Hurrah! Nook actually gave me a good price today – 215 bells per turnip! That’s the highest it’s been in my town so far, I think. As a result, I sold all my turnips, and made a 100% profit. Went and visited Lyzzy in Scotton then, and bought a Modern Sofa from her shop and wrote on her noticeboard. She came back to my place (oo-er) to sell her turnips (although she forgot to bring them and had to go …

Gah. MUCH. TOO. HARD. I must have tried ten times, and the furthest I got was a feeble 672m. I don’t seem to be able to get past about 300m without losing at least one life any more. Clearly, this is rubbish.

Played quite a bit this evening. Firstly, I sold all the fruit from my trees, and all the fossils I found. That made me about 80,000 bells. After that, I bought everything from Crazy Redd, including a (genuine!) Scary Painting, which I put in my museum. Nook was buying turnips for 150 bells today, but (foolishly, I’ll bet) I turned down his offer. Went fishing then, and caught loads of octopii, only to find they’re worth just 500 bells each …

Turnips were only 81 bells today, but I’m not that bothered this week. I have HOUSE MAXIMUM now anyway, so there’s no real incentive to work off the huge 950,000-ish bell mortgage. Did go and harvest and sell a load of fruit for about 60,000 bells though, and also bought a cardboard box off of Caroline the Squirrel but I’m not really sure why.

I don’t seem to have played this for quite a while. A million and one other games must have arrived and I forgot about it, or something. Restarted Chapter 18 for two reasons – firstly, and most importantly, I died instantly on the “resume game” save, and secondly, I thought I’d need my idiot Pegasus Knight to recruit the other one that was flying round the map. I was correct, and I went on to finish the mission “properly” without …

Progressed quite a bit further today, getting past the spikes that had “killed” me previously, going back into the present, running from the Dahaka (I hate those bits) and returning to the past again. There, I started doing some of the clock tower thingy, and then had another big golem to kill. I found that you can dodge him grabbing you when you’re on his back my pressing A or X and left or right, which made killing him a …

Turnip day today! Only managed to get together about 65,000 bells to buy 600 turnips for 105 bells each, before it hit noon and Joan disappeared. I’m not too bothered, as I make much more from fruit as it is anyway. After buying my turnips, I did a bit of fishing, and also caught a ladybird that I saw on a flower. Dug up some “‘oids” and some fossils (one of which I actually didn’t have!), and sold some more …

Didn’t do too well on this today. Averaged around 650m or so over about ten attempts, although my highest was 884m – not bad. I ran out of air, less than a second before an air tank thing landed on my head. Rubbish. Also rubbish was how well I did on about another ten aborted attempts – losing two lives before 300m, so I restarted each one.

Yet another visit to Cheese today, but only because it’s Saturday night, and K.K. Slider is about then. Tonight’s tune was “Two Days Ago”. After that, I realised that tomorrow was turnip day, and I’d spent almost all my money on my mortgage. Ran round and sold the last of the fruit I had on the trees, and I’ve now got almost 50,000 to spend. With the money rock tomorrow, plus any grown back fruit, I should be able to …

Hmm. It seems my “760m-ish” was actually only 743m, and it took me a good ten or so attempts to better that today. Even then I only managed 771m. I can get to about 600m without losing a life almost every single time now (except for the occassional slip up where I lose them all before I hit 200m – rubbish!), but then it all goes wrong and I lose three in quick succession. It’s like I’m “in the zone”, …

Haven’t played this in a while, and it really showed when I started it up again today. I seemed to have forgotten most of the controls, and kept falling off ledges, taking my sword out instead of running up walls, and generally acting like my controller was back to front. Eventually got it sussed, and got past where I was previously (somewhere in the clock tower). I then had another huge baddie to kill, although he was the same as …

With time running out for the rest of my turnips, Kittana in Kittania posted on the ugvh newsgroup saying she was a new player and had a turnip price of 201 bells. Popped over there quickly with the rest of my turnips and a couple of each fruit for her. The price had dropped to 161 by then, but it was much better my my “local” Nook price of 71. Got almost 200,000 bells there, and have Kittana 20,000 for …

Or Pokémon Torouze to you, if you can’t read the Japanese. Yes, I am just showing off that I can type in katakana like on the box. And, despite the Pokémon connection, it’s actually a very good puzzle game. So far, at least. It’s a sort of cross between Zoo Keeper and those slide puzzles. You have the usually puzzle-game-well, which starts partially filled with Pokémon heads. You slide the rows and columns to line up four or more heads, …

Had a bit of catching up to do, what with not playing Animal Crossing at all yesterday. Sold about half my turnips for 165 bells each, but I’m holding on for someone online to give me a better price for the rest. My Nook is buying at 71 bells now, so I really hope someone has actually got better than that… Sold a load more fruit, and some fossils, and managed to pay off my next mortgage – all 848,000 …

With 500m mode out of the way, I had many, many attempts at 1000m mode instead. Although it seems easier than Drill Spirits on DS in many ways (although I’m not really sure why – it’s the same game in essence), I didn’t manage to do very well. 760m-ish was about my best run. Of course, unlike the DS game, you can’t buy extra lives, power-ups and shields and stuff, so things are made somewhat harder that way. However, almost …