

They feature the player and the villagers living in town, and they offer unique rewards. Three minigames, collectively known as Doubutsu no Mori e+: Doubutsu-tachi to Asobou!, can be accessed from the wishing well and played on the Game Boy Advance. Slider song now has a corresponding live performance aircheck that can be obtained from villagers at maximum friendship and played on a music player. Rockabilly, Mountain Song, Marine Song 2001, Neapolitan, Pondering, and Steep Hill. Slider only after scanning their corresponding e-Card: Agent K.K., King K.K. Slider: My Place, To the Edge and Forest Life, and 12 new songs are available from K.K. The latter two fish can only be found on the island.

The following 21 furniture items have been added, none of which can be reordered from the catalog. The newly added villagers and islanders are as follows (names in italics denotes characters whose names have not since been localized): The game came packaged with an e-Reader+ and five cards.

As well as villager cards, there are music cards. The ETM is no longer present in the town's Post Office as all e-Reader functionality is now accessed from the wishing well. Villagers can be invited to move into town, and islanders to the island, by scanning their e-card. Despite this, many features introduced in Doubutsu no Mori e+ returned in later entries of the Animal Crossing series.ĭoubutsu no Mori e+ expands the previous game's support for the e-Reader with the introduction of 66 new villagers and 18 new islanders, totaling up to 84 new characters. The game was never localized for North America or Europe, possibly due to the e-Reader's limited success outside of Japan or the development and upcoming release of Animal Crossing: Wild World. The game retailed for 6,800 yen and sold 91,658 copies in its first week of sale it went on to sell approximately 640,000 copies as of October 2004. In addition to all content from Animal Crossing, the game features new villagers, items, gameplay elements, and expanded e-Reader functionality.ĭue to Nintendo of America's successful localization of Animal Crossing, Nintendo retranslated the game back into Japanese, added additional new content, and released it as Doubutsu no Mori e+ on June 27, 2003, nine months after the North American release of Animal Crossing. Doubutsu no Mori e+ is an expanded version of Animal Crossing released on the Nintendo GameCube exclusively in Japan in 2003.
