Animal Crossing New Leaf Mayor Guide: Basics

Animal Crossing New Leaf is the latest entry of the long running Nintendo series called Animal Crossing. It’s actually one of the most successful series created by the Japanese company, thanks to it’s simple yet engaging premise as well as the many customization options given to players that allow them to customize their character and house in many different ways and interact with others in some really interesting ways.

New Leaf brings some welcome addition to the gameplay formula, making the game even more addicting than before. Customization options have been vastly increased for both character and house customization. As if it wasn’t enough players will have the possibility, for the first time ever, to become the mayor of their town, allowing the new virtual mayors to even customize the town and improve it with public works. Creating a good city will allow you to get a Perfect Town rating as well as a 100% approval rating and the appreciation of your virtual citizens.

As usual you’ll also be able to take part in a lot of different activities for the game: bug catching, diving, fishing and more. Animal Crossing New Leaf is truly the perfect game for all those players who love to collect items: to truly find everything in the game you’ll have to work extra hard.

Among the new features introduced in Animal Crossing New Leaf are Spot Pass features, DLC and Online Play that make the best use of the Nintendo 3DS unique features.

• Life as Mayor: Basics

Being the Mayor of the town you live in will open up a lot of new gameplay possibilities: this is pretty much the biggest change of the series found in New Leaf, aside from the increased number of collectibles and house customization options. As the Mayor you’ll be able to influence the growth of your town.

Being a Mayor, you’ll also have to be careful in receiving the approval of your townfolks and there are a few ways to do it: by upgrading the Town Holl, building new facilities for your town through the public works options and more.

Please note that, even though the game supports 4 players on the same game card, only the first one will be the mayor. If you want to be the mayor but the spot has been taken, you’ll need another gamecard to transfer your save data.