Animal Crossing Sales on the Rise

Amazon said that pre orders for the game are on the rise this week. Good thing I already have my Best Buy pre order.

Tom Nook Cupcakes

These cute cupcakes were brought to my attention by a post on the Animal Crossing Wild World guild on Gaia. It's a cute idea.

Tom Nook Cupcakes

More New Pictures

Thank you to the accityfolk channel on You Tube for being so up-to-date with everything.

Video

Here is the link for the scans on Go Nintendo.

And this is what I gather is the original source of the scans.

Motion Control? Sweet.

I saw some videos on You Tube that had some scans from a Japanese magazine that showed new furniture, clothing, accessories and what I think is the best news of all-motion control fishing. Now, this was written in Japanese-I can't read it, so I can't be sure what it says. Also, will these things be in the US released version? I can't be sure, but I hope so.

Here are the videos:
Video 1
Video 2

Here are links to a blog that just has the scans you view if you don't want to watch the video:
Link 1
Link 2

And here is just a cropped picture that shows the motion control fishing:

Name Change, Bundle Price, and Box Art (?)

The name will not be "City Folk" in Australia. They have changed it to "Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City" for what seems to be no reason. I found 2 sites with this information: here and here.

Also there are several sites confirming that there will be a bundle with the game and WiiSpeak together selling for $70. Here, here, and here (are just a few of the links with this information).

And this isn't official, but GameSpot has this image showing as the box art for the game:

By kellyjo at 2008-09-17

One of my main disappointments...

There is no Animal Crossing Channel on the main screen of the Wii. If they can have a channel for Mario Kart, why not Animal Crossing? Especially since there is all this talk of the downloadable content and stuff. This is a rather lame reason, given by Eguchi in the interview that is listed on the previous post,

"Eguchi tells us, the reason Nintendo has no plans to offer a Wii Animal Crossing Channel. “It’s a big game, a huge game for the system, and to try and cut off a portion of that to place in a channel, I’m not sure if that’s something we’d be interested in.” "

Some people were upset about the weather channel not being a part of the game, but that doesn't bother me at all.

I still haven't read a reason as to why they decided NOT to include motion control as part of the game. I think that is probably the biggest disappointment of all. I mean, the main focus of the Wii was that the controls were "mobile," jerking the wiimote to catch a fish, swinging it to catch a bug-and that's not in this game. I think they really dropped the ball on that one.

Interview with Eguchi

"Eguchi's Crossing" On Edge-the Global Game Industry Network

Quick Preview Article from Video Game Media

...And possibly the cover art? I can't find any information to confirm this, but it looks pretty good to me-although Photoshop is pretty amazing, so who knows.

Article

5 Minute Hands On

This is a pretty good video found on You Tube. Enjoy.

Animal Crossing Wii

I have no idea if this is real or not, but it sure is awesome!

Found Here.

Interview with Katsuya Eguchi

He is the lead producer and project manager of Animal Crossing. This interview is on IGN and is dated July 16, 2008. There is lots of good information.

IGN: E3 2008: Eguchi Talks Animal Crossing

Blanca Meme

Here is another kind of meme found on Deviant Art. This time it is a template to draw your own Blanca face. It was made by Urser.

This is just a small version to show what it will be like. Please click the link and get the template from the original creator on Deviant Art.


Here are some finished ones found on Deviant Art.

By: Matterialize
By: seizure-gasm
By: cocoayouthcrew
By: Ruhiana-chan
By: tmc1998
By: ringosweet
By: Black-Kat-55
By: OldSkewlQueen

Again-there are others, just search. :)

Animal Crossing memes on Deviant Art

I've never done one of these myself-I'm not too proud of my artistic skills, but I like looking at them.

By: ShonioImpulse
By: catdragon229
By: YuYuCat
By: ZeroMidnight
By: X--Zaza
By: armoured armadillo
By: tmc1988
By: kniveschic24
By: Ruhiana-chan
By: Nami-Tsuki
By: MewMewGirl17


Here is the blank meme if you want to do it for yourself. It's by Ruhiana-chan.

There are others-just search for Animal Crossing Meme when you are Deviant Art.

Animal Crossing City Folk Videos

There are already tons of videos on You Tube, mostly the broadcasts of the E3 announcement of the game. There are a few videos that involved actual game play. I have already joined 2 Animal Crossing channels on You Tube that are trying to upload more videos as the become available.

AnimalXingCF's Channel

ACCityFolk's Channel

Here is a trailer for the game (found on YouTube):

Wallpapers

Well, I can't make wallpaper worth a crap, so I just did a google search and picked out some of my favorites.



Here are some found on Deviant Art that I like.

City Folk wallpaper by dethblood on Deviant Art.

Simple Orange Wallpaper by Aaronrc on Deviant Art.

Hand drawn Wallpaper by yourpersonaldoctor on Deviant Art.

First Post

This blog will mostly be about the series of games called "Animal Crossing." I had a blog like this once before, but I did not keep up with it-I wish I had now. I have noticed all the regular Animal Crossing type names for blogs seem to all be in Spanish. I had thought of making a blog for the new City Folk game a few days ago, but being a lazy monkey, I didn't do it and now it is taken - and it's in Spanish.

Being that I am a monkey, I might add other things in this blog. Probably animal related, but maybe not game related. Does it matter? This is just for fun anyway.