3DS User Reviews

A really good Animal Crossing game, probably the best one, if you have a 3DS and you don't have this game, you need to get it right now

Oh boy. The greatest game of all time. Animal Crossing: New Leaf is a game with only so much scope of imagination. Build your town, your way. There’s really no limit for what you can do. It’s a masterpiece in its own right, and in my opinion, better than New Horizons. Go catch fish, maybe talk to your villagers, send that stuff to Blathers, collect some bells, it’s all perfect.

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My first Nintendo game I ever played. And my personal favorite of the series. The game opens with a train ride. You, the player are moving to new town. You are first greeted by Rover AKA Tutorial Villager. He asks you a few questions before you arrive to your destination. At the station you are then greeted by your new neighbours, the mayor, Tortimer and his assistant, Isabel. To your shock it is revealed, that Tortimer is retiring from being a mayor and you are going to fill in his place. And so your quest starts! There are many things you can do in the game. Like fishing, catching bugs and digging up fossils. For every item you discover, you donate to a museum. Your collection will grow exponentially over time. There are also a large catalogue of furniture, wallpaper, flooring and K.K's music, that you can buy from Nooks Cranny. The more purchases and discoveries you make, you grow your town center where villagers do their shopping and enjoying cultural activities. Each villager has different personalities and don't repeat the dialogue like in New Horizons. At the start of the game you will come across all kinds of Special Villagers, who truly stand out from regular villagers. New characters are introduced such as Cyrus who can customise any furniture you have in hand, Isabelle's twin brother, Digby, Kapp'n's family, Harvey the camp counselor, Luna a dream guide, Reese the owner of Re-Tail and of course everyone's favorite, Isabelle who works as your secretary. There is also a progression system called Badges. You get them from Phineas whenever you complete a certain task such as from collecting fish, bugs, fossils etc., helping villagers, spending bells and so on. You also get to customise unique designs on clothing and even furniture. Since Nintendo no longer supports Nintendo 3DS online services, you can't claim exclusive items through fortune cookies. You may get Pocket Camp items through coupons, you get by completing daily tasks. All in all it's well polished game which easily beats it's predecessors and even New Horizons. It's fun, cute, has lots of personality and a must have in the Nintendo 3DS library.

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I don't make the rules this is game of the century maybe I don't know like atleast better than ragnarok

es un juego muy divertido y puedes jugar con tus amigos, le doy un 10 tmb porque nintendo network es gratis

The best of the Animal Crossing as of now. It give everything you'd want in an Animal Crossing game, beautiful music, service projects, a tropical island, fortune cookies, and more. If you want to get started with the Animal Crossing series, this is the one you should go with.

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First couple hours are fun, getting your first house and starting to build your town, but even if you're just playing a little bit everyday it still just gets tiring shaking the same 20 treesand picking the up the pears, and bringing them to the shop to sell, its just not fun or enjoyable, or relaxing, and no statement is made. Its just something to do.

100+ hours - Great evolution from previous title - Good new features - Good graphics and perfomance

Perfect in every way. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Sometimes i just don't understand what to do. I like the New Horizons more. I love the music and interactions with villagers.

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I believe this is the best made animal crossing game. It feels humble and welcoming and is structured in a way that lets the player adventure on there own and make the game feel very rewarding.

The best Animal Crossing. The villagers are fun to talk to, Tortimer Island is fun to play with friends (I wish I had friends). You have the perfect amount of town customization. You can place Buildings and other Public Works Projects, but the town layout is the same. Because you live in this town, you don't control it (coughs in New Horizons). The whole vibe is on point.

this game is fantastic i remember getting this as my first game for my ds at a garage sale the game has so much to unpack and is extremely fun

best animal crossing so far besides wild world!

New Leaf is an Animal Crossing game that goes above and beyond compared to other installment changes. Everything in New Leaf is a bit newer, a bit bigger, a bit cooler, and a lot more customizable. New Leaf takes expressing yourself in a game to a whole new level and in its own way, making any given town different to any other town out there. New Leaf probably won't get those that hated Animal Crossing before to turn heads, but for those that got bored too easily in the older AC games will find a lot more to do in New Leaf. New Leaf is easily the best in the series, and one of my all time favorite games, and while I have experienced a lot of game, I still have so much more to do still.

The best Animal Crossing imo. Perfect map, character-interactions, and gameplay. Wish it had some of the quality-of-life features that New Horizons had tho.

Well... Maybe I just personally don't like animal crossing. It is too slow and grindy for me.Aside from the excessive grind it's a fun game.

This game was awesome it was my childhood game and I just get chills while a listen to the soundtracks 10/10

The game is amazing! Calm and fun, where you aren't forced to do anything. The characters are lovable, the music fits perfectly, and it's a fun calm game at general.

I think to this day it’s the best animal crossing game there is. Much was added compared to the previous versions, town was lively and interesting, multiplayer was casual and fun. Only downsides are it can get quite repetitive but thats kinda animal crossing in a nutshell.

