Animal Crossing: New Leaf

Nintendo over the years has made a habit out sticking to a select few franchises and re-launching the titles on their newer consoles. Sometimes Nintendo misses the mark on these games as they're simply not different enough to warrant a re-purchase of what is essentially the same game, but Nintendo has proven time and time again that some of their franchises are simply too irresistible to turn away. If you're wondering if Animal Crossing: New Leaf is new enough to warrant the purchase of the title or even a new console, you're in luck. Animal Crossing: New Leaf sticks to the same formula that has made Animal Crossing as popular as it has been over the past decade or so, but lets in a breathe of fresh air to update the franchise to the standards and capabilities of modern hardware. In the newest edition of the Animal Crossing franchise, you'll find that New Leaf has merely expanded on popular features and gameplay that has gotten the franchise to where it is today. However, they've added even more new features ontop of that, most notably that now your player is the Town's Mayor, and YOU decide what you want built in your town and where. One of the reasons why Animal Crossing has been so popular to so many people is because you can customize your play experience to truly fit whatever type of gamer you are, and you can have your character ingame (and their house!) reflect your own style or personality. The customization options in this game have been greatly expanded with the additions of new addons to your home, objects and buildings to place in your town, new furniture, new carpets and wallpapers, new types of fruits to collect, for the first time in the franchise your character can change what type of pants they can wear, and ontop of that there are numerous new shirts, hats, shoes, and all other kinds of accessories. The game has even introduced a new way to earn bells (the currency for the game), as now your character can get a 'diving suit' to go underwater to grab all sorts of aquatic life that your fishing pole cannot normally pick up. Of course, if you're adjusted to the older ways of collecting bells such as through the fishing pole and net, there have been numerous new fish and bugs added to the game. Unlike in Animal Crossing: Wild World, the game has also reintroduced a variety of new holidays that were not seen in that edition of the game, so there is truly almost a reason to play the game anytime during the week. There are also hundreds of different villagers available in this version of the game, so you can almost expect that any of your friends to have unique villagers different to your own. The game has also introduced a new feature known as 'Ordinances' in which your town will adapt to a new specialization to fit your playstyle! Whether you're an early bird, a night owl, a player that loves having a heavy bag of bells on you at all times, or someone that wants to be more environmentally conscious to avoid weeds from appearing in your town and so that yours flowers are better taken care of. The game offers you four distinctly different ordinances to better suit your playstyle. If you pick the early bird ordinance, your stores and villagers will be open earlier and out earlier to chat with you. The night owl is the exact opposite as stores will close later and your villagers will stay out later as well. The ordinances add a new level of depth to any player of the game. For parents that are worried about interactions that their children may have while playing the game, the game supports the 3DS parental controls to ensure that no offensive content may be shown to younger players of the game. Also, at anytime if one of the villagers begins to say bad words due to a catchphrase given to them by another player, you can visit the ingame Town Hall to have that villager 'reset' and avoid from saying such things in the future. That being said, the game does offer online connectivity so that players can play with their friends over the internet, but if you're not far away it still supports local connections between 3DS's. I wish I could cover all of the new things that this game has brought and has done for the franchise, but then this review would never end. If you've ever been an Animal Crossing fan before, or have been looking for the right time to join this franchise, you'll never find a better opportunity than New Leaf.

