Animal Crossing: Wild World (for TEH DS)

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I am ten thousand times more excited for this game than I was for MKDS - I never got to play the Gamecube version, so it'll be a first, but seeing as how I want something I can zone out and idly play while listening to music, it sure sounds like exactly the game for me. The loss of the NES games is kind of a bummer, but I hear this game is going to have holidays out the ying-yang (and you can actually participate in them!) to make up for it. It does feel this strange to be so excited about a game that'll basically let me tend a virtual garden and clean a virtual house when my own apartment is such a non-virtual wreck, but I'm just going to chalk that one up to my healthy appreciation of irony.

Anyone else getting this? This is definitely going to be the game that turns me into a friend-code whore.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 01:56 (twenty years ago)

i don't understand this game. what is it and do i want it?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 02:04 (twenty years ago)

Yes. I was obsessed with Animal Crossing on the GC for about a week. Loved it. Then I got distracted. The new stuff the DS gets sounds perfect--online play, designing patterns with the stylus, etc. It'd be totally gay if I weren't playing with the g/f.

Slocki: It is a game about animals who live in a town. They lend stuff to one another and ask you to get it back for them. Sometimes you go fishing. Sometimes a camel comes to town and sells you carpets. There is a raccoon who runs a convenience store and holds raffles. Good stuff.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)

I want to know how or if this is better than the Gamecube version. I wanted to love it but it just couldn't keep my interest in the long run.

― Laura H. (laurah), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)

Laura we'll be able to VISIT EACH OTHER'S TOWNS. And, like, take stuff from mailboxes and pull weeds and talk to alternate universe Tom Nooks. I foresee two weeks of interest this time, a good 12 days more than Nintendogs.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 03:00 (twenty years ago)

It's starting to snow in Animal Crossing!

I dunno, now that I've been playing it off and on for a year it's starting to feel like I've done it all.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 06:07 (twenty years ago)

And yet, I really would like to see the new version.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 06:07 (twenty years ago)

I'm trying to make this the game that forces my girlfriend to buy the system for me. Us. I mean us.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 06:21 (twenty years ago)

I thought Nintendogs was supposed to take care of that (and Animal Crossing was supposed to get everyone's girlfriends to get wifi).

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 07:29 (twenty years ago)

Eh. She's a bit less girly than that.
Though if there were a pit bull puppy...

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 07:50 (twenty years ago)

The boxer puppy looks a little bit like a pit. As a pit bull owner I was very irritated by their absence in Nintendogs.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

do i want this or the mario/luigi rpg? this is the question!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

I don't know. That M/L RPG is guaranteed fun. Unfortunately Dragon Quest has me in its clutches.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

http://mudron.1up.com/

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

I think you want the Mario/Luigi RPG. It will have more staying power.
xxpost

― Laura H. (laurah), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

Nahh, if you get them both there'll be twice as much staying power! (I think)

― melton mowbray (adr), Thursday, 1 December 2005 00:03 (twenty years ago)

i am faced with indecision!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 1 December 2005 05:56 (twenty years ago)

http://boards.ign.com/animal_crossing/b5310/104101945/p1/?73

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

Imagine I put a pattern on display in my store. An animal might start to wear it, and then they move away to another town. The animals there start to wear that pattern as well to fit in, and one of theirs moves away somewhere else. With the intricate sets of friends lists, that pattern could show up in someone else's town that is several degrees of separation away. Today I met a Blanca whose face was designed from someone I had never heard of. Yesterday I got a message in a bottle from someone who was friends with one of my friend's, but I had never met them and they weren't on my list.

Last night, I visited Craig's town and my Pac-Man constellation ended up in his. He had never seen it before. If he visited someone else's town, it could end up in theirs. The way this works is .. once the game goes live, you may be seeing an influx of content from players you've never met before in your life, reaching your town through several different means. It's a viral world.

that is cool!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

I'm gonna let the g/f buy it and try it out so I can play Mario/Luigi.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

x-post

uh sounds fkn awesome

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 1 December 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

so are ILG DSers gonna buy this?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 3 December 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

I think I might
Not anytime soon probably though

― TOMBOT, Saturday, 3 December 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

Dunno, I'm worried it'll be too similar to the GC version, which I got bored of after a couple of weeks. Plus it's december, and I'm poor, and I've still got lots of GTA:LCS and MKDS fun to keep me busy. So maybe, eventually, I'll give it a go, but for now I think I'm also in the "not anytime soon" gang.

