What Is The Objective Of Animal Crossing

2001 video game

This article is about the video game. For the series, see Animal Crossing.

2001 video game

Animal Crossing
North American cover art of the GameCube version
Programmer(southward)	Nintendo EAD
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Director(s)	Katsuya Eguchi Hisashi Nogami
Producer(s)	Takashi Tezuka
Programmer(due south)	Yuhiki Otsuki Masaru Ni[two]
Artist(southward)	Noriko Ikegawa Yoshihisa Morimoto
Writer(southward)	Makoto Wada Kenshirou Ueda Kunio Watanabe
Composer(due south)	Kazumi Totaka Kenta Nagata Toru Minegishi Shinobu Tanaka
Series	Animal Crossing
Platform(due south)	Nintendo 64 GameCube iQue Player
Release	Nintendo 64 JP: April xiv, 2001 GameCube JP: December 14, 2001 NA: September 16, 2002 AU: Oct 17, 2003 EU: September 24, 2004 e+ JP: June 27, 2003 iQue Player PRC: June 1, 2006 [1]
Genre(s)	Life simulation
Mode(s)	Unmarried-player, multiplayer

Animate being Crossing , known in Japan every bit Dōbutsu no Mori+ ,^[a] is a 2001 social simulation video game developed and published by Nintendo for the GameCube. Information technology is an enhanced version of the Nintendo 64 game Dōbutsu no Mori ,^[b] which was only released in Nippon earlier the same year, and was followed by some other edition, Dōbutsu no Mori eastward+ ,^[c] in 2003.

Animal Crossing is an countless and non-linear game in which a human takes upward residence in a village inhabited by anthropomorphic animals. The principal goal of the game is to save money in order to pay off the mortgage on the human'southward business firm. This requires collecting natural materials and selling them. The human can engage in everyday life in the hamlet, interact with the animals, attend events, and contribute to the hamlet'southward development. The game'southward western localization differs significantly from the original release in that Japanese holidays and cultural references are replaced with Western ones.

The game was originally conceived every bit a function-playing adventure, with the main action taking place in dungeons. However, development was stalled past the failure of the 64DD peripheral. Reviewing the existing developments, designer Katsuya Eguchi decided to create a non-linear life simulator, which would carry the themes of family, friendship, and community as well as permit several players to develop a virtual town at unlike times. Eguchi also wanted to create a game that catered to a wider audience inclusive of those unfamiliar with video games.

Creature Crossing was a critical and commercial success domestically and internationally, attracting many non-traditional gaming audiences. Critics praised the game's unusual simply immersive and addictive gameplay, which was devoid of purpose and stressful elements. Criticisms centered on its outdated graphics and simple fine art way. The game is considered one of the earliest examples of the casual game genre, and marked the beginning of a franchise of the same name, which saw further success in its sequels.

Gameplay [edit]

A screenshot of the overworld, featuring the player'southward character. The game features graphics from the Nintendo 64 version.

Fauna Crossing is a social simulation game, dubbed a "communication game" by Nintendo.^[iii] It is open-concluded, and the player's character tin live a carve up life with very niggling set plot or mandatory tasks. Players assume the role of a new resident to the town. The gender and looks of the grapheme depend on answers given to a cat named Rover, whom the actor meets on the train the character takes to the town. There are besides tasks that players can complete and goals they tin achieve. The game is played in real-time, observing days, weeks, months and years using the GameCube's internal clock. Many real-life events and holidays span the year, including Independence Mean solar day, Halloween, the Harvest Festival (Thanksgiving), and Toy Day (Christmas). Other activities, such as fishing tournaments and early on-forenoon fitness classes, occur on a regular schedule. When players cease playing, they tin can talk to their Gyroid, a brute next to their firm, to save their progress. If the role player turns off the game or resets the GameCube without saving first, a mole named Mr. Resetti appears in forepart of the role player'south house the adjacent time they play to scold them for resetting; what they achieved during the previous unsaved game is lost, but everything else is kept.

