One of the Best Nintendo made games so far! Or at least for the DS.
You start out in a cab with a turtle named Cap'n, (who appeared in the GC version )he asks you a series of questions which figure out what town your going to, what your name is, and what your gender is. When you get to your town (I called my town Valhalla) you go into the town center where you learn where your house is and how to pull up your map and other usefull stuff. At this time you get to explore your town untill when you venture in your house and come back out to find the capitalist Racoon, Tom Nook, who makes you his slave for the day. So you can start to pay off your loan (this is just away to learn the basics of the game). After that your free to do whatever you want in your new village.
The controlling in this game is simple. It is jut like it is in the old GC version for you vetrans. But you can also use the touch screen. I find it easy to use the buttons on ceartain areas, like moving around furniture. and the stylus in others, like writting letters (Which is 10X better than the orginal way with the control pad.) But I did find it hard to draw a strait line on the screen when making patterns. Also the use of the stylus is really simple on menus. Especailly when selling items, sending mail, or putting things in your cabinet (which by the way holds 90 items, includeing furniture.)
I am afraid that this game will make me totaly forget the town on my GC version of this game, and will overgrow with weeds. So don't get this game if your not willing to make a committment.