This is my main town on Animal Crossing: City Folk, and it was created much earlier than my other City Folk town.
It is now 7 years old.
Here's some facts about it:
Fruits:
Players:
Can you believe that City Folk is 16 years old now?
City Folk doesn't get much love. Its controls, while not perfect, are much better than those of Wild World. The city gives you a place to escape, and subsequent games all have similar places to escape to.
But I might just be nostalgic. This was one of the first games I ever played when I was young. I was simply unaware of any other Animal Crossing games until much later on. And when it first came out, it was simply seen as Wild World with weaker dialogue and a boring place to escape to.
My older sister played this all the way back in 2008, when City Folk was first released. She created another City Folk town, also called Paramus. I was really young then, so I had no idea what I was doing. I wish I knew back then what "Format Wii System Memory" meant.
By 2017, I started to wonder where the music from City Folk and various other things that stuck out in my mind (like Brewster's cafe) came from. I found out that it was from a game called Animal Crossing: City Folk.
That's when I located a copy of City Folk and created this town. I played quite a bit around April-May 2017, then life happened. Throughout 2018 and 2019, I never found time to play.
But then, in 2020, shortly before that respiratory disease pandemic, I decided to dig up City Folk again.
However, I wouldn't really start playing again until I was forced to attend school from home. That's when I really fell in love with Animal Crossing.
My childhood Wii has survived being hardmodded with this obscure thing over 14 years ago and, more recently, various softmods trickling in since June 2021, including Wiimmfi.
I wonder if that obscure thing will survive Y2K38, though.
I feel like I probably wouldn't have played Animal Crossing or New Horizons if it weren't for City Folk.
While I've now played every Animal Crossing game in the series, I still give City Folk some screen time, in part because of red turnips. I also have way too much of an attachment to City Folk for me to want to give it up. That's why I don't play Wild World very often at all.