The Original Animal Crossing Compared to New Leaf

[Excalibur Goddess]

The original Animal Crossing player looks really tiny compared to the New Leaf player. c:

 

[Cyn]

More random weirdness in the original. I miss that. Oh and NES games!!

 

[Excalibur Goddess]

I miss getting to play with the random balls around town and the monkey with the train D:>

 

[Spak]

K.K. Slider belongs with an acoustic guitar, not with a turntable.

 

[Cyn]

Wisp, flying saucers, balloon presents without balloon furniture, turning on and off the lighthouse for Tortimer when he goes on vacation, not having the pressures of mayoral duty thrown at me.

 

[Excalibur Goddess]

No pressure with what our hair looks like~ :D

 

[ELITEWarri0r115]

I personally like the original better. Despite being able to fully customize your character in new leaf, you are stuck with a hat and one outfit in the original which can only be changed by buying new clothes (which I hate) but the Gamecube version feels more relaxing and more smooth. Even the town to me feels huge. New leaf's town feels very small... but that is the 3ds capability. I feel sad that my favorite animal in animal crossing (ruby) is not in the original, but I'm fine with that. However... My gamecube animal crossing is very slow and lags a lot. (you guessed it. emulators)

 

[Excalibur Goddess]

I personally like the original better. Despite being able to fully customize your character in new leaf, you are stuck with a hat and one outfit in the original which can only be changed by buying new clothes (which I hate) but the Gamecube version feels more relaxing and more smooth. Even the town to me feels huge. New leaf's town feels very small... but that is the 3ds capability. I feel sad that my favorite animal in animal crossing (ruby) is not in the original, but I'm fine with that. However... My gamecube animal crossing is very slow and lags a lot. (you guessed it. emulators)

I tried playing Animal Crossing with the emulator too ;~;

 

[ELITEWarri0r115]

I tried playing Animal Crossing with the emulator too ;~;

Well, there one option left to play it (my best friend has done it too.) by using Homebrew

 

[Excalibur Goddess]

Well, there one option left to play it (my best friend has done it too.) by using Homebrew

Where did he/she find Homebrew? :o

 

[Spak]

Where did he/she find Homebrew? :o

http://hbc.hackmii.com/

 

[Enderwoman]

Bump. We don't seem to have any Animal Crossing topics so I guess Ill just bump this one.

I find New Leaf to be the best entry in the whole series, there really isn't any reason to go back to the other Animal Crossing games unless you're feeling nostalgic. I really prefer the updated art style from the other games, everything looks much more natural and I like that Villagers look taller. And while the town is overall kind of tiny, I don't feel like it has to be big. Its just enough to work with IMO.

 

[JoeKarta]

nevermind please

 

[FairyGardens435]

Well, the animal villagers certainly don't freak out in New Leaf if you say no to a task, compared to the original. Here's an example...

Original:
Villager: Hey, could you help me with *insert job here*?
You: No, thanks.
Villager: ...WHAT?! YOU ARE SO MEAN! YOU AREN'T MY FRIEND ANYMORE!

New Leaf:
Villager: Hey, can you help me with *insert job here*?
You: No, thanks.
Villager: Oh... that's alright.

Just something that's always bugged me about the original, but it can be funny if it's an animal villager you hate.

 

[Marxally]

Nostalgia, geez, I might replay the original AC again, it was so funny and random compared to New Leaf

 

[Bee86]

My personal favorite is the original, mostly because of the graphics, music, and memories attached to it, but I also love how ridiculous some of the dialogue was. I mean, look at this snarky f*cker:

But seriously, I don't think people give this game's music enough credit. Still the best in the series 15 years later.

 

[Bassoonist]

I personally enjoyed the GCN version more than New Leaf, but I can say that New Leaf easily surpassed the original. It's the first sequel in the series I can really say has even come come close to doing that, and it does it well.

It's amazing they came up with something as good as New Leaf after City Folk where it felt like they had really given up on making a quality title anymore.