What AC Games Have You Played Apart from New Horizons?

[Akeath]

Wild World was my first one. My husband (then boyfriend) introduced me to it and I was totally charmed. I'd never seen a game anything like Animal Crossing. I loved its funny dialogue and puns, slow pace that was meant to entertain you for months of real time, peaceful feel, and incredibly varied villager designs. My husband and I would both play that game a lot. I don't know if it's just nostalgia talking, but it felt like the villager dialogue in Wild World was especially good.

City Folk is another I've played. I tried it out, but didn't care for it as much because it wasn't on a portable system and I didn't like having to leave the town to shop. So I didn't play it much and ended up going back to Wild World.

New Leaf I loved. At the time I thought it was the pinnacle of Animal Crossing. Isabelle was just so cute, and the idea of being the mayor and having the town tree grow as you worked on the town was so fun. I also loved the multiplayer games you could play on Kapp'n Island. I played them on my own, but also played with family and friends and loved the social aspect of the mini games. I thought Kapp'n's daughter is nearly as cute as Isabelle, too. I also really liked Club LOL and the format of the bug offs in New Leaf. When the Amiibo update came out I started slowly collecting the cards and today have Amiibo for about 80% of the villagers. Amiibo cards are really a game changer for how I play the game, I experiment with different villagers a lot more as a result rather than only focusing on a few dreamies.

Animal Crossing New Horizons is my absolute favorite, especially after the 2.0 update. I love that villagers don't leave if you haven't played in awhile, and that alone has kept me playing it indefinitely. In prior games I would end up not playing for awhile, see that my favorite villagers were gone and the town was a mess, and got so discouraged I stopped playing. New Horizons broke that cycle. I also appreciate the island getaway feel and I like the newer NPCs (Flick, C.J., and Daisy Mae). Terraforming and decorating outside has added a whole new element to the game and allows for a lot of creativity, and I also really like the crafting aspect and feel it fits in well with the core elements of Animal Crossing. Also the museum in New Horizons looks absolutely fantastic.

Edited to add: As far as Animal Crossing Merchandise goes, I have a plushy of Isabelle in her New Leaf outfit with a bell that has the same tone as the one in the game. It was a gift from my husband and has a lot of sentimental value to me. I also have a plushy of the villager Fauna. I have 8 Animal Crossing Amiibo figures, with my favorites being Celeste, Isabelle, and Kapp'n. I also have a huge amiibo card collection that covers about 80% of the villagers in the game. I'm hoping to get an OLED switch sometime in the future with an Animal Crossing Decal, too.

 

[Beanz]

new leaf was my first and favorite animal crossing but i’ve played every single mainline game except for city folk. new leaf and new horizons are the only ac games i play regularly, i only play population growing and wild world once in a while.

 

[Chris]

Wild World, Let's Go to the City, New Leaf, Happy Home Designer, Pocket Camp and New Horizons. I did own Amiibo Festival but I ended up selling it without even opening the plastic seal.

I've learned over the years that I prefer handheld titles and that I dislike spin-off games.

 

[LambdaDelta]

played:
doubutsu no mori
animal crossing
wild world
city folk
new leaf
happy home designer
pocket camp
new horizons
happy home paradise

haven't played:
doubutsu no mori+
doubutsu no mori e+
dongwu senlin
plaza
amiibo festival

 

[Slothicans]

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[Kitsuragi]

i played new leaf the most, some pocket camp, and the original on the gamecube. i didnt play wild world or city folk.

 

[AlyssaAC]

I've played Wild World, City Folk, New Leaf, Pocket Camp and New Horizons. I loved all of them except for Pocket Camp. I don't really like games with micro transactions or just basically having to pay for stuff constantly in a game.

 

[Romaki]

I played Wild World and New Leaf because I basically just owned handheld consoles (still do). Oh, and also Happy Home Designer, and Pocket Camp of course.

Getting into the series through Wild World was amazing because it was like my first casual game and it really changed my perspective of gaming. I love games that I can just put aside to do stuff and the game doesn't progress. I am playing New Horizons as I'm typing this.

New Leaf was great because you always unlocked something new after like 30 days. It was a slow progression that kept you playing. New Horizons feels empty once you have K. K.

 

[Ravenkitty22]

I said this in my thread on the Introduction Board, but I’ve played every game that’s been made from New Leaf on!

New Leaf was my first. I got it in 2014 and to this day it’s my favorite AC game that I’ve played. I liked being in charge but how it was slow paced, and there was always something to do.

For the spinoffs, the most noteworthy ones are Happy Home Designer, Amiibo Festival, and Pocket Camp. HHD is my favorite. Amiibo festival gets boring after a few rounds, and PC lost its charm after the second year I had it. (Also, if you still have a Wii-U and want a game to play with little kids to pass the time, amiibo festival is good for that. That’s the only thing I have a use for it now.)

