Animal Crossing: Wild World Turns 15 - A Retrospective

[@shades4dogs]

back in wild world i felt like i was actually friends with my villagers, but in new horizons it feels like i'm pulling a string on their back that makes them say one of 10 special phrases

[@lynetteriddle2002]

@Noah H EXACTLY. I actually laughed when Chow was moving out and told me he's finally "moving out of this stink hole". Im New Horizons they're basically just decorations, but in Wild World I like if when villagers move out so I can meet other personalities who don't have a problem insulating me. Like the Happy Home Academy told me I practically lived in a closet after rating my house.

[@localwillow9948]

@Noah H This is why I feel like we need someone to go in there and shake things up. I sometimes wish someone would make a fan game that had everything wrong with animal crossing fixed. So like make certain villagers despise each other and other villagers best friends.just a recommendation for the next AC installment whenever that may be...

[@Dr.Frasier_Crane]

Perfectly described 🤣🤣

[@sheena333]

i miss when tom nook was kind of a bitch, now he’s just kinda.. not him?

[@alejandragarcia1403]

Nautical Neighbour I kind of get it ... i am 24 and would enjoy being called a moron by Apollo. But my 6yo nephew that plays ACNH too would get quite upset. Maybe making it optional or change it with parental control so everyone can enjoy the game

[@u-nicole7645]

My favorite part about Wild World is how brutal the villagers could have been. Chief said to me "Must be nice having a big house, huh? Or is it compensating for something? A tiny brain, perhaps?" and that made my day. Good memories

[@SuperMarioAutist]

I wish Nintendo added a feature in the settings where you can make the villagers rude again.

[@melovx3928]

@Shoka Lgbt Wdym

[@MegaDragon6699]

Hey kids, quandale dingle here 😊

[@Milkko3]

I'm always getting bullied by Chief lmao he said something along the line of "not me tho I WON'T LOSE TO A LOSER LIKE YOU"

[@CharlieWilson1987]

I recently bought the first game on the gamecube. Coming from New Horizons, I was astounded by how horrible everyone was to me. I loved it. No longer were the villagers pretty puppets.

[@Hunnybutter91]

WW Dialogue: Bob cheated on me, deliver this poisonous letter to him pls NH Dialogue: This is the third time you've talked to me. Goodbye.

[@sandsand9403]

Hahaha

[@cawashka]

I was so disappointed when I first played NH and noticed that dialog with villagers is pretty much non existent....

[@Hunnybutter91]

@@cawashka Yeah, people now just collect them based on aesthetics cause what they have to say doesn't really matter. It's super sad, I miss the emotional connection, now it's just like trading pokemon cards with catch phrases

[@Toksyuryel]

@@shranos2112 They do have interesting things to say, but you have to really dig for it and none of it really serves to build a unique identity or relationship for your villager; they just sometimes say something out of left field, then go back to being bland and uninteresting.

[@eray.1605]

@@Hunnybutter91 THATS SO TRUE OMG:(

[@char13]

remember in wild world when you would donate your life savings to bondoox I think it’s called and then your villagers would tell you tortimer gets himself a steak dinner with that money 💀

[@Montork]

Straight up murder

[@Yourlocal_Ahh]

OOF

[@radioactivecheesenowinnucl4746]

6.4 million bells sacrificed for some feathers. Worth it.

[@Thecooldog173]

Boondox

[@MichaelaBelle]

The wild world soundtrack is so gorgeous and hits me right in the nostalgia every time 😭🥺

[@ahobbit1273]

Fr, the theme song started playing and my heart swelled.

[@kalejuice5701]

I feel this I still use the WW OST for some alarms and ringtones

[@Esandeech2]

Same!

[@Cozycovegaming]

Nostalgia | DEFENITION- A Body part that certain actions, games, or songs trigger an attack. Side affects- Crying, dancing, or going back to the game that song was played on.

[@NotRatedG]

GAHHH it’s so perfect 😭😭😭😭

[@jerenasmr1592]

Miss the times when my villagers verbally abuse me just for talking to them more than once 💀

[@jerenasmr1592]

No but really. It was fun and made the villagers have more depth in them, it actually felt like you were building your friendship with them as they gradually become soft the more you interact with em. I love NH's graphics and new mechanics, but WW just is the best for me when it comes to villager interactions :)

[@konan8353]

@@jerenasmr1592 By a wide margin, I don't want to speak to a sterelised robot that wants to be my friend nomatter how many times I assume them with a net

[@AreweAble]

The thing I remember the most about WW was the lore. I loved talking to the able sisters and getting to know Sabel over time. On certain days she would tell you about her past with Tom Nook and it made the characters feel real. I also never got city folk because once my town was portable, I never wanted to go back to having it only on a TV

[@idiotmuffin]

YES THIS!!!! and once I even had blathers tell me some random story about his life once or twice and I was SHOOK bc i wasn't expecting it!?

[@Toksyuryel]

You can still get to know her in NH, but not nearly as much :(

[@fabiofuoco]

@@idiotmuffin yeah when they would randomly start sobbing and you could choose to say “..all good bruh?” Lmao I miss that so much they had a life weather we would be there to know about it or not

[@the_broniest]

Oh my word yes!! Getting to know Sabel was one of my favorite things in WW. At first she's just silent and does her work, but Mabel keeps dropping hints about things. And just Sabel slowly opening up as you talked to her more and more, her getting more comfortable and trusting you more. It felt so rewarding when she finally opened up and told you her story. And even after she told me everything and the game would just cycle through the same text, I would still talk to her every day becasue it felt so good to be friends with her. And that's not even going into any of the actual villagers I became friends with. WW was very influential in my childhood and I always feel so nostalgic whenever I remember those hundreds, if not, thousands of hours I played that game.

