Animal Crossing 3DS Looks Suitably Relaxing

Awwww this looks great!

and happy to hear that nintendo are going to improve online function as well.

;p

Looking like the best installment yet.

I loved Wild world so I'm really looking forward to this.

I should try these series as it seems like it has many fans but as there's so many other games to buy, it looks like this game is not going to fill my shelf.

Looks like this installment is going all out for the premium experience.

This looks amazing. the Wii Speak in City Folk worked great, so I'm hoping they include voice chat in Online play.

I < 3 Animal Crossing so much. Very excited to finally read some news about the new 3DS installment!

I am a fan of these games! Be good if you could get retro consoles for your house in this one, where you could play the VC games off the SD card. I suppose it would be a bit pointless, but neat - I had a whole NES games room set up in the Game Cube version.

I liked the DS version and it really suited a handheld console, but a shame it lacked many features of the original. This has the potential to be the best Animal Crossing yet.

I, sort of embarrasingly, love the Animal Crossing games so this upcoming new entry is one that I'm watching. I do love the amount of new features they have already announced/demonstrated. Leads me to believe that this game will be somewhat of a departure for the series, which is something that was much needed after City Folk's status as almost a straight port of Wild World.

It stills has this annoying bibib instead of voice acting.
I have tried the DS version and it was a very interesting game. I may look into the new entry in the series.

I have a three K.K. Slider plush toys sat behind me as testament to my love for this series. I cannot wait for this new one: should be ace.

oooooohhhh!!!! I can't wait! I wish it wasn't coming out this year and not next. This looks so charming. Seeing the videos has even got me hooked playing it again on the Wii. I missed my little animal friends.

I wish they would go back to the Gamesube style graphics, I don't like the rolling graphics.

I love Animal Crossing. Wild World is my probably my favourite portable game and I want this to top it.

That girl at the start is trying to escape the evil wrath of Tom Nook.

The option to swim looks interesting to me. I wonder how far out you can go. Maybe there will be islands that you can swim to. Overall, this game is looking like it'll have enough new additions over the Wii version for me to buy it. I love the ability to change your shorts now. The 3D effect of the game as seen on the 3DS E3 trailer is great as well.

I love the Animal Crossing series in ways I love no other games. It's the only game I've ever played that actually relaxes me as opposed to requiring lightening reflexes or intense concentration. But, I'm a little worried after watching this video. I can see that the cabin set and the green set look exactly the same as always. I don't mind AC having the those sets, but they should at least change the aesthetic of them to keep things fresh. What incentive am I going to have to collect a furniture set I've had two or three times before? Still, I'm "crossing" my fingers and hoping that this game will have enough cool new items and ideas to warrant a purchase.

Looking forward to this one! Never had Wild World, but played the Cube version to death, and enjoyed City Life quite a bit.

In a sketch revealed during the developer's roundtable video (look it up on Youtube if you wanna check it out), it appears that the village is now an island, with a beach running all around. There also appear to be a few smaller islands you can get to maybe by swimming or by boat. The train also appears to be back (!) as there's a huge bridge that goes over to the island leading to what appears to be a station, as well as a tunnel that runs through part of a mountain. Back behind this huge main island, there looks to be either another village or a "city plaza" of some kind. If this sketch turns out to be the actual make up of this Animal Crossing world, it will, without a doubt, be the most fleshed out experience the series has ever seen. Can't wait.

I played Animal Crossing NGC. Very good, I gave it 9/10.
I played Animal Crossing on DS. NO new ways to earn money (you can´t even go to your island anymore to earn 100 000 bells), seen this before. 7/10
They say Wii version doesn´t have enough new stuff either.
I doubt this won´t have anything I haven´t seen before. If you could build your own store and compete with Tom Nook maybe then I´d buy it.

Looks fantastic so far! I can't wait to have my life sucked away from me by an Animal Crossing game yet again

@Belmont (11) Voice acting??? Eeeewww no thanks. For me the voices are all part of the appeal.
Anyway I'm looking forward to getting this. Haven't played AC since I imported the GC version (before they decided to give it some PAL lovin'!) and me and my girlfriend had a great time with the game (the NES games were an awesome little bonus!).
I'm hoping this will be the game that I can finally play with my 5 year old daughter. I'm gonna use it to teach her to read

I love Wild World got it 2 years ago and still play it to this day. I hope you can over animals from the DS. This still looks super awesome.

