Ummmmmm...It's definetly different.
User Rating: 8.3 | Animal Crossing GC
Well it's definetly not the hardest game you'll ever play, nor the most productive. But once you start to actually play it you really get into it. It's got no plot, no pre-planned things you have to do, it's just you doing what you want to do, I find this a nice relief, just to do the things you want to do, not have to. it's also got an intersting way to set up challenges, that you can meet if you want to. So you start out as moving out into the world on your own, and apperantly you decide to go to this little town (1 shop and a few randomly placed houses) that is populated with animals, that act like humans. After you get your house, if that's what you call, you have to go work for the shop owner (the only thing you really have to do), the one that sold you the house. Because you only start out with 1,000 bells (I think) you have to repay the shop owner (Tom Nook) by working for him, you only pay off half of what you owe, but still. After you work for him you'll get to know everyone in the town, the mayor, and you'll learn how to do pretty much everything. So what do you do after you work for Tom Nook? After you pay off all your debt you can upgrade your house, of course that's what you do, and you start out with a new debt. The first upgrade to your house is just making it bigger, not that much, but it costs a fortune to pay your debt off. The second upgrade is expanding it again or get a basement, I've always got a basement so I can't tell you anything about the expansion, anyways the debt is nowhere near the first upgrade, when you get a basement. Nows it's been a while, but i believe the next upgrade is the expansion, I assume if you start with the expansion then it's the base that you get. Finally (I think) you get an upstairs. After that I'm not sure, but it's the last upgrade so i really have no idea what happens after you pay off your last debt. This happens like four times. So you can find ways to pay off your debt. Like catching fish or bugs and sell them. If you don't want to see all the fish and bugs you catch (some are rare and hard to catch) There's a museum that you can donate to. You also can dig up fossils and mail them to another museum that identify it and mail it back to you. There's also paintings that you can donate to the museum. When you don't feel like paying off your debt you can go around and help out the townspeople. They usually have things that need to be done. You also have a message board by your house that sometimes tells you of upcoming events or things that people have hidden around the town that you can go find. Sometimes you can get extremely rare and random things, like there are famous people that come through the village, every now and then. You can get wallpaper, flooring, clothes, and other items that you can't bye at Tom Nooks store. You also get things at events from the mayor.
Of course there are ways to attract new townspeople. By keeping the weeds down and planting flowers you can attract new animals to the town. more animals give you more things to do. The biggest problem with the game is things transpires, even you don't play. I'm the type of person that will play a game for hours on end for a week and switch. Well with this one if you don't play it for 6 months, your town grows alot of weeds and the townspeople don't like, they also don't like it when you don't talk to them in a really long time. So pretty much to keep everything good you have to play at least once a week, or biweekly, something like that bugs me because i'm too busy playing other games to play this one, so the pretty much you have to play consistently in order to keep up-to-date on everything and don't have your town over-taken by weeds.
Overall it's a fun game, you just have to be able to get into it, which is kind of hard to do, but once you do you won't be dissapointed. 
