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Fun and addictive

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Reminicent of "Harvest Moon" and "The Sims". This strait-forward playing game is intuitive and amusing. The characters and quirky elements are super cute. The lack of any definitive end or levels keep you playing week after week. The real-time element is an interesting twist for a console game. Typical nintendo fare. No shoot'em up action.

what? how did this happen?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

ive never been quite as hopelessly addicted to a videogame like i have to animal crossing. i will find myself keeping track of the time in my real life so as not to miss a special event, sale or visitor in the game. i find myself hunched over my computer, trying to find just the right universal code before tom nook's shop closes. i've obsessively combed ever acre of my little cyber villiage looking for bugs, fossils, money and buried treasure. and i love every sugary minute of it. EGM compared this game to...well, a certain illegal, highly addictive substance. and after missing work or school to compete in a fishing tourney or sports fair, i think you'll agree.

Welcome to your new electronic addiction

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The idea of Animal Crossing is simple - you are the only human in a town full of animals and you must work, make money, make friends, and contribute to the community in order for it to become successful. I can't exactly pinpoint what makes AC so fun...there's just so many cool things you can do. For example, you can dig up fossils and donate the findings to the town museum. Running errands for the townspeople and getting nice presents in return is also fun. Decorating your house is cool too, but you have to pay off your loan if you want a bigger house! Personally I like to go fishing, especially when I'm waiting for the mail to arrive. The game moves in real time, so if you don't play for a couple weeks expect roaches to be on the floor of your house when you return. Don't let the cute graphics and simplicity fool you - this game can be quite a challenge at times, and is fun for adults as well and kids.

This game is compatible with the Game Boy Advance link cable and the E-Reader and I recommend them both if you want to get the most out of AC. There is a special island you can travel to only if you have a Game Boy Advance and link cable to connect to your Gamecube. The E-Reader and AC cards open up a slew of other little fun things to do as well.

One of the best games yet for Gamecube!

most likely the single funniest gaming experience ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

First of all this game rocks, I rented it from blockbuster and after my first night with it i ran out to buy it. It is that good and i do not exagerate when i say that there is endless amounts of things to do. The point is to live your life in this small town, attempting to pay off debt you acheived while settling in there. Fishing, hunting, digging, running errands, playing the mini-stock market. THats all fun, but the REAL fun begins with the communication that is stressed through out this game.

Neighbors beg you to write them letters. OK. Soon i began dispersing letters of hot love to multiple interested women and hate mail to my next door neighbors. I had begun a war. The language you use in your letters influences the way animals talk in the game. Example: i told Mr. Zipper, my neighbor, that he was a ... for not letting me run his errand the day before. Low and behold, the next morning he calls me, and i quote,"Nice day, eh ...?" Riiiight........

You can also be mischevious through actions not just through words. Just last night i failed to win the lottery for the one-millionth time in a row, so this time instead of a ticket, i invested in an axe, which i later used to chop down every tree surrounding the shop.

The fun doesn't end here though. My roomate bought an extra memory card for his own village(AC memory take up one memcard 59, thats why it comes with one). Now you can visit his village if your have both memory cards, and visa versa. Lets just say he went in my house and stole my friggin NES. and lets just say i taught his neighbors "proper engish", right before i chopped down all his trees, right before i plundered his items from his house and burried them in his own yard, which he still doesnt know about.....;)

In conclusion, this is the ultimate multiplayer experiance as well as the tightest single player experience ever. BUY IT. NOW. Just for the record, I'd take this over STARFOX Adventures, since i know its coming out in a coule days and i've played both.

The Best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: September 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is simply the best game ever. If you can't find anything to do no problem... wait a few minutes and you can do loads of things.

