Animal Crossing (2002)

When this came out I spent an entire summer (2002) playing this every single day. My sister had house 2 and friends in my neighborhood had houses 3 and 4. They would sometimes come over and play this when I wasn't even home. I'd get back from school and come home to find them playing my gamecube and fishing for hours trying to complete the museum. That's how addictive this game was. And we'd all get together every Saturday night to get the new K.K. Slider without fail. So many good memories with this one. I never played the later Animal Crossings but imagine nothing will beat this. My first town was absolutely perfect and I never created a new one.

no le doy 5 estrellas pq no lo jugué all the way through, pero es la experiencia de animal crossing real: vivir en comunidad. lamento que incluso new leaf, que es mi juego fav de la saga, haya empezado a dejar de lado este concepto por darle más el spotlight a la estética. i mean, amo decorar pero quisiera que hubiera un equilibrio entre ambos factores. still, mi experiencia no fue tan extensa con este juego porque me gusta más el factor de portabilidad por lo que elijo más NL y WW, pero definitivamente me la pasé muy bien

A good game for the time. New and different in that era. Not quite as fun going back as when I was a child, but the fun and comfort this game gave me back then offers comforting nostalgia now, and I still find myself going back from time to time. Some of the best music in the series, some fun quirks that unfortunately didn't return in later iterations (wishing well/Farley, dump, acres system, etc). There were also some changes for the better in later iterations, but there's just a certain charm about this game, especially if you grew up with it.

I got this as a Christmas present for my sister several years ago, hoping it would kind of be like Harvest Moon. I should have just gotten Harvest Moon instead... although it's definitely fun in it's own right, it's extremely repetitive. It's in real time as well, so there's a lot of waiting around. If you buy something in the store, they only add one of that type of item a day (one piece of furniture, one carpet, etc), so you have to either wait until the next day to see a new item, or you have to skip ahead on the clock, which requires you to reset your 'Cube, go back into the menu, and change the clock. It's fun, but it's a game that I only go in and play every once and a while when I don't want to play anything else.