This game is simply ingenius in it's simplicity. A must-have for casual and hard-core gamers alike.
User Rating: 9.1 | Animal Crossing GC
Animal Crossing is the Ultimate Testosterone destroying game. Trust me, you could feel more manly playing Barbie Horse Adventure. But guess what? This game is so fun and addicting, you won't give a damn. Gameplay: 10/10 Animal Crossing is Video Game crack. The things this game does to you is probably considered psychotic it most countries. There is basicly no point to the game. You could just wander around and do nothing all day long, there is no goal. But in here lays the ingeniousness of it all, you set your own goals. In this game you just live a normal life in a town called Animal Crossing. You buy a home, and from there you can choose do to whatever you want. You could spend all your time trying to get your mortgage on your home paid off (No joke), you could just spend time furnnishing it, collecting rare items, fishing, collecting fossils, completing tasks for neighbors, whatever the heck you feel like. But these tasks can become so challenging, you get excited over the smallest, most menial things, like catching a new fish or getting a present in the mail. This is the only game I have ever played where you get as excited about events taking place in it as you do in real life. I think we should start an "Animal Crossing for the Masses" campaign. It would bring about world peace. Why, you ask? Becuase this game is so laid back, it actually helps calm me down after a stressful day of work and toil. You could play this game for hours on end, and it could all seem like maybe a few minutes. The game only has 2 problems, which are a tad annoying: Item interface is clunky and the dialogue is usually pointless, and moves very, VERY slow. Becuase they are two of the things you pretty much do most in the game, it can get a tad annoying. Faster dialuge speed, or the ability to skip entire pages, and if they had programed the use of the D-pad really could have helped. Graphics: 6/10 Animal Crossing is a port of an already old N64 game, and with very little improvements to the formula, the game naturally scores low. However, graphical presentation is colorful, crisp, and vivid, so it stops it from slumping to hard in this department. Sound: 8/10 Animal Crossing has a bevy of sound bites, a new song on every hour (The game runs it's time based on the Game Cubes internal clock. They are pretty good, and never get old, but a bit more variety on the sound effect could have been nice, and perhaps even talking animals. Little nit-picky stuff hurt the score. >< Value: 10/10 Hell, if I could, I would give this game an 11/10. This game just SPEWS value. You can do whatever you want, whenever you want to. Think of it as GTA style-freedom, but with more domestic things. I have spent many a night (seriously) sleepless, playing to get that next fish or piece of furniture. In this game, it's actually fun to just run around and pluck weeds to keep your town neat and tidy. You can design your own paterns to use on shirts and walls, plant your own orchard, the possibilities are nearly endless. Only after about 5 months of near constant playing did I actually just about cover everything there was to the game. It's that big. A larger town would have been nice, but I sure as heck aint complaigning about the one they give. Tilt: 10/10 Animal Crossing is one of the finest games I have ever played. I have nothing but possitive things to say about it. The absolute depth and charm of the game seems endless. This is the perfect game for any gamer of any age, and is especially a good way to break in the Misses into the video gaming world. You can have that little quaint house with the picket fence you both have dreamed about. Perhaps just a tad more pollishing with interface (Which is pretty much the entire game) and it would have been perfect, literally, perfect.
