Jan 03 2009
Animal Crossing: Wild World for Nintendo DS Review
Animal Crossing: Wild World was one of the first games I bought for my Nintendo DS. I loved the Gamecube version and thought this would be fun, too. While it is not bad, I have not found it as attention keeping as the Gamecube and Wii versions.
In the DS version a lot of the things are the same as the Gamecube version, but there are some differences. For one you arrive by taxi instead of train. Secondly, if you have multiple people playing on one cartridge you share a house and the mortgage instead of each having you own house and mortgage. Also, the map is continuous and there are two screens being used. The touch screen can be used, but it barely changed the way the game can be played, as you can still just use buttons.
It is a good on the go version for those who really love Animal Crossing. However, certain things annoy me. I especially hate sharing a house with my brother just because we share the game. On the Gamecube and Wii we share the game and easily have our own towns because we play on our own systems. I would not mind sharing a city, but sharing a house can be annoying.
Overall this is just an average game and the worst in the Animal Crossing series, which I overall think is above average. At least the graphics are a good improvement over the Gamecube one.