This looks like this will be the best AC game yet. These games are so funny too.

This game challenges my straightness.

Well, there goes my next year or two...

@28 - LOL. I do some things that are can be fairly exciting in my spare time - track days on my sportbikes, rock climbing, off-trail back packing in wilderness areas, etc. I keep my love of AC to myself, don't even want to think of the laughs at my expense should my secret AC compulsion be revealed. Just the thought of sitting in the pits wearing full race leathers between track sessions while doing a little fishing and looking for fossils makes me grin like a lunatic.

I can't wait to spend an embarrassing amount of my time playing this game, I want to play it now.

This game better pull me in like Wild World did, City Folk was way too same-y. This game already looks better

Is it me, or did Tom Nook get fatter? His belly jiggles.
Anyway, this game looks fantastic. Much more original than City Folk.

AC is looking great so far cant wait to find out the name I hope they make an mmo option as well.

The music reminds me of Kirby's Epic Yarn.

I love me some Animal Crossing! I can't wait to play this! Bring it on!

The water dripping off the plants is a nice touch.

Animal Crossing is the main reason I bought my 3DS. I couldn't bear the thought of not being able to play the new version.
I'm content to wait til 2012. Make sure it's perfect Nintendo!

@Mully

Really? Then that is so close to what I wanted AC to be. In the E3 trailer, the beach can also be seen on the farther west side of town, so it's believable.

I hope the water freezes over and you can use the axe to break the solid ice to go into the waterfall cave. Anyone notice it in AC Wild World?
My town had it. Some towns had a rock under the waterfall.

If theirs online multiplayer, Count me in!

I can lead my village? he he he....

@komicturtle92 Here's a link to the video in question (since I'm a noob and don't know how to embed Youtube videos in comments).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5xHgavcMWA

3:56 is where the sketch is shown off. It certainly is a major departure from the designs of previous Animal Crossing villages!

I'll pass. SOME people like playing a game that's basically been the same game for over a decade, but I prefer for games to evolve and improve.

Yup. Definitely will get a copy of this.

Dear nintendo. U better add a whole lot of new animals. I am tired of seeing the same animals in every version. O wat am i saying!? i will run out and buy this day one even if its the same as all the rest!!!!!!!!!

Once again we have those annoying blimmin circles for shadows in a game on one of Nintendo's consoles.

Still feels like the same game to me.
They should make a much bigger world and fill it with more interesting landscape with better things to do than catch bugs or fish for the millionth time.

@Mully

Yeah, I saw

I want to know what they are saying though...

But AC3DS looks like it's going be the true sequel to the AC games with all that it is packing. I haven't been this excited for AC since Wild World because City Folk just didn't do anything in terms of added gameplay elements and enhancements.

Looks like the game is going to have an emphasis of living in a beach town.

Animal Crossing: Tropical Life or something like that would probably fit. Though, it doesn't snow in tropical environments.

I find animal crossing very demanding...you have to do so much to maintain your village and rewards are so limited. And Wild World required daily care - leave it for a week, and your village is full of weeds! I'll probably pass.

@Vitoria It's coming out next year. But it does look fun!

@James lol I have the kid on the AC WW boxart

Looks awesome. Ive gotten every single Animal Crossing there is and none of them have disappointed me.

Amazing.

One of my all-time favorite series. AC3DS is looking gorgeous, and that song that played throughout the trailer was just absolutely perfect. Consider me excited

Nice trailer! Maybe this will be the first Animal crossing game that I'll try!

This is a MUST BUY for me. There are few games made for any system that contain as much value for you cash as this does. My preferred game genre is TBS, & TB Rpg but this is still highly appealing as a break from those on that rare occation I want one.

On Wild World I have 14 Pictures of my friends from my town! All my other friends irl only have 2 And I didnt hack to get them! (IDK if there even is a hack) Well I wonder how many I can get on this!

This is great! Animal Crossing 3DS will surely be the best Animal Crossing game yet!

God how I love this game, I used to play it to death on the GameCube.

Great! Now I can actually tell if my flowers have been watered!