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Animal Crossing: Let's Make the Title More Awkward

by JC Fletcher on Sep 12th 2008 9:00PM

The good news is that Animal Crossing: City Folk has been rated by the Australian OFLC board, meaning that it may actually come out in that region less than one year after the US release this time. Maybe.

The bad news is that Nintendo seems to have decided to release the game there under a different, less mellifluous title than the US version: Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City. For those of you in Australia, we don't wish to spoil the game for you, but the "city" is where folk reside.

Is there some regional difference we aren't aware of? Does the word "folk" have a negative connotation in Australian English?

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Tags: animal-crossing, animal-crossing-city-folk, australia, communication, lets-go-to-the-city

Reader Comments (18)

As an Australian; 'Folk' holds no negative connotation (apart from a slight 'hick' vibe to it, though I don't think that's exclusive to Australia). It's not exactly part of the everyday vernacular, not that that should matter.

I quite liked 'City Folk' :(.
Good ol' Nintendo! :)

yeah, its a slight hick connotation in america too. Associated more with cowboy slang.

Well with the way australian accents sound, folk would sound alot like this four letter word that starts with an F... City Fu#k. get it?

I believe in Australia the word 'folk' is racist, sexist and homophobic.

In seriousness, I have no folking idea. In all my years of enjoying classic Aussie soap-operas Neighbours and Home and Away I've never discovered that the word folk was a problem.

Probably just an aesthetic choice, like how Japan is rocking with Wario Land: The Shake Dimension, which sounds like a Sci-Fi game, and we get Wario Land: Shake It! Which sounds like some kinda dumb rhythm game

Animal Crossing:: A Trip to the City Where Perhaps We Shall Engage In Conversation with an Animal Friendly Friend and So Forth, Afterwards We'll Go Home And Get A Well Deserved Nights Sleep.™

This is the best one yet.

I really like the trademark symbol you inserted after that.

Animal Crossing:: A Trip to the City Where Perhaps We Shall Engage In Conversation with an Animal Friendly Friend and So Forth, Afterwords We'll Go Home And Get A Well Deserved Nights Sleep 2 ::A Second Trip to The City We're We Stroll Over To The Barber Shop And Recieve A Slight Clip,Clip Then Go To The Auction House And Purchase An Oak Bed And Cherry Stained Rocking Chair We'll Then Proceed Home Move The Furniture Put Fresh Sheets On The Bed And Sleep From There On.™

You forgot to mention picking of the fruit and paying of the mortgage! ;)

I live in Australia and I've had to experience nonsense like this a lot lately from Nintendo.

Here Flash Focus is called sight training.
Donkey Kong barrel blast is called jet race.
And Brain age is called brain training.

I think "Let's go to the city" sounds ridiculous and we say folk around here all the time.

Don't forget the ® and ©.

I like this title better. People from big cities don't use the word "folk".

I don't get it?

They should have changed the game name to City Mates instead of that =P

All that money doesn't just set itself on fire, Nintendo has to come up with these clever ways of requiring more work from their designers and manufacturers to get the best wads-to-burn ratio.

No it doesn't have any negative connotations, it's not used that often but everyone knows what it means. Oh and Im Australian BTW. Maybe it's changed for European markets

Urgh, u guys should be lucky to get the full title. Europeans and Australians always get the most accurate translation of the original Japanese title. US-citizens on the other hand are regarded as retards who can't handle long titles so all the games get shortened, easy to remember titles. So yes, US gets flashy short catchy titles but only because they're looked upon as dumbasses while we, Europeans and Australians are expected to be able to handle those freakishly long BUT original translations! So stop moaning, be happy!

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