[@TylerLarew]

OMG I remember once I got the Nookingtons shop upgrade (when Timmy and Tommy make an appearance) Tom Nook stopped me before I left the store to tell me this whole story about how he took them in. It really felt heart felt.

[@Mirai_24]

9:34 LMAO Tortimer is a criminal, now I know why he don't appears in NH cuz he is under arrest lol

[@sopeachy.__]

Damn the news are fucking dumb as hell

[@lesacapatate2949]

This is pissing me off so much like OMG idk inform yourself before making a goddam TV news it's a fucking AI, oh dear god

[@KapitanKaos]

Guns don't kill people, videogames do

[@Desperado420]

@@lesacapatate2949 for real, it just got me real annoyed on how misinformed they were, I really want to see they're realization on their silly little faces.

[@littlebug6746]

that’s why he was removed from Mayor :(

[@beautifulblur]

idk why i still think WW is the best 😭 prob cuz of my nostalgia

[@victorelias589]

Because it is... 👀 XD

[@TheRBCrosser]

LMFAO NH and WW are my fav's

[@victorelias589]

@Desop the music 🎶 The ability for the nook shop to upgrade more than once. Oh here’s a big a reason... THE VILLAGERS ACTUALLY HAVE A PERSONALITY AND ACT LIKE THEY ACTUALLY FEEL AND HAVE EMOTIONS 😂😅🥲

[@idontcheckmynotifications]

New Leaf is the best gang But I love Wild World too

[@imgamingbear662]

@@victorelias589 about that last one, yes but they also just slowly walk around to random places but they sometimes actually go to the stores and stuff

[@aetheralmeowstic2392]

Are we just going to ignore the fact that someone thought that Tortimer, _an NPC,_ was a human player?

[@AvoKiwi_1252]

Yeah it’s stupid. My dad didn’t believe that stuff and got me ACCF anyway, because like, I only used online for Mario Kart anyway

[@aetheralmeowstic2392]

@@AvoKiwi_1252 Thanks to Wiimmfi, you can play Mario Kart Wii, ACWW, and ACCF online again!

[@AvoKiwi_1252]

@@aetheralmeowstic2392 Ooh, that sounds interesting. Tell me more

[@bcfed]

@@AvoKiwi_1252 if you use a custom dns you can connect online with the wii and the ds, you dont need to mod them, just change the dns

[@aetheralmeowstic2392]

For DS, Try This First Primary: 167.86.108.126 Secondary: 1.1.1.1 If You Have Trouble Primary: 178.62.43.212 Secondary: 1.1.1.1

[@rylee1476]

I did not expect to see a Crime Alert news segment when I clicked on a video about Animal Crossing Wild World

[@heartcrafts3426]

I think it's sad people miss out on a cute, happy game coz they assume its for kids onl.y

[@ninten4705]

@@heartcrafts3426 the game is for all ages

[@PopCultureFan_]

Im alittle upset that that one guy said theres no legit reason why an adult would be playing wild world. I was 20 when i played that tbh lol🤔. I legitimitly played the heck out of it. I loved the series from the begining..and have bought every game on every nintendo system since.

[@gigastrike2]

I can't believe Tortimer got cancelled for pedophilia.

[@AzumarillConGafasBv]

@@gigastrike2 his private island was very sus for me

[@benedictgaming4766]

Actual rare transcription from the 17news broadcast meeting: -Ok, what do we talk about in our "vigio gaims bad" segment of the news? -OH, I know, we can say an NPC with programed dialog and actions is actually remotely controlled by a pedo -EXELLENT IDEA, YO GET AN INMEDIATE PROMOTION

[@loganmiller7827]

I don't think I will ever get over how angry that news report made me

[@audrey9561]

Me, an adult who plays animal crossing: “hm guess I’m a criminal now”

[@booberfraggle]

Oh my god my grandma tried to take my WW away because she didn’t believe that the animals weren’t being controlled by real people

[@jacrispy4099]

bruh exactly. i hope they got sued for slander!!!!

[@indexical1897]

This video nails it. The characters were so good in Wild World that I still have vivid memories of meeting my original three villagers Alfonso, Tangy and Roscoe. I think they’ll always be my favourites.

[@sunspot5]

ACWW characters were WAY more expressive

[@Vanessa-ny7fy]

I loved Roscoe!!!!

[@indexical1897]

@@Vanessa-ny7fy yeah and not to hate on New Horizons (because I have enjoyed it) but he is unrecognisable in that game! He just sings all the time and I miss how grouchy he was back in WW. It made it worth winning him round and getting his photo was a real achievement. I guess he mellowed in his old age or something.

[@Vanessa-ny7fy]

@@indexical1897 I know :( the more the game advances the worse the characters get. Like I can't even tell the girl characters apart from being snooty, normal, and big sister type. They act the same and its super boring talking to them. When i pick up my wild world I always love talking to each one especially the snooty and grouchy ones. I also wish they incorporated when the the able sisters, blathers, or tom nook would sigh and you'd ask them what's wrong. Like new horizons is great for aesthetics and designing, but the villagers are basically just for looks by this point. Same for New leaf they suck too.

[@RedWaterGlow]

My favorite was Jerimiah!!! But I still remember Alfonso as well 😊❤️

[@Sophie-ov6bh]

i remember my sister yelling at me because i didn’t realise i had to save after playing her animal crossing dave & then she made me sit through resetti yelling at me. why can’t i get that in new horizons

[@konan8353]

What a fantastic punishment

[@NinjaKittkatt]

Idk why people miss Resetti, he was the bane of my existence as a kid throughout the original, WW, and CF. He'd be even worse now in NH since there's actual benefits to hard closing and restarting your game. I do it all the time for DIY farming and trying to map out my weather patterns. God if I had to deal with Resetti while I was farming Celeste's DIYs (and getting the stupid ghost instead of her) I would've had an aneurism.

