Konami devising its very own Animal Crossing

by Chris Greenhough on Jul 9th 2008 12:30PM

You know how you spent the best part of two years tracking down every last bug, fossil, and fish (curse you, Coelacanth) in Animal Crossing: Wild World? Yeah, well Konami wants you to do it again. All of it.

<Insert evil cackle here>

Tongariboushi and the 365 Days of Magic is the company's latest DS venture, and is splashed across the pages of the latest Famitsu. It's already being labeled as a "clone" of Wild World by the internet, and although our inability to read Japanese means we can't confirm just how close it is to Ninty's cuddly life sim, the screens alone seem to suggest a very similar game. It pretty much looks like Animal Crossing: Wild World 1.1.

Not that we're complaining -- after all, Animal Crossing takes our socks and rocks them. It's easy to see why Konami would want to use Nintendo's title as a template. By the end of 2007, Animal Crossing: Wild World had sold over 4.5 million copies in Japan alone, while unofficial sales site VGChartz estimates worldwide sales to be close to 10 million. That's a whole lot of bells that could be sitting in Konami's account.

Hit the "Source" link below for a closer look at the full scan.

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Tags: 365-Days-of-Magic, adventure, animal-crossing, famitsu, konami, life-sim, scan, Tongariboushi

Reader Comments (3)

Although nothing from those scans leads be to believe this, I feel like this is a game concept that only Nintendo can be trusted to do well, as strange as that sounds. Maybe my opinion will change as more information comes out on this.

...and is that a sphinx? Speaking the riddle of the Sphinx of Thebes, no less? This may go above and beyond Animal Crossing in the wierdness department, if nothing else.

Huh... looks like... magic. Magicians with staves and floaty clouds. And pacman? Wonder what that's gonna be about.

That is indeed a sphinx... Huh.

It feels weird to not be excited about something adorable and Animal Crossing-y but... Meh. I'll probably get there when I know more. At least I'm excited about the pacman.

It's not even just 'borrowing' the idea, it seems pretty much a replication... down to the finer points of the constellations and bug collections. Hell, it even looks the same visually.