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ABOUT GLOOM
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DAY 1
The game of the season is finally here. I pre-ordered it a couple of weeks before launch date. With the pandemic going on, Amazon sent me an e-mail on the 18th past midnight. They said the release wouldn't arrive until later that week. After that egregious slap in the face I promptly cancelled my pre-order and ordered again from Game Stop. My order arrived on the 20th just after 3 P.M., and it made a moody day considerably better. These days have been quite tough. Los Angeles is currently being hit by the virus. The cases just keep sky-rocketing, and people working at ICU are overwhelmed. Our quarantine status has been extended until April 30th. Double the time. We estimate things may start to return to normal around June. I think it'll be a drag until August.
The game starts out checking you checked in for your flight. Before your flight has landed you can glimpse at your native fruit. The first thing you do is get settled with your tent. From there you dive into the tutorials, gathering resources and crafting tools. You can harvest fruit once every three days for a profit, and in between days can be spent chopping wood, hitting rocks and selling fish or bugs. Whenever I've got energy to keep going after exhausting my island's resources, I head on over to the airport to visit adjacent mystery isles. The first time I flew out, I met Stitches but didn't talk. I wanted to be surprised by the villagers that moved in.
My first five are Coach, Sylvia, Drago, Peanut, and Coco. Out of them all, Drago is my favorite. I am on the hunt for Alli, Bunnie, Lily, Muffy, Pietro, Diana, Eunice, Punchy, and Lucky. One of my friends I met online has Pietro. Every time I go to her island I chat him up. His house looks like a theme park in the clouds. It's super cute!
Remember back when y'all were hyped about Smash Bros coming out in the Nintendo direct? That's about as long as I've been waiting for Animal Crossing: New Horizons. We were very disappointed when Nintendo didn't even give us a teaser. That was cold.
My journey with Animal Crossing started 7 years ago. I got my Nintendo 3DS XL bundle off the internet. It arrived on August 22nd, 2013. A couple of days before I moved to Los Angeles. I played the game at the airport, and every day since. It was a soothing balm of relaxation during a hectic but also very pleasant moving process. I only ever got to play Animal Crossing: New Leaf with a couple of friends. I didn't really get to see how far you could push the town. But I got to do lots of fishing and bug catching.
I love that when you open your gate to your friends, you never really know who will come in. But almost assuredly, somebody will. They have brought local fruit and gifts with them, my favorite of which is the spider umbrella so far.
My island has apples. The local flower is the mum, which I dig out whenever I see it in bloom. I favor tulips, lilies and roses. So far it seems I favor hybrid flowers. The extra colors are very pretty. With luck I bred some black tulips. I've also got pink ones.
Here is a compilation of some of my favorite moments from March 20th until today.
Hope you enjoyed some of the spreads collaged together. Playing with color has been somewhat therapeutic; there is always something cathartic about journaling with collage and paper punch-outs.
The game is expansive in terms of what you can do now. You unlock full customization and can revise everything as often as you like as long as you can pay for it. The farming rates make it very easy to rack up some savings, although I don't have any since I am constantly doing updates.
Once you get past the initial setup you will find there are many ways to personalize the game to your personal tastes. Hosting your friends at your island makes it very fun. I love checking my bulletin board to see if anybody has left me a note.
Talking to the villagers is adorable and funny. They mention people that have visited the island in conversation. I find them all adorable.
Pietro is my dream villager. Beside him is Muffy, the black sheep villager.
The game of the season is finally here. I pre-ordered it a couple of weeks before launch date. With the pandemic going on, Amazon sent me an e-mail on the 18th past midnight. They said the release wouldn't arrive until later that week. After that egregious slap in the face I promptly cancelled my pre-order and ordered again from Game Stop. My order arrived on the 20th just after 3 P.M., and it made a moody day considerably better. These days have been quite tough. Los Angeles is currently being hit by the virus. The cases just keep sky-rocketing, and people working at ICU are overwhelmed. Our quarantine status has been extended until April 30th. Double the time. We estimate things may start to return to normal around June. I think it'll be a drag until August.
The game starts out checking you checked in for your flight. Before your flight has landed you can glimpse at your native fruit. The first thing you do is get settled with your tent. From there you dive into the tutorials, gathering resources and crafting tools. You can harvest fruit once every three days for a profit, and in between days can be spent chopping wood, hitting rocks and selling fish or bugs. Whenever I've got energy to keep going after exhausting my island's resources, I head on over to the airport to visit adjacent mystery isles. The first time I flew out, I met Stitches but didn't talk. I wanted to be surprised by the villagers that moved in.
My first five are Coach, Sylvia, Drago, Peanut, and Coco. Out of them all, Drago is my favorite. I am on the hunt for Alli, Bunnie, Lily, Muffy, Pietro, Diana, Eunice, Punchy, and Lucky. One of my friends I met online has Pietro. Every time I go to her island I chat him up. His house looks like a theme park in the clouds. It's super cute!
Remember back when y'all were hyped about Smash Bros coming out in the Nintendo direct? That's about as long as I've been waiting for Animal Crossing: New Horizons. We were very disappointed when Nintendo didn't even give us a teaser. That was cold.