[@konan8353]

@@NinjaKittkatt Most people don't play the game in a exploititive way to farm materials though, they just play normally so it's not an issue. I want to be screamed at by someone in the game, everyone wants to be my friend, it's sickening

[@NinjaKittkatt]

@@konan8353 Time skipping isn't an exploit and neither is resetting the game. It's 100% intended to be an option for the players by the devs as it's existed since the beginning. The only thing the devs took away was jumping forward in time to see holidays, but going back in time has always been acceptable. I agree, I'd like the villagers to have more depth to their personality, with some being ACTUALLY grumpy or snooty, but Resetti offers nothing to the game other than being a nuisance.

[@nickk3077]

I miss old Animal Crossing games, when it was primarily about creating meaningful relationships and living in a real community and not about superficial things such as the cutest villager or how your town looks. They turned the franchise into a town builder along with being life simulation and because of the lack of a real focus I believe it fails at both. If I wanted to play a town builder game, I’d play Minecraft because the options there are infinitely more robust and way less tedious. Sure, one can make the argument that the original Animal Crossing games had are just as artificial because none of the conversations are “real”. However, I disagree. It’s like a book. It’s just pages and words, they aren’t real people, but there was passion and love behind the dialogue that made it feel real and the same applies to the words in Animal Crossing games!

[@nickk3077]

@Logia dude I will admit that New Leaf is no literary masterpiece. It was here where the villager dialogue really took a hit! However, I will give New Leaf credit for the characters where credit is deserved, at least it respected the characters from the previous games. Brewster, Resetti, Kapp’n, Tortimer, Gracie, Katrina, Copper, Booker, Joan, Pelly, Pete, Phyllis, and many more were at least represented in the game and had at least some development. New Horizons removes everyone I just mentioned and many more like Wendell, Dr. Shrunk, Katrina, Don, and Blanka, to name a few. It feels like the game is punishing me for being a long time fan. There is no real good excuse for this and I fail to see why people would defend this aspect of New Horizon. Sure, we got new characters, but they really won’t worth removing the many, MANY fan favorites. New Leaf was really the only other game where you could decorate your town in any significant way with public works projects, which are way better by the way because they actually give you something to work for rather than placing any item you find outside, but that’s just subjective. Anyways, in that game, it made sense why you had so much control over the town, you were the mayor. From the Gamecube game through City Folk, the best you could do to customize the town was to plant flowers, place a custom design on the floor, and drop items, like bell bags and fruit, but doing that was discouraged because the game would tell you that that made a “mess”. You could also plant trees and make the world around you more of a forest, hence the name Animal Forest. However, ironically enough, New Horizons actually actively discourages you from doing that! Apparently deforestation is encouraged in a game called Animal Forest. It’s just another way that the game feels like it’s drifting further apart from the series. Animal Crossing was originally made because the creator felt lonely and he wanted to make a game where you developed a town, but more importantly a community with friendships! The game was primarily about being social first and decorating second. When people deleted their towns back then, they didn’t feel bad about JUST losing all of their progress, but about losing their relationship that they made too. What New Horizons adds to the formula is honestly really meager and underwhelming in my opinion, terraforming is so slow and gives the player too much freedom! This is Animal Crossing, a life simulation! Nothing about cherry-picking your superficially “cool” villagers and customizing YOUR island says “life-sim”. This is no longer a town and a developing community, it’s YOUR town that YOU built. Sure, most people might prefer that, but it doesn’t mater what the majority prefers, the point is that that wasn’t what Animal Crossing was intended to be, it wasn’t what I and many others fell in love with, and it makes the game feel less like Animal Crossing!

[@nickk3077]

@Logia dude You didn’t exactly respond to the points that I made in my reply to you. I will just simplify some of it for you so that it’s easier to understand and I will also respond to some of the things you just mentioned. New Horizons lacks old characters making the game underwhelming and lacking in the series trademark sharp writing. New Leaf is the start of the decline of the franchise with lackluster dialogue, at least it had characters in it and was primarily about forming relationships with them, albeit somewhat limiting relationships. Most of the updates in the game were just adding things that were introduced in New Leaf dream suites, diving, bushes, and even things that were in nearly all of the games, but not New Horizons, like the art. Heck, they are missing the cafe and gyroids still! The updates are just all stuff that should have been in the game already. So, why would I be excited for these updates which are literally things I played in previous games? People say, “don’t worry, it will eventually be the best Animal Crossing game.” So, like, the game wasn’t the best Animal Crossing game once it launched? It makes it feel like they are patching the game over time. Sure, a new game in the franchise should add new features, but New Horizons took so many things away from not just new leaf, but the whole series in general and slowly brings them back overtime and replaced it with an honesty lackluster town builder game. Animal Crossing was never a town builder, New Leaf pushed it closer to becoming a town builder, but it was basically the older games with public works projects, bushes, more tree types, and smaller things. It was just a bonus to compliment the primary gameplay of living in a community and meeting new characters. Meanwhile, it’s the main attraction in New Horizons with superficial things such as “UwU” villagers, when it shouldn’t be because that’s not what fans of the older games want. It’s sad that the number one thing most people talk about when it comes to New Horizons is the missing content. Remember when you played New Leaf and said that it should add paintings in an update, or gyroids, or the cafe? No. Because the game was already finished before it was released. Nintendo knows that the Switch is lacking in original titles, so they rushed an Animal Crossing game and spoon feed us a full Animal Crossing game. Why would I wait for the full game when I can just play every other full Animal Crossing game. It just makes the game objectively inferior.

[@RawBroco]

@@nickk3077 I totally agree with you. I played WW for thousands of hours, as well as NL and NH. The decline has began in NL and NH just lacks the essence of the franchise, that's all. It's "doing" rather than "being" and I don't like that. The olds games (especially WW) were kinda like a form of meditation to me and I feel forced to do things in the new one, to have a perfect "5 stars" island... Whatever the fuck that is... I didn't care about progress, I cared about my villagers and since NL they all are so bland that it's not so enjoyable anymore for me. But ig it may be a matter of different generations too...

