From Wild World to City Folk: The Evolution of Animal Crossing

Crossing some animals on the Nintendo DS and the Wii.
Previous video (The Story of Animal Crossing - Population Growing):
• The Story of Animal Cr...
Credit to Vinny Vinesauce for footage from Wario World, Monkey Ball, and Animal Crossing: New Horizons! He said we could use his footage in our videos, so I did.
Vinesauce:
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00:00 Intro
00:33 Wild World Development
08:30 Wild World Gameplay
23:05 City Folk Development
28:51 City Folk Gameplay
41:00 Visuals
43:52 Sound Design
47:37 Reception
53:25 Outro

[@marlenecooper2323]

This video was so well made!! Wild World was my favorite game growing up, I put so many hours into it! The funny thing was, I didn't know City Folk was a thing for so long during my childhood. I finally bought it a couple years ago now and It really hit hard how much I love all of these games. I'm so happy I found your channel, I can't wait to go watch all your other Animal Crossing video!

[@Alejandroid]

Thanks! Just a heads up though, my next couple of videos won't be about Animal Crossing because I want to take a break after how long this one took. But I do plan on covering every Animal Crossing game that came out during the 3DS and Wii U era for my next ac video.

[@marlenecooper2323]

@@Alejandroid I can't wait! From your editing style/way you present your information I'm sure I will love anything that you post! I honestly can't believe that this video only has 15 likes, I'm very happy KZbin decided to recommend this video to me!

[@cadez8386]

Fr. He deserves more subs. I always watch vids then look at their subs and it’s shockingly low

[@cronk2695]

I feel like I discovered a diamond in the rough with how little views this has, what an incredibly well made video! Thank you for a long interesting watch ^^

[@callme_jake1871]

City Folk is my 2nd favourite AC game actually, and you did it justice in this video. Seeing people talk shit about it always made me sad because I think the fact that City Folk is just like Wild World comes to its advantage, since Wild World was a good game and it just improved in (almost) every way conceivable. Also, no game in this franchise will ever come close to the vibe of Population Growing.

[@creeperxox5384]

Not to mention that to the people who don't have a ds they couldn't only wild world unless you download it on the wiiu but even then the eshop will eventually shutdown. At least city folk could be played on a Wii or wiiu and give people who didn't have a ds a chance to play animal crossing if it is almost exactly like the wild world then it should be just about the same experience right?

[@DevAlo]

"IN ADDITION" is my favourite part of this video lol

[@InazumaDash]

I think the hate for City Folk is kinda undeserved. Controlling the menu is the only annoying thing. You can move using the nunchuck.

[@PhirePhlame]

I figure the "globally-friendly" thing was just marketing speak for just more of the aforementioned effort to minimize how much localization would have to occur, lmao

[@eclipseRz]

Wild World was my go to game for the long bus ride I had every morning and afternoon for school. Hopper was my favorite villager because I felt that I earned his friendship (I didn't know personalities were a feature and his is cranky). Long story but- when I got New Leaf years later, I wanted him to come to my town so bad. Anytime I saw him in a youtuber's video I'd smile (he's famous lol) but really I was a little sad that my chances were so low to get him (nobody I knew had the game except my brother). Cut to a few months ago- I'm playing New Horizons and a villager (Julia) who'd been living on my island for awhile wanted to move out. I was in-between but let her go as I stockpiled tickets. My goal was get a brand new villager that I never had before, so I spend nearly a whole day searching for a villager (I saw Cube who lived on my island previously but didn't recognize me, Kid Cat, etc.) Now I'm on my second to last ticket and I'm ready to just take whoever shows up and guess who- Hopper! I recorded the moment we met after over a decade of being apart and he's now my neighbor again! Anyways I'm bad at conclusions so yeah- game is good cause it made me lifelong friends with a penguin

[@Alejandroid]

Sadly I never had the games as a kid so I’m a little jealous! It’s always interesting to see when people have favorites villagers that aren’t some of the most common ones. Certainly better than everyone worshipping the same 5 ones

[@eclipseRz]

@@Alejandroid i've always seen it like pokemon, people will naturally gravitate towards the cuter ones with more general appeal while others will form a bond with a villager that might not be their "dreamy" villager

[@Lucy_Sammy_2]

Hopper is my favorite too! I try to get him every game if possible

[@EBMaster9000]

What a great Animal Crossing review this was! Very informative, but also very entertaining! City Folk was my first introduction to the series and it probably had to do with owning Brawl as well. I remember putting a lot of hours into it and eventually, I tried out the older games like Wild World and Population Growing! I liked Population Growing more than Wild World, but still saw the charm in the DS Game. Later on, I bought New Leaf and New Horizons and out of all of the mainline games I've played, New Leaf is my favorite one! In fact, I picked up my old save file again after getting nostalgic about that game a few days ago.

