Animal Crossing: Wild World Turns 15 - A Retrospective

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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 :(

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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!

[@CherryBombb]

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

[@sarahgoesvroom]

Same

[@knight4041]

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

[@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 ;-; ;-;

[@ProgSnob14]

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

[@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! 💗✨

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@Aleksssssssss]

Wild World will always be in my heart🥺❤️

[@cawashka]

❤️

[@catherinetyndale1734]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@homesteadhero]

You had me from "Super Mario Strikers". But in all seriousness, I was NOT expecting this level of editing or humor! You did a phenomenal job on this video, and it deserves all the attention it's received. City Folk holds a really special place in my heart, despite the problems you outlined, so this made me super nostalgic. Thanks for reminding me of why I loved these both of these titles and for giving them their proper time in the spotlight ❤

[@catloverr1213]

What a surprise! My cousin was born on the same day, and year! (And happy bday cousin and Wild World)

[@Quitbit]

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

[@eilis5341]

I got wild world when I was 11 bc my nan bought my brother and I a ds each (older sister got an iPod touch) and a game and I got AC and he got Pokémon heart gold. They were the first gaming consoles we ever had. I decided the restart my long established town just before I lost interest in it so yeah when I went back see my town this year I couldn’t bc stupid younger me deleted it

[@charmygreen665]

Such a good video! Youre the homie ill check out your other stuff for sure

[@Froggypudding]

This was my first Animal Crossing game. So many good memories.

[@wanderinjoe135]

Omg i remember how close of a connection i would feel with my villagers.... which is definitely lacking in New Horizons

[@Hamburgerdad]

I had my Wild World game stolen on a field trip! So I totally understand the bus reference :(. I miss my original game. I picked up a copy on eBay a few years ago and started over but it just didn't feel the same.

[@DreamingBouvardia]

I don't go back to my old animal crossing games .... because I'm terrified my favorite villagers will have moved away. So if I never go back, they can't ever be gone... right!? But for real, I love Wild World and CityFolk. I still have my Cityfolk guidebook too. Funny enough, my mom was still playing CityFolk up until ACNH came out. It was always great seeing her playing CityFolk since it was the original town I used to play on. My house is still there but she never played as my character even when I told her she could to get more items and stuff. Now we play ACNH together. She's currently sending me letters every day with whatever Toy is in her shop for December.

[@DJbirfday]

Awesome video! I’ve been reminiscing about wild world a lot lately about wild world. So many hours of my middle school years spend running around my town and talking to my in game best friends. I just bought my girlfriend a original ds and animal crossing for Christmas and I’m so so excited for her to experience my favorite animal crossing after introducing her to the series with new horizons earlier this year.

[@aspen1713]

I can't believe they cut Resetti and Phyllis and Gracie ; ___ ; I miss Wild World, so much childhood nostalgia.

[@frostedflakes11]

So much nostalgia from this game. I was in 7th grade when it came out and the possibilities of things to do on the island seemed endless. I think I either lost or sold my copy a LONG time ago, so my island is long gone, but I remember a lot of it very vividly. Getting a picture from one of your villagers was the ultimate accomplishment. On the contrary, if your favorite villager moved away, it was devastating :(

[@blorbothefrog]

*long analytical emotional evaluation of the friendship system in wild world vs newer games* "but I was also pretty young and had a brain injury so you never know" snsisnsoaksoswkwks

[@david_gaia]

Wild World was my first Animal Crossing and I have many fond memories of playing with my (real) neighbors during the very hot summer of 05'. That with Diamond/Pearl, Mario Kart, along with the NSMB mini-games, we all had a ton of fun. Back then, the only argument was whether Nintendo or Sony was better, or if your shiny Pokemon was legit. Wish I could go back sometimes

[@allen9281]

felt that break at 2:00, my DS also got stolen on the bus when i was in middle school and thinking about it made me so Jaded i didn't get another DS or another nintendo product until the switch a year ago

[@Gethazzor3]

In an ideal world I would have the visuals, island customisation, and internet connectivity of new horizons with the character and sheer SASS of wild world

[@anamariemustain]

I just bought Wild World from Game Stop for $40.00 yesterday (WHEEZE) after realizing I have completely lost my original copy of the game :( But, anyway, I genuinely enjoyed this video and your personality. I was baffled when I went to check out your channel and you only have 3k subscribers; your quality of content is impeccable and I was bummed when I realized the 14 minute video was already over, heh Okay this is turning into an unnecessarily long comment but @ 3:35 I fucking wheezed 12:59 put a welt in my throat, fuck ur feelsy music and proper mood setting and heartfelt words godspeed

[@LexxiKitty]

I will always revisit this game, I love it soooo much. The villagers have a ton more personality and I don't care that much about decorating my island on New horizons as much as I thought I would.... Oldies are the goodies!! Nostalgia certainly helps a ton, reminds me of family I don't have anymore.

