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Well, you start out in a randomly generated town (which you get to name), with randomly generated villagers (except for the main characters, like the mayor, the town shopkeeper, etc.), and no money. From there, you choose one of four available houses (or less if another player(s) is (are) already living in the town), and take out a mortgage on it. After
Tom Nook (the shopkeeper) gives you a short part-time job (to teach you the basics of the game), you pay off your mortgage by gathering
fruit, catching
bugs and fish, or digging up
fossils, and selling them. As you pay off each mortgage,
Nook will expand your house to make it bigger, letting you add more furniture, etc., to make the best home you can. This is important, because the
Happy Room Academy (HRA) judges your house each week and rates the interior design of your home. (You can opt out of this if you want, or if interior design is not your thing.) You can also spend your time and Bells (bells are the local currency) by planting
trees and
flowers around town to give it (your town) a higher environmental rating. If you get bored with that, you can always try to fill the (oddly empty)
museum with donated
fish, bugs, and artwork. The
artwork can only be acquired from
Crazy Redd, a fox who runs a secret store in the city. Wait, the
city?! That's right, in
Animal Crossing: City Folk, you can take a bus to the
city, where you can shop at
Crazy Redd's (after you've garnered an invitation from one of your townsfolk), visit the
marquee (theater) (where you can watch
Dr. Shrunk's comedy shows to gain emotion actions you can use to chat with friends or just look silly), visit the
HRA headquarters (where you can view the month's model room and learn the month's theme), and shop at the
GracieGrace Department store (which has VERY pricey items, for those with more sophisticated tastes). In addition, you can visit the
Auction House (which, in addition to its auction features, also has a checkroom for you to store excess belongings), the
salon (where you can change your character's haircut or even get a mask to make you look like a Mii!), the
psychic's (I haven't figured out what she does, yet), or
Mr. Resetti's Security Center (only open on random weeknights after 8:00 PM, so I haven't figured out what it's for either). Back in your town, you can befriend your neighbors, make deliveries for them, play games with them (only simple ones like hide-and-seek and tag, though
), or even eavesdrop on their conversations! You can also write them
letters and mail them
gifts, and they will usually return the favor. In additons, since the game runs in real-time (even when you aren't playing), you can celebrate major holidays or compete in fishing and bug-catching contests that occur seasonally! And if that isn't enough, you can try to collect all of the available
clothing, accessories, furniture, wallpaper, rugs, or my personal favorites,
gyroids! Oh, I almost forgot,
every Saturday at 8:00 PM, you can meet the musician
K. K. Slider, who will give you one song every week that you can take home to play on your
stereo (you can get him to play as many songs as you want before he leaves, but you'll only get to take home the CD for the first one of the night). And there are dozens of other characters who will wander through your town every once in a while, including your friends if you exchange friend codes with them to play over the
Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection(R)!So what are you waiting for?! Buy
Animal Crossing: City Folk for the
Nintendo Wii today, cuz!
Rated E for everyone.EDIT: BTW, I spent a full fifteen minutes composing this, so please don't ignore it!
