Animal Crossing: New Leaf

Platforms

• Nintendo 3DS

  Jun 9, 2013

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  9.0

  playscore

  8.7

  28 Critics

  9.7

  97K Players

28 critic reviews · 16 community reviews across all platforms

Critic Reviews

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  Thumbsticks

  9.0

  The game has a bit to say about real life too. Any kids playing Animal Crossing: New Leaf will certainly be well prepared for a lifetime of mortgage drudgery. Animal Crossing: New Leaf is a worthwhile resident in your 3DS.

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  COGconnected

  8.8

  Animal Crossing: New Leaf is one of the most relaxing gaming experiences to be had on the 3DS at this time. It’s built for short gaming sessions on the go, and being the mayor of your own town is pretty awesome. It is nice to play a game that focuses on relaxing tasks rather then fighting a terrible creature in order to save the world.

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  USGamer

  8.0

  With New Leaf, Animal Crossing stands right inside the borderline of complete stagnation and defiantly places a single foot just outside into the realm of change. It offers plenty to keep this from feeling like the exact same thing you played four years ago, or eight years ago, or 11 years ago... but only if you're willing to invest a few dozen hours into it.

  Reviewed on 3DS
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  Nintendo Insider

  9.0

  Building upon the well-trodden formula, Animal Crossing: New Leaf is a refined, polished, and fresh new approach making it the best game in the series. The ultimate Animal Crossing experience!

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  IGN

  9.6

  New Leaf is a truly magical game, one that you can easily expect to invest hundreds of hours in over the course of years. Anyone with access to a 3DS should absolutely give this game a try - just be prepared to kiss your “real” life goodbye.

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  Destructoid

  7.0

  It's a good little game, but it's nowhere near as special as it used to be, and those hoping for more flexibility and interaction from their new political careers will feel let down by what is, ostensibly, just more goalpost shifting and further excuses to get you to shake bananas off trees.

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  NintendoLife

  9.0

  New Leaf is designed to be played in small chunks, every day, over a very long period of time, and stresses this fact by slowly unwinding events in real-time. Yet it is apparent from only a comparably short time — as opposed to months and years — spent with the game that Nintendo has done a great deal to address the complaints of its Wii predecessor, and provided plenty of exciting new features and buildings to enjoy.

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  Cheatcc

  9.0

  Animal Crossing: New Leaf gives players more ways to customize that village and interact with its many inhabitants than ever before. It's the pinnacle of the series, inviting people of all kinds to take a load off and spend a little time diving for scallops, re-upholstering furniture, installing a new fountain near the town square, and joining up with their friends for a bug-catching contest. Pick up this game, and be prepared to spend far more time with it than you anticipated.

  Reviewed on 3DS

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  Joystiq

  9.0

  Yes, it can be boiled down to "just more Animal Crossing," but the introduction of your mayoral duties, a few housing and furniture enhancements and (let's be honest here) the ability to buy your character pants is enough to make Animal Crossing: New Leaf worth playing, even for series veterans. Oh, and as for Beardo, he has informed me that he'll be moving away on the sixth of the month. Good riddance.

  Reviewed on 3DS
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  Edge

  9.0

  Nintendo pays extraordinarily close attention to minutiae, and New Leaf’s many tiny visual details and animations help to make its world....

  Reviewed on 3DS

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