you start.
2. You get 4 characters all having own house (4 mortgages too)
3. Many of the same animals from ACWW but they say different things.
4. So far I have meet Pascal and he behaves differently
5. Saharah also has different things for you to do.
6. The town landscape is multi layers. Mine has canyons, cliffs, many lakes, 2 waterfalls, You still have Nook's, Ables, Civic Center, Museum in the town
7. You take a bus to the city and there are many animals walking around to talk to, that is so fun. I'll not tell you all the shops but you will know some of the people there too.

So far it has been a lot of fun and starting over is great, something to work at. It does let you move your house from the DS if you want to. I did not so do not know how that would look.

I am an adult player and I simply love the game.

If you have never owned an Animal Crossing game before, then you will love it - especially if you have friends to play with. Nothing much has changed since the Gamecube and DS versian all the way to this one... except a few online enhancements (like the optional voice hardware for Wii - which costs a lot more). This game gets old FAST if you have owned any of the previous games.

Personally, I believe the DS version is best as it is portable/convenient which is a big deal as what time you play is important for collecting and events. I bought this one as a gift for my girlfriend, and she loves it.

this is a great game!! i enjoy it so much that i play it every day. the game is not just for kids. i'm over 30 and i love it! it's easy to play. i love the fact that you don't lose in the game.

I just got my Wii for Christmas and rented AC:CF for a week before buying it. I love this game and am completely addicted to it. For the record, I am a 55 yr old woman who has never played video games before. A male friend and my 18 yr old daughter also love this game!! That said, you have to be able to read to play, so it is not meant for kids too young to read, UNLESS an older person plays with them.

There is an endless list of things to do in this game. Reading the guides online is a HUGE help. I don't have the guidebook yet, but am ordering it. I re-started the game after having read up on it on the many online forums you can find (I recommend Animal Crossing Community). There are many things you will not learn just by playing: like the fact that there are MANY different layouts for your town and if you don't like the one you get first, just restart until you find one you like; that the "snow melt" is really your grass wearing away from running on it, not the snow melting. But overall the game is awesome: simpleminded in a way that is so relaxing yet challenging, but not in a super competitive way.

I just love this game and cannot get enough of playing it. It is real-time based, unless you alter your game clock. The things you can do change by the time of day/night, so players are encouraged to play at different times. I HIGHLY recommend this game to anyone, adults and kids alike!!

We picked up Animal Crossing for our 4yr old so that she would have an age appropriate game for her and her friends. The game has no clear objectives, and is text driven. If you can't read then you can't play this game at all. Our 5yr old has played it twice and it has not been used since. A total waste of money.

Let me just say, I've loved everything Animal Crossing has put out in the franchise. If I have the system, I purchase the game within a few days or weeks of it's release. Sure the fundamentals of the game are the same, but generally there's enough new additions to the game to make the new purchases all worthwhile.

With that in mind, I was eager to pick up City Folk. I'd loved the stuff that had come out on the GameCube & the DS, so I figured that I'd fall just as much in love with the Wii version. Well... after playing it off & on, I came to one conclusion: while the game was interesting, it was just much more fun to play this on the DS & GameCube. Granted, this version has a few new tricks such as being able to go to the city & a few new characters to meet. But there were just a few things that I thought got in the way of gameplay.

It was strange getting used to playing with the new remote of the Wii. It made it a lot harder to position my character to move things about in the house or pick up or use my tools. After a while practice made it easier, but it was still a pain to get used to. The same thing goes for writing letters- letter writing is sort of a dull task to do now.

The worst thing I've come in contact with so far though, is that the grass gets worn down depending on how frequently your character walks across it. If you were to run across the grass, it'll wear it down even faster. Since there's no quick & easy way to get the grass BACK, this makes for a huge pain- especially since there's stuff in the game that's grass dependent. I can understand that this is to make the game more realistic, but it's just something that is pretty much a pain in the tuckus. You can supposedly plant lots of flowers that will help the grass come back, but come on... not all players want to spend hours maintaining their towns- they want to PLAY! (My house is a great example of that- my mom & sister don't mind spending time maintaining everything, but my niece & I just want to get out there & play around.)