[@nickk3077]

@@RawBroco My Response: I an so glad that someone out there agrees with me. I just wished that more people felt the way I do because then maybe the Animal Crossing team would take a moment to realize what they did wrong with New Horizons and fix it with the next entry. Unfortunately, because New Horizons has received so much praise and popularity, I am fairly sure this franchise where I built up meaningful relationships will now change forever and be about the superficial aspects such as cute purchasable villagers, more town building elements, more social media integration, more cute reactions and moments, less cynical and personality-filled, and less discoveries. My senseless opinions on the franchise: The original was a great life simulation game. Although it was limited at the time compared to other life simulation games, mainly because it was an N64 game, it stood out by having animals as villagers and by have a real clock system. Wild World was pretty much the perfect sequel! Unfortunately, it was held back by the fact it was on a handheld and could never reach the full potential of a next generation Animal Crossing game. When City Folk was made, they just got became lazy and tweaked elements of Wild World. It didn’t feel like much progress was made to the series. Think of it like New Super Mario Bros. vs New Super Mario Bros. Wii. New Leaf finally evolved Animal Crossing, however it did so in a way that no one really asked for. Rather than expanding on the relationships of the original in some really interesting ways, those are kinda pushed to the side a bit more in favor for customizing the town more. Honestly though, I can forgive this primarily because it still features many old elements of the previous games, it added another element on top of living in a community (even though they didn’t handle that too well in my opinion, it’s just appreciated), and also because you were the mayor! It made perfect sense for so much customization and a smaller focus on the characters! Plus, it was a handheld, one could argue that they were limited by the hardware a bit... although Wild World still did a better job... I digress. When New Horizons came out, it felt like priories shifted with the franchise. Clearly they weren’t fleshing out the relationships, in fact they are probably the worse here than any other game. The way you form friends is by giving them things, making them look extremely superficial and like they value things more than anything else. And it’s not personality based, it doesn’t matter what you give them, they love it. In previous games, it took awhile for villagers to develop into true friends and this was there chance to take that concept to the next level, this was there chance to take that initial idea of living in a community and making friends to the next real level... but they didn’t really do that. All the villagers love you from the start and it makes the game look extremely simple. And to compliment that, they also made that extra feature from New Leaf the main feature and made it much more clunky and they removed many old features from the previous games.

[@MAlexDesu]

​@@nickk3077 I also agree with almost everything you said. Apart from being salty that Nintendo clearly released an unfinished game with NH I would be able to appreciate it way more, if the villagers wouldn’t feel like robots. I think the new features are a nice addition and a lot of people asked for more customization in earlier AC games. I personally don’t really enjoy rebuilding the whole island, but its fine since I’m not forced to do so. Sadly, besides the terraforming there is not much to do. The villagers are not engaging, a lot of awesome features, characters and furniture from previous games are (still) missing and some mechanics are simply a pain (buying clothes, crafting, wonky controls..). There’s just nothing that keeps me wanting to play the game for more than a couple minutes before I get bored. With WW and NL I spent definitely more than a couple of hundreds of hours for each of them. Heck, I even got up at 6am to fish before school. I hope at some point the devs are gonna go back to the roots and focus on creating villagers with actual personalities instead of overly nice robots.

[@saranicoll904]

I did not expect to cry when I put the video on. I started playing Wild World when I was eight. I'm now nineteen, expecting a baby, have just gone through a horrible breakup and wish more than anything I could go back to the days where I was excited to wake up in the morning and play Wild World with my old step sisters. These days even hearing the music hurts.

[@danielleritman6721]

💜

[@m_n_m7]

hey, i know it's a pretty old comment, but i just wanted to say i hope things are getting better, and i'm sending you much love

[@fiercediva135]

I hope things get better. Sorry about your breakup. Hope you find true love.

[@lain5518]

Hope you and your baby are living your best life now! I'm the same age as you, started to play at 6y/o and recently gave my old nintendo along with my wild world game to my 8y/o brother. Seeing him have so much fun feels like travelling back in time to see my old self playing. Makes me really happy

[@hannahadams5059]

Hearing the resetti theme triggered my fight or flight response

[@LOAFVINO]

The music in WW/CF will never be topped

[@Umbra_Magna777]

I loved the music in WW/CF! The 1:00pm music was my favorite of all the hourly music. ^.^

[@GalaxyGamerJayde]

@@Umbra_Magna777 mine to :D. 12pm creeped me out XD

[@kaphizmey6229]

speaking of, i can’t find the tune that plays at 12:11, does anyone know what it’s called?

[@kaphizmey6229]

@Johann Landin thank you 👍🏻

[@Graestra]

I remember spending so much time talking to my villagers and bonding with them in WW, until I came back from a break to my favorite villager having left. The conversations in NH just feel so shallow and quick compared to WW

[@nathanielroberts7282]

I put 500 hours in NH quickly during the lockdown then burnt out. Recently revisited only to get immediately bored talking to my villagers. I love the island I created but there's no relationship with my villagers the way WW was.

[@lemonhuehue]

I totally agree with you. Interactions with villagers feel stale and less exciting now, but nintendo probably did that to avoid backlash for the villagers being too offensive and stuff. In ACNH They should definitely make the villagers do more mini games though, cuz I've probably only gotten like 5 mini games in my 8 months of playing and it's only treasure hunts.

[@beesquestionmark]

I’ve only gotten the treasure hunt one once :( and my villagers hardly ever ask me to deliver things

[@myexistenceitselfisalie2417]

People nowadays wouldn’t be handle the spice every villagers had back in WW lol

[@guuerrrrrl]

You got minigames? D:

[@prisle]

they could have just done something like a "spicy switch" into the game settings instead of taking away our precious quirky friends with all of their facets

[@user-wc6bl4zs4i]

I’ve been playing for about the same amount of time and I’ve never had a treasure hunt?.?

