The Shrine

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>And yes, there does seam to be a ton of dialogue in it. There are lots of places that seam to be expandable somehow, I don't know how exactly but I can assume that you can probably increase the population of the town many times over, lots of spaces for new Houses. Today I started work at a Conveniance Store to help pay off my debt, and I completed all the tasks the owner had for me to do in one day, I also talked to some of the people currently living inthe town, and damn, this game is probably the most non-linear customizable game ever made by Nintendo.

Harvest Moon needs a sort of pattern to be successful, this game allows for many different paths to success. You can buy or trade for a very large number of items that you can move into your house, I also assume judging by comments from the towns folk that you can expand the size of your house, maybe add new rooms. There can be up to four different players playing the game in the same town, there seams to be a lot of link-up features in the game as well for GBA. Also you can go to the train station and travel to other towns that you do not live in (other peoples towns, each town is randomized at the beginning of the game). I am not really sure how the letter system works yet, but you can send letters to anyone in the town it looks like, and I think that they pick up on certain words and such. You can teach people to use your style of talking somehow (according to IGN). That's about all of the features I have uncovered for now. I kind of get the feeling (like I did with Majora's Mask) that even after hours of play with everything available to me I have barely scratched the surface of the game.

Nintendo has a very innovative title on their hands here, and this is exactly the type of game I enjoy and I hope that they use similar elements in the next Zelda game, it will make it a HELL of a lot more enjoyable, and would secure it as possible candidate for best Adventure game ever made. Earthbound 2, if Nintendo ever gets off their ass and makes it could possibly benefit even more from these types of elements, and I hope Enix is taking notes if they ever plan on making a fourth game in the Soul Blazer series, since Terranigma seamed to be going in that direction.

All in all, for first impressions, this game has impressed me more than any Gamecube title as of yet. If Nintendo is all about making fun titles, this definetly fits the bill. To sum it up, if you liked Harvest Moon, you will love this title.

I guess I should also mention that it seams that you can alter your relationship with all of the towns folk depending on what you do. That's all for now, I think I'll play for a bit longer now, it's nearly 8:00 PM here, and when I turn on the game, that's the time it will be there as well as it utilizes the Clock, and it's actually quite neat in the way that if you play the game on Hallowe'en, it will be Hallowe'en in the game, Christmas is Christmas, Valentines is Valentines, your birthday is celebrated, etc... It's really quite amazing (don't cheat and edit the Gamecubes clock, that will take a lot of the fun out of the experience of the title according to the developers). Also as far as text appearing in the game goes, yes, I believe that this game does contain the most text of any game ever made now.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Explain how this is different from a multiplayer version of The Sims.

Explain how it's different from The Sims Online.

Then we'll see how it's innovative.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Ummm, Animal Crossing isn't like the Sims at all. Where did you get the idea that it was?</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Well, for starters, the genre. I own both titles and I don't see how in hell you could think they are at all alike. That's like someone saying that Warcraft is a Ripoff of Zelda.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>You must be talking to me....coz I'm like one of three people on this planet that liked Harvest Moon. =8^) Damn....just when I was starting to get active outdoors again (now that it's getting cooler), this game is released.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I played it at E3. The emphasis was on taking your avatar, doing jobs, meeting other people, making things for them to do, and improving your avatar. Explain to me how I'm wrong (not that I care).</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Waiiiit a minute! Kingdom Hearts will be ON SALE TOMORROW!!!! Well.....damn.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>You talkin' about the Sims? =8^)</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Also, it is the first game that I have seen that generates a random town which has its own culture, people, resources; allows you to buy Videogame Consoles and games and actually play them; allows your character to travel to other towns for business or a visit; several different methods of trading including GBA, Memory card link, the Internet, mailing letters to people in the town and getting a response, gifts, and other stuff. Also, from what I remember the Sims didn't have any text to it, just weird symbols that meant absolutly nothing. I also remember days in the Sims being about 15 minutes or something, but Animal Crossings days are 24 hours, if you turn the game on at Noon, it's Noon in the game, turn it on at midnight, and it's midnight, it is September in the game right now, late Summer and everyone in the town is talking about the events of the Autumn, I don't recall anything like that in the Sims, or any other games I've played for that matter.

If I thought the game had anything that was even worth comparisson towards the Sims, I probably would have said so. The two games are different and don't really have anything in common, doing jobs and acquiring items are as different in those two games as battleing Monsters and improving your weaponry in Warcraft and Zelda.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>This game involves battleing and improving your weaponry, am I talking about Zelda or Warcraft?</div>

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I am very interested in this game. I will definately rent first so we'll see. Your review gives me hope though. heh</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>To trade an item to someone, go to a shop and tell the manager you want to trade. Enter the name of the town and the name of the character who is recieving the item. List the item(s) you are sending, and the shop owner will then give you a passcode (kind of long so make sure you copy it down correctly). Then just post that code here and I'll receive the item(s) you sent. To get items from me, just go to the shop say your picking up an item, enter in the code I post here and you will receive the item(s). It's not only that you will get rare items that you don't have, it's also that you'll get certain trading commodities from my town that you can sell in your town for a much higher price.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>If AC has combat, whoop de fucking do. I'm going by what I played and saw at E3, and I assure you, if there was any mention of combat at the show or Nintendo's press conference, the point was mentioned briefly in passing.