Overall, this is something I'd recommend for most AC fans. For the newbies, this game will be illuminating- they'll more than likely love it. For the AC fans though, we won't find much new stuff here. It'll be mostly for the novelties.

very relaxed game
do things at your own pace
real time is cool
the random events constantly draw you back
good for people who aren't so talented at traditional video games

Got this game brand new played it and thought it was rather boring. Not really sure why people enjoy playing this game. The space within this game seem to be very limited. Not only that but it is a single player game. Moreover this game does not have any story line.

I bought this after reading so many reviews and wish I had rented first. It was a waste of $50 for us. My four year old loves the Cars game and the Party games but this one just bored him. My husband and I kept trying to help him open different places and he was just bored. "The game doesn't DO anything, Mom". I have to agree. It's just kind of there. If your kids like very slow moving, there kind of things by all means buy this game. If they like Cars and fun action, don't waste your money

Prior to playing this game, I read a lot of reviews about AC City Folk and all of them said it was a great game, but that if you had played an Animal Crossing game before, such as the one on the DS and Game Cube, this Wii release would not surprise you.

I had never played this game before so I immediately fell in love with it. I strongly suggest playing on line as you can learn tips and tricks from other online players, as well as getting more from the game.

I totally recommend it if this is your first time with the Animal Crossing franchise.

This is a great game for all ages. You get to create your own town. It shows the importance of sharing, communicating and giving to your community. The more you give the more you get back! It also shows that hard work can pay off. This is a great game to show children how the world works, paying off mortgages, growing crops, fishing, and helping your neighbors. Their are fun things to do as well such as designing your own patterns for clothes and accessories, going to movies, getting your hair done, parties, tournaments, and more! No matter what time of the day their is always something to do! Love it!

My two daughters 8 and 10 love it. They spend days on it working, decorating their homes and running activities. It has a webkinz quality in that they make their own world.

I loved the original Animal Crossing, but the Wii interface is terrible for this game. It's completely non-intuitive, in my opinion, and just way more trouble than it's worth. This is a nice uncomplicated game, and the controls should match. I wish I could buy this game for the GameCube, or XBox 360, or any other system. Throwing every game onto the Wii just because it's the newest Nintendo system seems to be a big mistake; I can't stand to play this game, as much as I know I'd like it.

This gam is da bomb but it broke really fast beacause it hade one little scratch :(

pros
+never ends
+many activities to do
+miis mask are cool
+wii speak works for it
cons
-after you done all of the activities it gets boring
-NEVER ENDS!!!!
-need friends for online play
-a childish sims

NOTE:this is only my opinion

Animal Crossing fans will be delighted.

Animal Crossing is a game series where you live your life,among anthromorphic animals. The game never ends.

This game brings little new to the series,like Wild World. However,that is a good thing. You can import your characters from WW,but they will still stay in that game. You can travel to a city too.

It's a great game.

I haven't played the previous installments, and I didn't even think about buying this game-I just wanted a good Wii game, so I bought it. It's really fun, like a different version of The Sims 2. You can interact with the animals and make them say stuff that make you laugh. You can also make your own designs (I made a D Generation X and a Rey Mysterio 619 shirt) and display them so the animals can start wearing them. Some of the animals are snotty and mean while others are sweet and cute. My favorite animals are wolves so far, but I'm still playing. The city is very small but fun, you can watch a *horrible* performance at the Marquee, you can buy furniture from Gracie Grace, the most expensive place in Animal Crossing. You can go to Crazy Redd's too, where sometimes he has pretty exclusive stuff but other times he just has rip-offs. You can get your hair done at Shampoodle, or get your fortune told at that fortune place. Overall, the game's fun.

I bought this game for the heck of it. I watched a preview of it on the Nintendo site and thought it was very cute and looked like fun. I am way too old to be playing this, but I love it and it keeps me entertained. So I guess what I am saying, is it is fun for everyone at any age. Go on the Wii Nintendo site and play it for five minutes before buying. You'll see for yourself.