One of the chief goals of the game, given to the histrion during the game's opening cut scenes, is to increase the size of the player'southward character'south house. This house is the repository for furniture and other items acquired during the form of the game. Information technology tin can be customized in several ways, such as roof colour, furniture, music, wallpaper and flooring. These customisations are judged by the Happy Room Academy (HRA).

Tom Nook, a tanuki (raccoon dog) in the Japanese versions and a raccoon in the American and European versions, runs the local store. At the start of the game, he gives the player their first house with a mortgage of 19,800 Bells (the in-game currency). After paying the debt, part of which is washed through a role-fourth dimension chore with Nook, the firm is expanded, prompting another debt from Nook. The house is expanded several times during the course of the game. Players can sell virtually anything to Nook in exchange for Bells. Equally the player buys and sells items at Nook'southward store, it will gradually aggrandize, offering a wider selection of products for purchase. Players can too visit locations such equally the Able Sisters' clothing store, where they can buy or design new clothes; the Police Station, where they can obtain boosted items from the Lost and Found; and the Museum, where they can donate fossils, paintings, fish and insects to put on display.

The village initially contains six villagers, and more villagers move in or out depending on the player's actions. There is a maximum of 15 villagers living at that place at a time. All villagers are animals and each has a domicile that the player tin can visit. At that place are many possible interactions betwixt the role player and the villagers, including talking, trading items, completing tasks, writing letters, and, in due east+, ownership medicine for when they get sick. Villagers interact with each other independent of role player control.

Multiplayer [edit]

Up to four players can have turns creating their ain houses in a unmarried village. They can each affect the village in their ain ways, communicate with each other via the town board and post, and share in the experiences of the village. Multiple players tin can have turns aircraft items to each other via Tom Nook, using a system of codes. Multiplayer NES games are available.

The traveling system allows each player to visit other players' villages. This arrangement requires an additional retention card with the game'south data, and iii blocks of retention to save travel information. Players can meet new villagers, store at stores, drop items, and do nearly annihilation else that they can do in their own boondocks. Visitors have reduced privileges and do not receive the same services that they would in their own town. For example, another town'south Tom Nook will not travel to pigment a roof, which means players cannot purchase paint in some other town. Afterwards visiting another town, 1 of the villagers may motion to the visited town. If the visited town has a full fifteen villagers, this volition prompt someone from the visited town to move abroad. Depending upon how many memory cards a role player or their friends own, there can exist many other villages to see and different items to find. If a player interacts with a villager who has moved away from their village to the visited village, the villager will retrieve the player.

Game Male child Advance connectivity [edit]

Game Boy Accelerate connectivity plays a part in Brute Crossing, using a Nintendo GameCube – Game Male child Advance link cable. Each town has an isle that tin exist accessed by plugging in a Game Boy Advance with a GameCube link cable. A character chosen Kapp'n ferries the player to the isle for costless. An exclusive animate being roams the island, with whom the thespian tin can become friends. The island has an exclusive blazon of fruit: coconuts. The actor can as well decorate a small communal embankment house and fish at the shores. On leaving, the role player tin download the island to a GBA and give fruit to the villager, who drops Bells; if the thespian returns to the isle, they can pick upwardly the money that has been dropped. Players tin can leave the islander tools to employ, such as the shovel or net. Downloaded islands can exist traded between GBAs, using a Game Boy Accelerate Link Cable.

The Game Male child Accelerate can be used when shopping at the Able Sisters. The pattern design tool can be downloaded to a Game Boy Advance, and the player tin then upload designs made on a Game Boy Advance to the GameCube. This feature tin exist accessed by plugging in a Game Boy Accelerate with a GameCube Game Boy Advance Cablevision and talking to Mabel in the Able Sisters shop. The game is also compatible with the eastward-Reader; by visiting the Post Function while continued to the accessory via the Game Boy Advance link cablevision, players can scan Animal Crossing themed cards to receive new items, town tunes, or pattern designs.

