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Is it just me or is KZfaq suggesting way more small creators lately? I found so many good creators like you lately producing high quality videos but having very few clicks on them.

The fact that you actually deleted your save file is insane. Your content is so underrated and is some of my favorite on this platform.

I feel that having the gameplay on the bottom screen in wild world fits perfectly because of the touch controls. Fishing and bug catching can be a little difficult using the d-pad so it's nice to be able to switch to using a stylus when positioning the fishing line. (And I think it's just cute to see the constellations in the sky at night on the top screen). This was a great video and I totally agree that all the games have their own little aspects that make them all special!

There is definitely a magic on older Animal Crossing that I felt fade over time. I started with wild world. I never owned city folk, but a played a little bit of it on my cousin's wii and I played both new leaf and new prisons extensively. Wild world for me was a game I played religiously and never got bored of, the only reason I stopped playing is because my child self lost the cartridge and I haven't found it since. It's fast pace and the rolling anesthetic were a big part of what kept me coming back. I always delt like the town was so big and there was so much waiting for me in the days to come. Mind you I was a kid so there's a certain innocence involved. With the little of city folk I played I remember not liking it as much because I preferred the handheld format vastly especially for this series. New leaf likely would have been a game I played more often had I bought it digitally, I was playing so many other games at the time thst put the game back in ever day felt like a chore and I think that sums up my experience with it. I always hear people say how much they loved New Leaf with the level on content and freedom you have and to an extent I agree, but I feel some of the charm was lost and I never really felt that engaged by the ordinance mechanic. I also didn't like the way that the town was segmented, that is city folks fault i realize but i don't like it here either running from one end of town to another is tedious. I did play a ton of it though and it was one of the primary ways I stayed connected with a cyberfriend though. New Horizons I got digitally and did play for a while, building a full town, but then I just lost all motivation due to a lack of new and exciting events. Also something aboht building a town from scratch makes you know everything about, nothing really is sacred and everything can be known and calculated it takes away from the mystique I felt back when I was playing earlier titles. I was also more used to being isolated so I never felt the same need to use that game as a means to communicate and spent time with others, (ironically, it was new leaf that gave me that experience), so I think I was able to see it's flaws sooner. Something about the island feels small and limited when give so much freedom. And of course DiY for equipment sucks. I think they should have let you get unbreakable gear and leaned way more into item customization in the long run so you're driven by rewards rather than necessity.

I'm one of those AC olds that started with the gcn and have a solid 20 years of Animal Crossing with an obscene amount of hours spread out between the main games under my belt. With that said, I'm extremely biased towards the first, it was the game that helped me learn how to read as a small child. I just had to know what my animal friends were saying to me, so much so that I had a small collection of dictionaries that I would refer to whenever I came across a word I didn't know. That kind of magic just can never be replicated, New Horizons had no chance to invoke that in a 21 year old even with the pandemic.

100% agree that New Leaf is the best impartially, although my fave will always be Wild World - I think it's much better than City Folk, both given its impressiveness of having so much on a non-powerful handheld, and also its much deeper lore - it has the most lore events out of any game, and IMO the best writing / localization. I also prefer the more progressive feeling of day-to-day interaction than having most experiences available day one in the city of CF, which always felt like a lazy and easy to implement way of differentiating the two games for the purpose of marketing.

Thank you for the sacrifice.

City Folk was my first Animal Crossing game and I got it at a local yard sale. It instantly made me fall in love with everything about the series, and it's still my favorite just because I have such fond memories with it. I typically see people hate on City Folk, so it was very refreshing to see someone actually enjoy it for a change! I loved the video, thank you for all the hard work you put into it!

I can't really agree that Wild World is the worst, especially the comparison to city folk but handheld. More accurate to say City Folk is Wild World but blown up on a console, which is why many people don't like it.

Don’t worry, this video was worth it. If I had to delete my save file for the funny I would have sobbed I have 1,300 hours on my island 😭 I chuckled so much at the deltarune mention since I’m a mega fan and play through chapter one and two every month, any mention of the game satiates my thirst for more chapters 😢. “I realized undertale was an anagram of deltarune and I felt like an idiot” I just keep thinking about it. Very funny

I can't help but reach the same conclusion. Everytime I launched New Leaf I remember all those times where I hid under my blanket to play when I was supposed to sleep. I even bought a DS last year after trying Horizon, it was amazing to meet those silly villagers again :)

i enjoyed this video a lot! my favorite ac game definitely is new leaf even though it isn't my first. if people dislike ac on wii only is because we waited a good amount of time only for a reboot. + can't wait for the next ac game to come out

Such a great video! Totally worth sacrificing an island for. I started with the original game, and it's still my personal favorite. I'm glad to see that magic isn't just pure nostalgia; rather, it's writing and simplicity make it a treat to this day.

