Animal Crossing: Wild World Turns 15 - A Retrospective

The Wild World/Cityfolk experience is a valuable one that is now 15 years old.

All the remixes done in the video:

Credit to @jvgsjeff for the photo footage and @tydaze for his sick NL desert town.

[shadesdogs]

back in wild world i felt like i was actually friends with my villagers, but in new horizons it feels like i'm pulling a string on their back that makes them say one of 10 special phrases

[u-nicole]

My favorite part about Wild World is how brutal the villagers could have been. Chief said to me "Must be nice having a big house, huh? Or is it compensating for something? A tiny brain, perhaps?" and that made my day. Good memories

[Hunnybutter]

WW Dialogue: Bob cheated on me, deliver this poisonous letter to him pls
NH Dialogue: This is the third time you've talked to me. Goodbye.

[MichaelaBelle]

The wild world soundtrack is so gorgeous and hits me right in the nostalgia every time 😭🥺

[char]

remember in wild world when you would donate your life savings to bondoox I think it’s called and then your villagers would tell you tortimer gets himself a steak dinner with that money 💀

[AreweAble]

The thing I remember the most about WW was the lore. I loved talking to the able sisters and getting to know Sabel over time. On certain days she would tell you about her past with Tom Nook and it made the characters feel real. I also never got city folk because once my town was portable, I never wanted to go back to having it only on a TV

[jerenasmr]

Miss the times when my villagers verbally abuse me just for talking to them more than once 💀

[indexical]

This video nails it. The characters were so good in Wild World that I still have vivid memories of meeting my original three villagers Alfonso, Tangy and Roscoe. I think they’ll always be my favourites.

[benedictgaming]

Actual rare transcription from the 17news broadcast meeting:

-Ok, what do we talk about in our "vigio gaims bad" segment of the news?

-OH, I know, we can say an NPC with programed dialog and actions is actually remotely controlled by a pedo

-EXELLENT IDEA, YO GET AN INMEDIATE PROMOTION

[Mirai_]

9:34 LMAO Tortimer is a criminal, now I know why he don't appears in NH cuz he is under arrest lol

[rylee]

I did not expect to see a Crime Alert news segment when I clicked on a video about Animal Crossing Wild World

[beautifulblur]

idk why i still think WW is the best 😭 prob cuz of my nostalgia

[Nickk-vt]

I miss old Animal Crossing games, when it was primarily about creating meaningful relationships and living in a real community and not about superficial things such as the cutest villager or how your town looks. They turned the franchise into a town builder along with being life simulation and because of the lack of a real focus I believe it fails at both. If I wanted to play a town builder game, I’d play Minecraft because the options there are infinitely more robust and way less tedious. Sure, one can make the argument that the original Animal Crossing games had are just as artificial because none of the conversations are “real”. However, I disagree. It’s like a book. It’s just pages and words, they aren’t real people, but there was passion and love behind the dialogue that made it feel real and the same applies to the words in Animal Crossing games!

[Sophie-ovbh]

i remember my sister yelling at me because i didn’t realise i had to save after playing her animal crossing dave & then she made me sit through resetti yelling at me. why can’t i get that in new horizons

[aetheralmeowstic]

Are we just going to ignore the fact that someone thought that Tortimer, _an NPC, _ was a human player?

[lemonhuehue]

I totally agree with you. Interactions with villagers feel stale and less exciting now, but nintendo probably did that to avoid backlash for the villagers being too offensive and stuff.

In ACNH They should definitely make the villagers do more mini games though, cuz I've probably only gotten like 5 mini games in my 8 months of playing and it's only treasure hunts.

[saranicoll]

I did not expect to cry when I put the video on. I started playing Wild World when I was eight. I'm now nineteen, expecting a baby, have just gone through a horrible breakup and wish more than anything I could go back to the days where I was excited to wake up in the morning and play Wild World with my old step sisters. These days even hearing the music hurts.

[Katt-cigw]

Me happily clicking on a video to enjoy that sweet sweet nostalgia
Him: the game is now 15 years old!
Me: WELL F**K IM OLD NOW

[Graestra]

I remember spending so much time talking to my villagers and bonding with them in WW, until I came back from a break to my favorite villager having left. The conversations in NH just feel so shallow and quick compared to WW

[LOAFVINO]

The music in WW/CF will never be topped