Sorry I missed this thread for so long, thanks for the shout-out! ^____^
Some background from me: I've been playing AC on one device or another since it was first released on the GC, so I can pretty much detail the intricacies of each title.
To dispel some rumors first: About talking with neighbors in City Folk. They will have a conversation with you, but then start repeating themselves. But if you walk away or enter a building and come back, they will have something new to say. This is the same with tasks. You can't talk to them repeatedly to get a task - you have to wait a while, and come back later. But with 10 neighbors, you'll have more than enough to keep you busy without needing multiple tasks per neighbor.
Tasks can be stuff like finding a certain bug/fish/fossil/shirt/furniture for them, help them find their lost key, playing hide and seek, delivering presents, helping them change their greeting/catchphrase, or if there are multiple people playing in your town, you'll be asked to deliver messages to other players - both of you earning a present for that.
For instance, a neighbor might tell you to mention 'wall decor' to another player - when that player logs on they give the secret message and will get some wallpaper - then when you log on again and talk to that neighbor, they'll thank you for delivering the message and give you some wallpaper too.
As they did when they made the jump from GC -> DS, I'm sure the amount of conversations and dialogue trees has been increased for the Wii version. You might run across the same conversation every once in a while, but there is a plethora of new material that your neighbors have to say.
In a reward sense though, Wild World wins out on the fact that your neighbors will give you their pictures which you can display in your home. Why Nintendo took this out, I have no idea - but it's sorely missed.
And in City Folk, there is one thing to watch out for doing tasks for neighbors. They now have 'held items'. Say a neighbor asks you to find a mole cricket for them, you give it to them, and now they have a hold item. If you come back later on and deliver a present for them, your reward might be that same mole cricket you gave them earlier. So sometimes gits get cycled around.
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Holidays: Sounds like you live in Europe right? City Folk changes things up by having regional holidays along with the real ones. I know for Europe around christmas time, you guys had two additional special events where you could get special presents from the mayor. Each region has their own sort of thing like this - and if you know someone in America or Japan for instance with the game, you can visit their town online and get their unique gift for their special event day. I know one of the ones for Europe was called Naughty or Nice day, and you got a christmas stocking from the mayor. I forgot what the other day was called, but you got a snowglobe. Those items aren't available except to those players who have the European version of the game - or players who visit someone in Europe.
And as for the 'real holidays' - all the ones from the GC version are back along with some new ones - it's more than just 'Bunny Day' that has been added. You can also go mushroom hunting again during the daytime in fall.
Wild World on the other hand, had a rigorous schedual of holidays. Like; 'Every 3rd Sunday of the month is 'Yay Day'' or 'Every 2nd Saturday of every other month is LaDiDay'. And taken on their own they might be okay. They aren't anything special and you don't get any special furniture items from them - but they are something. The big problem with them is that you will experience them 6-12 times a year. Once and they might be special, but having them so often they become a hassle.
Wild World did add the flea market (which is back in City Folk) where neighbors will buy your furniture (sometimes for hyper-inflated prices) and you can buy theirs. City Folk improves on a problem I had with the holiday - which is 'favorite items'. In Wild World, neighbors under no circumstance would sell rare furniture, fossils, or gyroids. That's not always the case anymore in City Folk. Neighbors will still have some 'favorite items' that they won't sell. But it's not ALWAYS the rare stuff.
Both also have stuff like the fishing tourney, and bug-off where you compete against the neighbors and other players in your city for the biggest fish/bug. Although I have heard that City Folk has mixed it up a bit by sometimes having the fishing tourney require everyone to only turn in a certain type of fish. So it's not always the same old tourney.
Wild World had the Flower Festival as well (don't know if that is back in City Folk) which in my opinion was BS. It was a week-long event where nothing really happened except your neighbors would plant more flowers around their houses. At the end, the person with hte best flower garden won a trophy - similar to the fishing and bug trophies. But the results were random. It didn't matter if you had all rare hybrid flowers in your garden, some neighbor who only had some random cosmos could win. The only way to be sure of a win was to cheat and pull up everyone's flowers and lay down pattern tiles so they couldn't plant anymore. Not really in the spirit of the game.
If this is back in City Folk, I hope they improved it in some way better than that.
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Not sure what else to write, but if you want me to talk about anything between Wild World and City Folk as you can see, I can go on at length about everything AC. :lol
So I'll be glad to give you any info you want.
I did want to mention that as for framerate & pattern making. It's all a matter of getting used to it. If you play Wild World for a while, you'll get used to it's frame rate. I actually only noticed it recently going back and forth between it and City Folk - wow, what a difference with City Folk.
And the stylus is much more user-friendly in making patterns. But after making a bunch of patterns in City Folk, I have got more than enough control of the wiimote to where it's not a problem. Like I said, it's all a matter of getting used to it.
Anyway, always glad to help in whatever way I can.
