Welcome to my review. I am MechaMento, as you should know, and today I am being the critic towards the game Animal Crossing New Leaf, for none other than the 3DS. I am fairly new to the game being mine since I have only owned the game for a few days but I have been into the series so I do know what to expect from the latest edition of the game, not forgetting I have played many hours of it alone and with friends.
I hope you enjoy reading my review. Remember if you want to reply to this thread I actually want a reply with a point. If I see any posts that just say that my review is really good without actually telling me what was good or bad about it, I will question you and most likely dislike you post. I have had good replies to my review before and I do appreciate them. My gift is 1000 viz but that will only go to the most helpful reply to this review.
Enjoy...


Animal Crossing - New Leaf (3DS)


Why I Played This

I was not very excited at all when I heard this game was going to be released soon. I had played both Animal Crossing for the Wii and for the DS. Unfortunately they were my brother's games so I could only play them from time to time. When I did play them my experiences were not all that good at all. I had no idea what I was doing and my brother is selfish so he wanted the games back as soon as possible. This meant that I had not much time to get to grips with the game.
My brother got Animal Crossing New Leaf in the summer holidays and this was what was making his days fun. There was hardly anything he would do other than play this game. I still at the time thought that Animal Crossing was a load of crap, but also at the time I still had not played it. I think what put me of the game was the fact that my brother always played with the sound on so all I could hear was the voices of the NPCs which sound like people talking underwater in panic, very annoying.
It then came to me. If my brother was addicted to Animal Crossing then there must be something great about the game that was putting him under the influence. I decided to borrow the game off one of my friends and just play as a normal play, not the mayor that you play as on the main profile. I enjoyed what I played of it, I had a nice home built and I was helping the NPCs by doing a ton of side quests, such as giving them fruit to eat. I was curious to see what you could do as the mayor of the town so I handed the game back to my friend and he showed me what was what. He showed me the control you have over the rest of the town, the fun projects you can have underway and of course he showed me the ever so fun island. I was a little tempted but that was not enough to turn me over and simply buy the game. What made me give the £30 across the counter was the social side of the game. Friends could visit each others worlds, which I would expect but if you add them to your best friends through Animal Crossing itself then you can actually chat to each other even when not play with each other which I loved. So here I am, telling you how great this game is...


Graphics

As usual I am impressed with the graphics. Animal Crossing New Leaf produces fantastic visuals for the player to experience while engaged with the game. We are also forgetting that this is a cartridge console, and I think it is the only main stream one remaining. Disc games are more powerful and so the graphics should be more advanced but I have to say that Animal Crossing New Leaf could be comparable to some games on the PSP which is quite a compliment to make. Every tile seems to be smooth and I am yet to see any graphic glitches but I have updated my game even before I began to play it, so maybe there was the odd bug before I got the game.
I like the way that the world curves as you walk around it, making it look earthy. It is a common feature to an Animal Crossing game but I think this one did it the best. Speaking of doing it the best, I would happily say that this edition of the Animal Crossing series has better graphics than the title on the Wii. In some other ways there game is again comparable to the Wii version of Animal Crossing if not a lot better!
This game works well in 3D. As I mentioned in the previous paragraph, the curve of the world is great and it is at its best in 3D mode. Most objects are round and set up to be 3D so as you may guess this game works in harmony in 3D. There is not much coming out of the screen but then again there is barely any games that really have any of that I can not name any that have. However I like how it goes back into the screen, that looks great. All 3DS games that I have played do this rather well but I think Animal Crossing New Leaf perfected it and set the real benchmark, forget Super Mario 3D Land!
Yes I have gave the developers a lot of good positive credit but I have seen better on the 3DS. For me The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time 3D do it for me. The graphics are a highlight of the console let alone the game, It just seems like so much change since the original for the N64 and it looks beautiful, but I pretty sure I am review Animal Crossing so I wont go into too much detail. All I am going to say is that Ocarina of Time makes the rest of the pack look lazy and I think a mainstream game like Animal Crossing should be aiming for that sort of quality. It is a little shame they did not achieve that but I and everyone else should not be disappointed by this at all. They did a fantastic job as I said, I just wanted to point out that there is better.


