Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

Betty sent me a goodbye letter in the mail today. I guess she was too chicken to stick around in Forest. But that’s fine by me; she was a little tough to live with anyway.

Over by the river, Puck told me he wished Forest had a heated pool. But he’s a penguin! Why would he want the pool to be heated? Genji was also nearby, but he refused to back the idea.

Up in Nookington’s, I saw a whirly shirt for sale. It’s not a shirt that I recall seeing very often, and I don’t know if I’ve ever worn one before. But I decided to give it a spin.

As I approached Maple’s house, she quickly went inside. Was she avoiding me? I followed her in to chat for a bit, but she told me it was her bedtime. It was only 6:30 p.m.! That’s beary early to go to sleep; I think she was lying and couldn’t bear to be honest with me.

I found a new house in town, and it belonged to this headband-wearing pig named Hambo. I’ll have to invite him over for dinner sometime.

When I had a chat with Belle, she was being unusually nice. She offered me some free wallpaper or carpeting as a gift. I chose the carpet, and she gave me an imperial tile. But then she accused me of sniffing (?) and she deduced that I thought it wasn’t good enough for me. I don’t know where she gets these ideas.

She ended up calling me an unappreciative big baby, even though I didn’t do anything to cause her to become such a mad cow.

But if she’s going to be mad at me, I might as well give her a reason. So I got my net out and beat her with it. Such bovine divine revenge.

I finished my walk around town, pulling all the weeds I could find (which was a lot). I stopped at the post office and the dump before returning home and ending my night in Forest. See you next time!

I’ll talk about my second town of Ohio a bit later in this entry, but first, here’s what’s going on in Forest: When I started up the game today, I got a goodbye letter from Axel in the mail.

It was raining in town, and the lousy weather put Emerald in a bad mood. She lost her will to do anything. You’d think a frog would like the rain, though.

Puck was talking about the fishing tournaments coming up in June. He’s hoping that baked beans will be the prize for the winner.

Over by Maple’s house, I spotted a new house and animal: Tybalt the yellow tiger! I don’t recall having him before. He seems like a grrrrreat guy to have around town.

Not much else was going on in Forest today, but I do have other things to talk about. For one thing, I made this GIF recently that shows how to change the background of your inventory screen. I know it’s not a new tip or anything, and I’ve mentioned it before. But some people may not know about it…and a GIF is more effective at showing how to do it.

Ohio Update

I’ve been playing in my second town of Ohio a bit lately. Since the town was overrun with weeds, I played after midnight several night until I was able to find Wisp. He wanted me to find all five of his kids spirits. So I hunted around until I caught them all. Wisp was clearly very grateful.

For my reward, I told him to pull weeds. His mood quickly changed; he asked how I could let the weeds get so bad and he whined about how it would take him all night.

But it didn’t take him that long. All I had to do was save and quit my game, and then start back up, and they were gone. It took me longer to track down your little spirit friends than it did for you to pull weeds, so quit complaining!

Several days later, the condition of town had improved. While I didn’t reach perfect town status, I did get it up to satisfactory. And that was enough to reach 15 villagers, which is the maximum. Once I did, Tortimer showed up and offered to build me a third bridge. I didn’t like the first spot he suggested, but he told me I could try again any day but Sunday.

But a few days later, I found him in the spot I wanted, and I had him build the bridge. It’s still a bit tricky getting around, though. I’m not a big fan of the town layout.

Ohio’s current residents are Freckles, Stella, Aurora, Cleo, Leopold, Lulu, Cookie, Deena, Ursala, Chuck, Chico, Chief, Teddy, Yuka, and Nate. I may not keep up with this town on a regular basis, but I do like to check in on it every once in a while.

The Video

I’ve already mentioned this video in other places, but I’m going to mention it here too since it includes clips from this game. It’s called “What if Animal Crossing Sounded Like Star Fox 64?” and it features voice clips from SF64 humorously placed over footage of Animal Crossing and Animal Crossing: City Folk. Without further ado, here is the video:

Sunday was Mother’s Day, and I got this letter from Mom in the mail. She said she was in labor with me for 46 hours! Yikes! I guess that’s of the many downsides of having a huge head.

Even though it was raining, Gracie was in town looking for a car wash! It’s been a while since I’ve washed her car, but my quick index finger got the job done with a spotless wash. I’ve still got it!

As a reward, Gracie gave me this orange pinstripe shirt that you can see me wearing here. Even though it’s kind of ugly, it was one of the few Gracie exclusive shirts that I needed for my catalog checklist.

Today, I got a goodbye letter from Billy in the mail. He even went so far as to say he’ll never be back! I believe him too; he’s as stubborn as a goat.

Belle told me that she started selling turnips under the table. She said she would give me 100 of them for just 1 bell each.

I knew she wasn’t actually going to sell me any, but I played along. She then got mad at me for believing her.

Up near Tom’s home, I found another house. It belongs to Forest’s newest resident, Axel the elephant!

When I visited Baabara in her house, she wanted to play a game with me. She had three bags: one contained a gray tartan, one had a peach, and one had a pitfall inside. She was only charging 470 bells to pick a bag, so I played along.

I picked the left bag and scored myself a pitfall. I later used it on Emerald. Nothing personal, froggy.