Jellyfish Immunity

Yesterday, I spotted Harv feeding birds at the campground!

Harvey feeds birds at the campground.When you find him doing this, talk to him repeatedly (by choosing the “Hey Harv!” option) and he will give you some beans! The beans were previously unavailable in America.

Harvey: Did you want to feed the birds too? Well, go right ahead!Feeding the birds is fun! 🙂

Harvey: Some places they tell you not to feed the birds. But...birds gotta eat too, man!Me feeding the birds with beans I got from Harvey.A message posted on the bulletin board warned of upcoming snow flurries! Oh no, I’m not ready for winter!

I noticed that you can use emotions in the water. I thought this was a new feature, but I’ve been informed that you could already do this. Sorry for any confusion.

Using the surprise emotion in the water.My favorite part is that if you use the Shrunk Funk Shuffle in the water, you are (temporarily) immune to jellyfish! They will pass right through you!

A jellyfish passes through me as I use the Shrunk Funk Shuffle in the water. Jellyfish immunity!Today, one of my initiatives was to spend 150 bells at Leila’s “shop” on the island.

Tropical Shop Initiative: Spend 150 bells with Leila on the southern islands. 0/150That struck me as weird, because you can’t spend bells on the island. Leila will pay you bells if you sell her some fruit, fish, or bugs, however. And that seems to be what the initiative means to say. Selling 150 bells worth of stuff let me successfully complete the mission.

Leila: I want yer goliath beetle! Pweeeeeease? I'll give you 300 bells for it!Of course, Leila pays next to nothing, so this initiative may not be worth the effort. Especially when you consider it only earns you one MEOW coupon. Me-YOWZA!

I had Gulliver as today’s random RV camper. It was the first time I’ve seen him here, and interestingly, he appeared in Acorn and Arrested today too. He has a ball in his RV, so I made sure to order it. It can be customized into other balls (including a basketball), so it will come in handy for future sports rooms of mine.

Gulliver: I've been all over the world, but this campground is a real highlight.

My recent dream visitors have been Stephen from Kyoto and Kat from Ylisstol. Thanks for stopping by, and I’ll see you next time!

By the way, I’m trying to keep my Dream Suite Adventures page as up-to-date as possible with current dream addresses (since Nintendo deleted all the old dream towns earlier this month). I’ve already updated the new addresses for Pink Sea, Titania, and JOY. If you know of any current addresses for the other dreams featured there, please let me know. I’m sure I’ll be able to update a few more of them, but some of them are gone forever.

Campground FNF

On Wednesday, a fortune cookie gave me a New Nintendo 3DS. The one I got from Isabelle’s RV has her face on the outside of it; this one is just a plain, regular one.

Tommy: Ah, congratulations! The prize for Number 57 is great--a New Nintendo 3DS!Up on Main Street, I spotted Tom! I wasn’t expecting to see him yet until I had another villager move out. So either I was mistaken and lost track of someone at some point, or the update changed how many villagers appear on Main Street.

Tom: Yo, Jeff! Good deals today! Nothing like scoring a good bargain!

I shot down a balloon present yesterday, and it contained a gold screen wall. If you’re not already aware, the update changed balloon presents so they can carry random items too (and not just balloon furniture like before). That’s a welcome change.

Shooting down a balloon present. Pop!Shortly after 10:00 tonight, I opened my gate for Friday Night Forest. Merka and Mike came over, and we took some pictures by my FNF sign.

Michael, Jeff, and Merka standing by the sign: FNF 11-11-16.We made some references to carp blood throughout the night, and it’s because of a joke Merka and I made five years ago tonight, in City Folk. She was known as Skye back then, and we made fun of the “Do You Like Waffles?” song by replacing it with carp blood. Why carp blood, I’m not exactly sure. But it must have made sense at the time. 😀

Even if Nintendo took away our net glitch, we can still stump merge. It’s mergilicious.

Jeff, Michael, and Merka merging in the tree stump glitch.Beth also came over to visit, so I had a full house. We went over to the drive-in campground and hung out there for a while. I noticed that when you toss beans at the campground, they don’t fling out as high.

