Animal Crossing: New Horizons may have smashed series sales records, but there are millions of fans that have been playing the series well before the Nintendo Switch version launched. Prior to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, one of the most popular Animal Crossing games was Animal Crossing: Wild World on the Nintendo DS, which earned widespread acclaim and introduced the franchise to many.
Animal Crossing: Wild World is one of the best-selling Nintendo DS games of all time, and so as one might imagine, there are quite a few used copies floating around. Reddit user Pikafishy recently bought one of these used copies of Animal Crossing: Wild World for the DS, and it seems as though the previous owner of the cartridge neglected to delete their save. While checking out the past owner's village, Pikafishy discovered a rather hilarious letter that they had been preparing to send to one of their villagers.
The letter was never sent, but was intended for Animal Crossing villager Curly, a pig character with a jock personality. It seems the previous owner of this particular Animal Crossing: Wild World cartridge wasn't a big fan of Curly, as they call them "smelly" and a "fat pork chop" in the letter. The letter includes some misspelled insults and ends with a demand that Curly move to their brother's town instead. Animal Crossing fans have been bullying undesirable villagers for decades, it seems.
Just bought a used copy of animal crossing wild world, and the pst owner forgot to send this letter from AnimalCrossing
The Reddit post has gone viral Animal Crossing subreddit, earning over 15,000 upvotes at the time of this writing and counting. Anyone that wants to revisit the game will either need to have their old copy handy, find a used copy as Pikafishy did, or purchase the digital version through the Wii U Virtual Console, as Animal Crossing: Wild World is one of the few DS games that Nintendo re-released on its failed home console.
Unfortunately, Nintendo has not indicated that it has any plans on bringing Nintendo DS games to the Switch, and so fans interested in replaying Animal Crossing: Wild World will be limited to those aforementioned options. As it stands, one's Animal Crossing options on the Switch are limited to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, though that game is stuffed with enough content that it should keep fans busy for months.
Not only that, but Nintendo recently expanded on the content available in Animal Crossing: New Horizons with the big 2.0 update and the Happy Home Paradise DLC. Even so, some fans may still prefer the simpler times of Animal Crossing: Wild World on the Nintendo DS.
Animal Crossing: Wild World is available on the Nintendo DS and Wii U.