Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

I started up the game on this cold winter night and started to pull some weeds. I talked to the animals I saw along the way, including Puck, who I apparently hadn’t spoken to in five weeks.

I saw an igloo and went inside; Genji was the villager inside. He offered to play a game with me, and I agreed to it. He wanted to buy my snow bunny (the one I won in an igloo for free last week). There are three prices on three cards. I get to pick one, and then he will react to the price. Based on his reaction, I can stick with the card or try another one. So basically, he’s going to try to bluff me into a bad decision. I picked the card on the right, and he said “That’s not too bad…”  I stuck with that card and he ended up paying 2,650 bells for the snow bunny.

I talked to Portia (my newest neighbor) and she told me she went fishing with her boyfriend today. She said she didn’t catch anything, but her boyfriend caught a catfish, which made him happy. Of course Portia is a dog, so I’m not sure if the catfish reference was a dog/cat joke or just a coincidence.

I stopped by the wishing well to check on my town status (after I had plucked a bunch of weeds) and thankfully, I still had perfect town status.

I then stopped at the post office to deposit some bells, passed by the dump (nothing good today), and then headed for home.

I started up the GameCube version of Animal Crossing for the first time in 2012 tonight. I got a goodbye letter from Mallary. My duck has left me.

I went to meet my new neighbor Portia de Rossi. She’s a female dog.

I saw an igloo by the river, so I went inside.

Baabara was inside. I played one of her igloo games and won a snow bunny for free! I decided to quit while I was ahead.

Other than that, I just went around town, pulling weeds and talking to animals. I also went in my house and killed some roaches before I ended my game.

I started up the game and it was snowing. The Christmas music was also playing, with heavy use of jingle bells. And of course there are still lights on the trees, so it all has a festive atmosphere.

Tom Nook wasn’t feeling so festive though, as his daily flyer advertised an item not usually associated with Christmas.

I caught up with Jingle, the black-nosed reindeer.

I also talked to many of my animals. Baabara, being the horrible sheep she is :P, had nothing nice to say.

I found Jingle a couple more times, but you have to find him five times before he will start giving you Jingle furniture. That’s a bit of a pain, and it’s the main reason I prefer Christmas Eve on City Folk instead. I didn’t play the GameCube game long enough to find him five times, but I still wanted to play the game and talk to Jingle at least a couple times.

Merry Christmas, everyone!