Animal Crossing: Let's Go To The City Comments by Simon Parkin

/sees score
/is in disbelief
/must read review

Oh well. No need to rush and buy that Wii then?

always liked this game on the ds

very fair score, i will give this a miss sadly :(

but take the score and add 2 or 3 if you've never played it

And it'll still sell about 100,000 copies a month for about three years.

Ah well,I'll still get itprobs.

Any idea if there's some sort of "import your save" from the Gamecube version (not DS), like there was in Fire Emblem?

more twee crap

Totally deserves the score it got I'm afraid. Had the DS version on the go for a while now and there doesn't seem enough differences to warrant a purchase of this version.

Only good thing I did pick up on in the review was the d-pad shortcuts for equipment - exactly what I would have suggested.

I don't know how much time Simon Parkin had to review the game but I could imagine there are a lot of new things hidden in the game if you play it for a very long time.
It's still a pity Let's Go To The City doesn't offer more new things from the start, though.

I'd have this, just for the convenience of easily switching tools via the d-pad. Constantly opening the menu just to take out a catapult quickly to get that balloon is a pain.

Curious to see how the DS conectivity works. Will I have 2 versions of myself? Each with a house and identical catalogues, or will I be moving between them? Should be good anyway.

Well, the score maybe fair to AC:WW owners, but it can be misleading for all other potential gamers. I think it should be the other way round; give it a proper score as a standalone product, but warn past owners of the similarities.

Also, what about the new online aspects of the game; not much is mentioned at all, and WiiSpeak is totally absent from the review. Surely the enhanced comunity aspects are a major part of this new version?

"but with the exception of multiplayer on the DS it's the first time players have been allowed outside the confines of a village"

I clearly must have imagined the island on the GameCube version.

and I thought the PSOne was bad for shovelware

insincere_dave: yeah, I did mention the secret micro-island in that line originally but then took it out because the majority of readers wouldn't have seen it and, it was so small and irrelevant to the game's systems that the point stands anyway.

Still, you win a badge for excellent pedantry. :)

Disaster: Day of Crisis - 6/10
Wii Music - 5/10
Animal Crossing: Let's Go To The City - 6/10

Worst Q4 Nintendo line-up ever... and it's not like third parties offer anything interesting either.

@ goz

what about my comment? I feel neglected. :(

I'll still get it because I'm looking forward to a Christmas of playing this with my brother over WiFi, but 6/10 is a fair score for what sounds like a rehash. It's about time they started getting critisised for this, to be honest.

rock27gr - I see your point, but on the other hand, an 8 or 9/10 for a rehash of an N64 game (then GameCube, DS...) would be somewhat undeserved. If anything, your valid point underlines one of the many problems with the very concept of review scores.

What is the difference between a bucket of shit and a Wii console?

a bucket of shit stinks, but isn't harming the gaming industry.

What percentage of people getting their first taste of gaming from the Wii will never ever buy a console again because of this torrent of crap available for it?

Fuck off Nintendo, and don't come back.

Best DS game ever.

Wait.... Wii? What!?

amazed at how long this took, for what is essentially the DS game +

better off buying the DS version anyway, its more convenient to take with you, when all the events etc are so time dependant.

@ Shakey_Jake33

you only need to see the comments on this page to realise what the score tells people; that it's a shit game, which it clearly isn't.

Also, I'd like an answer on my second part of the comment; about the new online features, i.e. WiiConnect24, WiiSpeak etc.

@ designerheadache

This is very true.

The DS game is fabulous. Being able to import your town is a great move.

So the Wii's pre-Christmas games list - what little there is, that is - continues to disappoint then...? :?

Can't say I'm surprised and if I'm being honest, Animal Crossing isn't a game that interested me much anyway. The game itself looks OK but I absolutely detest the art style, so much so that it puts me off playing the game completely. Urgh!

rock27gr:

This is something Tom and I discussed at length. In the end we felt that, as most of EG's readership will have played an AC game before it was best to bias the piece towards them. Also, had the game been marketed as a remake, or an expansion pack, the adherence to template would have been forgivable but this is being sold as an All! New! Animal! Crossing!, a marketing skew it doesn't live up to.

The community features have almost all appeared in previous games in one form or another, although as the review points out, they are best-executed here thanks to the Wii's ease of online connection. I wasn't able to test WiiSpeak because nobody else I know has the add-on but, to be brutally honest, voice chat in games, no matter how effective the hardware is in picking up voices, is very, very old hat.

You can totally have a badge too though.

"...furry Godfather, Tom Nook...".

