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An excellent game
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User
This game is good but hard to define. A sims played out in real time, Animal Crossing is a fun time. As the game begins, you are a penniless stranger in a new town, but the more you play, the better the game gets. You earn money, decorate your house, pay off a mortgage...while this may sound as fun as paint drying on print, it is amazingly entertaining in practice. There are a few complaints, however. To begin with, the graphics are not anything to rave about. Originally intended to be a game for the N64, it doesn't look like the designers went out of their way to improve the game that way. The disc is instead full of countless themes and orginal nintendo games. Secondly, the e-reader matter. To unlock the nintendo games, you need to buy the ..e-reader as well as the ...cards to unlock them. On the other hand, it is still a great game.
Lots of Fun But Repetitive
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User
I bought this game over a year and a half ago, out of curiousity. The game was a lot of fun at first, trying to outfit my house, run errands, collect bugs and fish, expand my house, write letters to animals and collect matching furniture sets. However, after the first few months, the game became very repetitive. There are many interesting holidays in the game, but the holidays become repetitive---the holidays are mainly animals standing around talking about the holiday. And writing letters (which MUST be gramatically correct and long or the animals reject them) by typing out each character with the Gamecube controller is VERY tedious.
Also, the game runs in real-time, meaning if you have things to do for a week, you miss a week of game time (and roaches infest your house). At first it gives the gamer a reason to play the game all the time to avoid missing anything. Later on, it is very annoying --- leave the game for a few weeks and you miss a lot and have a lot of work to do when you start it up again.
Once you have collected all of the bugs and fish (which takes about a year because the bugs and fish come out at different times of day and different seasons), expanded your house to the largest (takes about a week if you are playing a few hours a day), there just isn't anything new to see in the game. You can talk to the animals, but there is no depth to the interactions (unlike the Sims), no relationships to build, and the animals do very little by themselves.
I think the game is wonderful for kids, but adult gamers such as myself will get bored fairly soon with the game. Overall, though, the game is a great value and would be much better if it had more depth.
Addicting at first but gets old quickly
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User
The concept for this game is new and exciting. You will want to play for hours on end when you first get it, and the possibilities seem endless. But once you settle down into the routine of picking up items from one character and giving them to another, picking fruit and selling it, catching fish and taking them to the museum, over and over, it starts to become tedious and somewhat boring. Collecting furniture, clothes, and NES games adds some excitement, and hooking up a GBA (especially with the e-Reader) will get a few more hours of fun out of it, but the daily routine can eventually get tiresome.
Fun for everyone. Just don't get impatient.
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User
Yes, there are NES games in Animal Crossing, but don't waste your time looking for them. They are the hardest things to find. Besides, there's so much else to do. Animal Crossing is about getting a life, meeting friends, making money, finding/collecting stuff, and participating in special events. You can fish, catch bugs, and donate fossils to the museum after you have sent them to Faraway to be analyzed. You can pick your gender but not your ethnicity. At least you can get a tan on the [insert name here] Island. Yes, there is an island, but you need a Game Boy Advance and a GBA-to-GC linking cable to go there. Using the Game Boy Player won't work.
Vibrations? Yes. When you hit a solid object with an ax or shovel, your controller (if working properly and set to rumble) will shake. There is no vibration when you get stung by bees, but that probably would have been overdoing it anyway.
Your neighbors range from Dogs to cats to goats to frogs and so on. Their personalities range from sweet and outgoing to snobbish and sometimes 100% pure unadulterated evil.
If you ever get find them, the NES games include - but are not limited to - Donkey Kong Jr, Clu Clu Land, Tennis, Balloon Fight, and the ever-elusive Punch-Out!! You can get Soccer by first going to www.animal-crossing.com and filling out a form, then saying the code you recieve from the website to Nook.
So what separates this game from The Sims series besides the animals? Well, for one thing, you only have control of one character per game. Up to four characters can be created and controlled alternately. How it's done: Save & Quit as one character, then start again as another. See? Not the quick switch in The Sims where you are responsible for everyone, but hey, at least you don't have to scrub the toilets your friends and relatives utterly messed up.
I would say more, but this is a review, not a complete description. I have the game and recommend it to anyone (female, male, any and all ages) who love to play games but need a break from hard-hitting action video games . . . and Dead Or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball. Sorry, that other game is only available on X-Box.
PS. To anyone who already played the game and is looking at reviews for research or any other purpose: yes, I am angered by the lack of diverse skin-color for the human characters in the game. Sure, there is diversity among the animals, but what non-human is going to play this game? Oh yeah, those trained chimps and gorrillas you keep hearing about but never find.
Didn't live up to my hopes...
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User
My review is solely based on single player gameplay, as I don't have anyone else around here who played it who I can visit by trading memory cards with... I bought this after reading so many raving reviews, but in the end I was a quite let down by it. It's fun to start off with, when you've got to work a little for your rewards, but it becomes repetative very quickly. The item screen leaves a bit to be desired as far as quantity you can carry, and the tasks, while entertaining can be easily annoying. I can only take so much of running from house to house to find a purple gameboy for Pammy Panda... Great for kids, fun for adults for a while. Of course, if you have all sorts of neighborhoods you can jaunt off to, this would probably up the enjoyment factor a lot.