Flinging my beans on the ground.I later tested it out back in town, and they shoot out high and far in town. Just not at the campground.

We tested something else out tonight, too. We wanted to see if people outside can hear if someone honks the horn of the RV. To my surprise, the answer is yes! In fact, we get shocked expressions outdoors too.

A shocked expression as someone honks the RV horn.While we were at it, we also tested to see if the horns of different RVs sounded different. Booker and Isabelle were both at the campground, but sadly, the horns sounded the same. That would have been a nice touch if they each had a unique sound. Like maybe Booker could have a deeper honk, and Isabelle’s could be more cheery. No big deal though, of course. I realize Nintendo can’t put an infinite amount of details into a free update. 😉

Mike and Merka sat on a log (bench), facing each other. Then, they started attacking each other. It was a good, old-fashioned bean fight!

Michael and Merka have a bean fight.I really enjoy the campground during online play. It’s such a great place to relax and chat.

The four of us sitting around the fire at the campground.We talked about how good it would be to have a new Animal Crossing game on Switch, where we could use USB keyboards to communicate again. That would be infinitely better than the on-screen keyboard in New Leaf. I wouldn’t even mind if it was basically a port of New Leaf / Welcome Amiibo with some new features added. That would be better than waiting another five years for a new game.

Once we were done twerking at the campground, we went into town hall to see the ghost Wisp working behind the counter. Mike also showed off his haircut. I’m not sure which was scarier. 😉

Wisp works behind the counter at town hall.We went outside to the geyser and celebrated at 11:11 on 11/11.

The geyser erupts at 11:11 on 11/11.We continued to discuss Animal Crossing, particularly the recent update. They patched the net glitch, yet there was one thing they didn’t fix: The extremely short span of time that a message is on-screen! It’s still only five seconds, which is far too short. That’s not even enough time to walk through a doorway.

We later went up near the railroad tracks, where Mike fell into the pitfall behind the face-cutout standee. As always, I didn’t get to see my victim’s fall. But I stuck my face into the gravestone as people threw beans at me.

People throw beans at me while I'm in the gravestone.

And we starting making band names for some reason? Or maybe it was just me.

Jeff, sticking his face through a gravestone faceboard: The Grateful Head.Mike wanted to catch up with his former villager Julian, so we all started a search a party for him. Eventually, we found him hanging out in the art gallery with all the naked statues. And I noticed he wasn’t wearing any pants.

Julian in the art gallery.This valiant statue looked like a slingshot. Or then again, maybe the wings look like my arms.

Standing behind the valiant statue.
STEVE HOLT!

If you ever need to check if a painting is real or fake, remember I have a Crazy Redd Art Guide right here on JVGS!

Anyway, we then went to my house and made whooping sounds in froggie chairs.

Sitting in froggie chairs in my frog room.Merka went away for a bit at one point, while Mike imagined a GameCube version of New Leaf. We started using love emotions, and the sound of it was quite funny. I just imagined what Merka’s reaction would be like when she returned to the sound of this lovely alarm.

Three of us using the love emotion around a pond.After that, we started quoting Arrested Development. But after chatting for a while, we got disconnected. It was well after midnight already, so I didn’t reopen my gate. But I had a good time tonight. Thanks to Merka, Mike, and Beth for coming!

My recent dream visitors have been Sarah from Fujioka, Emily from Honolulu, Gamer from Wii, and Sarusa from Anitown. Have a good weekend, everyone!

Animal Crossing Puzzle League

Agent S recently asked me to dig up the time capsule that she had me bury last month. So I returned to the northwest corner of town, dug up the capsule, and returned it to the superhero squirrel. It contained a teacher’s desk, and she gave it to me as my reward.

Agent S: For helping me out, you should get what I stuffed in there! Please take this teacher's desk.While I’ve discussed many of the bigger features of the New Leaf update in the previous two blog entries, there are still many small changes as well. For example, you can sit in the RVs and honk the horn…scaring the camper in the process.

