{"id":17442,"date":"2018-02-02T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T00:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=17442"},"modified":"2018-01-25T16:25:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T16:25:49","slug":"my-animal-crossing-resume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/02\/my-animal-crossing-resume\/","title":{"rendered":"My Animal Crossing Resume"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is Nintendo\u2019s newest mobile title, and I have been into it ever since it came out!\u00a0 The Animal Crossing game series is very special to me, so to celebrate just how much fun I\u2019ve been having with Pocket Camp, I thought I\u2019d go over all the games and spinoffs in the series, and rate each one and share my special memories of each.\u00a0 So let\u2019s get started!<\/p>\n

Animal Crossing (GameCube)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before the first game even came out, I knew I would really like it.\u00a0 And I was right!\u00a0 I liked it so much that the first game on the GameCube is one of my top five favorite games of all time!\u00a0 There are two main reasons why I like this game so much.\u00a0 One, I have so many fond memories playing this game with my family.\u00a0 This was back before the Internet was commonplace on consoles, so in order to visit towns, you had to bring your memory card to your friend\u2019s house and put it in the second slot on their GameCube!\u00a0 The other reason why the GameCube version is still my favorite, even though the others in the series improved on it greatly, is that you could get furniture of NES games, and when you touched them, you could actually play those games!\u00a0 Yes, really!\u00a0 It was like having two games in one.\u00a0 A life simulation and a classic NES collection!\u00a0 I set them all up in my house like it was an arcade.\u00a0 I know why Nintendo didn\u2019t do this with any other Animal Crossing game because since then, they discovered they could sell these games separately via Virtual Console and whatnot, but man it was cool for them to do that back then.<\/p>\n

So I have one particular memory I wanted to share about this game.\u00a0 When I first got this game back in 2002 right when it came out, I was in a rough spot in my life.\u00a0 I had just gotten out of college and was having trouble finding a job, and I was also even having some small problems with a few members of my family, too.\u00a0 So my birthday that year was a bit uneventful and depressing.\u00a0 But when I popped in my Animal Crossing game on my birthday, Prince the Frog was standing by my house, in the rain holding an umbrella, and gave me a birthday present.\u00a0 It was the NES game Donkey Kong!\u00a0 It\u2019s kind of sad and pathetic, but that was one of the best birthday presents I got that year.<\/p>\n

Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The biggest improvement with the DS sequel is that you could now visit other players\u2019 towns online.\u00a0 I have so many great memories playing this game online with friends from the now defunct 1up.com.\u00a0 Some of those friends I still keep in contact with to this day!<\/p>\n

Animal Crossing: City Folk (Wii)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of all the main Animal Crossing games in the series, City Folk is my least favorite.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t really do anything to improve upon Wild World, in fact, some of the gameplay aspects were better on the DS. \u00a0And the \u2018city\u2019 you could visit was very disappointing, as it was just a strip mall with overpriced items that weren\u2019t very interesting.\u00a0 Plus, since the Wii\u2019s online functionality sucked, after nine months of playing, the save on my memory card got corrupted and I couldn\u2019t play it again after that without starting over.\u00a0 I like to think the animals just kicked me out of their town.\u00a0 Ha ha!<\/p>\n

Animal Crossing: Sweet Days (Wii U)<\/strong><\/p>\n

This wasn\u2019t really a game, just a mini-game you could play in Nintendo Land, a launch title for the Wii U.\u00a0 It was just a variation on Miyamoto\u2019s Pac-Man Vs.\u00a0 Players could choose to be animals trying to eat the most candy in town that came from trees, or you could control both gatekeeper dogs and try to catch them.\u00a0 Between this, the super cool Animal Crossing Mario Kart 8 track, and the Villager and Smashville being in Super Smash Bros, you\u2019d think that there would\u2019ve been a TRUE Animal Crossing game on Wii U, but there wasn\u2019t.\u00a0 Hopefully they\u2019ll make one on the Switch!<\/p>\n

Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3DS)<\/strong><\/p>\n

New Leaf has the most significant improvements out of all the mainline Animal Crossing games.\u00a0 In past games you were just a villager, but in this one, you\u2019re the mayor.\u00a0 So you can not only customize your house, but many aspects of your town as well.\u00a0 That wasn\u2019t the only improvement either.\u00a0 This is probably my second favorite AC game other than the original (yeah, the NES games really won me over).<\/p>\n

I have a couple of special memories about New Leaf as well.\u00a0 Like I said before, many of my family members have enjoyed Animal Crossing games, but none so much as my mom.\u00a0 I think she plays them more than I do, even though she denies it (she really does).\u00a0 Anyway, when New Leaf came out, for Mother\u2019s Day I got her a pink 3DS and a copy of New Leaf.\u00a0 And also when the game came out, Nintendo sent me a package of pears and apples from Harry and David\u2019s to promote the game!<\/p>\n