I can't stop playing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'm a college grad with a full time job. My best friend and girlfriend both live with me, both themselves grads and FT employed. We should be relaxing after work, watching the news, reading a good book. Nope. We're all hopelessly involved in this Animal Crossing game. I bought it for my girlfriend who loves the Sims games, thinking for $20 it was worth checking it out. All three of us now HAVE to play it every day.
Most of the reviews here hit it right on. Anyone of any age can play it. You can interact with each other, with the various characters, and get lost in the endless list of things you need to accomplish. I don't even have a mortgage in real life yet but I'm on my 3rd in this game. We even plot against other towns. (We found some of our neighbors moved away when we created a new town, so we went there and cut down all the trees.) It's embarassing that we're so completely involved and obsessed with this game, but we just can't help it. There's no violence, no drugs, no sex, no crude humor (except when you get to teach the characters new phrases, then our maturity flies out the window), but it's still highly entertaining. I get to fish every day, buy and arrange new furniture, expand my house, dig for treasure...everything I can't do in my office at work.
There are very few games out there that people can talk about even when not playing it, and even fewer that parents, kids, and college students can all chat about on the same level.
I recommend this game for anyone looking for something different and something relaxing that won't grow old anytime soon. It follows the calendar so every day is something different and certain items/people/events are only available during certain months. I at least have to play until I meet Jack at Halloween!

You will become an Animal Crossing addict, just like me

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The story is very simple: You are a normal human, but you decide to live by your own - FREEDOM! - with animals - ? -. Strange? No. G-R-E-A-T-!

- Graphics: OK, graphics aren't that good. But who needs it? There are no problem with these graphics in these game... Don't worry about how it looks.
- Fun: NO GAME, I meant it... NO GAME is as fun as this one. You will become an addict. You just do what you want. You can talk to animals, fish, bury things in the ground, do favors to animals to receive good things (there is a LOT of furniture to collect, clothes, wallpapers, carpets...). You can do everything you want. You can even play NES games! You can collect fossiles, paintings, insects, fishes... The seasons change just like in real world, so does the hours... It's not a game... It's a different life.
- Educative: Very educative. No violence, no cussing, nothing. Just fun!

You're wasting time reading this review. Buy this game right now in Amazon.com or in the nearest game store. You will become an addict, believe me, another Animal Crossing addict, and the other Animal Crossing addicts around the world.

Freedom!

Don't judge a book by it's cover

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This has to be one of the freshest games I've ever played. There is no princess, there is nothing you have to accomplish like collecting random artefacts. There is no goal, except for the goals you set for yourself.

While that could leave the game too open-ended, there is enough to do that it stays fun. You can fish, and try to catch the big one, plant trees and watch them grow, or chop them down. There are lots of other tasks, too, like talking to neighbors, collecting shells and decorating your house. It's all pretty simple stuff, and it can get repetitive. But it has that Nintendo charm that keeps you humming the tunes and coming back for more.

I'm sure there are many who won't enjoy this game, but even if you only like Halo and Doom, give this one a shot. The open-ended joyousness of creating and living in your own town might win you over. Especially with cute Animal Neighbors like Rocky the squirrel.

Great Little Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

My 8 year old loves this game. It is very interactive and he loves to play it. It is not one of those that just sits on his shelf. Well worth the price paid

I play every day and love every minute!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is by far the best game that has ever been played. Cute emotional animals are your fellow citizens, friends, and you can push them until they get mad! For example, there is this EVIL little koala named Yuka taking up precious nice people's space in my town. I make her spaz by pushing her all the time. You can:
.Change the town tune
.Mail letters
.shop
.make friends
.make enimies
.furnish a house
.pay off morgtage (I'm all done!!!)
.interact
.get music & furniture
.get adorable little outfits
and...
.go to different towns(provided you have an extra memory card)

Also, you aren't the only one the animals interact with. You may walk around the corner and see two animals whispering amongst themselves, then walk off either(these are the various emotions)
.happy(little flowers flying around their head and music notes)
.sad(a rain cloud hanging over their head)
.mad(A poofle that goes on and off. also they squint.)
.normal(nothing. just the animal.)

animal crossing appeals to ages 5-55 as it's fun, cute, simple to understand, hard to master, and a great game. You WON'T regret buying this.

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