Review: Animal Crossing New Leaf
WARNING: if you play this game plan on not having a life.
That is exactly what Animal Crossing New Leaf does to you once you start you do not want to stop. It’s almost like if you don’t play your insides will implode leaving you falling over your chair dying.
Why does this game do this to you? Well the game is about you coming to a town full of animals and suddenly being crowned mayor. Of course I am thinking to myself, “Hold on a second, I’m not a mayor I’m just some kid,” but that doesn’t matter you are the mayor now and that’s that. Your job as mayor is to get the town from being terrible to a booming metropolis that animals actually want to live in.
The way you do this is by becoming everyone’s personal slave. Run around town planting as many flowers you can, don’t forget to pull up those nasty weeds they diminish your towns value. Oh no somebody forgot to deliver a package? Forget going to the post office, you the mayor can deliver packages! Don’t forget the public work projects, those make your town pretty. If you expect animals to help donate towards the project you’re very wrong because everyone in town is stingy and is unwilling to help pay for the brand new fancy drawbridge.
Paying for these public work projects is another story. Ways of paying off this hefty debt is to go fishing, catching bugs, shaking trees for fruit, and a few other ways. Making money is really easy when you sail to the island to take its resources and sell them later. The island hosts many games too. You can also sell items you have obtained to Re-Tail to lets face it, it’s a pawn shop. Why thank you kind penguin for this moldy tee shirt I can’t wait to sell this at the pawn shop.
This game is full of dialog, stimulating gameplay and text you will not want to put this down. That’s how it gets the players hooked. All the timely events and animals make you feel as if you were needed. Compared to the earlier versions of this game for Nintendo 64 (only in Japan), Gamecube, and Wii, Animal Crossing New Leaf for the Nintendo 3DS takes the cake. It’s difficult for me to think of how I ever had fun on the previous versions because you weren’t even a mayor in the earlier versions. You were just some weirdo living with a bunch of talking animals with no purpose other than to exist.
Over all I give this game a 4 out of 5 stars because sometimes it can get boring and I wont play for a while. Then when I do play I have a ton of weeds. That’s O.K. though because it’s so much fun to play.
