Hello, and welcome to my new Animal Crossing: Wild World Blog! I’m Jeff, and you may know me as jvgsjeff on Youtube. I also run blogs for New Leaf, Happy Home Designer, and other games.
Animal Crossing: Wild World just became available on the American Wii U eShop today. Even though I have briefly played Wild World before, I never owned the game myself. So I’ll be starting up my own town for the very first time! Let’s get going!
The game starts up with me in Kapp’n’s taxi, on my way to my town of Forest.
After answering a few of his questions, I arrive in Forest and automatically head into town hall. Pelly greets me and tells me about where I’ll be living. She gives me a map, which I used to find my house. After checking out my house, Tom Nook appears to tell me that I owe him 19,800 bells for the house. Putting me deep into debt makes him proud of himself; he’s so gleeful that he’s got flowers coming out of his nose.
He lets me work off some of my debt by becoming his slave employee at Nook’s Cranny. So I put on my new work uniform and planted some trees and flowers like he asked me. He then told me to take a break and introduce myself to the town residents. Even though the map lists the villagers, I hadn’t even paid attention to it. But there’s no avoiding it now. Just a few feet away, I saw it. Yes, it.
It was Yuka! This is not a good sign. I’ve always hated Yuka. She annoyed me for many years in the GameCube game, and then she was one of my starting villagers in New Leaf too! I am now determined to make her life as miserable as possible until I can kick her blue butt out of town.
My other two villagers aren’t as bad. Chevre is nice and Alfonso is okay. Not exactly my favorites, but they’ll do. By the way, here is a look at Forest’s map. My house is on the side of the river opposite…everything else, really. I’m not a big fan of the town layout, but it’s home.
I continued with Tom Nook’s chores, delivering items and even writing a letter to my most-hated blue koala.
Yuka wasn’t very fond of that letter, as you might imagine. She called it terrible, though she did admit she could feel the passion in my words. Darn right. 
As for the deliveries, Chevre and Alfonso rewarded me with gifts. Chevre gave me an ornate rug, and Alfonso forked over a Mrs. Flamingo.
Eventually, I finished all my tasks and I was done working for Tom Nook. Free at last!
I then went home to take a look at the items I got from Chevre and Alfonso. This isn’t the most exciting house, but it’s a start. At least my fine-feathered friend here didn’t complain.
My first day with Wild World was about what I expected. The graphics are very pixelated compared to other Animal Crossing games (including the GameCube game), and it may take a bit to get used to it completely. But other than that, it feels much like the other early Animal Crossing games (particularly City Folk). I’m looking forward to growing my town in the months and years to come.
The Wii U provides several options for how to display both screens of the DS, whether on the TV or on the GamePad. I’m using the “touch screen focus” option, which makes the touch screen large and the top screen small (both are displayed on the TV and the GamePad). You’ll see an example of the following video, which shows my first half hour in Forest.
I did have a tendency to press the ZR button accidentally, just by setting the GamePad on my lap or whatever. That button brings up the Virtual Console menu, but I’ll probably break the habit as I get used to it. It reminds me of starting out City Folk in 2008: Initially, I had trouble moving around because having the pointer on-screen would alter my movement when I would press the A button. But I learned to face the Wii remote away from the TV as I played, and I’m sure I’ll adjust to this as well.
I’ll be back with another entry tomorrow. I hope you’ll follow along with my adventures! 🙂