[@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….

[@powerspyin2]

Wild World has so many memories that are still close to my heart. I still check on my old friends from wild world.

[@KiaraCatFurry17]

It’s so funny to me that they said predators use Webkinz to talk to kids but I’m 99% sure you can’t message in that game at all.

[@rigbykennedy6047]

wild world is my favourite :’) only animal crossing ive played other than nh. the music is sooooo nostalgic holy moly

[@Blaybay123]

WW will forever be my fave of the bunch and I realize it’s mostly out of nostalgia but

[@neo8392]

Looking back, i really don't understand what I did hours and hours in wild world. But I looooove that game sm.

[@ViviCafe]

I've felt this for a while, thank you for the video. Wild World is the best Animal Crossing for me because it introduced many features and enhanced the game's identity to its prime. City Folk is a disaster (to me), so I found it funny that you've brought both of them in the same video.

[@discussingwhattodo5381]

For some reason I never played Wild world that much, maybe it was because the ds gave me headaches. . New leaf was where it’s at for me. Both I have nostalgia for though

[@justxander1656]

I'm praying villagers in acnh could be more like the ones in wild world

[@splat-a-tat6780]

Apparently they shut down the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection for the DS and Wii because it apparently relied on a service called GameSpy, which shut down at around the same time.

[@Rogue-76]

i like wild world more then any other because to me it feels like a portable GameCube version and it also doesn't have the weird character redesign that makes them look like Wii characters

[@emilymoreno6978]

what’s crazy about the accf predator scare is that there is pretty much no way to connect with random people 😭 it’s like almost exclusively people you already have on your friends list or your friend’s friends

[@prisonmike6871]

the character’s personality’s in wild world were the best. i miss eavesdropping on villagers conversations of them fighting, or resetti telling me i smell and need to shower

[@professorgrimm4602]

It was 15 years ago? ...Oh my god, I'm old.

[@grapefruit5009]

Now it's 19.... and im 15 years old...

[@streifig]

Nice video! The shout out to your CF friends was very sweet!

[@TheVioletBunny]

Adults playing animal crossing for the wrong reasons = me 40 years old playing every day and watching this video. All I gotta say to the news in 2008 “ok boomer”

[@citiaii]

YES this was such a good watch, i need a reminder of how entertaining gracie and phyllis actually were EDIT: i had lost my copy of new leaf on a school bus so i feel that pain, but past me took screenshots of EVERYTHING so i can revisit the memories anytime (that town must be so dead anyway)

[@sammyfigs]

i miss it when my villagers would call me poor 😫

[@tylertyler3214]

I feel your pain with losing your town. I felt bold one day in 2009 and deleted my town to start over. Cried immediatelu, 5 years of progress down the drain. Never started over. Lmao

[@gerundet7837]

You can still play City Folk and Wild World online using Wiimmfi.

[@shadowcrazy911]

I was also so surprised to find that a majority of AC's fanbase disliked City Folk. It was always my favorite of the two, because it was my first introduction to AC and I am more nostalgic for my Wii than I am for my DS. I got the Wii version first, and then barrowed my friend's Wild World copy, and after playing both, I preferred City Folk because of the updated graphics and return to the Gamecube's traditional holidays. I suppose I'm super biased because I played the newer game before the older game, and I can see how there wasn't much innovation between their releases. But my nostalgia doesn't care about chronology, so I still love City Folk.

[@Fahren05]

Something about the simplicity Wild World had appeals me to more than New Horizons.

