Jeff's New Leaf Blog

When I started up the game today, I got a letter from Molly. She thanked me for having her over to visit yesterday. She also sent me a cabin table; apparently she thought my house needed some regular furniture. Hmmph.

I didn’t have any interest in the table, but I did go inside my house to see the new expansion. I have a back room now, although I couldn’t quite reach it at first.

After rearranging my furniture a bit, I went into the back room. I wasn’t expecting a big cake and unlimited juice, but I was hoping for more than this…

Ugh! Four squares by four squares! Again! For the prices Tom Nook charges, he should give you bigger rooms! You definitely get less for your money from Tom Nook in New Leaf. But still, it is nice that the room is an option…’cause at least now I have it.

When I went back outside, Yuka made my day. She reminded me that she’s leaving in two days!

So I thought I should do something nice for her. You know, as a going-away present.

She never appreciates the little things.

In case you’re wondering what I’m wearing on my head here, it’s a DJ cap.

Yesterday, in the comment section, Ian told me that the LED display I bought can be customized! So I took it to Re-Tail today to see if Cyrus could help me out with that.

I was going through the options to see what I could have done. But Cyrus has no patience at all. He’s more unlikable than Phyllis.

You can have the outside modified with a pattern or fabric, or you can have the screen modified. Unfortunately, you can’t customize it with a text message. But you can change the scrolling stars into hearts or leaves instead. I went for the latter. But his projects take half an hour to complete, so I went up to Main Street to kill some time. Today, the museum gift shop had a silver fishing rod!

Celeste told me it’s available because I’ve donated 30 fish to the museum. Next, I headed over to Club LOL. Shrunk taught me the shyness emotion.

I finished up my shopping run, and after enough time had passed,  I returned to Re-Tail. My LED display was done. Even though it’s not a text message that scrolls, I must admit the scrolling leaves look pretty good. I’m not sure why he uses Nook’s logo though…aren’t the Nooklings in direct competition with Re-Tail?

I then took a break from playing. But Saturday is traditional K.K. night, so I started the game back up after 8:00 to get a new song. I got to Club LOL and saw Yuka was in there! Whyyyyyyy?

You country music loving animal, you. I wasn’t about to request that song for her; I just told K.K. that I was in a good mood and I let him pick the song. He ended up playing Bubblegum K.K.

It was okay. Until I got home and saw the album cover. Francine?!

I never thought I’d see the day that “Frankengaga” was on an album cover! She and Chrissy are rabbit impersonators! They’re humans wearing bunny suits! Maybe the fake ears can trick K.K., but they don’t fool me!

That’s all I have for you tonight. I know many of you will have the game tomorrow (or later tonight), so I hope you all have a good time with the game. And remember to use my New Leaf Face Guide!

Check back tomorrow night for more! I will be opening my gate tomorrow, so that blog entry will include my impressions of online play. It should be good! So come back and check it out if you ever take a break from playing the game yourself! Have a great weekend, everyone!

As expected, I got a letter from Gulliver in the mail today. He was in France, and he sent me a model of the Eiffel Tower. I’ll include a picture later on in this blog entry.

As I started my walk around town, I saw one of my favorite villagers, Big Top. He was talking about how much he loves peaches. In fact, he couldn’t stop drooling, just thinking about them.

He asked me to find one for him. Since peaches are my town fruit, that was an easy thing to do.

I took one to him and he thanked me by giving me a lovely love seat. How lovely.

I then spotted Katrina’s tent, so I went inside to have my fortune told. Katrina was talking about the fall harvest festival, and said that blue gym shorts were the key to good fortune upon health.

I have no idea what that means, aside from the fact that I’m supposed to wear blue gym shorts. How could it possibly be related to the harvest festival, which is more than five months away? I’m so confused. Well, I didn’t have any blue gym shorts regardless, so it’s a moot point.

After leaving the tent, I saw my newest villager, Molly. She asked to come to my house. Sure thing, ducky.

So we went to my house, and she seemed to enjoy it. Don’t be fooled by the following picture, it’s not the mystic statue talking to me.

