Animal Crossing City Folk Question

Ok I am a huge Animal Crossing fan and I am really looking forward to City Folk.
But I have read on here that it isn't that good so I was wondering if it was actually worth buying.

Can you gimme some pros/cons.

If you haven't played an AC game before, it's worth buying.

If you have played an AC game before, however, then it is absolutely not worth buying, on account of it being the same game in different packaging with some gimmicky city added on, and the city does not come close to justifying paying full price for a game you have already played.

Well, if you already own or have played the first game and Wild World, expect it to be like a mix between both of those games with a few added features and a few taken away ones. If you've already played the first two, it won't seem like much of an upgrade from the previous games, but if you've only played one then it might seem newer.

The town is basically the same, but a bit bigger than before, and there's the city now... but that just seems like a hub for all the things that were only temporarily there in other games to be permanently fixed in place. And as Silver said, it's probably not worth the money if you've played the other games. It's just too similar, and gimmicky.

Anyway, for more information and a better insight on City Folk (especially the differences and similarities between it and the other games) I suggest you read IGN's review: http://wii.ign.com/articles/930/930689p1.html

Sure thing, Tanooki!

Pros:
+ Combines the best features of the previous two games to make it the most well-rounded title
+ New features like Wii Speak, the Mii Masks, and downloadable content are fun to play around with
+ Dialogue, as usual, is hilarious
+ Great new and old characters
+ Great Holidays
+ Still as addicting as ever
+ Cool new clothing features (designing the fronts, sleeves, and backs of shirts separately)
+ Awesome new accessories like Majora's Mask, Link's Hat, Samus' Helmet

Cons:
- Little to no new content added, so it feels almost exactly the same as the DS game
- The city, while interesting, mostly recycles characters from previous games and sticks them together in one location
- The music and graphics, though sharper, are recycled from the DS game
- The grass in your town begins to disappear the more you walk/run on it, leaving ugly brown spots that never go away

It's a great game, but there isn't too much that you haven't already seen if you've played the past two titles. I would say that it's the best of the three, but it definitely didn't deliver enough new content to make it feel fresh. It's a worthy purchase if you can stomach that "been there, done that" feeling.

Pretty much what the others said-- if you've never played an Animal Crossing game before, you'll have a lot of fun with it, but if you've played the other two, it is just a retread with a couple mildly interesting features.

In other words, it's not new at all, but it may be new to you.

EDIT: I just re-read "I am a huge Animal Crossing fan" in your first post, so that implies you've played the series before. I still say that if you've played only one (i.e., either Wild World or the GameCube version) you can still have fun with this since it sorta mixes the two together, but if you've played both, City Folk simply isn't worth it at all.

Still as addicting as ever

Not really. That was the problem i had. Its not addicting like the others and i really cant figure out why.

Like the others already said, if you want it, get it but dont expect the best title in the series.

I wouldn't get it if you already have ACWW. Its like a mix of both ACGC and ACWW, only with far too much ACWW and too little ACGC.

I too am curious. I don't mean to steal Tanooki's thread, but I have some questions.

I have played both Animal Crossing games and I still play Wild World, besides it not being portable, is it a suitable replacement?

Is the city fun or just okay?

And is there new features that are big improvements from the original games that you can tell without spoiling?

Originally Posted by Da Vinci

I too am curious. I don't mean to steal Tanooki's thread, but I have some questions.

I have played both Animal Crossing games and I still play Wild World, besides it not being portable, is it a suitable replacement?

Replacement? What, are you going to get rid of Wild World? I guess, but you're still paying for it even after paying for both other games.

Is the city fun or just okay?

The city is booooooring.

And is there new features that are big improvements from the original games that you can tell without spoiling?

You can edit all sides of your shirt (sleeves, front, and back separately), the good holidays from ACGC are back, there are numerous special items and even more because of downloadable content, and the house from ACGC is back (meaning you get a basement again, woo!), but they don't really make up for being the same game again.

And the music was just taken from Wild World. What the hell is that?!
If you're gonna be lazy, at least take the music that was good, from ACGC!

Nope, don't do it.
The city sucks, I see it more as a -point then + point, it drains playability because your getting less visitors now. After one or 2 visits you'll probably be done with it.
And nope, no major improvements really.

Don't buy it. Do not let Nintendo have even another cent for this worthless rehash.

If you want details, here's an older post of mine on this:

City Folk is an okay game, but a horrible excuse for a sequel.

I mean, going from the GCN version to the DS version made many more major positive changes than going from the DS to the Wii. It's rather ridiculous when a CONSOLE game fails to deliver more than a portable game, wouldn't you say?

Now I was not exactly content with WW either, to be honest. The GCN version was the best. But WW, despite quite a few shortcomings (in other words stupid decisions), added essential things like hairstyles, accessories, and Wi-Fi. Plus the house size in WW was a great upgrade. (Not having four houses was an understandable thing considering it was a DS game.)

What did CF add of that magnitude? Absolutely nothing. All it did was go backwards. I mean you had the holidays added back (although they aren't as fun as they were in the GCN version), but that was it. That was the only big good thing added to this game, and it was only an improvement on a stupid decision made for WW.

CF just added to the stupid decisions made... What changes were major, were on the negative side. The house size was decreased. I know people try to make up excuses for Nintendo on that one, but none of them truly justify the decrease in the house size. Instead of the nice mansion from WW, we're stuck with the old house from the GCN version. It worked back then, but after WW we are accustomed to the nice mansion. What should have been done here is they brought back WW's house size and brought the basement too. Everybody would have been happy, but I guess Nintendo didn't care at all.

They also got rid of animal pictures. But maybe that's actually a positive thing in the end: In CF, animals are even more cardboard cutouts than in the past games. They'll say the same thing to you a million times in a row. There's no point in even talking to them anymore. You can't ask them for errands at all anymore. So now you just have to hope that they'll ask you for one. In the process of talking to them you'll end up hearing the same thing over and over so it's really not worth your time.

So yeah, truth is we probably wouldn't be getting the animal pictures if they were there. Nobody's going to care to talk to the animals in CF since they are dumbed down and no fun anymore.

The city? Pointless gimmick that actually backfires in the end. It didn't add much new, it instead mostly (aside from the skunk) took travelers that you had to wait for and put them all in one location so you can go to them anytime you want. Replay value goes down a whole bunch there. The only plus here is that you can get your hairstyle changed from the beginning, but couldn't they have just done that without the city?

The game has made me lose all faith in Nintendo. Animal Crossing on the GCN was my favorite game for the longest time... Probably still is, but I don't play video games much anymore anyways. They're not that important to me anymore. lol AC:CF had the CHANCE to get me back into them, but no... It decided to be lazy.

There were soooo many cool features that could have been added here. Not things that would ruin the game, but things that would make the game more fun. Things like OUTDOOR FURNITURE. I've said it tons of times in my rants against AC:CF, but it just has to be said everytime. lol. Animal Forest e+ in Japan brought this idea into the series, but unfortunately we never saw it again. Never in America at all. It had a ton of potential, and if it had been vastly improved it could have made AC:CF something special. And that's just one feature they could have utilized.

Fact of the matter is, AC:CF is wasted potential. I feel really bad for my parents spending $50 on it for my birthday. It should have been given to those of us who own the past AC games for free. No joke. That's how bad it is.

If you've already got Wild World, don't bother.

If you've only got the GCN version (or the Japanese N64 one?) then upgrading to Wild World might be nice. It's portable and it does add a lot.

It's extremely frustrating how the neighbors are literally useless this time.