Animal crossing, like its predecessor games, is a sandbox. It is what you make of it. I don't feel like they gave us much to do in the sandbox, though.

Pro -
You can play online with your friends having conversations. This is why we got the game, so we could play with distant family and chat. The speaker function is very handy.
nice enough graphics
friendlier people than its last incarnation (fewer insulting and grumpy characters you wish would move out)
The game responds to your weather, so if it's raining where you are, it is in the game too.

Con -
There's ... nothing ... to do. You pick fruits, fish, pull up weeds, and have pointless one-sided conversationlettes with the locals. You bring your friends/family over to visit and ... play hide and seek.

There is no plot, no points, no progress except for what you define. There is no character development. No, the new option to get a perm is not development. In the Harvest Moon series there are several ways to feel like you are making progress, be it socially, financially, moving the plot along, romantically.... This has nothing. It's just better than the nothing they put out last time.

OK Let me start off that this game rocks! it is awesome! So buy this game because it is exciting and alot of fun to play. Here's a game hint to move along faster in the game learn to manipulate the day and the time on the game because if you don't it will take forever believe me!

This is a really fun game that continues to keep my interest the longer I play.

I really love this game. It's so addictive, but entirely relaxing. There are no time constraints, no fear of death, and no anxiety involved in this game. There is always something new and surprising happening. You can never get bored with it. You can also visit your friends and go to their towns via the Wii Wifi system. It's a blast. I highly reccommend this to anyone looking for something fun, but chill.

Good game. Pick it up for some good old brainless activity to pass the time while waiting for something to cook, for example.

Gathering and shopping... it got very old quickly! If you miss the dates...you can't even go to certain shops. No goals other then to pay off a mortgage and then pay off an outrageous fee for upgrading. The graphics are bad. Maybe if you had someone to play with ..it might be ok...but my family all thought it was a joke of a program and would not play after seeing it.

I got this game for Christmas...I dont think it has left the console since I got it;-) There is alot to this game...planting trees, flowers, fishing, picking fruit to make money, buying clothes, furniture. Its really your own little town. Very fun. I love it AND I love the wii speak!
We bought this game for my mom and now she and I play live on-line...its really great fun!!!!!

The original Animal Crossing is wonderful. I bought it shortly after it came out (several years ago), and yet I still play it! I bought this new version, expecting the same core gameplay, updated for the Wii. Well, that's what I got. Only problem is, as other reviewers have said, there are very few updates. That wouldn't bother me so much, but what has been changed has been changed for the WORSE! Instead of the simple "acre" system from the first game, you now have to walk on a round "globe". Personally, it made me dizzy, and it also makes it hard to find things. Everything must be controlled with the Wii remote. To do something as simple as open the menu, you have to raise your arm, move the cursor, and click on something (where previously you could just push a button); while walking around, I had to keep my arm raised CONSTANTLY. Very tiring. But the worst of all is that you can no longer ask your neighbors for jobs, etc! THEY will approach YOU if they want something; if you talk to them more than once in a row, they get annoyed and start yelling at you. This makes it much harder to find things to do. Just to add insult to injury, they now make you water the flowers. That's right, you must water EVERY SINGLE FLOWER, EVERY DAY. Otherwise they turn brown. After two days of watering flowers and hanging around, waiting for the villagers to ask me for something, I got bored out of my skull and went back to the GC Animal Crossing. I have never been happier. End of story.

I got this for my son for his 11th birthday and he just loves it. As a matter of fact, the whole family thinks its great fun -- from the 2-year-old up to the 40-something year old parents! My son likes the Super Smash games and I thought he might think this was boring, but this is now his favorite game. I think it also teaches some good life lessons -- like paying off your mortgage (OK, in real life money doesn't fall from trees, but still . . . ) I would recommend this game to anyone. (Oh, one piece of advice -- read a bit of the instructions first -- some of your initial decisions will affect the whole game and you can't easily change your mind -- like naming your town and picking a house. So read a little before diving in.)