― JimD (JimD), Saturday, 3 December 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

I am! Really anticipating this game right now. I hope I'm not the only one.

― melton mowbray (adr), Saturday, 3 December 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

I'm definitely buying this - it was one of the things that made me want a DS in the first place.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Saturday, 3 December 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

yeah, I'm totally buying this; I just need something calm and pleasant right now and this seems v.apt

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 4 December 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

I am of anticipation. I loved the gamecube version too though and managed about two or three months of play before boredom set in.

― jeffrey (johnson), Sunday, 4 December 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

FOR GOD'S SAKES, am I the only one who got this? It's sure sucking my time away so far (in spite of the fact that I'm still not entirely sure what I'm doing).

Coolest bit so far: I identified a constellation ASAP when I got the game. Three days later, it's still in the sky reflecting a realistic model for the rotation of the planet. THAT is fucking cool (for some reason).

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Saturday, 10 December 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

I almost bought this today but then (not quite-)buyer's remorse kicked in and I couldn't justify the spend : /

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 10 December 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

i am so torn on this one

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 10 December 2005 03:15 (twenty years ago)

Oh god, everyone get it (because mine's just been shipped from liksang)!

― melton mowbray (adr), Saturday, 10 December 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

Yeah! I totally need this. Then I'm a come to your village and eat all your peaches!

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Saturday, 10 December 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

I want to buy this but will probably wait till it's here in the uk. liksang scares me.

― jeffrey (johnson), Saturday, 10 December 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

Haha, even then you'll probably still get it before me. Depending how long before Christmas it comes, I might just wrap it up and open it on Christmas day!

― melton mowbray (adr), Saturday, 10 December 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

A friend of mine is sending me her free review copy of this. I probably never would have bought it otherwise; I'm kind of excited now. I hope I can incorporate my Young Jeezy-esque MKDS snowman icon into it somehow.

― d4niel coh3n (dayan), Monday, 12 December 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

So, so excited. Come on lik-sang!

― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 12 December 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

So excited. Come on UK release.

― jeffrey (johnson), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

I'm convinced that this game gets localized weather updates every time you turn it on - it's just been so stunningly accurate every time I've played it. Just now, while I was waiting for the town to load, I decided to put on a sweatshirt (Los Angeles has turned me into a giant weather pussy) - then I step outside in my AC village and it's snowing.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

so is it a good time? are you enjoying it? the game?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 01:31 (twenty years ago)

I like it a lot so far - it's not the all-consuming timebeast that I was expecting it to be, but as far as games I can just pick up and play, it's the greatest thing since Tetris. It's also the best celebration of banality since Mrs. Dalloway - I spent an hour today shaking apples out of trees and collecting fish for the museum.

Also, one of my friends apparently just got this too, so I'll get to check out the wifi capabilities soon. ROCK.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

it's not the all-consuming timebeast that I was expecting it to be, but [...] I spent an hour today shaking apples out of trees and collecting fish for the museum.

So, so excited.

― melton mowbray (adr), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

i almost bought this today but they were out. which of course makes me really want it now

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

hah in this month's EDGE they deliberately run the animal crossing DS and katamari PSP reviews next to each other... scored 8 and 7 respectively

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

Should I get the GC version for my fiancee? She loves Katamari, the Sims and Harvest Moon.

(we don't have a DS)

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

cozen do you like edge? i just read my first ish, it's kinda hard to find & expensive here. but despite the title it's a pretty good mag!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

Jordan - yeah. AC is just like playing harvest moon in real time, pretty much.

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

ach it's a bit silly in places and expensive here too but I picked up a subscription for myself and between that and gamesTM I get by

sorry this has been another dull post from cozen sitting at his desk

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

Edge deserves its own thread!

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

There you go.

Edge Magazine - C/D

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

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― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

My town is "Clown"

― onimo (onimo), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

Mine's Pulquedo. And I have many cockroaches in my house! Their little ghosts float away when you stomp them!