[@emmaelizabeth6180]

really loved this video! city folk was my first game, so even though it’s seen as ‘wild world 2’ i have so much love and nostalgia for it, and I love seeing it talked about. Would love a New Leaf video in this same style!

[@mcrufflestuffles7726]

Criminal how you don't have 1K subs yet. This is well edited!

[@HannahandCailinLoesch]

Come back soon!!! So many of us want more of your incredible work!

[@funkgab2013]

This was insanely well done. A lot of love and effort went into this video and it shows.

[@Rooboid]

You've smashed it out of the ballpark with this one, It was lots of fun to look back on such a beloved game with you, and I'm looking forward to what you make in the future!

[@philipcaseyacalloway204]

A lot of memories returned from the old GC and DS adds. Thanks for a trip down memory lane. Keep in touch with your people.❤

[@aeluromancy2126]

This was the best AC history video I’ve seen! Believe me, I’ve watched every one I can get my hands on lol. Can’t wait to see more from you! :D

[@EduardoGonzalez-Luigi]

Oh my god, this was so much fun to watch, so well done and extensive in detail without being boring, kudos to you man for this amazing video!

[@myon9431]

Really nice editing and voice over work, good job!

[@justinbackert1567]

Gooood lord you’ve really outdone yourself with this one. This channel is so underrated

[@temmiekaz]

i'm really glad this randomly showed up in my recommended feed last night. got a great video to watch IN ADDITION to 2 more fantastic videos and a new channel to keep an eye on :)

[@GAMEandRODO]

Your Animal Crossing series of videos are so good and so entertaining, very informative about the story of the development of the game and just overall great retrospectives. Can't wait for the New Leaf video!!

[@PersephonesRose-nr3oo]

your voice is so lovely and easy to listen too 😌❤thank you for the video i love animal crossing! leaving a comment for the algorithm

[@UncleFlutus]

WW and CF might look the same to the average person but to the Animal Crossing obsessed psycho (me), they’re so different. I think overall I would say I prefer City Folk? The only area where I think it fails compared to Wild World is the dialogue. Which to be fair, is a huge part of why Animal Crossing is so good (and why New Horizons was the worst in the series tbh) but WW removing holidays is also a huge point against it for me. I think CF overall is the game I revisit more compared to WW.

[@Alejandroid]

I agree with you, they absolutely look different! It’s just that like you said, to the average joe they might not look different enough at a glance to look like an upgrade. But I actually enjoyed playing through CF WAY more than I thought I would when recording this video. WW was great but it felt kind of empty after a while, especially considering the smaller village and lack of holidays.

[@doorcruz]

Incredible video!!! Really well made and interesting. I discovered Animal Crossing through New Leaf and then I've been retroactively looking into the older games.

[@fizzyfuzz5878]

48:14 You do have the option of using the nunchuck analog stick to move around.

[@javiervillarino8314]

I usually insta-click in AC retrospectives. But surprisly, that was a very good one mate! I will see the rest of your content

[@passerinepearls6480]

My brother recently handed me back my Wii disk of city folk. When I inserted it into the Wii I discovered that my town was gone. All of my friends and memories gone forever. I’ve been watching AC content to try and cope. This kinda helped a little. Very lovely essay C:

[@friendlynightmares]

I remember my unfortunate disappointment when I started up City Folk. By this time, I was starting to get less excited about Animal Crossing, probably because the central ideas and mechanics had not changed so much since the first one. I played them soooo much, but I think that when City Folk released (which looked too similar to WW but added a tiny extra area) I just kind of fell somewhere in the middle, I did not hate it, I just didn't feel excited to play it. Awesome video by the way!!

[@Jose3ds]

God this video is so well-done

[@lemonkero]

love these types of videos and hopefully we can see more ac content! regardless cool video

[@jschaetz]

Just subbed, excited to see the channel grow! Love the long vid length! 😊Would looove more vids like this one🤞

[@siyahseeker]