[@T4T.Fever.Dream.]

I still play wild world tbh, it’s so calming and relaxing to just be a resident in your town.

[@konan8353]

The vibe is so strong

[@boneappleteeth3127]

I might buy a Nintendo DS just to get Wild World with it. I really miss those days.

[@Katt-ci6gw]

Me happily clicking on a video to enjoy that sweet sweet nostalgia Him: the game is now 15 years old! Me: WELL F**K IM OLD NOW

[@cawashka]

yea time flies...

[@rat-1567]

I feel old remembering seeing frozen (original) in the theaters.. xd

[@ErikRaigoso]

Ironically enough,today I played ww a lot cause I was on a smol road trip. Today was also flea market day. WW just has a feeling,it’s almost like ww is a v i b e.

[@gabrielwiktorowicz3281]

My ds broke after 9 years of service😭 I have to get a new one

[@ErikRaigoso]

@@gabrielwiktorowicz3281 you could always buy a 2ds. They are pretty cheap on eBay. Bout 70 bucks usually including a charger and a game

[@gabrielwiktorowicz3281]

Can you play old games on it?

[@ErikRaigoso]

@@gabrielwiktorowicz3281 yes you can play ds games on it Aswell as the eshop offers older games

[@ErikRaigoso]

@@gabrielwiktorowicz3281 wfc doesn’t work any more but you can still play online,there’s some certain things you have to do,theres videos about. It’s easier to do the things on more modern handhelds like the 3ds family

[@carina.zip2002]

you could’ve spoken in any language for this video... and you chose to speak in facts. *stamp of approval*

[@TheBeautyJournals]

Wild World was my first AC game. I started playing in 2007. I’ve had my town for 12 years and it’s the only ‘digital’ item that is a sentimental to me as a real world item. Not just my favourite AC game but my favourite game ever.

[@marble-q6j]

if you have a modded 3DS you should make a save backup with twilight save tool when you can. The battery in the DS cartridge that holds your save data doesn't last forever

[@bandannadoo]

I think I like wild world more than future entries because everything feels a lot more packed together. That might not be a good way of describing it, but I just mean that everything being smaller is better. In new horizons everyone has constantly be showing off these massive projects that feel impossible to recreate or make something on a similar scale, but wild world gives you so little that it isn’t about what other people are doing, it’s about what you’re doing. The freedom to move trees and terraform land, to me at least, just feels too open ended that any decision I make with a design ends up feeling wrong because I know that it could theoretically be better. This is only my thoughts, I don’t expect anyone to feel how I feel but I just wanted to share.

[@fabiofuoco]

I know I’m a year too late prob but THIIIISSSSSSSSS yes I’ve been saying this all along, NH makes me feel so inadequate seeing everybody else’s island, that is the opposite feeling you should have playing any AC game. Too much power!

[@mariyoutube]

Police Officer: -I can’t come up with a legitimate reason that an adult would be playing that particular game. Literally all thousands of hundreds of adults AC players (including me): - AM I JOKE TO YOU? 👁👄👁

[@zada2423]

bahaha right..? New horizons is my first animal crossing experience but i'm addicted... at first i thought the game was little kiddy but the more i play the better it gets. Not to mention all of my adult friends that play online with me hahaha

[@mariyoutube]

@@zada2423 exactly!

[@Marchingvenusaur]

Funnily enough the big City Folk commercial in the US featured two adults playing the game together.

[@NinjaKittkatt]

Back in 2008, my mom and my best friend's mom played CF WAYY more than my best friend and I did. They loved visiting each other in game even though we were neighbors.

[@PopCultureFan_]

OMG you said it better than me..😐

[@MegaU]

13:13 Actually, the servers only shut down since the company Nintendo used for the servers went out of business, so they were forced to close them. Still annoying though, no less.

[@achduschreck]

I mean you can still play online with Wiimmfi

[@eksmad]

Never heard that before, thanks for clarifying

[@MegaU]

@@eksmad No problem! I love sharing facts!

[@pika62221]

You can also use the DS suitcase to play on another's system similar to when you traveled on GameCube with another's memory card.

[@MegaU]

@@pika62221 yeah, I know

[@anonbobanon7320]

I really didnt want this video to end ever

[@glizm]

WW has so much nostalgia for me, I played it so much when I was a kid...it was a huge part of my childhood. The theme music triggers so many happy memories in my brain when I hear it

[@HollyWoomy]

I still remember almost vividly what my Wild World town looked like... The orchard behind my shops was BOMB.

[@daisies2ful]

i felt that !!! for some reason i decided to reset my town years later and it's just not the same ! i really missed my first town.. it was perfect to me. ):

[@elli_senfsaat]

Ngl, something died inside me as you said you lost your game card. That's terrible, I cannot say how sorry I am for you :(

[@basedandbinguspilled1482]

Wild World helped get me through the horrible bullshit of middle school. I was using Animal Crossing to cope with reality before it was cool. 😎 The older games definitely encouraged emotional connection with the characters that just isn’t there with New Horizons. The old games were true social simulators, whereas the characters in NH just feel like decorations for your island. I miss the magic of the old games...

[@kieraneustace2875]

One summer when I was little, my mom was influenced by a group of neighbors to put all of our wii games in a box and hide it so that we would go outside and play with the neighborhood kids more. This didn't really work as usually we'd all just pick out the person that still had access to games and go to their house once we were together, but that's besides the point. Our copy of Wild World was placed in this box. Years later, we are still unable to find said box. My mom swears she didn't toss it, and it wouldn't make sense for her to anyways, as her money was the money that bought hose games. Mario kart wii with all of the characters unlocked, City Folk, Endless Ocean, etc. All lost. It makes me sad :*

[@michellemurphy4148]

Aww dang 😭

[@cyanified]

your neighbors are fucking twats damn

[@lemonquacklol]

Did you ever find it?

