Giving parents free time! (Animal Crossing - Wild World (DS))

Member Name: lizzz

Product:	Animal Crossing - Wild World (DS)
Date:	14/04/09 (66 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Seemingly endless fun

Disadvantages: no real ending?

Every time Christmas or birthday time comes around for one of my nieces or nephews I'm told that all they want is a voucher for Game. This is a shop where you can buy computer games, funnily enough. So last year my niece took her voucher and bought a new game for her DS that all her friends had, Animal Crossing.

In Animal Crossing you control a little girl (or boy) in their town where they can meet up with friends, go fishing, catch bugs and dig up fossils. This is all done using the DS's touch screen. Each experience is slightly different for every player who plays Animal Crossing. You have different layouts of your town, different people living in your town, and even different types of fruit growing on the trees in your town!

The objective of the game is to build up the size of your house by paying off your mortgage. You do this buy selling things in Mr Tom Nook's shop. You can sell fish that you catch, or fossils you dig up, or gifts people give you. You also can buy things from Tom's shop too to decorate your house nicely.

Interacting with other inhabitants in your town seems the most fun element of the game to me. All the other characters are animals rather than humans, and they are all so cute! Your own character can build up a rapport with the animal characters and they become your friends. If you neglect your friends however, they may move away. But fear not they will always be replaced by another new and exciting character.

The depth to this game seems immense. There is so much to do, and I don't even know if there is an actual end tpo the game, I think it could go on forever! My niece has been seen to play it for hours on end so it also gives her mum and dad a nice break!

It's readily available at all good game shops, or amazon or play. It's been out for a couple of years now so there will be bargain prices to be found if you look for them!

Summary: Great DS game for all ages