This game is truly wonderful. My kids love it and I do too. it addresses things that adults deal with like money management and the whole turnip thing reminds me so much of the stock market and how value rises and falls depending on the day. Great toy to help children learn life lessons on an extremely gentle way.

I would like to preface by saying I spent the first two months of playing Animal Crossing: City Folk playing it as I did my previous AC games and managed to kill all the grass in my town. At this point I started a new town. The next two months I adhered to the strict pathway system to preserve the grass. In the end, I have to make a choice. Do I want to play Animal Crossing and enjoy everything it has to offer or do I want to have grass? The simple truth is, I can't do both and that stinks.

I am not new to the world of Animal Crossing. I've played both versions previously released in the U.S. When I heard about the impending release of City Folk I was ecstatic! I couldn't wait to have what should ultimately be the best of both worlds (GameCube and Wild World) on a screen that wouldn't give me eye strain!

Little did I know. While this version brings over the real-time holidays from the GameCube version as well as a few of the awesome features that were added to Wild World (Flea Market Day, etc.), and tops it off with some very unique additions (like the city and expanded museum), it didn't port over one of the most popular features of Wild World which was being able to earn pictures of villagers by building friendships, nor did villagers' individual hobbies make the migration.

To top that, a brand new feature (referred to as "Paths" by Nintendo) was introduced. When we first started playing, we old timers had no clue just how devastating this single feature would be to our games. Many of us purchased City Folk late last fall or early winter and within weeks our towns were barren of snow. With no snow it was impossible to build snowmen and collect the snowman furniture series. No snow means that when things green up, you no longer have grass.

As far as no grass goes, some would deem that mainly as an aesthetics issue but it goes beyond looks. There are bugs during the summer months that are only found on grassy areas.

The path feature was originally designed to make cute little paths from place to place in our towns. Unfortunately, what even the creators didn't seem to realize is that in playing an Animal Crossing game, nearly every single tile of the town becomes a pathway as the player traverses the map on their various chores, games with villagers, and special holiday events. Doing chores like collecting fossils and harvesting fruit should be done on a daily basis. Neighbors frequently ask players to run errands and play games like Hide and Seek with them. Each of these activities involves walking across your town. Holidays come only every few months, but most of them are during months with the worst decay rate and involve much, much running through your town to collect all the pieces of each holiday furniture series.

I know practically by heart the advice Nintendo gives players who are suffering grass deprivation in their towns and I also know first-hand it doesn't work. They advise planting trees and flowers to speed up grass growth. Grass growth is only expedited in the exact tile where a tree stands. While grass does grow faster under flowers, those flowers must be watered to be kept alive and unless they are directly against a path where they can be reached for watering, the grass underneath them must be walked on to do the watering, resulting in more grass loss.

One of the features heavily promoted in AC:CF is the wi-fi feature, whereby people are able to visit other's towns, which lets people play together staying in touch with friends and family. Yet while this is a key selling point, Nintendo is telling players who complain about their disappearing grass to quit using the wi-fi feature. The result is that while not having visitors in your town will reduce grass wear, the player might as well forget ever opening their town gate again because once they start reallowing visitors, the grass will just wear away again. Or as I have experienced, visitors come to your town and they are afraid to do anything for fear of killing your grass.

At the heart of the matter, what we have here is a game that can be dealt with in two ways. One way is to play it as one would any Animal Crossing game, doing daily tasks at whim and leisure, all the while destroying grass. Or we can put in a system of pathways and walk only on those paths to keep grass from being destroyed and thereby effectively never experiencing roughly seventy-five percent of the gameplay.

This game is instantly addictive, I rented it hoping to get other members of the house into wii, not expecting to like it myself. Big mistake, I started playing first and regreted letting anyone else near it, cause now I have to take turns. Get this game you wont regret it.

I have the the DS version, Wild World, and love it. The Wii version is basically a remake with some updated graphics and new characters. Don't get me wrong, I like this new Wii version, it's quite relaxing...I just need some friends on the game (I even have the darn microphone). It's a game that I poke around in here and there but nothing too long, it ends up feeling like I'm just doing chores after a while. It's a relaxing solo game and (from what I can imagine)a fun game with a friend or two to visit.