My journey with Animal Crossing started 7 years ago. I got my Nintendo 3DS XL bundle off the internet. It arrived on August 22nd, 2013. A couple of days before I moved to Los Angeles. I played the game at the airport, and every day since. It was a soothing balm of relaxation during a hectic but also very pleasant moving process. I only ever got to play Animal Crossing: New Leaf with a couple of friends. I didn't really get to see how far you could push the town. But I got to do lots of fishing and bug catching.
I love that when you open your gate to your friends, you never really know who will come in. But almost assuredly, somebody will. They have brought local fruit and gifts with them, my favorite of which is the spider umbrella so far.
My island has apples. The local flower is the mum, which I dig out whenever I see it in bloom. I favor tulips, lilies and roses. So far it seems I favor hybrid flowers. The extra colors are very pretty. With luck I bred some black tulips. I've also got pink ones.
Here is a compilation of some of my favorite moments from March 20th until today.
Hope you enjoyed some of the spreads collaged together. Playing with color has been somewhat therapeutic; there is always something cathartic about journaling with collage and paper punch-outs.
The game is expansive in terms of what you can do now. You unlock full customization and can revise everything as often as you like as long as you can pay for it. The farming rates make it very easy to rack up some savings, although I don't have any since I am constantly doing updates.
Once you get past the initial setup you will find there are many ways to personalize the game to your personal tastes. Hosting your friends at your island makes it very fun. I love checking my bulletin board to see if anybody has left me a note.
Talking to the villagers is adorable and funny. They mention people that have visited the island in conversation. I find them all adorable.
Pietro is my dream villager. Beside him is Muffy, the black sheep villager.
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DAY 2 HYBRID FLOWER BONANZA
Just had to force myself away from the loving grip of my Nintendo Switch console. And, boy was that a challenge... I'm hooked!!!
Animal Crossing: New Horizons has given me the opportunity to spend time with my friends from abroad, and to make many new friends online. The online community is extremely active and kind. I have only had positive experiences so far.This game is awesome! More things to come for it... I'm looking forward to the coffee shop and to see Reese again. Reese was my favorite NPC in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. We got real close with all those transactions... I am so obsessed that I play the game for over 7 hours a day. I am having a great time playing it
VILLAGERS
I had a very positive experience visiting the mystery islands as I cycled through my villagers in search of my favorite one, Pietro. Even though I didn't find him through the mystery islands, I found most of my villagers there. The first one I ever got but didn't invite was Stitches. I regretted it immediately after it happened, but I was a woman with a plan to get her dream villager. That night I ended up settling for Drago, a very cute dragon type villager in the alligator species. Shortly after Drago came Peanut, who really reminds me of my cat Frost. Peanut won me over by being so sweet. She dreams of being a pop star one day, but for now she is enjoying her time in my island called Gloomville.
One night I cycled through my villagers and got Whitney, Sprinkle, Diana, and Lily. All on the same night. I screamed when I got Lily because I really wanted her. By the end of the night the last villager I invited to my campsite was Marina. She ended up being so cute as well. I loved talking to her, and that cute pink bow on her head. If Hello Kitty turned into an octopus she would become Marina.
Next day I got Marshal in the campsite, but he turned me down. I didn't think I'd be able to talk him into moving so I let him go. Eventually he also came to me in an island. I traded Fauna out and got Ankha, then I got Pietro and Lobo.
Lobo.
The journey to get Pietro took me a few weeks. Must have gone on at least 300 trips to mystery islands. I got really stressed out the day I was trying to cycle for an unwanted villager. I must have spent at least three to four days of fruitless searching and fruitless cycling. The night of the trade especially was nervously exciting, but also very very irritating. The game didn't make it easy for me to get what I wanted. The villager I needed to let go wouldn't leave, so I let Diana go. I know, I'm insane... but I got her back the next day in a trade. I missed her overnight and wanted to see her walking around the island still. Fortunately that trade ended up being much more smooth, and the person I visited to get her had a really cool island.
Talking to Pietro in-game to invite him back to my island made me unreasonably happy. I felt I was achieving a goal when I asked my dream villager to move into my island. My heart swelled when I saw his house and went to it. It's a beautiful cloud in the sky with fairground decorations. I love it in there and want to replicate his room in my house to the best of my ability. This is a villager I will talk to every day, build around to make comfortable, and enjoy
After breaking some real sweats and having an anxiety attack I finally got somebody to ping. The person who let me adopt Pietro out got a hefty tip for letting me bring my new best friend home to Gloomville. I was so happy I kept chiming "honk honk!!" in every now and then. Chris was nice about it when it happened; he didn't grill me for my excitement over Pietro.
I feel torn because I want to try new villagers out to check out their personalities and enjoy the thrill of the hunt all throughout the mystery islands, but I don't want to let go of any of my villagers. I think Drago is probably going to go for a while to allow Marina or Whitney back into my island. I have my heart set to give Drago to one of my friends when he has a villager with a thought bubble that wants to try a life in new horizons. I'd also like to meet Audie, whom my friend Elli got in her island. I went over for 569 on the turnips the other day and made a pretty penny. I originally got them for 100!
