I'm worried about the town map. I really am. I mean, would their be an icon for the police station and the cafe? And are they already built in the game, or as the mayor, you decide what to build? Maybe the player of that map hasn't placed/bought the cafe yet so it doesn't show up, and thus meaning that is the real size of the map? I mean, at the far lower right edge, the bigger mass of water kind of indicates where the waterfall drops in at. The arrow of the right is keeping me guessing. Maybe there is more to the map, or maybe it's for something else, because the actual drawing of the map shows that the mall is centered with everything else in the game. Plus, examine the length of the mall. If one side is a dead end (although, have we seen yet what is beyond the museum?), and the other side shows the ocean, that kind of indicates the town map is only as long as the mall, unless there are levels which lead to the land up the waterfall. If you notice the drawing of the map, there is a forested area that seems to have no access right above the train tunnel (come to think of it, in the drawing, doesn't it look like there might be a smaller tunnel leading somewhere?). It's flat, green, and has the the same kind of trees as the rest of the occupied town area. I just wonder, as a mayor, you can purchase more land to expand up, i.e. you can buy ramps leading up to a newer area. The drawn map is much more puzzling than the in-game map.
I'd also go with the theory that the map is much bigger than how it appears to be, since it already has 9 Villagers on it. Plus, with everything practically being in the mall, there are less buildings on the map to worry about, so an increase in villagers is likely. Another point, for what I have read, it's confirmed that the game will need up to 1GB block of space on an SD card. I don't recall how much is needed for City Folk (I think around 500MB or so) and the GameCube Animal Crossing, but I know it needs more than City Folk ever did. How can game on a handheld device need more space if it's seemingly a "smaller" game? I truly believe there is more to this game than meets the eye. I am quite confident that not every major aspect of the game will revealed before release. There might still be mysteries. I could be speculating out of my booty, but it kind of makes sense.
Another point: IF all of the villagers that were in City Folk return, and we see a big influx of new villagers, than it would be reasonable to assume that there will be more than 10 villagers per town, maybe not 25 (I'd like to see where that speculation came from) but definitely more than 10. As it is, they are bringing back a lot of the old villagers that haven't been seen since the GC Animal Crossing, like Cobb, Doc, and Velma. Plus, we've only seen 2 deer and 1 hamster. They do what they did for the monkeys and give us each one per personality. I mean, to add two new species into the mix kind of signals to me that the max cap for villagers will be reasonably high.
Sorry if I am long-winded. This is my first post, and I wanted to make it count.