Sound

I mentioned in many other reviews that I own a pair of Sony DJ headphones so I get to hear everything at high quality, if it is at high quality. Luckily for the developers, Animal Crossing New Leaf is part of my good list. I have fun listening to the smooth, acoustic sounds of the overworld. I just love the way it gets you in the right mood to, I don't know, adventure? Maybe, I am not sure what to call what you do in Animal Crossing. You can really do what you want so you can not really sum it up in one single word. As I was saying the warm acoustic feel to the overworld music is a really nice touch and it sounds great through my headphones. The quality almost matches up to the standard of my ipod nano and since the ipod nano is built for music the quality is great and as I was saying Animal Crossing is not far from it!
That was just in general really but when I get picky there is stuff I am not that impressed with. There are some great tracks and then there are of course some less impressing. I particularly hate the theme you here when you are setting up you world when you are talking to that dog thing. It just sounds a little too happy go lucky for me and it really annoying. It is a 3+ game so there will be many young gamers enjoying this song but there are a surprising number of older players who enjoy the game as well but they do not want to hear a song in that style. Animal Crossing is targeted at everyone, so they should of thought the music through a little more carefully because I am happy to say that I am not the only one who does not enjoy this song!
Of course there are also some great tracks that you can get for your home such as K.K Groove and House K.K. Those tracks are both enjoyable and I can listen to them without getting bored or fed up with the same thing which I do not get the same feel for most songs let alone ones in animal crossing. The music in the club tends to be great but I think they slightly ruined it because of the singing. It puzzles me why there is signing because most DJ's don't sing and most have very little vocal samples. Animal Crossing does the opposite and lets that annoying bleep, bloop talking thing go into singing mode and ruin the song!! What revives the greatness of the song is the instrumental sections and the middle 8s. They are amazing, this is where they just combine all of the best samples and instruments into the song and creating something epic in return. This is really all I go to club lol for, other than doing the dance that looks like twerking in front of the other NPC's there!!


Addictiveness

There is a nice warm feel you get when playing a game you love. It just makes you want to come back for more, you do not want to miss anything special and you just can not get enough of the game. Animal Crossing New Leaf does well providing this to the player since I have played many hours of it even though I am yet to own the game for a week. My friend got the game a week after the release date and he still gets the fun charm even up to today. It all sounds good so far with all of this warm fun feel thing but to get to that charm you have to at least pay off your home loan. Believe me the start of the game can be a little irritating and that leads to boredom however I did enjoy doing all of the side quests for the NPCs, such as finding them a certain fruit and give an item to another NPC for them. They may sound basic and chorish but some how they are fun, just in the sense of getting pleasure out of helping because you do not get that feeling in the real world. Since these quests and other tasks are endless then you can now enjoy all of this for even longer, so there is no day where you have no reason to not play it!
Once you unlock the island you unlock more fun and reasons to keep playing. You can do these tours and they are basically fun mini games. These can be either, Diving, Hitting some robot thing with a hammer, fossil digging, ore finding and many more. These are fun to play alone and even better when playing local or online multiplayer!
Sticking to the topic of multiplayer, multiplayer in animal crossing is much more than I expected. I just can not get enough of multiplayer, it has almost as much depth as single player. In online or local multiplayer mode you can either let people visit your town or visit someone elses. When visiting you can do all of the same things you can do in single player such as doing tasks for NPCs. going to the club, visiting houses, shopping and visiting the island which are all much more fun when doing it with your friends. However you can not doing any of the tasks you can do as the Mayor of the game or extend your house,but they are just minor tasks and you forget about them when having all this fun with your friends.


