The mean diolauge is something I've kinda liked. I'm currently playing the original Gamecube game, and two of the islanders call me nutcase and slacker on the regular. And I'm okay with it.
@@canofpizzasauce667 Exactly! We can have villagers how act like the New Horizons ones and ones who are mean to you like the Gamecube. It would add more variety and life to the villagers
I started to play the original animal crossing a month ago and this is my personal favorite, the ost, the characters, the design, all the events and it just feels so lively. And my opinion isn't even biased by nostalgia
Yeah, I *just* started playing the GameCube one a few days ago. I haven't been to my island in a few days 🤔😅 All jokes aside, it's pretty cool and I'm going to be introducing my kids to this version. I started playing New Horizons back in June/July 2021, and I share an island with my four kids. But I wanted to try the previous animal crossing games so I went out and bought a DS and Wild World last year, the a 3DS and New Leaf a couple of months ago, and then a GameCube and animal crossing earlier this month. I've played quite a bit of Wild World, the first day of New Leaf a few weeks ago.
I didn't grow up playing Animal Crossing on Gamecube, and the only one I dug anytime into was New Leaf, I enjoyed it a lot but I can see where you coming from, the first game is the only one that feels like a forest and feels like your getting lost in a community. All others including New Horizons feel so much smaller, I have more control but I also feel like it makes the world feel less immersive for that very reason. In Gamecube I'm a bystander of a large forest of animals while in later entries I feel like I'm the master of the world. I get a very different feeling from even watching gameplay of the first game that I just don't get from the others.
TzarQuetzal exactly my thoughts. I have been playing ac gc snd new horizons and i find myself more interested on gc. I think is because of this very reason.
Animal Crossing N64/GC was WAY ahead of its time. This game has so much to offer for an old game. Nintendo needs to take the same dialogs structure for the upcoming AC.
Thank you, this was a very nice Christmas present, Merry Christmas and happy holidays! As for an experience with AC, me my mother and younger brother would all play and visit each others towns in wild world, we were all pretty invested in our towns even though my mother would be the only one who knew what she was actually doing. My favorite times were Fridays because she let us stay up super late to visit K.K Slider and would make us hot chocolate, the nighttime music, and the lead up to when he arrived was exciting but also really calming and overall, just a nice experience. Animal crossing has brought me so many calm and wholesome moments like that and i'm super grateful.
All of this. New Horizons stepped on what little spunk was left in this series. Hoping updates help, but it seems like they sacrificed weirdness for customization. It's a nostalgia based-game for me, and it would have been so easy to at least include so many classic characters.
Such a beautiful and charming game. The first AC game i actually owned myself was New Leaf, which I got very soon after release. Even though i was in my early teenage years i can still recall a lot of the same emotions you talked about. Setting my alarm an hour earlier to play the game, and getting fully invested in my town and villagers. Probably the most effective form of escapism i’ve had through a videogame.
You really hit the nail on the head. I share the same experience with Pokemon RSE and Animal Crossing GC. What a lovely time in life. AC especially was so special and endearing for the reasons you listed. I especially loved the rainy days...
Soundtrack is probably one of my all time favorites of any game, the feel the game had was cozy, the expereinces and features, while are small were fun, and overall the game itself was just fantastic. Since then I have played all of the other AC titles, and non of them have come close to being a great in terms of feels as the original. I think what I hate the most about the newer games is that the music just doesnt sound the same... I will admit I like being able to see the sky in the newer ones as not seeing the sky in the older games alwasy kinda creeped me out, and the grid system got on my nerves somtimes, but all the features the game had in it that were striped away in laters made AC gamecube for me.
Thanks for the video, it feels perfect for the holiday season :) I remember feeling heartbroken and powerless when my sister would visit my village to cut the trees and trample my flowers, I felt like I had failed them by bringing such a threat into our home haha ! I will always love that game for the peace it brought me. Happy holidays !
You guys are so lucky to have animal crossing GameCube. I tried to emulate the game but it runs very slow that it’s barely playable 😞 I am very sad and I hope one day that I will play this game
@@keferluka_2708 I play on dolphin emulator and I play on my tablet😞 it’s hard to think that a 2000’s game can’t even run on a 2016 tablet it’d at least be nice if I can play it instead of actually getting the game and gamecube
When people talk about the soundtrack for games this is the one I think of. You have no idea how much I enjoyed it. I would leave the game running in my room just to hear it. There was never a game like it again where I was so captivated by the music I would just let it play while doing other things. I do this now with lofi playlists like everyone else but this game was ahead of it's time
Gosh I agree with you with your opinions - Also played the gamecube one first and got the most attached to it!!! Personally I see a decline in the original flavor in the series for each iteration. Wild World had the same flavor, but less so. City Folk, it was there, but more diluted. New leaf kept diluting it. And now, yes I am hooked on New Horizons, but the weird, one-of-a-kind flavor of animal crossing isn't present.