I run from Blanca the scaryface cat. She showed up once with a face that was a squirting penis. Oh the trauma of "gameplay may change when on-line"!

― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

My neighbours keep telling me how cool my youngest son & housemate is:

"Hey h-puff you know that Zapor9000 constellation? Well that's all down to your housemate wyp-up. He's a cool guy, you should take note!"

"You like my t-shirt? wyp-up gave it to me! You're lucky to have such a great housemate!"

I'm working my ass off paying mortgages off while he just fucks around sending everyone presents and currying favour. Oh, and he went and dug up my shovel before it turned gold :(

― onimo (onimo), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

Is this the same one that chopped down all your trees?

― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

Yes!

― onimo (onimo), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

I'm working my ass off paying mortgages off while he just fucks around sending everyone presents and currying favour. Oh, and he went and dug up my shovel before it turned gold

ha, this surely resembles your real life in no way whatsoever.

― TOMB07 (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

I was just thinking that :)

― onimo (onimo), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

My shop is being upgraded from a Nookway tomorrow! ExCITING! I hope it's the one with the beauty salon! Not that I don't love my green ponytail that I got in Pwnage or anything of course :)

Gracie called me frumpy and gave me a moldy (MOULDY) shirt!! Bitch.

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

I finally started playing this! I'm not quite seeing the point though, yet. I'm sure all the online stuff must be where the fun is. Who wants to let me come and visit them?

― JimD (JimD), Saturday, 27 January 2007 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

I have yet to do the online thing, It seems like such a pain in the ass to exchange friend codes, open your gates and be on at the same time. I need someone to buy something from the store in my town so I can get the upgrade though!

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 27 January 2007 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

we need an ILG repository of friend codes

― kingfish moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 27 January 2007 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

The online play is basically identical to offline, only with the added thrill of the connection potentially dropping out at any minute! Still, we saw our new year in with it.

I wish I had more friends who played AC, and knew which item group they were in, so I could go over there and finish off the sets I'm collecting. Something makes me really want to put this game down, but I can't just yet.

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Saturday, 27 January 2007 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

Here's my code: 3565-5258-1808

Name: Jaq (so original...)
Town: Pulquedo

I picked it back up after 3 or 4 months away and have finally finished most of the weeding.

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 29 January 2007 01:58 (nineteen years ago)

I got a golden shovel! And I have a couple of hybrid plants now too!

AND a beauty parlour! Except I got turned blonde - it feels very strange being a blonde, in a way playing a blonde videogame character hasn't felt before... actually I can only think of playing the girl in Golden Axe and I can't even recall if she was a blonde or not to be honest. HA HA or the girl in California Games!

My friends code is up thread somewhere, peeps feel free to add innit.

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

Golden Axe Girl had black hair.

New Golden Axe Girl will be gingery blonde:

http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/707/707342/golden-axe-20060611094546029.jpg

― onimo (onimo), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, maybe she was always blonde...

― onimo (onimo), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.vidaextra.com/images/goldenaxe.jpg

brunette, yo.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

From the "Oh puh-leeze" dept: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=48579&in_page_id=34

― Jaq, Friday, 11 May 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

Which - hahahahaha - I haven't touched AC since the end of Jan when I pulled all the damn weeds and found cockroaches in my house.

― Jaq, Friday, 11 May 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

Where's the wii version? My girl needs a new drug.

― forksclovetofu, Friday, 11 May 2007 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

try rohypnol

― creme1, Saturday, 12 May 2007 02:26 (eighteen years ago)

"Fucking cow" has too many letters for a nickname doesn't it? Even if it doesn't, when would an animal spontaneously say that a nickname was harsh? It might have been on Yay Day, which means she would have typed it in right then instead of the phrase being spread online.

― V, Saturday, 12 May 2007 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, quick question -

I'm asking my gf to buy me this for my birthday next week, but does it have multiple save files? That is, can you create two different towns, so we don't have to share towns? I'm greedy and I don't want her fucking my utopian village up.

― Z S, Saturday, 12 May 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Anyone still visiting towns?? If you want to check my wild world out hit me up for Das Freund Kode.