After getting an amazing roster of villagers I found my island had filled up with rare hybrid flowers that I had started breeding. They exploded all over the island! I started inviting my friends over to raid the goods. I realized all my old bulletin board posts were gone! Sad day. There were cool drawings in there...
Then I got this crazy idea one afternoon when I was looking for a good reason to invite people over to admire my island...
HYBRID FLOWER BONANZA
What started out as an idea to throw a fun event for other fans of Animal Crossing turned into a lifelike working industry. For a flat rate fee I let everybody in with their shovels and they can dash to fill their inventories with rare hybrid flowers such as blue roses, blue windflowers, purple windflowers, blue hyacinths, purple hyacinths, black cosmos, purple tulips, orange tulips. I've had over 70 trips to come and raid my island and it has been the best fun I have had so far on Animal Crossing. On my shop I take great pride when users post asking if I have green mums and I respond with the new slogan "more than you can carry!!!" It's the little things...
The event has been hugely successful and has run for two days. I hire a cleaning crew after the carnage to pick basic flowers, dig up holes, relocate the flowers into appropriate patches and generally clean my island up for the next event. Then I get into breeding. I let my helpers get good selections of my rare hybrids and I feel I have immense support from the community. The events will run for as long as the people want them. And in the meantime I am having lots of fun parody roleplay as a very loud, bustling merchant. I'm living my best life, I tell you.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons has really changed my life. It was even more of a positive experience than Animal Crossing: New Leaf was for me. I started playing Animal Crossing on the same day I left Puerto Rico to move to Los Angeles. I played it on the entire plane ride. I played it every day since and it was my way of relaxing after a long day of work. Back then I lived alone and had a very interesting time mixing video games with a very exciting new social life and the slew of adventures that followed.
If you'd like to bring your shovel and raid Gloomville's rare flowers, get in touch with me. Right now I am rewarding people who show me screen shots in my island or making memes with screen shots taken in my island.
I'd love to get more involved in the community for the months to come. And with the mania hitting fresh I have been considering picking New Leaf back up from where I left it. I was completing the catalog when I last played. I also still don't have Pietro...
Right now I'm breeding a field of blue roses for tomorrow's event. I am very excited for it! It will be completely filled in before participants arrive at Gloomville with their shovels out. I realized everybody got different color schemes in their games, which is really awesome and kind of insane.
The game is meant to be played at a slow pace and I'm cool with that. I've got big plans for the future of Gloomville, but what I have going on now with the flower shop experience wouldn't really permit me to make it comfortably. Luckily I have an amazing squad that I hire to help me clean up. So far I've had 7 very helpful people clean up my island. I rewarded them all with all-you-can-shop trips to my island where they could take whichever flower they wanted. They loved it.
Very grateful for the scale of the interest in what I am doing, and the support of some very lovely people on the Internet. In the future I think I may see some villagers move on to other islands to make space for new interactions and new villagers to befriend.
Something that I'm really excited about doing further down the line is a skull waterfall. It's going to have three layers and will lead to a pond in a second tier. I imagine that it will get very messy when I compare what I want to do with the terraforming posts I see on my different Animal Crossing groups I am a part of.
I have found that I really enjoy how differently everyone is building their island. Some of the things I have encountered have been very creative. Often I have found myself wanting to make some Animal Crossing art. I imagine there will be lots and lots of villager art because I love their designs so much!
I couldn't pass up all the popular villagers I came across, although I did run away from Octavian three times. Sorry, I'm not interested in a cranky octopus... Don't come for me, gurl.
Eventually I'd like to see if I can invite Bunnie, Wolf Link, Coco, Marina, Muffy, Static, Pecan, Whitney, or Kiki back to my island. I really love the cat villagers as well, but I don't quite see the appeal to the smug business cat, Raymond. More hot takes in less than five minutes? I'm sorry, I roll that way. Got to be honest, he just seems like a really mean boss you'd encounter in an office scenario. No thank you, that's no life for me! I hear some people like to dress him in maid outfits... I find Marshal to be much cuter with his big bratty boy eyes. I like them to be sassy. Y'know I like my bad boys...
Don't judge me for the tickets, line of birds on the bulletin board, or peaches on the ground... I was very busy that day when this scene happened. lol
I love that you get to form relationships with your villagers and with the people helping you play the game.
Please shut the door... I'm busy...
A week after the game came out, Chris and I went on a date to his island. I brought him more items from the diner set. We showed off our favorite bugs, he had me meet the pet tarantula he keeps in his very cool room room which he affectionately called Hermann, we scouted the island and admired the new moon, and had fun doing it.
No matter where you're at in the game, don't pressure yourself to achieve all your goals in the same month.The beauty is in going through stages. Hope you're having fun if you're still playing.
While we're all waiting these tough times out, we can still have fun. Video games have been a huge help to me during this pandemic. Animal Crossing: New Horizons makes me feel that I can still have something pleasant to look forward to and enjoy. With no end yet in sight I think I will have to keep talking myself into being patient, but at times I get really sad because I miss my family. We've had to cancel two trips, which are usually important ones for us. We keep it present that staying in is our safety and the assurance we can meet again instead of being rushed to a grave site without a proper viewing wake.
HYBRID FLOWER BONANZAJust had to force myself away from the loving grip of my Nintendo Switch console. And, boy was that a challenge... I'm hooked!!!
