What's Your Favorite Animal Crossing Game?

[MapleSilver]

I have to go with Gamecube. Yes there aren't as many features as the newer games, but it's always the one that keeps me playing the longest. Ironically having less customization makes it more relaxing to me since I'm not trying to figure out what I want my town to look like, which makes it great to play when I'm stressed.

 

[Moonlight.]

going to go with new leaf, i just love the general vibe and i have a lot of good memories associated with it.

graphics-wise, i love how city folk looks but i can't stand using the wii remote

 

[Sarah3]

My favorite AC game is either NL Or the GC version. I really miss the oldest one, brings back a lot of great memories!

 

[Stikki]

I voted new leaf. It was my first AC game and there was so much to do. New horizons feels like an unfinished game in comparison.

 

[Alyx]

I have an unpopular opinion. I strongly prefer New Horizons over New Leaf, and even though we do not have all the NPCs, all the items/all the furniture sets that we had in New Leaf, it's fine for me. The updates are small, but they are doing the best that they can during a global pandemic. I love anything that updates will give me, even if it's only small items.

New Horizons is my favorite in the series.

I can place furniture outside; crafting items and terraforming has added new life to the series. I can make my island look however I want it to and if I don't like where a rock is, I can destroy it. I can easily move furniture (where you could not move the public works projects in New Leaf).

If I don't like where a villager is located, I can move them. I have full control over where my villagers move into, so they are not destroying my work. Placing paths is easier now than ever.

I love fences. I love making yards for my villagers or placing fences along the river or cliff.

There's a lot more in the Able Sister's shop to choose from with enough color variations to satisfy everyone. I can choose where my shops go.

Scammers can't steal our flowers/use a shovel nor can they cut down our trees.

The custom design portal makes it easier for me to find and save patterns.

If I don't like something, I can destroy it, and I don't have to reset my whole game to make my face look different. I can change my hair and eyes hundreds of times a day if I want, instead of being limited to once a day by Harriet. I can change my skin color now. There's no tanning and if there was ever tanning, I could undo it in the mirror instead of having to stay inside or carry around an umbrella and wait for it to disappear.

There's no grass wear, so I can book it from one side of the island to the other all day every day if I want to without consequence. I don't know... I just really love New Horizons. I couldn't go back to New Leaf. Don't get me wrong, I'm still able to be critical of New Horizons and acknowledge that there are a lot of things missing, but I still have hope that we're going to get a lot of those missing things in future updates, so I'm not mad.

 

[Moritz]

For me the best is new horizons by a large margin.

Older games were good and all but after a few months get very boring. All there is to them is catching fish and bugs. Outside of that? Nothing.

In new horizons since they added crafting and terraforming, and even just decent pathing tools, you can do whatever you want, whenever you want.
If you want to play at night you can. If you want to play in the day you can. If you want to hunt a certain villager you can do that now in new horizons.

New horizons has kept nearly everything I loved about older titles and developed so much more on the creative side. And has just given us so much more freedom.

The longest I was able to play an older animal crossing game was 4 months before I was done with it.
With new horizons, it's been 1 and a half years, and I'm still far from sick of it.

This is the closest to the perfect animal crossing game they've made so far.
I'm excited to see how the next entry in the series takes us.

Edit: want to clarify older titles are far from bad games. I think any game that captures my attention for 4 months is incredible. I loved the older games so much I preordered the new horizons edition of the switch for release even though I already owned a switch.

Thats why I think new horizons is the best game in the series though. If I think the older titles are amazing for making me play for several months, then what is a game that makes me play for 4 times as much as new leaf did and still going?

 

[moo_nieu]

its a tie between gamecube and new horizons, but i couldnt pick two so i went with gamecube

 

[xSuperMario64x]

my favorite will always be the OG on Gamecube but New Leaf is a really close second

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

New Leaf has so much nostalgia for me. And New Horizons is everything I wanted in New Leaf. If I had to pick, I think I'd probably pick New Horizons, but New Leaf is very close. If Nintendo would just add the missing furniture, Tortimer Island + the mini-games, and the Café, and maybe even Katrina, then it wouldn't be so close. The NH graphics, and ability to put furniture outside and choose where villagers go and the ability to terraform are just amazing!

 

[CL4P-L3K]

New Leaf, easily. I like NH, and I love the new mechanics, but the game itself is so so. It's just lacking in content. I like what's there, but what isn't there bothers me. If they remade NL with the mechanics of NH it might actually be the perfect game. I'd buy two copies on day one.

 

[xlisapisa]

my favorite is definitely the GameCube animal crossing so that’s what I voted for. it was my introduction into the animal crossing world and I shared so many memories playing it with my siblings. we used to watch the real world on mtv a lot so when those live action commercials for animal crossing would come on tv it was so funny to us. I do miss my princess cone sometimes (but not a lot cause I also hated not being able to take it off lol). I think New Horizons is a very close second because all my siblings also bought this game and we played a couple times together, definitely brought back a lot of memories for us. But with all of us being adults now we don’t have as much time to play together. I think they all already stopped playing lol. I’ve played every game on the list except for City Folk and Happy Home Designer.