[@LaurenCalvin]

No wonder Tortimer resigned as mayor. There's no way he would have won the next election after that fiasco! Awesome video by the way, I really think you nailed what made it such a special game!

[@josephkreifelsii6596]

I'm an adult who plays animal crossing. That news story just murdered me

[@SeaWitch99]

Dude me too 😂

[@knight4041]

I can't get over HOW GOOD the soundtrack is, man that game was my childhood.

[@Iamcherryb]

This was my first AC game too. It’s my favourite. It has so much personality.

[@sarahgoesvroom]

Same

[@a_person5668]

Can we get an AC game with the character personality of the original AC games, the music from wild world, and the everything else from New Horizons? That would be the perfect AC game in my opinion.

[@wizalicious8898]

I feel like Nintendo will learn from their mistakes on New Horizons and the next AC game to come out will be the best out of all the previous games. Lets just hope so

[@faeleaf174]

This would be amazing. I've felt so conflicted about New Horizons since its release. The terraforming and extreme level of customization in our towns has been a godsend. But the actual feel of the game and villagers is a husk compared to previous games, particularly Population Growing and Wild World. I do love PG's soundtrack as much as WW/CF's though, so I'd be happy with anything similar to them.

[@Kank-b1j]

don't forget new leaf music...

[@SuperMarioAutist]

At this point they should revamp the villager dialogues and remix Wild World’s music to fit in with NH’s aesthetic. It would totally make for a perfect Animal Crossing game.

[@marble-q6j]

@@Kank-b1j new leaf has a bunch of pretty tracks, but wild world has a great mix of pretty and fun tracks, making it's OST more worthwhile also that wild world 2am theme aaaaaaa ;-; ;-;

[@steviebea]

so i didn’t grow up with video games and only got into them last year. my mom always said we couldn’t afford a DS or wii and i was so jealous of my friends who had them. when acnh came out of course i got the game and a switch lite to play with my friends & brave quarantine. i binged TONS of videos on the previous installments of animal crossing bc i realized that i had missed out BIG TIME. this video has finally convinced me to get my own DS, 10+ years later & a copy of wild world. the ebay bid i’m looking at ends in 3 hours, so it seems all too serendipitous. as i enter my senior year of university, i am SO excited to finally get to experience this game. thanks for making this video, my friend.

[@b.6826]

So I would have been around 7 or 8 when I owned this game, and everytime I think about it I always feel like it helped my reading so much because it was so immersive that it didn't feel like reading a book but it was more like having an actual conversation where you could never guess what the villagers would say to you next! They have recently found that adventure games/ games with lots of dialogue are great for improving children's reading despite the media constantly bashing video games for children for like decades! Thank you Animal Crossing Wild World and City Folk for being entertaining and helping me to learn without even realising it!

[@hayhay1818]

As a black person I remember vividly expecting summer to tan enough to have my skintone! 😂😂😂 It looked so much better in my mind 💖

[@RawrFizzy]

I'm so glad they stopped doing that 😂

[@nintenblink7560]

Wild World has really somethings that makes you play, graphics, music (which are really good together) atmosphere, that vibe, talk with villagers, and own features are amazing. It's my second most nostalgic game. And I actually miss it A LOT, and I can't believe that Nintendo after creating masterpiece ruined this....

[@ProgSnob14]

Wild World is the game that got me started on Animal Crossing, it's still my favorite of the series.

[@sillyman2]

Animal Crossing Wild World... those were the good 'ol days. No stresses, no worries, no responsibilities. Just me, my town and my villager. Thanks for those great memories, Animal Crossing.

[@kayadimaria]

When I first got Wild World and Kapp'n asked me in the taxi where I was going I just said home

[@melovx3928]

Ah yes, my home called "home"

[@Kindred_Lamb]

All the love to Wild World, that game was such a wild card for me, genre wise, contrasting all my other games. This game also was part of my childhood and is the reason why I enjoy AC so much still today, quite the relaxing game after a long day of work, it all circles back just like what it was years ago after a long day of school.

[@annastansfield8038]

People customized in Wild World a lot! I remember when Nintendo Power would feature amazing towns and patterns. One particularly famous one was created to look like the moon. There were also a lot of patterns online, especially on Animal Crossing Community.

[@celineayesha]

wow the part about losing ur wild world game, bro same. its hard when you’re young and dumb and dont realize just how iconic the game you have is. i miss my old town with joey

[@chris135x]

Wild World was such a special game for me. I was 13 years old when it released and I was in middle school. Before I reach 7th grade, I had already felt alone and pushed away from all the other students I met in every grade I went through. Not to mention I went to three different elementary schools. I didn't start making friends until middle school so Animal Crossing Wild World became my escape from all the stuff I experienced before and during middle school. It was nice to have a game that could give me the sense of building friendships that I tried to get in real life. Then, there was the Nintendo WFC. I loved it. I was able to find people to visit through Wild World with the friend code and the website that helped people share their friend codes. There will never be another video game like Animal Crossing Wild World.... But with Wild World being 15 years old, it makes me feel older.

[@milacruz3970]

"There's no reason why adults would be playing that game" Me at 30 playing this very game "...right"

[@Islay2806]

I lost a few billion brain cells during that news report. Anyone who played the game for 5 minutes would know that Tortimer is an npc that only shows up during events.

[@Aleksssssssss]

Wild World will always be in my heart🥺❤️

[@cawashka]

❤️

[@aaayjay]

Best person to talk about wild world. Relate to losing your copy and hating those who brag about “being a responsible owner” and “not having a brother who threw it out the window to get your attention.”

[@DarkwingSnark]

'I can't think of any reason why an adult would be playing that game'. Maybe because it's fun and relaxing, old man. Seriously though, you gushing about the games has been really nice to hear. :D

[@catherinetyndale1734]

Imagine your bus driver finding it and helping make sure that your town was okay and never deleting it.

