Animal Crossing: City Folk for Wii Reviews by Gamers

My entire family plays this game. We even find ourselves talking about it when we are not playing. Its easy, there is always something new going on, it's great for all ages.

It took long enough for Nintendo to make an Animal Crossing game on the Wii, and it is argueably the best in the series. The basic game play is the same- make your guy, name your town and ride into it via the bus and the annoying driver, Kapp'n. That's when the fun begins. Citizens move in and out regularly, giving you someone new to talk to every now and then. Buy stuff at Nook's ever-expanding shop, display your styles at the Able Sister's Tailor, donate bells to get cool stuff (lighthouse, anyone?), send letters, and change the town tune at the town hall, learn something, chill with a cappuchino, and watch the stars at the museum, upgrade your house, go fishing, and more. Hop on the bus to go to the NEW city. Meeting potential neighbors, getting your fortune told, and watching a performance are just a few of the things you can do. The best part is that it never really ends! Wi-Fi is a nice addition. Now, if you'll excuse me, i'm going to go play some more!

I bought this game because I had been a fan of the series since the original game. I loved them all and the loving does not stop for City Folk. I think that the artwork stayed in the same general category, the smaller chibi people and the talking animals are just awesome. I mean the game keeps me entertained all day, even when all the fruit is gone. The good thing is that the next day you get more fruit to sell anyway. :D I think that this is a must have for the nintendo wii.

I love the Animal Crossing games, and I thought I would love this one just as much. If any of you have played Animal Crossing: Population Growing (For GameCube) and/or Animal Crossing: Wild World (For DS) you'll know how much changed between the two. If you play this game, you'll know how much DIDN'T change between the three.. The cliffs are back from the GameCube version, new bugs and fish can be caught, a few new people, and you get to go to a city to buy horribly overpriced furniture..

The things I liked about this game:

Wii speak for WiFi, doesn't lag on WiFi, the gameplay felt a lot more open, and there are a few new things that are partly refreshing.

Things I didn't like:

When you run on your grass, it wears down, and DOESN'T. GROW. BACK unless you don't run on it for like, a year. That was a stupid feature.. Also, the characters ended up saying the same thing over and over, instead of where they would always say something different in the older games.

I say buy this game or rent it, however, because of its long replay value. If you have NEVER played ANY Animal Crossing game, then you HAVE to get this game, but if you have played the others and you own those, I say just rent this game. It ends up getting repetitive compared to the earlier Animal Crossing games.

Let me first state that I LOVE Animal Crossing. It is probably my favorite game ever. However, there are a lot of things that have changed from the GameCube version that I seriously did not like. That didn't keep me from playing it every day, sometimes for hours.
My gripes (mostly changes from the GC version):
-The most annoying thing about this game is a good portion of the gameplay is only available for people with online friends who play AC. Well, I don't have any of those and you really don't want people you don't know with your town code or they can come in and hack away, steal your stuff, etc. The auction house is 100% useless, the HRA contests are seriously lacking, you don't ever get to talk to Booker again, and the WORST part is that other people in your family cannot make another town. That seriously SUCKS. You have no way to get any other fruit (I haven't been successful getting foreign fruit from other townspeople) and if the other people play, your fossils, etc. have to be split between all four people.
-The amount of fossils you find is DRAMATICALLY reduced. And when you do finally get most of them, they are still random out of all the possible fossils, making it nearly impossible to get all of them.
-No more glowing money spots.
-The ability to make bells is greatly reduced. You can no longer expect a townsperson to have a job for you to do to be rewarded for. It doesn't happen often.
-The fish are much more difficult to catch. And you can't get the golden fishing rod (which makes it easier) until you catch all the fish.
Things I like:
-Well, it's Animal Crossing. New additions I like are Blathers' ability to check fossils, new K.K. songs, townspeople approaching you, flowers, Katrina, Redd and Gracie have shops, the townsfolk are much nicer, emotions, advanced clothing design, gifts from Nintendo, screen caps and a few other things. I could go on, but I've got a character limit!
I do recommend City Folk, but be aware of its flaws.