You will find yourself canceling plans because of some event
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User
I have already made plans to be 'sick' on the day after Halloween so that I can stay up to 1am, making sure I can get all of the Halloween furniture! I have found myself driving home faster, so I can make sure and get to one of Tom Nook's 'One-hour Only Sales'. This game is so much fun, and so involving. I am constantly bringing it up in conversations. I am sure people listening to those conversations are probably wondering what-in-the-world I am talking about. For instance, I have been buying out the candy every day for the past week. I am been putting it all in my basement, along with all of the umbrellas I have. Some one hearing me say, "I have been storing candy and umbrellas in the basement." are probably thinking I am a little crazy. Oh well, who cares!! This game is awesome, and is the perfect ending to a long day of work. I would recommend this game to EVERYONE!! My brother is usually a shoot 'em up kind of game player, and he loved this game. He thought he could just fish all day!! He also loved chopping down trees, which I highly discourage, unless the fountain tells you to cut a few down.
Great Game with Some Slight Flaws
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User
GOOD: It's an addictive game with easy-to-pickup-and-play gameplay mechanics. Once you start to play, the drive you'll have to collect all the various items in the game will consume you. Of course, collecting the playable NES games will be top priority, but you'll find yourself wanting the hard-to-get collections of furniture and mementos to brag about having in forums on the net. I've played the game a little over one hour everyday since it's release, and I haven't seen or done everything there is to do in the game. Your townsppl say really offbeat things that can be hilarious or insulting at times. And, some of them are so weird it's downright funny as well. (I have a guy who decorated his home with just 6 toilets, a snack machine, and 5 screen walls--eerie!). You can turn your town melody into a couple of bars from classic NES games, provided you're good with musical notes. You also can make silly looking clothes patterns, or reproduce famous characters--I've seen someone do a Transformer insignia very nicely--on your clothes. The random and scheduled holiday events are a nice little treat. And here's the kicker--if you don't play for a while, something like 3 days straight, you'll find roaches in your house that you have to squash! And with the addition of Gameboy Advanced connectivity and the e cards (must-haves for this game), there's so much to do and so much for your character to achieve. You can also visit a friend's town or another town that you have created via another memory card with town data in slot B.
BAD: The graphics are reminescent of the N64. There is no "real" multiplayer aspect in this game (no simultaneous play). The town music in the game isn't all that great. The townspll's dialouge will begin to repeat itself after a dozen or so contacts, and you will have the same conversations with the same characters on the train ride everytime. Writing letters, which is the only way to get fossils examined and to get some good items from townsfolk, is very tedious with the controller. (When are they going to release the keyboard/controller in the US?). Sooner or later, you aren't going to have fun doing the daily tasks as some will get very monotonous (read: pulling up weeds). Whenever you are about to exit a building, the characters stop you to say goodbye. This is very annoying when all you want to do is leave. Sometimes it is tricky to align your character the right way to dig with the shovel. Since it has no set goals, Animal Crossing may become that game you play for very short periods every now and then, if you can tolerate not having it "all" quickly. Just going through repeated dialouge is enough reason sometimes to get very annoyed with the game.
Overall: I'd give it a 4 star, or a 8 out of 10 because despite some minor flaws (some of which should have been obvious to the developers) the game is actually fun. But I am left feeling that more could have been achieved with this game, and some features could have easily been left on the drawing board. Still, it's a good Gamecube game to have.
Fun Addictive And Funny
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User
This Game is very strange, everybody around town always makes fun of you its fun you can visit other peoples towns by putting two animal crossing memory cards in. You can mail mean letters and wack people with axes. Its Fun And addictive and strange. I Like the songs.
Lots of fun
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User
This is a fun game. My daughter and I each have a character and its great to play together. While you can't play simultaneously, you can still interact via letters and gifts. I suggest getting the strategy guide as it adds additional depth to the game that one might not figure out on their own. You even get to try your hand at Fen Shui!
The real time mode is great, but can get frustrating since most of us can't play every day and some events occur at a specfic time in a day. Nevertheless, its got a lot of game time play and different tasks are available at different times of the year. Bug catching in spring, building snowmen (not too easy)in winter and a fishing tournament in Summer.
The game involves reading so it won't be good for little kids. Other than that, its lots of fun and can be played for a loooong time.
This Game is worth every Dollar!
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User
Enough can't be said on how fun and "Addicting" this game is. They provide a memory card with the game, which is a good thing, because then you can use the ones you have to create more towns. The more towns and people that you create, the more interaction there is with the game. They put a lot of thought and work into this game and it shows. The game plays off the clock in your GameCube. Please, don't change the time like my brother does which I think is a cheap way to cheat to get to different days and collect things. It's more fun to have your character live day by day and on real-time like it was meant to be. This game is Fantastic, go buy it now!
I originally reviewed this game in 10/02. Six months later this game still rocks. So many aspects and things to explore and do. The creativity and Fun-factor of this game still gets five-stars from me. My brother and I will sometimes leave mail-messages for each other which can give the game a whole new aspect.
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