Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

Late last month, Prince moved out and Dozer moved in. September 29th was the 17th anniversary of my town Forest, so I posted a special video town tour. I show you around Forest, talk to most of my villagers, and I also overlay clips of some memorable moments from previous years. If you haven’t seen it yet, please check it out.

I played again today, and I got Dozer’s goodbye letter in the mail.

At Nookington’s, I couldn’t resist buying myself a toilet.

I met my newest neighbor, and he’s a dog-gone good fit for Halloween: It’s Biskit, the dog without eyes! He warned me to make sure I have plenty of candy on the 31st.

Over by the wishing well, Baabara and Kody apparently had a fight…and it left Kody feeling depressed. I spoke with Baabara, and she was talking about keeping abreast of all the latest gossip. Kody must not have liked the fact that I was talking to Baabara, because he walked over and gave me this look.

I picked all the weeds I could find, and I restored Forest to perfect town status.

A few days ago, I posted a video that ranks my villagers in all of my Animal Crossing towns. That includes all three of my GameCube towns, two City Folk towns, and also the Forests in Wild World and New Leaf. If you’re curious to see how I rank them all, here is the video:

For GameCube Forest, it was based on the residents of my previous blog entry. So it listed Prince instead of Dozer, but that’s irrelevant now anyway since they’re both gone. If you’re curious, I would rank Biskit 7th…between Kody and Genji. Despite his somewhat-freaky eyes, I do like Biskit. Here is my current list.

See you next time. Have a happy Halloween!

Update: Here’s an Animal Crossing Halloween poem for you! It features Animal Crossing characters, but it takes place in Luigi’s Mansion. I hope you’ll check it out. 🙂

Doc sent me a goodbye letter in the mail today. The Doc is officially out.

Near Nookington’s, I met Doc’s replacement: Prince the frog has danced into town. Unlike frogs in New Leaf, Prince here is not a fan of rain (purple or otherwise). He’s holding a leaf umbrella here, in case it’s hard to tell since it’s cutting through the sign on his house.

When I spoke with Belle, she asked if I wanted to know a way to make money with the gyroid outside my house. I wasn’t interested, so I told her no. So she called me a naive bumpkin.

Gulliver was passed out on the shore, so I woke him up and “saved his life.” After he blamed his fall from the ship on pirates and sharks, he gave me a Tokyo Tower model.

I spoke with Ursala, and she was telling me how she loves the sounds of autumn, and September in particular.

After I spoke with everyone, and pulled all the weeds I saw, I got ready for some early September fishing. There are no sea bass out, although they will start returning in a couple days. And the fact that it was raining today made it even better, because coelacanths will join red snappers and barred knifejaws as the only fish in the ocean (outside of the acre with the mouth of the river). So I emptied my pockets and my wallet and got started.

My first batch of 15 fish included 4 coelacanths, so I knew it was going to be a good fishing haul. These 15 fish sold for 103,000 bells. Not bad for seven minutes of fishing, hm?

I spoke with Ursala again later, and she was as polite as ever.

Unfortunately, my coelacanth rate slowed down a bit, and I started catching some garbage items as well. But I still did very well on the night. In one hour of fishing, I caught 13 coelacanths and I earned a half million bells…505,000, to be exact.

And it could have been better, because seven coelacanths got away from me. Oops. But still, I took my money bags to the post office and deposited it into my account. That kicked my balance over the 19 million bell mark.

That’s what I call a successful evening. This is the best time of year in the GameCube game! Have a great day, and I’ll see you next time!

I got T-Bone’s goodbye letter in the mail today. He has pulled up his steaks stakes and moved away.

Seconds later, I met his replacement, Doc the bunny. His house is just a bit south of my home acre. He seems like a nice guy.

Crazy Redd is planning a visit to Forest in a couple of days, and many of my villagers warned me about him. Genji got mad just thinking about Redd; he even called Redd a filthy rodent!

Since I last played in early July, it had been seven weeks since I saw my villagers. Some of them were mad about that, and others just seemed sad that they haven’t seen me lately.

Over near the wishing well, Emerald was telling me about the storage trick. You attach furniture to a letter, and then store it at the post office. It’s a helpful trick that comes in handy, considering this game has such limited storage options. The only bad thing is that you can’t tell which item is attached to which letter once it’s in there.

I got my net out and did a little bug-hunting, even though I didn’t spot any valuable bugs out. After I caught a longhorn beetle, Kody asked me about it. He offered me a whopping 2,900 bells. I thought that was a good deal, and Sydney apparently agreed. 😛

Ursala was being rude, as usual, and her catchphrase “unlike you” fit in perfectly when she said this:

As a reminder, we’re just one week away from the start of September. So it’ll soon be the best time of year to make bells! All you have to do is fish in the ocean and get a minimum of 3,000 bells per fish, since the sea bass will be gone. I’ll be sure to participate, so check back in early September for another entry. See you then!