Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

Last Wednesday (October 22nd), I received a goodbye letter from Rocco in the mail. I’m glad it was him that moved out, and not cute Hazel.

Static asked me if I’ve eaten any of the wild mushrooms this year.

But I haven’t eaten any, nor have I found any. But that’s because I haven’t looked for them; I haven’t played that early anyway. Static noted that he hasn’t seen Tom Nook sell any of them at the shop, so he thinks “Tommy boy” is keeping them for himself! 😆

A few minutes later, I met Rocco’s replacement, Wolfgang. He greeted me with a snarl.

He previously lived in Forest back in 2012, but he didn’t stick around long. Not that many villagers do, aside from the “Permanent 13.”

I had a little chat with Genji near a cliff, and he mentioned getting a good look at me. Ironically, I couldn’t see him at all where he was standing!

But he was just chatting about Halloween, saying he may play some tricks on me this year. However, I probably won’t be playing this game on Halloween.

Ursala promised me 1,950 bells if I answered a question correctly. But I did answer it correctly, and she refused to pay up.

On Thursday, I got a letter from Mom in the mail. She said she’s going to start dyeing her hair purple to cover up her grays! 😮

Genji told me his catchphrase “otaku” might be going out of style, so he asked for a new one. I tried to think of something really random, so I told him to say “onions.” But only used it a couple times before deciding that it, too, was going out of style.

I wasn’t really to completely ditch the theme without giving it a chance, so I told him to say “with onion” instead.

Today, I received another letter from Mom. This one reminded me to use the bathroom before going to sleep, so I don’t want to end up like poor Uncle Dweezil. 😛

Genji told me that if I leave the village for too long, it gets overrun with weeds. He said they make the town look really shabby, with onion.

I found Gulliver washed up on the shore, and he gave me a stone coin.

When I spoke with Hazel, she just recited the time and weather. Then she said she just spaced out for a moment. Is she a robot? Or maybe a video game character? 😉

A few days ago, I posted my latest GameCube Moments video. Here it is:

And yesterday, I posted a video taking a look back at some memorable Halloween moments throughout the Animal Crossing series, from my previous videos. 🎃

Happy Halloween, everyone! I’ll be back with another entry in November!

Last Wednesday (September 3rd), Belle started complimenting my eyes. First, she said they were pretty…but then she changed it to “intense.”

She said I had the eyes of a wrestler, and said they’re not the eyes of someone who does a lot of thinking! Wow, I think that’s rude.

That made me wrestle with the idea of tipping her over, but then she’d be crying over spilled milk. (Just kidding. Be nice to cows.) 😛

Early September is the best time of year for ocean fishing, since there are no sea bass (or jellyfish) in sight. Last year, I waited for a rainy day and then fished for two hours to make a million bells in one night. I didn’t want to do that this time, though. Instead, I played (and fished) a little bit each day. I’ll recap how it all went later in the entry.

Last Thursday, Static informed me that I was looking as awful as ever. (My villagers all seem to love me so much.) He gave me a misty shirt to wear instead, and I decided to put it on.

I found Gulliver down on the beach, and he gave me a gift and said I wouldn’t find anything like it anywhere.

But it was a matryoshka, so I did find something like it…right inside the first one! 😉

As I was speaking with Kody near the wishing well, Tom came up and his face passed right through Kody’s umbrella. 😛

On Sunday (September 7th), I received a goodbye letter in the mail from Mitzi. I’m sad to see her go, but I’m used to this happening. The revolving door of Animal Crossing on GameCube goes round and round.

I found a note on the message board about a buried treasure in Acre D-1. Even though I didn’t specifically seek it out, I didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary when I passed through there. More on this later, though.

Tom said that Genji told him about money trees. He asked if I knew about them, and I said yes. So he wanted me to tell him about them, but all of the options were variations of “no.” I said “that’s my secret,” and he started crying!

