Booting up the wii and playing City Folk during summer break from school with the fan pushing cool air towards me accompanied by cicada cries and calm music will forever be a happy core childhood memory
I was perfectly excited to play my favorite game on a big tv with nicer graphics. And the city + bus felt like a big enough addition to me. 10 yr old me had no complaints 😂
Honestly as a child I would've loved to get that game, but the main reason I wouldn't get it is because my TV time after school was pretty limited, and during soccer cups it was nonexistent lol. I'm hoping yo try it out on emulator eventually
Same! The city and the bus were nice enough and I was finally able to play with my friends via internet (my ds couldn’t do it for whatever reason) so it was great!
I was so surprised that City Folk did so bad. It was one of my favorites. Mixing Wild World with a new updated platform, graphics and a new city that was removed from your Village so you could get that small forest village feel with city amenities I loved it.
City folk was my first animal crossing. I remember always renting it out at the library until my mom eventually bought us a copy. It may be terrible compared to other entries, but it’s the game I spent my childhood on.
Another Animal Crossing retrospective to rewatch a hundred times. This game was my first Animal Crossing game and I actualy got to playing it through my aunt who gifted the game randomly to my sister and me when she visited us in Germany from Spain. Since then I am an Animal Crossing adict
I'm also one of those rare Wii Speak owners. I never had an issue with it either. I only probably used it with like 10 different people, but I never remember having issues with communicating, although my memory is pretty loose of that specifically
I feel like I'm the only person in the world who absolutely ADORES City Folk. But it may be because it was my first introduction to an Animal Crossing game. It's still my favorite
City Folk was my introduction to the series! I honestly can’t remember who got it for me or when I got it but from then on it had me hooked. I don’t think I got super far in the game but I always tried to get my brother and cousins to play. When New Leaf was rumored and eventually announced I was so excited because I played this game. I will always love this game no matter what anyone says. Also the music slaps so hard and is so ingrained into my mind that no matter when I hear it, I always remember it and it brings me peace! 💖 🍃
In summer 2009 I got City Folk. It was my first AC experience and I got hooked. I convinced my mom to make a profile in my town. The first Gamestop purchase I made was a used copy of Wild World in January 2010 so I could "play City Folk in the car". City Folk must have made a good impression on my mom because in spring 2020, on her own, she bought a Switch and New Horizons because she remembered playing City Folk with me and wanted to experience that again.
City Folk was my introduction to the series when I was a kid. So even though I love some of the other AC versions better, City Folk is still super nostalgic for me. Also, going to the city on weekend mornings to get free balloons was the best.
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City Folk would probably be my favorite game it it wasn't for the ground decay. Town inevitably ends up looking like a desert after enough playtime. Not even walking prevents it. Here's hoping an enhanced version of either this, or the GameCube original comes to Switch!
Say what you want… Let’s go to the city was my favourite Animal Crossing game to date (new leaf is a very close second), perhaps it’s nostalgia, the fact that I had Stitches as a villager… wild world on the other hand I hated, the colour palette felt dreary, everything felt a bit pixelated, but not in a cute 8bit kinda way. Apparently it may just be me……..
I'd say it's the 2nd game I spent the most time in after New Leaf. I would have get-togethers with a bunch of others I met in an old ROBLOX group made around City Folk, and cherish those memories! I still play it quite often when I don't want to get my 3DS out and am in bed, too!
Funnily enough, I actually tended to prefer LGTTC over WW sometimes. It was my most played Wii game in 2010-2012 too.. by far. That mainly had to do with it having more events and somehow I was super drawn to the city. Although I would say I played both equally as much, I suppose the wii version just felt slightly more alive for me. Mind you, when i was a kid i tended less to the villagers and more to the collectibles and other aspects lol
My biggest reason I didn’t love Wild World is because the small ds screen, touch screen controls, and frame rate felt kinda disorienting to me, even though everything else was great. So City Folk was really something I appreciated more for the fact it was basically just a more accessible version of Wild World
Also kinda annoyed me that you act like 3 mil+ sales isn’t still hell of a lot of sales, like Pikmin and Kirby don’t even sell that much on an average release
For some stupid reason, this game requires motion controls to manage your inventory. Shortly after getting the game, my sensor bar broke, so once my pockets filled up I was done playing.
@@slowpoke_r It'll be like the anti-farming sim thats everywhere, AC included. Let us be cozy in a big city with coffee shops and clothing outlets and apartment neighbors.
I would come home from school, jump on the couch and play City Folk ("Let's Go to the City" here in Aus) on the big TV all evening or watch my sister play it and it was amazing. And we played the fuck out of Wild World before that (and GameCube before that) which I remember as a more cozy experience associated with family trips to the country, playing it in the car or in bed, traveling to each others towns to see a KK show together instead of sharing the same town as in CF. Different experiences as a kid who loved both without this snarky modern internet lens on something they weren't in the right place/time to understand and appreciate properly. Also the city was fucking awesome. Fuck the internet.