 

[.: Meri :.]

After some debating, I went with New Horizons. I've only played New Leaf, Happy Home Designer, and New Horizons, so it was between any of those three (and honestly kind of hard to choose). But I went with NH, even though I've only started playing it relatively recently, because in general I like the more laid-back vibe (villagers don't leave on their own, you're not punished too badly for not playing for awhile) and the increased freedom with customization.
It has its own problems for sure, like golden tools breaking, or the one-island-per-Switch thing, and I wish we had more of the content that was in earlier titles too (though I'm still holding out hope for an eventual return of the café ). But I think there have been some definite improvements since New Leaf, too—NL did Blathers and Celeste serious injustice, and they've grown on me so much more with their expanded dialogue in New Horizons. I'm also very grateful that we can see the clothes/furniture in our storage now; dressing up and decorating in New Leaf can be kind of painful when I keep going "...what does this item look like again?"

New Leaf's definitely got a lot going for it too, though, which is why I had a hard time choosing. It's my first AC game and it got me into the series to begin with, and I'm still enjoying playing now. There's a lot more to do, and there's so much beautiful furniture in New Leaf that I adore that sadly isn't present in New Horizons at all. ;; I also like the wider variety of requests you get from your villagers. I really like Happy Home Designer too, but it's kind of hard to compare it to the mainline games. Still, like New Leaf, it's got an impressive amount of furniture variety (and unlike NL, it has ceiling furniture!!) that I think New Horizons could really use, especially with NH's increased focus on decorating and customization.

 

[princess.looking.for.frog]

I voted wild world because it was any original game and I played it through to about 2018 which is when I finally got a 3ds and new leaf. wild world is my absolute favourite, I have so many sweet memories of fishing in game with my mum when I was small. I met Gladys the first time and she has stuck with me ever since, because I loved her so much and she was my best friend. she moved away randomly one day (as wild world residents sometimes did) after I didn't play for about a week. I cried. So that was a bit of a rant but wild world is so simple and has no stress (don't mention resetti though) and I recommend it to everyone to try out once.

TL;DR: man I love wild world, now you go buy it

 

[StarlitGlitch]

I voted wild world because it was any original game and I played it through to about 2018 which is when I finally got a 3ds and new leaf. wild world is my absolute favourite, I have so many sweet memories of fishing in game with my mum when I was small. I met Gladys the first time and she has stuck with me ever since, because I loved her so much and she was my best friend. she moved away randomly one day (as wild world residents sometimes did) after I didn't play for about a week. I cried. So that was a bit of a rant but wild world is so simple and has no stress (don't mention resetti though) and I recommend it to everyone to try out once.

TL;DR: man I love wild world, now you go buy it

Anyone unconvinced of WW's prowess when it comes to villager relationships should watch tama hero's video!

 

[smug villager]

i have the fondest memories of animal crossing gamecube. i used to play it with my grandmother for hours, sometimes fall asleep on the couch watching her play it. new leaf is probably the best constructed one, but now that new horizon's out i don't foresee myself returning to it anytime soon. new leaf has my vote for now though.

 

[cats_toy]

Though I’ve played Happy Home Designer, Pocket Camp, NH, ACNL is and will remain my favorite.

 

[Ossiran]

It's hard to pick. I'd probably go with the GCN game, just because it was my first one and everything in the franchise felt so new. Animals had the most personality and it just felt so magical. Though I'm sure I'd think different if I had played another game first.

 

[Cosmic-chan]

This poll is so old yet, it's here now.

 

[Geoni]

Gamecube because the villagers had a lot more personality than the following games...as did the game overall. A close second is New Leaf however.

I don't see why anyone would enjoy New Horizons more if you took out the island shaping and some of the customization of furniture. Truly the good only things it has that New Leaf doesn't.

 

[Bilaz]

I picked Wild World simply because it's my favourite Animal Crossing game. Yes I had a blast with New Leaf, and New Horizons is for sure my favourite Town Builder. But I believe Wild World is the best Animal Crossing game.
I've played the Gamecube game too and it's fantastic, it's also right up there, but Wild World did it a bit better.

The hobby system is fantastic, it makes every single character in the town feel a lot more unique. The game is *full* of NPCs and personality. Tom Nook, Blathers, Sable, everyone opens up to you over time and tells you so much backstory. You can befried Brewster, you can talk to the NPCs in the Roost. You can learn all about the friendships between the NPCs and the love triangles, you can hear the villagers gossip about each other. The game is also overflowing with true animal crossing charm and quirkiness. Even the bulletin board is hilarious in this game. The message of the week and talking to myself messages are great. So are the random messages in a bottle, and the random letters you villagers show you. Brilliant game