― Viceroy, Monday, 28 July 2008 04:30 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

is anyone still playing this? i bought it the other day and it's ruining me. please send friend codes.

― circa1916, Thursday, 25 September 2008 10:22 (seventeen years ago)

I have this!!!! I just got it too!!!

― odrama! (jessie monster), Friday, 26 September 2008 01:22 (seventeen years ago)

My poor wee town is so ignored these days. I think I just tired of the grind.

― aye it's me (onimo), Friday, 26 September 2008 13:07 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

Someone gave me a bromeliad today. I am excited because it's a beautiful, strong plant; and also because I had one in Animal Crossing!!

― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 00:13 (thirteen years ago)

I miss this game! I wonder where I put my poor old DS when we moved the last time?

― Jaq, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 00:56 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah I dip into it every now and then... I also wonder where the heck I put my DS when I moved recently haha.

I could always play AC:In the City or whatever its called on the Wii.

― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 02:28 (thirteen years ago)

Also, christ I was an over-perky annoying MF in this thread for some reason :|

― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 02:39 (thirteen years ago)

no way man, it's fucking Animal Crossing

― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 02:42 (thirteen years ago)

two months pass...

I have been seeing a lot of scarabs flying around lately and I always like to tell them, "You are worth so many bells."

― in charge of refreshments tonight is (Abbbottt), Sunday, 22 July 2012 17:58 (thirteen years ago)

AAAAA++++ revive

― I dont even know that I think this sucks per se (forksclovetofu), Monday, 23 July 2012 02:49 (thirteen years ago)

ten months pass...

/slowly and deliberately counts out 10000 bells, lays them on tom nook's desk, not breaking eye contact, on some yoknapatawpha county shit

― adam, Sunday, 9 June 2013 17:49 (twelve years ago)

http://24.media.tumblr.com/c9300909e68b34b11a89bb8fdb9de7d5/tumblr_mo4g1l9neg1sv134do1_400.jpg

― abcfsk, Monday, 10 June 2013 13:04 (twelve years ago)

yo in the new one you can switch tools w left and right on the d-pad. also maybe i brought my 3ds to the office today b/c that lazy usurious fuck tom nook doesn't open until 10am.

― adam, Monday, 10 June 2013 16:09 (twelve years ago)

Not out until the 14th in Europe. When I get it I will slave for whoever asks me to to get the comedy/music club opened quickly. Dr Shrunk is a unique stand up voice.

― abcfsk, Monday, 10 June 2013 22:09 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

Dream Suite in the new game lets you wander around other people's towns in your dreams
Japanese people have had the game for a lot longer so you can find amazing stuff like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlWPTrJwJak

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 15 July 2013 23:45 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

explore the crazy glitched out town @ 3000-0845-9227
tip: put on the wetsuit in the box at the end of the bed

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 15 August 2013 21:07 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

i realize i need a late pass but i am addicted to animal crossing

― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Monday, 5 January 2015 17:26 (eleven years ago)

OMG, I found my old DS in a box when I cleaned out a yarn closet and have been thinking about playing again

― Jaq, Monday, 5 January 2015 19:18 (eleven years ago)

I've been playing Fantasy Life on my 3ds, which seems to synthesize a lot of bits from this, only without the time or multiplayer-required elements

― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Monday, 5 January 2015 20:38 (eleven years ago)

three months pass...

holy shit
http://www.polygon.com/2015/4/5/8348795/animal-crossing-soundtrack-background-music-free-google-chrome-browser-extension

― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 9 April 2015 17:15 (ten years ago)

holy shit!!

― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Thursday, 9 April 2015 18:00 (ten years ago)

i love that the icon is a lil kk slider

― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Thursday, 9 April 2015 18:01 (ten years ago)

i hate myself but i'm installing this

― division of bowker (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 April 2015 18:18 (ten years ago)

midnight music so spooky and entrancing

― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 10 April 2015 04:12 (ten years ago)

this was a big hit at my job today

note: i work with 5 year olds

― jello my future biafriend (roxymuzak), Friday, 10 April 2015 05:46 (ten years ago)

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