I'd say both of these are in the present. As someone who literally played City Folk back in the day I honestly feel like the complaints regarding its similarity with Wild World are more of a newer thing. I always saw the similarities as a neat upgrade to the gameplay of Wild World rather than it being exactly negative.
Man I remember the city folk Era. A Era of people hacking in Lightsabers and other custom items, custom villagers also with hacking, message boards being full of bs. Me and my brother watched this city folk youtuber, Ajpcrosser who did city folk videos full of dumb jokes and vulgar humor and thought it was funny.
Imagine being a european kid when wild world came out tho because the game was English and I couldn’t understand a thing yet I played the tutorial for many days and enjoyed it a lot lol
I didn’t get City Folk at 2008 (I was born in 2007- lmao-) so I think I got the game at 2020 or 2021, can’t necessarily remember. I’ve played the DS version on my cousin’s but I think he lost both his DS and his copy of the game, but I… own New Leaf. Sooooo I have little to no memory with Animal Crossing on the DS and I only knew New Leaf soooo me and my sisters found a very cheap copy of City Folk (I actually have Lets go to the City cuz I live in the UK, but we’ll stick with City Folk since it’s shorter) and then boom we started playing it on our Wii. And oh my god, yeah playing the games was WEIRD. My nunchucks were f*cking busted and would drift every 6 seconds (I’m having Switch trauma now…) and overall it wasn’t very enjoyable to play unless my nunchucks chose to be nice to me for a day. I really didnt play the game as much, but I think it was still a fun experience- kinda? New Leaf was my absolute child hood and I think I’ll always be sticking to that- for awhile. It’s a nice treat talking about City Folk though, haven’t heard anything about this game in a longgggg time. Glad it showed up on my feed :)
I do not understand why so many people do not like City Folk. It is my second favorite after Population Growing...AND...Wild World is my least favorite in the series!
Funny how City Folk gets panned for being "too much like Wild World" when Japan literally got three iterations of Animal Forest and nobody ever discusses it. I wonder what the OG Japanese audience would say about it.
This game was also good enough for people who didn't own DS. I liked this game very much and I really can't compare it to Wold World because I have never played it.
True but it was still a very new concept at that point and they got some significant upgrades. The original animal forest was on the N64 and didn't have a whole lot then they ported it to the GameCube with a little bit of an addition than they added even more stuff for the North American release and ported it as eForest Plus with the e-reader expanded functionality. So it was like massive improvements and changes each time whereas wild world to city folk dropped features
@@RabidNemo City Folk also added in features, so it's not particularly that big of a deal. Honestly for me, City Folk has the slight edge since it has *actual* holidays, plus like... WAY better framerate. Also, the DLC items. I definitely appreciated those.
I mean, Japan is known for being less shy with updated versions than the international market. Look at more popular RPGs such as Kingdom Hearts, Persona or Pokemon.(Pokemon in particular is funny because of what happened with the first games, the first batch had two special editions release in japan. They first made the JP-only Red and Green and then the special edition blue, with Blue being then reworked into the western-only Red and Blue. Then when they decided to make a special edition for Red and Blue to cash in on the anime, which they released an earlier no-color version of in japan)
City Folk was my first AC game. I didn't know to go upstairs and save, so every single time I played I would have to start a new game and do chores. I just thought that was the point of the game. Then when I eventually figured saving out, my sister wiped my town to make her own. :(
As someone who never really played Wild World and was introduced to the franchise by City Folk, it will always, ALWAYS have a very special place in my heart. Even if it doesn’t hold up perfectly today (and evidently largely didn’t for its’ time, either), it got me into this series which I have grown and loved and coped with life with for over a decade, and I am so grateful.
Yes. This game also introduced me to Animal Crossing, and though I like New Horizons more, this game is filled with nostalgia, and I think it deserves more love.
I played City Folk every day for a few hours, for well over a year while I was having a severe depressive episode that lasted an extremely long time. As a result of it being closely tied to that I actually have a very difficult time remembering the experience. In spite of that I think playing it probably saved my life.
Oh man, this is SO true of my experience, too. City Folk came into my life when I was experiencing my first severe depressive episode and was also being bullied terribly, and it gave me clarity and peace in my mind in a way nothing else could at the time.
i think that this game was so good to me simply because most of my family had a profile since as kids we were not so into sharing the DS, so even my dad enjoyed fishing and catching bugs in this version
I’m sorry - city folk will always be my favourite. The soundtrack, the additions to wild world, the graphics, the nostalgia the personality MWAH. I remember it was Christmas last year and everyone in my house was asleep, but i was on a call with my friend and i was just fishing and catching bugs in city folk… good times
FYI about the Japanese title of City Folk: While it can be translated as "Let's Go to Town", the word and kanji used in the title imply a bigger, more urban town/city than the one you live in in game, so the title isn't contradictory.
