Animal Crossing is a weird game, but highly addictive. What you hate to do in real life is what makes the game fun...
User Rating: 8.4 | Animal Crossing GC
Animal Crossing is a weird game. Pretty much everything that you would almost hate doing in real life becomes addictingly fun in this great game from Nintendo. Storyline: The premise of the game is that you have just moved out of your parents house to start your own life. When you arrive at your destination you have barely any money, but you are given a very small home and a job to help pay off the debt to your house. The job only consists of running a few errands for your boss, and once your done with those tasks you are let go from the job (not fired, just let go) and are able to do what ever you want. But, you still have to finish paying off your debt. Gameplay: Well its hard to for me to descrbe the games gameplay. Its sort of like The Sims in that you live life in an imaginary world, but its much more unrealistic. In Animal Crossing you can't have a family (that you live with, your mother sends you letters sometimes), you don't feed yourself (well you can, but it doesn't make a difference), you don't die, and you certainly can't have sex (you are the only human in the town anyway...so it just wouldn't work...). As I said above, the main idea of the game is to pay off the debt to your home. Once your debt is paid off you have the option to expand your house, but the trick is that when your house is expanded you now have to pay off a debt for the expansion, which continues to get higher with each expansion. Once you have completely expanded your home and paid every debt, the game pretty much over. You go about paying your debt off by doing favors for animals who will repay you with money, items, or furniture. WIth the items/furniture you have the option to decorate your home and make it look pretty cool, or sell them for money that you can use to pay off your debt or buy other stuff with. Other activities include catching fish, finding fossils, or catching bugs; all of which can be sold for money or donated to the museum. Graphics: Originally Animal Crossing was intended to be an N64 game, but with Cube' well on the way and the N64 moving towards its life end, Nintendo made the smart choice of moving the game to GameCube. Seeing as it was an N64 game (in Japan the game was on N64) the graphics aren't too sharp, but they actually suit the game very well. Before I even knew that it was intended for N64 I found the graphics to be kinda cool if a bit jagged. The game world is a very cartoony place so it was easy for Nintendo to get away with it. Sound: Well the sound in Animal Crossing is well suited for the game. The music is very well suited for it, it gives the game a light hearted/relaxing feel. Everything from opening doors to the chirp of a grasshopper sound as you would expect. Bottomline: Although the game may sound simple it is quite addictive. There are tons of features that will make you want to play for atleast a few minutes a day. You'll find that you want to experience the games different events such as holidays and fishing tournaments. There are also thousands of items to collect, which include some classic NES games that are fully playable. Having an E-Reader for your GBA also increases gameplay, with it you get new songs and items you never could get before. I think Animal Crossing is a great game, definatly one of my favorties, but its not for everyone so if your unsure about it I suggest that you rent it first. Oh yeah, it takes up about 56 memory blocks, but luckily it comes with a free memory card 59! {^_^} 
