Animal Crossing City Folk.
Having loved the original GCN Animal Crossing so much, and having realized that some great improvements were made in Wild World (despite some flaws added as well), I expected City Folk to at least had some improvements and new features itself.
That was expecting WAY too much. The game promised to be a fusion of the GCN and DS version. Well honestly I think the people that made the game must be smoking or stupid or something, because it really DOES NOT take a rocket scientist to realize what to bring back and what to not bring back.
They brought back the holidays from the GCN version. A feature that should have never even been removed from WW in the first place. (and I call bull on their argument for removing them, because I believe it was the very same year that WW was released the second Mario and Luigi was released and get what the first town you visited represented so blatantly?: CHRISTMAS. :o If Mario and Luigi could get away with that than I don't know how WW couldn't.) Plus it was advertised, we all knew they were coming back.
The game looked promising after the holidays were returning was shown. However only two other positive features were brought back from the GCN version: Cliffs and four houses. Both were givens anyway.
However the negative almost completely outweighs the good here: The holidays are not as fun as they were in the original, you get four houses at the expense of returning to the house size from the GCN version (so yes, you heard me right, we have a MUCH smaller house size in the Wii version than in the DS version.), the animal pictures feature was completely removed, and the animals became even more repetitive (and due to the removal of any options when talking to them it being more repetitive completely kills any want to talk to them.).
Perfect fusion, my butt. I don't care what anybody says, City Folk is obviously an incredibly lazy rehash and downgrade of Wild World with a new name tacked on to make it look like it's something new. And this game proves to me that even rehashes can be done very wrong.
Nintendo has ruined the Animal Crossing series and the fans will never care because they're all lulled under the "Animal Crossing must always stay the same" mindset. Why do these fans not understand that there are positive changes that can be made, and why do these fans not understand that some very negative changes have been made? Are they blind?
Well I have to give it to Nintendo, they've found an extremely easy way to make money with the AC fans. They don't have to change anything in the next AC game and it would still make them a ton of money and the fans would still defend it to their deaths under that absurdly stupid mindset.
On another note Pokemon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald were pretty disappointing, too. Not on the level of City Folk, but still I don't understand why they made a lot of the changes they did. I did not like they wanted to "reset" everything. Gold, Silver, and Crystal made an EPIC sequel to Red, Blue, and Yellow. They were set in the future and really felt like sequels. RSE were different. While they were still fun they lacked that continuity between the first two generations. The day/night and week system was removed among other things. I was also really sad that we didn't get to have a second region. I don't care what anybody says, being able to go back to Kanto in the second generation was great. It may have been watered down, but it brought that sense of continuity and expanded the game time by quite a bit.
(Sorry for the long post, it's a Saturday and I really don't have anything better to do. XD)
