Official Japanese AC:CF Site Launched

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The official Japanese website for Animal Crossing: City Folk (or "Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City"). It can be found at:
www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/ruuj/index.html

So far, the main new thing is the video on the front page. It is interesting to note that there is a calendar by the video, so it looks like there might be periodic video updates on the official site.

Also, if you go to Nintendo of Japan's conference page here and click on the "Wii button" in the Nintendo Conference section, you can see some footage of some upcoming Wii games, including AC:CF.

Now I am going to get into my typical style of observations, so there may be some spoilers.

Official Website Observations
-From video: a new squirrel villager, a new rabbit villager
-From video: It seems like the AC:WW "moving-in, moving-out" system still exists in some form, as Ed is seen having boxes in his house.
-Snowballs and fireworks still exist.
-It definitely is looking like the city changes appearance somewhat throughout the year.
-A human can be seen talking to Jack, or at least a Jack look-a-like.
-A picture of that city event with the special character who has balloons is shown. From my best estimates from that picture, here are the villagers shown: Eunice, Kitty, Ed, Satsuchi (from Doubutsu no Mori e+), and a small panda bear.

Conference Video Observations
-There is a new peacock special visitor. It seems that this character appears at the Town Hall during some event during the winter.
-There are some new and neat accessories shown.
-Fireworks and sparklers still exist.

[Meltd0wn]

Awesome, thanks for this link, I have been searching forever trying to find this.

That pea-edited- looks pretty interesting, I wonder what he does or offers.

I like that it appears the city gets season changes as well, It's a shame the game cant have similar weather according to the country it's in, I think it would be kewl to have snow in december and then visit a friend in Aus. and see green grass on the ground. lol

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There are two more gameplay videos here: www.nintendo.co.jp/n10/conference2008fall/presen/e/07.html
One mainly just showcases Wii-Speak.

Some More Observations from Above Videos
-There seems to be a fairy tale series of furniture.
-The fish tank looks HUGE.
-The fossil room seems to have a painting in the back.
-A new sheep villager seen in the city.
-Dr. Shrunk is shown in the theater. Pierce and a purple ostrich are shown sitting in the audience.
-Watch the skunk actually work! I wish we could see the results.
-You can also see various types of weather and watch a present get shot down with a slingshot.
-Four characters listen to K.K. Shame there isn't any background music in these videos.
-There is a good look at the Gracie furniture series in the Wii-Speak video.

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In case you haven't noticed, the official Japanese site has been posting a new short video every single day. Here is a brief summary of all of the videos (warning: there may be some spoilers):

10/2 - Walking Around Town
10/3 - Trip to the City
10/4 - Fishing
10/5 - Shampoodle's
10/6 - Basic Town Locations
10/7 - Decorating a Player's House
10/8 - Bug Hunting
10/9 - Gardening
10/10 - GracieGrace
10/11 - Fishing Tourney & Chip
10/12 - Theater & Dr. Shrunk
10/13 - Auction House
10/14 - Fossils & the Museum
10/15 - Tom Nook's Shop
10/16 - Birthday presents
10/17 - Kicks (the skunk) in action

[mrsvalden]

Thanks so much for the reminder. I forgot to go check everyday, so I watched them all just now. So cool!

I must say I'm not all that excited about the city part of the game right now. It seems like stuff that after a few times won't really be so interesting. I'm more interested in being in my town and catching bugs, fish and growing hybrids. Oh, and filling my catalog. Those are my favorite things.

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The official Japanese site has received a major upgrade. I did a quick Google auto-translation, and there doesn't really appear to be that much in terms of "new" information. Here are some things though:

Rumors of a well-right HAKKEMII fortune tellers. ... Believe in love, luck, luck and do not believe money is up to you?

In addition to the fortune-telling us what it is, HAKKEMII "charm of happiness". You have to toot your friends to the village to run its charm.

This seems to be talking about Katrina. It seems to be indicating there is some "fortune" she can give out that only activates with friends visit your village?

The city also members of furniture shop, "Inari furniture" there, or a balloon or bubble and will present "BARONCHINO" came in, or very occasionally in the evening at the entrance of Secret to open ....

This seems to indicate there is some "furniture shop" related event in the city, and this also talks about Phineas, the guy who sells balloons and other things in the city.

Nightly burst of light refined "YUUTAROU" and a large backpack wandering artist, "Wendell", stand in the river's sea otters philosophy, "RAKOSUKE", and many animals in the village they come. Sometimes I ride a space ship coming to the guests (?)! When the talk found! The new discovery may be.

This seems to be talking about various special visitors such as Wendell and Pascal.

In addition to this KABURIBA, Yoshino Naka on Valentine's Day to get a letter from animal! ? Animal details of the village and the police ask us!

This was something listed on the top of the event calendar.

Apple cherry event will be held in the village throughout the impending anniversary of the village chief.

This was the auto-translation of the "key" indicated what the cherries and oranges mean on the event calendar. I'm not entirely sure what this means though.

Here is the automatically translated calendar for the upcoming year. Keep in mind that is is rumored that different regions of the game will have some slightly different events.

EVENT CALENDAR
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November 11/23 (Sun) 11/27 flea market (Thursday) December 12/13 Harvest Festival (Saturday) 12/24 fishing tournament (Wednesday) Christmas Eve 12/31 (Thursday) Countdown

January 1 / 1 (Thursday) New Year 1 / 17 (Sat) fishing tournament 1 / 25 (Sunday), February 2, flea market / 3 (Tuesday) Setsubun 2 / 14 (Sat) fishing tournament 2 / 22 (Sun) Free Market 2 / 23 (Mon) Carnival

March 3 / 3 (Tuesday) festival 3 / 21 (Sat) fishing tournament 3 / 22 (Sun) flea market April 4 / 1 (Wednesday) April Fool's Day 4 / 11 (Sat) fishing tournament 4 / 12 (Sun) PYON TAROU coming days 4 / 26 (Sun) Free Market

May 5 / 5 (Tuesday) Children's Day 5 / 16 (Sat) fishing tournament 5 / 24 (Sun), June 6, a flea market / 20 (Sat) setting up the tournament 6 / 28 (Sun) Free Market

July 7 / 7 (Tuesday) Tanabata 7 / 18 (Sat) setting up the tournament 7 / 26 (Sun), August 8, flea market / 2 (days) of summer fireworks 8 / 9 (Sun.) Summer Fireworks 8 / 15 (Sat.), setting up the tournament 8 / 16 (Sunday) Summer Fireworks 8 / 23 (Sunday) Summer Fireworks 8 / 30 (last) summer fireworks

September 9 / 19 (Sat) Musi tournament takes 9 / 27 (Sun) October 10, flea market / 3 (Saturday) our moon 10/10 (Sat) 10/25 fishing tournament (Sunday) 10/31 Flea Market ( Sat) Halloween

November 11/21 (Sat) 11/22 fishing tournament (Sunday) 11/26 flea market (Thursday) December HABESUTOFESUTEBARU 12/12 (Sat) 12/24 fishing tournament (Thursday) Christmas Eve 12/31 (Thursday) ... Village, heavy apple countdown event will be held in the impending anniversary of the village chief cherries.