Animal Crossing: Wild World brought to the handheld the formula devised by Katsuya Eguchi and Nintendo EAD's team: a town inhabited by anthropomorphic animals where there are no urgent goals, just everyday tasks — fishing, digging up fossils, paying off the mortgage, decorating the house — that progress at the pace of the real-world clock. It was also a pioneer in bringing Nintendo's Wi-Fi connectivity to relationships between different players' towns.
It remains one of the most beloved titles in the DS library: its unhurried pace and its absence of pressure have aged better than most of its contemporaries, and explain why the series is still alive today.
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