FINALLY THEY GOT FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA TO DIRECT AN ANIMAL CROSSING GAME! He made 'em an offer they couldn't refuse and got his spot in the director's seat for the first time since the Godfather Part III (although I've never seen that movie). His influence shines through in every part of the game. First of all, the weeds of Wild World are massively toned down since this game came out 8 years later, meaning there hasn't been as much time for weeds to accumulate in my town. But also, Tom Nook is clearly inspired by crime boss Michael Corleone. Nook's corruption peaks in this entry, as he scams the player with really expensive houses. They also made him have a more sinister personality which I really appreciated. My only problem with this game is that it lost some of the charm that the other games had, but it's still a masterpiece in my eyes.

My favorite 3DS game, and most favorite animal crossing game (other then original)! If you have a 3DS, I definitely recommend playing it!

45/100 Animal Crossing New Leaf is an immersive experience full of warmth, where the relaxing rhythm of everyday life lulls the player into a state of quietly fulfilling, mundane bliss, surrounded by friendly faces in a charmingly peaceful setting. The villagers are endearingly vibrant and unique thanks to various personality types, even though their presence starts to feel hollow after some time, mainly due to the lack of many meaningful ways to interact with them and a somewhat disappointing amount of lines of dialogue. Nonetheless, the game partially makes up for it through its astonishingly rich customization options. An immense catalogue of clothes to change your appearance, but also countless furniture and hundreds of items to decorate the interior of your house and the landscape of the town as well, not only through the growth of various kinds of trees and flowers, but also projects that vary from small fountains to new facilities hosting new activities. As time passes, new shops and locals will open allowing the player to shop more, access new features and meet new characters. Slowly but surely, players will discover the incredible richness of the decorative and self-expression options the game has to offer, making for a gratifying long-lasting experience. However, as much as it offers an astounding amount of content and a unique atmosphere, the overly simplistic and excruciatingly repetitive nature of the few available activities, namely fishing and catching bugs, leaves New Leaf thriving more off of ambience than actual content.

An absolute masterpiece ****, it has everything an animal crossing game has ever needed, it isn’t watered down like New Horizons, I would say NL is the most balanced in then series feature wise. The music is simply outstanding like 5pm, 7pm, and even the main street theme! Only complaints are grass deterioration, and the lack of other minor special npcs like Frillard, or Serena but that’s pretty much it. If you have to play only one game in the series it has to be New Leaf.

The game was very addicting. I played it for two hours or more a day, everyday, for months. After a while, it gets really repetitive, so I dropped it. But the time I spent on the island was magical, a really great experience.

To be honest its better than new horizons because of the villagers they have more emotion in this game than the villagers in new horizons but you can't build outside allthough there are items that would look better placed outside but okay I always wanted a steamroller inside my house.

While I may sound like pretty much everyone in the Animal Crossing community, I think this is one of the best AC games, I think the mechanic of being the mayor is one of the best ideas, it really changes the gameplay compared to the games before it. The character customization is great with tons of different options for clothing and tons of new hairstyles (with some of them not even appearing in New Horizons to this day). The UI is easy and simple to understand for new players, and also has that Animal Crossing charm to it of course. The special NPCs are very charming and unique (my personal favorite being Digby), the music is great, and the online is fun. If your thinking about getting an Animal Crossing game soon would 100% recommend you to pick up a cheap 3DS or 2DS and get this game because it is one of my favorite video games of all time, and I think you should play this if you are interested in playing life simulation games, but speaking of life simulation games, I just want to say Animal Crossing is absolutely nothing like Tomodachi Life, they are completely different games with completely different art styles, gameplay, UI, and controls.

89/100 This game has so much charm and is so incredibly relaxing. Animal Crossing is unique in the gaming industry and you need to play it to understand it. At the beginning you might not understand it, but the more you play it the more you enjoy it

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Es un buen juego sobre todo si disfrutas de realizar pequeñas tareas para pasar el tiempo. Lo recomiendo para jugadores casuales o para aquellos que quieran algo mas relajante.

truly one of the best games on the 3Ds, i remember when i first picked this game up in 2013 i continued playing consistently for almost 5 years and i still find myself checking in on my villagers!

Even though Animal Crossing: New Leaf is not a perfect game, I think it has way more personality, more things to do, and more life compared to Animal Crossing: New Horizons and is the closest you can get to perfection. When I was playing the game for two to three months, I really got board of the game because there wasn't anything to keep me interested. As of now, there are less buildings, shops and other places you can visit, villager dialogue is far more repetitive, there are less special characters to interact with, and most of the "new" features added into the game are honestly nothing special. Sure, teraforming gives the more creative players more freedom when designing their town, but for the interactive players, myself included, are held back by these selling points of the game. Also, the updates in that game are re-adding things from New Leaf that were already in the game at-launch and were spread out monthly to pad out development time and adding things in the game so that they can give the developers more time to implement things at their own pace. Sure, in New Leaf, there was only one update, but it added substantial amounts of content. And in that game, the execution was so much better because of how they envisioned the game. And taking your mark as mayor sure helped to change the conventions of the franchise and gave players more freedom with what they can do. And in this game, there are far more special characters, lots of fun mini-games to play with yourself, or with friends, and much, much more. And since New Horizons was held back by a global pandemic, it was stopped from being the best it could be. And since New Leaf was developed when there was any compromises, they didn't have to worry about delaying content implementation. And New Leaf just is much more special to me, and I will continue playing it for many years to come.

