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Mr. Resetti - He's Coming For Your Children!

December 09, 2008 in News comments 45

Mr. Resetti is a beneficial little addition by Nintendo to the latest Animal Crossing game for the Wii. He is, however, said to be quite scary! So much in fact, Nintendo has put a warning with him to parents that he might scare their children!

Is that a smart move for a feature which is supposed to help them learn about the importance of saving your game? Let us hope it scares them into it.

It is important that players save before switching off the Wii console in order to retain data after each play session (see Saving Data, above). If players switch off without saving, the character Mr. Resetti may appear upon restarting.

Mr. Resetti's purpose is to teach players the importance of saving. However, parents should be aware that his personality and tone of voice, while intentionally humourous, are authoritative and may be disturbing to young children.
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  • 0
    chautemoc Dec 10, 08
    Great find. Bahahah .
    • 1
      Dark Arcanine Dec 10, 08
      I just love that character, he looks so darn cool. xD Who cares about the kids getting scared, I'd do it on purpose just to see him in all his glory.
      • 1
        Zero and X Dec 10, 08
        Same here, he's hilarious.
  • 3
    Bale Fire Dec 10, 08
    I hate him, makes me write out a hand written apology for turning off the game to get an awesome item. Makes me want to punch his face in
  • 0
    knb Dec 10, 08
    Haha, good ol' Resetti with his trusty pickaxe.
    • 0
      Shortman Dec 22, 08
      That is dangerously sharp. Maybe thats what caused the warning.
  • 0
    Ammy and Issun Dec 10, 08
    Heh, he is just really annoying, not scary. i understand why he would be scary though, i mean look at his face, Bushy Brows?
    • 1
      Dark Arcanine Dec 10, 08
      I personally love the beasty eyebrows. <3
    • 0
      Shortman Dec 22, 08
      My sister has bushy brows.



      It's so funny though! Haha.
  • 1
    Big A2 Dec 10, 08
    quote
    Mr. Resetti's purpose is to teach players the importance of saving. However, parents should be aware that his personality and tone of voice, while intentionally humourous, are authoritative and may be disturbing to young children.
    How stupid does Nitendo think kids are?
  • 0
    ShinyMilotic Dec 10, 08
    Haha, this is a good idea actually, I'm sure people will remember saving. ;p
    • 0
      Big A2 Dec 10, 08
      It is a good idea, when it was first introduced in 2003. Stop treating it like it's new news.
      • 0
        ShinyMilotic Dec 11, 08
        Not my fault I've never played these games.
  • 0
    Arikardo Dec 10, 08
    Definately one of the most memorable Animal Crossing characters.

    I remember on AC:WW for the DS he would make you sit through a stupidly long lecture about saving your game and not turning off before you save.

    Brilliant!
  • 0
    Slumpy monkey Dec 10, 08
    I hate him, he pisses me off big time. I paid for the damn game, I shouldn't have to listen to some lecture about saving my game. I will turn it off whenever I want.
    • 2
      BANDITO ATTACK Dec 10, 08
      they MADE the damn game. they will add in any annoying character that they want.
      • 4
        Koloth Dec 10, 08
        And if they cared what the gamers thought they would add an option to turn the little bastard off. He and he alone is the reason I refuse to let my son play that game. I thought he was kind of funny the first time I forgot to save. I thought he was slightly more annoying when the batteries on the DS ran out and the game shut down. Then I let my son play a few times. A 3 year old knows naught of saving. And doesn't care. But I'm not going to get bitched at by a damn mole 3 or 4 times a day because he turns the game off without saving.

        Either let me kill him or I won't buy your crappy game.
        • 1
          Big A2 Dec 10, 08
          All he does is stop you from cheating. If it wasn't for him, people would get away with all kinds of crap by reseting their games, especially in other people's towns.
        • 1
          Final Blade Dec 10, 08
          I know, it pisses me off when I see it on my friends game.
        • 1
          Koloth Dec 11, 08
          Neither I or my son play the game online. It should be an options to turn him off.

