Animal Crossing: Wild World

Animal Crossing: Wild World, also known as Animal Forest: Come On Over, was released on December 5, 2005, for the Nintendo DS. It was considered to be one of the best games on the DS. It is also the second installment in the franchise to be released outside of Japan.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Just like the previous game, it has very nostalgic music.
 * 2) The villagers are less rude than they were in Population Growing.
 * 3) New bugs and fish types to collect.
 * 4) Decent visuals that look good for DS standards.
 * 5) It was also the first Animal Crossing game to use Wi-Fi.
 * 6) Some fans still play it to this day.
 * 7) It was so popular that it even spawned a movie.
 * 8) Your character isn't forced to wear a hat anymore.
 * 9) New villagers.
 * 10) You are now able to see the sky, using the top screen of the DS.
 * 11) Introduces the Slingshot and Watering Can items.
 * 12) New NPC's like Brewster, Harriet, and Celeste.
 * 13) The animal villagers in some cases give the player their image as an item, so the player can remember much after they move away.
 * 14) You can also now cross-breed flowers of the same species to obtain hybrids.
 * 15) If a villager is about to move away and has their stuff packed up, you can convince them to stay in your town at the last minute.
 * 16) This is the first entry in the series that can be played on the go.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Unfortunately, online support for all the DS and Wii games were discontinued on May 20, 2014, meaning that you can't play with other players without homebrew, though you still can use online through Wiimmfi.
 * 2) The graphics in this game look very primitive due to hardware limitations.
 * 3) Even if you do get Wiimmfi, it shares the same problem as the previous game and City Folk, where finding people to play with is difficult.
 * 4) Many trolls, hackers, griefers, and item thieves were a problem in this game when playing online.
 * 5) K.K. Slider doesn't appear during multiplayer sessions. Fortunately, this issue was fixed in City Folk.
 * 6) Not that much content is in the game due to hardware limitations.
 * 7) *Some events were removed in this game like Halloween and Toy Day.
 * 8) *Removes many features from the previous game such as the Island.
 * 9) *All of the player characters are forced to live in the same house.