Though the core gameplay of Animal Crossing was mostly identical to its Japanese predecessor, there were a number of significant changes in the new iteration. As a result, villagers could experience the passage of time themselves (including holidays) and find out what may have happened when they weren't playing by speaking to their animal neighbors or reading the bulletin board.
Rather than making the players set the clock like in the original, the game would read the date and time from the system itself, creating a living game that continued even after players stopped playing. Related: Animal Crossing New Horizons: Five Things We Still Don't Knowĭespite not really using the advanced hardware of the GameCube to improve the graphics, Animal Crossing did take advantage of its new console by implementing the hardware's internal clock. This is the game that introduced the rest of the world to Animal Crossing. Less than a year after the release of Dōbutsu no Mori, Nintendo released an enhanced version of it, entitled Dōbutsu no Mori+, for the GameCube. It was also one of the few games to utilize the Expansion Pak, which allowed players to experience the game in 640x480 resolution rather than standard 320x240. Since the Nintendo 64 didn't actually have an internal clock, the Game Pak was shipped with an internal clock that players would have to set when starting the game. Like future games in the series, the game was played in real-time. Players could earn Bells by selling pretty much any item they could find. The primary purpose of the game (if there really even was one) was to collect Bells to pay off the loan on your villager's home, increase your house's size and to buy furniture to decorate its interior. The game was unlike others of its time because the player was free to do whatever they wanted within the game's world, including fishing, chatting with their anthropomorphic neighbors and catching insects. American gamers' first experience with the series may have come in the form of Animal Crossing, but the actual first entry in the series was the Japan-only release of Dōbutsu no Mori ( Animal Forest) for the Nintendo 64 on April 14, 2001.
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