          Even Rockband included a no fail mode for kids. Why can't Nintendo offer the same courtesy so that I as a parent don't have to suffer through the same asinine crap over and over again.
        • 1
          BANDITO ATTACK Dec 11, 08
          i'm sure there are much better games for 3 year-olds than animal crossing. that hardly seems like the target audience of this game, which requires basic reading skills!
        • 1
          Slumpy monkey Dec 11, 08
          Erm BANDITO, This is Koloths child were talking about here.

          They could read at 6 months.
  • 0
    Murray3 Dec 10, 08
    Mr. Resetti: best. Assist. Trophy. Ever.

    I purposelly saw all his speeches in the N64DD version (The GCN version), then in the DS game I always remembered to save due to the convenience of saving anywhere, I've only seen his warning in City Folk and in the observation center.
  • 2
    EOM Bassist Dec 10, 08
    Haha, he needs to be in every game... And every console if someone doesn't save His nose looks awesome too.
    • 0
      Slumpy monkey Dec 11, 08
      OMG lol, If that ever happened I would have to give up gaming due to the sheer annoyance.
      • 0
        Big A2 Dec 11, 08
        All you have to do is just save. Is that so hard?

        (Although, I guess it would be extremely fustrating for games like Pokemon)
        • 2
          Koloth Dec 11, 08
          If you're trying to do something that requires you to complete a section which out dieing and the only way to do that is to reset the game when you do die then yes saving would be completely impossible.

          Or if you're 3 and you don't understand the importance of saving your game it would be really hard.
        • 2
          Big A2 Dec 11, 08
          Actually, Mr. Resetti would teach 3 year olds the importance of saving.
        • 2
          Slumpy monkey Dec 11, 08
          No it wouldn't, the child would just get pissed at wouldn't understand it.
        • 2
          Koloth Dec 12, 08
          Exactly, and then he hands the game to me to fix it and I get pissed at having to endure the annoyance for the 5th time that day.
        • 0
          Big A2 Dec 12, 08
          Just asking, but has this actually happened, or are you just assuming?
        • 2
          Koloth Dec 13, 08
          It actually happened. Until I just took the game away from him anyway. I haven't let him play it for close to a year now. And I won't until I'm positive I won't see that annoying damn rodent ever again.
  • 0
    Linkerd101 Dec 10, 08
    Worse thing happend, Mr. Ressetti came on WiFi! Hilarious!
  • 0
    Capn Droid Dec 11, 08
    Pffft. I've seen scarier things from Sesame Street.


    ... Oscar?
    • 0
      Dark Arcanine Dec 12, 08
      I was thinking along the lines of Elmo personally, or the Cookie Monster.
      • 1
        Capn Droid Dec 13, 08
        D'aaaw, but Elmo's cuuuute.
        • 0
          Dark Arcanine Dec 14, 08
          He's scary! Not only is there heaps of pedo stuff about him but they totally wrecked Elmo's world, destroying the only awesomeness he had.
        • 0
          Final Blade Dec 14, 08
          But....but...Elmo loves you Dark.

        • 1
          Capn Droid Dec 14, 08
          You can not deny something that loves you so much. Unless it's a drunk gay man. But, I digress.
        • 0
          Dark Arcanine Dec 15, 08
          If my father doesn't love me, I hardly need some furry red... supposedly male creature loving me. xD I'll take the drunk gay man.
        • 1
          Capn Droid Dec 16, 08
          Really? I'd take the small red fuzzy thing. I don't need a small red fuzzy thing made out of whatever I have by a drunk gay guy. Repeat after me: drunk. Gay. Any questions?
  • 0
    Linkerd101 Dec 11, 08
    Oscar Makes me Happy
    just because he gotz A bad additude dont meen he scawy.
    dats no cool
    • 0
      Big A2 Dec 16, 08
      Oscar's the only thing keeping the ratings on that show up.
  • 0
    Rinkydink Dec 11, 08
    Haha came across this reading through the game manual before playing it. Brilliant stuff!
  • 0
    Shortman Dec 22, 08
    Parents got a warning that Resetti may be too scary for kids. This is a bit stupid. He is only a mole wielding a big pic axe that can most probably stab you in a lot of places.

    Jeez.

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