Nintendo Entertainment System games [edit]

Players can collect various Nintendo Amusement Organization games in Animal Crossing, which are playable via emulation. Northward American releases were packaged with a memory card that automatically gave the actor ii games upon creating a game file. Others are acquired in various ways, such as gifts from villagers, subconscious on the island, or via special giveaways from Nintendo'south website. The available NES games differ slightly betwixt each release.

The following NES games are available for play:

Game	Doubutsu no Mori	Doubutsu no Mori+	Fauna Crossing / Doubutsu no Mori e+
Airship Fight	Yes	Yes	Yep
Baseball game	No	Yeah	Yes
Clu Clu Land	Yes	Yes	Yes
Clu Clu Land D	No	Yes	Aye
Donkey Kong	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ass Kong Jr.	No	Yes	Yes
Donkey Kong Jr. Math	Yeah	Aye	Yes
Donkey Kong 3	No	Yes	Yeah
Excitebike	No	No	Aye
Golf	Yeah	Aye	Yes
Gomoku Narabe Renju	No	Yeah	No
Mahjong	No	Yes	No
Pinball	Yes	Aye	Yep
Punch-Out!!	No	Yep	Yes
Soccer	No	No	Yes
Tennis	Yes	Yes	Aye
Wario's Woods	No	Yes	Yes

4 additional NES games are not obtainable in-game through normal ways. In Northward America, two of these games, Water ice Climber and Mario Bros., were released through the use of two e-Reader cards, which were non distributed in Europe or Japan. Japanese players received Ice Climber equally a souvenir if they used a special service provided by Nintendo to transfer their relieve data from Dōbutsu no Mori to Dōbutsu no Mori+; this service has since been discontinued. Super Mario Bros. was distributed in Nippon as a Famitsu prize to Dōbutsu no Mori+ players. The Legend of Zelda exists in the game's code, but is not accessible in-game. These iv bonus games can be obtained using a crook device in before GameCube releases, but were removed in Dōbutsu no Mori eastward+.

The Advance Play feature allows players to link a Game Boy Accelerate to the GameCube and temporarily transfer the NES game to the handheld. This is not uniform with games that were originally produced for the Famicom Disk Organisation, such equally Clu Clu Land D and The Fable of Zelda, or are larger than 192 KB, such as Punch-Out!! and Wario's Woods, equally they cannot fit into the GBA'due south RAM. All other games can be played via Advance Play, merely multiplayer functionality is non supported and their graphics appear slightly squashed on the GBA's display due to its smaller vertical resolution.

An additional NES piece of furniture particular was intended to allow players to emulate other NES titles non included with the game by reading NES ROMs stored on the role player'south memory card. While the emulator remains accessible in the final game, no additional ROMs were ever distributed, leaving the feature ultimately unused. In 2018, an independent software developer managed to contrary engineer the emulation software and convert ROMs into a compatible format, allowing new NES games to be imported into the Animal Crossing emulator.^[four]

Development and release [edit]

The game was developed past Nintendo EAD with an inexperienced squad led past Katsuya Eguchi, Hisashi Nogami, and Super Mario co-creator Takashi Tezuka, almost of whom had regrouped later on the release of Yoshi's Story in 1997. The 64DD peripheral served as an enabling applied science platform for the conception and development of the game, with its real-time clock and 64MB floppy disk for writable mass storage.^[5] Due to 64DD's extended delays and cancellation, the game's evolution was moved to the Game Pak cartridge medium—the only Game Pak containing a existent-time clock—plus a Controller Pak for saving progress.^[6] Kazumi Totaka served as the game's sound director.^[7] Kenta Nagata composed background music for the fields, Toru Minegishi for the indoor areas and Shinobu Tanaka for the events.^[seven] The game was originally released as Dōbutsu no Mori (lit. "Animate being Forest") on the Nintendo 64 in Japan in April 2001. Information technology is the terminal game Nintendo released for the Nintendo 64, and 3rd to final game released for the arrangement in Japan.^[8]

