"What?"

"It's the little differences. A lotta the same junk we got in the GameCube version, they got in Wild World, but there it's a little different."

"Examples?"

"Well, in Wild World, you buy your shirts at Able Sisters'. And I don't mean the borrow/make-a-pattern stuff, I mean they sell shirts and Nook doesn't. In Wild World, you can even buy headgear, like hats and glasses. Also, you know how you identify fossils in Wild World?"

"They don't have the Farway Museum?"

"No, it's not in your mail list, they wouldn't know what the Farway Museum is."

"So how do you do it?"

"Blathers can identify them himself. Took a course."

"Blathers took a course. What about the fish list?"

"Lots more fish to catch. Last night I caught eight new ones in a row, no repeats."

"What about the bugs?"

"I dunno, Nook hasn't sold a bug net yet. But you know what Kapp'n does instead of running the boat to your Game Boy island?"

"What?"

"Drives a cab."

"Dang!"

"I seen 'im do it. He drives you into your town and does the initial player setup instead of Rover."

In the day-and-a-half that I've had ACWW, I really haven't done all that much. Which is classic Animal Crossing; you can't do much at once. I've done the Nook tutorial chores, bought a fishing rod and a shovel, experimented with the new ways to use patterns, found a handful of items old and new, and tore down Tortimer's flag and turned it into a hat. That last item is about as disrespectful as you can get.

I'm a little iffy on stylus control. It's great for inventory and menu uses and it greatly speeds up all the text conversations... but it's kinda gimpy in the exterior view. Through clicking and dragging, you can pick up stuff on the forest floor, shake trees, talk to villagers... but it's more likely you'll just walk in place or trigger your tool accidentally. And you definitely don't want to use the stylus if you intend to fish, because it's easier to run under stylus control and we all know what running does to nearby fishies. Thankfully, the game lets you use both stylus and buttons simultaneously, so it's no big options-setting deal if you want to switch around.

Of course I had Copper assign me a friend code:

While I was there, I checked in with Booker's lost and found (and got a pack of SMB3 Paper!) With no police station, you don't have the big tables full of stuff to browse. I guess the new lost and found is hidden in Booker's pocket. Similarly, there's no junkyard, so there goes the usual Animal Crossing career path of dumpster diver.

I'm willing to entertain all visitors who are interested, so send me your friend codes or post them to the message board. Both parties (you and me) have to enter the codes in ahead of time before we can visit each other's towns. My town (Adamsvil) has oranges as the native fruit, so stop on by to ward off the scurvy.