Animal Crossing: New Horizons has given me the opportunity to spend time with my friends from abroad, and to make many new friends online. The online community is extremely active and kind. I have only had positive experiences so far.This game is awesome! More things to come for it... I'm looking forward to the coffee shop and to see Reese again. Reese was my favorite NPC in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. We got real close with all those transactions... I am so obsessed that I play the game for over 7 hours a day. I am having a great time playing it
VILLAGERS
I had a very positive experience visiting the mystery islands as I cycled through my villagers in search of my favorite one, Pietro. Even though I didn't find him through the mystery islands, I found most of my villagers there. The first one I ever got but didn't invite was Stitches. I regretted it immediately after it happened, but I was a woman with a plan to get her dream villager. That night I ended up settling for Drago, a very cute dragon type villager in the alligator species. Shortly after Drago came Peanut, who really reminds me of my cat Frost. Peanut won me over by being so sweet. She dreams of being a pop star one day, but for now she is enjoying her time in my island called Gloomville.
One night I cycled through my villagers and got Whitney, Sprinkle, Diana, and Lily. All on the same night. I screamed when I got Lily because I really wanted her. By the end of the night the last villager I invited to my campsite was Marina. She ended up being so cute as well. I loved talking to her, and that cute pink bow on her head. If Hello Kitty turned into an octopus she would become Marina.
Next day I got Marshal in the campsite, but he turned me down. I didn't think I'd be able to talk him into moving so I let him go. Eventually he also came to me in an island. I traded Fauna out and got Ankha, then I got Pietro and Lobo.
Lobo.
The journey to get Pietro took me a few weeks. Must have gone on at least 300 trips to mystery islands. I got really stressed out the day I was trying to cycle for an unwanted villager. I must have spent at least three to four days of fruitless searching and fruitless cycling. The night of the trade especially was nervously exciting, but also very very irritating. The game didn't make it easy for me to get what I wanted. The villager I needed to let go wouldn't leave, so I let Diana go. I know, I'm insane... but I got her back the next day in a trade. I missed her overnight and wanted to see her walking around the island still. Fortunately that trade ended up being much more smooth, and the person I visited to get her had a really cool island.
Talking to Pietro in-game to invite him back to my island made me unreasonably happy. I felt I was achieving a goal when I asked my dream villager to move into my island. My heart swelled when I saw his house and went to it. It's a beautiful cloud in the sky with fairground decorations. I love it in there and want to replicate his room in my house to the best of my ability. This is a villager I will talk to every day, build around to make comfortable, and enjoy
After breaking some real sweats and having an anxiety attack I finally got somebody to ping. The person who let me adopt Pietro out got a hefty tip for letting me bring my new best friend home to Gloomville. I was so happy I kept chiming "honk honk!!" in every now and then. Chris was nice about it when it happened; he didn't grill me for my excitement over Pietro.
I feel torn because I want to try new villagers out to check out their personalities and enjoy the thrill of the hunt all throughout the mystery islands, but I don't want to let go of any of my villagers. I think Drago is probably going to go for a while to allow Marina or Whitney back into my island. I have my heart set to give Drago to one of my friends when he has a villager with a thought bubble that wants to try a life in new horizons. I'd also like to meet Audie, whom my friend Elli got in her island. I went over for 569 on the turnips the other day and made a pretty penny. I originally got them for 100!
After getting an amazing roster of villagers I found my island had filled up with rare hybrid flowers that I had started breeding. They exploded all over the island! I started inviting my friends over to raid the goods. I realized all my old bulletin board posts were gone! Sad day. There were cool drawings in there...
Then I got this crazy idea one afternoon when I was looking for a good reason to invite people over to admire my island...
HYBRID FLOWER BONANZA
What started out as an idea to throw a fun event for other fans of Animal Crossing turned into a lifelike working industry. For a flat rate fee I let everybody in with their shovels and they can dash to fill their inventories with rare hybrid flowers such as blue roses, blue windflowers, purple windflowers, blue hyacinths, purple hyacinths, black cosmos, purple tulips, orange tulips. I've had over 70 trips to come and raid my island and it has been the best fun I have had so far on Animal Crossing. On my shop I take great pride when users post asking if I have green mums and I respond with the new slogan "more than you can carry!!!" It's the little things...
The event has been hugely successful and has run for two days. I hire a cleaning crew after the carnage to pick basic flowers, dig up holes, relocate the flowers into appropriate patches and generally clean my island up for the next event. Then I get into breeding. I let my helpers get good selections of my rare hybrids and I feel I have immense support from the community. The events will run for as long as the people want them. And in the meantime I am having lots of fun parody roleplay as a very loud, bustling merchant. I'm living my best life, I tell you.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons has really changed my life. It was even more of a positive experience than Animal Crossing: New Leaf was for me. I started playing Animal Crossing on the same day I left Puerto Rico to move to Los Angeles. I played it on the entire plane ride. I played it every day since and it was my way of relaxing after a long day of work. Back then I lived alone and had a very interesting time mixing video games with a very exciting new social life and the slew of adventures that followed.
If you'd like to bring your shovel and raid Gloomville's rare flowers, get in touch with me. Right now I am rewarding people who show me screen shots in my island or making memes with screen shots taken in my island.
