Turnips were at 80 bells today, so I went and harvested some of the fruit bounty that had grown since yesterday. I also added some more to my ever-growing orchard. It’s now getting somewhat cramped in the south-east corner of Cheese, what with all the trees and stuff. Also finally picked up the Exotic Wall for my house. I have most of the Exotic set now, I think.
Yes! Yet another Tony Hawk game! Hurrah! And, once again, I’m surprised at how close to the “grown up” console version the GBA version actually is. I started Story Mode, in Boston, and like Underground before it, I built up most of my stats to full by doing a few tricks and stuff as required. Haven’t actually done any goals yet, but have explored the level a fair bit.
And a new week of Turnip (not) Selling begins! And Nook was offering just 87 bells today, so I tolk him where to shove his bells. It’s “Bright Nights” week, it seems. That means all the houses (bar mine) are covered with twinkly lights. I don’t know why, but that’s how it is. Ignored them and just went and harvested and sold some fruit instead. It also seems that Static has moved out, and Jeremiah the Frog has moved in. …
With KOTOR out of the way, I decided to start on another “long” game. And I chose this – Lunar Dragon Song. And I wish I hadn’t. I’ve only played it for 40 minutes so far, and it has already irritated me beyond belief. The graphics (specifically, the menu, item and text fonts) are awful, you feel like your character is walking on ice, and if you try to run anywhere (and you want to, as you walk so slowly), …
Started Classic Mode (well, it’s called Arcade Mode, but I know better) this morning, and completed it this afternoon – getting all the goals and racking my stats all up to 100%. It was certainly easier than Story Mode, with only a couple of COMBO lines having any real difficulty. At least it didn’t have the stupid “restrict your skating to a portion of the level until you unlock more” thing going on that Story Mode did. Onward to GBA …
Sunday is Turnip Day, but I only had about 35,000 bells to buy turnips with this morning. Luckily, quite a lot of fruit had grown back, so between selling them, a bit of beach combing, finding the Money Rock, some fishing, and tree-shaking, I managed to get about 88,000 bells – enough to buy 800 turnips at the 108 bell each asking price. Hurrah!
Saturday night in Animal Crossing is K.K. Slider night. Every Saturday between 8 and 10pm, he appears in the Café in the basement of the museum and will play you a song. You can request one, or just get him to play a random one. When he’s finished, he’ll give you a “bootleg” tape to play back in your “pad”. Today, I got a copy of “K.K. Aria”. Since tomorrow is Turnip Day, I also went round and sold the …
Well. That took AGES. And AGES. Just over 36 hours in total, in fact. I knew it was a long game, but I was expecting nearer 20 when I started it. I didn’t even do many of the side quests either. Started off today on the “Unknown Planet”, and had to do some kind of mediation between two tribes of Rakata – the followers of The One, and the Elders. Well, I’m not sure what went wrong, but it seems …
How can a game technically so dull, be so addictive? It makes no sense. Turnips were selling for 129 bells today, so I was tempted to sell until I found that Coope in Gala had them for 182 – a pretty healthy profit. Went over there to sell, but just after I did I lost the connection and the game reset. The same had obviously happened to Coope, as he wasn’t online immediately afterwards, so I went and planted a …
Well, even though I replaced some more of my dead saplings yesterday, still some died again today. I really should be more careful where I walk, I think, as I’m sure I must have trampled them or something. Replaced some and planted a few more fruits too. Turnips were selling for 104 bells today. Not that I expected any better, but it would have been nice.
Hit a terrible sticking point on San Diego. I had to participate in a competition, but the scores I had to achieve were in the region of 600,000 points, with a load of trick variation. And I had to hit that kind of score without bailing, and do it two out of three times. It took almost an HOUR to do. But I did. Then it was onto the Slam City Jam level, which turned out to just be another …
Still in San Diego, and the difficulty of the game seems to have ramped up somewhat now. Things like “get 250,000 in one combo” are the way to go at the moment, and one particulat “do these three tricks in one combo” goal was more than a little difficult. Still, not much more left to do and then I’m on to the final level.
Disaster! Almost all of the trees I planted yesterday are now dead! I had a little cry, and then went and checked turnip prices. 110 today, which is rubbish. Bah. Altogether, not a particularly successful day in Cheese.
Turnips were low priced again today, so didn’t sell them. Found a letter from Parm with a bed in it, and he asked me to sleep in his bed. Nice. Spent quite a while picking and selling fruit that had grown since yesterday, and also chopped some trees down and planted more to make an orchard. Should have a forest of pear trees and another of peach trees in a few days! Nook had a Blue Bookcase in today, so …
I think mindless addiction has now set in with Animal Crossing. Oh dear. As well as the usual selling fruit, looking for Blue and Exotic furniture, and digging up fossils, I went over and visited Deckard. He gave me some snowman furniture, including a clock to go in my clock collection (I have six now). Came back to Cheese and then opened up my gates. Went “AFD” (Away From DS) for a couple of hours, and came back to find …