Animal Crossing Series OverView





Animal Crossing is a simulation game originally released in 2001 for Nintendo 64 in Japan before later being released in North America as an updated version for the GameCube. There are currently four main games and two spin-off games. The main games being Animal Crossing released in 2001, Animal Crossing: Wild World released in 2005, Animal Crossing: City Folk released in 2008, and Animal Crossing: New Leaf released in 2012. The two spin-off being Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer released in 2015 and Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival also released in 2015.

Animal Crossing core mechanics you can find in every game start with creating a character and to do so you  must answer a series of question but not all of them matter and there is one answer that randomizes it. How you answer the questions determines how you look in the games. Once you arrive in town you greeted by Tom Nook, who you buy house from taking out a mortgage you have to pay back. Once you pay off one mortgage you get another to expand your house and the pay if off. It goes though this until you have expanded it to max size and paid off all mortgages. You can collect bugs and fish to complete your encyclopedia, donate to them museum, or sell them to Tom Nook for Bells. Bells being the in game currency. You can dig up fossils you find and donate them to the museum. Or just pick up seashells by the seashore. Make friends or enemies with villages and do favors or trade for them, getting new items in process as well. Modify the town by planting trees and flowers or by cutting down trees and running over flowers and saplings. Visit the Able Sister's shop to make new patterns or buy clothes. Stop by the post office to send or store mail, or pay off your mortgages. There is also along with the Able Sister's shop, always a retail shop to buy and sell stuff and town hall in the main town.

In the Animal Crossing: City Folk and Animal Crossing: New Leaf versions of the game you can go to a shopping district. In Animal Crossing: City Folk you get to town by bus and Animal Crossing: New Leaf you can just walk there. The shopping districts add new shops to the game such as: a comedy club, a auction house, shoe shop, salon, retail shop, and clothes shop.

Animal Crossing and Animal Crossing: New Leaf both have an island you can visit. Animal crossing having a mini game to go along with it on the GameBoy Advance SP. The Animal Crossing: New Leaf island have several mini games you can play to get the island currency, along with being the best place in the game to earn bells.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf also has a secondary version released in 2016 called Animal Crossing: New Leaf - Welcome to amiibo. This second version was just came with an update that allowed you to use Animal Crossing amiibo cards or figures with out having to update the game along with some a new zone to look at.

Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer goes on a different approach to the series, instead of playing a villager you are a home designer for Nook Homes. You go talk with villagers that appear in the town square. When you stand near them a thought bubble will pop up saying what kind of house they would like; at which point you can decide if you want to take on there request. You will also get to design town building such as a school house, a hospital, a restaurant, grocery store, and other types of stores. You can customize you character to an extent but you will need to get around fifty play coins to unlock all of the games features. These features are mostly to add items to design homes with.

Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival is a board game. You have to have an Animal Crossing amiibo figure or card to even play main part of the game, let alone the three mini games it has. A full length board game takes at least an hour if not more to play. It is mostly dialogue and some random events that you have to go through; you can not skip COM character actions. To get access to the mini games you have level up an amiibo figure or card to around level five. Which is near impossible to do by yourself because of how little experience you get from playing a game.

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  1. margotrAugust 6, 2017 at 11:10 AM

    It seems like you have a pretty extensive knowledge of this game series! I'd love to hear your personal thoughts on the different types of games included in this franchise, particularly both Happy Home Designer and Amiibo Festival. To the best of my knowledge, it seems these two are extremely different from the usual Animal Crossing formula: the former seems like "Animal Crossing Lite," focusing more on home design and the latter gives me some Mario Party flashbacks. Would you recommend these titles to long-time fans of the franchise?

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