Animal Crossing: Wild World

Animal Crossing: Wild World
Your world just got a lot bigger!
Protagonist(s): The Mayor (You) Genre(s): Life-Simulation Platform(s): Nintendo DS Wii U (Virtual Console) Release: Nintendo DS JP: November 23, 2005 NA: December 5, 2005 AU: December 8, 2005 EU: March 31, 2006 KOR: July 6, 2007 Wii U Virtual Console: EU: November 19, 2015 AU: November 20, 2015 JP: July 27, 2016 NA: October 13, 2016 Developer(s): Nintendo EAD Publisher(s): Nintendo Series: Animal Crossing Predecessor: Animal Crossing: Population Growing Successor: Animal Crossing: City Folk

Animal Crossing: Wild World, also known as Animal Forest: Come On Over, was released on December 5, 2005, for the Nintendo DS. It was considered to be one of the best games on the DS. It is also the second installment in the franchise to be released outside of Japan.

Why It Rocks

1. Just like the previous game, it has very nostalgic music.
2. The villagers are less rude than they were in Population Growing.
3. New bugs and fish types to collect.
4. Decent visuals that look good for DS standards.
5. It was also the first Animal Crossing game to use Wi-Fi.
6. Some fans still play it to this day.
7. It was so popular that it even spawned a movie.
8. Your character isn't forced to wear a hat anymore.
9. New villagers.
10. You are now able to see the sky, using the top screen of the DS.
11. Introduces the slingshot and watering can items.
12. New NPC's like Brewster, Harriet, and Celeste.
13. The animal villagers in some cases give the player their image as an item, so the player can remember much after they move away.
14. You can also now cross-breed flowers of the same species to obtain hybrids.
15. If a villager is about to move away and has their stuff packed up, you can convince them to stay in your town at the last minute.
16. This is the first entry in the series that can be played on the go.

Bad Qualities

1. Unfortunately, online support for all the DS and Wii games were discontinued on May 20, 2014, meaning that you can't play with other players without homebrew, though you still can use online through Wiimmfi.
2. The graphics in this game look very primitive due to hardware limitations.
3. The game introduces the forged painting mechanic, in which players could risk buying a forged painting instead of the real thing at Crazy Redd's. Additionally, you cannot tell if it was forged or not, until you try to donate it to the museum or sell it to Tom Nook. This carried over to City Folk, and it was later improved in New Leaf which you can look at the paintings closer to see if they are real or not as they have differences in them that are not in the real thing.
4. Even if you do get Wiimmfi, it shares the same problem as the previous game and City Folk, where finding people to play with is difficult.
5. Many trolls, hackers, griefers, and item thieves were a problem in this game when playing online.
   • Most infamously are the seeders and brickers, who would brick player's save files to the point that the game becomes bricked and unplayable.
6. K.K. Slider doesn't appear during multiplayer sessions. Fortunately, this issue was fixed in City Folk.
7. Not that much content is in the game due to hardware limitations.
   • Some events were removed in this game like Halloween and Toy Day.
   • Removes many features from the previous game such as the Island.
   • All of the player characters are forced to live in the same house.

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