I am so glad I rented this game to try it out first because it's got a hefty price tag for my budget, but I heard so much about it, I was curious. The game is cute. I enjoy the night fishing mostly and designing outfits. Unlike in the mysims game, you can't build your own house or furniture. You have to pay a ridiculous amount of money for anything which has to be made by working. Who wants to work in a game? You want to play, am I right? As for the "city". It's all a rip off except getting your hair changed. The theather and fortune teller stores are a joke and the furniture in the department store is absolutely, ridiculously overpriced. Plus, characters talk incessantly which is very frustrating to a child trying to play.

A lot of reviews have come from people who have been playing Animal Crossing on different consoles/handhelds for years. This was my first time playing Animal Crossing, so the lack of updates or upgrades didn't affect me.

This game - at first - was incredibly addictive. It passed any Wii Game I had ever played - even Boom Blox. The concept is so incredibly simple - a little town to run around in and do... ...just about whatever you want. The graphics are cartoonish and cute, the controls are unbelievably easier - even better with a nunchuck attachment - and it's just good, clean, easy fun. I got hooked on the commercials and rented it. My wife thought it would be "stupid." Two days later I was buying the game per HER request! Now our "town" has the new bridge, the water fountain, all kinds of good stuff.

Unfortunately, Animal Crossing gets old kinda quick. At first you'll find yourself building mental "to do" lists - there's always something else you want to do. Then you start getting the furniture you want, you get your house upgraded all the way, you get the in-town shop to upgrade all the way, and suddenly you find yourself repeating the same tasks over and over again. Fish, pick fruit, sell for "bells" (money), talk to AI characters, fish, pick fruit, etcetera. After a while, it just gets monotonous.

The nice thing about this is that Animal Crossing is built to work on a Calendar. Certain events are planned throughout the year. Some only happen once a year, others every few weeks or months, etc. This is really nice if you have the time (and ambition) to jump onto AC once a day for twenty or thirty minutes. Seasons in the game change, Major holidays are celebrated - it's really quite impressive how they built this.

The only other downside is that it doesn't support simultaneous play over the same console. Believe it or not, my wife and I were almost considering a second Wii so that we could play over the internet with each other! The AI characters don't give you the comradery that you'd like to have - it's too artificial. We had fun sending letters to each other, buying each other gifts, etc. But we could never play at the same time and that was always a bummer. If we had done the "two Wii's" technique, we'd have each had different towns, which wouldn't have been the same as working together to improve "our" town. We ultimately decided not to bother.

Animal Crossing: City Folk has the potential to entertain a family-full of people (apparently up to four people) for a very, very long time. You won't get hours of play-time a day, but you'll get something different almost every day, and I think that builds value in the game.

I have seen reviews of this game saying that it's too much like the DS version. I had Wild World & played it for over a year, and I agree that it's very similar to City Folk. I want to write this review as more of a comparison between the two because I don't see any reason NOT to buy this game unless you've played Wild World & you're worried about it being the same thing.

I enjoy the new Wii version for several reasons:

-Everything's easier to see. Collecting furniture, clothing, bugs, and other items is so much more fun when you can see it on a big t.v. screen.

-New clothing: outfits. I don't think you could buy "outfits" in Wild World. In City Folk, they have outfits that include a hat and a shirt. For example, there is a strawberry outfit, kiwi outfit, doctor, etc.

-New furniture themes. I am pretty sure the Mario Theme is a new one. You can only get the Mario items as gifts from the balloons in the sky. A lot of the furniture is the same as in Wild World, but there are some new ones too.

-New method of getting Golden Axe. Getting the Golden Axe in Wild World was a pain!!!! Okay, it's not that much easier to get it in this game, but at least you have a different process. You have to donate enough bells to get a fountain in your town & then you have to throw your axe in the fountain and hope for the golden axe to come back to you!

