Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

Opal the green elephant has already moved out of town. I received her goodbye letter in the mail today.

Her replacement was a rude, pink mouse. No, not Candi; I already have Candi. It’s Carmen, and she’s even worse than Candi. 😛

She lived in Forest a decade ago (back when my blog entry titles were almost as long as the entries themselves). And even back then, I thought she was a returning villager. So that means this is likely Carmen’s third stint in Forest. Hopefully, it will be a short one.

Tom Nook is apparently having a sale on March 1st, and that’s all most of my villagers would talk about.

Pippy even tried to convince me that Nook isn’t having a sale…so that I wouldn’t buy up everything. Some villagers are afraid of the competition.

Of course, Nook’s sales just have one item for sale, and villagers can’t buy them anyway. But whatever, Pippy. 😛

Tom had a very different approach to the sale, and I found it amusing. He said it doesn’t matter if you miss a sale or not, because Tom Nook will end up getting your money one way or another. Too true! 😂

Now that winter is over and the snow has all melted, I changed out of my winter sweater. I’m now wearing a stormy shirt, even though I don’t even remember where I got it. It was in my pockets somehow. 😀

I asked Static for a job, and he asked me to deliver something to his buddy Puck.

So I delivered the gift (a jagged shirt), and Puck really liked it. He rewarded me with a blue table.

I recently posted a video that takes a look at the insulting things villagers will say about special characters like Tom Nook, Redd, Blathers, and more. It includes clips from this game, but also some from Wild World and City Folk. I hope you’ll give it a watch!

See you all next time!

Gwen has already moved out of town; I received her goodbye letter in the mail today.

When I ran into Pippy, she asked me if I would give her a new catchphrase to replace “li’l hare.” I knew she likely wouldn’t be sticking around long, so I told her no. However, she refused to take no for an answer!

Since she forced me to pick something, I told her to say “I’m rude.”

I visited Puck, and he was talking about Katrina and her upcoming visit. He said that she just mutters nonsense and takes 50 bells. Too true. 😛

Genji was wondering about my gyroid’s dance moves, so he told me that he’s basically going to stalk my gyroid to learn its secrets.

Ursala told me that she likes igloos, but she thinks she’s above manual labor. So she’s going to wait for someone else to build an igloo, and then just take it for herself. 😮

Speaking of igloos, I found Emerald in one tonight. She wanted to just eat chowder and warm up by the fire. 💚

Just before wrapping up my game, I met Gwen’s replacement, Opal. Even though she’s a snooty too, I like her much more than Gwen. Welcome to town, Opal!

See you all next time. Never Stop Crossing!

On December 9th, I received a goodbye letter from Amelia. Her replacement was Gwen, a rude, snooty penguin who I already have in my ACCF town.

Gracie was in town, so I washed her car and earned myself a nice new cow print shirt.

I played again tonight (Christmas Eve), and I found a goodbye letter in the mail. Unfortunately, it was from Cookie, not Gwen. Her replacement was Pippy, and she’s nice.

Tonight is the night that Jingle comes to town (not to be confused with Toy Day). The Christmas Eve event doesn’t even seem to have an official name, at least not in-game. It’s not even shown on the calendar you’ll find in a journal.

Regardless, your job is to find Jingle the black-nosed reindeer to receive a gift.

But unfortunately, you have to find him five times before you can receive a gift. And that doesn’t mean talking to him five times in a row; that won’t work, and he gets annoyed if you try it.

You have to leave the area so that he can respawn elsewhere in town, then find him again. On the 5th meeting, he will finally give you a gift. In my case, he gave me a Jingle clock.

From that point on, you can get another gift each time you find him…but only if he thinks you’re someone else. So you have to change your shirt each time to trick him. I did this and got four items from him (including one from wearing a pattern). Unlike in City Folk, each pattern won’t work as a successful disguise.

I ran out of shirts, so I was out of luck. But that’s okay, because I was tired of searching all over town for him by that point anyway. 😛

On the bright side, I’ll be able to sell those items for 12,240 bells apiece next time.

If you haven’t yet seen my video showing 26 features from this game that never returned, here it is! Even though I made a similar video before, some of the previous featured returned in Version 2.0 of New Horizons. So this one is up-to-date, and it even includes a few things I missed the first time around. I hope you enjoy it!

Happy Toy Day and Merry Christmas, everyone! 🎄