ANIMAL CROSSING: CITY FOLK – AWESOME YET MASSIVELY DISAPPOINTING
Regular readers will know we like a bit of Animal Crossing. We even said the DS version was the Best Game of 2006 or any year. And now, after two years of resizing textures, Nintendo has the game ready for Wii.
It’s awesome, because it’s hi-res Animal Crossing. The game we loved then (literally) lost.
It’s a bit of a shame that it looks exactly like the DS game.
Not just “a bit like” but “precisely the same as.”
There’s a video floating around. It has the same sounds. Same items. Same people.
It is simultaneously exactly what we wanted, but also a crushing shame.
This was going to be the game that made us bother getting a Wii.
There’s not much point now. We’ve already collected all these.
If Nintendo’s only putting two people to work on porting it over from DS, we’re not going to bother with the dehumanising trip to GAME to buy it.
This seems to be the only new bit. A jazzed-up shopping area. Great.
The same.
The same.
The same. Great, yet also a terrible disappointment. We are in mental turmoil.
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July 16th, 2008 on 3:56 pm
Being Animal Crossing means it was going to be disappointing no matter what they showed of it. Games like this are for tiny little children, women and… Zorg.
Btw, any plans for you to review sex toys on Shiny Media?
July 16th, 2008 on 4:09 pm
I miss the charming top-down view of the N64/GC version.
July 16th, 2008 on 4:15 pm
Oh what, I just read you can switch between both camera styles. And a couple of other neat features, awesome.
Copypasta from a /v/ thread:
Here’s what we know:
*Good holidays are back, including Christmas, Halloween, etc.
*Multiplayer is easier, allows microphone (and apparently, a USB keyboard).
*Visit people’s towns even when they’re not playing.
*You can directly mail and send items to friends in other villages without having to visit them.
*Take a bus, driven by Kapp’n, to the new city area with fashion boutique (owned by Gracie and employing a new Able Sister), auction house, salon, theater, Happy Room Academy, and more.
*Pointer controls and vastly improved user interface including features like a quick-switch for items without having to go into inventory.
*Animals are no longer stuck inside when you have friends visiting, they’ll now wander outside freely.
*All four players can be in a house at once, and you can move furniture even when you have people visiting in your house.
*New giant furniture pieces — a wrestling mat about 5×5 squares was demonstrated.
*Much higher texture res, faces are no longer blurry masses.
*Camera can be zoomed in and out even while outdoors, and you can switch between ACGC and WW camera styles.
*Camera icon may imply screenshots/photography feature.
*Varied topography, ACGC cliffs are back.
*Fish are in 3D.
*Improved animations, details, effects, etc. Less immediate but still noticeable visual changes. Characters animate more fluidly, ears bounce on villagers as they move, other small touches.
*More furniture, items, villagers, conversations, etc., more of all the basics.
July 16th, 2008 on 4:24 pm
HOLY YEAH! A game where I can move furniture!! YAY!
This game was fun, but like all things I stopped before I achieved anything significant. Maybe I could relive the guilt of not picking up weeds in my town on a Wii.
July 16th, 2008 on 5:06 pm
The time gap twixt the DS version and this means no connectivity shenanigans like on the GBA & Gamecube. For shame.
I got excited enough when I saw Animal Crossing on Wario Ware Wii, so this is enough for me.
For what it’s worth, I’m a 34 year old man. And I’ll never be as cynical as gritpipe. At least not where Animal Crossing’s concerned.
Hopefully there’ll be a Tom Nook FPS mode, I always wanted to kill him right from the word go.
July 16th, 2008 on 5:08 pm
From the look of the videos it doesn’t seem to use any pointing or motion controls whatsoever. So you can’t go fishing, dig for fossils, shoot using the slingshot or chop trees down using gestures on the remote. It’s just the same old controls on a different console. Disappointing.
July 16th, 2008 on 5:12 pm
Disappointing? That’s a plus in my eyes! Now I just hope you’ll also be able to use GC controllers.
July 16th, 2008 on 6:03 pm
Wow. This is bad even considering Nintendo’s past history of remakes.
July 16th, 2008 on 8:40 pm
Thing is i don’t have a ds. But i have a chipped wii, so i’m very happy. Thx for asking.
July 17th, 2008 on 12:57 am
With voice comm, and photo sharing, it’s inevitable that the Daily Mail will do a feature on Animal Crossing child sex grooming.
Maybe you could get My Animal Crossing started again, and we could tip them off.
Nintendo will be forced to defend themselves with bucketfuls of lifestyle photography and advertorials in women’s magazines about how awesome a mother that psycho Carrie Dunaway is.
July 17th, 2008 on 6:45 am
You know you won’t play this as much. Why? It’s not portable.
July 17th, 2008 on 8:56 am
but the “Fish are in 3D”!
July 17th, 2008 on 11:07 am
I played Animal Crossing on DS. I have a DS Lite. It gave me the same feeling of RAGE that I got from playing The Sims as I couldn’t work out how anyone could have so little going on in their lives they could sit and play a game that revolves around doing things you do in real life, only less fulfilling in every way. And AC is not cute, it’s like playing in a 6 year old girl’s imagination.
Why not just buy a dolls house and admit it’s what you like doing?
I genuinely cannot understand why a game like this exists. Very simply ‘why?’.
July 17th, 2008 on 11:21 am
Grytpype clearly can’t sort out their HRA rating.
Classic case of the fox and the grapes.
July 17th, 2008 on 11:51 am
Well with the list of upgrades, I now think it’ll be good stuff.
Anyone who doesn’t like Animal Crossing is a great big fag (and for you people across the pond, I don’t mean a cigarette). If you can’t enjoy Animal Crossing, it is because you are so incredibly homosexual that the least little bit of cute makes you want to stick a big ol’ cock in your mouth.
grytpype, don’t worry, your secret is safe with us. Please refrain from trying to tongue kiss me.
July 17th, 2008 on 11:53 am
By the way, the only good Nintendo game in the world is Animal Crossing, just in case anyone thought I forgot my Sega roots. And yes, that includes Metroid, Zelda, and Mario titles.
July 17th, 2008 on 12:35 pm
Speaking of “Game Of The Year” type stuff, aren’t you going to review Ninja Gaiden II on here Zorg?
If/when all the avalanche of Dreamcast Logo world exclusives lets up a bit obviously.
July 17th, 2008 on 12:58 pm
I was. I forgot. It’s too late now. Maybe for Christmas.
July 18th, 2008 on 10:26 am
Anyone want to bet against Zorg having bought a wii and AC within about 12 hours of the release?
July 18th, 2008 on 11:33 am
“Disappointing? That’s a plus in my eyes! Now I just hope you’ll also be able to use GC controllers.”
That’s a good point actually. Aside from Resident Evil Wii Edition I’m still waiting for a game that actually puts the remote to good use. But since that’s not likely to happen, it would be best if AC does support the good old Wavebird.
What’s the betting the NES games are absent again so they can still sell them on the Virtual Console?
July 18th, 2008 on 3:54 pm
photoboy said:
What’s the betting the NES games are absent again so they can still sell them on the Virtual Console?
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Maybe they’ll be incredibly cool and include playable levels from Genesis, Master System, and TG-16games. Alternatively, maybe they’ll be incredibly weak and include playable levels from SNES games.
Word verification: wrnius: a little known offshoot of the Gradius series where you play as a fire shooting Wyvern flying through a mystical fantasy realm. Only about 32 shooter fans have ever played it, and they will not ever shut the fuck up about it.