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So what's this about then? I've never played an Animal Crossing game before but whenever there's a new one on the horizon I tell myself "This'll be the time I'll actually get it!". The art style has always appealed to me and the gameplay is basically like a better version of The Sims right? The thing that's holding me back this time though is whether or not it requires RPG levels of dedication? I have a pretty big pile of shame and so I can't really see myself commiting to an epic game of grinding for stuff or anything like that (which I thought was kind of what AC was about, buying stuff for your house and dealing with Tom Nook).

So basically, should I get this (for €219)?

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Or am I better of getting the Super Mario 3D Land + 3DS XL bundle?

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Buy it.

It's ridiculously charming and one of the huge appeals to me is that you can quite happily play the game without doing anymore than just 'checking in' each day. You can also spend donkeys doing the fishing and blahblahblah that actually makes it even more fun but on a very basic level, you can almost treat it like a Tamagotchi in a way.

If you've ever played Harvest Moon, it's like that but a million times easier due to the lack of such repetetive chores in regards to planting / watering etc.

It's one of those that you just need to buy and play for a bit and before you know it, you're rabidly looking for that elusive bug to complete your collection, or digging up every square ever to find the last piece of triceratops fossil and then you get a letter from that weird gorilla you see pottering about saying he's leaving and you feel bad that you evidently didn't make him feel welcome enough, or you left too many weeds near his house or maybe the feng shui in my house was bad.....

It's a delightful game.

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So what's this about then? I've never played an Animal Crossing game before but whenever there's a new one on the horizon I tell myself "This'll be the time I'll actually get it!". The art style has always appealed to me and the gameplay is basically like a better version of The Sims right? The thing that's holding me back this time though is whether or not it requires RPG levels of dedication? I have a pretty big pile of shame and so I can't really see myself commiting to an epic game of grinding for stuff or anything like that (which I thought was kind of what AC was about, buying stuff for your house and dealing with Tom Nook).

So basically, should I get this (for €219)?

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Or am I better of getting the Super Mario 3D Land + 3DS XL bundle?

Buy without hesitation. If it's your first time, I envy you. Truly amazing, addictive experience with bags of magic dust sprinkled over it.

That said, after running through two iterations of it, like most things, that magic starts to wear a little thin. Won't be getting it myself this time round - but if you haven't, it's the last time Nintendo truly came up with a genuinely superb IP (hopefully until this E3).

Lucky bugger - seriously, click on whatever you have to, it's brilliant.

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gizmo1990

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It's Nintendos ace up their sleeve. It's going to shift a frightening amount of units and what's more 50% of them will be to females.

I really hope the people initially responsible for its development are seeing the requisite reward.

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The thing with Animal Crossing is actually something that can't really be put across easily. If we are to take it at a purely functional level, then all we can say is that it is barely a game at all, is highly repetitive, and essentially skill-free and random. The entire experience is limited in many ways, and yet ...

It comes wrapped in a box that is made of Spaceship-grade charm. Every single interaction between the game and yourself is coated with a sprinkling of warmth, humour, and even magic. We could dismiss the whole thing as a collection of Skinner boxes, but this ignores the way that we choose how many boxes there are, what they reward us with, where they are placed, and when we stop. Everything we do pays us back, and generally exponentially proportional to the effort we put in. This is important; we get out based on what we put in, by orders of magnitude. Do more, get more. Meet more people, get more still. If you have 1 or 2 friends, it becomes special. Have several friends, each of whom is putting their own efforts in, and it becomes unforgettable. What starts out as a throwaway pastime can eventually make you late for work because you were responding to an email from a virtual bear.

There's no narrative, save what you want to take in with you. There's no end game, save what you want to take out from it. There's no pressure, save what you put on yourself. And there's really no reason to play, save the reason you play anything, which is to derive enjoyment from it.

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Without getting too philosophical about it, I think a lot of its charm comes from projecting your own ideas and motivations onto the game and its characters. For all its characterisation and stylings it's still effectively a blank canvas for your own imagination. Nook is a swindling, money grabbing loan shark, out to rob the coat off your back. He's not really, he's just a device to keep you achieving. But together with his mannerisms you project this whole personality onto him, which you've all but made up in your mind. Nibbles and Limberg had a major falling out the other day. He gave her a turnip which she already had. That saucy mouse, what sort depraved mind has he got giving her ANOTHER turnip! I'm definitely going to write him a letter telling him I know what he's up to..

It's fascinating, it really is.

I've probably had too much to drink.

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I've stayed out of this thread so far because no one wants pages of me writing OMG ITS NEARLY OUT... But - now it's 2 weeks away.... OMG IT'S NEARLY OUT!!!

I've just been through and added everyone who's on the list on the front page (and Bubblefish in the post above) - please add me back everyone! Our tiny towns of amazement must all be visited.

My code is: 5257-8770-6107

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b00dles

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Really looking forward to this! I've added everyone on the last page and would appreciate if you could add me back:

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Cheers

Just to make it easier, everyone is on the first post fella :)

I'll add you in a minute.

I just registered DKCR after trading some old stuff in to get it, now my excitement levels are getting a bit silly.

EDIT: Just had to delete bimbam and Paulando as they hadn't added me back to make some room for actual AC players, bubblefish and tallsop, I've added you.

Incidentally, utopastac, magicaldrop, cookiemonster, sozzlyjoe, midwalian, MID, ahmunnaeatchoo, Mr Retroid,corleth, couk, elmo, goat keeper, moose grinder, jpickford and dandysephy are still slacking on the adding me back front. Shame, shame you know your name.

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Keyboard Koala

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Does it have microtransactions? If so I'll just buy a big ass mansion at the start and show off to Isabelle and hit that pretty lil' thing from front to back.

What do you mean? Pay with real money to get in-game stuff? Afraid not.

You'll have to work your ass off if you want to live in a huge house. Nook's a right bastard for that.

Alternatively, you can play the odds at the "stalk exchange".

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