5 Things I Hate About Animal Crossing on GameCube

The original Animal Crossing on Nintendo GameCube is a great game, and it's one of the best AC games in the series...but it's not perfect. In this video, I count down the top five things I hate about this game.

[kstarnovagal]

It’s funny how there’s a police station in this game but you can’t report when someone vandalizes or mugs you

[Second_Trumpet]

Another annoyance with the game: when a present floats by on a balloon, sometimes it doesn't land in your town and just drifts away.

[Cherria]

3:14 i really love how you angrily pulled a weed



(i know he was trying to run)

[sugarghast]

Oh, this'll be a fun video.
*gets to fossils*
*blood pressure rises*

[EternaMidnight]

I remember the crazy problems I had with storage as a kid. My entire basement was just rows and rows of closets for my clothes. Even in new leaf I still ran out of storage space actually 😂 I have a problem.

[thepaintingbanjo]

Haven't played Animal Crossing in 3 days?


WEEDS. WEEDS EVERYWHERE.

[WorldsMeanestUser]

One thing I hate about the GC version of Animal Crossing: We never got the e+ version.

[Sophie_Dreemurr]

What I hate about the old AC games is that the villagers were so cruel to you.

[CheesySqueezy]

Hope you have a good thanksgiving Jeff

[persondude]

“You know, I’ve really enjoyed New Leaf and New Horizons, maybe I should check out the original game someti-“

*_Mailing fossils, roof paints, muggings, villagers randomly moving away, little storage_*

“WeLl nO wOnDeR tHiS sErIeS nEvEr gOt pOpUlAr”

[MarleyCarl]

I agree with this list! I wonder if the Faraway Museum was just a gimmick to force the player to buy stationary/use the post office...because you really don’t HAVE to send villagers letters (even though the game strongly encourages it).

A complaint I would add: the wishing well’s responses to “How are things?” While it gives the exact acre for too many weeds or too many/few trees, when you get to almost satisfactory it just says “with a little more effort things could be great”, like what??? Can’t you just tell me what acre it is I need to work on! Instead of chopping/growing more trees to try and fix it and usually end up just making it worse!

[MarcusIsI]

I appreciate that this video isn’t like 20 minutes long to just fill it out.

[ErikDaVinci]

I never played it as a kid. I got it second hand to my retro collection and played it recently. I struggle a lot. My first AC game was Wild World to the DS.

[giygas_]

I know people miss the sassy animals from the older games, but honestly I'm so glad the villagers in New Horizons don't pull any of this crap. I'd take the passive, often too nice villagers over this any day. Wouldn't mind if we got the sassy villagers WITHOUT the stuff mentioned in this video though.

And I'm glad the storage is a near non-issue in New Horizons.

[cooladee]

Animal Crossing on Gamecube is my favorite in the series, but there are the same problems you mention in this video that I don't like. Storage is a big problem in my Animal Crossing towns. When it comes to storage New Leaf did it the best with the large storage areas in houses and the Museum 2nd floor as secondary storage. In my Gamecube town I would actually take many of the items and fill my brother's house with them. I agree with your list.


Additional problems I have are things such as the permanent 13 villagers, The same 13 villagers for 17 years. I like all of my 13 permanent villagers, but I know some who hate a villager and the only way to get rid of them is to travel by train. And the 2 villagers that move out every few weeks, you can get one you like and it moves out in a few days.


Adding on to the Farway Museum, I have a problem with letter storage, making it harder to mail fossils.


Only being able to save using the Gyroid. There have been times I have been on the Island and I needed to stop playing and it took a few minutes to get back to the Gyroid.


Not being able to shoot down balloons, they always have to land in a tree which rarely happens. The first time one landed in a tree for me was the Harvest Festival my 2nd year playing.

[charlisbookbox]

Mailing the fossils was a royal pain, but hilarious if you accidentally sent the museum something else. I accidentally sent them a mop once.

[BoganBrett]

You can use the basement as it doesn't count towards your HHA score.

[mudkipmadness]

1. No placing stuff outside
2. No storage
3. TRAINS ARE SO SLOW.
4. Rover won't leave me alone
5. cashmere

[yoshig]

Completely agree on the lack of storage! You really do have to be SUPER organized because of it. Meanwhile in New Leaf, thanks to the Welcome Amiibo update, you have enough space for 720 items (locker, storage room, and letters if you do that still)!

[christopher]

Here’s my list of what I despise in New Horizons. If you were expecting lack of NPCs like Brewster, some of you already had that feeling but that didn’t bother me that much. Now without further ado, here they are:
7. Only craft one item at a time if you have spare materials to craft more like fish bait. To remedy this, I just get a controller with turbo and I turbo the A button.
6. Can only eat one piece of food at a time. This wouldn’t be a problem with a bunch of Turnips or snack foods like Boba, Cotton Candy, or Ice Pops.
5. Certain shells on the beach look the same and it’ll take a while to get the shell you want for your DIY even if you go Island Touring.
4. Times where fish bit the lure firmly but when you reel in, the fish just disappears.
3. Really rare timid bugs like the horned Hercules. When you creep up from a small distance, the insect just flies away.
2. Not being able to group dug up flower plants to one space in your pockets. This becomes a waste in pocket space.
1. Really long announcements when someone enters/departs the island. This happens mostly in steamed treasure islands where you find your desired item and while doing so, the announcement interrupts your progress. When someone leaves, it goes to loading, saving, then the announcement, and loading again back to the game. When someone arrives, it’s much longer. First it’s loading, then saving, then you watch a cutscene of an airport display board showing the visitor’s name, the home island, and the progress of the arrival with 5 lights. After that, you watch the visitor entering the gate, then loading again and finally back to the game. On the bright side, the game saves so you won’t lose your items in case a crash happens but this is the one thing I dislike the most.