Whoa. I normally watch your main channel and just so happened to run into this here... didnt knoenyou loved animal crossing. Im posting this prewatch. This is gonna be a treat
Just finished it. It was everything I expected and more. I kinda wish you'd go on forever because it brought me back to much simpler times. Not many know the charm of GC animal crossing and you talking about it made me remember everything I loved. I can't go back to that time period, but at least I could live it out for about 11 minutes due to your commentary and music choice taking me back into the past. Thank you.
I miss the Original Animal Crossing because it has more charm than later games! the first animal crossing game I played was the GameCube because my cousin owned it before I bought my own copy! I later played Wild World, City Folk and New Leaf and might get New Horizions someday but GameCube has more charm than later games, I don’t know, I liked how the villagers had more personality and were ruder to the player, I also liked how we could celebrate the Fourth of July in that game, and the Cherry Festival! Maybe it’s nostalgia, but I prefer the GameCube version, yes we had limited space and couldn’t use WiFi to get to another town, just a second memory card! I still play the GameCube by the way, I have two towns
The wisp returned in new horizon, I encountered it in my last play. I am new to animal crossing and the gamecube version has so much character. The colors the graphics the dialogues. Its something different that I don't think that it will ever return
Think of how much stuff is in Animal Crossing Gamecube. Probably over a hundred unique songs, including the hourly tunes, KK songs, nook's, able sisters, post office, etc. and along with those unique songs come variations, those being how the hourly song changes if its snowing or if cherry blossoms are falling, and KK has the live and aircheck versions of his songs. There are over 200 villagers, 40 fish, 40 bugs, 127 gyroids, 25 fossils, 15 paintings, 247 shirts, 64 paper types, 67 wallpaper types, 67 flooring types, a few dozen umbrellas, 19 complete NES games, and over 600 unique pieces of furniture. If this game were made today, the file size would be huge, but Animal Crossing on Gamecube manages to fit all this content into 32 Megabytes! Just a few high quality mp3s could be more than that. It's truly amazing.
I still play this from time to time even after paying off my loan 14 years ago. This one has the best hourly music! Morning aerobics was fun to look forward to before school, I miss the golden statue, and kicking a ball around.
I fully agree. Even after New Horizons' release, the first game is my favorite. It's very enchanting and has the absolute best soundtrack and villager personalities.
I just started a new save for retroachievements and I swear I haven't had this much fun since New Leaf was in it's prime. Not even the nostalgia masks how good this game really is. I also got Wolfgang as a starting villager! I'm tempted to play dobutsu no mori e+. There's been a translation, but no achievements.
I still have a copy of AC GCN which my sister bought back in the late 2000s, we never really played it that much, because we already had wild world at that point and I have to say it was one of the most AC for me. I think I put the most hours into that. But after your review, I think, that I have to go back and play it again. Because I feel the same about new leaf, even though I feel like a second blossoming with AC NH. I wish you all the best and alot of fun with AC in the future. :)
completely agree about the charm of the separated acres, gave it more atmosphere and helped me parcel out the feel of different zones... kinda hard to explain. Also, the music. Omg... and the dialogue was WAY more robust.
i swear i clicked on this video randomly just now and switched to another tab and i just went "oh wait aint that aleczandxr?" and then i looked at the channel`s name and it was alec`s scattered thougths! that was definetely a very pleasent surprise!!!
I joined the party late, got myself a switch last december (2023) and been playing new horizons.... while I've been loving everything so far, you are totally on spot! it is missing some of the charm... I just want the crazy variety of dialogues and the hourly music if I could bring something to the new series
I got into animal crossing GameCube about halfway through my time at college and I absolutely loved it. I loved the characters, events, and just finding new things each day. However I noticed how at least half my time if not more was dedicated to fishing. How I was treating it like a part time job or obligation. So I stopped playing. Along with that came the realization that if I had played this in my childhood I would have substituted the characters for IRL friends. (Keep in mind, this speaks to how excellent the characters are written)
I can't believe how many details from this game are missing from newer ones. Even outside of this series the detail in ACGC is super impressive. I know it's kinda silly but I really wish the newer games had the journal, checking out holidays on that and just making notes is so cool. I also miss the ball and god damn the first game has the best map generation. I'm saying all of this even when I think that NL is clearly the best of the series (and my favorite).
to me wild world was the best of both worlds. most of the charm of the gamecube one with lots of great updates. it felt a little empty as city folk on wii - even though my then girlfriend now wife and I played it constantly. But as a handheld, it captured a lot of that same spirit as the gamecube entry.