Another memory I have associated with New Leaf is a bit more bittersweet.\u00a0 A few months after the game came out, my grandmother on my dad\u2019s side passed away.\u00a0 After the funeral, we all gathered at her house to eat and spend time with each other.\u00a0 My cousin and her kids all had their 3DS systems and copies of New Leaf, so we all played it together.\u00a0 Several thoughts raced through my mind as we did this.\u00a0 One, it reminded me of the times when we were little and I\u2019d visit my grandmother in Alabama, and all of us cousins would get together and play.\u00a0 I imagine my grandmother must\u2019ve been very happy watching us from Heaven seeing that we were doing that again.\u00a0 But it also made me a little sad because this may have been one of the last, if not the last, time that we get to do that together, because as we get older and have more commitments of our own, it\u2019s harder to do things like that.\u00a0 So take every opportunity to spend time with your friends and family as much as you can, because you never know when it\u2019ll be your last.<\/p>\n

Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer (3DS)<\/strong><\/p>\n

So I guess sometime after New Leaf, someone at Nintendo came up with a better way to rearrange furniture in your house using the touch screen.\u00a0 I bet they wished they would\u2019ve come up with that BEFORE New Leaf came out.\u00a0 Actually they did add that in an update.\u00a0 A couple of years after New Leaf came out, they released an update and also a physical cartridge called Animal Crossing New Leaf: Welcome amiibo.\u00a0 It let you rearrange the furniture with your touch screen, as well as add a mini camp site where you could scan amiibo figures and cards to have animals visit you in campers.\u00a0 It also added a few mini-games, one of which was a version of Puzzle League featuring AC characters.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t delve into the updates for this because it had been a couple of years since I played the game, and I didn\u2019t feel like going back for just the updates.\u00a0 Only one that interested me was the Puzzle League game.\u00a0 I think Nintendo should just release that separately as a My Nintendo reward like they did with Zelda Picross.<\/p>\n

Anyway, sorry to go off on a tangent there.\u00a0 Before they made that New Leaf update, they created a whole game out of moving furniture around with the touch screen.\u00a0 In the game, you are hired by the Happy Home Designers to be an interior decorator, and animals will come in and have you decorate their houses.\u00a0 Sometimes even Isabelle will commission you to design restaurants and stores for the strip mall where your office is located, so it\u2019s a bit more deep than it sounds.\u00a0 Even so, there wasn\u2019t much challenge to this game, and I can understand why people may have been disappointed with it.\u00a0 But I still found it a relaxing time waster and it did keep me entertained for a couple of months, which isn\u2019t shabby.\u00a0 And I also liked that it wasn\u2019t a time-based game, so you didn\u2019t have to worry about playing it every day or at certain times.<\/p>\n

One other neat thing about the game is that you could compete in online design challenges and get new furniture every few weeks.\u00a0 One time, they gave out themed furniture based on Monster Hunter, and the cat from the game showed up as an animal here.\u00a0 I found that very interesting and I bet a lot of Monster Hunter fans didn\u2019t know that.\u00a0 Just a good testament to how popular Monster Hunter is, I guess.<\/p>\n

Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival (Wii U)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Out of all the games in the series, I bet most would say this was their least favorite.\u00a0 And I can understand why, even though my least favorite is still City Folk (this would be my second, though).\u00a0 It\u2019s just a video board game where you roll the dice by scanning amiibo figures as playing pieces.\u00a0 And it\u2019s the most basic of board games, too.\u00a0 No cool rules like buying property in Monopoly or Mario Party mini-games.\u00a0 They did add some side mini-games involving amiibo figures and cards, but none were very noteworthy.\u00a0 Although the island survival game made it into the New Leaf update I mentioned earlier.\u00a0 Even though this was a disappointing game, I have to say it did have a lot of attention to detail.\u00a0 For instance, if you play as Blathers the Owl (my favorite character), when it\u2019s his turn and it\u2019s daytime, he\u2019ll be asleep at first and then wake with a start, just as he does in the other games!\u00a0 This game also introduced a myriad of AC themed amiibo figures, of which I have all of them.\u00a0 When I go to a store and see what kind of amiibo figures they have, most often it\u2019s a bunch of AC ones.\u00a0 They also released a bunch of Animal Crossing cards for this game, but I don\u2019t have them all because those came in blind packages.\u00a0 I tried to get them all for a while, but after losing my last job, I just couldn\u2019t keep up after that. \u00a0So it\u2019s just amiibo figures for me!<\/p>\n

