Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

I started up the game tonight and got a goodbye letter from Mathilda, who has recently moved out of town.

As I started my walk around town, I soon spotted an igloo. Puck was inside, warning me to keep out of his chowder. That’s a pretty big pot there, you can’t share a bowl?

I played a few of his games, and at one point, he almost forgot his own name!

I saw on my map that my new villager is Chevre the goat. However, she was already asleep! I’ll have to meet her next time (if she doesn’t move out of town before I play next).

I then decided I was going to take a trip to the island. But as I was searching for my GameCube-GBA link cable, I must have stepped on the power cord to my Wii, accidentally unplugging it. So that meant I lost my progress for today. Granted, it was nothing important, but I did pull a lot of weeds. I reluctantly started the game back up, knowing I would have to face the wrath of Resetti. And boy, did I. For the first time that I could remember, he made me look at him right in the face. That’s right, it literally changed to a first-person view as he yelled at me!

Here is a video of the encounter:

Anyway, I made my way out to the island and said hello to my islander, Ankha.

I also went into my island house, which is incredibly messy. I use it for storage of my Jingle furniture, igloo items (including my DUMMY), island items, and other miscellaneous crap.

Before I left the island, I talked to Ankha once again. She asked me if I could find her a white king.

She said she had been looking for one forever. I quickly got back on the boat and returned to Forest. It was getting late, so I didn’t bother re-pulling all my weeds. Instead, I just returned home for the night.

Blaire, the snooty squirrel, has already moved out of town. I got her goodbye letter when I started up the game today.

I wanted to see who her replacement was, so I checked my map and saw a new house in acre B-1. It belonged to another snooty animal, Petunia the purple cow.

After introducing myself, I spoke with her a second time and she showed interest in my trilobite.

She offered me a regal wall for it, but I declined. Trading a fossil for wallpaper is not a fair trade. So of course, she got mad that I turned her down.

After pushing her around a little bit, I resumed my late night walk around town. The daily glowing spot gave me 10,000 bells today. And at the wishing well, Baabara offered me her plaza tile for my plesio neck.

The conversation was identical to the one I had with Petunia earlier. I declined and continued on.

Over by the museum, I pushed a snowball into a hole. Later Animal Crossing games don’t let you do this; the snowball will break as soon as it hits the hole. Even though it serves no purpose, I just like doing weird things like this on GameCube. Just because I can.

I then stopped at the post office and then returned home. I went into my basement and decided to play some NES Donkey Kong.

The inclusion of NES games in Animal Crossing is one of the game’s best (and most overlooked) features. I played a few rounds of DK before ending my game for the night.

I got a goodbye letter from Midge in the mail today; she has recently moved out of town.

Her replacement was Blaire, the snooty squirrel. She just moved out of my ACCF town last month.

She seemed nice enough at first, but when I declined the offer to join her diving club, she got a bit nasty.

It was snowing in town tonight, and it looked quite pretty. Genji was trying to count the snowflakes, while Static advised me to make my way home before it turns into a blizzard. But Belle just thought the snow was romantic.

But the snow didn’t stop Maple and Sydney from falling asleep outside.

I had quite a few weeds to pull, so I went around and found as many as I could. I then stopped at the post office to mail four fossils away, and then I headed for home. Static reluctantly saved my game for me.