The Animal Crossing games are almost always flawless masterpieces, bar a few hitches here and there. However, as the series has grown, so have those aforementioned hitches, leading to each entry feeling a tad more disappointing than the last. Of course, they always innovate and iterate on what came before, but certain games just have more flaws than the rest, making them easy to overlook while picking your perfect AC title.
Animal Crossing’s greatest flaws rear their ugly head in one particular entry, and it is what has led it to become the most forgotten – and arguably underrated – game in the series. However, while certainly a shame for the base version, this Animal Crossing game has just received a Deluxe upgrade, one that not only greatly fixes many of its biggest issues but practically turns it into an entirely different game, making it one of the best in the series.
City Folk Deluxe Addresses Classic AC Problems
It Fixes Practically Every Issue
Animal Crossing: City Folk’s Deluxe mod by modder Aurum fixes a lot of the major issues I and many others have had with that game for quite some time. City Folk was ostensibly a repackaging of Wild World, with worse controls and some truly irritating features.
Honestly, I’m baffled that Nintendo added Animal Tracks, as they completely ruined the entire vibe of your city. It lacked new mechanics, many new items, new villagers, and so much more, to the point that it is easy to skip City Folk after having played the far superior Wild World.
The impressive and extensive City Folk Deluxe mod adds in all-new items, restores missing ones, introduces 240 villagers, all while implementing numerous quality of life changes, such as the ability to turn off deteriorating grass – it is about time!
It does a whole lot more, but the point is that its genuinely ridiculous number of tweaks and improvements drastically alter the game to the point where it feels like we’ve finally gotten a new Animal Crossing game in 2025.
City Folk Is A Better Animal Crossing Game Than Ever
It Is The Game It Should Have Been
While City Folk was never the worst Animal Crossing game ever made, I think its lack of innovation is ultimately what made it hard to truly get into. When I first played it, I had just come out of a long stint of playing nothing but Wild World.
Naturally, City Folk felt like a fiddlier version, so I just returned to the town I knew and loved. Time hasn’t been particularly kind to City Folk, and while it is certainly more palatable now than it was at launch, I still can’t really get into it.
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New Leaf is the best Animal Crossing entry for a cozy game experience, which is why it’s the game you should be playing right now instead.
That’s why I’m so grateful the Deluxe mod is breathing new life into it. City Folk had a lot of problems – the annoying Wii remote controls remain an issue if you install the mod on your Wii – but it is still an Animal Crossing game with the potential to be great.
Deluxe gives it the chance to show that potential, and it shines bright. For those, like me, craving a new Animal Crossing game, City Folk Deluxe is absolutely the way to go, especially if you missed the original when it released or have just skipped it after hearing it is subpar.
Source: Aurumsmods, Aurum/YouTube
Animal Crossing: City Folk
- Released
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November 16, 2008
- ESRB
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Everyone // Comic Mischief
- Developer(s)
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Nintendo EAD
- Multiplayer
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Local Multiplayer
- Number of Players
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1-4
