Jeff's New Leaf Blog

Tonight, I held my final Friday Night Forest in New Leaf. (Online services are ending by April 8th, in case any of you aren’t aware.) I opened my gate at 10 p.m., and BranDex and Alex came over to visit. It didn’t take us long to start throwing beans everywhere. 😛

The beans are so fun in New Leaf, with the way they bounce quite high, splish splash in the water, and have that great sound effect. The beans in New Horizons were so disappointing. I joked that the next game should be called Animal Crossing: Better Beans.

After that, we headed to my house. BranDex merged with me in my emerald room!

Upstairs, we made frog puns in my frog room. 🐸

I blinded everyone with my excessively bright gold basement, and then we started visiting all of my villagers.

When we visited Molly’s house, we discovered that we all had Molly in our towns! She’s definitely one of the cutest villagers in the game.

At my statue fountain, I was disappointed that the beans didn’t splash in the water. I think it was Alex that called it fake water. 😆

We all got some coffee at the Roost, we visited Booker’s house, and we discussed what it would be like if special characters had homes in town that we could visit on certain nights of the week. Oh, and I got attacked with a toy hammer. 😉

At about 11:25, we got disconnected. BranDex returned, and we watched the Forest history at the town tree.

We continued our tour of chatting with villagers, and we also went into town hall for a bit. At about 11:40, Alex returned and we went up to dance at Club LOL.

Next, we headed over to the museum. In my trophy room, I asked them if they wanted any of my extra villager photos I had on display. They each picked a couple, but I couldn’t pick them up. So I had to end the session, then pick them up, and then reopen. 😆

I mentioned the Splatoon face-cutout standee, and BranDex fell for the old pitfall-behind-the-standee trick. 😉

By this time, it was after midnight (my time), so I asked if they had time to visit the island. Unfortunately, BranDex had to go. I was trying to get us to take a group photo first, but he was already on the way out. So Alex and I took a photo by my fountain, which might remind some long-time readers/viewers of my final online session in City Folk.

But we weren’t quite done yet. We wanted to head out to the island for a couple of tours. The boat ride out there felt sad (to me, at least), knowing this was likely my last boat ride during online play. But then Kapp’n farted, and everything was okay.

We started out with a shark-catching tour, and I outfished Alex for the win. 😛

Next, Alex picked the Elite Hammer Tour. Tortimer bluntly told us to smack the machine. 😛

I don’t normally do very good at these, but I feel like I was getting a lot of hits in.

And then…poof. We disconnected. I didn’t hear back from Alex. I reopened my gate for a bit, but he didn’t return…so I closed the gate. A bit anticlimactic, but it was a fun night. Thank you for coming, BranDex and Alex!

Even though New Leaf makes communicating a bit of a chore, it has some fun online features that I’ll miss. The multiplayer mini-games on Tortimer Island, the dancing at Club LOL, the toy hammer fights, and more. I hope these features return in the next Animal Crossing game.

In other recent events, I visited Chris’s beautiful ice town of Sutton earlier this week. If you haven’t seen my write-up yet, check out the full Dream Suite Adventure, with many more screenshots of this awesome town.

According to Luna, my recent dream visitors include Jake from Pan City, Tien Dat from Yoshiii, Brenna from Marigold, Jan from Jansburg, and Ruben from Bulworth. Thanks for stopping by!

A few other quick notes about recent campers:

• Leonardo de Tiger was camping in town on March 22nd.
• Cranston the ostrich camped here on Wednesday.
• Chow the panda bear camped here today.

Just a reminder that this blog will live on! I’ll still be playing New Leaf, and I’ll still post two blog entries every month. So I hope you’ll return for this, or for my other Animal Crossing content on JVGS and Youtube. Hope to see you soon! Never Stop Crossing! 🙂

On Friday (March 15th), Mira asked me to bury a time capsule for her. I buried it in the northwest part of town, as usual.

Today is St. Patrick’s Day, known as Shamrock Day in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Isabelle was standing at the event plaza, wearing green for the occasion.

She gave me a shamrock hat, and I put it on (along with my club tee).

I also stuck my face in the face-cutout standee. 😛 Happy Shamrock day, everyone! 🍀

All of my villagers commented on the hat I was wearing, and Rolf almost thought I was a leprechaun. 😉

Inkwell said that it seems like everything is green today, even the bread he ate this morning. Actually, that doesn’t sound very appetizing.

I found a lost item (a book) on the ground, and I returned it to Inkwell. He rewarded me with just a blue plaid tee.

As for my final Friday Night Forest, I’ve decided it’s going to be on March 29th at 10 p.m. Eastern time. It’ll be open to anyone on my New Leaf friend roster. If town fills up, I might close and reopen the gate every half hour or so, to give anyone else that’s trying to get in a chance. I’m not sure it’ll fill up, though. But it’ll be nice to have one last party.

According to Luna, Teren from DalyCity was my most recent dream visitor. Thanks for stopping by!

Is my New Leaf savings account still my largest across the series? Find out in this quick video:

As of yesterday, the snow has all melted and spring is here (unofficially). I promptly went to Able Sisters to change my path from the blue icy bricks back to my usual green bricks.

When I ran into Rolf, he reminded me that I didn’t get the petition signatures in time. (Thanks.) So he told me to go ahead and throw away the paper.

Cube was apparently enjoying the rain, because he said he wanted to splash me!

Mira asked me for an apple, so I went out and picked one for her. She loved it!

She rewarded me with a bucket from her bucket stash. 🪣

Inkwell asked me for some furniture, and I briefly considered giving him the bucket. But I decided I should try to find something a bit nicer than a bucket for him. 😆 So I bought a swinging bench from Harv at the campground.

I took it over to Inkwell, and he loved it so much that he gave me his picture! After three and a half years, I finally earned it!

I took it home and put it on display. His favorite quote is “There’s a sucker born every minute.”

With that finally done, I decided to play the last level of Desert Island Escape. It seemed like a really big level, but I was making good progress. And then…it happened. The game froze. I try jiggling the controls, but nothing happened. After about five seconds of nothing, the game crashed. Not just Desert Island Escape, but New Leaf. My 3DS said it had to restart the whole system!

Of course, the worst part is that I didn’t save my game before starting Desert Island Escape. So I don’t have Inkwell’s pic any more!!! 😧

I re-bought the swinging bench, just in case it might work again. But I couldn’t get Inkwell to ask me for more furniture yet. Eventually, I gave Desert Island Escape another try, and I completed the final level. But that wasn’t much consolation after losing something I’ve been trying to get for 3.5 years. 😖

Today, Nintendo sent me a letter congratulating me on completing the advanced levels in Desert Island Escape, and another for completing all levels. Attached to the letters, I found an amiibo shelf and a good-luck charm. Even though the good-luck charm is a wall-mounted furniture item, it can be shown off like a fish or bug.

I pestered Inkwell again today, trying to get him to ask me for another favor. But no luck.

Anyway, I’m going to try to have one final Friday Night Forest before online play ends in April. It will likely be that first Friday in April, but check back in March for any final confirmation (or changes, if necessary). Update: It will probably be on March 29th.

According to Luna, my recent dream visitors were Max from Ezo and Maggie from Nimbus. Thanks for stopping by!