Animal Crossing: Wild World

I'll be gone when the morning comes.

Ugh. It's here again. Not only on the 1001 list, but all I'm bloody hearing in 2020 is Animal bloody Crossing. While everyone, apparently, is enjoying New Horizons (sadly not the space probe, but the Nintendo Switch title), I'm here seeing what I've read was the turning point of the Animal Crossing series; the moment of its explosion in popularity, for reasons unknown, though highly likely to be due to the portability of the Nintendo DS.

I am, of course, sadly, talking about Animal Crossings: Wild World.

Animal Crossing

"Remember that bad times... are just times that are bad."

There are times when I turn to look at the upcoming games on this 1001 list where I just hang my head and groan a little, for one reason or another. Perhaps they're tricky to set up on new hardware, maybe they've issues with being emulated, perhaps I've had a bad time with them in the past and I just don't want to get around to them right now. Animal Crossing is one such game.

It's not because it's difficult to run - it emulates fine. It's not because I've had a bad experience with it - I've never played it before. It's all down to the fact that I cannot picture myself sitting down to enjoy a game whose genre is described as 'social simulation', and whose main characters are cartoon animals.

I'll play weird and wacky games, don't get me wrong, and I'll definitely play Animal Crossing, but let's just be clear that I'm going into this game groaning and hoping to get it over with quickly...