Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

A few days after posting my July entry, I played again briefly on the 15th. Hank told me he’d like to paint my roof, but this time was different: He actually let me choose the color! It seems much less rude when they give you a choice. However, there was still a catch. I told Hank I wanted a blue roof, but he painted it purple instead. He said it was close enough. 😆

I played again yesterday, and I was happy to find Olivia’s goodbye letter in the mail! So long, my old snooty frenemy!

Her replacement was Cesar the cranky gorilla. He’s not exactly my favorite villager either, and his “highness” catchphrase always sounds sarcastic. But at least his stay in Forest will be temporary.

There was a tent in town, and Nosegay the anteater was camping in Forest for the weekend. I didn’t want to stick my nose in her business, so I didn’t hang around long.

Today, there was a notice of a new treasure hunt on the bulletin board. Puck buried a pitfall in the “2” column of acres.

Fortunately, I didn’t fall into it. It was right next to the dump, in clear view. So I dug it up and I’ll save it for future use. 😏

It was raining (storming, to be more specific) in town today, and Tom told me to stop smiling. I like you, Tom, but you’re too grouchy sometimes. 😛

Puck, on the other hand, was enjoying the rain. He said it makes him feel sentimental. But then again, he wasn’t standing out in it like Tom was.

Tutu was also talking about the rain. She said it was nice out, and asked if I agreed. I said yes, and she got mad at me!

After Baabara tried to sell me an apple for 2,100 bells (no thanks), Ursala showed me a letter with a face made out of text, along with a message that asks “Do you think I’m cute?” 😛 I don’t think I’ve shown this letter in the blog before, so…here you go. 😛

There was also a similar letter in Wild World, which you can see in this blog entry.

If you haven’t seen my video from a few weeks ago, taking a look at the features that each pair of Animal Crossing games have in common, here it is. For example, this game and New Leaf have igloos in common (among other things). This and New Horizons have aerobics/stretching in common (and other things too). Check it out!

I’ll see you next time. Never Stop Crossing! 🙂

On Tuesday, I posted a video of a full gameplay session (which was recorded last Saturday). If you think you’d enjoy watching that, here is the video:

I’m not going to detail everything that happened in the video here (including my experience with a camper), but I’m certainly going to point out that Pate moved out and Tutu moved in. (Tutu lived in Forest before, back in 2011-12, so this is a Tutu redo.) 😛

And my savings balance reached 22 million bells during the session.

I played again today, and I visited Tutu in her house. She didn’t seem very happy to see me, and she even seemed annoyed by my presence.

But she continued talking anyway, saying she had wanted to use her umbrella today. So she told me to make it rain or snow!

What does she think this is, a video game or something? Well, it is a video game, but I can’t control the weather! 😛

When I went down by the ocean, I saw a banded dragonfly zoom by me in a flash. It was gone before I could hardly blink (let alone get a net out), so I had no chance to catch it. It was a reminder that those things are almost impossible to catch in this game. I remember having so much trouble getting one all those years ago.

I spoke with Ursala, and she told me that she just painted my roof. Oof.

She said she used a nice earthy color, so I wondered if that meant green. (Find out later in this entry.) 😛

Over by the wishing well, Maple was in a very cheerful mood.

But then she told me that she fell into a pitfall, and her mood changed. She was angry at the time, and she got mad again after she told me about it. 😛 Villager moods change quick in this game.

On the bulletin board, I found a message from Hank about a treasure hunt. He said he buried his favorite thing in Acre C-4. I wondered if it could be a pitfall.

But when I went there, the buried item was just a modern cabinet. Free furniture is always nice, but I’m not sure why that would be Hank’s favorite thing in the world. 😛 I was actually hoping it was a pitfall, just because they’re fairly uncommon in this game…and my villagers frequently deserve to be pushed in one. 😆

When I got back home, I saw that Ursala painted my roof brown. I don’t love it, but I actually don’t hate it either. It looks fairly normal, so I’m not in a rush to repaint it. I’m just glad it’s not yellow, pink, or white.

I hope you’re all enjoying your summer! (Or winter, if you’re among the 10-12% of people living in the southern hemisphere.) See you next time!

When I played last week (on June 6th), I received Astrid’s goodbye letter in the mail. She also left my City Folk town about a month ago.

Candi seemed to be in a good mood, and she told me that she’s been studying Japanese recently. Since she was being nice, I didn’t even push her this time. 😉

However, I still received my normal dose of rudeness…but from an unexpected source. Astrid’s replacement moved in, and it was no other than Olivia herself!

This is (at least) her third stint in Forest, and she was as rude as always. I decided to check my letters to see if I had a pitfall on me, and I did! So I made good use of it.

I had a close call, though. Maple walked over, and almost fell into the pit before Olivia did, so I had to play like a goalie to keep Maple safe. 😛 You can see this scene, and many other highlights from the past several months in my latest video, GameCube Moments #20:

I played again today, and Olivia gave me a little quiz about garbage collection days.

I knew that was correct, so I told her that statement was true. She confirmed that I was right, but she claimed to have lost the prize (a blue vase) she promised to give me. Suuuure. 🙄

Genji was talking about fishing (since there are fishing tournaments every Sunday this month). He asked what I thought about it, and I told him it was boring (just to see how he’d respond). He said I didn’t know a thing about fishing…

…and he said I just have to let my mind go blank to fish well. 😛

Baabara was giving me some very basic knowledge about using items, saying that chests and music players are must-haves.

On that pleasant note, I’m going to wrap up this entry. As you may know, I recently posted a new City Folk gameplay video, and I plan to do the same with GameCube soon too (probably in July). So stay tuned for that, and I’ll see you next time!