Animal Crossing: Wild World Review

He’ll patiently watch me fish and give me pointers, and then laugh at me when I consistently fail. I get a very well intentioned, ‘hey mom, I’ll do some fishing for you so you can take a break…”
Nice guy, that kid is.

Nintendogs:

Max is my German Shepherd, and a natural at Disc competitions. He won 1st place in the open competition today with a total of 21 pts and some very nice jumping catches at long distances. Way to go Max!

On the down side, he’s forgotten how to sit down on command. So do you delete the command and start again or hope that it comes back? At this point, we’re unlikely to do well in the Obedience trials.

My daughter’s beagle, Rachel, seems to not like canned dog food. So, no more for her. Max has an adversion to sticks, and growled at the thing until I put it away.

Animal Crossing – Wild World:

Wrote a ton of letters and sent out gifts to the whole dern town. From playing on the GameCube, I know that letters are key to successful relationships with the town folks. Oh, and bizarre real life parallel – real estate agents with databases that they consistent send relevant and useful correspondence with tend to do really well. If you meet an agent who’s netting 6 Million Gross Commission Income or more you can bet that they are sending out letters. Works in real life, works in Animal Crossing.

Quick update – gave ya’ll the wrong friend code!

But, connecting our Nintendo Wifi IDs to the Gaming Hub for Animal Crossing has been less easy. The process is pretty straightforward, as presented on the Nintendo Wifi site, but I’ve yet to successfully make a connection.

Nintendo sent me a wonderful email – rather chipper and optimistic in tone. Seems my issue may be that I have no ‘friends’ in Animal Crossing. So, if any you lovely readers are playing Animal Crossing, leave me a comment and we’ll befriend each other in game.

More to come…

The one thing about the AC 1.0 that really did seem constraining was the fact that multiplayer on the Gamecube meant 4 different folks could have a character in the same city. That’s not quite multiplayer, more like, multi-account. We did have family rules – always do your fair share of weeding when you play, chip in and plant some flowers, etc. The kids used to send me cards and presents in game – things they knew I was collecting. Those first in-game letters from my son, who was 9 at the time, were very precious.

It’ll be curious to see how the DS version goes…

Well, he just caught our first….octopus! Wonder how many bells we’ll get for that….

But, the game is great. All that you might have experienced in the original GameCube version, but with some great additions.

So far, differences we’ve noticed:

1. You don’t have to send fossils off in the mail to have them identified. The museum curator has been certified to id fossils and can handle the whole thing for you. Much faster and makes for early revenue generation!
2. The observatory is new – take a look through the telescope and create your own constellations. Very nice.
3. Tag Mode – but I can’t tell you what that is, because while I’ve sat there for the last 20 minutes, I haven’t actually seen anyone.
4. WiFi – it was incredibly easy to set up the Wifi to use our home wireless router. Dectected it right off and it was technically a no brainer. Now, since I haven’t actually been able to play with anyone. I’m not sure what I’ve gained by ease of set up….stay tuned.