Mine too infact I deleted New Horizens off my Switch and went back to the original several months ago and let me you there's nothing like seeing the original characters or playing that end of the month game at Tom Nooks store.
My own thoughts - I grew up with WW, and I have such a nostalgia for it, but replaying Animal Crossing, New Leaf reigns as my favourite, since the Public Works Projects really make me feel like I have an impact on the town and that I'm not just watching it go by, y'know? I love developing my town. But I totally agree with your points. The villagers are dulled down and not as characteristic as they used to be, which is an issue I have with the newer games.
My most fond memory of Christmas was my brother getting animal crossing new leaf and me watching in awe, then the next Christmas I got one and me and my brother would play hours
Very nostalgic game but I do also think there is something unique about the original. One thing I thought was amazing was transferring the NES games to your Gameboy with the link cable. I did it on occasion before long car journeys with excitebike or balloon fight and it felt special because I only had until the batteries ran out to enjoy it. The fact I was playing a game with no cartridge inside blew my mind.
im agree with you the first animal crossing for me is new leaf, i play a thousand hours of this game but after complete the fossils bug and fish i feel flat and kinda boring. Yesterday i try animal forest, MAANNNN, I FEEL VERY ENTERTAINING FROM THE DIALOG. AND I STILL PLAY UNTIL NOW
I started out with New Horizons summer of 2021. It was addictive. But then I heard that there were previous animal crossing games, and then, I started to really want to try them out. So then last year I bought Wild World (but didn't know how to play it on the DS), so back in February of this year, I figured it out. And I grew to love the game. Then I bought City Life/Folk for our Wii, also last year, but I haven't played it yet (can't find it and our single remote needs batteries). Bought New Leaf also in February, but only played the first day on the 3DS. Bought the GameCube game and I've been playing that for several days now. Haven't touched the other animal crossing games since then 😅
If any game feels like Animal Crossing Successors I believe it to be Stardew Valley. Alot of what was said in this video can be said about Stardew Valley. It's an amazing game that you definitely want to check out if you haven't. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas!
I think you really hit the nail on the head here. I know a part of it is nostalgia, and the fact that I played it as a kid - and you experience this type of game differently as a child than as an adult. But I do think there are real reasons as to why this game felt so objectively different. I could try and write it all out but you said it pretty perfectly. I think "weird charm" is the right way to put it. I think AC started off as a quirky, off-the-beaten-path life simulator, and seemed to have leaned more into the calming, aesthetic "comfort game" type of genre. Newer iterations aren't bad games, they're just a different tone and vibe altogether… The one specific I will note is that the music in AC GNC is wildly superior.
@RosesBubble maybe, but it’s more focused on the community, which in my opinion is the best type of game. New Horizons lacks a lot of the charm of the first game, and I gave up playing it a year in when I’ve never given up the OG game
@@Mqstodon Nothing to do? Oh please. Game always give you objective to motivate. AC is the opposite: you give yourself objective to motivate: catching bug, complete task, looking for furniture. There are many secrets in GC. Well, in the Japanese's exclusive version. It's up to you to fix an objective. As Robert says, AC's theme is community, you are an outcast trying to fit in a town full of animals.
Animal Crossing was best when Katsuya Eguchi was around. He based the game on his solitude after he moves to Kyoto. Its essence is the "Dialogue". Villagers has interesting dialogue that will drag you in. Even funnier when you bully them or pit fall them, expect the karma! 4:46 AC is about moving in a new town full of animals villagers. You start as an outcast and the more you build relationship with them, the more you become one with the community. "Communication and relationship" is the theme. 2:114:22 It is also "Independence", even for villagers, that's why we have cub. 7:38 I feel bad that Katsuya Eguchi gives the series to another direction. AC lost its charm. You aren't an stranger, you are a god, a human god to animal villagers. Isn't AC about accepting the reality it give you: you can't shape the town as you please, villagers are mean to you and your best friend move out without warning. I was heart broken when Poncho move out and I have to bear it. *Life is a dick.* Even if I says ACWW is the best last game of the series, the Gamecube one is unbeatable. With funny dialogue, quirky lore, minimalist look, no influence to American culture, it has an unique and refreshing experience. 5:226:32 Wished AC was that way. I blame ACNL for destroying the series. I have no gratitude to the new director. Eguchi must be hurt inside. 7:50 I love the message. I didn't get it when I was young. Now that I am thinking, I know why I am still interested in AC despise my hatred: I wish it was more. I wish it was better.
