


#ANIMAL CROSSING CHARACTERS SERIES#
Melee, was a breakout hit and received high marks for its quirky and charming approach to the social simulation genre, and Nintendo of Japan was impressed enough with NOA's version that it was translated back and released for essentially the third time in that country, titled Dōbutsu no Mori e+.Īnimal Crossing was established as one of Nintendo's regular franchises following the GameCube release, and every sequel in the Animal Crossing series had since been released worldwide. The game, which had more-or-less already been "promoted to" western audiences via cameo appearances from some of its characters in 2001's Super Smash Bros. Nintendo of America decided to localize this version of the game for release in the United States, and during the immense translation process many more new features like whole dialogue options and new holiday items were added, resulting in the final product, Animal Crossing, released on September 2002. This made the game files so small in size that it is one of the few games that can fit entirely on the system memory, meaning it can still play even if the disc is removed. This version is basically a direct port of the original version with updated textures and utilizing memory cards and the system's internal clock. The game received an enhanced remake for the Nintendo GameCube eight months later titled Dōbutsu no Mori+. However, after the many delays and eventual abandonment of the 64DD, the game was transfered to a standard cartridge with a real-time clock built into the Game Pak, the first and only game on the system to do so, as well as utilizing the Controller Pak to save data. The team originally planned for the game to be released on the Nintendo 64DD to take advantage of its writable floppy disks and real-time clock. The game was made internally at Nintendo by many of the same staff that worked on Yoshi's Story. The first entry in the series titled Animal Forest (どうぶつの森, Dōbutsu no Mori), released in April 2001 as a Japan-exclusive life-simulation title for the Nintendo 64. The peaceful town setting of an Animal Crossing game, as depicted in the first trailer for SSB4. 6.6 Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer.6.4 Animal Crossing: City Folk / Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City.6 Games with elements appearing in the Super Smash Bros.
