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2hr. of coding and 10min. of graphics design=Animal Crossing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 38
Date: November 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

All I have to say, is that the other 80 reviews saying this game is great must be have been made by easily amused people or 5-10 year old children. The game was a descent chuckle for about a half an hour, than I started noticing the extreme repetition.

Doing jobs for the town people almost always involved getting an item from one person and taking it to the proper owner. This might have been okay if there were some kind of obstacles to overcome, but in truth all you had to do was walk from one house to the next, over and over.

Then there was that interesting twist of real time events. At 1:00am I thought I would turn on the game and finish paying off the house (yes, a real mortgage isn't good enough, so they give you one in the game too). To my surprise, everyone in the game was asleep, and all the stores were closed. Wow, just like real life right? This means if I want to progress in the game, I have to get home early from the movies, dinner, work, or otherwise real-life activities just to buy or sell something from one of the stores in the game. I know the 80 life-less losers, or 10-year olds that wrote 5-star reviews have no problem with this (one of them even said they were going to call in sick to work because of trick-or-treating in the game), but I have better things to do than to schedule my life around a game. Don't get me wrong, if the game were at all gripping I would simply change the time settings in the game so that all of a sudden at 2:00am mid November real-time, it's December 25 9:00am. The fact of the matter is, the game just isn't worth it.

Oh, and if you ever wanted a game to teach morals to your children, this must be the one. Moral after moral. Don't steal, don't lie, don't stay up after your bedtime, pay your mortgage, do your work without joking around, be nice.

Bottom line: This game is great for 5-10year olds, life-less losers that haven't found massively multiplayer games that at least have a social element (like Ultima Online, Dark Age of Camelot, etc.), and people with frontal lobotomies (like president George W. Bush). If you're one of those people that believes everything needs a chance, then please rent the game first

Tisk Tisk Tisk

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 16
Date: July 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I don't get it, I just don't get it. Can someone please entice me here on what's so special about this game? Over the years, my video game wisdom has allowed me to open my mind to mediocre products, but Animal Crossing is not, I repeat, not an exception. This game has absolutely nothing to offer. Poor graphics, poor "real life" enhancements, and worst of all, you get the feeling you've died and went to a poor man's Roley Poley Oley land! If that's your preference, give me a ring, I'm willing to trade this game for a used toothbrush!

Seriously, this is not a joke. I've forever been a fan of "real life" concept games, and after reading the promising reviews and appraise, I was confident this would be one of the best titles for my GameCube. To my surprise, Animal Crossing was appalling from the second I starting playing it. "Well, did you even give this game a try?" Yes, I did. From the kindergarten train ride, to working at the local market, to upgrading my home with useless items, I found myself playing this garbage enhanced title for hours upon hours before finally coming to my senses. I told myself time and time again, just keep playing it, keep playing it, and keep playing it, well after about a week or two playing for a couple of hours every other day, I had to give it up. I had to face reality, and realize this was one of the worst gaming experiences in my lifetime.

Super Nintendo level graphics, Atari level sound effects, and slow gameplay, make this title one of the most disappointing games of all time. You couldn't pay me to play this game. I did like the real-time concept, and a few other small features, but Nintendo just couldn't pull it together to make a good game. Yes, many others enjoy this game, but I don't see how. Younger children may find something useful out of this, but even younger children should know there's a lot more to the capacity of Nintendo's power, and what they could have done with this game. This game deserves a big two thumbs down.

Question

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 27
Date: February 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Why don't people just go out and do these things for real?

Nothing like the DS version...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 10
Date: July 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My wife bought this because she's absolutely addicted to the DS version of Animal Crossing. Unfortunately, this version is nothing like that. Waaaaaay too slow and difficult to do anything. Saving your game takes forever and pretty much everything you want to do requires you to jump through numerous hoops that only slow things down.

One to avoid!

Boring with a capital "B"

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 11
Date: September 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is so booring. After you do a few things for some dude,what's next? Nothing!!! You just walk around and talk to people. If you crave for action/adventure genre games, stay away from this one.

Redundancy: See Redundancy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 24
Date: November 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I'm so glad I rented this game instead of buying it. Animal Crossing is cute but completely pointless. It's a little like "The Sims" in that you have a character and a house in a virtual world; but unlike "The Sims," there are no relationships, and it's not even much fun decorating the house (it's only one tiny room).

I got bored after about 90 minutes; I could tell the game was going to be nothing more than running repetitive errands for the residents of the little town.

I truly don't understand why anyone likes this kind of game. This is just as bad as "The Sims Online" (another boring, pointless real-time game).

Pretty fun.....If you're a super bored 6 year old!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 21
Date: November 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I found this game to be absolutely dreadful. It had N64 graphics, zero fun factor, and seemed to be geared for small children. It was repetitive, boring, and lacked in every department. I had this game for less than a week before selling it. As much as I wanted to like it and tried to like it, I absolutely could not. I think this would truly even bore a 6 year old. Awful game!!! I'm totally shocked this game is selling as well as it is as I found absolutely no fun in it whatsoever.

Could have been fun

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 16
Date: November 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The game itself was OK but seemed very much geared to kids. The game keeps real time and since the stores in the game are only open from 9 am to 10 pm, you can only play the game during those time frames. Other than that, there isn't much to do. Don't waste your money on this one.

AWFUL GAME

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: October 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is not a good buy, it is best maybe a rental but even then it probobly isnt that good of an idea. I have had this game for 1 full day now and i am not at all happy with it.

The informative circle on the front telling me that there was a free memory card inside was the thing that made me want to buy this game. but trust me, it is NOT worth it at all!

This title is pretty good for a few hours but then it becomes VERY monotonus to the point where u wont care a dang bit . One other thing that i find not very good about it is that there is no objective.

What you do is work for the owner of a shop to pay off your 20,000 dollar house doing about 3 or 4 different tasks.

but then u start doing the same thing, you become a delivery boy for the 7 or 8 lazy inhabitants and it is the worst part and what makes it even worse (if thats possable) is that you have to deliver the same things over and over but to different people.

And the fact that it runs in real-time makes the game even slower.

Beware

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: October 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When I first rented this game I thought it was wicked. I played it for 2 days straight and really didn't want to return it. A few days after I returned it I decided to just go out and buy it... bad idea.

It was then when I realized what a horrid game this is. Sure it is fun for a while but could a game get anymore repetitive??? Pick weeds, buy stuff, send letters, fish, blah, blah, blah...

I have to say the idea behind the game is great (playing in real time) but the amount of people's lives wasted while playing it everyday or so is crazy to me. Especially the idea of codes for items. Reading entries on sites where people go through and try to find "Universal Codes" is absurd. Sure it is cool but for example ones that bring back X amount of bells and the person saying "you'll be a millionaire in no time" is wild. Who really wants to sit and enter the same 28 character code 1000 times to get that kind of money. Do you know how long and boring that would be???? I'd rather read a good book or actually go out and do something instead of sitting in front of the TV.

This is not to say I don't like games, but this one takes over peoples lives far too much for my liking.

I'm selling my copy.

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