-Visiting the city. I kind of like that you can take a bus to the city to visit Redd's furniture store, Dr. Shrunk, the hair dresser. You can even get your shoes polished & made to match your outfit.

-Turnips. Well, you can no longer leave turnips on a table in your house to keep them from spoiling. They spoil at the end of the week. I used to have to clear off my tables to make room for all the turnips I'd buy, but now I just throw them all over the floor in my house, so that's kinda nice. :D

One thing I do not like is Nook's store hours!! When you upgrade your store, you get worse hours. The last upgrade changes his hours so that his store is only open from 9am-9pm. I had to change my clock on the game so it would be open from 7am-7pm. That way I can play before work and when I get home. The reason I want to get on the game twice per day is because you get two different turnip prices every day.

All in all, this game is just fun. If you have never played Animal Crossing, GET IT! If you've played the DS version (Wild World) & liked it, you might want to consider upgrading to this Wii version. It's fun.

This is a great game. It can be simple and fun, or you can challange yourself and make the game more complex. It's cute and allows you to do so many things with your character, your city, and your house. I am not one that gets obsessed over a game, but I play this all the time. Also, by adding the Wii Speak, I can go to my friends towns and play and we can have a regular conversation with each other as if we are in the same house. This is great for all ages.

Having played the Game Cube version to exhaustion I found City Folk to be just different enough to stir my interest again . However the grass bug left me bitterly dissapointed . I don't expect every aspect of the game to be easy , but this was too much . If I wanted to look at barren brown ground I'd be playing raids or dungeons in World of Warcraft . I was literally so upset that I sold my game to game stop.



With the ability to download from the nintendo store it wouldn't be difficult to make distribution of a patch available . I'd even be willing to pay a small fee for it .

Another thought would be to offer a decent package of sidewalk and flowerbed building tools .


Gimme grass to run and play on with the joy and impunity of a child, and I'll start plaing again !

I feel so ripped off. Nothing has changed from the game cube game. I was hoping for new challenges, or at least new furniture. If you have never played this game before- it is great, you'll have lots of fun. If you enjoyed this game on the cube, chances are you will feel grossly ripped off.

I ordered this for my kids and they absolutely love it! It was delivered as promised and was quickly unwrapped and inserted into the Wii. I think the animated voices are annoying, but the kids seem to like them. Both of my kids have different tastes in video games, one could spend hours playing Endless Ocean and the other would rather be on Super Smash Bros Brawl, but both of them love Animal Crossing: City Folk...

This is my favorite wii game. I am not a hardcore gamer. I thought this game was lame, but I was so wrong! I used to play sims and have never played this game before. I got it for christmas this year along with a wii. THis game has so many things to do.
My sister who is 15 also loves the game. She sells things to Tom Nook(the store owner in the game) and Upgrades her house. She also likes to fish, and buy expensive things in the city. Her favorite stores in the city are GracieGrace and Redd's shop
I like to fish and hunt for bugs. Unlike my sister I give the things I collect (fish, bugs, bones, and paintings) to the museum. I also try and upgrade my house alot. I go to the city to go to Redd's Shop, the Happy Room Academy, GracieGrace,the shoe shinning guy, hair salon, and the theater. The only shop i don't use is the Auction House but that is because I don't have friends on Animal Crossing.
In the town I go to the Museum and Able Sisters shop alot. At the Able Sisters shop you can make your own design into a dress or buy someone else's for the cheap price of 300 or so bells. On Saturday nights, you can go to the museum and go to the left and see a live performance from a man by the name of K.K. Slider. Some of the tunes are kind of catchy. Also in the museum, you can go upstairs and make constellations and at night if you look up in the sky you might see one. That is really cool for me. My sister ignores the people in our town. I love them. Unfortantly, people move in and out of your town. If you make good friends with someone they will stay longer though. The townspeople will ask you to do favors, and if you say yes and do it they will give you a present in return usually. This will also make you closer to them if you say yes.
Something really cool about the game is it play out in actual time. The only downside to this is that if you play late in the game most of the shops and people will not be there they will be "asleep". The only to places that never close are the museum and the town hall. On some days i would find my self playing a day for an hour and then skipping to the next day. And changing the time to the middle of the day.
Also The game allows up to four players to play at different times with different people A.K.A. accounts. I named my town Kollaps not realizing it what it sounded like. My sister made a person and was in the same town which I did not know. She made fun of the name, but hey I think it sounds like a real town. (maybe in some really small state)
I would recommend this game to anyone. It is fun and does not have any real problems.

