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{{quote|''Yeah, living on your own, being free. It feels great. But living by yourself can be a real drag, too. Still, if you've got some really tight friends somewhere nearby, then you know it'll all work out.''|K.K. Slider}}

 

 

In order to pay off the debt on your house to the local shopkeeper (a <s>raccoon</s>tanuki named [[Punny Name|Tom Nook]]), you'll have to scrounge up things to sell for the local currency, Bells. You can hunt insects, catch fish, gather fruit, dumpster-dive for old furniture, or sell the stuff you earn running errands for your neighbors. You can also put some of your hard-earned money towards buying new clothes, or furniture for your home.

 

The game later received a version for the Nintendo DS, ''Animal Crossing: Wild World'', which added a few new features, like the ability to get haircuts, hats and accessories to wear, new items to collect, the ability to communicate with friends over Wi-Fi, and a limited increase in interaction with your neighbors.

 

 

Franchise history:

* 1.x

** ''Dōbutsu no Mori'' (lit. "Animal Forest") (Nintendo 64; Japan 2001)

* 2.x

** ''Oideyo Dōbutsu no Mori'' (Nintendo DS; Japan 2005) Removed several features and hidden NES games in favor of online play with friend codes; changed all holidays.

** ''Animal Crossing: Wild World'' (Nintendo DS; North America 2005, Australia 2005, Europe 2006) Nearly identical to ODnM, but not interoperable with the Japanese game due to character encoding differences and different sizes of various data structures.

* 3.x

** ''Animal Crossing: City Folk'' (North America)/''Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City'' (PAL territories) (Wii; 2008) As well as the town, the player can now visit a city full of different shops including ones from previous games as well as some new ones. Online play is once again included and 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. Holidays return, with versions of the game from different countries having their own sets. Region-specific holidays can still be experienced by people outside the holiday's region using the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection to visit the town of a friend from another country. Highlands and lowlands in the town return from 1.x.

* 4.x

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* [[Addressing the Player]]

* [[Amazing Technicolor Wildlife]]: Blue, purple, whatever--there's a townsperson for every color of the rainbow! (Of course, there are ordinarily colored animals as well -- for example, Goose is white like roosters often are in real life; he's just named after a completely different kind of fowl for some reason.)

* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: It's the trope namer, even.

* [[Art Evolution]]: So far, there have been two major changes to the series' art style: ''Wild World'' added the now-famous "rolling log effect", and ''3DS'' features redone, slightly less [[Super-Deformed]] character models.

* [[Ascended Meme]]: Not an internal meme, but a meme from another popular Nintendo series. If you talk to Grumpy male villagers during the Festivale, they may tell you to [[Star Fox (series)|DO A BARREL ROLL!]]

* [[Behind the Black]]: The "Hide and Seek" mini-game from ''City Folk'' makes no ''sense'' without taking this into consideration.

* [[The Blank]]: A blank-faced cat named Blanca.

* [[Bragging Rights Reward]]: Various holiday items. But since there's no real goal to the game, nor an [[100% Completion|achievement counter]], arguably ''every'' reward is for bragging rights, or at least for leading you to ''other'' rewards.

* [[Global Currency]]: Bells.

* [[Gosh Hornet]]: Every tree you shake has a chance of dropping a beehive on your helpless character. Though the bees can be caught with a net, its always a risky endeavor.

* [[Grid Inventory]]: Constant size variant, thanks to the ability to transform furniture into leaves for easy transport.

* [[Grows on Trees]]: You can grow a money tree.

* [[Kappa]]: Kapp'n; the pun in his name makes it obvious. The translated versions try to call him a turtle, but ''City Folk'' also has kappa-branded outfits. He is also referred to as a ''parrot'' in the [[Did Not Do the Research|Player's Guide]].

* [[Kawaiiko]]: The "peppy" villagers.

* [[Kuudere]]: Sable is a Type 2.

* [[Late to the Punchline]]: In the days leading up to Groundhog Day some characters will say that someone should make a movie about Groundhog Day.

* [[No Export for You]]:

** The [[Animal Crossing]] Anime Movie doesn't look like it's going to get to US shores anytime soon...if ever.

** A more straight example is the third release in Japan Dōbutsu no Mori e+ for the Gamecube which only saw a release only in Japan while not all of it's new features that were introduced in it that were not in the N64 and U.S. and European release have been used in future titles in the series (such as hitting Nook's store door with a shovel when he's closed and being able to shop after hours with Nook half asleep and the prices for stuff being inflated when you do this) a select few of it's features have made it in future titles in international releases (such as being able to eavesdrop on animal villager conversations and them asking you stuff during them) making them first introduced to Western audiences in the Wild World and City Folk releases.

* [[Non-Lethal KO]]:

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Reversed, actually.

