Animal Crossing Wild World Review (DS) By Wriggy

9 / 10
18 May 2006 at 22:10

Review by: Wriggy

If you’re a regular viewer to Channel 4, you would have seen the adverts of Animal Crossing: Wild World for the DS but that advert doesn’t show the main and best parts of the game. Animal Crossing: Wild World is a remake of the Gamecube version, Animal Crossing.

The main story is that you’ve moved into a new town which you name while you are going to the town in the taxi and that Tom Nook has got you a house for you to buy. He lets you into the house but you have to pay him. To start Nook gives you a job at his shop to pay off the first few but then you have to collect fruits, shells, fossils and more to sell to get the money. Once you pay Nook off it starts all over again by having to pay him again because he extends your house. Once you do this your house gets even bigger! This may sound boring but it is fun collecting everything to do it.

To collect stuff you can either pick it up or shake a tree to get fruits and to pull out weeds or you can buy a shovel to dig up holes to find things, you can buy nets to catch insects and bugs, you can buy catapults to fire at floating presents in the sky (or in this case, on the top screen), a watering can to water flowers, a fishing rod to catch fish and an axe to chop down trees.

There are also lots of houses in your town with animals living in them. If there is an item you like in one of their houses then you can exchange it for money or something in your house which is one of the new features in the Dual Screen version which wasn’t in the Gamecube version.

Other new features are that the owl at the museum can now check fossils instead of having to send them off to be checked which saves time. The dump and the police station have gone and the post office and the bank have been combined into one which makes the game easier. There is also a recycling box in the post office/bank which is the replacement for the dump but it isn’t too good as barely any items get put in it and I’m sure you would rather get money for your goods than throwing them away for free.

The best of the new features is the way that the town is shaped like a sphere and if you keep moving up or down it changes and the background kind of appears gradually instead of straight away which is nice and going online and playing with people is also very fun.

Another clever feature is how when you go to different towns they have different fruits. It’s also clever how you go to different places it has different times (time zones). They may not sound out of this world but they are two little features which makes this game more realistic.

The graphics on this game are what makes it one of the Nintendo DS games that stand out and there’s only ever one long loading time every time you go on. It also warns you when your battery is going low which is very helpful and Mr Rosetti is always there to shout at you when you forget to save your game.

Overall, I would recommend this to anyone of any age even if you had the Gamecube version as the new features make it better and you can take this game wherever you want and whenever you want.

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