How to tell these games apart: - Wild World doesn't have any holidays that are real in it, like Toy Day (Christmas), Halloween, or Bunny Day (Easter, which wasn't introduced yet). This was apparently because Nintendo wanted to make a "secular" Animal Crossing, but saved these holidays for City Folk. - There are no mountains or ramps due to limiations of the DS. City Folk adds these back in towns as an option. - All "new" songs were actually recycled from the Japanese e+ port of the GameCube Animal Crossing. City Folk would add new obtainable songs, like K.K. Island and Spring Blossoms. - Instead of the awkward voices for the villagers, City Folk opted for a different approach which sounds close to what they would use in every game (up to New Horizons). - Players can have their own separate houses, unlike Wild World, again, due to limitations. - The Mario items and other Nintendo-referenced items can now be obtained by either playing over Wi-Fi or through shooting down balloon presents instead of having to use the now-defunct Wi-Fi Connection. - City Folk adds silver tools. - More about the Nintendo-referenced items: half of them (examples being the Blue Falcon and the Pikmin flowerbed) were actually unobtainable in City Folk, later saved for New Leaf. - Like what New Leaf later did, the Mario items either used their updated appearances from New Super Mario Bros. Wii, or reused their Super Mario Bros. (1985) appearances from Wild World. - City Folk added a feature over Wi-Fi that allows players to speak to each other with the special microphone, the Wii Speak. Nintendo would later do something very similar with their Nintendo Switch Online app compatible with New Horizons, though you need a phone/tablet/laptop with a microphone.

[@RyanDxxx0]

Absolutely amazing video 👏So much effort and work put into this video, I hope you find a bigger audience soon cause your style is amazing, gg

[@arin4395]

absolutely fantastic video !! you put sm effort n it shines through , i'm shocked by your sub count ! this is an excellent essay , you're very well-spoken !! def subbing ! i love to see wild world receive love n attention

[@vuxl]

discovered this channel because youtube showed me this video and it goes very in depth, would love to a video with the lead up and development of new leaf after city folk was released. also great video btw, love seeing content like this!

[@Alejandroid]

It’s kind of crazy how the algorithm be like that. I get back from work and all of a sudden it was way more views than I thought it would ever get. Anyways I totally plan on making a new leaf video after my next one comes out, but I want to include the spin offs for the 3ds so it might be a while before that’s released!

[@TheOtakuArtist]

Im so surprised you have less than 1k subs, this video is so well made, I subbed in the first like minute of the video haha Love to see animal crossing content, will def be watching more of your videos!

[@tylerthomas5957]

You’ve gotta make more videos dude, you’re the best ❤

[@Ari-Zone]

I watching this video and then realized this video only has 1k views, you did amazing, it's such a good video bravo, bravo!!

[@elliott7757]

Amazing video

[@retrouniverse6089]

Great video! I felt like Kronk was narrating the whole thing

[@bobo_1803]

Here before this video blows up 😊. Great job!

[@Alejandroid]

I mean for me this is way above average and I'm glad people other than just the friends I normally talk to got to see it, but that would be cool if it did!

[@collectingonthecheap56353]

I still play Wild World and New Leaf daily. Actually pretty excited, getting my Nookingtons upgrade tomorrow after finally connecting online to have a visitor come to my town and buy something.

[@Alejandroid]

Nice! New Leaf might still be my favorite as far as what you can do in that game. What service did you end up using? I tried Wiimfi online but couldn't get it to work so I gave up and had my brother help me out with another DS and WW locally.

[@BaawBee]

Such high quality content. You would think this channel has a million+ subs

[@CuppyCrossing]

Fantastic work dude! I'm jealous with how good you are with your voiceover! This must have taken a long time, will come back to this video again :-)

[@TJR219]

Cant wait for the ACNL edition to come out! :)

[@Astolotl]

great vid, kronk

[@smugsquirrel620]

I was genuinely surprised when I saw you had around 400 subscribers- this video is so well done and professional! at least I can say I was here in the beginning when you get big someday! :D

[@Stunz]

Great video man

[@daydreamies]

the editing and audio are top notch, i was surprised to see i was only the 340th subscriber! the lengthy deep dives are such a good algorithm thing atm, so i really hope you gain a lot of encouragement from how well this has been received!! :)

[@barracadoseuze4213]

This channel is a Gem

[@Tomtrocity]

Wild World will always be a fantastic sequel to one of my favorite entries to this series. While I would love City Folk too, two things that hinder its full success in my mind are the limited wii remote controls (it should have Classic, GCN options) and not enough was done to enhance the DS Suitcase option. To me the game feels off playing with a wii remote + nunchuck combo, I know it's there for the Wii's motion control selling point but there should have been other control options like the Gamecube controller. For those that got both games (Wild World & City Folk) I wish the DS Suitcase had more to it. I'm a sucker for interconnectivity games that give bonus content or swappable content, but for these games, to have your character move from WW to CF really made that "moving on your own" feeling stronger. It's cool you got to keep your look, clothes on your back and the back catalog of what you purchased in your DS town. However, not everything could be repurchased in said catalog which is disappointing since ingame models of those items were made? If the optional feature were reworked I would keep what they had in place but in addition, have money brought over with you to outright purchase the first house loan at least, have 1-2 villagers move with you to your new town on the Wii, treat it like a new game plus for your travelled and well seasoned DS character that you made and the experiences you went through on WW. Sorry for that tangent, but I love this video and the previous one you did for Population Growing \o/

[@goldgodryukendo913x]

Animal Crossing Wild World is one game I have probably spent a big part of my life playing. I got it on day 1. 3PM is my fuckin jam. I probably have several thousand of hours on Wild World alone. Also just subbed because of this video.