* [[Personal Raincloud]]: When a townsfolk is sad.

* [[Punny Name]]: Villagers often have names related to their species. In addition, Mr. Resetti and his brother Don have a last name that references the action that players do to make them appear (which happens to be huge pet peeve of the former, though the latter is more mellow about it).

* [[Quirky Town]]: Self-explanatory, and may account for some of the game's appeal.

* [[Retcon]]: ''City Folk'' retcons a third Able Sister into the hedgehogs' backgrounds, managing to add quite a soap opera element to the story. One wonders why they didn't just make her an Able Cousin or something.

* [[Revenue Enhancing Devices]]: A series of collectible e-Reader cards was released to coincide with the game, and could be used to obtain items in the game.

* [[Save Game Limits]]: Technically, you're never supposed to have more than one save file, to facilitate the [[Socialization Bonus]] inherent in the game's concept. In actuality this has become more stringent owing to the technical aspects of saving on each system- in the original game you could have as many towns as you had memory cards that could fit them; in ''Wild World'', there are no memory cards so you have to get another copy of the game in order to have multiple towns (and need two DS systems to have the towns interact); ''City Folk'' saves directly to the system and doesn't allow you to copy the file to the memory card, so you'd have to get a separate Wii to have more towns in the same house.

* [[Save Scumming]]: [[Lampshaded]] and averted. You're warned the first time you load a saved game by a NPC to not even consider using the reset button or dropping back to the Wii menu without saving (for version 3.x) or turning the console off without saving (all versions). If you do reset the game (by means mentioned above) without saving, expect said NPC to come by and give you an earful, and at one point in all versions, even feigns deleting your save game!

* [[Set Bonus]]: There are several distinct themes of furniture (plus flooring and wallpaper) present in the game, like "Fruit", "Space", and "Snowman". Collecting and decorating your house with all pieces of a given furniture set results in a nice bonus to your HRA score.

* [[She's a Man In Japan]]:

** Joan. She claims to have been selling her turnips 'round these parts for ''over'' sixty years. Assuming she was maybe fifteen when she started her business, she must be pushing the high end of the 70s when you start the game. She's probably an octogenarian in most established games.

** The protagonist themselves. They look prepubescent (though that could be [[Artistic Age]]), have moved out, and are implied to be at least adults.

* [[Vendor Trash]]: ''Everything,'' mostly, but the most truly Vendor Trash-y items are the mushrooms which grow in the fall in the original, as they literally serve no other purpose. Mushrooms in ''City Folk''/''Let's Go to the City'' serve a similar purpose, though there's actually a reason to pick them in that they sometimes turn out to be special Mushroom-themed furniture that can only be found this way. The fruit in every game is like this as well, but in the original, it ''did'' serve one other, arcane purpose--for use in the Animal Island mini-game.

* [[Verbal Tic]]: The various "neighbor" animals; you can even give them new phrases, bucko. Permanent NPCs occasionally have this trait as well (with the exception that their [[Verbal Tic|Verbal Tics]] can't be changed), with the owl siblings, Blathers and Celeste saying "hoo" and "hootie-toot," respectively, and Brewster, the pigeon coffee shop clerk in the basement of the museum the owls work in, tending to say "coo" often. Tom Nook also tends to say "yes, yes" and "hm?" often, but unlike the previous examples, this is unrelated to his species.

* [[Wasted Song]]:

** Many (considering that there are some songs that will only play for an hour or so every ''year''), but the most notable is probably the ''Wild World'' and ''City Folk''/''Let's Go to the City'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prtUeibvZLU 2 AM] theme. A lovely, thoughtful melody that got hidden away in the wee-est of wee hours of the morning. For the non-insomniac among us, though, it luckily got a remix in ''[[Super Smash Bros Brawl]].''

* [[We Buy Anything]]: Tom Nook, naturally. He doesn't technically ''buy'' [[Fishing for Sole|the garbage you might fish up]], but he will take it off your hands for free.

* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: This becomes more possible in each game, and is equally available for both sexes. ''Wild World'' allows you to unlock the ability to have opposite-gender haircuts, ''City Folk'' adds the ability to wear opposite-gender shoes, and the 3DS game simply makes skirts, dresses, pants, and shirts different kinds of items rather than altering clothing based on gender. So it's possible to start a game as one gender and eventually work your way to the point where the face is the only thing that shows the original gender.

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Blathers is NOT pleased by the fact that the museum has a bug wing. Thankfully, this has been reduced quite a bit since the original game.

* [[Wide Open Sandbox]]

* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: The characters with the "normal" personality.

* [[You Mean "Xmas"]]: Toy Day, in the Gamecube version- in ''City Folk'', the day is officially referred to as "the night Jingle comes to town", and referred to with a variety of [[Unusual Euphemism|Unusual Euphemisms]] by various characters.

 

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