Monday, January 21, 2008 8:25 PM 2008: Animal Crossing Wii Or We Riot The
release calender for Wii in 2008 is looking about as thin as Nicole
Richie after discovering just how deep her pointer finger can go down
her throat. Sure, we have Smash Bros, and the alpha-moms and my
girlfriend have Wii Fit, but other than that it ain't lookin good for
the home team. However, our pal Reggie has mentioned that a
little series called Animal Crossing will be bobbing on down to
everyone's favorite awkwardly-named game console EVENTUALLY. A lot of
people, who have absolutely no real evidence to support their ideas,
have claimed to believe that AC will be coming in '08. I put all of my
faith in people like that. Animal Crossing, despite being cursed with
the kiddiest, sissy-boy name of ANY Nintendo franchise, is one of my
favorite games of all time. In fact, my first attempt at online writing
was a Gamefaqs guide for the DS version, which in about a year and half
has received almost 160,000 hits. (http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/ds/file/920786/42121) There
are an obscene number of things that Nintendo could do with the
franchise on Wii, especially with online capabilities. Of course
they'll probably screw some parts of it up, what with the friend codes
thing, but putting some sort of main hub for trading that anyone could
access would be brilliant, especially if it worked like ebay
auctions. That way if you have a craving for a purple lamp shaped like
a gallbladder or something all you'd have to do would be to type in
your strange request in a search bar and make some guy from Ohio that
sells such lamp's day. Actually, it might be better if it weren't like
Ebay, because the above example is NOT that hard to imagine being on
the site right this very moment. But
we can all agree, the more customization the better. Designing things
with the pattern maker in the old AC games was pretty difficult and
time consuming, and although is was pretty rewarding for people that
had enough time and so few friends that they could spend 15 hours a day
using it, it just wasn't user friendly. The ability to upload images
from and SD card and do whatever you want with them would absolutely
blow people's minds. Think about it. Download an image of your REAL
wallpaper in your house, and then slap it on the walls of your
villagers home as well. My frontal lobe just imploded just THINKING
about it. That's just one of a million things that could be included to
make AC Wii a truly AAA game, so we should all be keeping this one on
the radar. And expect full coverage here once info starts to be
released on it. -Ryan Rigney
