About Animal Crossing: Wild World
The original Animal Crossing was a favorite with gamers from around the world. Living a fantasy life where you do whatever you wanted to do. The game makes it's triumphant return with Animal Crossing: Wild World on the Nintendo DS. This time, there are more items, more things to do, more animals to meet, and more experiences to create. Wild World is also the 2nd game from Nintendo to feature the ability to go online via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.
Publisher: Nintendo
Platform: Nintendo DS
Release Date (North America): December 5, 2005
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Moving Into the Wild World
You begin your new life with a taxi ride to your new home. Your driver, Capp'n, will ask you a few questions, which define your gender, name, and general appearance.
When you finally reach town, you'll be dropped off at the Town Hall where you'll be greeted by Pelly, the clerk who works there. She'll give you a quick welcome, and then it's off to your brand new house.
Once you get inside, the first thing you'll notice is how empty it is. While it isn't necessary, you might want to venture outside a collect some furniture or other various items to decorate your home with. Though once you do step outside, you are greeted by the friendly (and sometimes evil) Tom Nook.
Tom Nook will basically give you the major goal of the game: pay off the debt to your house and it's subsequent upgrades. Tom Nook will start you off with a few odd jobs, and those tasks will basically serve as a short tutorial. After that, you're off on your on. Make friends, get new tasks, decorate your home, be hip and trendy, and create new memories.
Your Home
Having your own home is one of the best parts of Animal Crossing: Wild World. There are a few main aspects of your home:
- Size. The size of the house has always been a major goal for all Animal Crossing players. Players are constantly trying to sell that fish or fossil to earn enough money for a little extra space. Wild World builds upon this by offering even bigger and better upgrades to the house.
- Save Room. The second floor of your house has now become your save room. Walk up the stairs, jump in bed, and you'll be asked to save.
- Inside. The inside is where you'll decorate a leave a mess. I can gurantee that you will go crazy trying to find that matching bed or couch, and you can show off all those cool things you find. As you upgrade your house, not only will the inside provide more space, but additional rooms will be added on as well.
- Outside. The outside of your house isn't as important as the inside, as you'll only be able to customize the color of your roof, and the pattern on your door. You can use any pattern that you've created a paste it onto your door. The outside appearance of your house changes as you upgrade it.
Most parts of your home can be decorated in any way you choose. There are hundreds of different items that you find, buy, and trade. The combinations are limitless, and whatever you want to do it is completely up to you.
Tom Nook regularly stocks his shelves with various pieces of furniture, and a selection of flooring and wallpaper. Friends and town animals will also occassionally give you gifts that can help you decorate your home. There are also a few 'other' ways to get items.
In addition to furniture, flooring, and wallpaper, you can also place almost any other type of object in your home for display. Drop a fish in your home and it automatically appears in a fish tank. Set down a piece of clothing and it's now on display for everyone to see.
It's your home; decorate whatever you want with it, or don't do anything at all.
Tom Nook's Shop
Aside from your home, Tom Nook's shop is one of the most important places in your town. Everyday, Tom Nook will get a new shipment of items for you to purchase; new furniture, tools, flowers and trees, and stationary. Tom Nook is by no means your sole supplier of goods, but you'll buy more stuff from him than from anyone else.
Another reason why you'll be visiting Tom Nook a lot is because he pays Bells for items that you find. You can sell just about anything, and Tom Nook will buy just about anything.
As a businessman, you can't expect Nook to work out of a shack forever. As you buy and sell from him, he'll occassionally upgrade his shop. It'll become bigger, nicer, and have a larger selection of items. The downside to this upgrade is that Tom Nook closes his store for an day. That's an entire day devoid of purchasing or selling. Though this issue has been partially remedied by the fact that you can now visit any other towns online and simply shop from their store.
- Nook's Cranny. This is how Tom Nook starts out. It's a small and simple wooden shack with a limited slection of goods.
- Nook N Go. This upgrade is a tiny convenience store. It's bigger then his old shack and it has a few more items but still not all that impressive.
- Nookway. The store grows up a little more and becomes a grocery store of sorts. It features many more goods than the old shack and looks pretty impressive.
- Nookingtons. This is the final upgrade, and boy is it a big one. Nookingtons now features 2 floors filled with great merchandise. In addition to these 2 floors, you'll find a brand new hair salon to serve all your hair styling needs.