You move into a new town in the country and buy a house. You then have to find things to sell to pay your motgage. Fishing, catching bugs, picking fruit... all kinds of things. Shake trees to find $ and other objects.

Other residents will ask favors and give you gifts in exchange to furnish your house.

There are also fossils to find and dig up and put in the museum, as well as bugs and fish. Incredible dispays in the museum!! A coffee bar hosts a live musician every Sat night and he will give you music you can play on your sereo in your house.

You can design clothes and have the tailor shop sell them to other towns-folk, There are auctions in the city, get your hair changed, or go to a fortune teller. The town also holds contests and a flea market.

You work towards paying off your house so that it can be up-graded. Lots of furniture, wallpaper, and carpet to design your home. Also clothing and wigs, hats, glasses... you can change your look as often as you want.

BEWARE!!
VERY ADDICTIVE!!!

I rented this game for my 4 year old son. The pro was that once in the game he was able to walk around and interact with the town. The cons were I soon realized that besides just wandering around he couldn't do any of the main features of the game by himself. I felt like he had to hold the controller and I had to play the game which we were never able to do all of the things in the game description. Needless to say it was in the mail the following morning to be sent back.

I wandered around AC:CF for a couple of days, but got bored very quickly. Without friends with Wiis, hence without cities to visit, there doesn't really seem to be anything to do in this game.

Animal Crossing: City Folk touched my heart and made me laugh and cry. You can almost tell what the animals are saying without subtitles.
But this is no "Orange Box" so no violence. And the loan is easier to pay off than "Wild World".

I am a huge Animal Crossing fan. The game is great because of the laid-back game play, fun characters, and the vast catalog of items to collect. I had played the Game Cube version, and I thought it was great. Then I bought the DS version, and couldn't stop playing! This Wii version mixes the best of both worlds from the GC and DS versions for the best Animal Crossing gameplay so far.

As an avid fan, I purchased the guide book along with this game. Though it may not be obvious to gamers who just got the game and have only played it for a few days, but there are HUGE changes in the Wii version. There are several new characters (some appear in town, others are in the city), and plenty of new holidays were added to the Animal Crossing: City Folk calendar:
Groundhog Day, Valentine's Day, Festivale, Bunny Day, Autumn Moon Festival, Explorer's Day, Halloween, Harvest Festival, a visit from "Jingle" and many more are all brand-new, and that is in addition to regular events such as Fishing Tourneys and Bug Offs!

With new characters and holidays comes brand new furniture sets to collect. The new GracieGrace boutique in the city features a new furniture set every season, but it will cost you a lot!

Other random new features that make this game better than the DS version:
- Since the game is on your TV, you can see everything much easier,you can move the camera angle to get a better view of things on the ground.
- Switching tools is a LOT faster and easier! You just press a direction on the directional pad of the Wii Remote - no more switching to the menu to get your net or shovel (which are now available in silver AND gold).

To all the people with gripes about this game, I don't understand you. The essential format for AC has never changed, why would you expect it to now? If you like the game, rent it! But to get the full experience, buy it and play it all year long! Great game, and it keeps getting better.

Ok,so this was like,my first time ever to play animal crossing,and...
IT IS AWESOME!!!I mean like,i eaven got my mom into it!but heres some advice,if you go to the city,DO NOT go into gracie grace.the lowest price there is like 85000 bells(dollars)!well,unless you have all your house morgage paid off (that means you have secod floor and basement).the BED cost more than my third expansion is!But anyway,if you own wild world,you can move from there and send clothes and/or furniture(im not so sure about it because,well,i dont have wild world,but it asked me at the begining).you know though
some people do think its boring,so rent it first,then buy it.you know if you like it...but if you dont,maybe you should keep it longer,because some events only happen at the end of the month.or you could be unluky and the last event in the month happend just yesterday.so,what are you waiting for?!?!rent it!!!!

p.s.i think it says what the date is on this right?well any way 11-22 has my fav event...flea market!um...i think thers one every month,but its right after the fishing turney

loved it!!!! I am a HUGE harvest moon and animal crossing fan. i would rate it 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 if i could. LOVED IT

this game is way cool. you get to change your hair style if you want in the city and use your mii chatacer too. different holidays, new characters and much more! i give Animal crossing city folk you caught 5 different fishs out of 5.