I never once made the connection between City Folk and Wild World, yet I played both a crazy amount when they came out. Lol I guess it made no difference to me, and the new additions were enough for me to have fun starting a save from scratch on a similar game!
Also, I have sooo many fond memories of playing City Folk online using the WiiSpeak! We had to call each other on the phone to set it up anyway lol, but it was still so amazing to me!
Same! And I loved the city so much. As much as I liked Wild World, there's something about City Folk that just hits me, to the point where I get all choked up just hearing the soundtrack. Especially the rainy city songs...
City Folk was honestly one of my favorites for a long time. I enjoyed it a lot more than WW. Biggest thing for me was the city and holidays. Shout out to the Halloween holiday, best money maker
This was my first game in the series and holds so many memories. Maelle was the first villager I ever talked to because she lived right next to me and I still love her so much that she's my profile picture on multiple social media sites almost 10 years later. Also I don't care that this game had a reused sound track. Fight me. Wild World had the best soundtrack in the game. Why try and improve upon perfection?
Animal crossing city folk was actually my first title. I had tried it through blockbuster and then eventually got wild world and finally city folk permanently. I never forgot city folk ❤
City Folk was my first AC, started playing it late 2009 and still play it today. Now that I think about it, its probably my all time favourite game and definitly the game I sank the most hours in. Im a 24 year old man now, most other games I play are shooters, but I still check in on my Animal friends almost everyday. Even had a zoom business meeting yesterday while the ACCF home screen was on my tv😂 Many of the best memories of my childhood are connected to this game. Best Game Ever❤️
Same bro, I'm 21 yo. I'm quite sure that it changed the course of my life as a gamer. Waking up early in the morning on a saturday to play this...the memories almost seem like a fantasy. I'm so happy to see so many people who shared the same experience
Same! I just found my old Wii and a copy of city folk and homebrewed my Wii it’s still rly fun, I’m so glad there’s still a community of ppl still playing the older AC games
@@HylianBean97 what’s wrong with it? I love when I homebrewed my Wii! it adds so much to the Wii like retro games and it allows me to join the online community of people still playing City Folk
I never had a DS growing up so City Folk holds a very special place in my heart ❤️ I was so into it that I cried and made a MEMORIAL for Antonio when he moved out 💀
My mom loves the Animal Crossing series, and so I grew up with the series, playing every game as it came out. To this day however, City Folk is still my favorite Animal Crossing! Whenever I think of Animal Crossing, I think of City Folk, and it's music. The towns are so big, allowing you to get lost in them, or have a favorite spot to hangout in. I still remember there being a ledge near my house, and a small ledge near a waterfall. Those two areas were my favorite spots in the whole town! Although I've played a ton more New Leaf, it just doesn't have that same feeling. Everything is mostly flat, and the towns feel significantly smaller. New Horizons also feels too small, and despite being able to terraform, I just can't get areas to give off the same feeling. I think that if you can get past it essentially being Wild World Wii, you'll find a genuinely enjoyable game. One that you can just relax in while you go fishing in a hidden part of town.
your focus on background music is rlly inspiring man. i can tell you were thinking about the mood, the specific game you were talking about, and it was great!
City Folk reminds me of waking up on a winter morning in 2012... Going to school then coming home to play some. To be honest I never played much, not out of choice. Just couldn't figure the controls out.
City Folk was actually my first Animal Crossing game and my first introduction to AC as a whole. I never even played Wild World (crazy), but I adored City Folk so much. It's soundtrack is still my favorite in the series, and every moment was magical to me. I was actually really surprised growing up and learning it was the least popular mainline game in the series.... thanks for making this video about it! It's interesting hearing other perspectives!
I have to admit, I grew up with City Folk and I loved being able to play it on a big TV. There's definitely a ton of issues with the game, personally my favorite Animal Crossing game is New Leaf. Though, I can't lie, I have so much nostalgia for this game that I can't help but love it!
This is the first and only Animal Crossing game I played until I got New Horizons in Christmas of 2021. I have so much nostalgia for it. I had no idea people were trashing it.
I never played wild world. So i loved city folk. And i still do. There is something about sitting in the cafe and listening to k.k on THE BIG SCREEN :D
I didn't know that City Folk was not popular. It was a fun game. But the only other Animal Crossing games I have played are Animal Crossing for GameCube and that horrible mobile game Pocket Camp. :D I didn't own DS so Wild World was not an option.
Bro you are fucking hilarious, I discovered your channel at 530 this morning before work, and all I could think about all day was coming home and watching the rest of your videos (only watched the animal crossing one's so far) you're videos are great. Also, Gamecube Animal Crossing was my first and will always be my favorite. But I also loved wild world, idk why people talk so much shit on wild world. Graphics don't make a game good or bad. I still play OG resident evil games and silent hill and they are still as good as the day I first played them back in the 90s. I feel your pain about leaving your copy on the bus, not the same thing but similar. Before I had a gamecube I had a gba sp, and one of my favorite games was the sims bustin out(I know don't laugh 😵) and I let this chick on my bus borrow it and she REFUSED to give it back. Bitch straight up stole it with no remorse
Bruh Animal Crossing City Folk is better then Wild World no cap. It looks better, plays better, sounds better and is just better. Not to mention that it’s MORE ANIMAL CROSSING, how could ya not like animal crossing?
