Stupidly, I had deleted my saved game last time I played this. So I had to start again. Luckily, it didn’t take long to get to the point I was at previously (the end of first world boss). Defeated him, and worked my way through all of World 2. Bought a few power-ups on the way, including the floaty-umbrella one, and some more energy and “emotion bar”. I’ve also done the first level of World 3 too.
Planted loads of trees today, since my “new” fruit trees had started to bear “foreign” fruits. Plenty of cherry and peach trees should now be on the way. Also found a few fossils and sent a message in a bottle. Turnips were selling for 75 bells today, and no-one was online, so I couldn’t even try somewhere else to sell them. Tch.
The Great Globe Trotting Turnip Selling Adventure begins! Firstly, checked at my local Nook’s, to find turnips were bought for 79 bells each. I bought them for 104, so that was no good. Then I onlined my DS up, and visited Red in Lancre. Her Nook’s was shut for remodelling. As was Deckard’s, he said when he turned up to visit. I left Lancre and went to Venture to see Rev. His Nook’s was buying for 70-something bells too, so …
Must… resist… Animal Crossing… addiction.. mounting… Popped over to see “Gerplex” (the artist formally known as Chibi) in Cockland. Yes, really there. Filled with, well, I’m sure you can guess. Took some pears from his trees, and gave cherries in return. Put my filthy design in his Mable and Sable shop, and had a wander round and a chat before returning home.
Gah! It seems I hadn’t won at the fishing – I’d just beaten my personal best! Jitters managed to get a Red Snapper in at 0.5 inches longer than mine in the dying minutes of the tournament. He must die.
Andy Herbert was about this evening, so I popped over to his town, stole some cherries, dug up some gargaloids and fossils, gave him a few oranges and an apple, then dug holes everywhere. He can’t fill them back in, as he’s not got a shovel yet. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
A friend of mine recently bought a DS, and brought it round this afternoon. Amongst other things, we played Mario Kart DS (which I won), Meteos (uh, which I also won), and Sonic Rush (again, I won). Which was nice.
It’s the fishing tournament today, so I spent a while catching fish. It seems Sea Bass and Red Snappers are the way to go, and my 42.5 inch Red Snapper took the tournament and won me a robo-table. Uh, great.
Sunday morning is the day the Sow Joan comes and sells turnips. Turnips for you to buy, and sell on the Stalk Market, hopefully for a huge profit. You may notice that “Sow Joan” sounds like “Dow Jones” and “Stalk” is like “Stock”. This is no coincidence. After searching the whole of Cheese three times, I finally found here. I had enough bells to buy 90 turnips at 104 bells each, which is a bit more than I was hoping …
I completed this many years ago on the Amiga, and thought it was pretty good back then. I’ve just been playing (and completing) it on Capcom Classics Collection on the Xbox, and the arcade version is about ten billion times better. The controls, the animation, the sound – everything. I suppose that’s what you’d expect, but still… Anyway, the final boss was actually one of the easier ones in the game. Three Andores at the same time, with assorted fat …
More fishing and stuff. I’m back up to about 9,000 bells now, which should get me a few turnips if nothing else. Went over to see Richard, and was soon joined by Rev and Satsuma. We waited until 8pm, for K.K. Slider to show up in the café under the museum, but he didn’t. Then the game kicked me out. Luckily, I didn’t lose anything, and back in Cheese K.K. was ready to play for me. He gave me a …
Yes, well. I went back to Classic Mode, and finished it off. The rest of the game was pretty easy – even getting 1,500,000 points on the final “The Triangle” level wasn’t too hard. Nothing as hard as Downhill Jam, anyway. Levels along the way included Los Angeles and Canada (from THPS3) and Boston. It was a bit bizarre playing through all the old levels again.
Fishing and shell collecting again. I’m sure you’ll spot a trend occuring in these posts about Animal Crossing, you know. Bumped into Lyle, a slimey little man in cahoots with dodgy geezer Crazy Redd. Lyle forced me to buy insurance for 3000 bells. I don’t really know what that will mean, now, but I don’t expect to ever get my money back. Also saw Apollo, an eagle who has moved into my town. He’s was “on patrol”, “protecting the innocents …
It seems I wasn’t quite as close to the end of the game as I’d thought. There was actually more to do in Skatopia. Bam had to trigger five sets of giant fireworks by doing assorted tricks on them (the giant roman candle and the stacked boxes being the hardest), and after that I had to skate Tony from the top of the level to the bottom, collecting dogs on the way. Yes, really. And that STILL wasn’t all – …
Fishing, collecting shells, digging up fossils, talking to animals. That’s pretty much all you do in Animal Crossing. Every day. And it is BEST. Today, I planted some more trees with the fruit I’d gained from other towns, and dug up a Tall Gongaloid, or something with an equally stupid name. Didn’t earn much in the way of Bells (AC‘s currency), so I didn’t knock much off my mortgage.