[@fernandacappucci8412]

I've just purchased a Nintendo 2DS to finally play New Leaf for the first time, after playing Wild World for a year straight, I got literally everything done. And I have to tell you, Wild World, is a great, magnificent game, that had me playing every single day after 14 years of it's release, there is no question there, BUT, youtubers and everyone in general, tend to have big nostalgia glasses for Wild World, that makes their opinion biased. I, on the other hand, didn't have the luxury to own the game as a kid, so I got through both experiences as a grown ass adult, and I am 100% objective. Wild World is not nearly as FUN as New Leaf is. The villagers have a certain charm and the grumpy ones are grumpier, I can see that, but there's also a big lack of events, and overall, new things that aren't just plain ol' fishing and catching bugs to pay the freaking loan, which BY THE WAY, it's nearly 3 MILLION BELLS higher in Wild World than it is on New Leaf, and it was the biggest downer for me as a player. Also, the nostalgia glasses don't allow you to remember how repetitive the dialogue is in Wild World. It's not like they tell you something you didn't heard five thousand times before after 4 months or so. Again, I LOVE Wild World, but I was so terribly bored of it, now that I have New Leaf, I actually have tons of things to look forward to, plus, a shit ton of gameplay things were either fixed or upgraded, like changing the tools easily, and having Blathers accept several items at once, I know, he talks less, which is a bummer, but as for the gameplay it's just SO much better, also the displays have full info, which is N I C E. The only things I think New Leaf didn't do right is make both the sound design and the character design, way too sleek. I don't hate it, and I actually like it, but it's undeniable that Wild World was x100 times more unique in that department.

[@bunnycakex]

i really wish i could find my old wild world friends :( i miss them

[@eijek7]

same ive got like 10 lo

[@jonmcknlegg]

9:48 Biskit! I love him so much

[@aleyna8483]

I got him in my campsite yesterday 🥺

[@lynetteriddle2002]

I bought Wild World so I could experience the older version and find characters with personality. I love how my villagers have no problem with telling me that they hate "this stink hole" when fhey move. Also I love the soundtracks.

[@goofygoober7183]

I didn’t expect that “Fuck you!” At 2:19 lol

[@gabriellawalsh221]

city folk us where my love of animal crossing began

[@sedrosken831]

My original DS came with a copy of Wild World. I didn't actually know what Animal Crossing was at the time, despite having had a GameCube. Boy was I about to find out.

[@ahobbit1273]

3:35-3:41 that’s absolutely how I feel about WW, too. Intellectually, I acknowledge that NH is revolutionary, but WW will always have a special place in my heart.

[@FalconMain3]

Beautiful game, my first game in the series.

[@leya6063]

Why is this so rewatchable 😄 Im here for the 8th time

[@NecromancerAdr]

Video suggestion: Which AC to play after NH?. I guess the easiest answer would be NL since it's very similar to NH, but on the other hand trying a different game like WW or CF could be fun.

[@jacobburr4703]

Loved this video!

[@wackiest10]

New Horizons just doesn't even feel like an Animal Crossing game anymore

[@maxpowers6738]

It still is. I don't know what your talking about. The personality and charm of the series is still there. Probably the best of the series.

[@googoo5825]

@@maxpowers6738 the new game has such boring dialogue. all it does is praise the player

[@Twat_Dirt]

@@maxpowers6738 the only good thing about it is that we can make the villagers look adorable

[@maxpowers6738]

@@googoo5825 New Leaf did too and that game was still great.

[@maxpowers6738]

@@Twat_Dirt Theres a whole lot of things that make New Horizons the best. Like terraforming, putting furniture outside, and also the updates that help keep the game fresh and fun.

[@Visca_Motion_Pictures]

I just re bought a system and this game! Too nostalgic

[@kylegems62]

I played a ton of city folk during 420 quarantine.

[@jigzyonline2]

Ive just ordered a DS Lite and a copy of this. Havent played this version in years. New Horizons is okay but I prefer the older games style.

[@scientistservant]

I want Butch to punch me and steal my last can of Sprite. If Nintendo can update the villagers' personalities and make at least the gold tools unbreakable that would be fantastic, I'll never ask for anything ever again.

[@Cheza001]

I really miss the building updates...

[@zav2241]

crying rn bc i also lost my ac wild world but honestly i think one of my old friends stole it loll

[@RightyRonaldo]

I will love City Folk to the day i'll die

[@explorerchilldaisy8458]

My mom has City folk, wild world and new leaf. She also tried the pocket camp but she didn't like it.

[@PRice425]

I still listen to the hourly music from WW it’s so beautiful!

[@kenmoli4395]

I love your mom. When I was a kid, my mom told me not to buy animal crossing because it was a girl's game. 😢

[@Cheza001]

And i miss getting the right hair style from the start of the game... And having a housmate :/

[@Novi_mars]

Me and my friends still celebrate yay day, but we celebrate on may 12th

[@godlyfractal]

The only problem in wild world it’s the quality of the images

[@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 😭😭😭😭

[@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

[@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

[@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 😊❤️

[@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

[@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

[@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!!!!

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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?.?

[@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 :(

[@carina.zip2002]

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