[@oliveee297]

I think the brilliant music that you listened to so much on repeat did it for me, it just sticks in your mind forever and when you hear it again later on in life it really takes you back to that very specific time. It's so many peoples childhood

[@bajanconji6553]

I still play AC Wild World, ACNL, AC Happy Home Designer, AC Pocket Camp and ACNH every week! I've been a fan and collector of the series handhelds for quite some time! Thank you for posting this video along with Wild World's music! I love it!!!

[@ulawan5]

I think the point around 8:00 is really interesting, because when New Horizons released, and I inevitably got weirded out by how flat the characters were, I immediately loaded up _all_ of the other ones and kept up with them all for like at least a week, just because I had nothing better to do every single one of them shines in very different ways, and I really love that about them I started in Wild World too, and sometimes I also wonder if it's just nostalgia that made it so magical, but hearing the way people talk about the hidden mechanics, I think it really each one holds up very well for different reasons

[@pumpkinwolf]

'My' animal crossing was the gamecube version. Man, I loved logging on during Christmas and new year, building a snow man, and visiting the island and getting a tan. Wild world was still great though, I might buy it again.

[@OceanOasisSeaSky]

Very interesting point about the culture of making friends being different back then, sharing friend codes on KZbin is something I did as well (back when YT had a private messaging system!) It's hugely different nowadays, with a much bigger focus on just selling, trading etc. One of my favourite things about Wild World was that all my cousins owned the game and so we would always visit each others' towns when we met up. Lots of fond memories with this series. Great video!

[@xylopylo]

I got wild world as soon as I was beginning to get a grasp on reading. I played countless hours with my cousins and mom and there was just a general carefree feeling when playing. I never worried about having an ugly island or not being as far developed, I could just enjoy fishing or collecting seashells because it's what I liked.

[@emma_nutella58]

Wild world had character which is missing in new horizon this was my first ever animal crossing game and whilst new leaf still remains my favourite game wild world holds a very special place in my heart

[@ainikyu551]

I loved both City Folk and wild world as a kid,City Folk was my first animal crossing game and I loved it,I had many fond memories but also had spent more time on Wild world,I had a best friend villager who was my favorite,Sally.She was always so nice and said a lot of heart felt things I was a tad of a lonely kid so it was nice... Then eventually she moved when I least expected it and I cried...Same with another villager in over 2 different games,Kiki..

[@choccymilk8491]

City Folk is definitely my most nostalgic experience of Animal Crossing. I’d run home to play it every single day after school. I actually got Wild World and City Folk at the same time, so looking back it’s a little odd that it was the one I preferred to play

[@foofy14]

I can't believe that at the moment of commenting, it's almost 16 years old! I still play it :3

[@your_struly]

the one thing that I will never get over is the music change between wild world and new horizons. I just love the wild world music so much more than the one from new horizons, especially the night music.

[@SuperMarioAutist]

The 3AM music in New Horizons is garbage compared to WW’s one.

[@MapleLunii]

0:42 that City Folk splash screen is nostalgia injected directly into my veins. Same with the opening notes of the Wild World theme

[@Sh1zbyname22]

Animal crossing gives me nostalgia and new leaf gives me memories and vibes, then new horizons just gave me relaxing lockdown vibes. And I never played city folk, I really wanted it but they weren’t available anywhere, so I just continued on to play new leaf.

[@louloucrossing]

I loved this video! Wild World is my favourite Animal Crossing game & always gave me a place to escape to during my childhood. Even when I go back to play it now, I find it has the exact same comforting gameplay & charming personality as it did when I was younger. It was so nice to hear you talk about your own positive experiences with the game too! 💗✨

[@SDayle]

The real "problem" of City Folk is that it came too soon. I was still paying off my mortgage in WW. So playing CF felt lowkey depressing because I was starting from scratch. So, whenever I wanted to play some AC, I'd naturally first think about WW and automatically play that one.

[@MINI_91]

I started playing Wild World again a couple of days ago. The soundtrack and simplicity made me fall in love with it back in 2006, and New Leaf and New Horizon especially does not do it for me. New Horizon feels like chores while Wild World feels like social escapism and a relaxing zen session.

[@bug6141]

The damn opening music makes me cry despite me never playing this game. Probably because my friend told me about how he grew up playing WW and knows where his childhood copy is but can’t get it back.

[@awesomeocelot7475]

Wild World was my first animal crossing as well! I used to love it so much and I might go back and play it again some day!

[@dfshjb44]

I loved Wild World so much. The villagers felt like real friends; they had flaws and they weren't always nice to you. New Leaf just didn't do it for me the way WW did. Makes me sad knowing I haven't seen that WW town since I was in middle school around 16 years ago. It's dumb but it makes me feel too sad to play my copy of the game and revisit a time I can never return to.

[@fruitsalad7404]

Im glad this popped up in my recommended. Gave me a reason to start remembering why I loved these two games so much. Your video is amazing too btw, cheers.

[@99xara99]

My brother deleted my Wild World town about 5 years ago and I still get seriously sad when I think about it. I miss this virtual place like it had been a real place I visited as a child... I think that means something. I am so sad New Horizons has lost all this charme WW had...

[@ducky19991]

I’ve spent all my time from city folk up to new horizons just trying to make my town feel like how it did in Wild World, but it’s never the same

[@idontcheckmynotifications]

[@pika62221]

They weren't in the original (Nook's doesn't count since he's a special not a villager), so that right there disproves this is Wild World 2.0, because it tried to mix back stuff from the original. That's why IGN called it a "blended mishmash" of the first two games, because it really is, proven by them taking out some Wild World stuff, and adding in GameCube stuff.

