With more than four million copies sold in Japan and Korea since November, New Leaf has been a massively popular addition to the Animal Crossing series.
It's only just getting a release here now, but it's not too late to join in the fun.
For those new to the series, Animal Crossing is like The Sims, but for kids: players take control of a character who is mistaken for a town's new mayor, then begins to build himself a home from the ground up.
That may sound tedious and the open world, real-time gameplay is so basic a 3-year-old can follow it (mine loves it).
But the real fun comes from the minute details: interacting with other villagers, going swimming in a lake, upgrading your home with new wallpaper, buying purple shoes and showing them off to others.