There is an explanation behind the dialogue system. They went with a different methodology between WW and CF. I’m pretty sure they’re still using that system to this day too with some variation of course.
I love your videos--your jokes are genuinely funny and your delivery is great. I throw these on sometimes while making long car trips just for the chill vibes
I hated Wild World but loved City Folk. I view City Folk more as New Leaf lite rather than a repeat of Wild World. I couldn't even make it a month into Wild World before I got bored & dropped it, though. (I think the ugly graphics did it no favors)
Let's Go to the City was the first Animal Crossing game I ever owned so I like it a lot, except for when I forgot to play for a while and every villager was really really angry at me.
My first Animal Crossing entry was actually City Folk, lucky for me I guess because I never experienced the collective disappointment people had with this game. For me this is the one that started it all, and I will always have extremely fond memories of, just playing by myself or with my cousin online. It's just crazy and a little sad to learn years later this game was very unpopular.
I loved Let's Go to the City so much when I was younger. Our Wii was in the living room so I had to claim control of the telly, and I always reserved a spot on Saturday nights for KK. 🎵 I didn't actually realise at the time that I could connect Wild World to it so I never connected my games, I just played LGttC and loved it just as much as WW ❤
I was already 20 when this game came out. I'd play it after college and work. I had a long distance boyfriend (now my husband) at the time and we didn't have long distance calling, so we used the speaker accessory you could buy for city folk to leave voice notes on his wii. I have nothing but positive memories of the game and you bring up a lot of good points I just never noticed. I still love it to death. Also deteriorating path was a great way to make a natural path for your village. Also if you walk it wouldn't deteriorate. The same is true for new leaf if I remember right
Title Remix: ruclips.net/video/M7gD81Elkz0/видео.html
Outro Remix: ruclips.net/video/sNYXLaYIuNM/видео.html
It looks like you finished the AC Retrospective...
...But how about the spinoffs? (Amiibo Festival, Pocket Camp, HH Designer)
Booting up the wii and playing City Folk during summer break from school with the fan pushing cool air towards me accompanied by cicada cries and calm music will forever be a happy core childhood memory
I was perfectly excited to play my favorite game on a big tv with nicer graphics. And the city + bus felt like a big enough addition to me. 10 yr old me had no complaints 😂
Honestly as a child I would've loved to get that game, but the main reason I wouldn't get it is because my TV time after school was pretty limited, and during soccer cups it was nonexistent lol. I'm hoping yo try it out on emulator eventually
Its wildworld but hd
Child me was excited
i loved it too ✊🏼
Same! The city and the bus were nice enough and I was finally able to play with my friends via internet (my ds couldn’t do it for whatever reason) so it was great!
I was so surprised that City Folk did so bad. It was one of my favorites. Mixing Wild World with a new updated platform, graphics and a new city that was removed from your Village so you could get that small forest village feel with city amenities I loved it.
I ADORED the music in this game, it fills me with such nostalgia...
This just dropped as I got off my shift. This is just what I needed. Thank you Voyan.
City folk was my first animal crossing. I remember always renting it out at the library until my mom eventually bought us a copy. It may be terrible compared to other entries, but it’s the game I spent my childhood on.
Another Animal Crossing retrospective to rewatch a hundred times.
This game was my first Animal Crossing game and I actualy got to playing it through my aunt who gifted the game randomly to my sister and me when she visited us in Germany from Spain. Since then I am an Animal Crossing adict
I'm also one of those rare Wii Speak owners. I never had an issue with it either. I only probably used it with like 10 different people, but I never remember having issues with communicating, although my memory is pretty loose of that specifically
FINALLY some city folk love. It was the first animal crossing game I’ve ever played so I loved it and never saw that many problems with it.
Loved the edit you did with the main theme song xD
This was my first AC game and I have a special place in my heart for it for sure. Thanks for this vid!
I feel like I'm the only person in the world who absolutely ADORES City Folk. But it may be because it was my first introduction to an Animal Crossing game. It's still my favorite
City Folk was my introduction to the series! I honestly can’t remember who got it for me or when I got it but from then on it had me hooked. I don’t think I got super far in the game but I always tried to get my brother and cousins to play. When New Leaf was rumored and eventually announced I was so excited because I played this game. I will always love this game no matter what anyone says. Also the music slaps so hard and is so ingrained into my mind that no matter when I hear it, I always remember it and it brings me peace! 💖 🍃
Can't deny, my pet turtle likes City Folk way more than New Horizons. This is an invaluable review in favor of City Folk.