I am such a sucker; only a sucker would buy the same game 3 times. My family owned the old Gamecube version of Animal Crossing; we played it into the ground. When my sister moved out with it, it was only logical that I get my own version -- this time, for the Wii.

There were some things I wish that had been ported over from the Gamecube version. Anyone remember the gold spots? Blanca, the faceless cat on the train, whose face you drew horrible things on (one giant eye, the Superman logo, an upside-down face) so that later players would see her walking through town and break into laughter? The fact that there were 10 "soft spots" in the ground for digging up fossils (rather than a measly four), and all kinds of old NES games to collect? These things haven't come along. In fact, this game reminds me much more of Wild World than of the first Animal Crossing, from the "rolling barrel" worldview to shooting presents out of the sky. I suppose that's fine; those were all small features. It's still a lot of fun and the gameplay remains unchanged.

For the new and uninitiated, this is a game worth trying. Think "The Sims," except without any structure or story. There is a challenge to pay off the mortgage on your house, all the while building the house as large as you can. You collect fish, fossils, paintings, and bugs, opting either to sell them or put them in a museum (one of my favorite features!). You also collect furnishings, wallpapers, and carpets, and decorate your house to your heart's content. The seasons change, and there are fishing tourneys, bug hunts, and special holidays, all dependent on the month or time of day. Characters appear at certain times of the year, certain times of day, and on certain days, which means there's almost always something new and fresh to see. The appearances of fish and bugs also change with the seasons and time of day.

There are plenty of things to decorate yourself with. Clothes, umbrellas, hats, even your Mii's face -- the possibilities are endless!

You make "relationships" with the little animals populating your game, send them letters, and visit them on their birthdays and give them gifts. Each character has its own little personality; it's a ball to see them having conversations and being allowed to "listen in" on them!

My favorite part about City Folk is that it has addressed the problems with Wild World -- the City. You can go to the city, buy contraband from Redd, get a haircut, learn emotions, and put your items up on auction. My favorite element is that I can finally visit Gracie Grace whenever I want.

But my very favorite element about this game -- about all the Animal Crossing games -- is its pleasantness, its laid-back atmosphere, its friendly "play whenever you want, however you want" atmosphere. After playing a harsh, hard-core game like Bioshock or a very fast-paced, competitive game like Mario Kart or Super Smash Brothers, I like to come back to Animal Crossing, take it easy, and do a little fishing.

Now, to look at the hardware. Although you can play this with a Wiimote, I suggest using a Nunchuk. It makes your movements more accurate. For catching fish and bugs, this is a necessity.

I haven't gotten to use the WiiSpeak with Animal Crossing yet, but when I do, I'll be sure to update this review appropriately.

All in all, this is a must-buy. If you're not sure you'd like this, rent it and try it out. It's definitely something you'll either adore or hate, depending on your nature -- if you hate something with no structure, no plot, no real "game" to it, then this probably isn't the game for you.

Although even you might be pleasantly surprised.

The game is very similar to the DS game. One drawback is only one person can play at a time.

Animal Crossing: City Folk for the Nintendo Wii is Animal Crossing as you know and love, only better.

Think of this version as evolutionary, not revolutionary.

The game itself is very similar to the old Animal Crossing for the Nintendo Gamecube. You'll still fish and run errands to earn money for various items - from home remodeling to furniture and clothing, but now there's even more cool items to spend money (Bells) on.

Many of the characters from the original Animal Crossing have returned in Animal Crossing: City Folk, including Tom Nook, the mayor, and many of the town residents.

