Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

It had been a while since I last checked up on my Animal Crossing GameCube town, so I made sure to do that today. When I started the game up, I saw a goodbye letter from Roald the penguin. He was pretty cool, so it’s sad to see him go already.

After shopping at Nookington’s, I saw a new house that was in the same spot as Roald’s. Buck the horse has moved into town. He lived in my City Folk town once before, so I’m quite familiar with him.

Genji wasn’t far away, and I spoke with him on this rainy evening. He was trying to clean up his house a bit, so he asked me to buy his Keiko figurine for 1,450 bells. I didn’t really need it, but I bought it anyway, just to be nice.

I had a lot of weeds to pull, so I tried to take care of them as I made my way around town. When I met up with Static, he pretended to not know who I am.

And down by the ocean, Ursala wanted to buy my Keiko figurine for 1,710 bells. That was even more than I paid for it, so I gladly sold it to her. But she seemed to think I only sold it to her because she’s so irresistibly cute. Ha!

Closer to home, Emerald was telling me how she would sometimes bury items in the ground to hide them, and then later she’d forget where she put them. She asked if I had the same problem, and I said no. That seemed to set her off, because she got furious and considered that an insult! How rude!

After that, I stopped at the post office and then returned home for the night.

You may notice that my screenshots don’t look quite as good as usual today. For a while now, I had been playing on my Wii. I have a component cable for my Wii, so that allows higher-quality screenshots than the standard composite cables. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get my Wii to read my Animal Crossing disc. My Wii’s disc drive has been slowly dying for years now, and it now seems to have reached the point of uselessness.

So I had to play the game on my GameCube today, and I only have a composite cable for it.  Component cables for GameCube seem to run around $150 on eBay, which is craaazy! I’ll give my Wii another try next time, but I may be out of luck.

When I checked my mail today, I found a goodbye letter from Pierce. These new animals never stick around long.

I went up to Nookington’s to sell the junk in my pockets, only to find that I can’t sell anything. It’s raffle day.

Just south of Nook’s store, I found a new house. Roald the penguin has moved into town, and he seems pretty cool.

He moved into the same acre as Puck, my other penguin. I guess Acre B-5 must be the Antarctica of Forest.

And I saw that Puck’s house has windows in the roof (on one side only). Have I never noticed this before?

I had a lot of weeds around town, so I pulled as many as I could find. When I got around to Hank’s house, he looked surprised to see me.

Actually, he just wanted the dino bone in my pocket. He asked to buy it, but I chose to give it to him for free. He ended up giving me a green golf bag in exchange.

Once I completed a lap around town, I finished up at the post office. Phyllis was thrilled to see me. As always.

Freya the wolf has moved out of town. I got her goodbye letter in the mail today.

I saw a new house close to where Belle lives, and I met my new neighbor, Pierce the eagle. I’ve had him in ACCF before.

Belle wasn’t home, but I found her visiting the pond near Sydney’s house. She was talking about horoscopes and how she takes hers very seriously.

After that, I made my way over to the wishing well. Even though New Leaf and City Folk have cherry blossom petals falling from the sky, the GameCube version of Animal Crossing has a three-day festival devoted to them.

There are tables filled with food and drinks, and several animals will be found here, laughing, dancing, and having a good time.

Not only does the festival have its own music, but each hourly song also has a special version, just for this event each April 5-7. It sounds soothing and relaxing. I don’t know why Nintendo hasn’t brought this event back in subsequent games, but it remains one of the GameCube game’s exclusive features.

Once I was done enjoying the festivities, I stopped at the post office and then returned home for the night.