I’m not sure what the big deal was, because he supposedly knew about them from Genji! 🤷‍♂️

Anyway, I’ve continued fishing most days lately, and the dump has been filling up with the junk I’ve caught from the ocean. Here’s how the dump looked Sunday (before the Monday pick-up).

Over by the wishing well today, Ursala said she found my blue bench for me. But she then took half the money in my pockets as her reward! That was over 17,000 bells!!

I didn’t have any pitfalls with me, so I started pushing her around and I hit her with a net. Villagers shouldn’t be allowed to just reach in and take our money. 😡

Mitzi’s replacement moved in today, and it’s Hazel the squirrel! She’s cute! 😊

While walking around the museum, I fell into a pitfall behind the museum that was completely out of sight! I checked my map, and it was in Acre D-1. This is the “buried treasure” that Puck left for me! Thanks a lot, old friend.

After some more fishing tonight, I noticed my savings balance was just 85k from a big milestone. So I went back out to fill up my pockets a couple more times. When I was done, my balance reached 25 million bells!

That meant I earned over 1.2 million bells just in the past week or so. I’d call that a productive September fishing season!

See you all next time. Never Stop Crossing!

It was storming when I played the game on Thursday afternoon. I promptly checked my mail and found a goodbye letter from Coco! I’m sad to see her go, but I can’t say I’m surprised.

However, I was certainly happy with her replacement: Mitzi the cute cat! She moved in next door to Maple, in the spot where Hank originally lived, many years ago.

Mitzi last lived in Forest back in 2014. Welcome back, Mitzi! 😊

When I spoke with Static, he called me completely bonkers for not buying Saharah’s carpets…even though I never said such a thing. 😛

Over by the wishing well, Ursala told me she doesn’t normally mind the rain unless it sticks around too long.

And then she said it’s the same situation with me. Thanks a lot, Ursala.

I really like Emerald’s umbrella; it looks like a giant flower walking around when she’s facing away from the camera. 😆

Behind Candi’s house, I spotted this huge fish shadow!

Or at least, that’s what I thought. But it turned out to just be an old tire. Oof.

On Friday, Belle threatened to “whale into me.” All I did was talk to her, so I have no clue what she was mad about this time. 🤷

A bit later, I had a little argument with Candi. Since it happened on a bridge, and I just happened to be holding a net, I took advantage of the glitch that lets me push her into the river. It wasn’t planned or anything, honest! But now she’s in over her head. 😉

Yesterday, Baabara asked me for a walker cicada that I had caught moments earlier. She wanted it for her niece, and she offered me a staggering 2,680 bells for it! It’s not even a rare bug! I gladly agreed to the sale.

I can’t imagine why Baabara was being so nice for a change. Maybe it was a glitch in the game too. 😉

There was a camper’s tent in town, and Sprocket the mechanical ostrich was inside. He wanted to play a game with me, but he would get all the money in my pockets if I lost. I had over 47,000 bells on me, so I was not about to risk that much!

I played again today (August 31st), and the last day of every month is raffle day. Even though I didn’t have any raffle tickets, I still like to go in and take a look at the prizes. An Arwing (the ship from Star Fox) was one of them. Pretty cool.

Rocco wanted to sell me a botanical shirt for 2,060 bells. He said it was too fancy for him, but he thought I’d like it because I’m a “trendy little wannabe.”

But I had no interest in paying 2k for a shirt! I declined the offer, and Rocco said he’d just take it over to Tom Nook’s store and sell it. Go ahead and try! Tom Nook isn’t buying anything today, and he would never pay anywhere near that amount for a shirt anyway!

Emerald showed me a weird letter she got in the mail, supposedly from a farmer who planted flowers all around Forest.

That’s pretty interesting, and I really like the farmer’s choice of stationery too. Very fitting…but I wonder why the farmer didn’t stick around and put down some roots here?

I posted my latest GameCube Moments video today, so I hope you’ll check it out!

Peak ocean fishing season is right around the corner! I may have to give it a try early this September, so it may not be long until the next entry lands. I hope to see you again soon, and good luck fishing!