I have spent more of my life than I really care to admit playing Animal Crossing, both on Game Cube and on the DS. It has many of the key elements that I love in a game- wandering around talking to people, buying stuff, and fishing. So, of course I bought the new Animal Crossing: City Folk for the Wii yesterday when it came out.

For the most part, I really like it. Controls are clean and easy to use. The addition of the city part is pretty neat. They’ve eliminated some of the game’s more irritating points, like when you go to talk to a villager, they don’t make you choose whether you want to talk to them or not. Yep, same old game, just a little bit better.

But that’s the problem with this game, as well. It’s the same old game, only it’s a little bit better. On Wii, I expected it to be exponentially better, and it’s not. Now, I must admit that I have not yet played with the Wii Speak accessory that you can buy separately. That might change the game massively. Only one small problem- I don’t know anybody else that has the game, and I’m a bit loathe to play with strangers who are posting their friend codes all over the place.

So, the jury is still out on whether or not I love the game more than ever. I still love the game, I always will. But I just think the game’s developers have missed out on what they could have had by keeping it so much the same.