[@nem-kz3mk]

Dude this video was so good, just subbed and thought you'd have at least a few 100k, keep it up :)

[@Astral_Symphony]

You have an amazing voice lol. Great video as well. Subscribed!

[@murkywaters5502]

Great video.

[@EduardoGonzalez-Luigi]

Omg im only 15 minutes in and im loving this video 😍😍😍

[@BaawBee]

All animal crossing games are fantastic

[@dib_human6151]

I have been playing NH for a while and i love it so much, but for some reason i also feel like getting a DS to play WW every so often alongside NH, it just seems so very charming

[@joo8701]

Yeah!!!!!! Thank you for this

[@LikaLaruku]

You kinda sound like Patrick Warburton. Nice relaxing video.

[@bridgetbitchass]

I mean this as the highest form of a compliment, you sound like a mix of ted nivison and patrick warburton and it’s very satisfying 😌👌🏻

[@gw7911]

City folk was actually my first animal crossing but at the time I was renting it from GameStop and decided not to buy it. I’m pretty sure I couldn’t read then so I never could really get into it. The game feels like a fever dream I specifically remember the intro with the bus.

[@s-3503]

I wish city folk didnt get so much hate

[@Hazzerooni]

52:59 - The year limit in Wii Settings is also 2035, this is most likely why it’s capped at that year

[@ThePuzzlerOfRiddles]

Why does this only have 2k views? How did I find my way here? How long has Patrick Warburton's gamer cousin been a youtuber? So many questions, guess I'll subscribe to see if I ever find out!

[@BellaBridjon]

I love your videos Ale!!! Hope you are doing well 💚💚💚

[@Alejandroid]

Bella!! Thanks, I worked so hard on it. I hope you’re doing well too, miss y’all and the stream.

[@BellaBridjon]

@@Alejandroid you can definitely tell you put a lot of work into it and your voice is soothing 🥰 So glad to hear you are doing well! Hope to see you around sometime 💚

[@nirgunawish]

about selling a whole inventory. you can press y to move an item without moving the (ig kinda unintuitive) dpad cursor

[@nirgunawish]

i love your voice

[@jaysamabihh]

Hat was kinda fire😅😭

[@tanasiascott]

in addition.

[@christophersmith9237]

@9:37 - That's not a duck, that's a PELICAN!

[@Alejandroid]

Fuck

[@LikaLaruku]

I'm so glad Wild World wasn't my introduction to this franchise. It would have turned me off of the series. Had the misfortune of playing it AFTER New Leaf. The Original first game held up better than WW & had more to do.

[@shadowbattalion1]

ohhh so its called gongaga.! wow!

[@Alejandroid]

me? gongaga.

[@TerribleChannel69420]

The games fr went 🤔🫶🤨😎💀

[@nintendocookies]

❤❤❤

[@xartfulx9735]

I prefer the ds versions of the music

[@Hynotama]

That Zipper guy looks like something taken straight out of that jump scare game with the animatronics.

[@shootingsmilla1239]

4:15 DORAEMON OMG

[@shootingsmilla1239]

5:39 I grew up with the PS2

[@shootingsmilla1239]

12:09 yup

[@shootingsmilla1239]

12:17 MY BOY

[@N0VAST4R1]

Never saw the point of AC multiplayer. You can't really do much. Prefer solo, chillin'.

[@Bisdis_]

How in the wombats does this have such little views!!!

[@_x_TOKI_x_]

Do new leaf pls

[@NerevarineKing]

How dare you insult that amazing viking hat from Population Growing smh

[@michaelturner2806]

Feedback: audio mix was a little off. It takes me a lot of concentration for me to hear and understand your voice over the loud music playing simultaneously. I gave up trying in the first few minutes.

[@Alejandroid]

Thanks for the feedback! When I showed an early version of it to my friend he said something similar, so we added audio ducking when I speak to the music, but I'll consider pushing the volume on the background music more next time.

[@Will-un1cd]

Trying too hard to sound like ninja

[@voidDia]

nah he sounds more like manlyhero

[@Neverknot47]

GameCube Animal crossing isn't called population growing.

[@monadocyclone294]

Who

[@monadocyclone294]

Asked

[@lauraj349]

ty youtube algorythym , we love a good animal crossing deep dive 🫶

[@Discotheque2002]

The dirt/grass was way worse in WW. Majority of the village map in WW was just huge empty dirt patches.