New Horizons is pretty fun, not my favorite but still fun. Like others, I wish the villagers had more personality to them, and I wish it was less of a designing game- we have HHD/HHP for that. I wish I wasn’t so busy so I could actually reset my island, update the island journal, and see how the game feels now that all of the content it was intended to have is added.

Bonus question about merch: I have some. My switch case is AC themed, I have a Tom Nook T-Shirt, a few plushies (Timmy and Tommy, KK Slider), two amiibo figures, and the very huge, very outdated NH companion book from April 2020.

 

[Sarah3]

I've played every mainline AC game except Wild World! There's been some I've loved more than others, but I've never really hated any of them.

 

[moonshi]

I have played NL and Pocket Camp for a while. Love NL and would definitely go back to it, IF the graphics were remastered somehow. I also played PC for a while but it's a watered down version of AC to me. Game takes so much time loading between screens. It just didn't have the same vibes as the regular AC so I have stopped. Tried to go back a few times but always uninstalled after a few minutes.

I definitely wished Nintendo would just spend some of that time working on updating PC to NH. That would make so many people happy.

 

[TheRevienne]

I've played them all apart from GameCube. Wild World was one of the first games I got for my DS Lite I got for Christmas one year. We were staying at my aunt's house, and I always stayed in the study in a sleeping bag. I never could sleep Christmas Eve, even less so when it's not my own house, so I snuck downstairs and peeped at a present, which was My Sims for the DS. Now I didn't have one, my dad did, which I was very jealous of. So I wrapped it back up and went back upstairs. But I couldn't shake the fact I didn't have a DS out of my head, but there was a bigger box, so I went back down, opened that, and there it was, a pink DS Lite. I don't remember if I found Wild World on my little nightly excursion, but I rewrapped the DS box and went down another 2 or 3 times to make sure I wasn't dreaming, which I wasn't. I also took it out of the box and booted it up, so when I opened it the next morning, I had to pretend to open the seals so my dad didn't suspect it (it was a present from him). So that was how I got started in the franchise. My Wii and City Folk were also presents, but I got my 3DS and New Leaf, and my switch and New Horizons myself As for merch, I don't have much, just a few amiibos I got in packs and some I bought separately off eBay for New Horizons before it launched (I preordered it months in advance)

 

[DarthGohan1]

Played the original Animal Crossing for Gamecube when it came out. It was one of my favorite games (still is). I first found out about the game in Nintendo Power and remember being really excited, I knew it was going to be good.

Bought the game soon after it came out, it came with its own Animal Crossing-themed memory card. Had 2 close friends who got into Animal Crossing, and we played a lot together (no multiplayer back then, though). I remember one summer finding codes for exclusive items and typing them into the game... and the codes were not short by any means. I can still remember quite a bit about the game and my house in it... I had NES games in my basement. I loved the Nintendo themed items like the Metroid, Triforce, etc. and kept those in the main room. And the one furniture theme I really liked was Modern.

In between getting Animal Crossing for Gamecube and Wild World coming out I discovered Nsider and then TBT. Once news started to come out about Wild World and the fact that it would have online multiplayer, everyone at TBT was super excited. Imagine having a favorite game that was very niche, not many people appreciated, that you mostly just enjoy by yourself... and then all of sudden you can play with your friends from TBT who love the game as much as you do. That was the build-up hype for Wild World.

And Wild World did not disappoint. While not as memorable for me as the original on Gamecube, I still really enjoyed AC:WW. Lots of fun nights playing online with TBTers. I recall @Justin always being ready to host everyone.

Then I didn't play any new Animal Crossing game for 15? years... but had been thinking about getting a Switch for a while and when the pandemic hit, finally gave in and got New Horizons. Glad I did, it's been a lot of fun getting back into playing Animal Crossing regularly. And Gyroids are back!!

 

[Etown20]

Of the main games, the ones I haven't played are Wild World and City Folk. I used to own the original when it came out (I don't remember it well) and still own New Leaf and New Horizons.

I do have a DS and have thought about picking up Wild World just to try it.

 

[PacV]

City Folk, New Leaf, Pocket Camp and Amiibo Festival.

