Halloween in New Leaf

Wow, there are loads of Halloween themed stuff to collect; there are masks and items in the Spooky Series as well as the Creepy Series. It also involves lollipops as well as candy.

That's a lot of stuff to collect and the neighbours in disguise aren't complete replicas of Jack anymore—they each have a uniquely deformed Jack look instead. I think that was a nice touch!

Jack chases you as well this time so watch out!

Leif's weed pulling mini-event

This becomes unlocked when you leave weeds grow for ages and yes I haven't been playing this game as much lately!

A weed total appears for you to work with, which is quite handy. You also have a couple of hours to do the event. I'm not sure if there's a prize or anything since I haven't done it properly yet.

How Nintendo Fans Deal With Their Backlog

With COMICS!

http://superlark.tumblr.com/post/64847436695/like-a-lot-of-people-ive-sort-of-left-my-mayoral

Here we have a comic about someone putting Animal Crossing New Leaf aside for Pokémon X/Y. Just like many AC stories from players it's very touching and sweet. Have a read! (I especially like the Missile cameo)

I must also mention that this isn't even the first comic drawn about this very specific topic! It's been done at least twice already before this!

Many gamers use backloggery.com with its various filing and statistical tools for their backlogs, whereas these guys make something beautiful and amazing out of it.

This is another reason why Nintendo fans are the greatest! :)

October in Animal Crossing New Leaf

I've been falling behind on this game... Meanwhile, Jack appeared with his mission about collecting sweets and scary apparel in preparation for Halloween. I like Halloween in AC so I'll have to stock up on sweeties in order to win as much of the spooky furniture set as I can on the evening.

Two towns named Sealand in Animal Crossing New Leaf

This evening I went to the dream place to see if anyone uploaded a town they created called Sealand and there were two of them!

Neither town seemed to have much to do with the real-life Sealand but the mayor of one of them said "I will put Sealand on the map!".

Just took a notion to have a look because I think the real-life Principality of Sealand is pretty cool!

September! Time to go fishing for salmon in New Leaf!

According to the wiki I'm using, salmon and king salmon only appear in September. Interesting kind of rarity and they don't sell for that much. In any case, get fishing!

Got all of Redd's Cookie items

It's the last fireworks night of the Summer in New Leaf and I just managed to get all the items you can possibly win from Redd's stall. You can get weird Nintendo toy memorabilia like the Ultra Hand this way.

It was a bit painful to go through the same dialogue just to get a new fortune raffle cookie over and over, but there was a bright side to this process: The Re-Tail was offering extra money for furniture, so in the process of doing all this I actually made a profit!

Only 5 items can be ordered from StreetPassers catalogues per day

Discovered this as I was panic ordering. You see, I'm getting a LOT of StreetPassers in Animal Crossing New Leaf and new houses will soon replace the older ones so I'm trying to get as many of the items I like as I can and now I discover you can only order 5 a day! Yikes! Make sure you look out for this as you play.

Animal Crossing described as the Seinfeld of video games - genius!

I forget what site it was but it was genius! A game about nothing! It's a really good way to describe this game and the rest of the review is one of my favourites in recent memory: They said that the game was "too perfect" whereas games are normally about fixing a scenario that isn't perfect.

New Leaf: Other players with different languages

I often StreetPass people from other countries, especially these days when there are a lot of tourists around. I like the way that notifications of them come up in their native language. I also like the way that other static messages you get from New Leaf StreetPassers are in English whereas their personal greeting/quip/etc  might be in their language.

This goes the same for the Dream Suite. I visited a couple of Japanese players' towns and it's cool to see what's in English and what's in Japanese.

You can buy songs in New Leaf

I like this new feature. You have to upgrade the shop to T.I.Y. to do it.

Before, I'd be limited to getting one new song a week. I haven't managed to do that with any version of Animal Crossing except for the Wii one; mainly because it takes well over a year.

Not any more though! Not if we can buy them now handily. The album cover art for each song is a very nice touch too!

Animal Crossing New Leaf becomes my most played game!

I checked the activity log on the 3DS menu and New Leaf is way up at the top.

I kind of knew anyway because my villagers often tell me to take breaks and that I look exhausted!

When you find something you like doing in the game, a single session can last well over an hour. It's just something that happens!

Paid off mortgage quickly thanks to beetles

Today in my Animal Crossing town, Reese was paying double for Horned Elephants so I went to the island this evening and hunted out a bunch. I got loads of money for them all and paid off the debt on my house! It might even be better than investing in turnips.

Might be something to think about and tot up the amount of work involved in both activities to see which is better...

Can't catch tarantula and scorpion in New Leaf... urgh

Hunted for about 2 hours this evening I came across 2 scorpions but they ran off a cliff and I got bitten by the tarantula. I spent the rest of the time trying to find another of either. How do I make them appear more often?

Chillaxing with Animal Crossing...

Fishing in Animal Crossing while having a livestream playing of the Wiiviewr July event on is really cool :)

It also works great for the latest episode of Steam Train where Danny and Ross are just making burgers (Space Quest IV part 9).

Animal Crossing New Leaf multiplayer is kind of fun

Takes long to load though. Then again that is because I've been playing with people from different countries. It'd be nice to get a local network of 3DS' going to play a nice ol' session of the game :)

Exploring Nintendo's Dream Suite towns in Animal Crossing New Leaf

I finally gave the Dream Suite a go after building it a short while back. What drove me to do this was Isabelle tweeting about the official Nintendo dream towns and giving out codes for them.

Of course there are different Twitter accounts for the different regions and each region has a different dream town, which can all be accessed with any regional version of the game:
The American dream town code is 5700–2038–6151
The European dream town code is 7900-2106-3477
The Japanese dream town code is 0000-0100-0017

Now, I've been wondering how this actually works and now that I've tried them all, it seems to me that when you create a dream town it gets uploaded to a server that Nintendo runs and it's then made available for other players to check out and explore.

This of course means that it's service oriented and when this generation of games passes we won't be able to use the Dream Suite any more, so enjoy while the game's hot!

By the way, I got a Reggie design from Wendell in the American town and a Tingle design from the Japanese town. Have a look for yourself!

First job as mayor in AC New Leaf

The first thing I did when I finally became the full mayor was to build a bridge. It'll cost a lot but I have to have more bridges in town! That river just doesn't have enough bridges on it! Pity I'm only allowed 3 extra.

Loving the world of Animal Crossing New Leaf

Today Isabelle told me that someone new had arrived in town and suggested I go meet them.

I went to their place and gave them a nice welcome greeting. It was at that moment that I got that feeling of cosiness and affection for the world in which this game takes place. Up until then I was just enjoying another Animal Crossing game.

A game is really good when it does stuff like this!

How I know Animal Crossing New Leaf is going to be really popular

I bought this game when it got released and on the very same day I got 8 StreetPasses! 8! Never got so many at once before!

One of them was playing the game ALREADY.