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I'm going to start this off my saying that I love the Animal Crossing franchise. I've been playing ever since I could get my hands on the Gamecube game, a couple years after it came out. I had seen the advertisement in another Gamecube game case, and begged over and over for my parents to get it for me (I was probably eight or nine years old). Finally I saved up enough money to land myself a copy, with a new version that included a Memory Card and a little gift for my villager to play with. I even got myself a Gameboy to Gamecube cord so I could play with the Island and the Design game.
The DS game blew my mind away, and took up a lot of sleepless nights as I traveled through time to get KK Slider's songs, birthday rewards, and who knows what else. And let me tell you, I ran into waaaay too many spiders and scorpions. Unfortunately for me, my game was located on a DS Real Card, and when my other games froze they broke my SD card, and I had to start over a couple of times due to my non-salvageable game data. Many a tears were shed.
When the game came out for Wii, I about peed myself I was so happy. It went right into the external hard drive with all of the other ISO's we had gotten. My sister and I log in on occasion still.
Then Nintendo announced "Animal Crossing: New Leaf"! Rainbows exploded everywhere! New characters, visits from Resetti, talking with the coffee pigeon guy, oh, life was great!
Except for one, eensy detail: I didn't own a 3DS. But after a couple months of waiting, suffering through other people's happiness over playing the game, and saving, I finally got a used, shiny-blue console and a used version of the game.
(Let me just say, I started playing the game, and didn't realize that someone had left their game file on it! I spent twenty minutes playing in "scotty" town, with people asking me where "scot" had gone. When I realized it, and that I had to demolish the town, I felt a little sad, and a little skeeved out, thanks to a certain Pokemon tale "Strangled Red", I had to suffer a bit of creeped-out-ness.)
OKAY! REVIEW TIME! (finally!)
This game is pretty awesome, and incredibly different than its predecessors, that goes without saying. The main character file (the first character you make) is the MAYOR. What happened to Tortimer, you ask? Why, he's retired, and living on an island, that you get to visit *drum roll* whenever you want!! (Granted, you've unlocked it first.)
Finally, you get to sit in the fancy chair in the Town Hall building! You have a personal assistant! You get to ride a train again!!!
However, there's a catch: you get the responsibilities of a mayor. That's right folks: not only do you have to remember to save before you log off (I have a funny story about that), and log on often enough to prevent bedhead and cockroaches, but now you have to endorse town projects and ordinances! ORDINANCES. I had to Google that to fully understand that word.
What kind of town projects though? Well, you have to build new places in your town! New bridges to make your cross-town jogs faster, lamp posts and benches and actual buildings. Like the Cafe. That's right folks, you can't go to the museum for your coffee anymore.
More differences, well, get ready. Instead of Tom Nook's shop, you get "Re-Tail", which is like a pawn shop in your town, run by a lady llama and her sleepy llama husband. (I jumped ten feet when she stopped me from waking him up.)
You'll still see plenty of Tom Nook though, like when you pick out where you want to build your house. (Yeah, you read that right. You have to pick out the spot where you want your house, live in a tent, fun stuff.) Not only that, but he runs a shop in the strip mall above your town where he sells improvements to your house's outside appearance (doors, mailboxes, fences, shingles, etc). His sons, Timmy and Tommy, run a mini version of Nook's Cranny a couple doors down from Nook's place. Only one son is in the shop at a time, and your buying options are severely limited. I still don't have a slingshot..
In this shop, the 3DS Tokens are used (tokens gained by walking with your 3DS in Sleep Mode. Every 100 feet you walk, you get a token, and you can only earned a certain amount every day) to buy Fortune Cookies. When eaten, you receive a Lucky Ticket that you then exchange for a neat, Nintendo-themed item. Sometimes it's furniture, sometimes it's clothes, and sometimes it's the really awesome Samus from Metroid mask that I got today. (Squee!!)
Also in this "strip mall" is the one-floor museum (I guess they took out the Constellation stuff. I had forgotten it had existed to be honest), a photo booth (for taking your villager's ID photo, used in traveling to different towns), the clothing store with the two sisters, but wait! Attached to that building is a smaller Gracie-Grace, with the middle sister selling accessories! Other than that, there are closed-down buildings, presumably for later in the game. I've already unlocked a flower shop, since the new Nook's Cranny doesn't carry flowers or trees (or even wallpaper/flooring!).
Okay, let me get this out of my system. You know how when you donate to Blathers in the museum, and he comments a little fun fact? Well that's not there anymore!! I rather enjoyed watching his different reactions to this and that bug, but no. "Hmm, this reminds me of being in my mother's nest" (or something like that. I really don't care.) DISAPPOINT. But on the bright side!! You can multi-select items!! It's a miracle!! He can now look at multiple fossils at once, and you can donate multiple items in one go, rather than painstakingly clicking on every one and going through all of that accursed dialogue.
Hmm, other changes, let's see.. Well, you don't have an upstairs to your house anymore, which I guess is okay. I kind of liked going to bed and using the phone and whatnot.
Oh, so this Island! First of all, I'm so happy you can go to the Island again; awesome sauce right there. But this one is much different from the Gamecube addition! There are mini games to play now! Yeah, mini games. Boss.
Which reminds me: DIVING. You can go into the ocean now! By doing so you can fetch neat ocean critters and get stung by jelly fish. Not to mention I'm pretty sure there's a little escape in your town you can swim to. However, you have to unlock the wetsuit somehow. Gotta figure out how to do that.. But on the island you're offered one to use during your visit.
Okay, okay, I'll let y'all go. I think I've said enough for now, and I would hate to take the fun out of playing the game.
So everyone get on! If anyone wants to link up towns or 3DS's, just post in the comments below your friend code and I'll add you right away!
Next up: FINAL FANTASY ONLINE!
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