I would argue it’s a better wild world in my opinion. I love this game, it’s my second AC
In summer 2009 I got City Folk. It was my first AC experience and I got hooked. I convinced my mom to make a profile in my town. The first Gamestop purchase I made was a used copy of Wild World in January 2010 so I could "play City Folk in the car".
City Folk must have made a good impression on my mom because in spring 2020, on her own, she bought a Switch and New Horizons because she remembered playing City Folk with me and wanted to experience that again.
Let's Go to the City was my first videogame ever, I'll love it forever and ever.
So funny, I see this vid right as I’m playing City Folk. Never stopped playing it since 08, baby!
I love these retrospective videos! ♥️
City Folk was my introduction to the series when I was a kid. So even though I love some of the other AC versions better, City Folk is still super nostalgic for me. Also, going to the city on weekend mornings to get free balloons was the best.
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I'm so proud of you being able to say grass deterioration. 💙💜💖
City Folk would probably be my favorite game it it wasn't for the ground decay. Town inevitably ends up looking like a desert after enough playtime. Not even walking prevents it. Here's hoping an enhanced version of either this, or the GameCube original comes to Switch!
Say what you want… Let’s go to the city was my favourite Animal Crossing game to date (new leaf is a very close second), perhaps it’s nostalgia, the fact that I had Stitches as a villager… wild world on the other hand I hated, the colour palette felt dreary, everything felt a bit pixelated, but not in a cute 8bit kinda way. Apparently it may just be me……..
I'd say it's the 2nd game I spent the most time in after New Leaf. I would have get-togethers with a bunch of others I met in an old ROBLOX group made around City Folk, and cherish those memories! I still play it quite often when I don't want to get my 3DS out and am in bed, too!
Funnily enough, I actually tended to prefer LGTTC over WW sometimes. It was my most played Wii game in 2010-2012 too.. by far. That mainly had to do with it having more events and somehow I was super drawn to the city. Although I would say I played both equally as much, I suppose the wii version just felt slightly more alive for me. Mind you, when i was a kid i tended less to the villagers and more to the collectibles and other aspects lol
I loved city folk, but I played wild world first so that’s definitely my favorite of all the ac games
Fun fact I just bought this game yesterday so I can't wait to play
My biggest reason I didn’t love Wild World is because the small ds screen, touch screen controls, and frame rate felt kinda disorienting to me, even though everything else was great. So City Folk was really something I appreciated more for the fact it was basically just a more accessible version of Wild World
Also kinda annoyed me that you act like 3 mil+ sales isn’t still hell of a lot of sales, like Pikmin and Kirby don’t even sell that much on an average release
For some stupid reason, this game requires motion controls to manage your inventory. Shortly after getting the game, my sensor bar broke, so once my pockets filled up I was done playing.
I want an ACTUAL city folk. Let us build a city with big buildings and manage apartments!
Like Animal Crossing x Sims? That sound cool
@@slowpoke_r It'll be like the anti-farming sim thats everywhere, AC included. Let us be cozy in a big city with coffee shops and clothing outlets and apartment neighbors.
5:38 Unfortunately reminded that Dawn of the New World exists, the rainy day music fits
I would come home from school, jump on the couch and play City Folk ("Let's Go to the City" here in Aus) on the big TV all evening or watch my sister play it and it was amazing. And we played the fuck out of Wild World before that (and GameCube before that) which I remember as a more cozy experience associated with family trips to the country, playing it in the car or in bed, traveling to each others towns to see a KK show together instead of sharing the same town as in CF. Different experiences as a kid who loved both without this snarky modern internet lens on something they weren't in the right place/time to understand and appreciate properly. Also the city was fucking awesome. Fuck the internet.
i did not expect persona to follow me here
I skipped my wedding just to watch this 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
In the past nobody likes Wild World 2, now everyone wishes New Leaf 2.
I'd say both of these are in the present. As someone who literally played City Folk back in the day I honestly feel like the complaints regarding its similarity with Wild World are more of a newer thing. I always saw the similarities as a neat upgrade to the gameplay of Wild World rather than it being exactly negative.
Man I remember the city folk Era. A Era of people hacking in Lightsabers and other custom items, custom villagers also with hacking, message boards being full of bs.
Me and my brother watched this city folk youtuber, Ajpcrosser who did city folk videos full of dumb jokes and vulgar humor and thought it was funny.
Wii Music absolutely slapped
We stan a Takes of fan
Love Pocket Camp 🏕️still liked video.!
Imagine being a european kid when wild world came out tho because the game was English and I couldn’t understand a thing yet I played the tutorial for many days and enjoyed it a lot lol
I honestly prefer Wild World's graphics. I haven't played it yet, but the graphics definitely have a lot of charm.
i'm astonished nowadays at all the discourse on ACCF, considering it was my first AC game ever LMAO
I loved city folk personally
The first animal crossing i had was city folk
I didn’t get City Folk at 2008 (I was born in 2007- lmao-) so I think I got the game at 2020 or 2021, can’t necessarily remember. I’ve played the DS version on my cousin’s but I think he lost both his DS and his copy of the game, but I… own New Leaf.