Thoroughly enjoyed this purchase. The only legit catch is the game essentially NEVER ends and essentially can take years to complete specific things in-game (item collecting, catalog completing, museum completion, etc. [to collect every single item WITHOUT time traveling /changing time/date on your 3DS system/ or getting any assistance from other person who plays the game can take roughly 12 years as you have a year-end item based on the zodiac signs]). I for one am still trying to complete the museum after 2 years (I just need two pieces of art to finish the entire museum). Game really is a joy when playing with others who have the game and really comes in handy for those specific items that you just can't seem to get your hands on. Then there are badges to make gameplay last even longer... I'm still widdling away at the 'bank 100,000,000 bells' medal :U I don't recommend if you don't at least play the game a couple hours a day to keep relations with your villagers (if you're one who likes to collect the items that prove your friendship among the huge villager list [items known as 'animal pictures']- my usual routine is find the daily 4 fossils and 3 gyroids if it rained/snowed in-game the previous day and find the money rock or on occasion gem rock and the fake rock, shake all the trees around town to get another 2,000 bells and catch the 5 bees from said trees, water all the flowers around town, and lastly talk to everyone around town at least once). If you're one to collect things, this is a great addition to the Animal Crossing franchise (first player you make takes the responsibility of mayor of the town [make initial villagers happy by building public works projects or generally build your town to a perfect condition and/or if you're familiar with the franchise find your ideal villagers as there are over 300 villagers], and every other player you make [up to 4 total including the initial mayor player] is essentially like playing the other Animal Crossing games [though I've only played City Folk on the Wii]). The only thing I can honestly think of that I don't like about the game is that storage items can hold up to 180 items but every storage item placed will contain the very same 180 items. I can understand why it is implemented this way but it is very bothersome if you're one to try to collect everything... especially the animal pictures. I guess if you are one who collects all the animal pictures, I'd probably guess the best remedy for that is use the museum rooms though that can only hold 256 out of the 333 animal pictures. Rating 5/5 because the game is a great, relaxing game and you can literally take as long as you want to play. Gives you something to do to pass time that is honestly quite relaxing over most other games.

I am a huge Animal Crossing fan. I have 4 Wild World games and have completed 2 and started over. I have City Folk on the wii too. When this came I I wanted it so bad but I have the DS lite and it is for the 3DS. I finally could stand it no more and bought the 3DS just to play this game so glad I did the bigger screen is so much better. I cannot do the 3D as it makes me sick so glad you can turn it all the way off. I have been playing 10 days now and I am so addicted. I am 57 not a kid and I play 2 to 3 times a day. There are so many new things and almost all of the old things but better. I love how the animals actually do things they shop and go to the museum and fish shake trees. They invite you over to their house to give decorating ideas and if you talk enough they let you pick out an item and take it sometimes for free or if it is really specials sell it to you really cheap. Going to the Island is so much fun and a way to make money fast. You get to bring back 40 items like fruits, shells, fish, flowers each time you go over. There are more fruits than before the island ones are worth 250 bells. I write letters to the animals all 9 of them everyday asking for fruit I still need apples and pears but they are not cooperating. lol. You start out in a tent that cost $39,000 but you don't have to work for Nook in this game. Nook is strictly in home building and remodeling at quite hefty price points. You are the mayor of your town. You get to choose the layout form 5 or 6 cannot remember exactly as you are on the train. When you get there you get to pick where you build your house. Very nice features. I simply love going swimming and deep sea diving. I did buy the guide I have all 3 it is nice to mark off what you have. It has some bad reviews but really its not that bad. I like the smaller hand held book I would have liked to seen the pictures of the animals with the names but except for the new ones I can look back to the previous guides they do have pictures. Mine feels sturdy and of good quality not going to fall apart. Now all I need are people who are nice and respect each others towns to wifi and visit with. I have visited on the island but not really talking much. I will not trample flowers or leave your sight nor will I steal. I do need apples and Pears. I can trade everything else except bamboo have not seen that on the island yet. If you want to wifi and are of like mind leave me a comment. I also found a web page that has some very helpful hints that are not in the guide I cannot post it here but I could put it in the comments if you ask, if you hit like I will get an automatic email so I can respond.

