Platform: Nintendo Wii
One of Nintendo’s most beloved franchises, Animal Crossing, has seen millions of players around the world creating and maintaining their own tiny, cartoon animal inhabited towns since the original game’s release seven years ago. 2005’s DS sequel, Animal Crossing: Wild World was hugely popular and introduced a whole new generation to a wacky world of bug catching, fossil hunting, fishing and home improvements that make up the core gameplay of any Animal Crossing game.
Open ended, funny, complex and highly addictive, the game was a perfect match for Nintendo’s handheld. So as a sequel how does City Folk compare? Unfortunately, it doesn’t fare well. If you have played Wild World then there will be little or nothing new in the Wii version. City Folk feels as if Nintendo is simply converting existing ideas for Nintendo’s latest game systems.
