DS Daily: Tamed World

by JC Fletcher { Nov 24th 2008 at 9:00AM }

The release of Animal Crossing: City Folk on the Wii has probably thrown some old-school Animal Crossing devotees back into the daily routine of pulling weeds, digging up fossils, and fishing until Nookington's closes. But while we had to be reindoctrinated by City Folk, it occurs to us that there may be some model citizens out there still doing their civic duty in Wild World -- or even the original.

If you've been keeping up with a previous Animal Crossing, how long has your stay been? And how often do you check in?

Gallery: Animal Crossing: Wild World

[Wallpaper found on the official website]

Tags: animal-crossing, animal-crossing-wild-world, communication

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Roto13 @ Nov 24th 2008 9:15AM

I turned it on a few days ago because City Folk put me in the mood to play it, but it quickly reminded me why I'm not buying City Folk. I got tired of this game way back when it was on GameCube.

elsng @ Nov 24th 2008 10:34AM

Oh dear lord.

Animal Crossing is always going to be the series that's always 'there' but you'll never ever complete it.

My Animal Crossing town has existed since its release date. I visit for a couple hours every day, check my mail, recieve gifts from Nintendo every once-in-a-while, kill cockroaches, then shut it off. I never planned on collecting every piece of damn furniture or clothing, and I sure as hell wasn't going for the golden slingshot.

TheAngryGamer @ Nov 24th 2008 10:39AM

"I visit for a couple hours every day"

Really? You sir, are a better man than I.

elsng @ Nov 24th 2008 10:45AM

WOOPS. I meant every once in a while. Hell no, not every day.

TheAngryGamer @ Nov 24th 2008 11:20AM

LOL.... phew. Now I don't feel like such a horrible neighbor.

TheAngryGamer @ Nov 24th 2008 10:38AM

The original on Gamecube was amazing...kept me interested for well over a month, and made me return every holiday just to see what was going on. The problem was that I was over it shortly after, and when the DS version came out, I *really* wanted to love it. It was too much like the original, and I just couldn't put myself through paying off another mortgage to that rat bastard Tom Nook.

Hamblasto @ Nov 24th 2008 10:50AM

I still play Wild World everyday for at least 30 minutes a day. I usually go through the routine of shaking down trees for money, collecting fossils, and talking to all the townsfolk. Just doing that has brought my bank account to a little over 20 million bells.

The lack of some real big changes in City Folk is what is really keeping me from turning off Wild World for good.

Gennataos @ Nov 24th 2008 10:58AM

I still play it every once in a one...turn it on once a month or so. It's just relaxing and stills feels like a living mini-world to visit.

eatxchoui @ Nov 24th 2008 11:15AM

I visit for about 30minutes to an hour before going to bed. I do the same repetitive stuff (watering flowers, shaking trees), but it's so relaxing and oddly rewarding.

Matt O @ Nov 24th 2008 12:02PM

I was absolutely obsessed with AC:WW (Golden slingshot, golden can, golden shovel, perfect town, some gold roses). My girlfriend bought City Folk a couple days ago and I like it. I wish there were some more different things, but I still enjoy playing. It made me miss my old town in WW, so I started it up and cleared out all the weeds. :p

divergio @ Nov 24th 2008 12:33PM

Wild World is the most depressing kind of game.

If I stop playing TWEWY for a month and come back to it, I find that a bunch of my pins have leveled up and I can finally beat a certain boss. If I stop playing Animal Crossing for a month, half the town has moved out, there are weeds everywhere, and I get a feeling like I've let down a whole world.

It's worse if you come back after a year. Until you turn the game cartridge on, it's like they are still in a quasi-state of ghost/non-ghost town. But as soon as you turn it on...there is a feeling of emptiness.

Karga @ Nov 24th 2008 3:17PM

I never liked any of the animals who came to live in my town. They were mice and pigs and cows and squirrels, but no cats. No bunnies, no penguins and no frogs.

Between Tom Nook and Crazy Redd you have no money.
I modded an outfit or two and changed the chime to the star wars theme.
I had and still have, a horrible time moving the furniture to where I want it to be.
I would still go back to check things out, and have every few months(like six) or so but I'd rather play a new game first.
Maybe with the DSI they could make it more like an mmorpg where it was an online community rather than just getting messages from the interwebs. I never got the hang of the friend code thing, and maybe the new features would/will help with that.