Animal crossing keeps trading uniqueness for customization. Now you can do anything on your island in ACNH but it feels empty. You’re a god in control of everything and everyone. In ACPG you were a new member of the community. You got to experience it all not control it all and form real friendships. I miss it.. I hope they step it back but in this culture and with how ACNH sold I’m not sure it will get better.
I understand why a lot of people prefer New Leaf and New Horizons, but in my opinion, I can get those kind of customizable experiences where I can be as creative as my imagination lets me in games like Minecraft. The gamecube game truly makes me feel immersed; like I'm living amongst the animal-like villagers rather than them just being animated decorations on an island that's really only interactive with real life players
i only started playing the first animal crossing a few days ago, and in that time i have: -made a nemesis in the form of my neighbor mallary -started a trend of sending angry, pissed off letters to the museum whenever something needs to be identified -planted the flowers that nook gave me in the form of a dick that’s facing his shop -made about 9 different patterns for the front of my house -washed gracies car, and when she said i did “so-so,” i dug holes around the entire acre she was in to “re-dirty” her car -sent countless ominous letters to villagers and removed my name from them so they couldn’t tell who sent it -became best friends with punchy i literally set an alarm to wake up and play this game just because there is so much unique stuff to discover, even though 99% of it does absolutely nothing. Meanwhile, in new horizons i would still be waiting for my town hall to finish building, and half of my island would still be unexplorable. I love the newer games too, but it’s more that i need to play them to get stuff done rather than play them to see what will happen that day.
I remember playing it late nights since those were the times I was able to play animal crossing GC and wondering 💭 man I wonder what other people playing this game are doing? Is anyone playing it right now? Man i wish I could visit their town.
either my GameCube is broken or something is wrong with the ingame watch, because the date and time is all over the place :/ It's annoying and it makes me not wanna play Population Growing anymore, but I so would love to again :D
I think a lot of the character has been taken out of this game. I wish we still had a post office instead of just sending letters via the airport. I still want a train .
It feels like they miss out on the little things. Such as balls, unique events, and mean dialogue.
hehe balls
The mean diolauge is something I've kinda liked. I'm currently playing the original Gamecube game, and two of the islanders call me nutcase and slacker on the regular. And I'm okay with it.
@@canofpizzasauce667 Exactly! We can have villagers how act like the New Horizons ones and ones who are mean to you like the Gamecube. It would add more variety and life to the villagers
I really liked the balla
@@kwabzycomposer little balls
I love how they focused so much on the cozy village aspect of the game. The others lack this.
I started to play the original animal crossing a month ago and this is my personal favorite, the ost, the characters, the design, all the events and it just feels so lively. And my opinion isn't even biased by nostalgia
Totally. The new ones feel too videogamey
Yeah, I *just* started playing the GameCube one a few days ago. I haven't been to my island in a few days 🤔😅
All jokes aside, it's pretty cool and I'm going to be introducing my kids to this version. I started playing New Horizons back in June/July 2021, and I share an island with my four kids. But I wanted to try the previous animal crossing games so I went out and bought a DS and Wild World last year, the a 3DS and New Leaf a couple of months ago, and then a GameCube and animal crossing earlier this month. I've played quite a bit of Wild World, the first day of New Leaf a few weeks ago.
I would always buy everything in Tom Nook's store, just so I could have a higher chance of winning a NES game.
And I never won one
GameCube is still the best version ever still so sentimental
I didn't grow up playing Animal Crossing on Gamecube, and the only one I dug anytime into was New Leaf, I enjoyed it a lot but I can see where you coming from, the first game is the only one that feels like a forest and feels like your getting lost in a community. All others including New Horizons feel so much smaller, I have more control but I also feel like it makes the world feel less immersive for that very reason. In Gamecube I'm a bystander of a large forest of animals while in later entries I feel like I'm the master of the world. I get a very different feeling from even watching gameplay of the first game that I just don't get from the others.
TzarQuetzal exactly my thoughts. I have been playing ac gc snd new horizons and i find myself more interested on gc. I think is because of this very reason.
nh is definitely focused on decoration and control, gamecube is more community and building relationships
Animal Crossing N64/GC was WAY ahead of its time. This game has so much to offer for an old game.
Nintendo needs to take the same dialogs structure for the upcoming AC.
unfortunately they haven’t upped the ante by much in the newest AC 😔
Cadez yeah, they have actually removed..the things that made it special. Wow nice Nintendo you made it worse
TheRaspberryRebel fr they rushed it out unfortunately
Cadez they didnt rush it? It was delayed several months
zazoozzz so where is all the content from new leaf then??? why would they drip feed us content we have already seen. its boring as fuck
Thank you, this was a very nice Christmas present, Merry Christmas and happy holidays!
