Animal crossing is a world away from the real world. It is filled with these funny animals who each run their own routines daily. The village your character exists in has events triggered by a real clock. So if it is 9pm in the real world, it will be 9pm also in the game world. Some events only happen in the game world at specific times so you will be finding yourself walking up at 6am on a Sunday morning so you can "shop" in the Animal crossing flee market.

This aspect of creating the best life possible for your character is where this game becomes dangerous because as you get more and more into the game, it becomes an obsession.

I had this game on the game cube. ANd since have gotten it for the DS and my Wii. I love all three of them, they all provide hours of fun doing just about nothing, lol.

Animal Crossing DS is like living out a tiny life of capitalism in a town full of animals. That is to say, it's insanely fun. You'll spend most of your time digging up ancient artifacts, catching bugs, planting fruit trees in order to pay off your hefty mortgage, but the inhabitants of the town are fun to talk to and have their own persona drama going on between each other.