Animal Crossing

Animal Crossing, when you look at screenshots, looks really really queer and I can understand why. I mean, it's you (A viking person apparently as you have horns on your head) living in a town with a bunch of animals and crap. But it's really not all THAT bad. Yes, it's not something to be played religiously unless your a crazed fanatic, but it's good for a couple of weeks at least.

Basically in Animal Crossing you're on a train to a village that you name yourself and you name yourself as well. On the train there's some gay cat (If he's not gay he will be soon) and he asks your name and he asks what you think about it. I haven't played the beginning of the game in awhile, but it gives you a choice between (I think it's cool) and (I think it's pretty), Cool means your a boy and pretty means your a girl. However it makes sure that your a girl or boy. If you're a boy and say it's pretty he'll go "So you're a girl huh?" and it will say Yes or HELL NO and then he goes Oh crap and what not.



That's not the point, basically you go into this small village and you need to buy a house but you don't have enough money to buy it. The local store guy Tom Nook says you can 'lease' the house and just make payments off of it.

The game consists of you going around the village and helping the villagers by delivering or retrieving products for them. In return they give you money, furniture, carpets, stationary (I hate stationary cause they ALWAYS give me some godd*** stationary) If you're playing this and expect retrievals to be easy, sometimes they aren't. I once had to ask every villager for the item because the person who originally borrowed it let another person and there was a HUGE chain of 'OH NO SORRY HUNNYBUN I LENT IT TO SQUAKY'.



Each animal has their own little 'catchphrase' after every sentence. Frogs sometimes go 'rib-rib' and others just say retarded things. I don't really bother about this because if they wanna have some weird speech impediment I won't stop them.

At Tom Nook's Store you can buy clothes, carpets, wallpaper and many other things. The purpose of carpets and furniture etc. is because you can decorate your home in anyway. Many people play the game to make their homes awesome and stuff. Once you pay off Tom Nook's Lease you can ask him to upgrade the house and you can start a new lease program. It's good to have a bigger house as you can make your house the essence of yourself. There are things for girls and things for guys, so it's not all pink ponies and stuff. In fact there are many Mario Furnitures. I have a Mushroom, a Shell, and a Mario Trophy in my room. If you grab the mushroom it makes the mushroom growing sign from the original Mario. The same with the Shell.



The graphics in this game aren't revolutionary, but they definetely do justice to this game as the game isn't too complex and complex graphics would only ruin everything. The characters are 3D, but I believe the homes, trees, and flowers are all 2D images.

The controls in this game are very easy to use. Walking around, running, opening up the map. There's nothing really complex about the controls in this game. In fact, many small children ages 5+ wouuld be able to understand these controls.

The music in this game I don't pay attention to as it's mostly done by the xylophone, and I HATE the xylophone. If you like the xylophone you'll probably like the music in this game, but unfortunately I block the music from my mind entirely. It's probably OK, but don't get your hopes up.

Overall I give this game three stars. The game is good for a couple weeks, but like I earlier said it's not a religiously played game unless your a big fan of these types of games, mainly the Sims type games. However, I'm not DEEP into these games. I also do not like long retrievals and really annoying catchphrases.

Rib-Rib.

3 star(s) out of 5

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