Sooooo I have little to no memory with Animal Crossing on the DS and I only knew New Leaf soooo me and my sisters found a very cheap copy of City Folk (I actually have Lets go to the City cuz I live in the UK, but we’ll stick with City Folk since it’s shorter) and then boom we started playing it on our Wii.
And oh my god, yeah playing the games was WEIRD. My nunchucks were f*cking busted and would drift every 6 seconds (I’m having Switch trauma now…) and overall it wasn’t very enjoyable to play unless my nunchucks chose to be nice to me for a day.
I really didnt play the game as much, but I think it was still a fun experience- kinda? New Leaf was my absolute child hood and I think I’ll always be sticking to that- for awhile.
It’s a nice treat talking about City Folk though, haven’t heard anything about this game in a longgggg time. Glad it showed up on my feed :)
Wait? Maybe I'm just not remembering right, but I swore I played city folk with my GameCube controller a few times.
I do not understand why so many people do not like City Folk. It is my second favorite after Population Growing...AND...Wild World is my least favorite in the series!
more like an expansion pack to WW but still love the game
SMT mentioned wowowow
I played a ton of city folk 😂
I love this game it was my childhood!! People don’t appreciate it enough
Wow this is like a Scott the Woz lite version
And I mean that in a good way!
9:43 you can do that in WW
OMG I WAS JUST THINKING OF ANIMAL CROSSING CITY FOLK AND YOU
Funny how City Folk gets panned for being "too much like Wild World" when Japan literally got three iterations of Animal Forest and nobody ever discusses it. I wonder what the OG Japanese audience would say about it.
This game was also good enough for people who didn't own DS. I liked this game very much and I really can't compare it to Wold World because I have never played it.
True but it was still a very new concept at that point and they got some significant upgrades. The original animal forest was on the N64 and didn't have a whole lot then they ported it to the GameCube with a little bit of an addition than they added even more stuff for the North American release and ported it as eForest Plus with the e-reader expanded functionality. So it was like massive improvements and changes each time whereas wild world to city folk dropped features
The no controller compatible killed this game. Atleast for me.
@@RabidNemo City Folk also added in features, so it's not particularly that big of a deal. Honestly for me, City Folk has the slight edge since it has *actual* holidays, plus like... WAY better framerate. Also, the DLC items. I definitely appreciated those.
I mean, Japan is known for being less shy with updated versions than the international market. Look at more popular RPGs such as Kingdom Hearts, Persona or Pokemon.(Pokemon in particular is funny because of what happened with the first games, the first batch had two special editions release in japan. They first made the JP-only Red and Green and then the special edition blue, with Blue being then reworked into the western-only Red and Blue. Then when they decided to make a special edition for Red and Blue to cash in on the anime, which they released an earlier no-color version of in japan)
City Folk was my first AC game. I didn't know to go upstairs and save, so every single time I played I would have to start a new game and do chores. I just thought that was the point of the game.
Then when I eventually figured saving out, my sister wiped my town to make her own. :(
💀💀💀 i’m so sorry but this comment has me floored 💀💀💀 poor child
Wow.. like beating a Mario game and never knowing you hold Y to run. :0
Ouch.
She didn't even need to do that. Multiple people can live in the same town!
@@gigleorex Or playing Super Metroid and not realizing you can run and then you fall victim to the noob bridge.
thank you for being kind to my son, animal crossing: city folk. he's a very good boy with many good qualities that people choose to overlook.
this 😭❤️ literally will protect city folk with my lifeeee
As someone who never really played Wild World and was introduced to the franchise by City Folk, it will always, ALWAYS have a very special place in my heart. Even if it doesn’t hold up perfectly today (and evidently largely didn’t for its’ time, either), it got me into this series which I have grown and loved and coped with life with for over a decade, and I am so grateful.
Yes. This game also introduced me to Animal Crossing, and though I like New Horizons more, this game is filled with nostalgia, and I think it deserves more love.
That's exactly me too.
I played City Folk every day for a few hours, for well over a year while I was having a severe depressive episode that lasted an extremely long time. As a result of it being closely tied to that I actually have a very difficult time remembering the experience. In spite of that I think playing it probably saved my life.
Oh man, this is SO true of my experience, too. City Folk came into my life when I was experiencing my first severe depressive episode and was also being bullied terribly, and it gave me clarity and peace in my mind in a way nothing else could at the time.
