Animal Crossing: Population Growing, also known as Dōbutsu no Mori, Animal Forest, Dōbutsu no Mori+, or Dōbutsu no Mori e+, or simply known by many as Animal Crossing, was released on September 15, 2002. It began the now popular Animal Crossing series.
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Why It's Growing
- It was considered to be one of the best Nintendo GameCube games that was released.
- Nostalgic music and soundtrack.
- It also spawned a large fan community that still plays the game to this day.
- You can play with other players.
- Similar to amiibos, you could scan in cards with an E-reader, which could move in villagers that you want in your town.
- Nice graphics that aged very well.
- You could take fossils that you discovered to a museum where you could donate to Blathers there.
- You could also play a few NES games, if you obtain the console that contains them, and even more games if you hack the game.
- On New Year's Day, you and the villagers can toss a coin into the wishing well for good luck.
- You can have a total of fifteen villagers in your town. Later games, except for Wild World, allow up to ten villagers in your town.
- You can gain extra bells from villagers by asking them for a job at any time where you can help them out.
- You can earn exclusive Gracie clothing from Gracie by washing her car.
- You can have multiple towns with the use of multiple memory cards.
- If you fully pay back all of your loans to Tom Nook, he'll erect a statue of yourself in your honor near the train station with the statue even looking like yourself.
- You can drop up to nine items at once with the use of the X button, which is really useful.
- It's fun to be kicking balls around the town.
- The journals and diaries are really useful, which allow you write notes, and show the dates of upcoming events and the days that you've played the game.
- None of the works of art come off as being a forgery.
- You can catch Wisp's spirits and he'll help you out afterwards by pulling your weeds, paint your roof or give you an item that's not already in your catalog.
- You can kill snowmen.
- The game has Sale Day, which functions just like Black Friday.
- Some towns have three tiers.
- In early May each year, there are outdoor windsocks which provide some unique scenery.
- You can earn raffle tickets and use them on Raffle Day for a spin of Tom Nook's wheel.
- Twice a year, there's a four-event sports fair.
- Mr. Resetti, while annoying, can be very funny if you reset the game on purpose just to see him yell at your character.
Bad Qualities
- The villagers are very mean-spirited to the player whenever they refuse to do what the villager says. They would say mean things and call them names. Thankfully, their mean-spirited behavior toned down over the years, as new games were released.
- Nowadays, it's very difficult to find people to play with, due to the fact that they mostly play the newer games, like New Leaf, New Horizons, and Pocket Camp. This is the same problem with Wild World and City Folk.
- We don't really get to learn who Farley is; the mage creature who gives you a golden axe at the wishing well when you have a perfect town.
- Your character is forced to wear a hat NO MATTER WHAT, making you look like a Viking.
- Pants, shoes, and socks weren't in this game, as well.
- There's a creepy Easter egg where your character's face gets replaced with a gyroid face if you reset a lot of time which can be too frightening for younger players.
- If you visit another town by train, you can risk losing a villager.
- Sometimes, the villagers will you paint your roof without your permission, which you can't prevent, and you never get to pick the color. It can take a while get your roof back to the color it was beforehand.
- Blathers can't identify fossils on his own, forcing you to mail them to the Farway museum for identification. When you do so, you only get three of them back from them per day.
- The game lacks a connected storage space. Among the limited storage space options are inconvenient. You can use dressers to store stuff, but only three items for each, and they can only hold small items. The gyroid outside your home can store a total of four items. You can attach items to saved letters but there's no way to easily tell which specific item is attached to the letter.
- Sometimes, the villagers can force you to trade or purchase items you don't want such as a specific item in your possession where they'll force you to trade or sell the item you have. More frequently. they can force you to buy one item out of the five they list one by one.
- Introduces Mr. Resetti, one of the most annoying characters in the series, and probably in video game history, being tied with Baby Mario's crying in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, the dog's laugh in Duck Hunt, and Ashley Graham in Resident Evil 4. He appears in front of the player's house, whenever the player resets his or her system without saving, giving the player an overly-long lecture, saying to not reset. Also, he mocks the player constantly, to the point that younger players cry. This thing is even worse if the Nintendo GameCube starts to overheat to the point it turns itself off, Nintendo DS console's battery ran out, when there's a blackout, parents forcing him/her to turn off, especially without saving, or anyone else especially his or her family, or even her boyfriend/his girlfriend accidentally turning off the console without saving.
Tips to Avoid Mr. Resetti
Mr. Resetti as said above is considered one of the most annoying characters from the series, due to the fact that he gives the player an overly-long lecture, whenever the player resets the game without saving, or causing the aforementioned problems above that it takes roughly two or three minutes, which is very time consuming, and stressful. Not only this, but some lectures cause young children to cry. However, there are tips to avoid Mr. Resetti, especially if you're under twelve years old.
- Simply, as Mr. Resetti says, saving is very important, so you must save the game constantly, especially when your parents force to you turn off the console and go to sleep, or doing purchases with parents, etc.
- Avoid playing the console for an extended period of time in temperatures over 28.c (82.f) as the console will overheat easily, due to the aforementioned high temperatures, to the point it turns itself off. If this occurs, save the game immediately, and turn off the console, and wait when until the console cools down. As this suggests, you must play the console in low temperatures (recommended 17.c 62.6f or lower) so the console won't overheat too much.
- If you are playing Wild World and if your Nintendo DS's batteries are close to running out, simply recharge your Nintendo DS and done because if the batteries ran out, the game resets.
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