Gaming Diary

Totally fruitariffic! Or something! Sold another pile of fruit today, and failed to get a decent price for turnips again (just 70 bells). Found a gongaloid thing too, but expected to find more after the rain last night. Oh well. Rev popped in briefly, bringing Kaitlin’s daughter with him. Kaitlin was very pleased, although personally I think Rev had been touching her daughter inappropriately. But you didn’t hear that from me. I caught two butterflies then, and donated them to …

Chapter 18 was attempted today. It was a Fog of War mission, but was actually pretty simple. However, some other Pegasus Knight appeared, who I assume I need to get Florina my Pegasus Knight to talk to in order to get her on my “team”, but unfortunately I hadn’t chosen Florina as part of my group so couldn’t. Was considering restarting the chapter, and then one of my characters died at the hands (or rather, sword) of Uhai, the “boss” …

New game day! Well, almost every day is New Game Day at the moment, but anyway. Played through the first world, completing it without much difficulty (and with ten lives spare afterwards), and then moved onto the desert world. Got to level 9 I think, and lost my last life there. I played all of the party games then, including a full round of Monkey Mini Golf on which I scored 55. It would have been much lower, but Hole …

Sold even more fruit today – about 45,000 bells worth. I’ve been putting the money into my post office savings rather than on my mortgage as I might as well gain a bit of interest on it before paying the mortgage off. Found three fossils (all of which I had already), and turnips were a pretty poor 74 bells today. Caroline the Squirrel is still ill. Took her more medicine, but I think she might die. Well, possibly. Why can’t …

Stacks and stacks of fruit have grown again. It’s handy as a way of getting unlimited money, but just takes ages to harvest and sell. Sold a bit though, and then went and paid Crazy Redd for his “exclusive membership”. Bought a Kiddie Clock from him for my clock collection, and got a Dainty Painting too, which turned out to be a fake. Bah. At least I’d bought insurance from Lyle at the weekend, so I might get some of …

Either I’m just rubbish, or there’s really no proper way of telling which way you’re supposed to go in this game half the time. You go through the same rooms so many times that it’s easy to get lost. And lost I got, and after twenty minutes of going in the wrong direction I realised I wasn’t doing what I was supposed to and so reloaded an earlier saved game. Then I found the Woman in Red again, got a …

Decided to go back to Chapter 16 and pay the fortune teller 50 gold to let me know what I’m supposed to do to “turn” Raven. It seems I needed Priscilla the Healing Horse Woman Person and get her to Raven quickly, talk to him, then get him to talk to Lucius. And so, I gained them both. The rest of the chapter was really simple as I knew exactly what was going to happen (including the “surprise attack” from …

Today was turnip day, and thanks to the huge amount of fruit I’d sold in the last few days, I had easily enough bells to buy 1000 of them. In fact, I could have bought 2500, but I don’t to risk that much on them just now. It seems that Agent S has moved out. I’m not sure why, and there was no clue to him/her leaving, but there shouldn’t be another sex faux pas as far as that particular …

Completed Chapter 14, and then 15 after a couple of attempts. Knowing that reinforcements were going to come from the north-west after so many turns (which essentially led to me losing a character the first time) really helped. With that out of the way, it was on to Chapter 16, in Caelin Castle. There were two characters there, Raven and Lucius, both of whom I couldn’t get to come over to my side (Raven was a baddie and died really …

Sold even more fruit having found it on some trees I’d missed, and dug up yet another two fossils, both of which I sold. Was a bit panicky about my turnips for a while – 83 bells was all Nook offered, but finally found Andy in Burville online and stopped off at his Nook’s for 154 bells each. Hurrah! After that, it was off to the café to see K.K. Slider (as it was gone 8pm on a Saturday), who …

You know, I’m just not enjoying this as much as Sands of Time. I don’t know why. It isn’t anything specific, it’s just that there’s a load of small niggles and issues I’m having with it which together just makes it feel, well, wrong. Managed to get past the room I kept falling down holes on last time I played, only to run into the Dahaka, and then run from him. This took multiple attempts, as it’s like a speed …

Noooooooooo! The snow! It’s all gone! Spring has gesprungen in Cheese, and everywhere is green. It all looks nice and everything, but it does mean I didn’t get all of the Snowman furniture in time, so will have to wait until December or so to do it again. Bah. I also have turnips left to sell, and am only being offered 83 bells each for them. Looks like I should have sold them in the week for 187. My only …

After three more attempts, I finally managed to complete 13X without a) Erk dying, and b) anyone else dying through my own idiocy. Hurrah, eh? And there I was, plowing through Chapter 14, obliterating everyone and stocking up on weapons galore, when I attacked a huge Knight (who had only 3HP left) with Erk who then promptly missed him TWICE and was killed on the counterattack. Gah! Lyndis is back now too, it seems, as are Wes, Sain and Kent. …

Only 40 bells today for turnips. After having reasonable (well, 100+ bells) prices for them all week, not it comes to the penultimate possible sales day and they drop to such an unacceptably low level. Nook plainly hates me. Death to the evil Tanooki. In other news, Caroline the Squirrel was unwell today, so I bought her some medicine and she was soon much better. I also noticed that almost all of my fruit had grown back for some reason, …

Oh lordy lord. What a pile of rubbish. Not that I was actually expecting much else, but my thirst for Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater knows no cure, so I had to quench it for a bit by buying the Game Boy Colour versions of whatever THPS games I could find for sale. So far, that’s only the third (and final GBC) one. And it’s not actually very good. Much of the problem is only having two buttons. OK, so the …