I'm cereal @ Nov 24th 2008 2:19PM

Wild World - every day for the past two years. My town is amazing - the money trees, the hard to get pics...
no. none of you are worthy to visit.

jumb @ Nov 24th 2008 4:00PM

AC:WW was the first game I bought with my DS. I ended up playing for the whole year, completing my museum and getting my golden tools.

After a while of playing, all I did was turn on to check the turnip prices (I usually had ~5 inventories worth of turnips lying on the ground each week, I needed my rainbow feather!) and only really do stuff during the seasonal events.

It was a great experience, one I plan on never doing again.

Jedi_Liz @ Nov 24th 2008 9:54PM

I have three towns of WW game (yes, I have three carts., but two were used when I bought them) and i check in daily. I keep playing cause the game is portable and you can play in the car or in bed, when you're relaxing.

On the other hand, the used copy of the GC version I won a year ago on eBay I stopped playing after only a few months.

I've got City Folk and have played it every day since I got it at Target on the 16th.

TJF588 @ Nov 24th 2008 9:58PM

AC for the GC, *****es! Found a new copy at K-Mart (one of two, though when I went back, the other was gone), and things have been downhill ever since. I got it at the end of March, and the second one I made (my first got nix'd; no memory card in 'ere, I think, though I did still get the letter from Nintendo) has been with me. I also have a secondary town on my larger memory card, one that had a Gongaga with Zack (for transferring Punch-Out onto, to deliver to my main town, Dandelan, before I found out P-O had a universal code), which has at least one citizen carried over still living in my town (why won't she leave? not that I particularly don't like her, but I want her or other instances of her) to not say she's from there). Now I have a My Boy in My Town, and he acts as an auxillary source of itemry (though I only allow codeage, despite that I could just use UCs, but I'm a guy who feels weird about deliberately manipulating the clock's time), with Crazy Redd comin' in on the 28th (my younger sister had him in last night, and I got my last ranch bit, the chair, and a common painting for her, though it would've been cheaper just to order one from Nook).

I'd been pretty diligent for months, but lately I'm on once or twice a week, though I'm still saddened if I miss Totakeke (I don't like "K.K. Slider", but "K.K." is fine). Today was a sale (thankfully I got fans and pinwheels in my towns on July 4th), but I was dead asleep, didn't even stir (I guess) from my alarm (3:57 PM). Ah well. I also, as I'm mentioned on this site before, don't like the Halloween trials and tribulation, and I got SO MANY SPOOKY BEDS! I'm missing three from that set, and turns out I had another piece of candy. My puppet town has sixteen in front of the sign board, though, so I'll worry about it later.

As for Wild World... I would've liked to've tried it, but I still don't have a DS of my own, and Nintendo still insists on it being $35 (heck, they still figure PKMN Emerald is worth that much (is was, but it's old, now, Ninty)). With what I figure from all this, though, City Folk is a straight-up upgrade, even so much as to transsfer your person into the City, never to see your hometown again (am I right about this?). So, really, it seems like a moot point, the DS version. Fine, anyway, don't like looking at how they appear therein; hopeful City Folk's higher definition can make those faces less doofy to mine eyes.

divergio @ Nov 24th 2008 10:37PM

That's totally racist, dude.

aj @ Nov 25th 2008 3:04AM

I bought a copy for GC brand new about a year back and got hooked. I play daily.

I can't get into Wild World on the DS because it doesn't have the villiage divided up into a really easy to use quadrant system. I have an impossible time being systematic about taking care of things in the big, open world. I wish the DS version played like the GC version.

I haven't actually played Animal Crossing in a while though. Everyone who moved into my town was really abusive, and I hated working to make the town better only to have someone crap on me. I think Nintendo should have made the game dialogue less mean spirited. The DS version seems to have nicer dialogue (from the 20 minutes I played, at any rate), but damn I wish it had the grid!!!!

aj @ Nov 25th 2008 3:06AM

.....I won't be getting City Folk because I do not own a Wii. Nor do I plan on owning a Wii. So that's right out.

chibi_wings @ Nov 25th 2008 11:52AM

I have AC: WW only. It's alright, but I never thought the game was anything exceptional. I play it on and off, but the mortgages are getting pretty ridiculous right now. It never really hooked me in and I don't think I'll ever buy another version of it; there is nothing there to justify putting so much $$ on another game that plays exactly the same with added areas (talking about city folk).