Today, I decided to try making a pattern for the first time in New Leaf. I made my JVGS logo. One nice thing is that you can hang a pattern directly on the wall if you’d like.
I then went outside to check on my cherry trees that I planted yesterday. Good news! It looks like all three of them are going to survive! I’ll soon have some foreign fruit trees in Forest. That will help me earn more money.
At town hall, I displayed my JVGS pattern as my flag.
While walking around, I saw Gabi out fishing.
And down on the beach, I saw a familiar face…Gulliver!
He shared some puns with me.
And then he makes a reference to Earthbound, by mentioning fuzzy pickles. For those who don’t know, the cameraman in Earthbound would tell Ness and friends to say “fuzzy pickles” as he was taking a picture.
Although you don’t have to shoot down a UFO in New Leaf, you still have to work for Gulliver’s gift. He gave me some clues, mentioning animals such as giraffes, and then asked me which country he was talking about. He was talking about African animals, so Kenya was the correct choice.
But he didn’t give me the gift just yet. He said he’ll send it to me, although it might take a while.
As I returned up the ramp to town, I saw a construction site. Katt will be moving in tomorrow. A web search reveals that Katt is a cat…a very ugly cat.
In the Able Sisters, I bought the clown mask to look like a jester.
I also stopped by my town tree and saw that it’s growing quite nicely.
Yuka asked me to catch a roach for her. I told her no.
And then I was informed that a villager wanted to move out. Of course, it was Aurora, my favorite villager! Why her?
I told her not to leave, and fortunately, she agreed to stay.
I then went to the island to do some fishing so I could earn some money. Oh look, a new type of fish, a giant trevally!
I then caught a dab, or so I thought…
But the game was just psyching me out! It’s an olive flounder.
I already had trouble telling those two fish apart, so you’re really not helping me, Nintendo. 😛
Shortly after that, I caught my first shark! It was a saw shark.
When I had enough fish, I returned to Forest. I stopped at the museum to donate my new catches, and then sold the rest. I earned enough money to pay off the bridge!
My last task of the day was to return to town hall. I talked to my assistant Isabelle, and she confirmed that my bridge would be completed tomorrow! Great!
That’s all for now. But please come back tomorrow night for another update. Have a good weekend, everyone!
I then went into the Re-Tail store and saw that they had a metal guitar. I bought it.
Outside, Yuka was dropping hints that she wanted me to write her a letter. She then compared Pete, the letter carrier, to a matchmaker. Uh, no. No. No. No. Don’t get any ideas, Yuka. I don’t like you in that way. Or in any way.
I quickly ran away from Yucky Yuka. I’d rather go to work than talk to her! So I went to town hall and talked to my assistant Isabelle. I decided to change my town tune to The Final Countdown. Animal Crossing: New Leaf comes out one month from today (in America at least), and I know a lot of you are counting down to that. I’m also counting down to the 4th season of Arrested Development, which will be available on Netflix later this month. If anyone wants the notes to The Final Countdown, enter BAB-e–zCBCBA-zz.
I continued talking to Isabelle, listening to all her tips for living in Forest. She then asked me to get a seashell for her.
The way she was talking, it almost seemed like she had a crush on me. But when I came back with a shell for her, she thanked me by giving me three cherries from her hometown. I planted them near my house.
Her mother sent them to her, and told her to share…because that’s what good puppies do. That sentence left me rather speechless. So she’s a good puppy? Am I supposed to give her a treat now or something?
After finishing up listening to her tips, she gave me a watering can. That was nice.
However, I’m probably not going to be doing a lot of watering. In Animal Crossing games, flowers are not a priority–at least not at first. For now, I have projects to fund, a house to expand, ugly animals to evict, and so on. (Just kidding about the evictions). I’ll deal with flowers later on. For now, I want to be able to run around town and get stuff done.
The Master Sword, of course!
You know, in previous Animal Crossing games, the Nintendo items like this were relatively rare and didn’t come along very often. But in just a week, I’ve already got the Mario Kart kart, a green shell, the Master Sword, and two masks of characters from Zelda games.
While diving, I also pulled up some seaweed.
I then decided to try another one of the Tortimer tours. This time, I did the dragonfly one. You have five minutes to catch as many dragonflies as you can. I caught five, which earned me a Silver Tortimer award (whatever that means) and four medals.
The tours always seem to take place in the daylight, even though it was after 11 p.m. when I played. I’m not exactly sure how that works, but oh well.
I then made a trip to the island. It was actually still light outside!
I neglected to mention this yesterday, but my other island fruit (besides bananas) is mangos. Leila, who I assume is Kapp’n daughter, wants to “play store” and will buy things from you. Unfortunately, she doesn’t have very much money. Still, I played along at least this one time.
After catching some island bugs and collecting some fruit, I returned to Forest. In Nookling Junction, they had a star globe for sale. It looked pretty cool, so I bought it. “RCP, here, have a globe. heh heh horf.”
Over at the museum, I donated a fossil, and then looked around a bit. I found Yuka in the fossil room, with the other dinosaurs. I must admit the amber looks much better in this game. But Yuka is as nasty as ever, complaining about the museum.
Typical of her to complain about everything. Give me a break, you whiny marsupial. I’m working on it.
That’s all for tonight, but of course I’ll be back tomorrow with another update. In the meantime, check out this video of my first trip to the island that I recorded yesterday.