Animal Crossing for GameCube

About:
This game is about starting your own town filled with animals. In the beginning you are on a train, looking in a first person view, at the empty seat across from you. A couple of people are in the seats around you, some of them you will meet later in the game. A cat named Rover comes out and you start a conversation. He asks you the time, where you are headed (which is what the name of your town will be) your name, and indirectly asks you if you are a girl or boy. Eventually he calls a friend in the town and he gets you a deal on a house. When you arrive, your face and clothes are random. Porter greats you, then Tom Nook (the friend of Rover) does. You pick a house and get started. You have to pay off your debt (no rush though). Tom Nook gives you a few jobs, then tells you to raise the rest of the money. After paying off the first debt, you can expand. After all the expansions you will have a large first floor, a basement, and a second floor. Tom Nook owns the local store, so you can buy clothes, furniture, floors, wallpaper, and other stuff. If you frequent his store and buy a lot, he expands a few times, offering more and more items. The animals in your town give you chores to do, update you on coming events, and sometimes give you items or paint your roof. Many friendly characters await your stay!

Graphics:
This game is an update of an N64 game Animal Forest, so the graphics are about the same as that game. This means that there are no high tech details or anything like that, however the graphics highly suit this game. People/animals have large heads and small bodies, which suits the type of game it is. The view is third person overhead, and there is practically no problem with the view unless an item or starfish (which marks where a buried item is) is hidden behind something (which is rare). The rain looks nice on the screen, hitting the ground. The textures of the ground look pretty good and... weird. Depending on the season, the grass parts (or snow in the winter) will have different shapes on it. (Circles, triangles, etc). It seems weird but it actually fits in PERFECTLY. You will notice weird tree ring type patterns on the ground. They mark where villagers can move in. The snow looks good, and the water is also cool. Small effects like leaving footprints on the sand are cool, as well as expressions of characters. I'm happy with the design, and when the next Animal Crossing comes out, I hope they don't change the type of character graphics!

Sound:
The music is different every hour of the day. During the day peppy songs play while at night the pace slows down. During different seasons, different versions of the songs play. For example, in the winter you hear the jingle of sleigh bells and it sounds Christmasy. On events, the music is different. Also you have radios in the houses. Songs are gotten from a wandering musician Totokeke who shows up every Saturday night from 8 pm on. You can get the information of the names of different songs from the animal's radios (each animal has a radio in their house that you can examine) and request the ones you like, or the dog will play a random one if you want that. He sings with electronic-like sounds, like "bo bo beep bo ba". It is really cool. The only instrument he has is a guitar. When he gives you a recording of the music, it doesn't have him singing, but rather a tune with the same melody and different instruments. Different radios play songs differently, like a jukebox (with records) will sound scratchy-like, which is another added effect.

Fun:
There is SO much to do in this game! Fishing, bug catching, customizing your room, collecting fossils, making t-shirts, planting trees, picking fruits, visiting other real life friends with the game's towns, visiting the island and more highlight this fun game!! Each town has a native fruit. These fruit trees can be bought at Tom Nook's and grow in a few days (if you plant them in an open spot). The fruit they create sell for 100 Bells (the currency) each, which isn't a lot. Other types of fruit can be gotten many ways. One is to get them from friends' towns either through visiting the town or entering a code they can give you, or a villager might give you or sell you an extra one of their fruits if you talk to them. If you plant these fruits (or even your native fruits) in the ground, a tree will grow. Each tree produces 3 fruits, and if you pick them a few days later three more will appear. Each fruit that isn't native sells for 500 Bells each, unless you try to sell coconuts from your island. Those sell for 300 Bells and can only be planted in the acres on the sea shoreline. With fishing, different types of fish sell for different amounts. There are MANY more types of fresh water fish than fish in the sea. Fish come out in different months, times of day, and weather. One only appears under your town's waterfall. When it rains, many rare fish come out and are easier to catch. Some can only be caught in the rain. With bug catching, bugs appear in different places. Ants can only be caught if spoiled turnips are put on the ground. Ladybugs can only be caught on flowers. There are many types of bugs in the different seasons, and some are VERY rare! When you create T-Shirts, you create a pattern at the Able Sisters' shop. There you can create a pattern, store a pattern, scan E-Reader cards from your GBA with patterns on them, or even transport the pattern creator to your GBA! One more thing, you can get NES games to play in your house!

Replay Value:
With many things to do, you can play for months, or even years! I've had mine for over a year, and I still play it!

Overview:
With all the fun things to do and a carefree type of gameplay (VERY unlike "The Sims" to which some people compare), you can chill and relax and play from anywhere from five minutes to five hours, or even more. It is a truly addicting game that you can play at your own pace. Each town takes up a whole Memory Card 59, which comes with Animal Crossing. Animal Crossing is now only $30! You should get this game right now!
PS: I almost forgot! There is a letter system in the game where you can send letters to your friends at their town or to the animals in your town with gifts and can get gifts and letters in return! Depending on how easy your letter can be read (most types of slang will make the villagers scratch their head) depends on how nice of a response you get. You could write a nice letter, such as "I like u u are a nice person" and they will send an angry response (or, depending on the nature of the character, could send a confused response) because you used slang. Another thing I failed to mention is the holidays. There are many different holidays, some are renamed holidays of the ones we celebrate and some are completely original. On most of them you can visit the town's wishing well and talk to the mayor for a gift. Remember: There are MANY more things to do!
My town information is:
Name: John
Town: Nintendo
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