Animal Crossing : City Folk


Welcome to my Animal Crossing City Folk collection page! Here you'll find a "collection" of my thoughts on the game, a gameplay blog, and information about my town. For now, it's a WIP, but I'll be semi-regularly updating the blog as I play and working on the other pages! I figured I'll just upload it anyways even though it's not finished since the blog is getting pretty lengthy. Take a look around~





Rambling About AC


Animal Crossing City Folk is a 2008 game developed by Nintendo for their Wii console. Out of all the mainline AC games, I think most people (if they remember it exists) would say this is the underdog. A lot of people will say "its too similar to the older ones!" and while I agree; and I'm glad that New Leaf later shook up the formula, is that really a bad thing? Wild World and ACGC are near-universally loved, so why is this one any different? I have a lot of fondness for this game and think people should give it more of a chance, so I'm just gonna blab on about it here... Continue if you're into this sorta thing.
Features

In terms of features I love, the city is so nice, atmospheric and relaxing. As well as useful! Instead of having to wait for people like Redd to show up at your town, you can just travel to the city instead. The music is memorable and pleasant and you can peoplewatch (animalwatch?) villagers walking around. I also loved that they brought back the reset surveillance center from the original game. As well as the addition of Phineas, who has no real purpose besides giving you fun objects to mess around with. That's the kind of thing I love about AC, just having silly fun features for the hell of it.

Along with the previously mentioned features the need to have a friend visit your town to progress (Nook store upgrades) was removed in this game, making this game much more future-proof. That's the kind of thing I worry about when servers get shut down (such as the 3ds servers recently) is that some of these games will become "bricked" by the removal of multiplayer... But for this game, it's not a worry.

Some lesser known features of City Folk...

  • The town fund! I like how it adds a secondary progression besides upgrading your house.
  • Gyroid storage is really useful since they can take up so much space.
  • THE HOTKEYS THAT LET YOU CHANGE TOOLS!! I feel like people don't talk about this enough, it's such a good QOL feature and makes the older games dificult to replay lolol. Simplicity

    Maybe a controversial opinion, but I really prefer the limited creativity of the older games. For me, AC is about enjoying your simple town life, and making the most of the limited methods of customization youre given. Theres some phrase like "Limitation brings out creativity" (see here) and I think that shows in these older games. You really had to make the most of your pixel-art patterns and your default building placements, and I loved that! I think giving so much creative freedom in the newer games kinda leads to you fussing over the appearance of your town way too much, wanting it to be totally perfect... which isn't the vibe I like for these games. This game should be a destressor, not a "oh my god I need this house to be moved over 1 tile or my town is RUINED" game. Basically, NL+NH are more like sandbox games to me, while the first three entries are relaxing life-sims.
    Deluxe

    A modder known as "Aurum" and several others have done amazing work on a mod called Animal Crossing: City Folk Deluxe which greatly improves on the base game in small but meaningful ways. I highly recommend it to anybody who is looking to play this game!! It's very easy to get working on Dolphin emulator, but to play it on official hardware you need a homebrewed wii/wiiu and a retail disc. The mod features...

  • 200+ added villagers
  • All events/holidays, even region-specific ones
  • Added items, unused and new
  • Skin tone selection
  • Progression is made less random
  • Can get haircuts of either gender
  • Paintings have forged versions (feature from New Leaf)
  • Option to toggle grass deterioration (!!!!)
    • BASICALLY everything is better about this mod, there's really no downsides. Just play City Folk with this mod if you can. Overall

    I think this game is awesome and so special. If you think I have a nostalgia bias, I have to add that I played Wild World 100x more as a kid... I'm way more nostalgic for WW. But whenever I'm on an AC kick, I always end up preferring this game. Of course, the missing features from WW are sorely missed (villager portraits..) but overall I think CF is a better experience, and I'd go as far as to say it's my favorite in the series. In an ideal world, we'd have a perfect blend of WW, CF, and gamecube, and that would be the ultimate AC game. But for now.. this is pretty great! If you also love City Folk, or have been inspired to try the mod from my page, I'd love to hear about it on my guestbox or email! 'v'

    Nuvema Town


    "The Start of Something Big!"
  • Town fruit: Peaches
  • Save started: July 20th 2024
  • Town theme: Chocolate Disco (x)
  • Nook's shop: Nookway
  • Grass pattern: Squares
  • House upgrade: Complete
  • Past villagers:

    • August 2025

    8-23-2025

    welcome Gala to my town =v= i was hoping for a mod-exclusive villager, but she is very cute and i love her flower theming.. she also didnt move her house into an annoying spot so im glad.

    realized that i forgot to take a screenshot of the new town layout!! i will remedy this next time i get on >_< also RIP peewee.. he was very ugly and i didnt like him. but still, RIP.

    8-11-2025

    THE EVIL IS DEFEATED!!!!

    8-10-2025

    fireworks tonight! they were nice. i dont think they have much of a point besides being comfy but thats ok. i like the sparkler that tortimer gives you.

    infiltrated into resetti's mancave and got a silver shovel! also sidenote, ruby is staying i guess. idk what happened there but im happy about it, lol.

    8-9-2025

    ive briefly lost enthusiasm for this game because of some BULLSHIT!! listen to this, ok so basically ruby said "im going to leave" on the 6th... HOW?? shes been here less than a month and i talk to her everyday. meanwhile peewee was dying of the flu and i ignored him the whole time but he isnt going anywhere??

    now, its the 9th and...? shes still not gone. not even packed up her boxes. im so confused, she sent me a letter today too. i have no idea whats happening here.. maybe a glitch? or the game was just like "LOL nevermind." i dont know. this is really weird. ill update later i guess. ...anyways, i have nookway now, and im still working on completely paying off my character's house.

    8-5-2025

    good day to any readers~ im pretty much done with the paths, so youll see them in any new pictures. i really like them and i only used three patterns so i can change them pretty easily by editing the patterns. (linking the pattern source again!)

    look at the cute letter from sable ;_; she's absolutely adorable... ive made friends with her and brewster now~ and he stores my gyroids (i really like this feature)

    8-1-2025

    ive been working on paths for my town... except not really working on them, theyre currently just edited versions of these patterns. but ive never had a town with nice paths and decorating before... not even in new leaf! so i want to do it now, its not really that dificult but the annoying part is that you can only hold 8 patterns -_-

    today francine visited and i got pissed that she criticized my lack of chairs so i kicked her out LOL why are these villagers so picky about my house -___- ill decorate it however i want. gtfo. also, like, i have a couch!! so does that not count! also, my third house payment is almost done, ill probably do it after i upload this. im also working on the review page still! i have many thoughts..

    logged in later and paid off my debt so i will have a basement tomorrow! and also put down a ton of paths~ ill take pictures later!

    July 2025
    pixel art source - inspiration - return?