So that post going around about frustrating stuff in the original Animal Crossing is great but can we just talk about how frustrating Wild World was for a moment?
This game introduced a lot of features that are now staples of the series (emotes, hairstyles, etc)… but made them needlessly difficult and complicated to get
You couldn’t change your hair at all until you got the final Nook upgrade with Shampoodle built in, which required you to have a friend who also had the game to come and shop at your Nook’s store. Your only other option was to have a friend who already had the final upgrade and just use their Shampoodle. And some of the default hairstyles are… questionable at best…
Did I mention that since wifi services are shut down for the original DS, it’s now by extension impossible to change your hair at all? Hope you had a style you liked when you last played!
Shrunk was a random special visitor instead of something you could do daily. Changed your mind about one of your emotes? You had to wait indefinitely for him to show up.
There was no way to tell if you watered your dying flowers. So you watered one pixel too far to the left? your hybrid garden is gone now.
Seriously you’ll never truly appreciate the beautiful town ordinance in New Leaf until you’ve gone through this for YEARS playing WW
Villagers would give zero warning if they were moving out, a random villager would just already be in boxes every 1-2 days and it could take anywhere between five minutes and one hour or more to talk some of them out of it
Good luck making money in spring, fall, or winter, at least the original Animal Crossing had the island
There was no grass wear, but your town was straight up 75% dirt instead
There was a widespread and infamous glitch where you’d sometimes never be able to get snooty villagers’ pics because they’d randomly bring up dialogue that would imply they already gave it to you, which would lock you out of EVER getting it
Art was extremely hard to get in this game, and you had NO way of telling if it was fake
There was a flea market holiday where every villager in your town would randomly barge into your house and try to buy all your stuff
Heck, there was no halloween, toy day, or any holiday of note in this game, just weird oddball ones that didn’t have to do with anything
Also logging on in the fall meant your town would be absolute acorn hell thanks to one of these holidays
If you’ve played WW for as long as I have you understand why the hammer tour in New Leaf is so goddamned satisfying
This game introduced putting patterns on the ground, but had it so guests to your town could accidentally remove them
Almost every song on the OST was punctuated by fart-y tuba noises
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