One of the best games that happened to the Wii Animal Crossing City Folk is an all out awesome game that you should not just rent but go out and buy right after your done reading this review!!!
With fantastic colors and the best game play. For everyone who has played the other two versions you will enjoy this one the most because there is a lot more things to do with the new city function. There are a lot more animals to talk to in your town and you get your own house!!!(in the DS version you had to share your house with whoever joined the game) Also the Wi-Fi function is the same except they added the wii speak which is really cool. All in all I just can't write enough to even begin describing this excellent game. So just do yourself a favor and buy the game NOW!!!!!

So, basically if you take Animal Crossing GC and Animal Crossing DS, and put them out to pasture to mate, you'd get Animal Crossing: City Folk.

There is really nothing new here except being able to take a bus from your town to the city, which has just a few more stores for you to buy stuff. There's a lot of things to collect, but beyond that there's not much of interest. We've seen all of this before.

I loved the GC and DS games, but this version is lackluster and disappointing.

Online play is frustrating, as you need yet another friend code, and it's impossible to find anyone to trade codes with unless you find an internet forum to trade codes. And that is very risky because they can come in and ruin your town.

Nintendo needs to think long and hard about the next evolution of Animal Crossing before releasing another game. The only thing they added was a few more stores in the city. Very lame. Also, a game like this really needs some kind of online community, but Nintendo is very stubborn and won't go that direction (yet).

The game is amazing awesome game play A+

Don't expect anything different from the newest Animal Crossing. Skip this if you've played any of the previous titles in this series. Nintendo is just selling the same game again, sort of like Madden.

i might just keep this one guys:)

My whole family was addicted to the first animal crossing. We would play for hours. Couldn't wait for holidays to roll around!
I was surprised at how little has changed. The beginning of the game is the same. You do the same odd jobs for Tom Nook. What is worse are the controls. They are so touchy. You are trying to make your person walk and instead, you are popping up the menu at the bottom of the screen. I really wanted to love this game but, it was such a let down.
This is definitely a "rent only" game...Don't waste your money buying it.

This version of Animal Crossing is just as addictive and fun as the others. It is mainly a mixture of the first two games. The new city feature is pretty cool, and the feature to send your profile from the DS version is awesome too. I think that they could have put the city in the town, so that you could just walk up to it instead of taking the bus to get to it but, its not all that bad either. The game still features 4 player profiles, but each seems to be able to hold more in it. The game catalog is HUGE this time because it has the DS items and many new ones too. Overall I think it is a rental, not a buy, well unless you really play these games for a long time, and this is your only console.

This game is okay if you have a lot of time to waste. I would have liked it better if it was a little faster paced.

If you've never played an AC game, or have played it only sparingly, you may like this. However, if you have extensively played AC, this is not for you. There are hardly any new features: same characters, same system, same game. Although it is a step up from both WW and P:G, it doesn't make enough changes to warrant a new playthrough.

The game being in real time kind of sucks. Normally when you get a new game you like to stay up and play it all night. With this, you can't. The shop is closed at night. You can only hold so much in your pockets, and I found ONE bug. ONE! It doesn't explain much. Maybe if gamefly provided a booklet??

ok... this is the first time i have ever played a childrens game that plays in real time. I would definitively recommend this game for those who aren't seasoned players. It was a little dull for me the fact that when it is night time in real life and there's nothing to do it's the same in the game. I'm a serious gamer and I love sim games and trying new ones. just this one wasn't for me. though i did enjoy the cute characters.