Story

This came quite a surprise to me when this came out but Animal Crossing New Leaf actually has a proper story. However the actual story part is at the very begging of the game and I think there is the odd section where you see more to the story. Basically you are a just a normal person going to move to a new town just like in any other Animal Crossing game but when you get to your new town, there is a little twist for you. The old mayor that is in all of the other animal crossing games has retired so someone was stepping in and was meant to be arriving on the same day you are moving there. You get there before he or she does and everyone in the town thinks you are the new mayor. One of the NPCs asks you something about being the mayor and you reply in confusion no matter which option you choose. They all laugh thinking you are joking about and you are now there new mayor by accident, seems legit huh? That is all there is to the story really although you do get a letter on either the 2nd or 3rd day of playing the game from the person who was going to be the mayor of the town. It is quite strange because the letter makes the guy sound like he is pleased you got the job!
I like the games nice twist to the Animal Crossing cliches even if there story part is very short. I only gave it a 7 out of 10 because they were creative however they could of at least show us a little more to it, if not let the story go on for longer since the game is endless.


Thank you all for reading my review of Animal Crossing New Leaf. I hope you enjoyed reading it just as much as I enjoyed typing it. Remember I am giving out 1000 Viz to the most helpful reply to this thread. Also I do want suggestions for reviews because one of the hardest things about making reviews is actually finding a game to review!!
Have a Nice Day.....

Wow man, this is an amazing review, I haven't seen many as good in quality in a long time. Keep up the good work and you'll most likely be staff soon!

MechaMento : That was quite the review. I'd say to keep telling it like a story. I didn't see that much that could be added or fixed upon, but I guess maybe some special text would help make some points oh forget it, I'm new to posting and I didn't know bold underline couldn't be added lol.

MechaMento : Hi MechaMento, this is a great, detailed review and I just started playing this game today.  Knowing how addicted I was to the DS version I was scared to open this game knowing that I would be addicted, and sure enough...I am dying to find people to play online with me...sounds so fun!  I have a couple questions maybe you can answer when you get a chance.

How do others visit you and how can you visit others?  Do they have to be on your friend list?  It said something about people you may not know can come visit you and I don't mind that, but I had my gates open and no one came over, so that's why I'm not sure if someone has to be on my friend list to visit.  So if anyone is reading this and they want more friends please add me code 0533-5074-1460.

Also, is there a way to get the KK songs?  Like in the DS version every Saturday night you'd visit the museum café and listen to KK Slider sing you a song and then you owned the song after that.  Does this happen in this game?

Also, I see that you can get a free item every day from the internet, but is there any kind of a trash bin or Lost and Found like there is in the DS version where you can get some things for free every day?  Just wondering if I missed something as I looked around.  I saw a trash can on Main Street but I could not do anything with it.

Since it's the first day I've played this I saw the pier into the ocean and I think you said that a boat comes to get you there after you've paid off your house, which I already did today.  So I might have more questions about that, since that was never in the DS version

Thanks for reading my response and thanks a bunch for writing the review!  I hope I can game with you sometime!

Hello, I am epiclordsam, brother of MechaMento. Now I need to correct you on some things as clearly you do not know enough to hate it.
You haven't played it long enough and so this means you didn't see everything you get in the game. Such as:
-Dream Suit - where you get to go and visit creepy pasta towns
-Club LOL- where you can learn emotions and dance
-ect.
Also you didn't own Animal Crossing Wild World or Animal Crossing: Lets Go To The City so don't lie to vizzed And I did let you play for a long time and you lied yet again
Thank you for reading my very helpful response TOM!!!

epiclordsam : What do you know about my save files? I've been to Club LOL and have used the Dream Suit. 

You didn't even read my review either. I'm not sure you even saw the ratings I gave this game. So how do I "clearly not know enough to hate it" when I haven't hated it in the slightest.

The stuff you said about me lying is wrong too, if you actually read my review, at the very start I mentioned that I'd played both games but they were my brothers (yours) which meant I could only play them from time to time. Just that makes you wrong.

Just a quick tip, check your facts before criticizing stuff/trying to make me look bad because you look like the a**h*** of this thread. Have a nice day!

anybody wanna play animal crossing new leaf with me online, so maybe i'll take your neighbors. heh heh heh heh and check out your town? here's my 3ds number 1994-2466-6548