Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

Even though Hugh just moved in last month, he’s already gone. I guess he realized that he was making a hugh huge mistake. His goodbye letter arrived in the mail yesterday.

I visited Candi, and she told me that she really wanted to use her new umbrella. So she told me to make it rain or snow or something.

Emerald showed me a poem that she got from someone she didn’t know.

I found out that Hugh’s replacement was Filbert the squirrel, who just moved into town. I introduced myself to him right after he had a fight with Puck. 😛

Today, Emerald wanted to trade her diner tile for my dinosaur egg. I agreed to the trade, just to be nice.

I ran into Ursala, and she gave me a free outfit. That might sound like she was being nice for a change, but then she said the outfit looked much better than the rags I already had on. Excuse me, I’m wearing an exclusive Gracie outfit!

When I met up with Belle, she noticed the cow skull in my pockets. Uh-oh!

She wasn’t mad, she just wanted it for herself. I didn’t ask why. She offered to give me her G logo for it, and I agreed to the trade.

I shook some trees, and I got stung by a bee. When Kody saw me, he actually got mad at me and said I deserved to get stung! He just assumed that I found something good and refused to share it with him. How rude!

After that, I took my swollen face home and ended my game for the day. See you next time!

Lately, I’ve been starting more temporary towns as I work on a couple of projects. So I thought I’d post a bonus blog entry to share some of the things I’ve seen.

Since I’m not saving the towns I’m creating, I’ve just been messing around with different town names. 😛

I’ve been seeing so much of Rover that I think I’ll even see him in my dreams. Or my nightmares, to be more specific.

In the delicious village of Ham Town, I found this cool little island. There’s nothing but a rock on the island, and yet someone bothered to build two bridges to it. They left no stone unturned.

But the river bank at the waterfall there looked so square, so rigid, and so unnatural. I think I could use the river bank edge to cut off a piece of aluminum foil. And yet, I kind of liked it.

I encountered another three-tier map in the town of Big Toe.

I’ve checked out some new islands, and I’ve met some villagers I’ve never seen before…like Yodel here. He had some dialogue that I don’t believe I’ve seen before either. This was in response to me refusing to give him a new catchphrase:

But unlike regular villagers, islanders will not always be awake when you start a new town.

By the way, I found out that Kapp’n can get pretty violent… 😛

And with that, I’ll say farewell…for now. I’ll post another entry one day soon with an update on what’s going on in Forest. I hope you’ve enjoyed these screenshots.

As you might imagine, I ended up playing a lot in my 2nd town of Ohio while making my recent 31 Features video. That included another visit from Wisp.

One interesting thing I noticed is what Wisp says about who will punish him. Before, he mentioned someone named Irontongue. But this time, he said Puppetmaster was the one who made him recover the five spirits. So there must be several names programmed into the game, and it just uses them randomly.

I recovered the spirits and asked Wisp to pull my weeds. Unlike when I saw Wisp in Forest, there were a lot of weeds here in my rarely-used 2nd town. But once the weeds were gone, I knew what task I had to tackle next: I had to achieve perfect town status in order to see Farley. That took a lot of work, because it’s not something I had done in that town before. It took a lot of tree-planting, but I eventually completed the task.

After that, I took out both memory cards. I was trying to get a three-tier town for the video, even though I wasn’t planning on saving the town. If you’re curious how rare three-tier towns are, it took me seven attempts to get one. That actually wasn’t as many as I feared it would take. I named the town Threed, which is an Earthbound reference.

Animal Crossing characters are shorter on GameCube than they are in New Leaf, and even Tom Nook laughed at my appearance. 😉

Nah, actually he was just talking about me not having enough money to pay for my house.

At one point along my Ohio time-traveling journey (for the video), I was lucky enough to meet Savannah. Sadly, she didn’t stick around, but it was nice to see her among the less likeable faces of Jambette, Ursala, Yuka, and Lulu.

While going through my footage, I noticed something else that I haven’t mentioned in the blog before…although I must have seen it and just thought nothing of it. The clock is normally in the lower-right corner of the screen on GameCube. But when you’re standing in the lower-right corner (and aren’t moving), the clock jumps over to the lower-left corner instead.

Okay, that’s enough catching up. I set the Ohio town’s clock back to the real date and time. I played today (June 13th), and the town is once again full of weeds. 😛 The current residents are Cookie, Deena, Ursala, Yuka, Nate, Chief, Teddy, Chuck, Chico, Jambette, Leopold, Cleo, Freckles, and Lulu. Not the best group of animals, although I do like Chief, Teddy, and Chico.

Back in Forest, I saw that Pudge has moved out of town. I got his goodbye letter in the mail.

I know Timmy and Tommy don’t get much love, and they can be annoying at times. But at least you’ve got to admire their honesty.

The fishing tournaments are held on each Sunday in June, and Genji was complaining about the judge, Chip. He seemed angered that Chip will refuse to measure any fish that isn’t a bass, and just eats it instead.

When I chatted with Belle, she told me she’d sell me some turnips for just 8 bells apiece. I knew she was lying, but I played along. She basically called me crazy and gullible. I guess it’s my fault that she’s a liar.

In Acre E-3, I found the house of Pudge’s replacement. It was Hugh the pig, and he seemed to expect me to bring food to welcome him to town. But I couldn’t stop looking at his eyes. He seems to have one black eye and one white eye. And the interesting part is that they alternate based on his current expression. Odd.

He seems like a nice guy, though.

Have a good day, and I’ll see you next time!