I play the crap out of Wild World in cycles so I will be getting this. It looks the same and I'm fine with it. Communication is key to the game so all the ways that you can connect from WiiConnect24, DS transfers, sending letters to other devices makes me excited. So excited I'm going to play my game after months of negligence, so I can have cool stuff to drag into the Wii title.
What is lame is that the WiiSpeak is going to be sold separately. I think if you were able to play your as your Mii by default Animal Crossing would be seen as trying to warm up to the casual blue ocean aesthetic. I'm glad that the title was announced, it's one of my favorite games ever.