#Doubutsu no mori happy home designer series#

The original title featured a 'helpless' character who had to enlist the help of animals to make their way through the game. Due to the memory limitations now faced, many aspects of the original game had to be completely redesigned.

As the market for the 64DD began to wane, the project was ported over to the Nintendo 64. The game was to be developed for the Nintendo 64DD and would take advantage of the system's expanded memory and internal clock.

4.1 Doubutsu no Mori to Doubutsu no Mori+ĭoubutsu no Mori originally began as an interactive multiplayer role-playing game that focused on cooperation among players to reach common goals.

#Doubutsu no mori happy home designer series#

It is the only game in the Animal Crossing series to be officially released in mainland China, and it was the only main series game available in Chinese until the release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons in 2020, which features both traditional and simplified Chinese. In China, Dòngwù Sēnlín was released as the iQue Player port of Doubutsu no Mori, and was released in June 2006. The game was never localized for Western regions as a result. An enhanced port called Doubutsu no Mori+ was released eight months later in December 2001 for the Nintendo GameCube, which was later localized outside of Japan as Animal Crossing in 2002. Despite being released late in the console's life cycle, the game sold 213,800 units, making it the 28th best-selling title on the Nintendo 64.

The game was the last first-party title released on the system before its discontinuation just over a year later. Doubutsu no Mori is the first installment in the Animal Crossing series, released exclusively in Japan in 2001 for the Nintendo 64.