As for an experience with AC, me my mother and younger brother would all play and visit each others towns in wild world, we were all pretty invested in our towns even though my mother would be the only one who knew what she was actually doing. My favorite times were Fridays because she let us stay up super late to visit K.K Slider and would make us hot chocolate, the nighttime music, and the lead up to when he arrived was exciting but also really calming and overall, just a nice experience. Animal crossing has brought me so many calm and wholesome moments like that and i'm super grateful.
I want a gyroid outside my real life house.
But their meaning is creepy
try not to think about that..
All of this. New Horizons stepped on what little spunk was left in this series. Hoping updates help, but it seems like they sacrificed weirdness for customization. It's a nostalgia based-game for me, and it would have been so easy to at least include so many classic characters.
Such a beautiful and charming game. The first AC game i actually owned myself was New Leaf, which I got very soon after release. Even though i was in my early teenage years i can still recall a lot of the same emotions you talked about. Setting my alarm an hour earlier to play the game, and getting fully invested in my town and villagers. Probably the most effective form of escapism i’ve had through a videogame.
You really hit the nail on the head. I share the same experience with Pokemon RSE and Animal Crossing GC. What a lovely time in life. AC especially was so special and endearing for the reasons you listed. I especially loved the rainy days...
Soundtrack is probably one of my all time favorites of any game, the feel the game had was cozy, the expereinces and features, while are small were fun, and overall the game itself was just fantastic. Since then I have played all of the other AC titles, and non of them have come close to being a great in terms of feels as the original. I think what I hate the most about the newer games is that the music just doesnt sound the same... I will admit I like being able to see the sky in the newer ones as not seeing the sky in the older games alwasy kinda creeped me out, and the grid system got on my nerves somtimes, but all the features the game had in it that were striped away in laters made AC gamecube for me.
My fav animal crossing game too it has the best aesthetic
Yes. An all time great
Thanks for the video, it feels perfect for the holiday season :) I remember feeling heartbroken and powerless when my sister would visit my village to cut the trees and trample my flowers, I felt like I had failed them by bringing such a threat into our home haha ! I will always love that game for the peace it brought me. Happy holidays !
Thank you, you have reminded me that Animal Crossing New Horizons got delayed. Now I can’t do nothing more than just wait. And enjoying your Videos.
I can't believe it is so good in just an hour I'm in love
Emulating is godly letting me play games like these
I hope you still play and love it !
You guys are so lucky to have animal crossing GameCube. I tried to emulate the game but it runs very slow that it’s barely playable 😞 I am very sad and I hope one day that I will play this game
@@DarkSlicer21 oh that's sad, why emulator do you use
@@keferluka_2708 I play on dolphin emulator and I play on my tablet😞 it’s hard to think that a 2000’s game can’t even run on a 2016 tablet it’d at least be nice if I can play it instead of actually getting the game and gamecube
@@DarkSlicer21 you have dolphin on tablet ?
I definitely miss the music and the varied dialogue from villagers in this game 😔 thanks for the nostalgia !
What a classic game
When people talk about the soundtrack for games this is the one I think of. You have no idea how much I enjoyed it. I would leave the game running in my room just to hear it. There was never a game like it again where I was so captivated by the music I would just let it play while doing other things. I do this now with lofi playlists like everyone else but this game was ahead of it's time
I have never agreed more with anything. You put this this so perfectly. 💯
Gosh I agree with you with your opinions - Also played the gamecube one first and got the most attached to it!!! Personally I see a decline in the original flavor in the series for each iteration. Wild World had the same flavor, but less so. City Folk, it was there, but more diluted. New leaf kept diluting it. And now, yes I am hooked on New Horizons, but the weird, one-of-a-kind flavor of animal crossing isn't present.
The problème with the first animal crossing is when we finish to buy all debts and finish all tom nooks shops améliorations we have nothing to do .
Whoa. I normally watch your main channel and just so happened to run into this here... didnt knoenyou loved animal crossing.
Im posting this prewatch. This is gonna be a treat
Just finished it. It was everything I expected and more. I kinda wish you'd go on forever because it brought me back to much simpler times.
Not many know the charm of GC animal crossing and you talking about it made me remember everything I loved. I can't go back to that time period, but at least I could live it out for about 11 minutes due to your commentary and music choice taking me back into the past.
Thank you.