The game is great abeit considerably simplistic, eventually you will reach a point where all you can do is catch bugs, go diving, or fish after you finish shaking tree's, breaking 2 rocks, and collecting a few fossils per day. Sure you have weekly events but they are WEEKLY lol. I don't mean to judge the game too harshly as it does look good and plays very well, there is plenty to collect and customize but there isn't much meat on the bone when it comes to fun factor. I find myself playing it maybe 1-2 hours per day/every other day just due to running out of stuff to do, buying the daily shop items might take 5-10 minutes but then all you do is collect stuff to sell/hoard for the rest of the time. The reason I gave it 4 stars is because it does most things well and suits it's target demographic but I wish Nintendo would add a little bit more optional complexity, look at games such as Rune Factory for example, you have the basic content which is farming/raising monsters but you have a much deeper social element than just saying (how's it going) to 7 villages every day and you have cooking, blacksmithing, combat, etc. I know combat and blacksmithing don't belong in animal crossing but I was just making an assessment. If you haven't played animal crossing before and are interested just don't expect a game you can sit down and play for an extended session but if your on the casual side of the gaming spectrum this will be your new hobby, I would say I'm somewhere in the middle as there are days I don't play games at all but other days where I might play for 6 hours straight due to a rainy day or something. Another very good, similar game series is Harvest Moon and the aforementioned Rune Factory, both are very good and similar in overall quality albeit maybe a bit less polished as I have to admit, Animal Crossing just reeks of the sleek design Nintendo is known for, on the overall "feel" of the game it gets very high marks and I'd put it in the same tier as Mario Kart which is saying something! So don't think I'm being overly judgmental, I do like the game it's just a bit on the shallow side.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf is my first purchase in the Animal Crossing series. It's a game about patience and relationships. And when I say patience, I mean it. This game is on a whole other level. There is a set of items that you would take 12 years in real time to get, based on the zodiac creatures that you get every New Year. And when I say relationships, I mean that as well. Your relationships with other villagers affect everything from their dialog, how much they speak to you, and even if they leave town, never to be seen again. They also can give you unique items or gift expensive items to you, or allow more landmarks and stores to be built in town. For these reasons, it's vital to learn who they really are and work to make them happy. Quick note about the Pros and Cons: The Pros, far, far FAR outweigh the cons. My cons are just a few little things that bother me about the game and its design. Pros: Something new to do every day Wonderful writing Loads of customization options allow you to make the town your home Online play is wonderful and well implemented Memorable and fun cast of characters Preposterous amounts of things to do, collections to complete, public works projects to build, relationships to grow, etc Cons: Punishment for not playing enough, where the town becomes overrun with weeds and villagers leave if you don't play Villagers are more likely to try and move away the more you like them for some strange reason Villagers plant their houses wherever you want, which can ruin what you are building or working toward Not enough storage space for materials Some optional bonuses caused by putting certain colors in certain areas in your home throw off what you want your house to look like, cause clutter Some items in inventory do not stack, or don't stack high enough Game punishes running from place to place, which kills flowers that are planted and erodes grass to dirt, which is very hard to repair Flower crossbreeding is ludicrously convoluted Final thoughts: It's a beautiful, simple game with an impossible amount of content with a few small hiccups in the game's design. If you're looking for a game to always be able to come back to and have more to do, this game is for you. There is no better game to wind down to. It's funny to think that it is literally impossible for someone to have legitimately completed 100% of the content of this game until 2024, haha!

The only other Animal Crossing game I enjoyed, was Animal Crossing for the GameCube. After that game, Animal Crossing just kind of fell off my radar. I read about the other titles, but none of them sounded like anything I would enjoy. Animal Crossing: New Leaf, however, is a game I've been looking forward to since the 3DS first came out! After hardly being able to put the game down for days now, I think I'm finally ready to review (my 3DS is actually in need of a charge anyway :P). In short, you are the Mayor of the town in AC: New Leaf. With that title, comes the same old responsibilities had in old AC games (making deliveries, pulling weeds, filling up the town museum, etc.), plus some new ones. Once you break in your mayoral shoes, you can enact ordinances and start construction projects. Ordinances can change town attitudes. For instance, as a night owl, I enacted a night-life ordinance so my stores stay open later. I also built a bridge over a part of the river in my town so I didn't have to keep running all the way around. Oops. Did you maybe find a better spot for that bridge you just built? No problem. Just demolish it and build it again in its new spot. Those things are just the tip of the iceberg of what's new in AC: New Leaf. Now, let me talk about what I really love about the game. The connectivity! My girlfriend also owns a 3DS, so she picked up her own copy of AC: New Leaf. Not only can we visit each others towns locally, but we can also play mini-games together (accessible after a certain point in AC: New Leaf), visit each others stores, send mail/gifts, donate to each others construction projects -- and you can even bring an NPC resident of your town to visit a friend's town! Plus, what's even more fun, is you can open your ticket gate to online friends, and then put your 3DS to sleep in its charging cradle while your friends come and go without any fear of your 3DS running out of battery life. In fact, I leave my ticket gate open when I go to work. I never know what kind of gifts, bulletin board messages, mail, I'm going to come home to. It's exciting and fun. Another cool feature is the ability to snap photos by holding L and R. These photos can then be shared on facebook/twitter/tumblr via 3DS Image Share. I won't post a link, but just Google "3DS image share" to find out how you can share your photos right from your 3DS. Don't worry, it's a Nintendo made tool, so you have nothing to worry about. Just look it up :) The game is a blast and accomplishes it all without sex, violence, language, drugs, and competitive natures. Don't get me wrong, I like M rated games just as much as the next adult gamer, but it's nice to play a game that has such charm and is absolutely addicting without any of the staples present in most modern day entertainment. A must-have if you own a Nintendo 3DS. Five stars!