I'd love to get more involved in the community for the months to come. And with the mania hitting fresh I have been considering picking New Leaf back up from where I left it. I was completing the catalog when I last played. I also still don't have Pietro...
Right now I'm breeding a field of blue roses for tomorrow's event. I am very excited for it! It will be completely filled in before participants arrive at Gloomville with their shovels out. I realized everybody got different color schemes in their games, which is really awesome and kind of insane.
The game is meant to be played at a slow pace and I'm cool with that. I've got big plans for the future of Gloomville, but what I have going on now with the flower shop experience wouldn't really permit me to make it comfortably. Luckily I have an amazing squad that I hire to help me clean up. So far I've had 7 very helpful people clean up my island. I rewarded them all with all-you-can-shop trips to my island where they could take whichever flower they wanted. They loved it.
Very grateful for the scale of the interest in what I am doing, and the support of some very lovely people on the Internet. In the future I think I may see some villagers move on to other islands to make space for new interactions and new villagers to befriend.
Something that I'm really excited about doing further down the line is a skull waterfall. It's going to have three layers and will lead to a pond in a second tier. I imagine that it will get very messy when I compare what I want to do with the terraforming posts I see on my different Animal Crossing groups I am a part of.
I have found that I really enjoy how differently everyone is building their island. Some of the things I have encountered have been very creative. Often I have found myself wanting to make some Animal Crossing art. I imagine there will be lots and lots of villager art because I love their designs so much!
I couldn't pass up all the popular villagers I came across, although I did run away from Octavian three times. Sorry, I'm not interested in a cranky octopus... Don't come for me, gurl.
Eventually I'd like to see if I can invite Bunnie, Wolf Link, Coco, Marina, Muffy, Static, Pecan, Whitney, or Kiki back to my island. I really love the cat villagers as well, but I don't quite see the appeal to the smug business cat, Raymond. More hot takes in less than five minutes? I'm sorry, I roll that way. Got to be honest, he just seems like a really mean boss you'd encounter in an office scenario. No thank you, that's no life for me! I hear some people like to dress him in maid outfits... I find Marshal to be much cuter with his big bratty boy eyes. I like them to be sassy. Y'know I like my bad boys...
Don't judge me for the tickets, line of birds on the bulletin board, or peaches on the ground... I was very busy that day when this scene happened. lol
I love that you get to form relationships with your villagers and with the people helping you play the game.
Please shut the door... I'm busy...
A week after the game came out, Chris and I went on a date to his island. I brought him more items from the diner set. We showed off our favorite bugs, he had me meet the pet tarantula he keeps in his very cool room room which he affectionately called Hermann, we scouted the island and admired the new moon, and had fun doing it.
No matter where you're at in the game, don't pressure yourself to achieve all your goals in the same month.The beauty is in going through stages. Hope you're having fun if you're still playing.
While we're all waiting these tough times out, we can still have fun. Video games have been a huge help to me during this pandemic. Animal Crossing: New Horizons makes me feel that I can still have something pleasant to look forward to and enjoy. With no end yet in sight I think I will have to keep talking myself into being patient, but at times I get really sad because I miss my family. We've had to cancel two trips, which are usually important ones for us. We keep it present that staying in is our safety and the assurance we can meet again instead of being rushed to a grave site without a proper viewing wake.
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DAY 2 GLOOMVILLE
Monday, June 1, 2020
Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been the real star of 2020 for me. I am still engrossed as I was on March 20th when I pulled off the wrapper and pushed the cartridge into my Switch console. I haven't taken the game cartridge out since. It goes without saying the game could not have come out at a better time!
I rate Animal Crossing: New Horizons ★★★★★. Trust me it is well-deserved. Nintendo really knocked it out of the park with this one!
Animal Crossing: New Horizons has given me another world to escape to. While the graphics are simple and colorful, the game has opened up a new platform to connect with other people all across the globe. I've made new friends in the UK, and I meet new people every day. Currently I am a member in a forum dedicated to the game, and I advertise wares in two Discord channels. It's a lot of fun and the community is immensely helpful. I just showed up one day and now I'm part of the family.
Adding Animal Crossing tags/accounts to my social media has also been very positive. I'd much rather see their memes, save their designs and connect to play in-game than have contacts try to sell me real-life amenities... Don't judge me, the Internet is my escape from the mundane!
PROS
☾ Attractive game with simple but very cute graphics
☾ More cute villagers than I can fit in my island!
☾ Fun themes to decorate: woodland, '90s fun, Japanese village style, the list goes on
☾ Visiting friends islands and admiring their creativity decorating
☾ Active online communities
☾ The Bell Tree forums, a laid back forum I found very resourceful when I was starting out
☾ Nookazon website and Discord channels are the most useful to find rare DIYs, villagers and materials
☾ The ability to host events people love and want to come back
CONS
☾ Isabelle's introductory dialogue greeting is unnecessarily long and repetitive
☾ Dialogue scroll takes too long during take off and landings
☾ Menus could be much more concise to waste less time
☾ Shopping doesn't let you pick how many bundles you want
☾ I got scammed once already, paid for a villager and then got ghosted on for the trade
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☾ The game gets repetitive when it comes to harvesting necessary materials
☾ Items available seem limited, pending releases feel necessary
☾ Small rooms in the house
☾ Not enough storage space
GLOOMVILLE
A couple of days ago I achieved a 5 star rating on my island, as well as an S rank over 10,000 points in my home interior. It took a bit of experimentation to figure out exactly what I wanted, but now I feel very proud of my work. Now the mail I am getting related to the inside of my house is talking about feng shui. It compliments the placement of some of my items but mostly leaves me feeling confused. I hope to bump into an Animal Crossing feng shui master that can help me make heads or tails of the new way of thinking about furniture arrangement.
