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Animal Crossing Almost Had A Better Title In The West But Nintendo Rejected It
Localizing video games can be challenging, and in the case of Animal Crossing, bringing the distinctly Japanese social-sim to the West in 2002 proved to be a Herculean labor. One of the big obstacles was renaming the game, as its Japanese title of Dōbutsu no Mori had to be changed for its Western release.The entire localization job took between six ...
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Animal Crossing Almost Had A Better Title In The West But Nintendo Rejected It
Nintendo's cozy social-sim Animal Crossing was almost known as Animal Acres outside of Japan.Darryn Bonthuys (GameSpot)