She then asked about the rest of my house, so I took her upstairs. My upstairs room is small and doesn’t have much in it. She wasn’t a fan of this room.

After going back downstairs, she said it was time for her to go. She didn’t stick around as long as Aurora did the last time I had a visitor over.

Anyway, I went back outside and found my money rock and four fossils. So it was time for my daily trip to Main Street. In Club LOL, Shrunk taught me the sorrow (crying) emotion.

And after collecting my 5,000 bells for updating my dream town, I had enough money to finish off my house payment! And this time, I actually had a choice. I could get more space (which would presumably make my upstairs bigger) or I could add another room. I opted for a new room.

But then I had another choice to make: I could add a room to the left of my main room, to the right, to the back, or I could add a basement. At first, I was going to add a basement, but I saw it would cost 428,000 bells…ouch. So I backed out to see how much a back room would cost: 348,000 bells. That’s a little better, so I went with that.

In Super T&T, there was an LED display available. The stars would scroll across the screen and it looked pretty cool, so I bought it.

And in the museum, I thought of a good use for my exhibit room: Gulliver items! Even though I still have my balloon furniture in there too (for now), I think a collection of Gulliver’s items from around the world would be perfect for a museum exhibit!

I actually had to re-order my tribal mask from my catalog since I sold my original, but that’s okay. After that, I headed back to town.

I found a lost item on the ground, so I had to go around asking everyone if it belonged to them. To be honest, this part of the game is a bit annoying. After asking almost everyone, I finally found out it belonged to Katt. As thanks, she gave me a bucket. I was overflowing with joy.

But while I was in Katt’s house, I noticed she had a drum set. So I banged on her drums for a while. Musical instruments are a bit different in New Leaf; they don’t play the whole town tune like they did in previous games. They just play one note. So you have to keep mashing on the A button if you want to make some noise music.

But an interesting thing happened after I was done playing her drums: She started applauding me! That was pretty cool, and I really like the fact that New Leaf has details like this.

My last stop of the day was a return home. I put up the LED display in my house. I was hoping there was a way to customize a message that could scroll across, but apparently there isn’t. A bit disappointing, but it still looks pretty cool.

I know a lot of you will be getting the game this weekend, so I hope you have a great time with it! And remember to check out my face guide to get you started with a face that you like! I’ll see you all tomorrow with another update!

It was getting close to 8:00 p.m. when I first started up the game, so I quickly made my way to Club LOL so I could get a new emotion. I gave Shrunk a peach and he taught me the flourish emotion. It’s where you fabulously spin around. And that’s no fallacy.

I then returned to town where I got some good news from Yuka…she’s moving out!

I only have a few more days left with her! And for those of you who like me having a hated rival in town, don’t worry, I still have Katt.

I then decided to do something new…cliff diving! Once you have your wet suit, you can jump off the cliff into the ocean (at least at the part where there’s not a beach underneath). Wheeee!

Cliff diving is so fun! I also noticed that while you’re wearing a wet suit, pressing the A button makes you swim. Even if you’re on land! Your character still does the animation, and it’s pretty funny!

But while I was on the beach, I spotted Gulliver. I woke him up and he gave me his clues, and once again, they were very easy.

But he got a little carried away…

The feeling’s not mutual, sailor man. But I think I’ll be getting an Eiffel tower from him in the mail tomorrow. As I went back up the ramp, I bumped into Big Top. He wanted to trade his big dot shirt for my cityscape wall. No way! Then he called me weird for not wanting to trade! Rude.

After making my rounds and digging up four fossils, I headed back up to Main Street. The museum gift shop had a silver net for sale! Celeste said it’s available because I’ve caught 30 types of bugs so far.

After buying it, I did the rest of my shopping for the day. And I decided to see what would happen if you checked for DLC even if you’ve already received it.

Great. Now Pelly thinks I’m a greedy criminal or something.

Anyway, I paid off more of my house payment and I only owe about 20,000 bells on it now. I’ll probably pay off the rest of it tomorrow. I then put my regular net up for sale at Re-Tail and then I wrapped up my night in Forest. I will be back tomorrow with another update, so I hope to see you all then!