My island is looking pretty good for its theme park attractions. People coming in have a lot of fun, and I have a steady build up of Nook Mile Tickets that I use to buy more items and diys necessary to enhance Gloomville. Currently there are no plans to uproot flowers for the skull waterfall terraforming. I estimate that project may take a full week to complete, and I do not yet know how much it will end up affecting my island until I dive into it.
My favorite time of day is night time. The mush and nova lamps give my island a pretty etheric feel, perfect for stargazing and wishing. I have found that this is when I have the most fun in-game!
HYBRID FLOWER BONANZA TREASURE HUNT
What started out as a casual flower hunt is now a full industry in-game. After every event is done I hire a cleaning crew to help with straggler items and flowers, buried flowers, island layout arrangement of trees and flowers, and general help procuring flowers that have previously sold out. After a few hours of work the restocking process begins and regularly takes at least half a day to three days to complete.
Once my flower fields are filled in, I pick out any weeds and tidy up if any flowers have bloomed out of place. After a thorough look combing through the entire island, I open the gate and welcome anywhere from 10—15 visitors coming to shop for flowers. Some of them take two to three trips. The feedback so far of what I've got going on in my island has been stellar, and I just love making people happy as they play in my island.
VILLAGERS
I ended up with Bunnie, Raymond and Marina in my island. It's tough because I want like 15 villagers and I can only have ten at a time. While the game is flexible in that regard, with less people playing it seems harder to find desired villagers. I expect I will need to make my mind up on a final villager roster eventually. So far I have been rotating villagers quite a lot. I let Peanut, Sprinkle and Lucky go. When they leave, you miss them. I'll likely be moving them back in at some point. That's just part of playing the game.
I should have realized that my list of dream villagers from early March would change. Some villagers you get more attached to than you originally thought. That was the case for me with Drago and Marshal. I don't think the game would be as fun if you had the same 10 villagers forevermore. That said, there are some villagers I'm never moving out. Sorry Pietro.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons has especially been there for me during this horrible pandemic. And so has my sketchbook; today I worked on a spread in which the challenge was filling the entire page in. It was a study in values and background texture. Due to the nature of brush pens I am allowing myself to play casually, using this time to experiment. If a mark doesn't come out perfect or a drawing doesn't quite fit what I'm going for, it serves as an example being made out of my mistakes. I am embracing the imperfections and accepting them as part of the process. I am on the last four pages of an old sketchbook, with my Tim Burton studies sketchbook well underway. The satisfaction of being creative is enough to fuel my interest to continue... and so I do.
Every day I get up I'm grateful to have these amazing worlds to retreat to. The outside world is too stressful to be focused on all day. I'd much rather make happy memories with my friends and do something productive.
TOURING
Something I love doing now and then is visiting someone else's island. I also enjoy screen shots my friends and other players take while shopping at or hanging out in my island. I hope you enjoyed screen shots from my Animal Crossing adventures.
GLOOMVILLEMonday, June 1, 2020
Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been the real star of 2020 for me. I am still engrossed as I was on March 20th when I pulled off the wrapper and pushed the cartridge into my Switch console. I haven't taken the game cartridge out since. It goes without saying the game could not have come out at a better time!
I rate Animal Crossing: New Horizons ★★★★★. Trust me it is well-deserved. Nintendo really knocked it out of the park with this one!
Animal Crossing: New Horizons has given me another world to escape to. While the graphics are simple and colorful, the game has opened up a new platform to connect with other people all across the globe. I've made new friends in the UK, and I meet new people every day. Currently I am a member in a forum dedicated to the game, and I advertise wares in two Discord channels. It's a lot of fun and the community is immensely helpful. I just showed up one day and now I'm part of the family.
Adding Animal Crossing tags/accounts to my social media has also been very positive. I'd much rather see their memes, save their designs and connect to play in-game than have contacts try to sell me real-life amenities... Don't judge me, the Internet is my escape from the mundane!
PROS
☾ Attractive game with simple but very cute graphics
☾ More cute villagers than I can fit in my island!
