Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

Gwen has already moved out of town; I received her goodbye letter in the mail today.

When I ran into Pippy, she asked me if I would give her a new catchphrase to replace “li’l hare.” I knew she likely wouldn’t be sticking around long, so I told her no. However, she refused to take no for an answer!

Since she forced me to pick something, I told her to say “I’m rude.”

I visited Puck, and he was talking about Katrina and her upcoming visit. He said that she just mutters nonsense and takes 50 bells. Too true. 😛

Genji was wondering about my gyroid’s dance moves, so he told me that he’s basically going to stalk my gyroid to learn its secrets.

Ursala told me that she likes igloos, but she thinks she’s above manual labor. So she’s going to wait for someone else to build an igloo, and then just take it for herself. 😮

Speaking of igloos, I found Emerald in one tonight. She wanted to just eat chowder and warm up by the fire. 💚

Just before wrapping up my game, I met Gwen’s replacement, Opal. Even though she’s a snooty too, I like her much more than Gwen. Welcome to town, Opal!

See you all next time. Never Stop Crossing!

On December 9th, I received a goodbye letter from Amelia. Her replacement was Gwen, a rude, snooty penguin who I already have in my ACCF town.

Gracie was in town, so I washed her car and earned myself a nice new cow print shirt.

I played again tonight (Christmas Eve), and I found a goodbye letter in the mail. Unfortunately, it was from Cookie, not Gwen. Her replacement was Pippy, and she’s nice.

Tonight is the night that Jingle comes to town (not to be confused with Toy Day). The Christmas Eve event doesn’t even seem to have an official name, at least not in-game. It’s not even shown on the calendar you’ll find in a journal.

Regardless, your job is to find Jingle the black-nosed reindeer to receive a gift.

But unfortunately, you have to find him five times before you can receive a gift. And that doesn’t mean talking to him five times in a row; that won’t work, and he gets annoyed if you try it.

You have to leave the area so that he can respawn elsewhere in town, then find him again. On the 5th meeting, he will finally give you a gift. In my case, he gave me a Jingle clock.

From that point on, you can get another gift each time you find him…but only if he thinks you’re someone else. So you have to change your shirt each time to trick him. I did this and got four items from him (including one from wearing a pattern). Unlike in City Folk, each pattern won’t work as a successful disguise.

I ran out of shirts, so I was out of luck. But that’s okay, because I was tired of searching all over town for him by that point anyway. 😛

On the bright side, I’ll be able to sell those items for 12,240 bells apiece next time.

If you haven’t yet seen my video showing 26 features from this game that never returned, here it is! Even though I made a similar video before, some of the previous featured returned in Version 2.0 of New Horizons. So this one is up-to-date, and it even includes a few things I missed the first time around. I hope you enjoy it!

Happy Toy Day and Merry Christmas, everyone! 🎄

I played the game a bit in mid-November, and I found a goodbye letter from Maddie in the mail.

My buddy Hank had a quiz for me: He asked me if he worked out that day. He’s a jock, so I was pretty sure the answer was yes…and I was right. As my prize, he gave me a pitfall. It’s always good to have a pitfall or two on hand, and I was all out of stock. 😛

Since I was still wearing my patched shirt from a Halloween incident, I bought a fresh shirt at Nookington’s and changed into it. I later dropped off the patched shirt in the dump.

Over in acre B-1, I found Forest’s newest resident: Cheri the peppy bear cub.

She’s cute, and I was glad to have her around. But unfortunately, when I played again today (November 29th), she had already moved out. The good news is that I like her replacement too. It’s Cookie!

As you can see, the grass is now a dark gray. I believe this is the last grass color change until the snow arrives on December 10th.

Static tried to sell me a peach for 840 bells. That’s a foreign fruit, so that’s not a bad deal…if you don’t already have many peach trees in town. But I didn’t need it, so I declined the offer. Of course, that angered Static, and he (once again) called me a cheap, no-fruit-buying bum. 😛

Baabara accused me of wearing the same clothes all the time.

But that was just the start of her sales pitch. (She should have her own infomercials!) She told me she would list five shirts at various prices, and I was forced to buy one of them. The first one was a U R here shirt for 720 bells.

I declined, but I later found out that I should have bought it. Because the other shirts were all at least twice that price. I ended up being stuck with a spade shirt for 1,470 bells. I was actually somewhat lucky, because that was the 2nd-lowest priced shirt she offered. I still hate forced purchases, though.

Happy holidays, everyone! See you next time!