History VideoGame / AnimalCrossingCityFolk

''City Folk'' is a sequel to ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingWildWorld'', designed to take advantage of technical improvements in the Wii compared to the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS. Among other things, most events cut from ''Wild World'' are reintroduced, including real-world holidays from the original game. Players can now visit a city full of different shops including ones from previous games, as well as some new ones.

''Animal Crossing: City Folk'' (''Machi e Ikouyo: Doubutsu no Mori'' in Japan and ''Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City'' in PAL territories) is a 2008 UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} game and the third ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' title.

The game received mixed reception when it released, largely due to its lack of innovation or adjustments to differentiate itself from the previous two games which preceded it. While many praised it for acting as a considerable improvement upon the formula of the DS game, mainly by reintroducing quality-of-life features that the 2005 game lacked, others felt that ''City Folk'' overall did little in the way of stepping up from its predecessor. Tellingly, the [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewLeaf next]] [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons two]] installments in the mainline series would each introduce considerable alterations to the basic formula.

* RenovatingThePlayerHeadquarters: The player is provided a small one room tent at the start of the game. Paying [[HonestCorporateExecutive Tom Nook]] a few thousand bells will have him replace the tent with a small one room house with storage. Paying more will have him expand the room size, and even more has him add on another room to the back of the house. From then on he will instead add more rooms via building a basement and second floor.

''City Folk'' is largely an UpdatedRerelease of ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingWildWorld'', designed to take advantage of technical improvements in the Wii compared to the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS. Among other things, most features cut from ''Wild World'' are reintroduced, including real-world holidays, while still keeping in almost all of the features that were added in the DS installment. Players can now visit a city full of different shops including ones from previous games, as well as some new ones.

The game received mixed reception when it released, largely due to it being a console version of ''Wild World''. While many praised it for acting as a considerable improvement upon the formula of the DS game, mainly by reintroducing quality-of-life features that the 2005 game lacked, others felt that ''City Folk'' overall did little in the way of stepping up from its predecessor. Tellingly, the [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewLeaf next]] [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons two]] installments in the mainline series would each introduce considerable alterations to the basic formula.

* MissionPackSequel: ''City Folk'' to ''Wild World''; there aren't as many changes as there were going from the original to the DS, or from the Wii to the [=3DS=], or from the [=3DS=] to the Switch. You can even import your character from ''Wild World'' when creating a save file. The only major differences are the addition of the city, which is where most of the previous games' travelling characters were moved, and the return of real-world holidays.

* TakeAThirdOption: One possible conversation that you can listen in on between a peppy female neighbor and a lazy male neighbor is them arguing about which one of them is cuter. Eventually, they'll ask you who you think is cuter. Your options are both of the neighbors involved in the conversation... or yourself.

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''City Folk'' is largely an improved console version of ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingWildWorld''. Players can now visit a city full of different shops including ones from previous games, as well as some new ones.

Unlike in ''Wild World'', real-world holidays return. The game is the first Wii game to support voice chat and the first online game in the series that supports interoperability between Japanese and Western versions of the game. Local multiplayer is supported by downloading travel data to a DS, referred to in-game as the DS Suitcase.

* MissionPackSequel: ''City Folk'' to ''Wild World''; there aren't as many changes as there were going from the original to the DS, or from the Wii to ''New Leaf''. You can even import your character when creating a save file. The only major differences are the addition of the city, which is where most of the previous games' travelling characters were moved, and the return of real-world holidays.
* {{Retraux}}: The furniture pieces in the Mario Set all have a pixelated appearance, reminiscent of {{VideoGame/Super Mario Bros|1}}. In ''New Leaf'', they were modeled after their ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros'' counterparts instead.

* BlackMarket: Crazy Redd owns a black market in ''City Folk''.

* {{Retraux}}: The pieces furniture in the Mario Set all have a pixelated appearance, reminiscent of {{VideoGame/Super Mario Bros|1}}. In 4.x, they were modeled after their ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros'' counterparts instead.

-->'''Twiggy:''' [[LampshadeHanging What? That wasn't even, like, an option, cheepers!]]

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