I always want to play the N64, Game Cube and Wild World games tho…

 

[Sucre]

I played Wild World first, I got it when I was like 8 and had no idea what the concept of the game was. Back then my main goal was just to get pretty clothes and make my house bigger, I din't really care much about my villagers.
Then I played new Leaf, in pretty much the same way. I liked that I could change my hairstyle in this one.
I tried playing Pocket Camp but I didn't really click with it, it was pretty boring.
And now I'm playing New Horizon! It's my most played game out of all of them, also the one I feel like I enjoyed it the most ^^

 

[Xara]

i’ve played wild world, new leaf and pocket camp! wild world was my introduction to the franchise, and i got it as a christmas present back in 2007/2008. i think i was too young to appreciate how amazing of a game it was, but i loved it so, so much and played for years. one of the best parts of my childhood tbh. :’) just thinking about it makes me feel all fuzzy and nostalgic — its OST is also my favourite from the entire franchise! i was only 5-6 years old when i got it though, so i have plenty of silly memories of it as well (thinking i’d get to become an animal when i paid off my home loans in full, giving k.k. slider real song names whenever he asked for requests, stealing flowers from my villagers during flower fest so that i’d win every time etc) lol.

i got new leaf the day it released in NA and while it wasn’t my introduction to ac, it was the game that really made me appreciate the franchise. it’s also the game that got me into trading and playing with others, so i’ll always be grateful for that. i don’t think i really have a favourite ac game since i honestly love all the ones i’ve played equally, but i think new leaf was the one i had the most fun with. i even had 3 towns — my main one, my old main one (the first town and copy of the game i had) and one that i kept trying to turn into a cycling town but never stuck with for long lol. man, i miss the new leaf days. i’ve even been considering picking a copy of it up again.

i have an on-and-off relationship with pocket camp. i first started playing it when it first launched in 2017 and loved it. i even got my then friends to start playing and they had a lot of fun with it as well despite not really being into ac. i’ve continued to play it on-and-off over the years, the last time being in 2020 shortly after new horizons came out. the constant events and new items are a bit too overwhelming for me and have deterred me from picking it up again, but otherwise i have nothing bad to say about it! it really helped make waiting for new horizons more bearable.

 

[JKDOS]

All of them, aside from Ammibo Festival. Other than amiibos and the 3DS theme, no I haven't purchased merchandise.

I started with Wild World world, and it was because I liked that game so much that I got one my siblings to get the Gamecube version shortly after so we could play.

Still to this day I haven't put much effort into the Gamecube game. It's more of something I checkout just to remind myself what the game was/is like. It is a bit hard to play when the newer games have some great improvements.

Animal Crossing was a weird game for a newcomer. Within the first couple days of playing, I remember getting a lawnmower from Nook, and finding out it goes in my house. It made me question what the point of it was.

Wild World probably had the best multiplayer experience outside of the few rotten eggs who would destroy your town, or worse, your entire game cartridge.

People would constantly just open their gates and leave them open for others to join. So you'd constantly go to the gates to see who was open, and if no one was, you'd open. Everyone was really social. You'd join in towns and just have conversations about anything. And a lot of players would use the bulletin board to write paragraphs to each other if there was a lot they had to say.

I've never seen such multiplayer experience on New Leaf or New Horizons. New Horizons is probably the worst, because now a lot of hosts are extremely strict with visitors. And if you make 1 wrong move, you're dead.

City Folk was like a remaster of Wild World which is great. The city was a nice addition, the music was higher quality, and there were even some new features. There are a couple things exclusive to Wild World though that City Folk didn't get.


New Leaf was a game changer because your character finally had legs, and you could put your house where ever you wanted it. I think public works projects were poorly executed though, and villagers in this game were a mess. They'd plop their houses down where ever there was room, which could result in their houses being in the most annoying spots. Also, once they were in boxes, they were gone, you could not beg them to stay. If you missed them telling you they were leaving, it was over for you.


There's a lot great about New Horizons, but it seems like the devs cut a lot of what made Animal Crossing great from the game at the same time. The QoL improvements are greatly appreciated. Being able to redesign your character at any moment, larger inventory, larger mailbox, the ability to reshape rivers, move rocks, 100s of design slots. New Horizons is missing so much though in its v1.0 state that it's more of an early access thing. I hope they do better with the next game.

After New Leaf got its Welcome Amiibo update, the game had a New Game+ feature, which was a really cool way to get back into the game, restart it, and keep some progress. It's really sad New Horizons hasn't gotten such a thing, especially with v2.0. New Horizons has so many things to collect and unlock that resetting your town is a hard decision to make.

No Animal Crossing game aside from Pocket camp has had any option menu for sound/music volume levels, which is an odd game design decision. There's always next time I guess.

I enjoy Animal Crossing, and will likely keep buying the games as long as Nintendo keeps making them.

 

[DarthGohan1]

Within the first couple days of playing, I remember getting a lawnmower from Nook, and finding out it goes in my house.

Ah yes, the magic of Animal Crossing

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

I’ve played Wild World and New Leaf. Wild World I didn’t play very much of because I don’t like how blurry the graphics look. New Leaf I did enjoy but I could never get the Police Station which is very odd as I had literally every other building and shop in multiple games. Also Happy Home Academy which I felt somewhat disappointed with because there is absolutely no challenge to the game and the fact that you could literally throw a Resident’s things away and leave them with a complete empty house and them not expressing any emotions other than joy felt lame. I wanted them to tell you if you did a bad job when necessary.