Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

I played the game very early this morning, just after midnight in fact. I checked my mail, and believe it or not, I was actually disappointed to find Jambette’s goodbye letter. The reason for my disappointment isn’t that I didn’t get a chance to meet her; it’s because I was planning on pitfalling her before she left town.

Quite a few of my villagers were already asleep for the night. But Genji was one that was awake. He was giving me some fishing tips, telling me to pull out my bobber once it goes underwater.

Even though Tom was wide awake and walking around outdoors, he threw a major fit when I went up to talk to him. I usually like Tom, but he was being a major jerk.

Hello to you too.

I was hoping to find Wisp–that’s the main reason I was playing after midnight–but there was no sign of him anywhere in town. And my newest neighbor (Jambette’s replacement) was already asleep, so I decided to end my game for the morning.

I picked it back up this evening and introduced myself to Zoe, the new anteater in town.

I decided to take a rare boat trip out to the tropical island, where it was raining quite hard tonight. I had a little chat with Ankha, who probably isn’t used to the rain. It’s good to see her every once in a while, though. I’m sure she gets very lonely living on the island by herself.

When I returned to the chilly mainland, Curly asked me for a new catchphrase to replace his previous one, “nyoink.” I told him to say “piggy” from now on.

After stopping by the post office and dump, I returned home for the night. I’ll leave you with an animated GIF of the GameCube menu screen from before I started up my Animal Crossing game last night. See you next time!

Today is Christmas Eve, and I received a letter from Mom in the mail. She wished me happy holidays and sent me a lady palm as my Christmas present.

I also got a goodbye letter from Lucy the pig, who recently moved out of town.

Of course, snow now covers the ground and there are also Christmas lights on some trees. It was snowing tonight, so that adds to the festive atmosphere as well.

I visited Static in his house–it seems like he’s usually outdoors–and he was as jolly as ever. In other words, not jolly at all.

And just one acre to the north, I stumbled onto something I wasn’t happy to see. What’s the opposite of a Christmas miracle? Finding out Jambette just moved into town!

This is worse than receiving a lump of coal in my stocking; it’s the nightmare before Christmas! Fortunately, she was already asleep for the night, so I didn’t have to see her.

I continued to look for Jingle the reindeer, but I was having trouble finding him. Instead, I ran into Curly the pig. He told me was unable to clean up his house because a cactus was in the way! He wanted me to buy it for 3,680 bells. No way!

But after nearly 20 minutes of playing, I finally found Jingle!

Unlike later Animal Crossing games, getting stuff from Jingle on GameCube requires that you find him five times before you even get one piece of the Jingle set! After that, you just need to keep changing your shirt to fool him into thinking you’re different people. But since I’ve already acquired the set in previous years, I felt no need to go through hours of that tedious process tonight. I found him twice, just to get a taste of the holiday, but that’s all I could take of my deer friend.

Talking to Jingle from that angle let me see that coconut on the ground that was normally hidden from view. I wonder how long it’s been there! Years, quite possibly.

Well that’s all I have for now, but I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I’ll see you next time! 🙂

Hector recently moved out of town, and I got his goodbye letter in the mail when I started up the game today.

Animal Crossing has its own version of Black Friday (Day After Thanksgiving) sales. It’s called Sale Day, and Tom Nook celebrates by selling grab bags of random items for 2,014 bells each.

Every bag contains three items, and I bought three grab bags. Here’s what they contained:

1. Fan, heart shirt, tiger pinwheel.
2. Manor wall, No. 2 shirt, old flooring.
3. Flower pinwheel, diner tile, baby bear.

Buying grab bags is a good way to get some pinwheels, since they’re hard to come by the rest of the year. It’s too bad Sale Day didn’t make it into later Animal Crossing games.

I soon found Crazy Redd’s tent set up, but I wasn’t interested in buying from him today. However, there is a Crazy Redd glitch that only works on Sale Day. To see a video of the glitch, click here.

I had a chat with Baabara, and she was the same snooty sheep she always was. She bragged that her house was the best and classiest in town, while saying mine needs a lot of work.

A chat with Ursala revealed that I haven’t spoken to her in four months! A bit surprising, but then again, she’s never been my favorite villager. She’s not someone I would actively seek out.

Gulliver was down on the beach, so I spoke with him and woke him up. As a reward, he gave me a Tokyo Tower.

Over by the wishing well, Belle tried to sell me an arched window for 8,332 bells, including handling charges. What handling? She’s trying to milk me of all my money. Bovine, please.

Hank asked me for a new catchphrase, so I told him to say “Mr. Chicken.”

I then met my newest neighbor: Curly the pig. I had him in City Folk before; he’s pretty cool.

Finally, I stopped at the post office to mail away some fossils and I then headed for home. See you next time!