Absolutely WILD to delete your save in the name of science. I respect the moxie. I personally have only ever played New Leaf and New Horizons, and for me I feel like you're right that New Leaf is objectively the best out of the five, but I also feel like New Horizons is so much its own thing that it almost can't be compared. Whether that's good or not is subjective, obviously; they changed a lot of the core parts of the game and people hate change. Part of it I think comes down to a key thing about the person playing: are you the kind of person who, when playing the Sims, spends four hours building a house and creating a family and then doesn't actually play the GAME? I am. So for me, New Horizons offers more of the gameplay I enjoy: building a little world that tells a story. In New Leaf you didn't get as much opportunity to do that. You only had so many public works projects, ten custom codes, and your villager's houses were always going to lack a cohesive personality because they kept demanding bugs and fish off you or buying stuff from retail. You had so little opportunity to really tell a story with your town beyond very limited surface level aesthetics. In NH meanwhile I loved being able to put, say, a lawn mower outside Raddle's house in the middle of a ton of overgrown weeds because he's lazy and has never once mown his lawn. Or being able to put Pippy and Gabi's photos in each others' houses, because I like to think they're sisters. The characters in New Horizons are the thinnest they've ever been, but I think bizarrely for me that works better. I can take what little the game gives me and read into it how I want, amandafiles or angrycoconut style, creating villagers that feel not just distinct from each other but distinct from other versions of themselves on other islands. My own imagination builds the story and I have a ton of fun with that! If they came out with a patch to add in more interesting and more varied and (god forbid) more rude dialogue I'd cry tears of joy, obviously, but I also have such strong characters built up in my head for my villagers now that I'd probably get annoyed to have them contradicted by more specific characterization. oh my god this comment got long I'm so sorry

Great video as always (I haven't watched the whole thing yet, but I know it's great)

this video is actually fucking fantastic, great fucking job bro!

24:10 You think frumpy is bad? She called me a redneck and tossed a moldy dress to me! 😭

I always hear people rave about Wild World being the best, but I never played it or the OG on Gamecube. City Folk was my first introduction of the series, and while I have issues with it, there is a charm to it that I loved/miss from later installments. I'm not sure what my favorite-list-order would be, but top three would be City Folk, New Leaf, and New Horizons. I *would* love a new game where we got the rudeness of the OG, though, and dialogue in City Folk, with mini-games of New Leaf, and terraforming of New Horizons. Get rid of that tool-breaking mechanics, though. XD Going from NH to NL, it was jarring to forget I cannot place furniture outside freely, though... Was too spoiled. XD

I really, really appreciate your commitment.

the OG will always be my fave

The first animal crossing i ever played was wild worlds i used to play it with ky cousins when ever i would go over to there house cause i never had ds of my own fast forward a few years and i turned 9 and 6 days later chrismas comes around and me and my brother are open are present well my mom had had gotten us both a dsi each and we had one of thos hackeds cardtrigs with the sd card that plugged into the top😅 i remember scrolling through the games one day and seeing animal crossing at this point i didnt remember all the times i played it with my cousin cause never knew the name of the game back then i was so young well i open it up and start playing and it was great so i tell my little brother to play it to and that lead to me and him staying up late when we weren't supposed to playing in each others worlds or running around in are own worlds separately and talking to each other while we did over a walkie talkies we had got for Christmas in a attempt to not wake are parents up (yeah turns out doesn't matter how quitely u talk or what methods we used they always hurd us😂) we word conpare museums or race each other to see who could catch more bugs and fish or simply just walk around togeather and talk ill never forget that magical feeling of running around while the music plays or catching bugs uve never seen talking to villagers or fishing at midnight when ur not supposed to be awake and everyone and everything is asleep well fast forward a year or 2 and im still playing but my little brother not as much but even alone it it was still fun but one day my little brother nocked my ds out my hands and that lead to the cartridge reader on dsi breaking and all the saves on the sd card that had all the games on corrupting and that day a little peace of me died but ill still never forget the memories i made while playing animal crossing wild world ive also played newleaf but i really think it ever gave me as much joy or confort as wild world did but i still injoyed it Edit: also i was one of those kids that restie made cry as much as in ashamed to admit it but i spent 30 minutes atfer getting in from school and the littel fucker just would not let me play no matter what option i chose to answer him fuck that little furry mole rat but if im being honest even back then no matter how much he pissed me of i still loved him and hated him at the same time😅

I probably have more time spent in new horizons but new leaf is just too good man

New leaf was my first game and the power it holds over me is immense

I have only played New Horizons even though I had a Wii & DS back then. So by default it's a game I treasure especially for the time it gave me in 2020. Though I don't really play at all for the last 2 years so...your point about it being more chores definitely feels true. I really want to buy New Leaf and try that game. And a big thanks for making this video I enjoyed it a lot :)

The king is back

nooooooooo your old island!!! ;o; what an amazing sacrifice...

This video inspired me to get a copy of City Folk, for my modded wii. and a subscription for you! Remember me when you make it big

Yooo what amazing idea for a video!

What a cool idea

Original wild world or mayyyybe new leaf

Hey Itoi were you thinking of putting all the loz videos together in one video after you release them?

Dude. Why do you have so few subscribers?!

Honestly, I prefer Tomodachi Life over any of the Animal Crossing games. It's a me thing.

I've tried the original AC...Never could really get into it, it felt clunky to me. I've played new leaf and besides not actually ever completing it...I enjoyed my time it in. New horizons is the one i'm putting tons of my time into. I tried to go back to new leaf but...I just couldn't get back into the groove.

New horizons got way waaay better with the dlc

Couldn’t you emulate new horizons?