☾ Fun themes to decorate: woodland, '90s fun, Japanese village style, the list goes on
☾ Visiting friends islands and admiring their creativity decorating
☾ Active online communities
☾ The Bell Tree forums, a laid back forum I found very resourceful when I was starting out
☾ Nookazon website and Discord channels are the most useful to find rare DIYs, villagers and materials
☾ The ability to host events people love and want to come back
CONS
☾ Isabelle's introductory dialogue greeting is unnecessarily long and repetitive
☾ Dialogue scroll takes too long during take off and landings
☾ Menus could be much more concise to waste less time
☾ Shopping doesn't let you pick how many bundles you want
☾ I got scammed once already, paid for a villager and then got ghosted on for the trade
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☾ The game gets repetitive when it comes to harvesting necessary materials
☾ Items available seem limited, pending releases feel necessary
☾ Small rooms in the house
☾ Not enough storage space
GLOOMVILLE
A couple of days ago I achieved a 5 star rating on my island, as well as an S rank over 10,000 points in my home interior. It took a bit of experimentation to figure out exactly what I wanted, but now I feel very proud of my work. Now the mail I am getting related to the inside of my house is talking about feng shui. It compliments the placement of some of my items but mostly leaves me feeling confused. I hope to bump into an Animal Crossing feng shui master that can help me make heads or tails of the new way of thinking about furniture arrangement.
My island is looking pretty good for its theme park attractions. People coming in have a lot of fun, and I have a steady build up of Nook Mile Tickets that I use to buy more items and diys necessary to enhance Gloomville. Currently there are no plans to uproot flowers for the skull waterfall terraforming. I estimate that project may take a full week to complete, and I do not yet know how much it will end up affecting my island until I dive into it.
My favorite time of day is night time. The mush and nova lamps give my island a pretty etheric feel, perfect for stargazing and wishing. I have found that this is when I have the most fun in-game!
HYBRID FLOWER BONANZA TREASURE HUNT
What started out as a casual flower hunt is now a full industry in-game. After every event is done I hire a cleaning crew to help with straggler items and flowers, buried flowers, island layout arrangement of trees and flowers, and general help procuring flowers that have previously sold out. After a few hours of work the restocking process begins and regularly takes at least half a day to three days to complete.
Once my flower fields are filled in, I pick out any weeds and tidy up if any flowers have bloomed out of place. After a thorough look combing through the entire island, I open the gate and welcome anywhere from 10—15 visitors coming to shop for flowers. Some of them take two to three trips. The feedback so far of what I've got going on in my island has been stellar, and I just love making people happy as they play in my island.
VILLAGERS
I ended up with Bunnie, Raymond and Marina in my island. It's tough because I want like 15 villagers and I can only have ten at a time. While the game is flexible in that regard, with less people playing it seems harder to find desired villagers. I expect I will need to make my mind up on a final villager roster eventually. So far I have been rotating villagers quite a lot. I let Peanut, Sprinkle and Lucky go. When they leave, you miss them. I'll likely be moving them back in at some point. That's just part of playing the game.
I should have realized that my list of dream villagers from early March would change. Some villagers you get more attached to than you originally thought. That was the case for me with Drago and Marshal. I don't think the game would be as fun if you had the same 10 villagers forevermore. That said, there are some villagers I'm never moving out. Sorry Pietro.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons has especially been there for me during this horrible pandemic. And so has my sketchbook; today I worked on a spread in which the challenge was filling the entire page in. It was a study in values and background texture. Due to the nature of brush pens I am allowing myself to play casually, using this time to experiment. If a mark doesn't come out perfect or a drawing doesn't quite fit what I'm going for, it serves as an example being made out of my mistakes. I am embracing the imperfections and accepting them as part of the process. I am on the last four pages of an old sketchbook, with my Tim Burton studies sketchbook well underway. The satisfaction of being creative is enough to fuel my interest to continue... and so I do.
Every day I get up I'm grateful to have these amazing worlds to retreat to. The outside world is too stressful to be focused on all day. I'd much rather make happy memories with my friends and do something productive.
TOURING
Something I love doing now and then is visiting someone else's island. I also enjoy screen shots my friends and other players take while shopping at or hanging out in my island. I hope you enjoyed screen shots from my Animal Crossing adventures.
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gloomville
Senior Member
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Tuesday, August 18, 2020
I've been playing Animal Crossing:New Leaf whenever I have some spare time... which isn't often, but I still try to squeeze it in. I've also been organizing upcoming tour exchanges with friends, and having people over to shop for flowers. We keep the party rolling as we can. I updated all my beaches and added new features to the island, the most exciting of which is a new skull waterfall. After enjoying it for about a week now I have decided I must make another one. May they continue to multiply.
WHAT'S NEW?
I loved the new pirate set that came out so I bought a few to decorate my beaches, and now they look much more like I originally envisioned for them to. It would be nice to figure out what to do with the mermaid set, but as it turns out that set doesn't match my house. I've only just gotten started redecorating the island, and this is a process I expect to be ongoing.
I decided to sprinkle flowers throughout the beach to add to the aesthetic appeal of the island's beaches, enhanced the purple hyacinth flower bed, as well as the black lily flower patch. I moved cliffs around a little, added a new flight of stairs which really opens up the flow of the island. One day I hired someone to come over to the island to help me relocate all the flowers to build a new skull waterfall. The process was surprisingly quick, I thought I'd spend all night on it. At max it took thirty minutes, but the joy and the smiles definitely lasted all night. I can't wait for you to see the way I've set it all up!
VILLAGERS
In terms of villagers, I've been surprised to find that there was room for improvement. Some villager you don't click with as much as you like. I let a few villagers go and welcomed Muffy, Julian and Beau to my island. As soon as Beau asks to move out I'm going to invite Peanut back to my island. I also considered inviting Poppy or Punchy to my island. The final roster seems to be an elusive concept, as much of a unicorn as the one go-to tarot deck is for most readers...