I miss the Original Animal Crossing because it has more charm than later games! the first animal crossing game I played was the GameCube because my cousin owned it before I bought my own copy! I later played Wild World, City Folk and New Leaf and might get New Horizions someday but GameCube has more charm than later games, I don’t know, I liked how the villagers had more personality and were ruder to the player, I also liked how we could celebrate the Fourth of July in that game, and the Cherry Festival! Maybe it’s nostalgia, but I prefer the GameCube version, yes we had limited space and couldn’t use WiFi to get to another town, just a second memory card! I still play the GameCube by the way, I have two towns
The wisp returned in new horizon, I encountered it in my last play. I am new to animal crossing and the gamecube version has so much character. The colors the graphics the dialogues. Its something different that I don't think that it will ever return
The daily glowing spot returned too
Think of how much stuff is in Animal Crossing Gamecube. Probably over a hundred unique songs, including the hourly tunes, KK songs, nook's, able sisters, post office, etc. and along with those unique songs come variations, those being how the hourly song changes if its snowing or if cherry blossoms are falling, and KK has the live and aircheck versions of his songs. There are over 200 villagers, 40 fish, 40 bugs, 127 gyroids, 25 fossils, 15 paintings, 247 shirts, 64 paper types, 67 wallpaper types, 67 flooring types, a few dozen umbrellas, 19 complete NES games, and over 600 unique pieces of furniture. If this game were made today, the file size would be huge, but Animal Crossing on Gamecube manages to fit all this content into 32 Megabytes! Just a few high quality mp3s could be more than that. It's truly amazing.
city folk will always be my favorite but this one will come in a very close second. the music, the colorful villagers, the coziness of it all…..
I still play this from time to time even after paying off my loan 14 years ago. This one has the best hourly music!
Morning aerobics was fun to look forward to before school, I miss the golden statue, and kicking a ball around.
I fully agree. Even after New Horizons' release, the first game is my favorite. It's very enchanting and has the absolute best soundtrack and villager personalities.
Another amazing video from one of the top and my favorite content creators on YT. Great job as always
I just started a new save for retroachievements and I swear I haven't had this much fun since New Leaf was in it's prime. Not even the nostalgia masks how good this game really is. I also got Wolfgang as a starting villager! I'm tempted to play dobutsu no mori e+. There's been a translation, but no achievements.
I still have a copy of AC GCN which my sister bought back in the late 2000s, we never really played it that much, because we already had wild world at that point and I have to say it was one of the most AC for me. I think I put the most hours into that. But after your review, I think, that I have to go back and play it again. Because I feel the same about new leaf, even though I feel like a second blossoming with AC NH. I wish you all the best and alot of fun with AC in the future. :)
completely agree about the charm of the separated acres, gave it more atmosphere and helped me parcel out the feel of different zones... kinda hard to explain. Also, the music. Omg... and the dialogue was WAY more robust.
first one is still solid the holidays and events alone were so good
i swear i clicked on this video randomly just now and switched to another tab and i just went "oh wait aint that aleczandxr?" and then i looked at the channel`s name and it was alec`s scattered thougths! that was definetely a very pleasent surprise!!!
I joined the party late, got myself a switch last december (2023) and been playing new horizons.... while I've been loving everything so far, you are totally on spot! it is missing some of the charm... I just want the crazy variety of dialogues and the hourly music if I could bring something to the new series
Agreed. Sharing a world with my family on the gamecube was a unique experience. Loved all of the quirks.
I got into animal crossing GameCube about halfway through my time at college and I absolutely loved it. I loved the characters, events, and just finding new things each day. However I noticed how at least half my time if not more was dedicated to fishing. How I was treating it like a part time job or obligation. So I stopped playing. Along with that came the realization that if I had played this in my childhood I would have substituted the characters for IRL friends.
(Keep in mind, this speaks to how excellent the characters are written)
I can't believe how many details from this game are missing from newer ones. Even outside of this series the detail in ACGC is super impressive. I know it's kinda silly but I really wish the newer games had the journal, checking out holidays on that and just making notes is so cool. I also miss the ball and god damn the first game has the best map generation. I'm saying all of this even when I think that NL is clearly the best of the series (and my favorite).
to me wild world was the best of both worlds. most of the charm of the gamecube one with lots of great updates. it felt a little empty as city folk on wii - even though my then girlfriend now wife and I played it constantly. But as a handheld, it captured a lot of that same spirit as the gamecube entry.
Mine too infact I deleted New Horizens off my Switch and went back to the original several months ago and let me you there's nothing like seeing the original characters or playing that end of the month game at Tom Nooks store.