The game was ported to the GameCube as Dōbutsu no Mori+, released on Dec xiv, 2001, in Nippon, eight months after the original game. This version contains actress features that were originally left out of the Nintendo 64 version, and uses the GameCube's congenital-in clock. This led to the game's slogan, "the real life game that's playing, even when y'all're not". Dōbutsu no Mori+ cost ¥7,140 with 92,568 copies sold during its kickoff week in Nippon.^[9]

When Nintendo began localizing Dōbutsu no Mori+ for release in N America as Animal Crossing, the game underwent an immense translation project, which resulted in much more text than the Japanese version. Not only did thousands of lines of text have to be translated, but translators Nate Bihldorff and Rich Amtower^[7] had to create new holidays and items to be relatable outside of Japan. The translation procedure took six months full, which at the time was Nintendo of America's largest translation project to engagement.^[x] Nintendo'due south Japanese leadership was then impressed with the work done by Nintendo of America'southward Treehouse division that they added the American content back into the Japanese version and released it equally Dōbutsu no Mori east+ along with more new content.^[eleven] It was released in Japan on June 27, 2003, with 91,658 copies sold during its commencement week.^[12]

Reception [edit]

Upon its release, Animal Crossing was subject to critical acclaim. It was named the seventh best game of all time on the GameCube past the television show X-Play on the G4 network.^[22] On IGN, the game holds an "outstanding" ix.1 rating.^[21]

Some critics praised the game'south utilise of the GameCube'south internal clock and calendar and its inclusion of hidden NES games. However, others, such every bit IGN'due south Peer Schneider, criticized its audio and visuals, for being beneath-standard quality for a GameCube game.^[21] Co-ordinate to the review aggregator site Metacritic, the game received a score of 87 out of 100, indicating "generally favorable reviews" based on 42 critics.^[fourteen] According to GameRankings, the game received a score of 86% based on 72 reviews.^[13] The game was a commercial success, at more than 2 meg copies sold worldwide.^{[23] [24]} By July 2006, one.3 million copies had been sold, totaling $43 1000000 in the Usa. Adjacent Generation ranked information technology as the 37th highest-selling game launched for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, or GameCube betwixt January 2000 and July 2006 in that state.^[25] It is ane of the best-selling Nintendo GameCube games.^[26] ScrewAttack rated it the fifth-all-time GameCube game on its "Good day to the GameCube, ten GameCube games" list, proverb, "Information technology's a game that plays even when you're non and can last up to 30 years!"^[27] The popularity of the series inspired the creation of an animated film based on the game's sequel Animal Crossing: Wild World, titled Dōbutsu no Mori, which was released exclusively in Nihon.^[28]

Accolades [edit]

The University of Interactive Arts & Sciences awarded information technology the Innovation in Console Gaming, Outstanding Achievement in Game Design, Console Office-Playing Game of the Year and nominated it for Console Game of the Year, Panel Role-Playing Game of the Twelvemonth, Game of the Yr, Innovation in Console Gaming, Outstanding Achievement in Game Pattern, and Outstanding Achievement in Gameplay Technology.^[29] GameSpot named it the best GameCube game of September 2002,^[30] and gave the game its annual "Best Role-Playing Game on GameCube" award. Information technology was a runner-upwardly for GameSpot 'south 2002 "Game of the Year on GameCube" prize, but lost to Metroid Prime.^[31] The game was ranked 126th in Electronic Gaming Monthly's "The Greatest 200 Video Games of Their Fourth dimension" in 2006.^[32] In 2021, The Stiff National Museum of Play inducted Animate being Crossing to its Earth Video Game Hall of Fame.^[33]

Notes [edit]

1. ^ Japanese: どうぶつの森+, Hepburn: Dōbutsu no Mori Prasu , lit. Fauna Wood+
2. ^ どうぶつの森 , Dōbutsu no Mori , lit. Animal Woods
3. ^ どうぶつの森e+ , lit. Animal Forest e+

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External links [edit]

• Japanese Doubutsu no Mori (Nintendo 64) website
• European Animal Crossing (GameCube) website

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