Animal Crossing Town Evolution in under 60 seconds

The Animal Crossing town changed in every Animal Crossing game so far.

[SierraLarson]

As someone recreating my Gamecube town, I can safely say that the 42 acres in NH isn't all land. It counts the water. In terms of spaces, when I was measuring it, the NH island is shorter, but also wider. (Not counting the beaches, only grass.)

[MoritsukiRei]

New Leaf was best for gameplay, but New Horizons is absolutely gorgeous and no one can change my mind.

[Chocolatemilkpro]

Fun fact about wild world map. The older versions only allowed for two sides and no third land mass. My cousin had a newer copy and I was so jealous of that land mass.

[Skystarry]

New Leaf might be small, but they did have the smarts to separate out some of the shops and buildings onto Main Street.

The Main Street has the Museum, Nooks Homes, The Post Office, The Nookling Store, The Able Sisters, The Happy Home Showcase, Kicks Shoes, The Dream Suite, Club LOL and Katrina's Fortunes, along with The Garden Center before it gets absorbed into the Nookling Store.

The forest section has, at most Town Hall, Town Square, Re-tail, The Roost Cafe, The Reset Center and The Police Station, along with up to 10 villager homes, 4 player houses and the public works projects.



The result is that the town doesn't end up feeling that small.

[arc]

I enjoyed Wild World the most.
Villagers still had personality and the music was amazing. It was so cozy.

Nothing has matched it since for me.

[youryen]

I miss the GameCube version. Talking to the animals always seemed so much more entertaining in that version

[MrKittyhead]

I actually really want a remaster or remake of the OG AC with some qol updates. It looks really fun, and they could add in some of the new villagers and such.

[howdycowboy]

I had a 3 tier town in GameCube my first playthrough in 2003. I've been searching for another now that I'm older and it feels impossible lol

[HorrorGirlNat]

I just wish Nintendo would've added Welcome Amiibo to NH. All the furniture from different Nintendo games and the furniture from the Sable sisters shop were gorgeous.

[javadog]

I restarted my animal crossing town on GC a lot. I had a town with 3 tiers once and a town with a small island along the beach as well! It blew my little 10 year old mind seeing the island or 3 tiers haha

[nintendosage]

Those cliffs were why I hated City Folk, because it was so annoying having to follow a single route to go from top to bottom. One way to help players (and to know where to place paths) was the grass wear. It was forced to happen, because you couldn't take a different route down a cliff, you had to take the ramp. So, many players covered their worn grass with designs.

[Kikakowia]

My Gamecube town had 3 tiers! Happiest day of my Animal Crossing life was when Tortimer suggested we add a bridge to the middle level. 😭

[Amberlily]

I liked that wild world was flat… trying to find the thing so I could go up and down a tier was irritating

[TheLbp]

The gcn version also had  fifteen villager limit  wished they'd bring 15 back.

[aMse]

Why does no one ever talk about city folk, like it was my childhood

[Babiemelo]

I played acww pretty much my whole life I’ve had the same game card since I was 5 I’m almost 22 and never knew you could have islands I’ve never had them I’m not about to reset my town just to get one though since I got the last nooks upgrade a couple years ago after my sister bought a new copy of wild world but it crashes sometimes :(

[sqjrhrod]

You should see the pocket world, its tiny and its not even a town its a tent floor and a hammock. I got introduced to animal crossing from this game and I thought the rest of the games would've been just as bad lol 😭

[MiracleRebecca]

Even with 42 acres it's still not enough space to decorate! 😂

[Lainyofthewires]

New horizons is the definition of quantity over quality.

[blackwolfalch]

GameCube animal crossing and wild world were the best ones imo but horizons was pretty cool too