Jeff's Animal Crossing Blog

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Thanksgiving Day means it’s harvest festival time in Animal Crossing.

Franklin the turkey is in town, but he’s deathly afraid that someone is going to eat him. He will be hiding behind buildings and trees. Your job is to snatch the forks and knives from the large table and give them to Franklin. In exchange, he will give you a piece of harvest furniture.

Animal Crossing: City Folk on Wii also has the harvest festival. And although City Folk may do Halloween and Christmas Eve better, Thanksgiving is best on GameCube. For one thing, the atmosphere is better. City Folk has some dining tables at town hall, but there’s nobody at the tables…only Tortimer standing near them. On GameCube, the tables actually have food on them. Special festive music is playing, and there will be five animals at the tables talking, laughing, and enjoying themselves.

And yes, they actually drink from the cups!

But even aside from all that, finding Franklin is easier on GameCube because you don’t have to give away your knife and fork just to get a hint like you do in City Folk. This means less backtracking and quicker Franklin finds.

Regardless of which Animal Crossing game you’re playing (if any), have a great Thanksgiving, everyone!

I checked my mail and found a goodbye letter from Mint.I went around town pulling weeds and digging up fossils until I stumbled into my newest neighbor, Valise, a kangaroo.  I don’t recall ever seeing Valise before.

I went by the police station and Copper told me that Wendell would be in town on Monday. When I got near the post office, I saw a dig spot, so I got out my shovel. But it wasn’t a gyroid or a fossil or even a pitfall. It was a NES game, Excitebike! Of course I already have Excitebike in my basement, but it’s always a nice little surprise when you find a NES game.

K.K. was in town, so I watched him perform a song. I requested K.K. Condor.

I then went into my house and decided to play a quick game of Excitebike before I ended my day in Forest.

I started up the game and saw that the fishing tournament was in progress. However, it only had a few minutes left, so I didn’t participate.

Katrina’s tent was there, so I stopped in and got my fortune told. She told me that money would be coming my way.

I circled around town, and when I got to Static’s acre, Static appeared to fall from the sky! You can’t really tell by the picture so much, but I will likely include a video of it in a future “GameCube Moments” video on Youtube.

I found the day’s money rock, but I messed up and only got five money bags from it. However, Katrina’s spell increased the value of them. Two of them were 10,000 bell bags and the other three were 1,000 bell bags. So instead of 2,300 bells, it was 23,000 bells. That 50 bells for the fortune really paid off.

Ursala then asked me if I ever notice things like who’s dating who and who’s mad at who. I told her not really, and she called me a liar. What nerve.

So I made a nice little spot for her.

On my way back home, I checked the bulletin board to see who won the fishing tournament. It was Mint, who won with a 17-inch fish.