Saturday, February 4, 2012

Day 35 - Feb. 4 - "Thriften Reborn!"

Animal Crossing: City Folk has a few differences than it's Gamecube adaptation. For one, the graphics make the whole game appear a lot smoother. This was the first thing I noticed when I started the game up, ready to educate myself on the fundamentals of this Wii title.

And nothing big has really changed.

Quite honestly, it almost feels like this game is nothing more than an expansion pack, similar like something you would pick up for The Sims. The town's roles for the various important villagers like Nook, Blathers, and Pelly are more broad and optimized for the expansions. Blathers can now legally identify your fossils so you don't send ten letters a day to get the things stamped with an ID tag. You can take a bus to the city area and shop there. The museum now has a fancy cafe. Tons of other little details that I may get into later.

I'm much more satisfied with the neighbors I got in this town than the last Thriften I started up. I settled between two wonderful animals, Jay (bird) and Melba (kaola). They are both fun and much more easy on the eyes than the other residents. I feel like I got lucky with Melba because the rest of the kaola's are close to nightmare fuel.

I find it difficult to try to surmise where to start this month off other than what I've been focusing on in game. For one, I'm enjoying fishing since the other activities haven't yet hit it off with me (bug catching, watering flowers, etc.). There's an enormous amount of content here that I plan to unlock as time goes on.So, again, nothing of much to mention other than my struggle with trying to figure what next big post will be about.

-Fore