Nat gets scared when I honk the horn in his RV.And if you press the A button near the fire pit at the campground at night, you’ll do a little dance!

The fire pit dance at the drive-in campground.

If you have beans (not coffee beans, but the beans you throw), you can toss some (in the daytime) to feed the birds.

Feeding birds at the drive-in campground.

While visiting Arrested, I pretended to use the water pump to cook my beans in the fire.

Jeff, using the water pump: I can cook my beans.

Just in case you’re wondering, some of the special visitors I’ve seen at the campground the past few days include Nat, Zipper, Pavé, and Pascal.

Pascal: Hey, man. Do you, like, live in this town? It's a pretty far-out place. Hope it's cool for me to crash here.Yesterday, I used my magic lamp to summon Wisp. I then had Wisp scan my Isabelle Amiibo figure that came with Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival. That caused Isabelle’s RV to appear in the front spot at the drive-in campground. That’s Pascal’s RV in the back, if the scallops on the side didn’t give it away.

Isabelle's RV at the drive-in campground.

Isabelle was inside, of course. I decided to order the Isabelle scooter for three MEOW coupons.

Isabelle's RV at the drive-in campground, with the Isabelle scooter inside.But while looking at the list of items I could order, I noticed a Wii U console and a “New 3DS – Isabelle.” The New 3DS and Wii U items are how you play the new mini-games, Animal Crossing Puzzle League and Desert Island Escape! You can get those items from fortune cookies at the Nooklings’ shop (if you’re lucky), but it may be quicker just to check the special RV visitors each day and order them with MEOW coupons. I ordered them both.

But before I ended my game last night, I took a look in town hall. Wisp was standing in for Isabelle! Summoning a special character like this swaps them out with Wisp, so that the character can’t be seen in two places at the same time.

Wisp standing behind the counter at town hall.Animal Crossing Puzzle League

Today, the game consoles arrived! Since I’ve already played a lot of Desert Island Escape on Wii U, that wasn’t my priority for today. I will talk about it in more detail soon, but for now, I wanted to play some Animal Crossing Puzzle League! Just put the New 3DS in your house, walk up to it, and press the A button to start it. It works just like the NES games in the original Animal Crossing.

My New 3DS and Wii U console in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

This puzzle game is essentially the same game as Panel de Pon or Tetris Attack. On a wall of colored squares, you control a cursor that highlights two adjacent squares. By pressing the button, you can swap those two squares. The object is to line up three or more tiles of the same color, which will clear those tiles from the board. Combos and chain reactions are also possible.

Gameplay shot of Animal Crossing Puzzle League.

I started the story mode, which is the only mode available at the beginning. You battle against other Animal Crossing characters, although it’s not in a traditional head-to-head sense. It’s really just a series of one-player levels where you must meet a goal to win. Typically, you just have to clear a certain number of lines before your stack reaches the top of the screen.

Tortimer: Well, I do believe it's game time. Let's go!

Some of the competitors are special characters like Tortimer and Isabelle, and others are villagers of mine. Bob didn’t seem to understand what exactly we were playing.

Bob: I, Bob, promise to give all I have to this pie-eating contest. No matter what the cost!

I beat all of my competitors (including Cornimer at the end), and I completed the story mode. I unlocked four other modes in the process, but I have not played them yet.

You Won Puzzle League!

When I started up New Leaf later on, I had three letters from Nintendo in the mail! They congratulated me on my progress in Animal Crossing Puzzle League, and three gifts were enclosed: a fruit-panel floor, a fruit-panel wall, and fruit-panel cushion.

The fruit-panel wall, fruit-panel floor, and fruit-panel cushion.

The fruit-panel cushion can be customized at Re-Tail to display an orange, a pear, a banana, a grape, or a peach.

My recent dream visitors have been Nonnie from Area 11, David from Sparta, Erin from Reversi, Allen from Pallet, Scott from Maverik, and B from Titania. Thanks for stopping by!

And just a reminder that Friday Night Forest is this Friday at 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. This won’t be a theme night, so dress however you like.