Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

On Tuesday, I posted a video of a full gameplay session (which was recorded last Saturday). If you think you’d enjoy watching that, here is the video:

I’m not going to detail everything that happened in the video here (including my experience with a camper), but I’m certainly going to point out that Pate moved out and Tutu moved in. (Tutu lived in Forest before, back in 2011-12, so this is a Tutu redo.) 😛

And my savings balance reached 22 million bells during the session.

I played again today, and I visited Tutu in her house. She didn’t seem very happy to see me, and she even seemed annoyed by my presence.

But she continued talking anyway, saying she had wanted to use her umbrella today. So she told me to make it rain or snow!

What does she think this is, a video game or something? Well, it is a video game, but I can’t control the weather! 😛

When I went down by the ocean, I saw a banded dragonfly zoom by me in a flash. It was gone before I could hardly blink (let alone get a net out), so I had no chance to catch it. It was a reminder that those things are almost impossible to catch in this game. I remember having so much trouble getting one all those years ago.

I spoke with Ursala, and she told me that she just painted my roof. Oof.

She said she used a nice earthy color, so I wondered if that meant green. (Find out later in this entry.) 😛

Over by the wishing well, Maple was in a very cheerful mood.

But then she told me that she fell into a pitfall, and her mood changed. She was angry at the time, and she got mad again after she told me about it. 😛 Villager moods change quick in this game.

On the bulletin board, I found a message from Hank about a treasure hunt. He said he buried his favorite thing in Acre C-4. I wondered if it could be a pitfall.

But when I went there, the buried item was just a modern cabinet. Free furniture is always nice, but I’m not sure why that would be Hank’s favorite thing in the world. 😛 I was actually hoping it was a pitfall, just because they’re fairly uncommon in this game…and my villagers frequently deserve to be pushed in one. 😆

When I got back home, I saw that Ursala painted my roof brown. I don’t love it, but I actually don’t hate it either. It looks fairly normal, so I’m not in a rush to repaint it. I’m just glad it’s not yellow, pink, or white.

I hope you’re all enjoying your summer! (Or winter, if you’re among the 10-12% of people living in the southern hemisphere.) See you next time!

When I played last week (on June 6th), I received Astrid’s goodbye letter in the mail. She also left my City Folk town about a month ago.

Candi seemed to be in a good mood, and she told me that she’s been studying Japanese recently. Since she was being nice, I didn’t even push her this time. 😉

However, I still received my normal dose of rudeness…but from an unexpected source. Astrid’s replacement moved in, and it was no other than Olivia herself!

This is (at least) her third stint in Forest, and she was as rude as always. I decided to check my letters to see if I had a pitfall on me, and I did! So I made good use of it.

I had a close call, though. Maple walked over, and almost fell into the pit before Olivia did, so I had to play like a goalie to keep Maple safe. 😛 You can see this scene, and many other highlights from the past several months in my latest video, GameCube Moments #20:

I played again today, and Olivia gave me a little quiz about garbage collection days.

I knew that was correct, so I told her that statement was true. She confirmed that I was right, but she claimed to have lost the prize (a blue vase) she promised to give me. Suuuure. 🙄

Genji was talking about fishing (since there are fishing tournaments every Sunday this month). He asked what I thought about it, and I told him it was boring (just to see how he’d respond). He said I didn’t know a thing about fishing…

…and he said I just have to let my mind go blank to fish well. 😛

Baabara was giving me some very basic knowledge about using items, saying that chests and music players are must-haves.

On that pleasant note, I’m going to wrap up this entry. As you may know, I recently posted a new City Folk gameplay video, and I plan to do the same with GameCube soon too (probably in July). So stay tuned for that, and I’ll see you next time!

Winnie has galloped out of town, as I learned when I got her goodbye letter in the mail today. She ended her letter with “Cheery-bye!” and it really did seem cheery…due to the fact that she wrote it on polka-dot paper. Goodbye letters don’t get any more colorful than this!

Candi was telling me that she never does laundry. In fact, she doesn’t even change her clothes unless someone gives her a new outfit!

I mean, that makes sense in the context of being an NPC in a video game, but I like how the developers have fun with things like that.

At Nookington’s, I saw they had a snappy print shirt for sale. I think this is one of the shirts I used to wear (back in the day), so I bought it and put it on.

In the acre just north of Static’s house, I found a new villager: It’s Pate the duck. She’s alright, I guess. Definitely not of my favorite ducks, but I don’t hate her or anything.

Belle was wondering about the windsocks that appear in early May, asking who puts them up. But it only reminded me that I forgot to play early in the month to see them this year. Oops.

When I dug up today’s glowing spot, I found a rare 30,000-bell bag instead of the usual 1,000 bells. Guess it’s my lucky day! Ka-ching! 💰

I spoke with Ursala while I was standing on the beach, so I was on a lower surface than she was. And then she asked if I’ve grown…when it actually looked as if she was the one that had grown. 😛

Over by the wishing well, Astrid was looking forward to the next fishing tournament. She told me I should start scouting out some good fishing spots, even though it won’t matter. That’s because she was sure that she would be winning the tournament.

She was using Emerald’s catchphrase “sproing,” and yet it works for her too. It sounds like a springy sound effect that a cartoon kangaroo might make when jumping. 🦘 Yay for onomatopoeia. 😛

That’s all I have for now, but I’ll be back again in June. Never Stop Crossing!