"A whole new world of Animal Crossing"

Honestly, one of the best games ever created. You could play this game for hours and hours, and then waking up the next day playing for hours and hours. It's one of those Real Life games like Sims, except this one's by Nintendo, and it's better. One thing is different though, your a human, living in a village with animals. The fact that " You don't need a life, just get Animal Crossing" saying actually means something. The game can keep you practically busy forever. And there's way more stuff than the GC version of Animal Crossing. And there's many worlds beyond your tiny village. There's a whole load of them, and you can visit the on wireless or wi-fi! There's new items, and enw stuff, but best of all the wi-fi! Across the world trading, having parties, or having a fishing contest around the world. The one catch is; no more plane tickets! Jut a simple run through the gate and you'll reach your destination in a second. Well lets move on.

Story 9/10

Not much story, but it's simple and sweet. So one day your moving to a new town *that you get to name, and you also name yourself* by a cab. So you get there all ready to meet the world. You go visit the town hall/post office, and meet your villagers. You go see your house, but then you have to go to the shop owner Tom Nook to do some errands. Well your doing the errands you meet all of your villagers *you gain more later, up to 8 in one town, and they can move out*. So you have a loan on your house. Your house is quite small right now, but can be upgraded. I'll talk about that later.

Game Play 10/10

In the game, you want to build up your house. You can earn money by fishing, bug catching, digging up fossils, selling junk, or going online and fetching yourself some good cash from Mr. Richy rich right over there. So it works like; first your house is quite a low loan. I believe it is $20 000 bells. That will pay off the first loan. Every loan, it will go higher. Since you learn new money tactics, and if you play every day, you can pay off the next loan quick. I think it's $120 000 Bells. Eventually it will be $999 999 bells, but you can worry about that later. On a side note: for those who don't know, you pay your loan at the Town Hall.

Next is Tom Nooks shop. Nook is one of those crazy dealers who will sell you anything. He gets new items everyday. If you spend enough there, or sell enough items, he will upgrade his store, and eventually make a second floor. The good thing about him is you can always sell him any items you want. He'll give you less then their worth, but sometimes it's worth it. he will have a catalogue where you can buy any items you have ever owned before. Well there's some rare items like a Metroid or Royal Crown that you can't order, but you can order a lot of furniture and things for your house. You can check the store everyday and try to pick up something good, or try to collect every item and complete your catalogue. Now sometimes you will see a notice on the town board saying Nook has a special item in stock. These items are rarer than others, and I would recommend picking them up if you see them in store. Some of these items are the Master Sword, Arwing, Triforce, rare furniture in a series, or something else. Now he also carries flowers, and tools. Say yor looking for a tool, he'll usually have a few of them. And when you have the last upgrade of nooks *there is 4* you can get a haircut for your character.

Now there's another shop called Abel Sisters. They are two sisters that are a fuzzy animal of some sort. This store is a clothes shop. Like nooks shop, everyday new stuff will come in for purchase. The flaw here is Abel's doesn't get upgraded, a real shame. But there's more two it then just clothes. There is special hats, masks, crowns, or even umbrella's. You can also design your own murals/patterns. You can make anything if your the good artist. People who have online make a living off this, and it's a good idea to do that too if you can make good patterns from just looking at a picture. There fun to make, and can be put on the ground in your town, on a painting in your house, you can even wear it as a shirt, or with style as a hat. Umbrella's too. Also it's always fun tto play around with it, or make a nice Zelda pattern well your at it.

Another fun activity you may like to do is decorating your home. Once it becomes a mansion at it's last upgrade, you can start collecting tons of furniture to put in it. Now for furniture there is always a set. A set with 10 pieces of furniture, and wall paper and flooring too. And you will have a lot of rooms, so each room an be a set. The key to decorating is to first buy furniture you like in Nooks store, or online trading. Once you have owned an item, it will go to your catalogue. And don't fret about space. You can have a drawer in your house. Not to mention you can make up to 4 characters with all their own drawer space, living in the same house. Once you find a piece of furniture you like, it's true instinct to go find the rest of the set. You'd want to you look in Nooks everyday, and maybe the lost in found, or take am look in your villagers homes on the day of the Flea Market.

Now there's even more you can do. You can go talk to your lovely villagers. They'll always be there for a nice chat. You can send letters to them, do errands for them, or just plain be nice to them. If your very nice to them, and if they have stayed in your village, you'll be able to obtain their pic and put it in your very own home. It's always fun to talk to them, or have a fishing contest with them, or a buy contest. Or running over their flowers *starts running from Nook*

Now there's a few more things to do. I'll explain what to do with tools now. Tool Number 1; The Axe. The axe is used to cut down trees. Say you don't like a tree, you can cut it down. Now regular axe's brake. That's the only flaw with them. You can hit friends with them in multiplayer though, a fun tag-like game. Tool Number 2; The Fishing Rod. With the fishing rod, you can go fishing. Some fish are hard to catch, some are easy. That's about all their is to the fishing rod, just fishing. Tool Number 3; The Net. The net allows you to catch bugs. If you see bugs, you can catch them with the net. Tool Number 4; The Slingshot. "Hey look there's present in the air" whenever your outside in your town and see a present in the sky, shoot it down with the slingshot. Tool Number 5; The Shovel. When you see a patch in the ground, dig in it and you may find yourself some treasure. Or a pitfall of some sort. Tool Number 6; The Watering Can. With the watering can, you can water your flowers. You can buy flowers from nook, or make the special flowers called hybrids. If you have a garden, you should water your garden every day. Now that's a wrap with the tools. Moving off Game Play, moving to the other aspects of the game.

Graphics 10/10

Why are these kiddie in any way? I admit there not as good as the PSP's, but there good for the DS. Or at least when this came out they were good. I found no graphical glitches in the game, and the colours were beautiful. Everything always looked good. I don't hear any graphic fans complaining. Well their moaning. Not groaning.

Sound 10/10

Nice sound. Not to mention K.K. is back from the GC version, ready to amaze us with his millions of songs he's made. And now were allowed to take them once we've listened to them, and play them on our tuner/radio/something that plays music. Now if you don't like your town tune, you can make your own tune. Anything is possible. Just go to the town hall, and choose the option to create your own town tune. You can make it Metroid, Mario, Final fantasy, anything. Maybe even copy a real song.

Online 10/10

This is where this game gets good. If you have wi-fi, stop reading this review and go buy this game now. You can be the biggest newbie to this game, and then someones hosting a giveaway and bam! There's your first 1 mil. Or if your looking for an item in a set, someone will be bound to sell it. Now to warn you; there is scammers in this game. You should trade at your own risk, and maybe read the FAQ in the board about scammers. There is also hackers. Hackers can hack anything in the game with an AR DS, or an AR DUO. You may want to take caution because these hackers could potentially ruin your town if your not safe. There's more to online, but I'll let you find that out.

Replayabilty 10/10

You could play this game forever. It's like an extension of your life. Even if you don't have online, you coudl still do so much. There's always something to do. Collecting items, gathering bells, fishing, hanging out with your friends on multiplayer, or go online and have a party and meet new pals. It never gets boring. Even only playing it once everyday to check nooks store is still fun.

Overall 10/10

Perfect. I love this game, and it's definely the best Nintendo DS game, and one of the best games created. Buy or Rent? Go buy it right now. If you've played the GC version and liked it, you'll like this too. There's no point in renting it. You'll just get the late fee. Well I hope you enjoyed the review, and thank you for reading it. Have a fun time if you decide to get it.

Reviewer's Score: 10/10, Originally Posted: 08/26/07