I had very high expectation about this game as such praise was given it. In some ways it has liven up to this praise. Are still some elements of the first Animal Crossing game that I prefer to all others. To be sure, you can do a lot more on this game. I have been playing daily for two months and only feel as if I have scratched the surface of what I can do. Yet I can still fire up my old Animal Crossing GC disc and feel a little cozier than I can in New Leaf. A lot of this extra stuff is very fun too, thus fitting in with this series’ theme of chores made fun. On a daily basis there is a tremendous amount to do. And customization is through the roof, more than I could care for in some areas. Yet you have to work hard for anything. I am not just talking about making money. You will have to spend days upon weeks just trying to find out what you like to ware, or if you want to renovate your home’s exterior, or even if you want to start collecting something. This requires unbelievable patience. Thus one of the games greatest strengths is also its greatest weakness. There is the plain fact that this game is not for everyone. Most people could enjoy it if they put the time into it, but this requires a devotion that not everyone can, or wants to afford. Of course, this was also an element of the other animal crossing games, but it is even more apparent in this one. On a random note, I very much like how the moving away of villagers in handled in this game. There are lots of little similarities to Wild World which I dislike for no other reason than that I grew terribly bored with that game. Other than that I have never been bored with this game so far. The new additions are great and numerous. They should have been and they are as of yet. However, it remains to been seen how long this lasts. I can’t find any conceivable reason that the department store should only expand 4 times for example. I expect new material in abundance, not just a few changes made on top of an old game to make another easy sale. We have had museum filling, furniture collecting, villager interacting, seasonal changing for 3 other games and I didn’t buy this game only to repeat that experience. I bought this game for the brand new, fun experiences.

New leaf is colorful and full of cute, charming animal characters that talk. There's not that much to this game. There is almost no skill needed to play it. You collect things, catch bugs, decorate your town, build your house, then show your friends how you made up your town...And that is about all there is to do. Adding something to your town or upgrading your house usually takes a day, so you have to be patient. It seems to be impossible to do anything wrong, too. There is no real penalty for not doing something right, if there even is a way to do it "right". You simply dress your town up as you please. Later in the game, new shops begin to open up in the main street, including a shoe store, a flower shop and a night club. You can buy various items to dress up your character or decorate you town from these shops. The night club if for dancing and getting music to play in your house. Collecting bugs, fish and other things to sell makes up most of the time playing, as things in this game are expensive to build. Catching beetles on the tropical island seemed to be the quickest way to make "Bells", the game's currency. After a while, even collecting beetles for quick money begins to feel boring. There is a bug-catching contest that happens in the game sometimes. Here's a tip to win: On the island, you will easily find a beetle called horned Hercules. Catch a few of these, and save them in your storage until the bug contest comes up. Then, instead of wasting time running around trying to find a worthwhile bug, just fetch a Hercules from your storage and turn it in to the contest host. You will most likely win for catching a horned Hercules! you get a trophy for winning, which you can display in your house to show off to friends who visit your town and house. The thing that I enjoyed most of all in this game is its cheesy sense of humor. Every time you collect a fish or bug, you are rewarded with a silly line about it. This game is a little too laid-back for me, but if you like laid-back and simple, then maybe you should give this one a try. Just don't expect any action or challenge. This was my First time playing an Animal Crossing game, so I can't compare to the previous ones.

Nota 10

Very nice game. Objectively speaking its probably the best in the series.

Das Paket ist pünktlich angekommen und wie abgebildet .

Il s’agissait d’un cadeau de Noël pour ma fille, lorsque l’on insert la carte de jeu dans la console. Il est noté insérer carte alors qu’elle se trouve à l’intérieur. C’est très bizarre car les d'autres jeux fonctionnent impeccablement. Vraiment déçu et ma fille aussi.

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