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Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the Forum
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2025 9:25 pm
by Mausu
Discuss whatever you want about Animal Crossing! What was your first game? When did you start playing? Favorite villagers? What are you currently working on? Feel free to post your FC's if you'd like to play together, and if anyone's interested I can post guides to get WW and NL online!
My first game was Wild World in '06 and my favorite villagers are Tiffany, Kiki, Octavian, and Dotty(I know, that's a lot). Right now I'm working on 100%ing the Wild World catalogue in my new town, and I plan on practicing to speedrun the game soon. In my New Leaf save I've just been building PWP's and stuff.
My FC's are the following:
- Wild World(Wiimmfi): 2196-4599-4850
- New Leaf/3DS(Pretendo): 3491-9164-2284
Re: Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the Forum
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2025 9:39 pm
by NovaSquirrel
I started out with the first Animal Crossing game for GameCube when I was a kid, but I didn't play it a ton until earlier this year. I think originally I just cheated in some bells and didn't really engage with it fully, so it was cool to have that as an experience I could kind of go and do for the first time as an adult. I did play Wild World but I used it more as a hangout thing with friends than as a game? And that I gave a proper try last year. It's neat to contrast the two; ACWW is definitely a smaller experience but it has so many new things in it (many actually from e+) and there's more customization options.
Though when you actually play legit, in my experience the Game Boy Advance connectivity is so busted and earns so much money for low effort. I would often save up fruit and take a few inventories worth of fruit to the island and then get like 100,000+ bells, and repeat until my house was paid off. I also played normally in my first New Leaf playthrough, and in that game my strategy was perfect fruit orchards.
Re: Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the Forum
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2025 6:36 am
by DJAtomika
I got my start in Animal Crossing with New Leaf for the 3DS. My favourite villagers back then were Sally, Rory and Roscoe!
Right now I'm working on expanding my island in New Horizons and I've even managed to find one of my old villagers from the New Leaf days; Eugene the Koala!
Re: Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the Forum
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2025 9:50 pm
by Mausu
NovaSquirrel wrote: Wed Jul 16, 2025 9:39 pm
I started out with the first Animal Crossing game for GameCube when I was a kid, but I didn't play it a ton until earlier this year. I think originally I just cheated in some bells and didn't really engage with it fully, so it was cool to have that as an experience I could kind of go and do for the first time as an adult. I did play Wild World but I used it more as a hangout thing with friends than as a game? And
that I gave a proper try last year. It's neat to contrast the two; ACWW is definitely a smaller experience but it has so many new things in it (many actually from e+) and there's more customization options.
Though when you actually play legit, in my experience the Game Boy Advance connectivity is so busted and earns so much money for low effort. I would often save up fruit and take a few inventories worth of fruit to the island and then get like 100,000+ bells, and repeat until my house was paid off. I also played normally in my first New Leaf playthrough, and in that game my strategy was perfect fruit orchards.
Wild World is definitely pretty barebones. One thing that I really wish made it into other games is character backstories. On certain days of the year, usually for a week or 2, you can catch NPCs sighing and if spoken to, they give a bit of lore. City Folk had one storyline, but overall had way less character episodes.
Also I used to farm money with the GBA too, lol. I'm waiting for the decomp of the original game before I start a new save. They plan on porting all the e+ features to the decomp, which I've always wanted. I'm also hoping they make a multiplayer mod. A decompilation is kind of like a version of a game where they make code that functions the exact same way as the original, and it allows for ports to like anything that can run it, it also makes modding the game much easier.
Re: Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the Forum
Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2025 7:38 am
by Ja'aran
Here's my town! <3
Re: Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the Forum
Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2025 9:20 am
by SlushieCat
I've been looking for a decent analog to Animal Crossing for a long time. There's so much I love about the series. The general gameplay loop, the villagers (though I still wish they were a little more mean like in the original), the aesthetics, the home designing, nothing quite compares.
The only thing I really dislike about it is that you can only really play it and make any sort of meaningful progress for an hour or two a day. I wish there was a mode or mod or version of Animal Crossing that let you play for as long as you want and just "end a day" whenever you want to move on without having to adjust console settings and risk the punishment for time traveling.
I've looked at so many other "life sim" """cozy""" (hate the term) games and so so so many of them are farming focused, probably because of Stardew Valley's success. I just don't want to farm! I don't care about farming! It's really frustrating.
Re: Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the Forum
Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2025 9:48 am
by Enbyeon
My first Animal Crossing was New Horizons during the [INCIDENT THAT SHALL NOT BE MENTIONED]. That and VRChat basically kept me sane throughout that period. I really went to town on the island. I even made a little arcade basement and printed out the characters from Mortal Kombat on paintings and hung them on the wall in a the order they appear in the character select screen.
SlushieCat wrote: Sun Jul 20, 2025 9:20 am
I just don't want to farm! I don't care about farming! It's really frustrating.
Have you tried Locomoto? I really enjoyed it, although I stopped due to a quest bug that I believe has been fixed in the meantime:
Re: Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the Forum
Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2025 11:42 am
by SlushieCat
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Have you tried Locomoto?
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I hadn't heard about it before today. I downloaded the demo and gave it a shot and it seems really neat. It doesn't run super great on my computer but maybe I'll definitely keep it in mind whenever I upgrade. Thanks!
Re: Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the Forum
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2025 8:54 pm
by ReadeMe
My first Animal Crossing was ze original US version on Gamecube. I never got to play ze Wii versions. I played a TON of New Leaf. I also played a TON of New Horizons as well.
My favorite villagers are of course Bob and Mitzi (My first villagers in my original start of ze Gamecube game.) I also kinda like Jacques. Zho I normally just call zhem "funny french music burd."
I still have my 3DS and new leaf zho I havnt played much of any of ze games lately.
I'm kinda split on a favorite since I remember New Leaf having a lot to do and villagers felt more like characters zhan zhey do in New Horizons. But I loved all ze customization we got in New Horizons (so most of my time was spent building and customizing)
I finally got around to uploading ze videos of my house tour for new horizons I recorded for some friends and zhis seems like a great time to post it too lol.
Playlist of my New Horizons House tour (link should have tracking sanitized out of it
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Re: Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the Forum
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2025 8:57 pm
by ReadeMe
SlushieCat wrote: Sun Jul 20, 2025 9:20 am
I've been looking for a decent analog to Animal Crossing for a long time. There's so much I love about the series. The general gameplay loop, the villagers (though I still wish they were a little more mean like in the original), the aesthetics, the home designing, nothing quite compares.
The only thing I really dislike about it is that you can only really play it and make any sort of meaningful progress for an hour or two a day. I wish there was a mode or mod or version of Animal Crossing that let you play for as long as you want and just "end a day" whenever you want to move on without having to adjust console settings and risk the punishment for time traveling.
I've looked at so many other "life sim" """cozy""" (hate the term) games and so so so many of them are farming focused, probably because of Stardew Valley's success. I just don't want to farm! I don't care about farming! It's really frustrating.
I know you aren't specifically asking for recommendations but I recently played zhrough Amber Isle and it was a lot of fun (zho it runs a bit unstable for some reason and I had to set it to VSync in NVida control panel to get ze framerate stable)
You're a merchant razher zhan a farmer in it so its more about crafting zhings to sell in your shop while making friends wizh ze islanders.