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Town: Compton

Player: Patrick

I am pleasently surprised with this game. I figured it would be good cause I used to always go over to my neighbours and play the original GCN one and it was always a good time. But seeing as how I never actually owner the first one and therefore never really played through it extensively I figured I would be able to look past the biggest complaint people have with the game and that is the similarity to the other games in the series. To me, the game feels fairly original, and certainly stands out as unique on my games shelf.

My one beef with the game was commented on in the gamespot review and that is that there is really only so much to do in a day on the game. You finish up whatever Nook has you doing (if anything) earn bells to buy whatever catches your eye in the store, and then just sort of wander around. The city proved to only add in a few fairly meaningless additions, such as another place to buy clothes, a theatre to learn emoticons, and mii makeover building. None of these new additions take away from the game, but they don;t really add that much to it either. Plus, none of it really justified the addition of a whole city section to the game. The town could have been expanded slightly, just enough to make room for a corner of the town to be a more urbanized "main street" sort of area.

Anyways back to my poin about there not being much to do in a day. There is certainly enough to do that you could have a decent gaming session everyday if you wanted to. In fact, the game encourages it by providing new items in nooks store and various events that occur randomly on various days. But I am not that type of gamer. It's Christmas break so right now I have time to play everyday and probably will. But when the break ends I go back to school and all the work that comes with it, basketball practices everyday, and guitar lessons and practice thrown in whenever I have time, I will not be gaming everyday. Probably just on weekends. And not every gaming session I have will be spent on Animal crossing.

With all that being said, I am quite enjoying this game. So far none of my "real" wii friends have the game but I would still like to experience the online in this game. I think visiting someone elses town would be fun. Don't worry I didn't get the wii speak so I won't pull a resetti and talk your ear off. So you have the game hook me up with your friend code and all the other necessary info. Or if you know of a good AC union let me know about it.

Before (or after, I'll see how busy I am) new years i am going to write somesort of year in review blog. So yeah... expect it...