Booo hoooooo
@@Khino.978 bro
@@Khino.978what's wrong with you
@@Khino.978piece of garbage
i think that this game was so good to me simply because most of my family had a profile since as kids we were not so into sharing the DS, so even my dad enjoyed fishing and catching bugs in this version
I’m sorry - city folk will always be my favourite. The soundtrack, the additions to wild world, the graphics, the nostalgia the personality MWAH. I remember it was Christmas last year and everyone in my house was asleep, but i was on a call with my friend and i was just fishing and catching bugs in city folk… good times
yeah, his is so agreeable. i had it on the wii, but whe my parents split up i couldn't play it anymore.
Wisp isn’t a new character in City Folk, he actually originated in Animal Forest+/ GameCube but was absent in Wild World
FYI about the Japanese title of City Folk: While it can be translated as "Let's Go to Town", the word and kanji used in the title imply a bigger, more urban town/city than the one you live in in game, so the title isn't contradictory.
Upping this! It's an important distinction to make.
I never once made the connection between City Folk and Wild World, yet I played both a crazy amount when they came out. Lol I guess it made no difference to me, and the new additions were enough for me to have fun starting a save from scratch on a similar game!
Also, I have sooo many fond memories of playing City Folk online using the WiiSpeak! We had to call each other on the phone to set it up anyway lol, but it was still so amazing to me!
Same! And I loved the city so much. As much as I liked Wild World, there's something about City Folk that just hits me, to the point where I get all choked up just hearing the soundtrack. Especially the rainy city songs...
@@wormdoodles Such good memories! I finally rebought it recently, after selling it when I was younger. I'm looking forward to starting a new save!
Exactly right!
City Folk was honestly one of my favorites for a long time. I enjoyed it a lot more than WW. Biggest thing for me was the city and holidays. Shout out to the Halloween holiday, best money maker
Naw Easter was the easiest money maker
yes, the holidays were huge for me too. I loved WW’s portability but the lack of events disappoints me so I still love CF.
babe wake up new voyan video just dropped
I have responsibilities to do
but voyan always comes first
Actually saw this after waking up from a nap
This was my first game in the series and holds so many memories. Maelle was the first villager I ever talked to because she lived right next to me and I still love her so much that she's my profile picture on multiple social media sites almost 10 years later. Also I don't care that this game had a reused sound track. Fight me. Wild World had the best soundtrack in the game. Why try and improve upon perfection?
Okay I'll fight you. Population Growing had the best soundtrack, not WW.
Animal crossing city folk was actually my first title. I had tried it through blockbuster and then eventually got wild world and finally city folk permanently. I never forgot city folk ❤
City Folk was my first AC, started playing it late 2009 and still play it today. Now that I think about it, its probably my all time favourite game and definitly the game I sank the most hours in. Im a 24 year old man now, most other games I play are shooters, but I still check in on my Animal friends almost everyday. Even had a zoom business meeting yesterday while the ACCF home screen was on my tv😂
Many of the best memories of my childhood are connected to this game. Best Game Ever❤️
Same bro, I'm 21 yo. I'm quite sure that it changed the course of my life as a gamer. Waking up early in the morning on a saturday to play this...the memories almost seem like a fantasy. I'm so happy to see so many people who shared the same experience
Finally the city folk retrospective
holy shit the timing on this is insane, i just got a new wii for my old collection and started playing city folk again and ive been really enjoying it
Same! I just found my old Wii and a copy of city folk and homebrewed my Wii it’s still rly fun, I’m so glad there’s still a community of ppl still playing the older AC games
@@kirbythingys imagine homebrewing a console, EW!! 💀
@@HylianBean97 what’s wrong with it? I love when I homebrewed my Wii! it adds so much to the Wii like retro games and it allows me to join the online community of people still playing City Folk
@@HylianBean97 You are ew.
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I never had a DS growing up so City Folk holds a very special place in my heart ❤️ I was so into it that I cried and made a MEMORIAL for Antonio when he moved out 💀
My mom loves the Animal Crossing series, and so I grew up with the series, playing every game as it came out.
To this day however, City Folk is still my favorite Animal Crossing!
Whenever I think of Animal Crossing, I think of City Folk, and it's music.
The towns are so big, allowing you to get lost in them, or have a favorite spot to hangout in.
I still remember there being a ledge near my house, and a small ledge near a waterfall. Those two areas were my favorite spots in the whole town!
Although I've played a ton more New Leaf, it just doesn't have that same feeling. Everything is mostly flat, and the towns feel significantly smaller.
New Horizons also feels too small, and despite being able to terraform, I just can't get areas to give off the same feeling.
I think that if you can get past it essentially being Wild World Wii, you'll find a genuinely enjoyable game. One that you can just relax in while you go fishing in a hidden part of town.
your focus on background music is rlly inspiring man. i can tell you were thinking about the mood, the specific game you were talking about, and it was great!
The way you were talking about the city aspect made me realize something. New Horizons is to New Leaf what City Folk is to Wild World.
New Horizons did add things from New leaf but removed most of the thing from New leaf so I can't say Nh is to Nl what Cf is to Ww
City Folk reminds me of waking up on a winter morning in 2012... Going to school then coming home to play some.