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp (iPad)<\/strong><\/p>\n

When this game first came out in November of last year, my old iPad couldn\u2019t run it.\u00a0 So I was like, \u2018oh crap.\u2019\u00a0 So a few days later I went out and bought a new one.\u00a0 I know you\u2019re probably thinking, \u201cWow Cary, you bought a new iPad just for Pocket Camp?\u201d\u00a0 Well, not entirely.\u00a0 My old iPad is from 2012, and while it still runs fine, it can\u2019t take any new updates and there were other games lately I couldn\u2019t download either.\u00a0 So it was time for an upgrade.\u00a0 Next I should do the same with my phone, which is even older than my first iPad!\u00a0 I prefer playing mobile games on my iPad anyway.<\/p>\n

Pocket Camp is aptly named, because it\u2019s a bite-sized game about a campsite.\u00a0 Instead of a mayor of a town, you\u2019re now a manager of a campsite.\u00a0 So in Animal Crossing games I\u2019ve been a villager, NES arcade owner, mayor, interior designer, and campsite director.\u00a0 That\u2019s what gave me the idea to title this blog My Animal Crossing Resume.\u00a0 So at your campsite you can decorate it with furniture how you wish.\u00a0 You also can furnish a camper trailer, which acts as your \u2018house\u2019 in this game.\u00a0 You can expand your trailer at OK Motors similar to you how did your house at Tom Nook\u2019s place.<\/p>\n

One of the main goals of this game is to invite animals to stay at your campsite.\u00a0 To do this, you must raise your friendship levels with them by fulfilling their requests to give them fish, fruit, bugs, and shells, which you can gather in other areas.\u00a0 They\u2019ll also want certain pieces of furniture at the campsite, so when you do them favors, they give you materials for you to craft furniture.\u00a0 By driving your camper, you can visit other areas where you can fish in a stream or on the beach, pick fruit from trees, visit an island to catch bugs, shop for clothes and such at the market, and sometimes a quarry where you use a shovel to break rocks for goodies.\u00a0 Typical Animal Crossing activities scaled down for mobile play.<\/p>\n

The game is free to play, so how do they make money with this?\u00a0 With Leaf Tickets.\u00a0 Doing most anything like crafting furniture takes time, sometimes even up to 12 hours or more.\u00a0 So if you want to speed things along, you use those tickets.\u00a0 The game will give you some for achieving certain goals, but after that you must buy them with real money.\u00a0 But for patient Animal Crossing veterans, I don\u2019t think you\u2019ll have to spend too much money on this game.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t spent a red cent on this game and I have managed to get most everything I want in the timed events, and while I spent some Leaf Tickets at the beginning, I haven\u2019t done so in a long time and have over 700 tickets right now.<\/p>\n

Sure this game isn\u2019t as good as a main Animal Crossing game, but it\u2019s still kept me entertained.\u00a0 Will I be playing it a year from now like some other AC titles?\u00a0 Well, maybe not, but as long as my friends and family are playing it, and they keep having neat events, I imagine I\u2019ll be playing it for a good long while.\u00a0 Some problems I have with this game are the limited interactivity with friends, the boring garden in your campsite, and the lack of any museum to donate things you get (Blathers the Owl and his museum was always my favorite part of other AC games).\u00a0 But even so I\u2019ve had lots of fun with this game anyway.\u00a0 Several members of my family, as well as online friends are playing this game with me, like my mom and pals from 1up.\u00a0 But because it\u2019s free and on a device most everyone has, I\u2019ve also been able to get other who wouldn\u2019t normally play these kinds of games to try it, like my dad and stepdad.\u00a0 If you would like to be my friend in the game, I\u2019ll share my friend code below.<\/p>\n

9466 4856 161<\/p>\n

Animal Crossing: Friend Finder (FaceBook)<\/strong><\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t really a game, but a few weeks before the launch of Pocket Camp, Nintendo made a Web site where they picked an animal friend for you, and then you could use Facebook to share furniture with other players.\u00a0 If you got all the furniture in an area, you could get wallpaper for your phone.\u00a0 Normally I wouldn\u2019t do stuff like that on Facebook, but it was Animal Crossing, so yeah, I got all the furniture.\u00a0 So I thought I\u2019d share my wallpapers here, which you can download if you want, as long as you don\u2019t mind having PeeWee the gorilla on them.\u00a0 That\u2019s the friend they chose for me.\u00a0 I would\u2019ve rather had Blathers the Owl or Prince the Frog, but whatever, I don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

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And that\u2019s all I have to say about Animal Crossing for now.\u00a0 I think maybe the only Animal Crossing thing I haven\u2019t been involved with, beside the early games on the 64DD in Japan, was the Animal Crossing anime cartoon.\u00a0 I\u2019d love to see that.\u00a0 Anyway, in the comments section, let me know which AC games you\u2019ve played and which are your favorites?\u00a0 Do you have any special memories to share as well?\u00a0 I\u2019d love to hear them.\u00a0 Also, who are your favorite characters?\u00a0 Later!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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