ISLANDS
I visited a few islands I thought were very beautiful as well. It's great seeing how far creativity can stretch in this game. If you've got an island you want me to come check out, please feel free to get in touch with me to arrange a tour. Currently I am on the search for Japanese villages, Kingdom Hearts islands, a horror island, and a Disneyland themed island in case you know of any you want to send my way.
SKULL WATERFALL
I've been going on and on about the construction of this idea since the game launched in March. I told pretty much everybody over and over... And after putting it off so I wouldn't have to deal with mess, I decided I was ready to face the challenge. It hurt a little to watch the original island fall under the guise of remodeling and mixing/matching. Originally I wanted the skull to have a nose, but since it wouldn't let me fit a flower on the center tooth, I took it out and filled it all in with lily of the valley flowers. In my opinion they look like skulls. It has been really surreal seeing my island so bare, but I don't expect I'll keep it that way for long. It won't be long before it's completely overrun with flowers again...
Eventually I will build a second island for you to enjoy. Until then, please stay safe and healthy.
I've been playing Animal Crossing:New Leaf whenever I have some spare time... which isn't often, but I still try to squeeze it in. I've also been organizing upcoming tour exchanges with friends, and having people over to shop for flowers. We keep the party rolling as we can. I updated all my beaches and added new features to the island, the most exciting of which is a new skull waterfall. After enjoying it for about a week now I have decided I must make another one. May they continue to multiply.
WHAT'S NEW?
I loved the new pirate set that came out so I bought a few to decorate my beaches, and now they look much more like I originally envisioned for them to. It would be nice to figure out what to do with the mermaid set, but as it turns out that set doesn't match my house. I've only just gotten started redecorating the island, and this is a process I expect to be ongoing.
I decided to sprinkle flowers throughout the beach to add to the aesthetic appeal of the island's beaches, enhanced the purple hyacinth flower bed, as well as the black lily flower patch. I moved cliffs around a little, added a new flight of stairs which really opens up the flow of the island. One day I hired someone to come over to the island to help me relocate all the flowers to build a new skull waterfall. The process was surprisingly quick, I thought I'd spend all night on it. At max it took thirty minutes, but the joy and the smiles definitely lasted all night. I can't wait for you to see the way I've set it all up!
VILLAGERS
In terms of villagers, I've been surprised to find that there was room for improvement. Some villager you don't click with as much as you like. I let a few villagers go and welcomed Muffy, Julian and Beau to my island. As soon as Beau asks to move out I'm going to invite Peanut back to my island. I also considered inviting Poppy or Punchy to my island. The final roster seems to be an elusive concept, as much of a unicorn as the one go-to tarot deck is for most readers...
ISLANDS
I visited a few islands I thought were very beautiful as well. It's great seeing how far creativity can stretch in this game. If you've got an island you want me to come check out, please feel free to get in touch with me to arrange a tour. Currently I am on the search for Japanese villages, Kingdom Hearts islands, a horror island, and a Disneyland themed island in case you know of any you want to send my way.
SKULL WATERFALL
I've been going on and on about the construction of this idea since the game launched in March. I told pretty much everybody over and over... And after putting it off so I wouldn't have to deal with mess, I decided I was ready to face the challenge. It hurt a little to watch the original island fall under the guise of remodeling and mixing/matching. Originally I wanted the skull to have a nose, but since it wouldn't let me fit a flower on the center tooth, I took it out and filled it all in with lily of the valley flowers. In my opinion they look like skulls. It has been really surreal seeing my island so bare, but I don't expect I'll keep it that way for long. It won't be long before it's completely overrun with flowers again...
Eventually I will build a second island for you to enjoy. Until then, please stay safe and healthy.
gloomville
Senior Member
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Couldn't wait another week, had to make a new skull waterfall right away. Its been a few days since I've had it, and I think it is really enhancing the look of my island. I love seeing Gloomville completely filled with flowers. I love the positive response of players visiting my island and the satisfaction of knowing my hard work has been appreciated. Animal Crossing: New Horizons just keeps getting better and better. This game brings all of the smiles necessary to keep your week real sweet and tarty.
After many efforts I now have a good representation of what my island's flyover looks like. The way I envision it is like a sea of luck green mums contrasting with the black and white tile. I'd love for you to take a look at it. Tell me what you think! There's just something so relaxing about putting this island together piece by piece. You can have whichever environment you like. Mine is a little dark but it still has very bright splashes of color. It's festive and appropriately fills standards for acting as a sort of theme park. I had to take a break from running Hybrid Flower Bonanza so that I could enjoy the island when it is fully maintained, with flower beds full of magic pixels.
Its moments shared with my friends in-game that keep me grounded and smiling. I'm grateful to have good people to play with and to pass the time around. We've all got goals to meet with our respective islands and smiles to farm. I think in terms of island design I have one skull pond left to make. I also want to remodel my house interiors.
Lastly, I've yet to put serious thought into getting a dream address, but if all goes according to plan I should have it ready by next week. Much to do still before then. Off to play more games...
