(Time Extension) "My Favourite Was 'Animal Acres'" - Ex-Nintendo Localization Director Recalls The Difficulty Of Naming

[Le Reposteur]

"We had so many other names that we were in love with".

In an exclusive interview with Time Extension, which went live yesterday, Leslie Swan, a former localization director at Nintendo and one of the individuals responsible for bringing Animal Crossing to the West, shared some fascinating insight into the arduous process behind naming the classic lifestyle sim.

As you may already be aware, Animal Crossing isn't the series's original Japanese name, with the games instead going by Dōbutsu no Mori in Japan, which literally translates to "Animal Forest".

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Source: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025 ... l-crossing