Today is the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year (in terms of sunlight in the northern hemisphere). Animal Crossing takes this fact and exaggerates it to the extreme: The sun doesn’t rise at all in New Leaf today! It’s dark all day long.
Since it’s such a special day, Isabelle can be found at the event plaza handing out gifts. She gave me this glow wand. Wait, what am I? A Santa fairy? Santa doesn’t need a magic wand to perform his magic!
There’s also a special face-cutout standee for the occasion. Look at me, I’m ice skating!
Wouldn’t that be a cool addition for a future game, though? Imagine if some of the ponds froze over in winter (like they do in some Harvest Moon games). And then you could either walk across them to reach new areas available only in winter, or maybe you could buy some skates and go ice skating! Well, it’s nice to dream.
I seem to be losing my touch at making perfect snowmams lately. Yesterday, I ended up making a snowboy by mistake. And today, I made a snowmam…but not a perfect one. So this one wants five snowflakes for ice furniture. I’ll try again tomorrow.
While digging up a gyroid, I spotted a hidden lost item (a bag) behind a tree. If not for that gyroid, I never would have noticed it! I asked my villagers about it, and it took me a while…but I eventually goat got it back to its owner.
Velma rewarded me with a subdued-print tee. Here are a few other quick notes about things going on in Forest lately:
- I recently got my bank account balance up to 57 million bells.
- Still no sign of the Santa hat at Able Sisters.
- My recent dream visitors were Levi from Greenvil and Timber from Xing.
- Pashmina told me that she was recently sick, but nobody visited her to give her any medicine. Oops!
Thank you for visiting and I’ll see you next time. Happy holidays! 🙂
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I know that on Christmas Eve if you didn’t bother to get the Santa outfit throughout December the whole set will be available on the 24th December (including the boots at Kicks)
Oh ok, but the thing is, I don’t have Kicks! D:
Oh, it’s fine now because it’s already passed (the 24th of Dec in Australia).
I need a few Santa clothing for Toy Day!
Need the beard, the shirt and the shoes (I think they’re boots?)
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Name: Tyrone
I rebuilt my town, because I was so blank on names I copied your Forest (sorry). I felt so ashamed, I rebuilt my town haha. I was so blank on names, I was just sitting there for 10 minutes… and then it came. Farway! The reason? Farway Museum from the original! I wanted to provide some origins on that museum and now you know where you sent your fossils to in the original! There’s a copy of Blathers in Farway Musuem, but smarter :). Maybe I should’ve called it Anytown so I could claim that I was the designer who created those awesome designs haha.
Not totally extreme, in parts of Alaska the sun literally won’t rise today, it’ll be 24 hours of darkness! Same is true for June’s summer solstice, there will be 24 hours of daylight. Just say you’re in Alaska! http://www.alaskacenters.gov/midnight-sun.cfm
It’s extreme in the sense that it’s a one-day event and then it suddenly goes back to normal the next day. And I’m pretty sure the game doesn’t take place in northern Alaska anyway, or else the snow cover would last much longer. It would be nice if the game had a more realistic, gradual changing of daylight hours.
Great post today, Jeff! Ice skating would be an awesome addition!
If you’d like a Santa hat, I can order you one from the catalog, by the way. And congrats on handling those comments so well. Don’t take it to heart 🙂