Boros actually gets a real job as a fisherman... in this videogame.
The story is that you're a kid that just moved out of his parents house, and are moving to the town of "Chicago" or "Vesperia", that is when I'm feeling mature enough not to abuse the "enter the town name" feature, and "Hell" or "My Nutsack" at all other times. It's funny listening to Tom Nook say "Welcome to My Nutsack!" when you enter the town. Anyway, Tom Nook is the resident shop owner, and honestly can come across as a bit of a dick. The reason is this is one of those games that is probably going to be restarted over and over, and the opening sequence blow donkey dung. Tom Nook basically sells you a house and puts you to work to make a down payment on the house. So the entire first 30 minutes or so is just doing what he tells you to do, which is fine if you never played before, but if you're restarting, then having to listen to that for 30 minutes when all you want to do is play the damned game, it get's irritating. After that horses#!t, the actual game starts, and the object is to get money to pay off your mortgage...
ADVENTURE HO!!
There are several ways to make money in Animal Crossing. You can catch bugs to sell at Tom Nooks, but you probably won't don't that. You can perform odd jobs for your neighbors in the town of "Whatever the hell you named it-ville", then sell the clothes or furnature at Nook's, but you probably won't don't that, either. What you probably WILL do is catch fish to sell at Nook's, because that's the fastest way to make money in this game. A Red Snapper in this game is barely uncommon to find and is worth 3,000 bells. Bells are the currency, and if I had to guess the exchange rate, it'd be about... eh... I'd say 1 bell = about 93 cents U.S. currency. That's just a best guess, because a small cottage type house cost 14,500 bells. I estimate it'd be about $12,000.
Money aside, there are other things to do, like decorate your house, invade others privacy, or donate to the museum. The museum is the only time that the bugs you catch really are worth the time, because the museum owner, who is an owl, is scare s#!tless of bugs. He hates all of them, and it's funny to hear his reactions to them. If you donate fish, he talks about how tasty they are, or how they go good with butter. Fish are valueable, though, so it's only to hear his reactions that makes it worth while.
Quick little mention of the mechanics, and they're virtually perfect, but they sort of have to be for me to like a game like this. Move with the stick, A to talk to people, select things, all kinds of stuff... It's very basic and easy to learn, so there's not much point in going on.
Before I sum up, I'd feel ashamed if I didn't mention the... interesting save feature on this game. It has a basic save feature, like going to bed in your house to save, but if you don't do this before you cut off the system, or reset. When you restart the game and leave your house, you are then greeted by an interesting little character named Mr. Resetti. He'll nag at you for about 10 minutes about how this time might have been an accident, but remember to save the game. However, the more you forget to save, the angrier he gets. Sometimes talking up to 30 minutes, and making you apologize for resetting. Then if you reset enough times, you get greeted by a completely different character... I can't remember his name, but you find out that the new character is Mr. Resetti's brother, and that the last time you reset, he got so mad that he had a heart attack and passed away, and because of that, the brother is out for revenge, and wants to erase you from existance. That's exactly what he does, too. The game erases your data, and you have to start all over agian. This is a very interesting, and dark twist on a save feature that I actually kind of like, and it's effective if only because you don't want Resetti to nag your ear off. I actually like this feature.
To sum up, I like this game, a lot better than the Sims, anyway. Mainly because the controls are better, and things don't inevitably catch fire in Animal Crossing. In short, if you're bored silly and just want a time waster, then this is for you. Now, if you don't excuse me, I have a Resetti to kill. He-he-he-heee!