It’s been a wonderful couple weeks in the happy town of Crawford. Animal Crossing: New Leaf has been good to me. So good that’d I’d go so far as to say this is the best Animal Crossing I’ve ever played.

In 30 hours and 29 minutes, spread across 7 days, I have beaten the system. I am master of Nook’s domain.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf’s clothing designing system is much improved. You can now design your own color palettes.

The latest Animal Crossing: New Leaf video from Nintendo’s Treehouse localization group demonstrates the game’s island activities.

Harriet is back in Animal Crossing: New Leaf to style your hair.

Porter from the original Animal Crossing is back in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

The latest Animal Crossing: New Leaf video gives a look at the game’s furniture system and pattern creation.

The latest video for Animal Crossing: New Leaf discusses in-game events and holidays, and how it compares to the previous games.

As previously detailed, Animal Crossing: New Leaf has you start out in a tent. You can then move up in the world and buy yourself a house.

Meet Digby, Isabelle’s twin brother.

I’ve got a house, I’m working towards a development permit, and I had Daisy and another Animal Crossing: New Leaf player visit my shack!

The Spotpass feature was actually added for NOA and for NOE—for our territories,” says Reiko Ninomiya, localization manager at Nintendo of America.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf work began in late 2010, when the Treehouse group brainstormed with Nintendo’s Japan headquarters on events in the game. Translation began two years later.

My life in Animal Crossing: New Leaf began with a train ride with a familiar blue cat named Rover.

Kicks, the shoeshine boy from Animal Crossing: City Folk, now runs his own shoe store. Hooray for capitalism!