when i first played this game when i was 8 years old, it opened my eyes to the possibility of video games being something else than just guns and platformers and RPGs. that you could also have games where you just relax and make friends and design your house.
needless to say, it blew my young sheltered mind. to this day, nothing has matched this surprise in realization that new genre was possible.
needless to say, it blew my young sheltered mind. to this day, nothing has matched this surprise in realization that new genre was possible.
Your Animal Crossing town genuinely feels like home. It's unfortunate that there's so little to do in the first game.
There are still reasons to get into this game today even with all the sequels. For example, the villagers say a lot more in this one compared to New Horizons. If material gathering and crafting bugs you, then you'll be happy to know it's not in this one. Oh, and you can get NES games!
A nice clean communication game with great characters.
While I like New leaf more than this one, I do miss the grid-based world this game had rather than the log-rolling world every other game would. This game in general has a lot of "first-entry" weirdness that, while it makes sense was ironed in future entries, also gives it a lot of unique charms and features that make it worth revisiting over other entries.
The first and best animal crossing game to date.
this game introduced me to balloon fight, pixel art, taught me how to read, and made me have nightmares about resetti
very impactful part of my childhood
very impactful part of my childhood
I never owned this game but my friend did so it was especially epic
one time i saw this huge ass fish in the lake and it was literally fucking gigantic and i SWEAR i saw it to this day but theres no evidence of it so am i just crazy??? is that it???
An incredibly unique game, even in its own series.
Also you've never beaten this game :)
Also you've never beaten this game :)
five star game with multiple five star games inside it
É tão básico comparado com os atuais. Mas eu me diverti um monte jogando ele, então...
Has a certain personality that hasn't been replicated in the series since.
(emulator)
I played this game for around 2.5 weeks and I got really bored of it.
The villagers had a lot more character in this game compared to NL and NH, and the game oozes charm and really captures that peaceful, small town feel. Unfortunately, that's about all I can say about this game that's positive.
My main issue with this game are how repetitive daily tasks are, the lack of quality of life features, and the need of owning different consoles/peripherals to unlock certain aspects of the game.
The villagers had a lot more character in this game compared to NL and NH, and the game oozes charm and really captures that peaceful, small town feel. Unfortunately, that's about all I can say about this game that's positive.
My main issue with this game are how repetitive daily tasks are, the lack of quality of life features, and the need of owning different consoles/peripherals to unlock certain aspects of the game.
This was the only game my sister would play with me. We both had our own towns. One time, I went to her town, and noticed a lot of dig spots. I dug up a spot, only to find a lot of money. I did this again, only to find more money. I proceeded to make my sister a beggar in Animal Crossing by stealing all of her money. My mother still brings it up because she made such a stink about it. I have no regrets.
despite numerous quality of life improvements and additions this willalways be the best Animal Crossing because you could buy Nintendo games and play them in the game.
I would literally come home to my real life house as a kid so I could log into a video game where I would go to my digital house and just play video games.
It ruled.
I would literally come home to my real life house as a kid so I could log into a video game where I would go to my digital house and just play video games.
It ruled.
uwu
Fun game.
not bad but i would rather die than return to a game with the grid map system
I miss the NES games so much
Animal Crossing is the sort of game that I personally can't find very fun. While newer entries have added more to do, ultimately it feels like a game about doing nothing. With Harvest Moon and games like that, you have objectives to complete; with Animal Crossing, the only thing to do is build your town/house as you want and that doesn't really appeal to me personally. This version was fun for a few hours, but that's about all I got out of it.
dialogue is so good
Fell off a bit with this and don't see myself returning daily as much, if at all. Paying off the loan in full and getting a statue outside the train station for the first time seems like a good enough end cap of sorts.
For all intents and purposes this is tonally my favorite Animal Crossing game. It has the best soundtrack, villager dialogue, and I love how off-kilter everything feels. It never quite feels like the animal neighbors do more than just tolerate your existence in the town which makes for an interesting feeling. Especially when comparing to some of the later games where it feels like everything revolves around you.
This also benefits from simplicity. With the lack of terraforming, a deeper flower system, and more there's less to do which prevents this from becoming a daily three hour time sink of chores that need to be kept up. On the other hand this might be a bit too simple which is why I'm having trouble sticking with it. The sweet spot definitely seems to be in Wild World/City Folk where they expanded on a lot of the systems here while adding here and there but not going as far as to ask you to be a mayor or to terraform a whole ass island.
Looking forward to picking up Wild World for hopefully at least a few months in 2021. I'd like to wrap back through and give all of the games a go, maybe by the end I can bring myself back to New Horizons and there will be more content I want to see.
For all intents and purposes this is tonally my favorite Animal Crossing game. It has the best soundtrack, villager dialogue, and I love how off-kilter everything feels. It never quite feels like the animal neighbors do more than just tolerate your existence in the town which makes for an interesting feeling. Especially when comparing to some of the later games where it feels like everything revolves around you.
This also benefits from simplicity. With the lack of terraforming, a deeper flower system, and more there's less to do which prevents this from becoming a daily three hour time sink of chores that need to be kept up. On the other hand this might be a bit too simple which is why I'm having trouble sticking with it. The sweet spot definitely seems to be in Wild World/City Folk where they expanded on a lot of the systems here while adding here and there but not going as far as to ask you to be a mayor or to terraform a whole ass island.
Looking forward to picking up Wild World for hopefully at least a few months in 2021. I'd like to wrap back through and give all of the games a go, maybe by the end I can bring myself back to New Horizons and there will be more content I want to see.
Easily my favorite of all the Animal Crossing games, hold up against more recent games.
I still have the memory card with the Animal Crossing stickers on around here somewhere, housing an entire acre of dead digital animals.
Actually the Animal Crossing game that kept me playing the longest. A cozy refuge in a hard time.
The series has become progressively less mysterious with only marginal quality of life improvements. This for me is the best in the series - the weirdest, the most thoughtfully punishing, the most rewarding played over a long period of time.
The best animal crossing by a lot. It captures the feeling of a new world to explore so well. A big problem with the new games that I have is that they make you the central figure. You get to be the mayor, you get to design and change the entire island layout. To me this is not what animal crossing is about, you are a nobody moving to a new town that should be it.
Tom Nook PERSONALLY sent me a letter saying he was selling carpets at a low price at 7pm on the 9th of March!!!