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Originally Posted by kaliraksha
Ooh, this looks like the type of game I might be interested in. What do you guys like about it?
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It's a really fun RPG. It's "real time" --- time passes in a day as it does in real life, so you're not struggling to complete a day's tasks hurriedly like you would in something like Harvest Moon.
You can use a pre-made town or make your own.
You make relationships with the other villagers. People move in and out. The animals (the other villagers are animals) will ask you to deliver things for them, find their lost housekeys, and they'll buy and sell stuff from you.
You can also buy and sell things from Tom Nook, who runs a store in the middle of town. He will upgrade the store after you spend a certain amount, and the store gets better and has more merchandise each time. He will maintain a catalog of items. Items are added when you have them in your pocket.
There are tonnes of "native" fruit trees in each village. Mine are oranges. Other towns have different fruit --- "foreign" fruit will get you $500 at Nook's, your native fruit will get you $100. Well, 100 "bells" (the unit of currency). You can shake the trees to get fruit, and shake fruitless trees to find bells and surprises. You can plant fruit to make more fruit trees. If you happen to find a coconut on the beach --- plant it!
There are also lots of other tasks and surprises... balloons float over the town and you can shoot them down to find rare items, there are things to dig up, you can fish in the ocean and in the river, there is a museum you can donate bugs, fish and fossils to...
You buy a house, and you can pay off your mortgage and upgrade for more space. The furnishings have a lot of meaning (they come in sets, each piece has two terms that describe it, for example "retro" and "trendy" and they mesh together in different ways --- plus there are actual feng shui ratings for placement and it affects your luck!) and there are dozens of possible items.
There are events for each holiday, as well as fishing tourneys, flea markets... you can write letters to other animals, attach gifts and they send stuff back... your Mom will send you gifts
You can take the bus to the city and explore... it's small, but has neat stuff. You can go to the Shampoodle salon and have your character turned into your Mii.
You can also visit friends by trading friend codes and opening the gates for each other. I'm still working on that part... I don't know anyone IRL who has this game, I'm dying to try this part out.
You can get complete game guides at GameFAQs.
I would highly recommend it. It's really relaxing and not one of those games where you end up wanting to destroy the WiiMote. It's cute, fun and amusing.