My own thoughts - I grew up with WW, and I have such a nostalgia for it, but replaying Animal Crossing, New Leaf reigns as my favourite, since the Public Works Projects really make me feel like I have an impact on the town and that I'm not just watching it go by, y'know? I love developing my town. But I totally agree with your points. The villagers are dulled down and not as characteristic as they used to be, which is an issue I have with the newer games.
Happy Yuletide
My most fond memory of Christmas was my brother getting animal crossing new leaf and me watching in awe, then the next Christmas I got one and me and my brother would play hours
Very nostalgic game but I do also think there is something unique about the original. One thing I thought was amazing was transferring the NES games to your Gameboy with the link cable. I did it on occasion before long car journeys with excitebike or balloon fight and it felt special because I only had until the batteries ran out to enjoy it. The fact I was playing a game with no cartridge inside blew my mind.
im agree with you
the first animal crossing for me is new leaf, i play a thousand hours of this game but after complete the fossils bug and fish i feel flat and kinda boring.
Yesterday i try animal forest, MAANNNN, I FEEL VERY ENTERTAINING FROM THE DIALOG. AND I STILL PLAY UNTIL NOW
Great video! I just ordered the original animal crossing thanks to this video. Keep up the good work!
Happy holidays!
I started out with New Horizons summer of 2021. It was addictive. But then I heard that there were previous animal crossing games, and then, I started to really want to try them out. So then last year I bought Wild World (but didn't know how to play it on the DS), so back in February of this year, I figured it out. And I grew to love the game. Then I bought City Life/Folk for our Wii, also last year, but I haven't played it yet (can't find it and our single remote needs batteries). Bought New Leaf also in February, but only played the first day on the 3DS. Bought the GameCube game and I've been playing that for several days now. Haven't touched the other animal crossing games since then 😅
i started playing this game when i was about 8 and still to this day can say it's still one of the best games i've played
Still my favorite in the series. Still have and play my copy of the game 😄
New horizons just lacks the charm the first one did.
It lacks way more than just charm.
But that's just nostalgia talking
"Charm" means nothing
It's charming just because it's old
How can it be nostalgia if I only played the game recently?
If any game feels like Animal Crossing Successors I believe it to be Stardew Valley. Alot of what was said in this video can be said about Stardew Valley. It's an amazing game that you definitely want to check out if you haven't. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas!
Littlewood is an in progress game that's similar to both Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley.
Also... Stardew Valley was a lot of fun.
@@hariman7727 Thanks for the recommendation!
@@upg5147 you're welcome. :)
I think you really hit the nail on the head here. I know a part of it is nostalgia, and the fact that I played it as a kid - and you experience this type of game differently as a child than as an adult. But I do think there are real reasons as to why this game felt so objectively different. I could try and write it all out but you said it pretty perfectly. I think "weird charm" is the right way to put it. I think AC started off as a quirky, off-the-beaten-path life simulator, and seemed to have leaned more into the calming, aesthetic "comfort game" type of genre. Newer iterations aren't bad games, they're just a different tone and vibe altogether… The one specific I will note is that the music in AC GNC is wildly superior.
This video is me but with New Leaf on the 3DS. Every day, school or not? I woke up early to play the game
Honestly - New Horizons is my first AC game but it seems to be lacking in comparison!
It isn't, really
The first one is overrated as hell, there's so much less to do
@RosesBubble maybe, but it’s more focused on the community, which in my opinion is the best type of game. New Horizons lacks a lot of the charm of the first game, and I gave up playing it a year in when I’ve never given up the OG game
@@Mqstodon Nothing to do? Oh please. Game always give you objective to motivate. AC is the opposite: you give yourself objective to motivate: catching bug, complete task, looking for furniture. There are many secrets in GC. Well, in the Japanese's exclusive version.
It's up to you to fix an objective. As Robert says, AC's theme is community, you are an outcast trying to fit in a town full of animals.
@@Mqstodon you probably never played it lol. "Overrated "? Really? It's the worst selling in the series with 2 million copies, stop with the cap
Best hourly backround music. I wish theyd let u play this music in new horizonw
Animal Crossing was best when Katsuya Eguchi was around. He based the game on his solitude after he moves to Kyoto.
Its essence is the "Dialogue". Villagers has interesting dialogue that will drag you in. Even funnier when you bully them or pit fall them, expect the karma! 4:46
AC is about moving in a new town full of animals villagers. You start as an outcast and the more you build relationship with them, the more you become one with the community. "Communication and relationship" is the theme. 2:11 4:22 It is also "Independence", even for villagers, that's why we have cub. 7:38
I feel bad that Katsuya Eguchi gives the series to another direction. AC lost its charm. You aren't an stranger, you are a god, a human god to animal villagers. Isn't AC about accepting the reality it give you: you can't shape the town as you please, villagers are mean to you and your best friend move out without warning. I was heart broken when Poncho move out and I have to bear it.
