Awesome game!!
This is one of my favorite games. I ♡ it! Great for kids, or adults that like a fun game with no violence. In this game, you are moving to a town and need a home (you name town). This cat character hooks you up with a racoon named Nook that gets you a home, that he is selling. You dont have enough money to buy the house, so as a tutorial of the game, Nook has you work in his store to pay off your house loan. He really doesnt have you do much, just plant some flowers, write a letter, post an advertisement, meet the towns ppl, deliver an item, and do some stuff for ppl in town, stuff like that. It is basically just teaching you how to do some of the required game play, by letting you learn through doing. It doesnt take long if you know what to do, the internet has loads of info. After doing a few things, he tells you he has no more work and you are free to go. You house is small at first..a single room im guessing would be an 8x8. But as you collect fruit, shells by the ocean, dig up items, find items to sell at the dump, etc. you can build up money pretty fast. Then once you pay off your house, you can remodel it, making the main house room much bigger (2 expansions) adding a basement (1 expansion) and adding an upstairs (1 expansion). Each expansion cost money, 24,000 to 798,000 bells (dollars) each. But not to worry.... its not hard to make. You can also get an axe, shovel, net and fishing pole, to cut down trees (you should have a certain number per acre) dig up fossils, which are mailed at the post office, and then returned to you as dino bones and such. They can be donated to your towns museum (you are listed on a name plate, saying you donated it) or you can sell them, once bones (not fossils) to nook for lots of bells (money). You can also dig up special items. All spots that can be dug up are marked. You can catch bugs with ur net, and also donate, sell or release. Once you catch all bugs in the game, you get a golden net. You can fish, also donate, sell or release. Fish range in price from very little, to some ocean fish bringing 3,000-6,000 bells each!! After all fish are caught, you get the golden fishing pole. Dont think you will hurry through this game. The game is real time, so one day in real life is one day on the game. If its 10am at your house, its 10am on the game. You can cheat and move the time up on "other things" at the start menu, and change the time or day by moving it forward. But NEVER move it backwards once you have played a day. Or reset without saving to redo a day. The game will recognize that you cheated and a mole will pop out of the ground and yell at you for doing it. There is really way to much to explain. But we LOVE this game. Its for the gamecube and thats when we first played, but I got a wii that is compatible with gamecube games and we still play this. Up to four ppl in your home can live in your town (Nook has 4 houses) but its one player at a time. each memory card you use can have a town with 4 houses. When two memory cards are inserted, you can ride the train and go to the other memory cards town. Often having different fruit trees. (Your towns fruit is worth 100 bells each. A different fruit from another town is 500 bells if you return to your town to sell it. This game is EASILY worth $20+ if you can find it! Good luck!!
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