Amazing! Amazing! And Amazing! The only thing is that the music in the OG GCN game is better, but in place, it puts you as mayor on a town.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf kept me interested until the end. It's a very good and interesting game. If you want engaging material, then look no further. With Animal Crossing: New Leaf, you become a mayor of a town. I would recommend Animal Crossing: New Leaf to any fan of the genre.

This game.... Its quite powerful, To Anyone who has never played it before you need to, the game itself is great but there's something else that is just really amazing. It has this memorable spark of nostalgia after a few months of playing and that never goes away. Which is why this game is a 10 out of 10!

I love this game its really fun its a lot (in my opinion) the best one in the series, better than "New Horizons"

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Really fun, one of, if not the best 3ds game. I have put 100's of hours in and it still has something new to offer every single day. Every villager has so much character, which I can not say about new horizons, in my opinion the best game in the series.

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I understand why so many people love this game, but to me, it feels like an app I have to check on every day for an hour and do nothing gameplay.

the pinnacle of the series, and one of my all time favourite games. i've sunk so many hours into this game for a reason. i'll always love the memories i made with it.

New Leaf brought animal crossing to a whole new generation with marvelous splendor and arguably perfected the gameplay loop. Incredible game anyone can enjoy, however derivative it is of its previous entries.

What can be said about this game? On paper, the game sounds like it should be fun. You become a mayor of a town in which you move in, you get control of designing the inside of your house and eventually the outside, and you are in charge of beefing up the town and bringing in new residents. It seems almost like it should be a Sims or SimCity type game. But then you start playing. First, you’re provided with a tent as you’re told you need to have a down payment of 10,000 bells for them to get you a one-room shack as though you just moved out west. Then once you finally get your house, Tom frickin’ Nook has the nerve to say you now owe 39,800 bells for the place and you can’t upgrade the house at all until you pay it off. Oh and don’t worry those expansions will be even more exorbitant fees. It would be okay if in like the Sims you had real ways of making money but oh wait, you don’t. You have to shake trees for fruit, go digging for fossils, pick up shells, some of the most mundane tasks imaginable and then the shop offers you a couple hundred bells if you’re lucky. And don’t forget that while you’re collecting things you have limited inventory! So after you pick up a couple items (your required tools count as pocket space) you have to run over to immediately sell or plant your items, hopefully it’s the right time of day and they’re open! As for upgrading the town itself, your assistant tells you a few Public Works Projects you can set in motion, but oh wait those cost hundreds of thousands of bells, that you’re pretty much expected to come up with out of your own pocket. You can set up a fund for the community to pitch in but they either don’t even notice that this is going on or they’ll give you 2 bells. Wow am I on my way now! The villagers are pretty annoying, many of them, especially the people at the stores that you have to interact with constantly, will say the same few lines over and over again, and you can’t speed through the lines of text! And sometimes you’re tasked with finding certain villagers but they’re not always at home, they’re busy wandering around the place at the same time you are so you’re most likely going to go through town several times before coming across them. Oh and then the real question. Why are you the only human in this town? And you’re not even given the option to be a different creature, you can just choose human boy/human girl. Time in-game is real time, there is no speeding up. You want nighttime? Well you better be playing at night. You have a contest during the day? Too bad if you’re not home to play. Time and day randomize the store items for you to buy as well. So if you want that fishing pole or butterfly net you have to check the store each day, crossing your fingers that it’s in stock today. And then there’s hardly anything to ever buy in store. What is the point?! Not to mention the awful clothing choices, where if you’re playing as a boy you can still be offered skirts and dresses?, where you can tell the only real reason those are still being sold is to cover up their lack of choices in that department. And not only that but you can also use your wallpaper colors and patterns to change your clothing patterns, like what?! At the beginning, you think this game is kinda fun until you get several hours in and realize that you’re expected to do the same thing day in and day out, it never changes. And you realize that you don’t have any real power in this town as mayor. The loan-shark Tom Nook has more power in this town than you. This game is just a major time-waster where you can do real world chores digitally. I don’t see the appeal of this series and I’d rather spend my time playing a game that has meaning, a story, and is FUN! (Or doing my chores in the real world, thank you very much.) This is more a game for little kids, people who don’t want anything out ****, or hardcore Nintendo fans.

Best Animal Crossing game of all time, or maybe even one the best games of all time. The 4th installment of the Animal Crossing franchise is an endless experience that can allow hundreds of hours of open-ended gameplay. New Leaf is something I'd recommend for many people

****/NOaSdO5H91M this game **** its just a mario party wanna be.