Nintendo released a new ANIMAL CROSSING game for the 3DS called ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW LEAF on June 9. It’s so good, it’s addictive! After starting the game you’ll often want to stop whatever it is you’re doing in real life just to check up on all your friends and projects in the game.
In ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW LEAF you are no longer just a villager in a new place – you are the mayor of the whole town! The game starts off with you moving to a new town and for some unknown reason all of the people there welcome you as their new mayor! In this new ANIMAL CROSSING, you are responsible for making sure the entire town is happily growing into a big beautiful community.
The game follows actual time, so if there is an event like a birthday party or a store opening set for 3:30 p.m. in the game, you have to make sure you’re free at 3:30p.m. in real life or else you’ll miss it.
One of the things that makes ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW LEAF so fun is that the game doesn’t punish you. You can’t lose, you don’t die and you don’t have to restart if you make a mistake. Everyday there are lots of fun goals, jobs and smaller challenges for you to complete, but if you don’t finish something the only thing that happens is that you didn’t finish it. If you didn’t go on your 3DS in time to visit a citizen, or to play in a competition, the only thing that happens is you missed it. You don’t have to restart the day, you don’t lose money and your citizens forgive and forget easily. It is a really nice change from a lot of other RPGs that make you repeat a task over and over until you get a certain score or that take away your belongings each time you make a mistake.
ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW LEAF is bright and colourful, relaxing, funny and full of personality.
VERDICT: 4/5