Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

When I played on December 29th, I found a letter from Jingle in the mail. Balloon Fight, the NES game, was attached as my holiday gift. He sends the same gift every year, but I won’t complain about a free gift.

Early January

On January 2nd, I got a surprising goodbye letter in the mail; it was from Snake!

For over 3 years, every villager that moved out has been the newest villager. They would move in, and then right back out a few weeks to a month later. But Snake has lived in town since October 2016! While he wasn’t one of my “permanent 13,” I was starting to wonder if he had somehow become permanent too. But apparently not.

Long-time readers of this blog may remember that something similar happened with Kitty. She lived in Forest for years before eventually moving out in 2011.

Okay, now do you want to hear the weird part? I went to meet Snake’s replacement, and guess who it was. Guess!

It was KITTY! She has come full circle.

In an unrelated note, Kitty has been stuck in my ACCF town for years too, but City Folk’s moving in/out system is completely different. Still, it’s odd that she’s lasted so long in City Folk as well, so this is all kinda weird.

Mid-January

On January 13th, Spork moved out. That sets up Kitty for potentially another long stay in Forest. Spork’s replacement was a spoon and fork. Oops, I mean Derwin.

Candi was in an igloo, and she wanted to play a game for her wagon wheel. She said the starting price would be 40,138 bells.

January 21st

When I spoke with Belle today, she commented on not seeing me in a while. She said I was like a total ninja, in a tutu!

I found Gulliver on the beach, so I woke him up. He gave me a Lady Liberty for “saving his life.”

Kitty asked me for a ball so that she could play with her young relative. But Puck was standing nearby, so I had to wonder… is Puck like Kitty’s nephew or something? 😂

I fetched her a ball, and she immediately kicked it off the cliff. But still, she rewarded me with some kitchen flooring. I’m glad I didn’t have to get the ball back, because it’s near impossible to get a ball up a steep cliff like that!

Up-Nate on My Other Towns

While working on a video last month, I had my character from my Ohio town visit my other secondary town, Aja Blu. In the process, Nate moved from Ohio to Aja Blu. So a few weeks later, I was surprised (and utterly confused) when I saw Nate still in Ohio!

Villagers who moved to another town by train can still visit their original town. So he was just visiting. Since I hadn’t used train travel in so long, I had completely forgotten this fact.

Recent Videos

Since last month, I’ve put up several videos related to the GameCube version of Animal Crossing, at least in part. This first one is all about the GameCube game, showing what makes it unique and special in just 99 seconds:

My Animal Crossing Q&A video answers questions about the series in general, but it also includes some information about my GameCube towns.

And last, but not least, is this video that showcases some of the typos in the series. It starts out with a few mistakes from the GameCube game.

See you all next time! Never Stop Crossing!

A few weeks ago, I loaded up my town briefly and I saw that Weber had moved out. His replacement was Jeremiah, but he was sleeping when I went to his house to meet him. Fast forward to today (December 23rd), and Jeremiah has also moved away.

Of course, snow now covers the ground and many cedar trees and regular trees are now decorated with festive Christmas lights. Here’s a GIF showing some decorated trees next to Nookington’s.

Candi offered me a free gift, but I only had one space free in my inventory, so I turned it down. That annoyed her a bit, though not as much as I was expecting. 😂

Belle told me she bought a Master Sword, but it didn’t match her furniture. So she was looking to trade it!

But guess what she wanted in return…my toilet! Haha, it’s a deal!

I met Jeremiah’s replacement, Spork the pig. He’s not exactly the cutest animal around, but he seems okay.

Today is Toy Day, but Tortimer was nowhere to be found at the wishing well. It was 6:40 p.m. though, so maybe I was too late in the day? I hate how Tortimer doesn’t stick around long on holidays in this game. Of course he wouldn’t have given me another toy car anyway, but I was still hoping to speak with him.

But even if Tortimer wasn’t at the wishing well, Baabara was…and she seemed to be in a giving mood. She offered me a strange painting if I got her trivia question correct.

But even after I guessed correctly, she suddenly “couldn’t find” the painting to give me. So I got no reward at all. She’s lucky I didn’t have any pitfalls with me.

At least my good buddy Hank was there to balance things out. He gave me a free refrigerator. Pretty cool. 😉

Here are a few other quick notes:

• Genji gave me a pear (foreign fruit) in exchange for a barbel steed.
• Static painted my roof black, but it’s covered in snow so I can’t even tell.
• The daily glowing spot yielded 10,000 bells instead of the usual 1,000. Nice!
• Puck told me he figured out why it’s been snowing lately. The reason? It’s winter. 🙄

I’ve posted two Animal Crossing GameCube videos since my last blog entry, so check them out if you haven’t seen them yet. First up is a look at five things about the game that I hate.

And the other one is GameCube Moments #14, showing some funny and interesting things that have happened in my towns over the past few months:

Have a Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and happy holidays all around! I’ll see you next time…never stop crossing! 🙂

I played one day last week, and Biskit informed me that he painted my roof!

He said he’s really good at painting, and he can paint just about anything. Even flowers, apparently.

But when I got back home, I was not happy with the work that he did. He painted my roof pink! Ugh.

Maybe he knew he was a bad dog, because when I played yesterday, I saw that he split town. He said he was turning over a new leaf in his goodbye letter.

I met his replacement, Weber the duck. And guess what? Weber also painted my roof!

He painted it green, which isn’t the best roof color either, but at least it’s not pink any more.

Today, Puck was talking about weather forecasts. In particular, he was wondering if they were just lucky guesses or if they actually could predict the weather somehow. 😛

Tom told me that I looked strapped for cash, “as always.” So he offered to buy my mega dekkoid for 3,000 bells! Even though I don’t really need the bells, I’m not stupid! I gladly sold him the gyroid.

Hank told me that he thinks it will start snowing soon. True enough. But he assured me that if I don’t like the snow, he will melt it with his body heat after a mad workout. Haha, what a guy. 😛

Today is Officer’s Day in Animal Crossing, which is better known as Veterans Day in the United States, and Remembrance Day in many other countries. Tortimer was standing near the wishing well, and he told me that he built the police station and opened it on Officer’s Day!

He said it was the proudest moment of his career.

After that, I mailed away a few fossils to be identified, did some fishing in the river, and then eventually returned home. Have a great day, everyone! And Never Stop Crossing! 🙂