With much excitement I headed out on Friday evening to pick up the latest installment of the Animal Crossing franchise… Animal Crossing: City Folk. I was super excited about it as I was a huge fan of the game on my Nintendo DS. I headed off to Game Stop, traded in bunch of games and got the version with WiiSpeak for $4.99 after all my trade ins. I rushed home to play and I have to say… I was very disappointed.

Is there anything majorly wrong with the game? No… not at all. However, there was not enough different about the game from the DS to the Wii to make it worth playing again. I could have had just as good a time trashing my town on my DS and starting over. Nintendo did nothing special for the Wii. I was hoping that I’d have to “dig” with the remote but no… just press a button. Even the “city” section of the game is just a permanent spot for characters that used to come in to the DS game on certain days. You used to have to make sure u were in your town on special days to see those folks… not so much anymore.

Long story short… if you’ve never played Animal Crossing… get it. If you have it on your DS… pass.