Period.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Because I work all day though, I've been limited to digging for fossils and talking to a few townspeople at night. I think the 22nd has some special day, must get off work to see it.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Your post is about as ridiculous as the guy that called Tactics Ogre a ripoff of Final Fantasy Tactics. Or was that you as well?</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Just tell me the name of your town and your characters name and I will send you some Cherries if you need them, plant a tree, but I have read in the game that Tree's must be planted in Sunny locations, the Sapplings will die if they're in the shade.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I've got cherries, want some?</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Bad luck i guess, that's the same thing I grow =P</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>You can get the NES games by checking the bag you get from Nintendo at the beginning of the game. If you trade or sell them you can order them from the Catalog at Nooks for 3000 bells each.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Ahh, I've got Pinball and Jr DK math(you don't want it) I'll trade Pinball for CluClu</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>If you've got a shovel go digging for fossils, some are worth large cash, found one for 3,000 bells</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Did that, I sent them all away to be examined by the Farscape Museum. Anyways, I want to test out the trade system, what is your towns name and your characters name? My town is Canadia and my Character is James.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I live in bonny'ol Scotland, character is Gray</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Dtb2UF5feolitT
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<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Sounds great, lets try trading simple items first to make sure it works, I haven't traded anything before. Almost have my House payed off now, only 5K more, just selling shells, furniture, and stuff I shake outta tree's. I'll pick up DK Math off you later sometime for Donkey Kong once I buy a copy.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Alright, I'll take a 45 min lunch break and take it home, find something for you too=)</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>It's just something cheap for now, to make sure that I did everything right for trading before I trade off a $3000 NES game, want to make sure you get it. Better send me something cheap first too just to make sure everything is working.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Both of you GET ON ICQ!!! I want no more temptation about this game.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Ok, maybe I copied the password wrong. My name is Gray, and town is Scotland.
Anyway, I'm sending you my code for DK jr. Math. it isn't great so have a free 3,000 bells on me.

code is

(key symbol)
#9mKrZSQzpdqio
gfNurqAZiROsgO</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I would, unfortunately this is my work comp, no ICQ</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>TSO has been in development for years now. Big fucking deal, another game beat them to market.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Well, my town is filled now, three people living in the town of Canadia plus our new trade monkey =P

Anyways check your name carefully to make sure there aren't spaces before, it's an easy mistake for people to make it seams because L is Shift and R is space, a lot of people had problems with it. I also heard there was a glitch in the game if you backspace or something, I'm not sure if there is any truth to it or not. Anyways, also check your town for spaces too. Once that's straitened out I'll send you both NES games: Clu Clu land and Donkey Kong, I'll try to get some more off of IGN or Gamefaqs.

Oh yeah, I guess I should mention the Non player residents in my town:

Fang the Wolf (into Japanese culture)
Bluebear the bear (This is a girl despite the name)
Mitsy the Cat (Moody)
Monique the Cat (Very stuck up and into fassion)
Biskit the Dawg (yes he's a rapper)
Teddy the bear (haven't talked a lot to him, he travels over the town a lot)

That's all for now, I have read of people on IGN who already have more than 15 Resident people living in their towns (this does not include: Nook, the police, Mayor, Postal Worker, or any other other shop people, just the actual residents)</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>PS. you're not on ICQ</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Ummm, Animal Forest was released in early 2001, that's almost two years prior to when The Sims Online is to be released. Also it was first announced in 1997 for the N64DD.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Tortolia: "Nintendo has a fucking Time Machine and stole the idea's from Maxis!"</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Tortolia: "Nintendo has a fucking Time Machine and stole the idea's from Electronic Arts!"</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Just face it Tort, you're wrong, that is fact, I am right, that is also a fact, live with it. I won't rub it in your face this time though =P *Does the Arrogant Seeker Victory dance and Urinates on Torts Driveway, steals his car and and Pimps his mother*</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>You're not a very nice person to argue with. You can't even admit when you're wrong.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Why is it you can only compare it to a Nintendo game? It's like a redneck with a limited vocabulary. "Well, sheeeit fire, thar Korn sounds alot like Garth Brooks!"</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>My mother's dead, you goddamn retard.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Well, I've played the Sims, and I have Animal Crossing. I won't be playing Sims Online.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>but I doubt you'll find any solid post where I have ever been wrong before. Also, opinion doesn't count, a billion blind people could disagree with me that there is a Moon and Sun in the sky, but I would still be right and that billion would still be wrong.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>My Condolences, I'll pimp your grandmother instead. It is still a fact that you are wrong on the above posts, any slob who grasps the concept of Time can still realize that.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>If you want to keep arguing it, that's fine. I don't feed trolls.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>So posting facts about a game that I find very enjoyable is considered trolling now? Get a life Tort, you take things WAAAY to personally for your own health.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I don't think you're in any position to comment on that, Seeker. This conversation is over.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>What do you know? You actually believed that a game released in early 2001 is ripping off a game that won't be released until late 2002/early 2003. Now the conversation is over.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>SHUT UP BOY! LALALALALAAAA! Hear nothing! I see nothing! I'm not hearing this! LALALALALALA! *must....resist......failing...!*</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>Since you always claim to be the longest shriner here you're telling me you didnt notice Torts long adsence and, more importantly, WHY he took that leave? You piss me off so much i would seriously have a hard time holding myself back from punching you in the face if i met you within the past few days. Thats saying a lot since i do a pretty good job of not letting shine and online life effect me IRL. Do more then "condelences" apologize to Tort specifically for being a fucking idiot. Jesus Christ.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>Since you always claim to be the longest shriner here you're telling me you didnt notice Torts long absence and, more importantly, WHY he took that leave? You piss me off so much i would seriously have a hard time holding myself back from punching you in the face if i met you within the past few days. Thats saying a lot since i do a pretty good job of not letting shine and online life effect me IRL. Do more then "condelences" apologize to Tort specifically for being a fucking idiot. Jesus Christ.</div>