A Play in the Life... of Animal Crossing
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Mailbox


 From the museum: The Farway Museum cordially invites you to take part in its free fossil identification program. Send us any fossil you find, and we'll identify it and return it promptly.

 From Quetzal: Hold up, neighbor! Just what the hey was up with that wacked~out letter? Don't go cutting corners when you write me! You were making no sense! Write a REAL note!

From Amelia: Look, I give up. I tried my bast to understand your note but I just couldn’t do it. Couldn't you try to write in plain English next time? It would make things easier.

From Nate: Well...uh...thanks for the note, I guess. But here's the thing: I didn't have a clue what you were trying to say. Next time, try to make some sense. Simplify, dude!

Daily shopping


Bulletin board message from Chip: Fishing Tourney Results! Champion: Nate, for catching a 26-incher! Hook me up with some bigger fish next time!

26 inches? What kind of sick and twisted place is this…

Me with a lacy parasol.

Still no fishing rod today. I found this really cute umbrella in the garbage, though!

Errands


Gabi: Hey, so I'm working on this town beautification project for Hell. Wanna hear about it?

Gabi Wrote:Our first project will be planting lots of flowers around an important site... My house! Tee hee hee!

I really don’t feel like planting flowers right now, because that would involve spending money, and right now my goal is to get my house as big as possible. Moving on.

Pinky: Hey, wait up a second! Where are you going? By gum, I'm MAKING it my business, cubbie!

Pinky Wrote:Sneaking around like that, with a wicked little grin on your face... You're up to something, I can just tell!

You know Maple, don't you? Well, I want you to go ask that moocher for my picture book back!


I quickly book it to Maple’s corner of town…

Maple: I didn't mean to keep it for so long... Please, take it back to Pinky before I get in trouble, honey!

Pinky: Hey, I'm not always happy-go-lucky, ya know, cubbie! Jeepers! Leave me alone, OK?

… but Pinky’s miserable when I get back, so I have to wait.

The present


A present tied to a balloon floats overhead.

A present flies overhead. I start kicking myself: of course this would happen now, when I don’t even have a slingshot yet!

The present lands in a tree.

But wait, this is Gamecube, and they hadn’t added the slingshot yet. You just wait around for it to land in a tree and then you can grab it.

I have a pear in my inventory now.

Now I can have a pear tree!

I can see why they added the slingshot, to spice up the gameplay even just a little bit, but I’m realizing it feels more like a downgrade for quality-of-life. It’s just another tool that takes up space in your inventory, and now you can accidentally shoot it into the river.

babu baba baby

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RE: A Play in the Life... of Animal Crossing - by brilokuloj - 08-14-2024, 03:03 AM

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