[@diannalynnYT]

May 2024 and just started a new town. Forgot how amazing the villagers are!! I had forgotten how interactive they are. Was able to spend the evening fishing while watching tv and the two out and about pinged me non-stop in like two hours. Curly would go from stomping off angry at me to saying we would be best buds for life 😂 playing CF right now too. Did really play when it came out not because I didn't want to but seriously busy time in life. Kept playing WW because it was portable. I can see these are going to be getting way too much of my time for some time to go lol

[@chair7146]

1:48 the graphics on Animal Crossing New Horizons looks good now but in 15 or so years time we'll be looking back at it like "geez the graphics back on those days..."

[@OtioseFanatic]

I actually love City Folk. It was the game that gave the most background info for many characters, like Nook's backstory and talking about what he does with his money and best girl Sable telling you about her and the other Able's background that just makes me wanna give them a hug.

[@Under10Hours]

Loved this video! I had my first WW experience when my sister actually got the game for her DS. She was obsessed, and I didn't get it...until she let me play. There was always something to do and find, and I loved the hours upon hours I put into it. After this video, it makes me want to give City Folk a try for sure.

[@clorofolle]

Tbh, something that gets overlooked when talking about "rude" villagers in past games is that it's not like it was a bullied kid simulator or anything. Villagers didn't laugh solely at you, but also with you. Even cranky villagers, once you had max friendship with them, became downright SAPPY at times. It felt like you really were making a friend, who slowly opened up to you. Phyllis worked so well because her sister was SO saccharine and nice. It was simply that every type of character had its own voice and was not afraid to do it. They had personalities and attitudes. Villagers would run up to you, ask them to rate on a sliding scale if the correct way to check if pasta is cooked is to taste it or see if it sticks on the ceiling, and gave you a bed in the shape of a frog if you agreed with them. They also had hobbies! They'd get fixated with something and be all about that for a while - maybe a week? And it helped build a personality - like for several days in a row you'd see plinko outside and be like oh! He's out fishing, huh? Wonder what he wants to challenge me to catch this time? And those kind of memories stick. And doing so many favours meant their houses were always a bit of a mess, always showing off the newest hobby, but items were so funny and varied that it didn't matter. It didn't have to be pretty, it had to feel lived in.

[@Mjoelke]

i totally feel you, i lost my copy too. it's the only game - thing in general - i've ever lost in my life and every year i get sad bc of that. i now purchased a used copy bc of your video. i will never get back my old town of childhood but at least i can dive back in to finally satisfy my nostalgia after so many years...

[@dark23145]

This is literally the best more or less of a review on a game I've ever seen

[@Quitbit]

The news never knows anything about a game before they report on it.

[@JannesDragon]

I don't know what the programmers these days do wrong, but old games always feel so much more "engaging" and "alive". Not just gaves like Animal Crossing, but basically every game with an overworld.

[@KapitanKaos]

The graphics aged pretty well, in some emus you can turn hi-res 3D rendering which will took off the sawtooth effect and you can appreciate the terxtures looks really clean

[@TheYellowTuxedo]

Man I watched the wild world review from IGN a hundred times. I landed it for Christmas. I loved my little village.

[@Vanessa-ny7fy]

The characters are so boring now I don't even bother with reading their conversations anymore. When I play wild world I always read what they say. The music is a major plus too. Just a big nostalgic win for me. If I could go back in time to when I was a kid to play that gane with my best friend and feel the same vibe, I would.

[@thewillow581]

Wild world was my first Animal Crossing game. I no longer have the copy of it but it was my favorite game when I was younger and started my love of games

[@heartofthewild680]

It’s so hilarious when the news tries to talk about video games because they always say the STUPIDEST things like “this NPC could be a guy in Missouri that police are hunting because he say bad things to children!” No he’s not, he’s a single page of dialogue that’s been origami’d in the shape of a tortoise! It’s obvious they’ve not played the game, or they would’ve know that A, players can ONLY play as humans, and B, Copper won’t let you connect with online towns that you don’t have the friend code for, so in order for anyone to come into your town, they have to already be talking to you.

[@Clueless_001]

Wild world will be 18 years old in 6 days, thats crazy. I got this game for my birthday (13) last year with a ds lite and mariokart ds. Its my favorite system to play on, and 100% my favorite animal crossing 😭

[@awesomeocelot7475]

Apparently the reason the DS and Wii online services shut down unfortunately from what I heard was that the company in charge of managing it shut down….

[@vixtendo]

Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson at 3:35 had me crying, 10/10 editing! 😂

[@themaraccas]

City folk was my first AC game so it's nostalgic for me, but I get the value of wild world for people who had it.

[@Icyangel10]

I played Wild World for years even up to New Leaf, I had notes on what dialogue you get from villagers that are moving the next day & that would mean you prevented them from moving out. The dialogue in Wild World was really nice & was why the grumpy/cranky villagers are my favorite cause the game made them seem irritated yet kinda nice but when you get a letter you can tell they really care about you like Apollo sending me a letter about going on neighborhood patrol & wanting to make sure you're ok. I have City Folk but I didn't play it cause I was more distracted thanks to Wild World & other stuff. I remember watching a video that mentioned some issues with City Folk was kind of just making it slightly harder & the friendship system being different so it felt off or something.(Along with the issues with making paths in the grass) I kinda wish I knew how to mess with code so I could edit City Folk some to have the Wild World stuff(dialogue, friendship system). City Folk seems nice besides issues but I just kinda wish I could have some stuff from Wild World if that makes sense.

[@MLittleBrony]

my least favorite childhood memories were when i was playing City Folk and Serena kept asking me to send her feet picks :/

[@granteeeeast]

I was actually playing wild world while watching this video, and when you got to talking about how the villagers used to be, Rosie said something along the lines of “my legs are hurting, could I ride on your back? That’s assuming you’re burly enough, which by the looks of it you’re not”😂 can we please bring that back😂😂