Very good! :)

Can I trade in my pedantry badge for the Wii review of Shaun White Snowboarding please? Or at least an indication of when it'll be published.

rhubarbandcustard
17-Nov-08 12:10:25

What is the difference between a bucket of shit and a Wii console?

a bucket of shit stinks, but isn't harming the gaming industry.

What percentage of people getting their first taste of gaming from the Wii will never ever buy a console again because of this torrent of crap available for it?

Fuck off Nintendo, and don't come back.
The percentage will be 0.

The Wii is pulling in players that would never touch a console in the first place. Gamers who would by a console would buy a PS3 or 360 no matter what happens with the Wii.

@ Goz

Fair enough, though I wouldn't say most of your readership has played Animal Crossing; many of the regular foroumites perhaps, but even then the numbers should be low.

I would argue that in this case the game could warrant a 2 score feature; one for new players (whcih should be most of your readers) and one for previous owners.

Just look at the reaction in these here commentes section; mostly by people with no idea of what AC is, some of whom even own a Wii (Darren springs to mind).

Let me put it this way; how good is the game for AC virgins, or even Cube-only owners (myself included)?

Nintendo release a sub-standard game in 2009 *shocker*

This really has been an off year for Nintendo, hasn't it?

I mean for quality 1st party games, not for sales....

Oh dear what a shame. It really seems that Nintendo have become lazy. Im sure that people who havent played this before will be enthralled by its charms but come on Nintendo - When are we going to see some of the innovative must have titles of the past. I hate to say it but they really seem to have forgotten their core fanbase in favour of the new market that theyre enjoying. What a disappointment. :(

Nintendo internally clearly believe that marketing to casuals is far more profitable then producing good games. Like (record loss making recycle your IP) EA you can only hope that their cynical view will cost em.

Terrible year for Wii. There was so much promise with Prime and Galaxy but the standards are dropping sharply.

What's the difference between rhubarbandcustard and a bucket of shit?

The bucket.

Haha Sid Nice, I see what you did there.

Very clever.

"The Wii is pulling in players that would never touch a console in the first place. Gamers who would by a console would buy a PS3 or 360 no matter what happens with the Wii."

but that shouldn't be an excuse for Nintendo to release sub par crap. 3rd party releases are worse still. This is a far cry from glory days of the NES and SNES. It's no wonder that a lot of fans are upset, we're being treated like dickheads.

Yet another mediocre Wii game. They just keep coming.

Agree with rock27gr about the misleading score.

Don't think nintendo care about the core "fanbase", why would they when games like brain training and its sequel sell over 10 million each.

Those "casual" titles must be so easy to make compared to a game like zelda/mario etc, end of the day Nintendo are a business so their aim is to make money in order to survive, fair play.

Least there's other consoles in the market, just hope they don't follow suit!

Not enough of change or development from the other two versions for me sadly.

'Those "casual" titles must be so easy to make compared to a game like zelda/mario etc, end of the day Nintendo are a business so their aim is to make money in order to survive, fair play. '

I totally agree and see your point but that doesnt change the fact that its a disappointment right?

Thanks God for the other consoles - Theres so much on offer at the mo I dont have time to play all the games, yet deep down I cant help but hope that Nintendo will pull out a gem like Mario Galaxy or a Zelda ..... I guess thats not going to happen though.

wiilol

I'm guessing the importing from DS is just one way?

What I'm really asking is, can I import my DS town, play on the Wii, then re-import my town back onto the DS?

I imagine you can't. Which makes it a bit of a useless feature. Why would you want to keep up to date with two towns?

i was in game picking up my 360 mirrors edge on friday and was behind someone who was buying a Wii.
People are still buying this gimmick.

@iago71 Yeah I agree, however I owned a Wii for a while, however after Zelda, Mario Galaxy, Mario Kart and a few others there wasn't/isn't anything else on I was looking forward too except maybe madworld and conduit so I sold my Wii. Now got a 360 and nowhere near enough time to play all the titles!

It doesnt have to be gimmicky though, thats the thing. When the controls are implimented well it can add to a title. The quality of the games lately has been very poor though and the "gimmick" label is probably justified.

Oh dear. Wii Muic and now this.

If quantumsheeps suggestion has been implemented this would make it much more attractive. An hour or two in the evening then export it to the DS, play on the way to work and then import onto the Wii when you get home. Love that idea. Sadly I feel this has not been implemented.

Anyone know anything about the mic you get with a different version of this game and well it works?

I can only assume that one man develops this game, for it to take so long with so few changes. There comes a time when you should stop publishing a decade-old N64 game.

What a dreary Nintendo line-up for Xmas. Never mind, as far as Nintendo are concerned it'll be 'Animal Crossing: Let's Go To the Bank'.