Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

Unfortunately, Hazel has moved out of Forest. I received her goodbye letter in the mail today.

I also received a gift from Jingle in the mail, which contained the Balloon Fight NES game. He sends the same thing every year, and I decided to play it a bit before selling it this time. So I went inside my messy house and started it up. 😆

I ended up scoring 49,000 points, which beat my previous high-score.

Puck told me about the last time Katrina told his fortune. He said that everyone started being mean to him all of a sudden, and he’s convinced Katrina put a hex on him. He’s probably right. 😛

My jaw dropped when I saw Hazel’s replacement: It’s Savannah the zebra!

Savannah is one of my favorites, but she’s always been elusive. I rarely ever seem to get her in any of my towns! She did move into this town ten years ago (almost to the day), but I didn’t even get to meet her before she moved out! I’m glad she’s here now, though. I just hope she sticks around a while!

Static told me I was looking as awful as ever (thanks a lot, Static), and he gave me a free danger shirt. I guess I was feeling dangerous, so I decided to put it on.

I saw a large fish in the river, so I decided to fish it out. To my surprise, it was a stringfish! I wasn’t even expecting it to be something rare since the shadow wasn’t huge like an arapaima. But I’ll gladly take the 15,000-bell fish! 😁

A mere 20 seconds later, I found the day’s glowing spot and dug up 10,000 bells instead of the usual 1,000. Maybe Static was really onto something by giving me this danger shirt! 😉

Over by the wishing well, Ursala wanted to play a grab bag game with me. I had a chance to win a mint gingham, a pear, or a pitfall. I normally decline the offer (when given a choice), but she only charged 250 bells to play! Usually the price is in the thousands, but it’s definitely worth a risk at this price.

I chose the left bag, and I won a pitfall! Pitfalls aren’t super common on GameCube, so I like having some around for times that I need them. 😛 Good deal! It seems there have been quite a few good, unexpected things that happened today. It must be my lucky day!

I finished making my rounds, sold my stringfish, mailed some fossils away, and then returned home.

Earlier this month, I posted my latest GameCube Moments video. It includes some clips from early December that I didn’t include in the blog. Check it out!

I’ll be back with another entry in January. Happy New Year!

It was snowing lightly when I started up the game today; that was a nice surprise. And thanks to the time of day, I was treated to the snowy version of the 5 p.m. theme. 😍

When I checked my mail, I found a goodbye letter from Wolfgang. The weird part is that I just got a goodbye letter from a different wolf yesterday in City Folk! Fang left me in ACCF, and Wolfgang left me here.

But the pleasant vibes didn’t last long. Moments later, Candi informed me that she was going to take my amber (one of my fossils I just got back in the mail) and there was nothing I could do about it. 😡

She offered me a cowhide rug or a playroom wall for it, but that’s not the point. I hate how villagers can just decide to take something from you. So I had to exact my revenge, by pushing her into the river. It’s a good thing that she lives next to this bridge!

Today is Sale Day (Black Friday, aka the day after Thanksgiving), so Tom Nook has some special grab bags up for sale.

The cost for each grab bag is equal to the current year, so they cost 2,025 bells apiece this year. That means the grab bags may be the only example of inflation in the Animal Crossing series (at least within one single game), where the price goes up every year. (Not that one bell a year is much.)

But I bought three grab bags (6,075 bells in total), and each one contains three items. Here’s what I got:

• Grab bag 1: puzzling shirt, parlor wall, red tile
• Grab bag 2: green lamp, classic clock, watermelon table
• Grab bag 3: kitschy wall, flame shirt, red tile

Unfortunately, there was nothing I really wanted…so I sold the stuff all back to Tom Nook. He paid me a total of 3,045 bells, which was almost exactly half of what I paid.

Back outside, Genji was talking about the snow. He even told me I should make a snowman! But there needs to be snow on the ground before I can do that!

Belle the cow showed me a letter she got from a tree enthusiast, and I enjoyed it for a few reasons…

First, there’s the nice accidental rhyme (Live well, Belle). And the descriptive language about life’s “creamy middle” almost sounds like a piece of chocolate…perhaps milk chocolate. And the clouds on the stationery matched the clouds on my misty shirt.

Baabara asked me for a new catchphrase to replace “daahling.” After some thought, I told her to say “I’m fluffy.” She didn’t seem to trust me (I wonder why), but she had no choice. 😛

Another feature of Sale Day is the guaranteed appearance of Crazy Redd’s tent. While I briefly considered buying out all his stock to activate the disappearing Crazy Redd glitch, I quickly changed my mind when I saw his prices today.

Over in Acre B-1, I met up with Wolfgang’s replacement: Oxford the bull. He said it’s best to stay indoors on nights like this…even though he was standing out in the snow anyway.

He has lived in Forest before, back in 2013.

I met up with Tom over by the dump. He said the best thing about the fishing tournament is Chip, who he called a “raving lunatic beaver.” Wow!

Unfortunately, he didn’t elaborate on why he thinks Chip is such a raving lunatic. I would’ve loved to have heard some stories!

See you all in December! Happy Holidays, everyone!

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!