*Life is a dick.*
Even if I says ACWW is the best last game of the series, the Gamecube one is unbeatable. With funny dialogue, quirky lore, minimalist look, no influence to American culture, it has an unique and refreshing experience. 5:22 6:32 Wished AC was that way. I blame ACNL for destroying the series. I have no gratitude to the new director. Eguchi must be hurt inside.
7:50 I love the message. I didn't get it when I was young.
Now that I am thinking, I know why I am still interested in AC despise my hatred: I wish it was more. I wish it was better.
thank you for this video.
Well best music for sure
Animal crossing keeps trading uniqueness for customization. Now you can do anything on your island in ACNH but it feels empty. You’re a god in control of everything and everyone. In ACPG you were a new member of the community. You got to experience it all not control it all and form real friendships. I miss it.. I hope they step it back but in this culture and with how ACNH sold I’m not sure it will get better.
I understand why a lot of people prefer New Leaf and New Horizons, but in my opinion, I can get those kind of customizable experiences where I can be as creative as my imagination lets me in games like Minecraft. The gamecube game truly makes me feel immersed; like I'm living amongst the animal-like villagers rather than them just being animated decorations on an island that's really only interactive with real life players
I find it cool they found a playable NES emulator in this game years later
Thanks for the music!
I love it when the snooty villagers call my stupid
There's a lot of cool stuff that didn't make it to the newer games :(
I've missed the acres system every entry since, i highly, highly prefer it
just found out that nook codes are a thing for this game and i love it, i finally have an axe!
I got the badass fire shirt start of the game too lol
I still have it and play it everyday with my little brother
@@dude8130 that's sweet! U guys still play?
i only started playing the first animal crossing a few days ago, and in that time i have:
-made a nemesis in the form of my neighbor mallary
-started a trend of sending angry, pissed off letters to the museum whenever something needs to be identified
-planted the flowers that nook gave me in the form of a dick that’s facing his shop
-made about 9 different patterns for the front of my house
-washed gracies car, and when she said i did “so-so,” i dug holes around the entire acre she was in to “re-dirty” her car
-sent countless ominous letters to villagers and removed my name from them so they couldn’t tell who sent it
-became best friends with punchy
i literally set an alarm to wake up and play this game just because there is so much unique stuff to discover, even though 99% of it does absolutely nothing.
Meanwhile, in new horizons i would still be waiting for my town hall to finish building, and half of my island would still be unexplorable.
I love the newer games too, but it’s more that i need to play them to get stuff done rather than play them to see what will happen that day.
Great video! Altho I don't understand why you didn't upload it on the main channel..
It wasn't substantial or good enough.
@@ajgdude I think it holds up but you probably know what's best
Never played Animal Crossing, but i guess GC is good place to start.
I agree with you, sir
I remember playing it late nights since those were the times I was able to play animal crossing GC and wondering 💭 man I wonder what other people playing this game are doing? Is anyone playing it right now? Man i wish I could visit their town.
This video is amazing!
either my GameCube is broken or something is wrong with the ingame watch, because the date and time is all over the place :/ It's annoying and it makes me not wanna play Population Growing anymore, but I so would love to again :D
I just bought it yesterday 😂 after putting 300 hours in new leaf
This one def the best
CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL TIME THIS WEEKEND 😄🌸🙏🏼🤙🏻
Long live the dump 🫡
Hey, does anyone know what's the name of the K.K. song when you log out from the gamecube?
The closest tune I can think of is “Two Days Ago”.
I like the gamecube version of animal crossing
The acre switching just makes me dizzy 😅 I feel like I'm getting a headache just watching people play
I think a lot of the character has been taken out of this game. I wish we still had a post office instead of just sending letters via the airport. I still want a train .
Your a Goat. Understand that.
I was born 2 days after you :')
I thought it was somthing else befor I started it
the humor in this game blows new horizons out of the water
do you have an updated video for new horizons?
This is what new animal crossing games lack
never agreed w a video more
nice vid
oh boy you’ll like new horizons then
It’s a fun game but it definitely didn’t rekindle why I fell in love on the first place.
@@ajgdude exactly my thoughts
mine is the one for nintendo ds
gamecube's only weakness is the dialogue imo. wild world's is better.
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Aj upload 👀
My favorite by far. If you didn't grow up playing it you won't understand unfortunately.
Inj