Animal Crossing: Lets Go To The City (Wii)
"Feel free to browse, but not to carouse! Ho ho!" – Tom Nook
Today’s review is from our guest reviewer, Gemma!
As soon as my finance (Gary) bought me a Wii for Christmas I was searching for what kind of games I would like to play - I have not really played a games console properly since my Sega Mega Drive back in the mid 90’s… I did not really know what kind of game I would like to play, after reading IGN I decided I liked the look of Animal Crossing: Let’s go to the city.
Let's go the City begins in the same way as previous games in the series have (so I have been told) you start the game by travelling on a bus to your new town of residence. You talk to an animal called Rover who asks you some questions which enable you to name your character and town you also get to pick you gender. Once you have picked you town name you then leave the bus with some tips on who to speak to in your town.
You first need to visit the Town Hall, there you will meet the mayor, he will then ask you if you wish to buy a house, four houses available to pick you can go to each house and have a look inside and decided which one you like the look of, none of them are big in fact they are all the same size, they are just in different locations on the map, I decided to pick my house near the river. You don't have any money to begin with, you will need to go and work for Tom Nook to earn some cash in order to pay you mortgage you can pay it back over the course of your time in town, there is no deadline. Working in Tom Nooks learns you a few basics (like writing letters and notes, how to deliver things to your fellow people within your town), you only work for Tom for a short period of time then it is up to you to raise money to pay off your mortgage.
Your first house has a mortgage of around 20,000 bells, the best way of making bells ( this is the form of money the game uses ) is to catch fish, insects and apples, as soon as you have 500 bells buy a fishing rob, I find this the most fastest way of making bells. House renovations and extensions cost more money, once you may off your initial mortgage you can extend.
The main aim of animal crossing is to make bells and improve your house (wells that’s what I am doing at the moment) I am not really into all the events that take place on a monthly basis… there are fishing tournaments etc
Overall I think Animal Crossing: Let’s go to the city is a fun game and can be quite addictive in the beginning but this will ware off after a few weeks… I think it is a fun game that does not use too much gaming skill.
