Animal Crossing (GCN)

Could this be the "definitive" Nintendo game...

Game of the Day

Name: Animal Crossing

Released: 2002

Developer: Nintendo

Platform: Nintendo GameCube

Very few games can make the most mundane of tasks seem interesting. Games like Harvest Moon and The Sims spring to mind. But there's another that many people of and that game is Animal Crossing. With Animal Crossing, you play as a person who has just moved into a new town filled with... talking animals (yeah I know, sounds like some sort of ridiculous dream and who knows, maybe it is). Anyway, once your character moves into the new town you enter your new house and decorate it to your heart's content as well as by integrating yourself into the community by mingling with the townsfolk, doing favours and getting a job to pay off your house. Nothing complicated to learn. It's just you living a new life. Sounds boring, right? In my opinion, it's not but is instead one of the most immersive games possible. But how? Well it has good graphics (by now do you really expect anything less) and the music is very inviting, but it's strongest element is the real-time clock featured in the game. If it's night-time outside then chances are it's night-time in the game, if it's Christmas Eve in the real world, then Animal Crossing changes to suit. Oh and to top it all off, you have the ability to play full version classic NES games in this game by collecting them randomly. Like come on, how awesome is that! It is for these reasons, that this game is worthy of being the definitive Nintendo game.