If you liked the original version, you'll like this one. Likewise, if you didn't like the first one, you wont like this one either. In my home, Animal Crossing: City Folk has been a hit with everyone from age 11 to 43.

What's improved?

- Movement is much quicker.
- No hesitation between "acres".
- Larger town.
- Ability to travel to the city.
- Ability to speed through long text dialogs more quickly.
- Graphics (although, they remain true to the original feel).
- Control. The Wiimote is a natural for this game.
- Much greater variety of fish to catch.
- More characters.
- More character customizations, including hair and makeover changes. You can even choose to make your character look like your Mii characters.

What hasn't improved?

- You'll still eventually run out of challenges and become bored. But it takes a while.
- Fishing is actually more difficult now.
- Resetti is still a pain.
- Character jokes are still lame.

Overall, this is a good game. There's nothing earth-shattering here, but it's entertaining.

This game is fun, but you can only play one person at a time in the same household. I understand that you can connect to someone else and play with them online and visit each other's towns, but it seems like it would be fairly simple to allow multiple people in the household to play simultaneously as well. However, this is not an option.

You can create up to 4 "people" on the game, however, none of those people can meet each other in town at the same time. As a result, the toon that I created cannot meet my son's toon in game, which is sad.

The game is called Animal Crossing: Let's Go To The City in Europe, but I like the shorter US name better: Animal Crossing: City Folk.

The gameplay, graphics and music haven't changed that much since the N64 version. But I don't think that is a problem, since everything fit fine with the game.

I like that you can press the 1-button an take a screenshot and save it to a SD-card. That's how I made all the screenshots for my blog.

The game never ends. You collect insects, fish and dinosour skeletons which you can donate to the local museum. When you have played by yourself for a while, you want to travel or invite people to your town. You need a friendcode from people to travel to their city.

Is this a good game? YES. Does it offer anything new (if you played some of the other versions)? NO, not realy. But I recommend it for old and new Animal Crossing players.

At first glance, I told myself I didn't need this game. I knew it would be the same as the last two. There was no question in my mind that I didn't need it. I went on with my life, trying my hardest to resist. Until Christmas. I had enough extra money to buy Animal Crossing. I told myself no. Repeatedly. No, No, No! But I am weak, it seems. I opened the package, inserted the game into my Wii and transferred my Animal Crossing Wild World character over. Then.... I thought my fears had been realized. Was this simply a port of Wild World? Nook said the same thing he has said in the last two games, I did the same "Give this too *animal*/Write a letter/plant stuff/write something on the town message board!" tasks. While paying off (very little of) my debt to Tom Nook, I started to wonder if they had even changed the script at all. Everything seemed the same! That's when I noticed the little things. Birds in the trees, the animals ears flop as they move, talk, and emote, the sound effects they had recycled before, are now slightly different, each animal has a different voice.. I could go on and on. All of this makes an otherwise stale, old, moldy, yet fun game new again. Don't get me wrong! I love City Folk. Really, I do. I will play the heck out of this game. But was it worth the money? Not really. Would I recommend this game to someone who has played the last two? No, not really. Just stick with the one you have. Would I recommend it to someone who has never played Animal Crossing before? A very loud, enthusiastic yes!


This game is great for children. If the child is under 7, then I really wouldn't bother. It isn't inappropriate.. This is a great family game. I just don't think they would really have much fun. This game is text intensive, so unless you want to sit beside them and read everything... :)

All in all, Animal Crossing City Folk is a good game. Is it anything new? Nope. Did Nintendo make the most of this sequel? Not even in the least. But I still love it.

This is a fun game if you enjoy role playing in a cartoon-like setting. No rough reality hit here. City Folk are friendly and the town is tame. It's not fast, there's no fighting and frankly, there's no ending...it goes on and on and on! (Assuming you have a memory card installed.)

Simple to get started playing and interactive enough to hold your attention. It's a fun game for adults to play with their kids, and safe enough to leave the kids with the game without worrying about inappropriate content. (NOTE: Young readers may need some adult assistance with the game.)

An enjoyable addition to any Family-Friendly Wii game collection!