Animal Crossing is an open-ended game in which the player character moves into a village populated with anthropomorphic animals. Throughout the game, the player can interact with the animals as well as other players through the GameCube's memory card.
devastation | synonyms: abolishment, annihilation, decimation, desolation, destruction, disintegration, eradication, extermination, extirpation, holocaust, vaporization, wreckage, abolish, aim, annihilate, apocalypse, banditry, bane, bankruptcy, bareness, barrenness, bleakness, break, breakdown, breaking-up, breakup, burst, calamity, capsize, capsizing, catastrophe, chaos, closure, collapse, commotion, confusion, conquest, consumption, contradict, contravene, cost, crash, damage, damnation ...
storen to disturb, O.H.G. storan to scatter, destroy, Ger. stÃ¶ren to disturb), probably from the root of storm (q.v.). The noun sense of commotion, disturbance, tumult (late 14c., in phrase on steir) is probably from O.N. styrr disturbance, tumult (see storm), from the same P.Gmc.