To be honest I never played much, not out of choice. Just couldn't figure the controls out.
City Folk was actually my first Animal Crossing game and my first introduction to AC as a whole. I never even played Wild World (crazy), but I adored City Folk so much. It's soundtrack is still my favorite in the series, and every moment was magical to me. I was actually really surprised growing up and learning it was the least popular mainline game in the series.... thanks for making this video about it! It's interesting hearing other perspectives!
I have to admit, I grew up with City Folk and I loved being able to play it on a big TV. There's definitely a ton of issues with the game, personally my favorite Animal Crossing game is New Leaf. Though, I can't lie, I have so much nostalgia for this game that I can't help but love it!
This is the first and only Animal Crossing game I played until I got New Horizons in Christmas of 2021. I have so much nostalgia for it. I had no idea people were trashing it.
Their biggest mistake was lack of controller. No one wants to play a ac game using the wii mote or combo with a nunchuck....I mean cmon ...
I never played wild world. So i loved city folk. And i still do. There is something about sitting in the cafe and listening to k.k on THE BIG SCREEN :D
This is the current AC game I'm playing. Quite empty but still I love the vibes of this cozy game and the dialogues are 👌
I knoww, the cozy vibes of the older Animal Crossing games are chef’s kiss
I didn't know that City Folk was not popular. It was a fun game. But the only other Animal Crossing games I have played are Animal Crossing for GameCube and that horrible mobile game Pocket Camp. :D I didn't own DS so Wild World was not an option.
Bro you are fucking hilarious, I discovered your channel at 530 this morning before work, and all I could think about all day was coming home and watching the rest of your videos (only watched the animal crossing one's so far) you're videos are great.
Also, Gamecube Animal Crossing was my first and will always be my favorite. But I also loved wild world, idk why people talk so much shit on wild world. Graphics don't make a game good or bad. I still play OG resident evil games and silent hill and they are still as good as the day I first played them back in the 90s.
I feel your pain about leaving your copy on the bus, not the same thing but similar. Before I had a gamecube I had a gba sp, and one of my favorite games was the sims bustin out(I know don't laugh 😵) and I let this chick on my bus borrow it and she REFUSED to give it back. Bitch straight up stole it with no remorse
Bruh Animal Crossing City Folk is better then Wild World no cap. It looks better, plays better, sounds better and is just better. Not to mention that it’s MORE ANIMAL CROSSING, how could ya not like animal crossing?
i honestly think i spent more time playing city folk than i did new horizons..
There is an explanation behind the dialogue system. They went with a different methodology between WW and CF. I’m pretty sure they’re still using that system to this day too with some variation of course.
I love your videos--your jokes are genuinely funny and your delivery is great. I throw these on sometimes while making long car trips just for the chill vibes
I still want play city folk to this day
strongly suggested, has the strongest music out of all the other animal crossing games
@@kaydenlikescats cityfolk and New leaf are super close in terms of music to me. Hard to pick which is better!
I hated Wild World but loved City Folk. I view City Folk more as New Leaf lite rather than a repeat of Wild World. I couldn't even make it a month into Wild World before I got bored & dropped it, though. (I think the ugly graphics did it no favors)
finally some credit to jvgsjeff. The king of commitment and ac video essay b roll footage
Let's Go to the City was the first Animal Crossing game I ever owned so I like it a lot, except for when I forgot to play for a while and every villager was really really angry at me.
I'm thinking Nintendo may release an all new paid DLC version of city folk in New horizons. It'll be a whole new city to fly to.
I used to come over to my friends house after school so we could play it together ಥ_ಥ
My first Animal Crossing entry was actually City Folk, lucky for me I guess because I never experienced the collective disappointment people had with this game. For me this is the one that started it all, and I will always have extremely fond memories of, just playing by myself or with my cousin online. It's just crazy and a little sad to learn years later this game was very unpopular.
I loved Let's Go to the City so much when I was younger.
Our Wii was in the living room so I had to claim control of the telly, and I always reserved a spot on Saturday nights for KK. 🎵
I didn't actually realise at the time that I could connect Wild World to it so I never connected my games, I just played LGttC and loved it just as much as WW ❤
I was already 20 when this game came out. I'd play it after college and work. I had a long distance boyfriend (now my husband) at the time and we didn't have long distance calling, so we used the speaker accessory you could buy for city folk to leave voice notes on his wii. I have nothing but positive memories of the game and you bring up a lot of good points I just never noticed. I still love it to death. Also deteriorating path was a great way to make a natural path for your village. Also if you walk it wouldn't deteriorate. The same is true for new leaf if I remember right
I also *hated* the wii remote implementation on City Folk. Even as a 15 year old who didn’t play that many games…It made the game so clunky for me
yeah i’d hate how you’d accidentally flick the wiimote up and it brings up the hand and the whole menu it was so frustrating